Let's Play Hand of Fate - Part 21: Endless Mode, fourth run part 1 of 2 (uncut)
Channel: Anaxite LPs
Date: 2021-12-22

⮞ Warning: The uncut videos are longer, but have been minimally edited so you get the full experience. ⮜
⮞ See part two here: https://youtu.be/xsHmTH-gyno
⮞ Or just the highlights: https://youtu.be/eFkl2tpvgNA

Endless mode got pretty hard last times I ran it, but it's time to see just how cruel the game can be when you push Endless Mode far enough. And since I did want to show off Iron Hunger at least a little bit... I use it to get as far as possible. Past level 30. 

Oh, the run starts off as innocuous as the other Endless Mode runs: there are very easy enemy cards, minor curses that you know you'll eventually remove at a Priest or Healer, and lots of gain opportunities. As you keep going down, though, you'll notice that the Gain cards get smaller and smaller, leading to single gold or food increase. Going past the point I got to in the other videos is where the game starts asking you if you've been stocking up on everything you possibly can. Because if you haven't... you'll die from that 50 health Pain Card, take damage just due to having rings, and rage when the Queen and King of Dust appear every single goddamn encounter.

Level 30 is the point at which the game gives you an Achievement, and it gets even worse after that. I got what I think is the single-worst curse in the game, and it feels like the clock just starts ticking down to your death after that.

The irony of doing this as Iron Hunger is that even though you have to deal with the difficulty of an extra resource, not consuming food negates all cards and effects that explicitly take or cost food. You need a lucky break at the beginning, after which you can keep going very, very far.

One small correction: According to someone on Discord, the generic Shop card you can slot in your deck always gives a 3-card equipment choice and food if you are on starter equipment. It wasn't due to the Iron Hunger fate.


Join the discussion on SomethingAwful: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3982094
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:15 The first floor
6:09 The second floor
13:39 The third floor
17:02 The fourth floor
18:00 The fifth floor
21:48 The sixth floor
24:56 The seventh floor
32:07 The eighth floor
38:10 The ninth floor
46:51 The tenth floor
58:27 The eleventh floor
1:00:02 The twelfth floor
1:05:10 The thirteenth floor
1:10:45 The fourteenth floor
1:11:59 The fifteenth floor
1:18:27 The sixteenth floor
1:26:58 The seventeenth floor
1:36:21 The eighteenth floor
1:42:53 The nineteenth floor
1:46:11 The twentieth floor (end of part one)