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[Dark_Overlord]

I won't go into trophies that will unlock just through normal progression (level completion, bosses etc) as you'll get them as you play.

 

BIG WARNING 1 - This game will regularly lock up on the upgrade screen if you move around it too fast, mine froze at least 15 times.  So I'd recommend hitting a checkpoint before attempting upgrades so you don't lose progress.

 

BIG WARNING 2 - whilst nearly every trophy can be earned through chapter select, the collectibles cannot, they have to be done in one run of the game (found this out the hard way), by one run I mean you can exit out but cannot use chapter select to gather missing collectibles.  So these 5 trophies must be done in one run:

 

Radio Heads (not 100% sure on this one)

Get Smart

Walking Library

A Shard A Day...

...Keeps The Doctor Away

 

They're all easy enough to find, however with branching paths in the levels and at times unpassable barriers being put up behind you, it's best to attempt to go the 'wrong way' as much as possible.  I'd recommend making a backup save after every level whilst going for the collectibles.

 

The only collectible I found that works via chapter select is the Sewer Surfing trophy (grafitti)

 

The Collectibles are Big Red Shards and Books, and are pretty obvious what they are when you find them.  The Radios will mostly be in your path and Monty will comment on them when you get near them, just break them for it to count, there is only one that requires you to go the 'wrong way' and that is in chapter 5, though if you're going for collectibles, you wont miss it.

 

Collectibles By Chapter

 

Chapter 1 - Health Shards x2, Books x1

Chapter 2 - Books x2, Radio

Chapter 3 - Health Shards x1, Books x1

Chapter 4- Health Shards x1, Books x1

Chapter 5 - Health Shards x1, Books x2, Radio

Chapter 6 - Health Shards x1, Books x1

Chapter 7 - Books x2, Radio, 3x Graffiti

Chapter 8 - Health Shards x1, Books x2

Chapter 9 - Health Shards x2

Chapter 10 - Health Shards x1, Books x1

Chapter 11 - Health Shards x2, Books x3, Radio

Chapter 12 - No Collectibles

 

I can't remember which Chapter it is (I think it's chapter 5), but you eventually teleport from inside a building to back outside, this is the only time in the game where both paths are correct, however you must head right to get the book.

 

 

SEWER SURFING - Locate All Graffiti in Chapter 7

 

The 3 graffitis in chapter 7 are a bit harder to find, they will always be on the 'North' Wall.   You just need to walk up to them for it to count, sometimes Monty will comment on it, and when all 3 are found, Vanessa will acknowledge you have found them all.

 

The First is just before the ladder you have to drop down to open a gate blocking the path, it's along the Northern most wall of the area

The Second is after you go down the ladder to open the gate, it's on the wall in the North Western most corner

The Third is after you open the gate and go down into another area, it'll be in an alcove to the left, just off the main path (can't remember exactly how far through the area) if you reach the next ladder, you've gone past it and can backtrack.

 

 

The 4 trophies below are tracked across multiple save files and will probably come naturally as you farm for souls to upgrade weapons and the S ranks.

 

TRIGGER HAPPY - Trigger 1,000 charged enemies

NUMBER OF THE BEAST - Stay fused for 666 seconds

EXTERMINATOR - Kill 1,000 enemies

SOULMONGER - Collect 300,000 souls

 

 Trigger Happy requires the charge bar to be full to count (it'll be explained very early on)

 

 

STARSTRUCK - Get SS Rank on any encounter

 

You will probably get this purely by accident, whenever you get into an encounter that has the 'combo?' on the right hand side of the screen, it means it's a ranked encounter.  You are graded on 3 categories,

 

The First is essentially points from comboing and building the meter whilst killing the enemies

The Second is time taken to finish the encounter

The Third is damage taken (this one is pretty damn lenient)

 

This trophy is not restricted by difficulty and can be done on easy through chapter select if need be.

 

 

INFERNAL LEGEND - Clear All Chapters With S rank or higher

 

ok, now the 'fun' trophy, you must finish every chapter with S or SS rank.  Chapter Ranks are limited by difficulty

 

Easy - A

Normal - S

Hard - SS

 

So no being an easy mode scrub 🤣

 

It took me a while, but I managed to grasp somewhat how the chapter ranking system works.

During each Ranked encounter in a chapter you receive a grade, from D to SS

For each of these you are awarded a hidden amount of points for the grade you receive (SS being the most points)

When you reach the end of the chapter these hidden values are added together to give you your Combat Rating

As well as Combat Rating, there are Time Taken and Deaths

 

A maximum of 360 points can be earned for being under Par Time and 0 Deaths, so that's 720 points.

 

Depending on your ranking for each encounter, your Combat Rating will vary MASSIVELY

 

My S Rank Ratings were

 

Chapter 1 - 2136

Chapter 2 - 1956

Chapter 3 - 1464

Chapter 4 - 2078

Chapter 5 - 2148

Chapter 6 - 2172

Chapter 7 - 2016

Chapter 8 - 2292

Chapter 9 - 2580

Chapter 10 - 1776

Chapter 11 - 2448 (By far the hardest level to earn S)

Chapter 12 - 1092

 

as you can see, Combat Rating makes up the majority of the points.

 

Now this can be somewhat cheesed (as I eventually found out on my chapter 11 S run...).  When you finish an encounter, dont progress any further forward in the level, if the rating is awful, pause and hit retry, the checkpoints are very generous and you usually go back to just before the encounter (the timer goes back to before the encounter too)  So you can keep playing it till you get a decent rank.  You want S or SS for every encounter.   You can also back up the save file just in case

 

 

PERFECTION - Achieve a SS rating on any chapter

 

Use Chapter 1 on Hard, it can be blitzed thorugh in no time at all (especially with all upgrades XD) and using the above exploit, you'll be guaranteed SS if you SS nearly every encounter

 

 

ALL INDIVIDUAL BOSS TROPHIES

 

They are pretty self explanatory and can be done on Easy

 

 

COMPLETE ME - Finish the game with 100% completion

 

I beileve completing every level (any difficulty), getting every collectible (not using chapter select), all weapon upgrades, all Monty upgrades and S ranks ON ONE SAVE FILE are required for this trophy to pop.  Individual boss trophies with stipulations don't seem to be needed, nor do the 4 trophies that count across save files.

 

 

 

I believe that should help.  If there's any questions, i'll do my best to answer them

 

Edited April 17 by Dark_Overlord

[tony_snake_24]

Thank you very much! You went into a LOT of detail here. It will certainly come in handy!  

 

I do have one question. Are you saying that you need all chapters' SS ranks? For the 100%. That looks very different from getting all S ranks plus one SS rank for both trophies, since it will need to be done in hard and is more demanding than regular S ranks. Or maybe it's a typo?

[Dark_Overlord]

2 hours ago, tony_snake_24 said:

Thank you very much! You went into a LOT of detail here. It will certainly come in handy!  

 

I do have one question. Are you saying that you need all chapters' SS ranks? For the 100%. That looks very different from getting all S ranks plus one SS rank for both trophies, since it will need to be done in hard and is more demanding than regular S ranks. Or maybe it's a typo?

 

No, just one Encounter and one Chapter at SS Rank

 

During chapter select you can pick any difficulty and mix and match difficulties for the S ranks, as it always shows you your highest rank for the level regardless of difficulty.

 

Which part have I messed up on?  I'll alter it

 

EDIT - found it XD my bad.  It was 4am XD

Edited February 16 by Dark_Overlord

[tony_snake_24]

14 minutes ago, Dark_Overlord said:

Which part have I messed up on?  I'll alter it

My bad, I should have quoted it.

 

13 minutes ago, Dark_Overlord said:

EDIT - found it XD my bad.  It was 4am XD

 

Haha, yeah, I get it. Thankfully it was a typo, that extra S meant a lot.

[Dark_Overlord]

37 minutes ago, tony_snake_24 said:

My bad, I should have quoted it.

 

 

Haha, yeah, I get it. Thankfully it was a typo, that extra S meant a lot.

 

I think that would add an extra point or 2 onto the difficulty rating XD  SS requires near perfect scores on every catergory