Not long now until all is done.
I really wish I could copy files, because getting to the point where I’m ready to try something like Nightmare King Grimm again takes a while. Ideally, I’d do pretty much everything I’d already done for this playthrough, so that’s another 10+ hours of work just to try the fight again. I probably won’t ever bother with it, even though I’m getting faster and more reliable with the fights I have won. I also wish I’d managed to upgrade the Fragile Heart prior to cancelling the Ritual, but I didn’t know that part would vanish as well. It doesn’t in randomizer (probably because that’s three checks there), so I’d forgotten that it does here. Thankfully, all of the remaining challenges are in dreams, so hopefully the charm doesn’t break if I don’t leave a Shade. If the charm does break for that, then I’ll just do without.
Traitor Lord is one of those really hard fights (up there with the Watcher Knights and Nosk), but at least he’s part of an optional ending! It’s required lore back there, where the White Lady explains exactly why you do what you do for the first ending, but you don’t need that explanation in order to get the first ending. The White Fragment she gives you, however, is only required for the second and third endings. I’ve got just a little bit left before doing those (they have the same entry requirements), and then everything else is just trying things until I’ve decided I’ve had enough with this game.