Last time thread was deleted because I used a google docs link. Understandable.
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Driving up on the sides of a mountain ledge with snow coming hard was my chosen volunteer who could finally earn the chance of moving his blood soaked agenda to another land outside from here which turned heaven's heights into a cold frustrating fest from hell. On one side he can only see his opponent drive down the ledge, attempt to kill, miss, go back up, and do it over and over, on the other was but a few pine trees taunting both of us as they sit on a flat surface unmoving. But just as fast as he had gotten to this frozen hellscape, the laws of physics crept up to him and he plummeted to the ground landing with a fiery doom. Mr. Grimm was no more. I sighed and hit replay, this time will be different. This was just one of the many endeavors I taken in Twisted Metal: Black.
Ever since I got the game I've managed to unlock every single stage all except for well... Freeway. The way you're supposed to gain access is by getting ten kills without dying once on Snowy Roads. It was always impossible for me, it might as well be impossible for everyone. The sudden cliffs at each point of the map made it so that it would tax at least one life each time I played on it and since it was in a mode that disabled health pickups it became a lost cause. But one day, I witnessed a discovery. I was on Junkyard where I went away from one battle to gain some power ups. There weren't many around so I searched for awhile and just from the corner of the screen, another driver came racing toward me. While I did manage to become victorious that made me think, what if I could use that to my advantage to finally unlock Freeway? I tested it out by driving to the back of a ramp which would send people to No Man's Land if anyone was too stupid to drive off it. As I drove upward, the game threw straight to the ground killing me even though the spot was completely safe a few moments ago. Tried again. Same result. Yay. This made me theorize on why. I was using a semi truck which is heavy so perhaps the game has an additional quirk where each vehicle has their own weight to it which determined how long a car can be on a diagonal axis. So I switched out to Mr Grimm who had a motorcycle.
I switched gears for the ledge that was hidden away from the camera and drove to the left ensuring my safety. After all I didn't want to paint a target for myself. I waited in anticipation for the driver to come around. Once they did, they unfortunately never fell off the cliff like I wanted too all they ever did was go down the ledge, turn at the exact right spot, shoot, and go back up. What did fall off the cliff was me. I relied on a spot with a diagonal plane which after a period of time made the game drop me to the ground. I could only think of how much of everything I do in life will always end in a complete disaster whenever that happened. But one time, one driver fell down. I was close to screaming in delight over how my trap did work occasionally and seeing that kill counter display with the number one made me howl so hard that the neighbors could probably notice even though that my strategy was extremely risky. But disregarding the risk, it was a huge sign of progress that I am so close to finally get Freeway. I think Frederick Douglass said it best about progress "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." Well if Frederick considers a skull wearing Vietnam war veteran dying repeatedly in the hopes of murdering people on a freeway to be a struggle then I would bet that the payoff will have something along the lines of "I am Calypso, and I thank you for playing Twisted Metal."
Ever since I got the game I've managed to unlock every single stage all except for well... Freeway. The way you're supposed to gain access is by getting ten kills without dying once on Snowy Roads. It was always impossible for me, it might as well be impossible for everyone. The sudden cliffs at each point of the map made it so that it would tax at least one life each time I played on it and since it was in a mode that disabled health pickups it became a lost cause. But one day, I witnessed a discovery. I was on Junkyard where I went away from one battle to gain some power ups. There weren't many around so I searched for awhile and just from the corner of the screen, another driver came racing toward me. While I did manage to become victorious that made me think, what if I could use that to my advantage to finally unlock Freeway? I tested it out by driving to the back of a ramp which would send people to No Man's Land if anyone was too stupid to drive off it. As I drove upward, the game threw straight to the ground killing me even though the spot was completely safe a few moments ago. Tried again. Same result. Yay. This made me theorize on why. I was using a semi truck which is heavy so perhaps the game has an additional quirk where each vehicle has their own weight to it which determined how long a car can be on a diagonal axis. So I switched out to Mr Grimm who had a motorcycle.
I switched gears for the ledge that was hidden away from the camera and drove to the left ensuring my safety. After all I didn't want to paint a target for myself. I waited in anticipation for the driver to come around. Once they did, they unfortunately never fell off the cliff like I wanted too all they ever did was go down the ledge, turn at the exact right spot, shoot, and go back up. What did fall off the cliff was me. I relied on a spot with a diagonal plane which after a period of time made the game drop me to the ground. I could only think of how much of everything I do in life will always end in a complete disaster whenever that happened. But one time, one driver fell down. I was close to screaming in delight over how my trap did work occasionally and seeing that kill counter display with the number one made me howl so hard that the neighbors could probably notice even though that my strategy was extremely risky. But disregarding the risk, it was a huge sign of progress that I am so close to finally get Freeway. I think Frederick Douglass said it best about progress "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." Well if Frederick considers a skull wearing Vietnam war veteran dying repeatedly in the hopes of murdering people on a freeway to be a struggle then I would bet that the payoff will have something along the lines of "I am Calypso, and I thank you for playing Twisted Metal."
