The aspect of trophy or achievement hunting has been a staple in modern gaming ever since
their introduction, with players constantly putting themselves through some of the hardest
and most time consuming challenges in gaming only for the sake of title, the ability to
firmly say, "I have done this".
Its admirable, really.
Many games will have a small devoted fanbase to obtaining all the trophies or achievements
in any game imaginable no matter how hard it may be.
Various sites sometimes exist to track these achievements and serve as a community where
all games can share and discuss their hardships in the journey to achieve 100% in a game.
However, today we're not talking about the hardest game to 100% or the most dedicated
community, we're talking about the one game that no one on earth has been able to 100%
ever since its release over 5 years ago.
Today I'm talking about the mysterious Attacking Zegeta franchise.
On June 23rd, 2015 the game "Attacking Zegeta was released.
At first glance, this game from Denysoft studio appears to be a troll game, akin to the likes
of Super Mario Kaizo and other notoriously difficult games.
Except this game for some strange reason appeared to be outright unfinished.
Many people simply wrote the game off as a poorly made game and didn't pay mind to it,
however the people that did devote the time to playing were able to find that there was
quite possibly something more behind this game.
What mainly stood out about this game were its Achievements, as players simply couldn't
figure them out, as of the recording of this video, there is still no one out there with
all 4 four trophies in the game, this is mainly due to cryptic descriptions these trophies
offer in regards to their requirements.
This only adds fuel to the fire as it inspired many trophy hunters to dig deep into this
game attempting to figure it out.
Starting the game, we're immediately greeted with the title screen that informs the player
of a copyright claim lasting until the year 5015.
Players were quickly able to identify the mysterious text moving on the title screen
as a very poorly google translated Hebrew, they still able to decipher these words : "Messiah
is God","savior","king","big" (or great),"miraculous", "the messiah", "hero" And a host of other
words and phrases in the same vain...
,"Lord of Lords "He/it is Go,"teacher","he's simple","modest,""everything is glorious "and
"leader".
This was only the first clue as a little bit later, players found deny softs official YouTube
channel that had a very creepy teaser trailer for the game that talks about protecting the
city and enslaving "them".
The footage in the trailer has absolutely no resemblance to the actual game.
What really threw people off the previously mentioned Denysoft YouTube channel.
As it contained more trailers for mobile games in the "Zegeta" series
as these seemed to have no relation to the first game, or each other and were no longer
downloadable in any capacity.
The community was stuck, people just couldn't make any progress in the game, and nothing
surrounding the game was making sense, people on various forums still theorized what the
trophies could possibly mean or how to unlock them but still, no progress was made and that's
where the mystery ended....until November 18th,2016 when Attacking Zegeta 2 randomly
released on the PlayStation store!
This
only brought more questions however, this game came with more trophies, but they all
seem even more random and cryptic descriptions.
Almost as some type of religious preach.
This game opens up with a very eary maze section where you have to bring a ball around, the
only problem was this turned out to be a loading screen, not an actual game, and it was seemingly
impossible to be able to beat it in the given time span.
Bringing even more problems was the fact that the community could not even get past the
first level.
Once again, no progress could be made and it just eventually died out... until 5 years
3 months and 16 days after the games release, literally on the day this video was being
written, user A1rpun on PSNProfiles posted a video of them beating the maze... after
almost two years of brainstorming and back and forth had finally yielded a result thanks
to the work of users Ojama_Country, TyIerDDurden and A1rPun
This was a huge breakthrough for the remaining dedicated players.
As this was the first time any significant progress had been made, and finally one of
the trophies was deciphered.
It is the first step towards potentially beating the game and unlocking the rest of the trophies.
....however the story doesn't end there...In addition to the mystery around both games,
fans have found that by using the way back machine on denysofts official website, A section
titles "The Vault" will appear.
It says that once you beat one of their games, it will give you a password allowing you to
enter it on the website to "find the truth" and learn all about what's going on.
This section however is no longer available and no one was able to access this part of
the website The website has a second section that requires
you to beat another one of their games to access, These being Flapp and Zegeta for the
Wii U and Flappy Zegeta for the Oculus, both of them being poorly made flappy bird like
games that cannot be beaten.
As of the recording of this video, there is still no recorded evidence of anyone gaining
entry via password to the vault section, meaning that unless a developer comes forward, the
contexts of the vault will remain unknown.
Ultimately this is as far as the rabbit hole goes, the community has not been able to decipher
anymore within the game, attempts to contact the developers to perhaps give the community
any insight have proven to be unsuccessful, all the brainstorming regarding the first
level has yet to gain any results and the community still hasn't been able to solve
the mystery of this game.
That doesn't meant that there's no room for speculation however.
Although clues are sparse, when searching for more information about Denysoft, you can
find through their other social media pages some interesting information.
It's said that Denysoft was envisioned since 1985, suggesting that it's was at least initially
conceived in the mid 80's.
So that indicates the developers are at LEAST 45 years of age.
It then says that it was formerly formed in 2010 to 2011.
This could be a typo.
But they then go on to say they're a game development company dedicated to create the
classic future of gaming.
What does classic future even mean?
And come to think of it, classic and future are almost oxymorons of one another.
This COULD also be in reference to the trailer mentioning the story of the'future robots'
taking over the classic humans.
Or perhaps these small errors or inconsistencies in the information are code for something
else, much like the hebrew translated earlier.
Or another route, Denysoft studios seem to be from Puerto Rico, as one of their earlier
videos claims to have the title of "First Puerto Rican Game" in Spanish.
So these pieces of information could have just be a result of a language barrier.
The In any case, we're not given much information about the studio.
we can even a brief glimpse of the island in the Attacking Zegeta 2 trailer.
The games are littered with various messages of positive reinforcement encouraging the
player to do better and never give up, no matter what.
But on their game's banner, it's described as 'the hardest game in the galaxy is nowavailable.
Perhaps there is no hidden mystery at all, but rather the whole game series was developed
by some type of game development student or an independent game maker, who was simply
experimenting with game platform's source codes.
That doesn't necessarily mean there's not at least something here, the most likely answer
is that it's simply some one or some people developed JUST ENOUGH of a game to pull people
in, continuously positively reinforce the player to keep them going, with the carrot
on the stick that there's SO MUCH MORE.
You can be the FIRST and ONLY person to find the solution.
That's its selling point.
But the problem lies in that once a game is defeated, and its mechanics are learned, it
becomes easier and easier through repition.
But if its NEVER defeated, the air of mystery remains.
Keeping it elusive and offering a challenge for those achievement hunters out there that
they will never accomplish...
Although some people argue there are deeper metaphors involved, complete with some fractured
messages hidden throughout.
But occams razor suggests that's not the case.
We're thinking that this is perhaps a student pogrammer as it's not uncommon for student
programmers to learn something only to do nothing with it, a good example would be the
aforementioned vault, as in reality there was never anything there and putting in the
password would likely lead to a piece of text either trolling you or just saying something
nice, like thank you for playing.
Even more evidence to suggest this is the fact that the developers have changed what
platform they release their games on, originally starting with Mobile games, then the Wii U,
the PlayStation and more recently the Oculus Rift, more than likely LEARNING how these
different systems work and operate to hone their own developing skills.
Regardless what the true meaning is, it's very possible we may never know.
Denysoft studios, if you're watching this, Hit Us UP!!
We'd love to interview you!
there are so many people who want to know what's really going on here and we'd love
to hear you out!
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