Overview
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 7/10
- Offline: 20/20 (200/200)
- Online: 0/20 (0/1000)
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 25+ hours AND $30+ in MSP (If not buying MSP, 1500+ hours or 96,000 km traveled.)
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
- Number of missable achievements: None
- Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No Cheats
- Does difficulty affect achievements?: No
- Glitchy achievements: None
- Unobtainable achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed?: Windows Phone 7 or 8.
Introduction:
Crimson Dragon: Side Story is a side-scrolling shoot em' up game which has you controlling a flying dragon on the mysterious planet Draco. You are tasked with tracking down the cause of a disease that is rapidly spreading across the planet. Unlike traditional shoot em' ups, you only control the up and down motion of your dragon, while the game automatically transitions your through the level, dodging enemy attacks and executing some of your own. The game offers more than 170 unlockable attacks which can be chosen strategically to make your dragon a lethal, killing machine. The game boasts several difficulties and a loads of missions to add lasting value. For a more in-depth review of the game from WPCentral, click HERE. Currently the game is listed at $0.99 in the Windows Phone Store.
Step 1: Complete Story and Mission Modes:
Play through Story Mode. It is quite short and only involves completing 5 levels. Once you complete this mode, Mission Mode unlocks. Continue completing all levels in Mission Mode until no more unlock.
Step 2: Unlock all skills:
Keep playing through Mission Mode and Story Mode to unlock all skills related to each mission.
Step 3: Awaken all skills:
Awaken all the skills you have unlocked. You will need around 3,200 jewels to be able to awaken all skills. See "White Reaver Unleashed" for more information.
Step 4: Mop-up:
Finish any achievements you may have remaining. You will likely have to grind some Dark Phantom kills to earn the "Dragon Master" achievement.
Conclusion:
Crimson Dragon's many missions sound good on paper, but unfortunately they are just recycled versions of the same 10 or so levels, with only the order or the difficulty altered. The game offers some good shoot em' up action, but because of this, it gets old fairly fast. The five boss battles become particularly repetitive. The road to completing this game is long, somewhat tedious, and occasionally can be challenging / glitchy. If you want to complete the game in less than 1000 hours, you will almost certainly need to spend around $30 in Microsoft Points or travel more than 96,000 km, which is a shame.
[x360a would like to thank Aresnic 17 for this Roadmap]