I am currently playing with my ftiend on a Legendary difficulty in journey mode (to get the new achievement) and I've noticed that it's actually really fun. It mostly helps with multiplayer (so you don't have to find a second copy of the accessory or any item), but besides that, it removes a looot of grind which is kinda... nice..?
You still have to find the item in the first place to recearch it (+ in some cases more than one copy), so it doesn't feels much like cheating 

and I've been wondering if something like "1 hp" or "1 hp on Zenith seed" would still be a flex if you Beat it on journey, since it just removes some unfun grind.
Like, you still have to manage surviving with 1 hp, avoiding all traps and killing all bosses with no damage. But with journey you can skip some tedious stuff like waiting for time to pass or mobs to spawn or farming a million boss summons because I'll need a ton of them, I'm sure :p
I know a lot of boss cheeses but I want to beat the game without using any of them 



TLDR: If I do a hard challenge like 1 hp on journey mode, will It be that much less of a flex after I finish it without cheesing bosses? Cause it's on journey.. but it's still really hard, just less grindy


Is completing hard challenges on Journey mode still counts?