Stages
Finish Stage 1 for the first time.
Finish Stage 2 for the first time.
Finish Stage 3 for the first time.
Finish Stage 4 for the first time.
Finish Stage 5 for the first time.
Finish Stage 6 for the first time.
Finish Stage 7 for the first time.
Finish Stage 8 for the first time.
These are obtained by finishing all of the 8 stages once. Difficulty doesn't matter.
Endings
All of the following achievements can be done in either Casual or Veteran difficulty.
Recruit every adventurer and finish the game.
To recruit an adventurer, press up on your controller after beating a boss. This unlocks if you finish the game by recruiting every single one of the adventurers (Miriam, Alfred and Gebel), which all have separate lifebars and skills accessible to them only. This is likely the achievement everyone will get on their first playthrough.
Sacrifice every adventurer and finish the game.
Allies can be killed by slashing them with Zangetsu's sword a couple times. When they're dead Zangetsu will acquire a new ability from them:
Crescent Moon (acquired by killing Miriam) - tap attack while in mid air to do a circular sword slash that covers most of Zangetsu's body. The attack lasts quite a while and has a deceptively big hitbox in front of it (both horizontally and vertically), but not right over or under Zangetsu.
Blood (acquired by killing Alfred) - Tap jump while in mid-air to jump again. Also known as double jump. Likely the best power-up in this list and essential in every Zangetsu solo run.
New Moon (acquired by killing Gebel) - tap left/right twice or the dedicated button to run in that direction for a short period of time. Also known as dashing.
The achievement will be unlocked by killing every single one of the allies and finishing the game. You will also unlock Ultimate mode, a mode in which Zangetsu starts with all the power upgrades obtained by killing the allies and bosses will have the same patterns and health as in Nightmare mode.
Finish the game without sacrificing or recruiting any adventurers.
Walk past every single ally without recruiting nor killing them and finish the game. This achievement is possible in Ultimate mode, which makes levels easier but bosses harder and with more HP. I still recommend to do it in Normal mode unless you're really uncomfortable navigating the levels with base Zangetsu alone.
Adventure with your allies and see the Normal ending.
You will get this by beating the game as long as you recruited at least one ally but you didn't recruit them all (regardless if you killed or ignored them). This can be done either in Normal or in Ultimate mode. If you have a Those Left Behind clear save you can launch it and use the Curse of the Moon option in the start menu to go back to stage 3 and either ignore or kill Gebel, which will allow you to skip the first two stages; alternatively, reload your Nightmare's End save and go back to stage 3 to recruit Gebel.
Go it alone and see the Normal ending.
Don't recruit any ally, kill at least one ally, ignore at least one ally and finish the game. Basically the same as Emperor of Darkness, but you ignore one or two allies instead of killing them. This can also be done in Ultimate mode, although I don't recommend doing so unless you really like the challenge. To save time you can load your Emperor of Darkness save and use Curse of the Moon to go back to stage 3 and ignore Gebel instead of killing him, or load the Nightmare's End save and do the opposite.
Extra Modes
Finish Nightmare mode.
Nightmare mode is available once you beat the game after recruiting all the available characters (see Those Left Behind achievement). In this mode you start with Miriam, Alfred and Gebel, levels are the same but bosses have slightly harder patterns and more health. The last stage will also be replaced by an entirely new stage and a new boss.
Despite its name, this mode might be one of the easiest ones since you start with 3 characters that will grant you access to every single power-up in the game (health, weapon, strength and armor). Beware that when you did enough damage to the final boss - you can probably guess who he is - you have to protect Alfred by destroying the blue flames before they reach him, or else the boss will kill your characters and you'll have to redo the entire fight all over again.
Defeat every boss in Boss Rush mode.
This mode is available after finishing the game once with Zangetsu only while all the other characters have been killed (see Emperor of Darkness) and once with all allies recruited (see Those Left Behind). Here are the rules:
- You will have to beat all the 8 bosses of the game in one run.
- The bosses' HP/patterns are the same as in Normal mode. Maybe they could add a hard boss rush in the future?
- The game is locked in veteran mode, which means knockback after hit is in effect.
- Lifebars will be carried over after each boss and dead characters will stay dead.
- Unlike the other modes, the suicidal attacks most bosses do after beating them CAN kill your character. Either learn how to dodge them or make sure they aren't taken by a character with low health.
- You will have a total of 30 WP (weapon points) that will be refilled after every boss.
- Before every boss you will spawn in a room with all the sub-weapons for every character and two big hearts. You can pick whatever you want, but beware that none of them will respawn.
- Every sub-weapon can only be used once, as it will be gone after beating a boss. Choose very carefully when to use them.
You have to - you guessed it - beat the mode once to unlock the achievement. A couple tips:
- Keep Gebel alive as much as possible, as his upwards attack makes most bosses trivial and will kill phase 1 of the final boss (the most annoying one) very quickly.
- Miriam is very powerful vs stage 2 and 4 bosses and she can single-handedly take on the 2nd phase of the final boss with ease. Stage 5 also becomes easier because she can snipe the boss out of the air and high jump over him before he does the wave attack.
- 2nd phase of last boss will still drop diagonal flail for Zangetsu and the 3 rapiers for Miriam, so don't worry about keeping those sub-weapons for her.
- The best uses for Alfred's flame shield are probably stage 2 and 1st phase of last boss (it makes the character invulnerable to all of her attacks). If you can figure out the former otherwise then keep it for the latter.
Guide author: Moonmadness
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