GHWoR - 'Sudden Death' Expert Guitar 100% FC (790,137)

Sudden Death - Megadeth

Here's one of the few songs in this game that literally took me 8+ hours of grinding. I wasted so much fucking time on this song, and I'm still down 520 from UKOGmonkey.

I had plenty of problem spots throughout my grinds. I was very consistent in terms of hitting the notes up until verse 2, but it was about 50/50 whether or not I could make it that far without missing a squeeze. The 1st act is tricky to overlap the phrase and not miss the front or back end. The 2nd act is basically a double squeeze that I found myself missing the back end of for no reason.

Then we get to Verse 2, one of the most infamous sections in the game (2:28). This section is universally known as a fuck-you section because of the way this engine handles HOPO notes followed directly by a strum of the same color. It's very common that the game will register your strum on the B hopo instead of the YB chord directly after it. There's a few tricks to hitting this section: Hit all the notes as early as possible so you have some wiggle-room with the B hopo. The real trick is finding a good strumming rhythm and knowing where each Y note lands in that rhythm. The 1st Y is a down strum, 2nd is an upstrum, and 3rd is a downstrum. What I do is accentuate is every 6th strum: Accent the 1st Y, accent the YB downstrum right before the 2nd Y, then accent the 3rd Y, and you're golden. With all these methods, I was able to get like 7 FCs in a row on stream a few months back AND nearly FC this whole song in a PFO with Fingerquick.

After Verse 2, there's that weird strummy-hopo bit that usually people don't have troubles with, but for some fucking reason I would randomly miss there- frequently.

After that bit, you have the easiest activation in the entire song (and it's a double squeeze), and I FUCKING MISSED IT ON THIS RUN. -400 from that.

Then you have the actual solo, and I only really had one part that I had trouble with; that was the part from 4:00 to 4:11. The hardest part is at the end of that section, but 80 percent of the time, I would miss before that section, then hit it. 15% of the time I would combo everything before it, then miss it, and the 5% of the time I would actually hit everything. But then 90% of the time AFTER I HIT ALL OF THAT, I would miss somewhere else for no good reason other than nerves. This is the best score I could manage, and I don't really want to have to play this again- especially because I don't even know where to make up the other 120 points UKOG has. I'm guessing another note on the last act? not too sure. Kyle Ruth's path on pathhero also has a triple squeeze on the post-verse 2 activation, but that's fucking insanity and not feasible in a real run.

in conclusion, fuck this song

also this description used nearly 3,000 characters of the 5,000 character limit lol

My Scores:

[JBBRAD]

Dave was shredding like a lunatic in this song. His best work in the past 20 years! Wow what a legend

[Dairunt]

I don't care Guitar Hero Live existed, this was the epic conclusion of the Guitar Hero saga, and it was such a sendoff. I loved these games and I still do to this day.

[sirkjohno]

If you're playing a song written by Dave Mustaine with the sole purpose of being in a Guitar Hero video game, expect it to be impossible lol

[AdamG]

People in 2006: "I FC'ed Hangar 18!"

Dave Mustaine, 2010: "That's cute"

[mpekim]

Fun fact: Dave Mustaine stated that this was one of the most difficult songs he had to write, due to the fact that it was not only made for guitar hero but was made to be one of the, if not the most difficult song of the series.

[Jlaps]

Even on Hard, this song took me way too long to dominate on the quest versus FotS and This Day We Fight. The fact that you FCd it on expert blows my mind. Nice job Moose

[LilSerg]

"So how skilled are you on guitar hero?"

This guy: "yes"

[fluxie]

3:49 idk why but i find the little slider note here adorable, he's just a lil guy

[NeverSaySandwich]

An appropriate final song for the series

[Hesh]

This game is ridiculously underrated theyre on a giant fucking robot

[cadendicky]

I officially accept this as the final boss song of the Guitar Hero franchise. That or either Through the fire and flames or The Devil went down to Georgia.

[kedasf]

can we all agree this is the best guitar hero game out there

[silhouettoofaman]

No other game series can claim they have an exclusive song written by one of the most legendary metal artists of all time in their OST.

[RyantheGTFalcon]

UKOG is one lucky Britain player that knows its Tricks.

[colwyncallingbull]

Finally passed this song with 85% of the notes. And by god that solo was so intense and so fun. My fingers never moved so fast in my life lol. Hyperspeed 3 helps a lot is my tip.

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Lyrics: 

His evil Highness born from disaster
To dominate and to kill
A glistening murder machine
False majesty standing perfectly still
A blitzkrieg raining down evil
On a mountain of black ice
Like a good old fashioned beating within
Inches of your life

While alone and left abandoned
With the sentence you've been handed
All your angels will ignore you
As your life flashes before you
Even still you keep on fighting
Through the thunder and the lightning
And now Heaven sends its love
Your sudden death from above

Once frozen like a prisoner depraved
Perched high atop the lithosphere
Set free from beneath the depths of hell
Bequeathing anything but despair
The beast is genetically programmed
Time to destroy, time to go berserk
To see the end of all wars
To see the end of the Earth

Stopping at nothing, punch drunk
From the blood that he's tasted
Tearing your soul apart
Not one bit of your pain will be wasted
Now death descends upon you
Like a bloody white dove
Bringing your retribution
Your sudden death from above


While alone and left abandoned
With the sentence you've been handed
All your angels will ignore you
As your life flashes before you
Even still you keep on fighting
Through the thunder and the lightning
And now Heaven sends its love
Your sudden death from above

[UndyingRein]

Had a friend challenge me on Guitar Hero at a party. He always said he'd beat me on expert, so I picked this one without him knowing it was my showoff song. This is definitely one of the most fun to play. Guitar Hero and Rock Band are the only games that I was the best at in my friend groups. I sucked at everything else.

[LuisFelipeZaguini]

okay but can you fc i love rock n roll on medium?

[ugottriggered]

They had no right making Pandora so sexy in this game 🤤

[grenin]

That 1 dislike is probably someone who got a -1