This Achievement in The Dead Space Remake is VERY Stressful

I love the idea of Isaac just staring at a necromorph body on the floor for a solid 10-15 seconds before declaring “ITS GOT CAKE!!!” and just opening fire on its legs 😂

Got this achievement last night, I can confirm that I’ve lost about 10 years of my life from how stressed I was

That's not controversial at all, the plasma cutter is objectively the best gun in the entire game and by focusing all your nodes on just it and your rig, it becomes an absolute BEAST of a weapon.

For anyone looking to start an Impossible run but anxious about it here are some tips that might help 1)Its 1 life but not exactly 1 save. You're limited to one save slot that you may overwrite as many times as you wish but it is deleted on Isaac's death. So if you wished you could save after every encounter. Just make sure you've got the ammo for it :) 2) Speaking of ammo, kinesis is your friend. Everyone knows that ripping a spike from a necromorph can be used to spear it but there are other ways to deal damage without shooting a weapon. 2a)The fan blades off of vents are still very sharp and when thrown with kinesis can sever the legs if aimed just below the knee. And conveniently every Necromorph that breaks open a vent drops this kneecapper right in front of them ;) 2b) Fire extinguishers are all over the ship and act as small scale explosives if thrown. It's not much damage but enough to stagger an enemy or even blow off a limb of an already weakened enemy 2c) Any physics object you pick up can do small damage when thrown but more importantly they'll stun an enemy for a second giving you a moment to reposition or reload 3)Make the game give you ammo. The game uses the same system as the original in that ammo drops are based on your currently equipped weapons as well as how much you have on hand. So that means if you have an overabundance of plasma cutter ammo the game wont give you any and either give you credits or another ammo type for a different tool that's running low. Anytime you get over 90 plasma cutter ammo throw it in the stores bank and you'll be surprised how much ammo the game starts throwing at you. For reference my Impossible run I ended up using just the Plasma cutter and the force gun. I would store plasma cutter ammo after 90 and force gun ammo after about 45. By chapter 8 my store had about 2 rows of plasma cutter ammo and 3 rows of force gun ammo. Anytime I got a little low I would just dip into the store for a quick refill back to my arbitrary limit. At the final boss I had well over a 200 shots for each gun just sitting in the bank. 4) Health is important, but using a large health pack is a giant waste. There is no overhealing in this game so unless you're health is in the red a medium will do you just as well a large on in the long run. Getting your hp full in this game just means you can take more hits, which if you're trying not to die is something you should be avoiding anyway. So either sell the large pack for credits or store them in the bank to be used for the final boss fight as a get out of jail free card 4b) Dont worry too much about getting your HP to its fullest at any point. Getting to 'green' is usually sufficient Being in green means your HP is at least 80% of its max. The remaining 20% sounds like a lot but really it equates to 1 maybe 2 more hits that you can take depending on your RiG upgrades. At full upgrades you can take about 7 hits at full and when your in green it's about 6. 4c)Upgrades to your RIGs HP will automatically fill your health too. So if youre near a bench and low on health but have the nodes for an HP upgrade do it. This also applies even if you've reset the suits upgrades with credits. So its always an option to reset for 10k and use nodes to get back some but not all the HP upgrades you had previously. This will refill the health bar to full but now with spare nodes and spare full health refills to be used at your discretion 5) Stomp goes hard. About 3 stomps will break a necromorphs legs and about 4 more will kill it without using a single shot. If there is a Stasis recharge nearby abuse this combo to clear the room. Freeze stomp, repeat until the area is clear. 5c) complete the sidequest regarding the Hunters origins. This can only be started after chapter 5 by picking up the tissue sample in cryogenics after freezing the hunter. There will be some backtracking but the reward is an upgrade to stasis that causes it to do damage over time as well as freeze enemies 5d) find the plasma cutter upgrade weighted blades. This gives you a huge chance that Isaac's melee with the plasma cutter will knock a necromorph over. With stasis this seems to be even easier and 1 punch will knock an enemy over 75% of the time making them an easy stomp target 6) Good luck have fun you've got this

Neat tip: if the necromorph is alive you won't be able to pull the limbs off it with kinesis

Plasma cutter only impossible was actually not bad at all. I had like 400 ammo going into the last boss because it's basically the only ammo that drops when it's your only gun. Plus it gets upgraded quick because you only have the suit and plasma cutter to upgrade. Which also means HP, stasis, and kinesis get upgraded quickly as well. Biggest tip is to take your time. When in doubt, use stasis and reposition. Also every dead slasher drops 2 blades that you can throw at enemies to kill them or knock them down.

I made the mistake of trusting the pulse rifle on a tentacle drag on my impossible run, i was so pissed i looked up a way i could cheese the challenge and i have no regrets abusing it

“if the body’s got cake, it’s not a mistake” thanks Snam will remember

Fun fact, Plasma Cutter only is actually the best way to complete it for multiple reasons. 1: When ammo drops, it'll only be for the weapons you currently have in your inventory, so with just a Plasma Cutter, you'll only get ammo for it. (The only exception is when you can get a new weapon, there will always be a couple drops of ammo near it, which you can just sell for credits) 2: You can upgrade your suit and gun faster cause you only have 2 items to upgrade, which can save a lot of time and money later on. 3: More inventory space to use. Since it's just 1 gun and 1 ammo type, you can have more ammo/health packs/ stasis packs available, and even pick up more conductors before having to sell them. 4: There's also a One Gun achievement, and we all know how fun going for achievements are.

I’m happy that I can look at a trophy like this and go, “yeah I’m good.” Amazing work as always. Well done

That Nier OST in the final part hit so hard

Not only does Mercer's stasis last an eternity, it also freezes you completely instead of just slowing you down.

I found that the impossible mode in this game was quite easy actually. I did it at the same time as using only the plasma cutter, and honestly I think that gave me an edge. The Plasma Cutter has an insane DPS and damage in general, as well as when you only use one weapon, you only get ammo for said weapon. So it's super efficient, on top of the ammo being very cheap if you need more. Another important note is that when you only use one weapon, you can upgrade it fully easily, as well as upgrading your RIG fully as well. Which helps a ton.

There's a slight cheat to this "perma death" thingy: if you call out the pause menu quick enough before the game thinks you are dead, you can go back to main menu and reload your impossible save, that is, if you are quick on that escape button

Got the Platinum trophy for this a few days ago. Got the secret ending, too! As a Dead Space fan since the original, I had actually found this channel through your Dead Space 2 video. It’s crazy to see you come full circle throughout the series.

Snam! Cant believe you only started posting less than a year ago. Your content and narration quality is so high, you'd never guess it. Can't wait to see you at the number of subs you truly deserve. 👍

can't imagine turning out this achievement this quickly, let alone doing so while preparing comedy gold with it too

Thank you so much for uploading your videos! I can hardly catch your streams due to timezone differences so I'm always eager to watch whenever you upload something!

It was definitely stressful as all hell, but I didn't actually find it super difficult. If you play carefully and mind where the instant-death traps are, you can get by with quite a few mistakes. Also worth noting playing with only the plasma cutter is actually *easier*, because you only find ammo for weapons you have on you when you kill enemies.

The montage of the final chapter to that awesome music was EPIC