Overview:
-Estimated achievement difficulty: 4/10
-Offline: 45 (930)
-Online: 5 (70)
-Approximate amount of time to 1000: 3-4 days
-Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
-Number of missable achievements: 1 ("Burn the Witch")
-Glitched achievements: 3
-Do cheat codes disable achievements? No Cheats
-Does difficulty affect achievements? No!
I gave this game a 4/10 difficulty because the game isn’t hard. It deserves a 4 because it takes time and there is 1 achievement that does take some skill, “Jiggillionaire!”.
Introduction:
This game is fun so you will enjoy it. It is however, unlike any of the other Banjo Kazooie games. You only need 1 playthrough because this game isn’t set as levels; it is set as one giant world. There is one glitch in this game. The glitch prevents you from getting “Burn the Witch!”.This glitch has been fixed though, so all you need to do is get the patch through Xbox LIVE. If you do not have LIVE, then to prevent from missing this achievement, do NOT beat Grunty in Spiral Mountain until you get this achievement, once you defeat her, she will disappear from Showdown Town. There are no cheats and the difficulty is set at a default setting.
Abbreviated Walkthrough:
The only achievement you should have trouble with is “Jiggillionaire!”. To get all 131 jiggies you will need this:
- Complete all 97 challenges with at least a Jiggy rating. (97)
- Complete 96/97 challenges with a T.T. rating. (24)
- Buy all of Jolly Dodger's Jiggies. (5)
- Find all the Tampered Switches. (5)
There are a few hard T.T. Trophies to get, the Saucer one on Terrarium of Terror is hard, but just hold , , or and you will free shoot, just aim and try and hit all the blue worlds, then green, then red. Blue gives 3 points, green gives 2, and red gives 1. That is a hard one but just give it a few tries. For every other T.T. Trophy, just watch the replays in the leaderboards and get the blueprint of that person’s vehicle. If you are stuck on one, leave it and come back later when you have more/better parts.
Another somewhat hard achievement is“Arcade Pwner”. This achievement will give you trouble, but the level’s will always be the same so just learn the jumps. The hardest levels are the 3rd and 4th levels. The final level is probably the easiest, just don’t blink. When the game “freezes” Klungo will reset the game and level forcing you to restart from the beginning of that level. Unfortunaly, the game will freeze again right after the first freeze, so to prevent this, just suicide the second you start again. This will stop it from freezing right away. Keep playing the level and remember the jumps.
The league achievements can be done in local games. Just set up the game to marathon and make it every game and every sport. Have 2 controllers playing to make this go by faster. Winning 20 of the 27 games while playing the leagues will earn you Are You Trophy Thomas? Or just let the controllers sit there. Make sure they have wires so the controllers do not turn off. Each game has a time limit, and races end every 10 minutes. So if you are going to not play, do it while go to sleep or work/school. Idling will not earn you Are You Trophy Thomas?
Online:
All the online achievements can be earned with two people. Make sure that you are both searching for ranked games and the same match type. The game will try to find more people to join your game but after a few minutes the game will start with only two people. All My Own Work can be earned in any game type that allows the use of player's choice vehicles. Too Easy! and Too Easy Too! must be earned in solo races and High Fives All Round must be earned in a team match.
Conclusion:
You shouldn’t really have any trouble with this game, but if you do, just watch replays in the leaderboards. Get that person’s blueprint and replace the parts you do not have. If you are having more trouble, ask a friend for their blueprint and their video. But, if worse comes to worse, go to the forums.
[x360a would like to thank Evil Demon55 for this Road Map]