Spelunky No Gold True Pacifist Hell Run

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• published: 06 Jan 2016
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Less than a day after Spelunky was first shown on AGDQ, No Gold Pacifist Hell were completed. Objectively, this is one of the greatest challenge runs the game have to offer because both counters on the level transition screen, gold achieved and enemies killed, both stayed at zero for the entire game. Keeping the game pacifist is the hardest part, because the game is very generous with what counts towards your kills. Example: if you bomb a piece of gold that flies over the screen and breaks a pot with an enemy in it, it is your kill. On top of that, both bosses are also interesting to do pacifist. When Olmec is dropped in the lava, the game counts it as your kill, so you need to bypass that, and the only way to do it is to go to hell. The hell door needs a platform so you can enter it, which can be done by stacking two or more push blocks on top of each other. Yama is special because he counts as your kill even if he is killed by a tiki. After some testing, the way to bypass that is to place him down and pick him up, then kill him using a tiki, or by crushing him between a tiki and a ground tile. The hardest part with this run was the low bomb count. It made Olmec really hard, because I didn’t have enough bombs to fix any potential mistakes, so it needed to be planned well. The low bomb count also made hell harder, because I could not just bomb my way to a safe path. 5-1 is a great example when that got me into a really bad situation. In early stages, damage boosting is necessary to get through some tough situations, like the bats in 1-4. Black market is one of the hardest levels to complete pacifist, even harder no gold because that means you can’t by anything in it before making the shopkeepers mad at you. I used a mantrap and a cobweb to get rid of all the bats, and spent some bombs to make all shopkeepers drop down into the bottom chunks, even the ankh keeper. Yama is a really hard last boss for pacifist runs. The screen is filled with flying enemies, and Ox Face and Horse Head guards the floor of the throne room. I deal with the flying enemies by killing them on the tikis in the middle of the room, and Ox Face and Horse Head are good at killing themselves using their bomb attack.