American Hero Walkthrough Discussion

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Hey, this part of the guide is wrong:

First there's no A LEDGE/run pront, it goes straight to the next one. If I chose my ride it skips ahead to another part, there's no death scene.

The second block I could figure out and should be something like:
waste her/ LET HER GO
my ride/run/FIGHT
fight/RUN

and you get to the dock checkpoint.

You are also missing the first prompt on both cases, forget it/NEED IT

UPDATE: As expected, I didn't get the achievement. Using the guide for this one it was easy to figure out what death I was missing, it's the drive-by shooting. I could only have this trigger using the alternate route posted there (this is starting from the Private Booth checkpoint):

Drive-by shooting (what the -> what the fuck -> boombox -> take it -> Laura's -> either choice -> gotta go -> run -> drop -> get it (Laura's) -> my ride )

I have to say, this is absolute nonsense. The games cuts in a sequence that makes no sense at all and loops around like 3 times before finally ending up in the death sequence. Makes no sense at all, 100% broken and weird.

The game is definitely weird. Let me look into it and I'll revise. I know of at least two places looking back where I need to tweak something (personal editing standards), so if there's something I need to fix, I'll do it.

It also bugs me that I couldn't figure out how to do it all in one play without restarting at the club. That makes it harder to get all of the locations in one run. Are you saying you found a way? I will absolutely fix that (and give you credit) because that streamlines SO much.

With other guides online, the drive-by is probably the one that is hardest to accidentally run across. Did you get the achievement you missed?

Sashamorning said:I finished the game and I 100% get what you said about it being a weird game. I didn't find a way to do it all in a run and I would not even know where to start or if it is possible to do it in a single run because of the fights and deaths. There might be a better route than the one you used? Yeah, maybe there is. Is it worth the effort in finding it? Definitely not.

Your route is already good enough and no matter what you do, it won't work for everyone because the game is weird. I was following directions to find stuff I missed and I chose the wrong option once. I restarted at the checkpoint and after that I could no longer replicate what I was doing, the game was putting me somewhere else, so I had to dig around some more to find another way to get where I wanted. I believe that might be the case why you could get the drive-by in the way you did and I could not.

Also, I'm almost sure there is also one fight missing:

You only go this way once and you chose the other option to get a death scene and it's needed to do this twice to get both the death and the missing fight scene.

So, guide is:

where it should be something like:

There's of course the problem that this proceeds the game and if you do it in that sequence it's needed to reach another checkpoint to save. Since this was the very last fight I needed, I just popped the achievement and uninstalled this crap.

Looking at the guide I believe you also missed a few locations in the second run. You don't seem to unlock Laura's House, Abandoned Lot and Dock. You did tell at the start this achievement was the exception that need to be done in a single run, but I think you forgot about this and just went straight to the end of the game and only unlocked Car Chase in the procces because of a needed fight. Since I had already deviated a lot from the guide looking for my final fight and had unlocked some locations while doing that, I'm not sure what is or isn't missing regarding this achievement.

One final thing. I don't know if the sequence for the missing death that I copied from the achievement guide also has a slight mistake or if all three ways of entering the house can lead to the same outcome eventually:

What I did involved one extra step and it was:

Yep, definitely missed those. I'm running through on another tag to see if there's anything else to fix, but I definitely appreciate the feedback and will update it ASAP.

I think I had posted a few solutions for this game way back and remember it being totally broken as a game as well. Like at one point I couldn't actually end the game, I kept getting killed prematurely at the dam at the end. Sometimes the game will loop in a nonsensical way and I think it varied from one run to another almost, like some sort of hidden rng or something.

prowlerdante said:You made my life very easy! Your guide for the deaths made it easy to figure out the one I missed and how to get it and your comment on the fights guide was exactly the one missing from the walkthrough.

All things considered, this would be an ok completion and not even bad to figure out missing stuff with all info that has been already shared. The only real problem with this game is the constant crashing. Makes it super annoying to play because you have to repeat stuff all the time and you are not really sure if everthing has been tracked right. Think it crashes something like once every 20 minutes.