Jedi: Survivor Player Grinds All Skills For Permadeath Run, Immediately Dies

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When it comes to particulalry tricky games like the Dark Souls series or Cuphead, you'll find an army of twisted individuals that love to pile on even more challenge by imposing their own rules during their runs. This could be anything from using a certain weapon to not dying a single time. It's the latter that's the subject of today's story, as one Star Wars Jedi: Survivor player tasked themselves with beating the game on Jedi Grand Master difficulty without dying.

First shared by Games Radar (thanks Kotaku), this player goes by u/GOODGAME_ETHAN on Reddit, and has a pretty strict set of rules to abide by, forcing themselves to start the game from the beginning whenever they're killed or fall off a ledge in an attempt to make the game as realistic as possible.

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To try and start out their permadeath run on the right foot, they do a whole lot of prep work by grinding Star Wars: Jedi Survivor's first tutorial level to acquire every single skill in the game, giving themselves a significant power boost early on. Considering a lot of people don't even acquire all of the skills naturally as they complete the game, you can imagine the amount of time this took.

Seemingly prepared to set out after presumably dozens of hours of prep work, this player's perilous journey almost immediately comes to end in the most tragic and heartbreaking way imaginable. Instead of being taken down by one of the game's big bosses in a blaze of glory, u/GOODGAME_ETHAN is popped out of the air while jumping over a large gap by a random Stormtrooper.

There seems to be a few arguments surrounding whether this should be classified as a death or not, since the game plops Cal Kestis