A Hat in Time - ALL 114 DEATH WISH STAMPS IN A ROW DEATHLESS [Full Clears* & First Tries Only]

The culmination of a thousand hours of playtime: a grand total of 1611 days & 554 hours of practice. My Magnum Opus in challenge gaming. I am done so with this game. I will never top this. This shall and will remain as the hardest thing I’ve ever done in any videogame, and (speedruns aside) the most brutal challenge ever done in A Hat in Time.
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4 years ago, on 24/6/2020, I started this journey and poured around 90hs into this (at 503hs of playtime), but got my ass kicked and gave up. 16 months ago, on July/August 2023 (at 675hs), I came back with rules even harder than before, and this time i succeeded after 364hs of practice and around 20hs of attempts. It took a grand total of 554hs.
As far as I know, this is the first ever (and only) Death Wish completion with zero deaths. This is also the world record run for all DW stamps lagless/glitchless, a category that's empty as of now, although there's no way I'm submitting this to speedrun.com due to... personal reasons (link: www.speedrun.c.... And to be fair, I do get why it's empty. As much as I love Death Wish, as much as this game is not a 10/10, not a 11/10, but a 12/10 to me, this run is UTTER FUCKING MASSIVE CANCER. And I'm proud not only because it's unbelievable fucking hard, but because I had some horrendous RNG and still made it through. I also did a windmill clear twice since i didn't have the coin candle active during my first clear, and felt like I needed to do a real clear.
Not a big fan of corny acknowledgments in the descriptions for these kinds of runs, but here we go. Huge thanks to Raiden for the support and strats provided, to Folki for making the input overlay i used here, and to Quote, Mega and my bf for the moral support. Love you all.
Anyways, I don’t want to dump a massive chunk of info here (other than the main rules), so here’s a document with some other details on the run for anyone interested (clarifications, mods, etc.): docs.google.co...
And here’s the route I used: docs.google.co...
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While obtaining all of the 114 Death Wish stamps in a single segment run, I must abide by these rules:
No deaths, checkpoints, restarts, hits while wearing One-Hit Hero, or losing any lives in Boss Rush/Seal the Deal/Rifts.
No Quit To Main Menu nor Quit to Spaceship.
Full clears only (*except Killing Two Birds; both of the bonuses on this boss have to be done in a row separately).
No major skips in Wound-Up Windmill.
No Peace and Tranquility.
No mods (other than cosmetics).
No online party, nor co-op.
No assist mode nor developer console.
No major glitches.
Brand new save file.
Time Stamps:
0:00:34 - Beat the Heat
0:03:36 - So, You're Back from Outer Space
0:05:34 - Rift Collapse: Mafia of Cooks
0:08:09 - Collect-a-Thon + Snatcher’s Hit List (Main objective)
0:10:41 - Speedrun Well
0:12:59 - Boss Rush
0:26:13 - Bird Sanctuary
0:31:06 - Encore! Encore!
0:34:57 - Security Breach
0:39:18 - The Big Great Hootenanny
0:44:09 - 10 Seconds Until Self-Destruct + Snatcher Coin
0:47:37 - Wound-Up Windmill
0:52:18 - Rift Collapse: Alpine Skyline
0:55:09 - Rift Collapse: Dead Bird Studio
0:57:44 - Rift Collapse: Sleepy Subcon
1:02:44 - The Mustache Gauntlet + Camera Tourist (Main Objective, Bonus 1)
1:13:18 - Rift Collapse: Deep Sea
1:19:46 - Crusin' for a Bruisin'
1:37:19 - Killing Two Birds (Bonus 1)
1:43:24 - Killing Two Birds (Bonus 2)
1:47:02 - No More Bad Guys
1:51:24 - Quality Time with Snatcher
1:58:39 - Breaching The Contract
2:06:36 - Seal the Deal
2:20:43 - She Speedran from Outer Space
2:22:38 - Vault Codes in The Wind + 3 Snatcher Coins
2:26:47 - The Illness Has Speedrun + Snatcher Coin
2:32:26 - Mafia's Jumps
2:35:25 - Snatcher Coins in Alpine Skyline [missed coin at Wound Up Windmill] + Snatcher’s Hit List (Bonus 1)
2:40:34 - Zero Jumps (Bonus 2) [Train Rush]
2:43:55 - Community Rift: Rhythm Jump Studio
2:49:45 - Community Rift: The Mountain Rift
2:55:48 - Rest of the misc tasks
3:12:57 - Community Rift: Twilight Travels
3:18:10 :)
3:20:37 - Completion + Snatcher’s Salty Tears (Ending)
3:22:26 - Mods used. Don't mind the death and kill stats prior this time stamp, the mod is bugged for whatever reason.
...no, I did not unlock Luigi. I will skin alive anyone who keeps asking.

[@SuperInkLink]

Massive congratulations on this. Luigi is proud of you!

[@sunmoonfx8251]

Okay. This is hands-down the MOST IMPRESSIVE FEAT that you could have achieved. Not a single death throughout the entirety of the run.
Snatcher is ESPECIALLY salty. Not only did you make it through all the Death Wishes, he didn't even get to see you die ONCE!
Great work!

[@krisdeltatraveler]

GFB has to give this man an actual Luigi hat just for him now, he earned this. like holy shit, this is actually so impressive, possibly the greatest videogame feat ever...
now do it damagele-- *gets hit by a train*

[@srdouglas49]

While I really appreciate the comment, I'd like to point out that even within the realm of platformers there is one feat in particular that's far above this run, which would be the entirety of celeste's 100% in a row deathless (done by Rickfernello):
th-cam.com/video/niuCpSOX_jI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=nkQOa4Bdygbd6q-p
But yeah, if we exclude modded content and speedruns, this is one of the toughest runs ever done

[@krisdeltatraveler]

@@srdouglas49 Man...and i thought Path of Pain from Hollow Knight hitless was impressive.. (I did it very recently and im really proud of it, but im on console with no reliable way to record stuff so i couldn't get it on video, which sucks)

[@connorburris4846]

I love the Cussing on damage mod.

[@FoxxNoodles]

You can now play as Luigi.

[@lonnieloud8631]

I went from "Hey, I think pretty good at that one game with the kid who wear the hats!" to "wow, I'm actually pretty shit at this game!" real fricking quick watching this...

[@supernova3241]

I’m at a loss for words on how this is even humanly possible. This is the greatest Luigi unlock of all time

[@JarvisCE]

Actual god

[@onurbas4160]

Massive respect to you, I am still not done with Death Wish on the normal way...

[@ChronoQuote]

Nobody deserves this W more. Congrats on your "magnus opus" 🎉

[@Shiny_Ado]

Luigi% is Real

[@MimiLor]

Did you unlock the Luigi

[@desertedstream]

huge af

[@mojermania]

this is insane, huge GG
so k2b fc next time? :3

[@srdouglas49]

hard pass lmao, not only I've already (more) than proven myself in this game, but I've also had enough of the random shenanigans and shitty ass rng of DW

[@voidlands2]

did you unlock luigi?

[@Cool_Potato64]

So, did you unlock luigi?

[@Raiden_]

I was given the pleasure to watch this run in the making and even go as far as to provide a helping hand and assisting. This is the greatest death wish run ever, you've earned it. I'm so proud 🥲🥲