“What I enjoy is feeling extremely OP in the beginning of the game,” says the Final Fantasy XV player who grinded to level 99 in Chapter 1.

It takes a special kind of video game player to grind out encounters to grow your party’s strength early on. I know that on my second playthrough of Final Fantasy VI, I would only make Sabin join the party once Edgar had roughly 600 HP in order to progress mightily through to the first battle with Kefka in each of the three upcoming scenarios. That power trip of rolling over enemies makes me understand, on a microscopic level, why someone would grind to level 99 in Final Fantasy XV.

Before you even complete the second main quest in the game’s story.

That’s right, as you can see from the video above, one player has undergone the daunting 61-hour task of reaching level 99 in Final Fantasy XV before the party even gets to repair their car. Soushin, better known as “Billy” to the Super Best Friends Let’s Play community, shared his latest achievement on the group’s subreddit, explaining that he did all this grinding for dozens of hours before getting the car repaired by Cindy et al.

The most astonishing thing about this accomplishment is just how convoluted this process is without a means of transportation. In order to grind in Final Fantasy XV to get to this high a level this quickly, Billy needed to farm for the 25 debased coins necessary for crafting in use of a single fire spell four or five times, while also crafting eight rare coins about three times. After spamming those spells in combat and hunts to gather the necessary money, he would take his party to sleep at The Quayside Cradle for the double experience boost granted after rest.

Without the car, Billy would need to run around the entire accessible map in order to get the required materials, party gear, and monster fights necessary to grow up your party’s level (led by Noctis) up to 99. 61 hours is an insane amount of time to grind out levels in order to play the rest of Final Fantasy XV, but at least it presents an interesting viewpoint on the rest of the game.

Billy will be streaming 99% of the remaining Final Fantasy XV gameplay content on his Twitch channel, Soushinsen, which is sure to be a wild ride filled with “Wait, you can do that this early in the game?” moments from here on out. Surely, Square Enix did not intend for the game to be played this way!