I get trying to not just follow the leader but the Yakuza team knew what they were doing and Miyazaki just ardently refused to properly feature the gunplay that was so fundamental to the real DS1.
And Bloodborne was just blueballing everyone.
Yay it's in a city.
Yay it has guns.
But LOLGUNS ARE WORTHLESS.
CorryWith2rs (who'll just be referred to as Corry from here on out) is a challenge runner who posts videos on youtube fairly consistently showcasing him overcoming incredibly difficult challenges in short order. He's done multiple "play through the series but if I die I have to go back to the first game" videos and other videos highlighting him getting through very difficult mods.
But a big red flag that's been surrounding him has been the fact he doesn't stream these runs. He just posts edited videos and highlights of his playthroughs on youtube that often skip over what should be climactic or exciting, and that was suspicious to begin with. But a different challenge runner, uhTrance, actually looked into it more thoroughly after footage in Corry's most recent video raised some red flags for uhTrance, starting first with that the order of games played on Corry's discord play history did not match playing through the RE games in order.
Two (technically three) of the most notable instances are that Corry advertises in two of his videos that he is playing the "hardest RE8 and RE9 mods", referred to as the Village of Shadows Plus Plus and Insanity Plus Plus mods. Their names follow the naming scheme of the legitimate and extremely difficult Madhouse Plus Plus mod for Resident Evil 7, but these mods cannot be found on Nexus Mods (where the Madhouse mod is) or seemingly anywhere else and there are no other videos discussing them either. uhTrance even reached out to the creator of the Madhouse Plus Plus mod confirm that they did not make either of other mods. uhTrance then goes on to claim that Corry likely just made up the claims about these mods and played a run with sped up animations but was otherwise probably normal.
A large amount of the video also focuses on Corry's video on playing through the Resident Evil 4 remake's Berserker Plus, showing both direct and circumstantial evidence to call into question the legitimacy of Corry's run. One brief clip shows Corry killing a freshly spawned enemy with a single bullet from the unupgraded starting handgun. uhTrance also attempts to play through a notoriously difficult section of the mod that Corry entirely skipped over with just a claim of it being "lightwork". Lastly, and most damningly, uhTrance also reconstructs a sequence of the game that apparently only took Corry ten minutes to clear, something that uhTrance demonstrated was impossible even if all the enemies that needed to be killed had their AIs shut off so they simply stood there and let the player shoot them to death.
Started playing it, needing to relearn some things and unlearn some others, but genuinely exciting to play and I love the revisions to combat.
One thing I am noticing however is that Endurance seems to be a complete non-issue. You already have 800+ equip load and attacking doesn't seem to lower stamina at all. Is that stat pretty much a freebie and I should focus on Vigor and the stats my weapons scale with?