Clearing the game in Hellish difficulty using console commands

Prologue

The sound of clinking keys from a keyboard echoed in a dimly lit room, along with a monologue coming from a rambling male teenager:

"Finally, a new decent game from F**is not AI-generated. Huh, an unknown publisher with not even a link to Patreon? That's weird. And they've even completed the game already!

Let's see the preview... [n/a]? Welp, at least the preview pictures look nice!

How about the game's storage? huh!!!! 1mb?????? How in the world is the game so light? Is it a virus or something? Plus, it was built using Ren-Py too.

Welp, let's just test it out then."

Following the end of the monologue was the sound of a mouse clicking on the "Download" button, and in not even a second, the game was downloaded.

"No virus detection so far," said the young teenager.

He swiftly unzips the game files and runs them through a virus detection programme just for a second check, expecting a notification from his virus programme.

After a few seconds of scanning the file, the boy didn't notice anything out of the norm and finally decided to boot up the game with a smile: "At least nothing has gone wrong so far."

Fast forward a month, the same dimly lit room, and the same teenager with his old yet trusty laptop; however, instead of browsing the F** community like he normally did, on his screen was the same game that was downloaded a month ago.

Engrossed and with his eyes glued to the screen, he inputted fast movements with his fingers as if they were dancing on the keyboards, battling the evil final boss of that game. And with its last HP gone to 0, he celebrated: Finally, the hard difficulty is done! Suck deez nuts," he childishly said to the laptop. He mumbled another word: This game is so fun! Who would expect a 1 MB Ren-py game to be so well built with its own economic and levelling systems, along with the immersive character art and dialogues? This makes me wonder: Did some mad geniuses come up with a new data compression technology just for a game? Although there's an end credit, there is only one contributor to the game called [K].

"And I searched high and low for anyone on the website named K, but nothing came out of it. Huh, weird," he continued.

As he marvels at the ingenius design of the game, the game itself switches back to the familiar title screen to which he has grown accustomed over the last month of playing. He clicked a new game, hoping for something new or a reward to pop up after completing the hardest difficulty of the game, and something new did get unlocked, a new difficulty.

"Huh, this wasn't here before in the difficulty. Normally, all of the modes would be greyed out, but I would still be able to see," he said. "All well," he continued as he just chalked it up to the genius entity behind the game and clicked [HELL]. Like every famous last word, he said, "What could possibly go wrong?"

Fast forward 3 more months, same room, same teenage boy, and his laptop with its new downgrade, a broken screen. Instead of a calm monologue a few months before, a mad mumbling came from the boy: "This game is rigged; why the hell would there be near-max level enemies at the start of every scenario, and why are all the items so hard to find? Even though the combat system is overhauled with new features that only help to enhance the enemies' prowess, Is the developer even human?". As he continued to rage over the same game, he still kept coming back to it, but this time with a notebook app open on his computer, pages filled with strategy containing specific combos that he needed to pull off for different bosses, items, and their recipes for the game, along with each route for different events.

The rage-filled teenager calmed himself down by meditating, "Breathe in, breathe out. The last boss is here. Finally, I can beat this god-forsaken game.". As his self-mentoring ended, the main character of the game calmly opened the final gate and stepped into the boss's room.

"Remember the strategy; remember the items needed." He said that and readied himself for a long night.

Even after the sun came up and transformed the dimly lit room, revving up the room's appearance along with the appearance of the dishevelled boy with his bird-nest hair from months of being ungroomed, the sound of clicking madly from the keyboard hadn't stopped.

"Just one final hit!" yelled the excited yet near-descendant-to-madness gamer.

Just about the hero's weapon to finally thrust through the final boss.

A message displayed:

"Boss's talent triggered [Hell's Difficulty]: {Final Moment}

Effect: This talent only triggers in hell's difficulty when the user is at their last moment. When triggered, the user heals themself to full health and enters an enlightenment stage. Enlightenment buffs the entity 1000% on all of its stats except luck."

As he looked at the ridiculous status screen of the boss, the boss hit the hero, and the game ended, displaying the message:

"You Died. Deleting all save files due to Hell's difficulty setting"

Looking at the death scene, the boy felt like something inside him had just snapped. Yes, he didn't care anymore. He didn't care about beating the game fairly anymore. He didn't care about the strategy he spent hours writing anymore. For all he cared about right now, it was beating the cursed game. As the realisation hit, he collapsed on his table due to having spent all night fighting the boss.

With a twisted determination, the boy woke up. Yet he didn't rage this time, similar to every time he died in the game. He just stood up silently, washed his face, came back in front of his laptop, and finally, he did the thing: he installed and ran UnRen on the game, giving himself access to the game console command.

He booted up the game in [HELL] difficulty mode and gently and swiftly typed:

{
HP += 9999
MP += 9999
STA += 9999
STR += 9999
AGI += 9999
INT += 9999
WIS += 9999
LUK += 9999
MONEY += 9999999
...}

Now, armed with the knowledge of almost beating it once and the cheat stats that he gave when he first entered the game via the console commands, he speedran the entire game in just an hour. One-hitting the boss and triggering its [Enlightenment] status Now facing the actual final phase of the end-game boss, he one-shot it yet again with his ridiculous stats.

However, what he expected was not the normal congratulations screen from the game after beating the final boss; what he got was:

"
ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR
ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR
ERROR--!#%%^&$^#*&$!&*%#*^#*&#^*&^!%&^%$&#^!--ERROR
ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR
ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR--ERROR
"
And the game shut down. Frantically, the boy tried to boot the game again to see what happened, but strangely enough, the entire folder of the game got deleted from his system.

"What the actual heck is going on?" Raging the boy.

He tried everything to recover the game, from accessing his trash folder to trying to unzip the game again, only to find the zipped version had also been deleted. Checking his virus app to see if there is anything wrong with his laptop. Even restarting the laptop didn't do anything to trace back to the game file. Desperately, he logged into the forum, which he regularly accessed to discuss strategy with fellow players of the game. However, he found all of the logs of the game on the website deleted, leaving only the option to review the game. On his last leg, he even tried to contact [K], the creator of the game, for more information, but to no avail.

Desperate, he left a lengthy scholarly review of the game, which could be summarised as "A rigged game". Despite the questionable and angry review, he still gave it a 5-star rating due to his obsession with the game over the past 5 months. After posting the review, the enraged boy finally succumbed to the fatigue built up from playing the game non-stop for almost two days. Unbeknownst to him, a notification popped up on his phone, which was a comment under his lengthy review. It read "Noted! -by[ K]".

And after what seemed like ages for the boy during his adventure in dreamland, he woke up and found himself in another world, or specifically, the world from the same game that he had had an obsession with for over the last 5 months.

"Oh, what the hell is this!" said the boy calmly.