A quick guide for how to beat the Glutton for Punishment Achievement.
Requirements
[1] Unlocking Every Character
[2] Beat the Normal Ending as all Characters
[3] Beat the True Ending for most Characters
[4] Unlock the Dream Route (True Ending needs to be done first for that character)
[4] Completing every Curse based Challenge (listed below)
[5] Unlock X Must Die Difficulty
[6] Sudo Requirement (Highly Recommened): Unlock Fuji’s or Boss’s Curses
Necessary Challenges
Any requirements to unlock these will be listed in the challenge book
- Assignment Anya
- Massive Attack
- Gauntlet
- Jumbled Mess
- Blackout
- Old Grounds
- Hemophilaic
- Mutants
- No Spill Blood
- Mom’s Credit Card
- Great Depression
- Arcade Maniac
What Character to Choose?
It is also recommend to have all personal curses on for either Boss or Fuji because with all general curses activated some of the personal ones downsides are either completely negated or will already have happen anyways.
Benefits of Boss:
- Explosions become really powerful late game (may cause lag)
- Curse of the Mysterious is a freebie since the whole map will be hidden (Caused by X Must Die)
- Boss Mid-Late Game can screen wipe any room and one shot any boss
(Besides the final boss, Golden Mask, and The Glitch).
Benefits of Fuji
- Curse of the Hunted negates Long Distance Relationships downside/Cordelia’s shop spawning only some times. This means free items every floor (besides alt) and sometimes two shops.
- Money is only necessary for Doctor upgrades
- Curse of Heavy Weight is almost canceled out by Curse of the Hoard
- The shop gives a free map which will make navigation super easy.
- Free Health at Shop.
- Free Items at shop.
Who Should you Choose?
Fuji is without a doubt better than Boss simply due to the Free Shop Curse and a guaranteed shop spawn on all floors (except ALT).
This is a big deal because the only thing you need to buy is doctor health and strength upgrades meaning anything money related is pointless beyond that. This makes any money based curse negligible really quickly.
Map also being free allows navigation to become possible since without it your blind.
Ambrosia also being free means any Portrait Demon hits or close calls can be negated at least once.
Chunks also spawns almost a minute after you spawn which Fuji is more adept at taking out early game.
Yes, Boss is good especially for the final boss but with the whole run in mind Fuji is better.
General Guide For All Floors
- Facing Chunks (Will not be encounter in Dream Floors)
- Facing Portrait Demon (Will not be encounter in Dream Floors)
- No idea where you are
- Anything you will encounter in a normal run but worse
General Tips
- Loop using basement before doing a true loop, prevents loop enemies from spawning.
- Take special elevators to skip bosses
- Avoid Witch Begon With Fuji
- Upgrade Damage then Health
- Maximize item potential and avoid bad items (Dead Eye, Chaos Token, Pea Shooter, etc)
- Avoid Toilet Paper unless you have wet wipes or a bathroom elevator with a clear path and a medkit.
While this run is essentially chaos your general game knowledge you should have to even attempt this run should be more than efficient.
Chunks
He spawns extremely quickly so the best thing to do is to knock him out first thing every floor.
IF YOU HAVE ACTIVATED A PORTRAIT DEMON DO NOT LEAVE THE ROOM face and knock out Chunks then deal with the demon in the next room. If you fail to do this may Gabe Newell help you.
Chunks will mutate after the first floor, be especially careful of the dog mutation.
Getting the dead rat will resolve any Chunks issue permanently but you should never count getting it in a run. Chunks will also be gone in the dream floors.
Facing Portrait Demon: Easy to Avoid, Deadly when you Don’t
Despawns after two minutes, going into a boss room with the boss STILL ALIVE, getting hit by it, or leaving the floor.
Getting hit by the demon is a run killer (REDUCES YOU TO 1HP and it spawns often. Using the free ambrosia for these moments.
Only a problem on the main floors, during the dream floors the demon also slumbers.
No Idea Where You Are
- Normal Floors 1-4 will be mixed
- Alt Floors 1-4 will be mixed
- Dream Floors will be mixed
Only real solution is to buy the map at Cordelia’s Shop. Avoid Globe it won’t help you and instead only hinder you.
Try to get the item X Marks the Spot since every normal room is secret due to curses every room is reveled. Does not show shops and Treasure and Chest rooms are also secret.
Search the edges for the shops first to find the map.
When you have the map try to remember where you are manually since the game will not show it, you should be centered in the middle of the map. Map will not track where you have been.
How Many Times Should I Loop?
Keep looping until you have high health (I had 60 as Fuji) and damage (Fuji’s punches did 106 damage).
Always loop with basement by going to Floor 1
Don’t forget you have a little bit of time to upgrade in the dream levels but once you enter the dream levels no special floors/elevators will spawn.
Final Boss Tips
- Have high health, the more the better.
- High Damage is a must, the boss has high health for each phase.
- Invincibility items are your best friend
First Phase:
Jump and hit, the boss is extremely mobile and can not be stopped. Do what damage you can.
All of the attacks are highly telegraphed so you should be able to dodge most of them.
Second Phase:
Way easier to hit, but attacks are barely telegraphed so be on the look out. Try to get this one done as soon as possible.
Boss Rush Phase:
All Bosses are at low health take advantage of that and go at them. They should be easily killed in one hit.
Final Phase:
Don’t wait for the special credits roll, attack as soon as possible and aim for the head. Killing the head will kill the boss for good.
Recommend Items
- Stethoscope
- Heart Of Ice
- Invincibility Armor
- Medkit
- Any No Downside Damage Buff
- Any No Downside Health Buff
- Toy Chest #1 – Item will rotate between three options
- Glory Box
I initially stumbled upon this guide while trying to search up what the new curses do (since the wiki doesn’t list them) while away from my gaming PC. I appreciate the attention to detail and solid advice, but after trying out the challenge myself, I think there’s a viable alternative to using Boss or Fuji. I opted to use Digby at first to get a feel for the difficulty level, but then ended up winning on my second attempt. Surely some luck was involved with the item selection, but ultimately his hammer weapon curse is just overpowered. I was killing most enemies in one or two hits throughout the entirety of the run, frequently clearing rooms in one swing. Since most rooms were cleared in a few seconds, it didn’t really feel that risky to explore new rooms even with both Chunks and the Portrait Demon in hot pursuit. I also observed that killing Chunks before leaving the first Demon room didn’t appear necessary either since, with enough agility, it’s fairly easy to kite them while moving back and forth between the same handful of already cleared rooms until the Demon leaves. After looping (only once, off the balcony), my ‘Glutton’ run ended up being more powerful than any of my other Awakening Ending runs (all done on Normal difficulty), resulting in the fastest dream boss kills I’ve had. Don’t underestimate the hammer. 😎
I just tried a run with Mumba on x must die with all general curses and 2 of mumba’s (glass canon and cleptomaniac). In the first floor I went to the angel shop and bought both blessings. I also found the item “sleepy pills” and on floor 3 I entered the dream floors. After finishing the dream floors and defeating the leviathan without any problems the achievement wasn’t awarded to me. Is this a glitch or could it be because I used blessings or the sleepy pills to get in the dream floors faster? It doesn’t feel fair to not be allowed to use either of the blessings or any item that helps you make your life easier when the general curses create a very unpleasant experience.