Overview:
Estimated achievement difficulty: 5/10
Offline: 43 [910]
Online: 7 [90]
Approximate time to 1000: 24+ Hours [Depending on skill and luck]
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Missable achievements: No
Does difficulty affect Achievements: No
Unobtainable/glitched Achievements: No
Extra equipment needed?: Second controller strongly recommended.
Introduction:
BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend is exactly what it sounds like; An extended version of Continuum Shift. There aren't many new story elements to be seen, but veteran players of the series may still be surprised or even informed with what this game offers in terms of the canon story. That said, the biggest appeal to this game is the introduction of Relius Clover as a playable character and also a story mode for Continuum Shift's DLC characters Makoto, Platinum and Valkenhayn.
All in all, the game isn't a hard 1000, but it can be rather time consuming based on how good you are and the amount of luck you have.
Step 1 : Mode Specific
This group of Achievements are specific to a certain mode of play, meaning that you can ONLY get them while playing within the specified mode. These contain the Achievements that will likely take you the most time, primarily Abyssmal Shopaholic since it depends largely on collecting items through luck and great skill at the lower Depths. The Achievements for such are listed below:
- That Will Suffice
- Time To Hit The Arcades
- Murakumo... AWAKEN!
- The Beginning Of The End
- Mars Needs Winnin'
- Kaka-kaze
- Eye Of The Tiger
- Mastered The Basics
- Mastered The... Master?
- Just The Beginning
- About Half Way
- Getting Down To Abyss-ness
- Abyssmal Shopaholic
- *Wheeze*... Just Getting Started
- Oh... NOW I Get It...!
- Breaking In The New Guys
- To Be Continued...!
Step 2 : Character Specific
These Achievements can only be gotten with the specified character because they were made with the individual character in mind. They also can't be completed in training mode.
There is a very helpful method for all of the Achievements in this section. First of all, you'll need either a second controller or a willing friend to join up with you online and let you pummel them until you complete your objective, because the idea basically is to have an immobile opponent to perform all the following achievements on. This will make your life a lot easier. I recommend the second controller, because then you can be in local play which allows you to pause.
Pausing is very important for some of these because, if you're having trouble doing all the various combos as quick as the game needs, you can pause as you complete each step of the combo and use that time to reposition your thumbs or even just to collect your thoughts on what you have to do next.
The last part of the method is the simplest - always use Tager as your dummy. He's easily the biggest character and because of that he's the easiest to hit and therefore helps keep your combo going.
Here's a little bit of info on how combos work: The combo counter that you will see on the right side of the screen has two colors: red and blue. For the game to count your combo towards the achievements, the counter has to stay red throughout the entire combo. If the counter turns blue, it means you have taken too long between hits and the oponnent could have escaped, thereby making it a collection of hits but not a combo. Though I'm sure it has some official name, I like to and will refer to this changing of red-to-blue throughout this guide as "Blue-ing out". The achievements for this section are:
- Power Of The Azure
- Ice Ice Ice Baby
- Noooooo... el!
- Shocking... Positively Shocking
- Don't Give A Kaka
- Tager? Don't Even Know Her!
- Sharp Shooter
- Insecticide
- Just How I... *Wheeze*... Planned
- A Spectacle
- Over 9000?!
- You've Been... Terminated
- Fight For Survival
- Fangs For The Memories!
- Threat Level... Escalated
- Squirrel Power!
- Get Off My Lawn!
- Lunatic
- Domestic Battery
- Aaaaaand I'm Spent
Step 3 : Online Specific
These Achievements can only be gotten while playing online. You can very easily partner up with a friend or someone here in the forums and make these alot easier to get. They are:
- I See What You Did There
- There's No "I" In Team
- Just Getting Used To It
- I Can't Stop Winning
- Like A Boss
- Plays Well With Others
- Feels Like The First Time
Step 4 : Miscellaneous Achievements
Now, you should only have handful of achievements left. Refer to the guide until you get these achievements:
- Mind On My Money
- Artwork?! Gimmie!
- Gallery Guru
- Level 20
- Finger On The Button
- Better Safe Than Sorry
In the guide below, these numbers and letters are substituted for images:
7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3
A =
B =
C =
D =
For instance, "6A" would be the same as saying "+" and "8A" would be the same as saying "+".
Likewise, if a combo reads as 632146C, then you would press the D-pad/Analog Stick to the Right, then rotate it clockwise until you were pressing to the Left, then you would snap it straight across to the Right again just before pressing the B button ().
If you're still having a bit of trouble, just look at your keyboard's number pad and try envisioning it as your D-Pad/Analog Stick and learn from there.
Lastly, when a multistep combo is being described, you will see alot of ">" markers. These simply help illustrate the flow of the combo, telling you which moves flow into the next.
[x360a would like to thank Blood XIII for this roadmap]