The Last of Us Part I Remake

- Grounded: highest difficulty in the game
- New Game: fresh new game
- Permadeath (Whole Game): the entire game in one go with no restarts/checkpoints
- Default settings: no combat perks, playing with the recommended Grounded settings. I also opted to not use the rangefinder setting for the bow.
- No damage is taken except for the scripted sections mentioned below.

There are two instances of forced damage in this game:

- 18:12 - explosion at the checkpoint gate (medkit tutorial). You're also forced to heal with a medkit later.
- 1:01:32 - clicker grab. It is done to teach you how to craft medkits later and heal yourself but you're not forced to do it.

Other than that, there is another instance here (5:25:35) where the horse is shot at the end and you'll see a damage indicator but you take no damage as you can tell by full health here (5:26:32). You actually don't take any damage even if you get shot at any point in the horse section (I still avoid it though by taking this very specific route just like the remastered) and at the end of that section the game puts you at max health.

Completed on the TLOU day - 09/26/2022. For the most part, the strategies worked as intended. Feel free to ask any questions about them. I added a FAQ section in the pinned comment and will update it with potential common questions I receive. I shall be doing this for the next videos.
There were a couple of close calls due to mistakes or me being distracted (which often happens in long runs like this):

- Upside down - 01:36:38: I had to take a few minutes break in the middle of the encounter for unexpected reasons and when I unpaused I had forgotten in which part of the encounter I was, which caused me to be slow to react to the runners on the right.
- Sewers stalkers section - 3:33:09: I switched to the bow instead of the shotgun by mistake (I typically have it in the first long gun slot).

Chapters:

- Prologue - Hometown (0:00:00)
- The Quarantine Zone - 20 Years Later (0:14:13)
- The Quarantine Zone - Beyond the Wall (0:21:39)
- The Quarantine Zone - Slums (0:26:00)
- The Quarantine Zone - The Cargo (0:39:18)
- The Outskirts - Outside (0:50:20)
- The Outskirts - Downtown (0:59:24)
- The Outskirts - Museum (1:12:48)
- The Outskirts - The Capitol Building (1:17:09)
- Bill's Town - The Woods (1:28:14)
- Bill's Town - Safehouse (1:41:39)
- Bill's Town - Graveyard (1:47:12)
- Bill's Town - High School Escape (1:58:39)
- Pittsburgh - Alone and Forsaken (2:14:25)
- Pittsburgh - Hotel Lobby (2:25:17)
- Pittsburgh - Financial District (2:43:06)
- Pittsburgh - Escape The City (3:15:11)
- The Suburbs - Sewers (3:23:40)
- The Suburbs - Suburbs (3:37:06)
- Tommy's Dam - Hydroelectric Dam (3:55:52)
- Tommy's Dam - Ranch House (4:23:35)
- The University - Go Big Horns (4:38:12)
- The University - Science Building (4:49:04)
- Lakeside Resort - The Hunt (5:00:57)
- Lakeside Resort - Cabin Resort (5:24:12)
- Bus Depot - Highway Exit (5:56:47)
- Bus Depot - Underground Tunnel (6:04:22)
- The Firefly Lab (6:18:54)
- Jackson (6:30:57)
- Credits (6:34:39)
- Result screen and game settings (6:55:43)

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