Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty:7/10
- Offline: 46 [1000]
- Online: 0 (0)
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 25 + hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 2 + Challenges
- Missable achievements: 1 - Classic Flavor
- Does difficulty affect achievements?: Yes, Prince of Darkness difficulty
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed?: None
-Downloadable Content? Yes
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Revelations
- Estimated difficulty: 2/10
- Approximate amount of time to 250: 2-4 Hours
- Glitchy Achievements? None!
Introduction:
Welcome to the much bloodier sequel of the supremely good Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and Castlevania: Mirror of Fate. Many centuries after the events of the first games, Gabriel Belmont has become Dracula himself and is awaken by his old pal Zobek to go on a quest that will lead them to Satan.
Surprisingly, the game is much different than its predecessor mostly because the time setting often switches from the modern time to the past. Also, the game isn’t divided in chapters, it’s a world in which you are traveling between the different zones of Castlevania City (modern time) and Dracula’s Castle (past).
Two playthroughs will be needed for the full completion as the Prince of Darkness difficulty unlocks after completing the game on any difficulty. There are 90 gems, 27 Piles of Sacrifice, 24 Soldier's Diaries, 29 Memorials and 17 Experience Shrines to find. There is also one missable achievement (please see the “Classic Flavor” achievement for more information). Though, you can revisit any area when you complete the game to find the collectibles you missed.
Note: If you open your world map by pressing > , it shows how many Piles of Sacrifice, Gems and Experience Shrines remain in every area.
First playthrough:
Here I've enumerated my recommendations for your first playthrough to ease your second one.
- Get comfortable with the game’s mechanics and enjoy the story.
- Find all the Void, Chaos & Life gems (90 total).
- Find all the Pile of Sacrifices (27 total).
- Find all the Memorials and the Soldier's Diaries (29 Memorials & 24 Soldier's Diaries)
- Find all the Experience Shrines.
- Destroy as many breakable environmental objects to collect as many Artworks as possible.
- Max the Mastery Level of your three weapons.
- Get the “Classic Flavor” achievement (missable).
Please note that the "The Outer Limits" achievement (110% of the game) can be unlocked on your first playthrough as completing the game on Prince of Darkness difficulty isn't a requirement. With that being said, the Mastery levels of your weapons DO NOT carry over to your New Game + which means that you'll have to level up your weapons a second time if you start a new playthrough.
Here's the list that contains the amount of Gems, Piles of Sacrifice, Memorials, Experience Shrines and Soldier's Diaries for every area:
Dracula's Castle
- Overlook Tower - 12 Gems, 8 Soldier's Diaries, 2 Pile of Sacrifice & 1 Experience Shrines
- Berhard's Wing - 7 Gems, 8 Soldier's Diaries, 2 Pile of Sacrifice & 4 Experience Shrines
- City of the Damned - 14 Gems, 6 Soldier's Diaries, 4 Pile of Sacrifice & 1 Experience Shrines
- Carmilla's Lair - 7 Gems, 2 Soldier's Diaries, 4 Pile of Sacrifice & 1 Experience Shrines
Castlevania City
- Downtown - 6 Gems, 4 Memorials, 1 Pile of Sacrifice & 3 Experience Shrines
- Art District - 10 Gems, 8 Memorials, 4 Pile of Sacrifice & 3 Experience Shrines
- Sciences District - 19 Gems, 13 Memorials, 6 Piles of Sacrifice & 4 Experience Shrines.
- Victory Plaza - 12 Gems, 4 Memorials, 4 Pile of Sacrifice & 2 Experience Shrines
Please see the "Expert Silversmith" Achievement for collectibles videos.
Second Playthrough:
If you found all the collectibles on your first run, you can concentrate on completing the main storyline on the Prince of Darkness without having to worry about any side stuff. In this run, enemies will deal much more damage and will be much more aggressive. Please see the “Prince of Darkness” achievement for more information.
Kleidos Challenges:
Now that you’ve almost completed everything, there are 16 challenges that are unlocked by finding the Piles of Sacrifice. Every challenge has four requirements and most of them are hard. It means that completing them on the Prince of Darkness difficulty will prove to be a great challenge and will require a lot of patience and effort.
To access the Kleidos challenges, press in front of the mirror in the Chupacabras' store.
Here's an excellent guide made by Dinos over at PST.org: CLICK HERE!
Revlations DLC
Introduction:
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 "Revelations" is sadly, Mercury Steam's final offering in the Castlevania/Lords of Shadow franchise. It serves as a prequel of sorts to the main game where you play as Alucard. Though it's filled with story spoilers and should only be played after completing the main campaign.
Play through on Twilight Knight/Creature of the Night/Lord of Shadow:
For your first play through, you'll want to enjoy the story while getting familiar with the game. Focus on getting familiar with the content, Alucard's combat style, and how it differs from Gabriel's. As opposed to a whip, as he used in Mirror of Fate, Alucard now uses the Crissaegrim. Which, in addition to it's standard form, has two additional forms: Igneas, and Glaciem. Fire and Ice. It is the only weapon he uses, and plays very similarly to Gabriel's Void Sword. This play through will also be the perfect opportunity to easily unlock every achievement with the exception of "Heir of Darkness."
Play Through on Prince of Darkness Difficulty:
Now that you're familiar with the DLC, and have likely unlocked all but the final difficulty achievement, it's time to start your second playthrough. Choose New Game+ from the pause menu under Extras. All of your character upgrades (Health, Igneas, Glaciem) will carry over, as well as any soldier diaries you've collected. Just in case you missed something on the first run. And, as with the main game, any experience points spent on skills will be refunded.
The goal here will basically be to run through this difficulty as quickly as possibly. Skip all cutscenes, and any battles that can be avoided.
Conclusion:
It’s a solid and challenging list with a lot of collectibles and luckily with a single missable achievement. The gameplay is amazing with its dozens of crazy combos, great visuals, intriguing story and epic boss battles. Lords of Shadow 2 is much different than its predecessor, but it is still very enjoyable and deserves to be played.
"Revelations" is DLC that does a great job of answering some questions fans of the game might have had. In addition to bringing a completely unique new fighting style into the mix. Not to mention the second area, The Forbidden Wing is a fantastically designed, incredibly atmospheric level that shows very effectively how tortured Gabriel was after he fell into darkness. Overall, the achievements should pose no problem for anyone that has played the main story of Lords of Shadow 2.
[XBA would like to thank ParoXysm QC & ThePumpkinKing for this roadmap]