Cannot get Perfect Score in Chapter 1 on Hard Difficulty

[Volknochi]

I've noticed others mentioning this, as well. I'm trying to go for the Perfect Score on Hard in Chapter 1, but it is impossible. When it comes to the soldier in the toilet stall, you simply cannot surprise knock him out. I've seen a walkthrough for this run and it shows you knock the stall door off, move to the left side, wait for the guard to move down, and then punch him. However, the minute the soldier moves down, it prevents you from landing a successful hit as it immediately goes to Alert Mode which negates the surprise.

I also know that the part where you have the two soldiers telling jokes is pretty much impossible to so succeed at. I know the trick is to put the unconscious guard in their line of sight while they're laughing, but the minute you try to attack the guard that goes to investigate, whether it'd be slingshot or punches, the other guard immediately sees this and it goes into Alert Mode.

I've reloaded saves over and over for at least half an hour and, no matter what I do, I simply cannot get the experience points needed.

[bmn]

You don't need toilet guard, or stick guard, for Perfect, but you do need every other guard. One approach is wait for joke guards to start laughing and punch them out together.

https://youtu.be/0bu9EKOeMIA?t=211

[Volknochi]

Originally posted by bmn:

You don't need toilet guard, or stick guard, for Perfect, but you do need every other guard. One approach is wait for joke guards to start laughing and punch them out together.

https://youtu.be/0bu9EKOeMIA?t=211

Thank you very much, this was very helpful. With the joke guards, I swear I tried to punch one and then the other but could never get it to work correctly. Well, it's possible that I was not perfectly between them to hit one and then the other without moving at all. So, I am going to give this a chance.

With the stick guard, I thought you did get EXP from him? It's why I always chose him as sleeping.

How would I get UnPerfect? I assumed it was having to surprise attack every single guard (like choose 2 guards instead of 1 at the beginning) in the game.

[bmn]

I think no damage is an UnP requirement on 1, not sure if there are any others.

[Volknochi]

Great, thanks for your help, I very much appreciate it. :)