Popular Post cobaltTangerine Posted March 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2021 (edited) I just finished the Platinum and wanted to share a few tips while they are still fresh. I found most of this info online, so it is out there, but I always like putting together these tip guides once I finish. The route I took was to play on Casual, finish all levels, then went back with a guide to pick up everything I missed. I then did all the Arena runs. I then picked up any Creature Cores I didn't have and used the Strife Shadow Clone build you can find on the guide. I then did the Apocalyptic run and then finished off a few miscellaneous trophies remaining, including a few Side Quests necessary for the Garden of Forking Paths trophy. You can definitely save some time using a guide the entire time, but I typically play blind before going with guides. This Platinum easily took me 50 hours and was mostly very enjoyable. I'm definitely a fan of twin stick shooters. Here are a few specific tips: 1. You do not need to collect all the Boatman's Keys in each level. There are more than enough from side quests that don't make them essential to collect for the Mint III trophy. Especially the Keys floating in the Trickster Room in one of the later levels. There are 5 of them and it looks like an easy platforming puzzle, the keys sitting there on floating platforms, but it took me an hour. It. can. be. verrrrry. frustrating. Skip the hard ones or any you're having trouble with. Wish I had known this. 2. Strife was my character 99% of the game. Build towards his Shadow Clone ability and only use this, the other two are not nearly as useful. Use his Standard and Static Shot ammo (once you get it) the entirely of the game. Get to the Hotstreak and use that Static Shot. Shadow Clones anytime you need to escape or need additional damage. Save your Anarchy Form to quickly take care of bosses and mini bosses. Just dodge and shoot. Especially on Apocalyptic, you will be dodging, kiting, and pulling enemies the entire time. 3. You can slow the game down! It is in the Options menu (it is on a slider, I forget what it is called, but it isn't an extensive menu) and will help IMMENSELY with the Aether Spark puzzles. I was about to quit the game when I got this ability and realized I'd have to do these puzzles, but the slow down helps make these easily doable. Slowing down the game also helps with the Blademaster Trophy for beating Moloch without taking damage. Use the time slow down and the "Legion Shieldbreaker" Core and it should only take a few tries once you know his attacks. Know that the Legion Shiledbreaker shield replenishes if you switch characters and then switch back. 4. After you do all arenas and before you do the Apocalyptic run, I'd suggest buying all Creature Cores sold by Vulgrim. You should have more than enough souls by this point to buy everything. He sells specific Creature Cores but he ALSO sells Creature Core packs, basically loot boxes of cores from specific levels. The thing with these is he WILL NOT sell you Cores once you have all 3. Those will no longer be in the loot pool once all are owned and once all cores from a specific level are owned, that specific pack will be listed as Sold Out. Useful tip for some of the more grindy cores. Personally, I still had 30 or 40 to purchase at this point, so it is well worth at least checking before you do you Apocalyptic run build. 5. The Dagon Boss fight on Apocalyptic. Now, I got "The Promised End" trophy for completing all Apocalyptic levels after Level 15 (I didn't have to fight Moloch the final boss on Level 16), because killing Wicked Killington in the Trickster Room counts as an Apocalyptic level, so you can likely skip Dagon, who is the Level 13 boss. Skip him, finish the other levels and you will hopefully get the trophy. You will die many cheap deaths with Dagon since you are on a platform and will be hit by an insane number of additional enemies and ranged attacks that will easily bounce you off the platform. I easily died 20 times, probably only 2 or 3 by running out of health. If you fight this guy and he is by far the most frustrating part of the platinum, exclusively use Strife and a Shadow Clone build. Throughout the game I used the Static Shot and Standard ammo, but for this guy I used the Standard and the Nature Shot ammo. The health in incredibly helpful, use Nature shot for your hot streak. Use Anarchy Form when it builds at the end of wave 2, kill all the additional enemies, somehow survive wave 3 and use it once it recharges again. But honestly, hope you can just skip him and fight Moloch instead. It is pure chaos and is a terribly designed boss fight for a hard difficulty. Overall, really fun game 95% of the time. The platforming is very frustrating but failing isn't a big set back. IMO War is mostly useless and I completely understand making twin stick shooter with a melee character is tough, which is why I would have made it a Strife game. It is a long Plat, not terribly challenging, but frustrating at times. The Apocalyptic run is not difficult at all if you've upgraded and collected the Creature Cores. Edited March 31, 2021 by cobaltTangerine Added a few extra tips and thoughts. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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