Ghost of Tsushima Legends Solo Hellmode

Not many people know of this achievement, but I'm hoping to help you appreciate it.

Ghost of Tsushima is a critically praised video game released in 2020, set during the first Mongol invasion of Japan. A cooperative multiplayer add-on was released later that year, taking on a mythological setting. The major game mode in Legends that people play is Survival — 15 waves of enemies attempt to capture player-held zones over roughly 30 minutes.

In a later patch, the developer introduced a new configuration to the Platinum Survival mode: Custom, where players could optionally turn on 7 different difficulty modifiers. Further, they included a reward, the Hidden Heart katana, for anyone who completes a 7 modifier Platinum Survival match aka "Hellmode" with no lost control zones and none of the players dying. As someone who earned a Hidden Heart, believe me when I say this mode is ridiculously hard. You need all 4 players to have maxed out effective gear, and be actually skilled at playing the mode — one of the modifiers is shared health, so anyone taking damage will inflict that damage on every other player.

No one thought 7/7 Platinum Survival could be beaten by a solo player until Joey Dominguez, probably the most dominant Legends player, did it on 2023-01-08.

As with lots of world records, once people know it's possible, others completed their own Perfect Solo Hellmodes. Since the World's First, Joey and others have reduced the amount of time needed to complete from 53:07 all the way down to the current record of 28:54 (as of this writing). Joey holds that record in a tie with AfunNightmare.

AfunNightmare's 28:54 on 2025-01-13:

Joey's 28:54 on 2025-05-28: