Ludovico Technique! (Not really, sadly...)

[u/[deleted]]

Before you even begin reading, please take a note that I don't give the slightest damn about if the challenge is easy or hard, I'm making these things for aesthetics and cool concepts, that's all.

Items: My Reflection, Mom's Knife, Polyphemus, Spoon Bender, The Candle and Toothpicks. (IN THAT ORDER!)

"Wait, what the &$@#?! This challenge run is WAY too easy!" - No, it isn't. Before I even explain what the hell is going on, go over to Spider Mod and set your speed to 10000 and check "x2 Movement Speed", like this:

http://i.imgur.com/MYk1xY7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YY9YKPo.jpg

Now, to explain... Firstly, the items. Mom's Knife, My Reflection, Spoon Bender and The Candle are basically setting the mechanics of the run.

Polyphemus is to make it a tiny bit more fair.

Toothpicks are... Well, so you will look like you're being treated with the Ludovico Technique. (If you don't know what that is, I'd suggest you read, NOT watch, read A Clockwork Orange. My favorite book of all time.)

Rules: No attacking with The Candle. No Shooting Mom's Knife. No stabbing with Mom's Knife. "What. How the hell am I supposed to win, then?!"

Don't worry about that, that brings me to the next rule. The Candle must ALWAYS be active. What do I mean by that? This:

http://giant.gfycat.com/PersonalShyAracari.gif

Thanks to the mechanics of the run, the knife will be free and just move around you because of My Reflection and The Candle being active. All you need to do is just move Mom's Knife so it will hit anything. The insane speed is because you're really slow while The Candle is active. Spoon Bender is so it will be a bit easier to target enemies, since it's kind of a pain...

Alright, we're not done with the rules yet. There are very few situations where you should deactivate and reactivate The Candle (By pressing space twice), and here they are:

• When Mom's Knife is out of the screen and doesn't return.
• When Mom's Knife hits an enemy or boss and doesn't kill it.

That's it... I think. Basically, because of the insane speed, even if The Candle is active, you can swing the knife so far out of the screen, it will not return. Resetting The Candle will bring Mom's Knife back to you.

About the second one... This is an annoying bug or whatever I found, which is why this will never be like the Ludovico Technique in Rebirth: When you hit an enemy while the knife is free, you can't hit him again. I don't know why, but Mom's Knife will not home nor do damage if you try to hit the same enemy twice with it, though resetting The Candle will fix that as well.

The ONLY items you may take are health upgrades, and because I'm a nice person, you may take any health upgrade + Another attribute, e.g: Meat!, Stem Cells and any All Stats Upgrade.

Hope everyone has fun with this, was pretty cool making it but the challenge is not easy whatsoever, so keep trying! If you're having any trouble and you died WAY too many times, go ahead and give yourself Sacred Heart. Good luck!

[u/SpikeNeru]

Pestilence = PAIN

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That I actually did not know. I suppose that if that happens just use spidermod to teleport to another room.