Overview
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 5/10
- Offline: 42/42 (1000)
- Online: 0/42 (0)
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 15-20 hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: Two
- Number of missable achievements: Two (See "Slow and Steady" and "Innocent Blood").
- Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No Cheats
- Does difficulty affect achievements?: Yes
- Glitchy achievements: None
- Unobtainable achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed?: None
Introduction:
The Cursed Crusade is a hack-and-slash game set deep in the heart of Medieval timed Earth. The game itself is a cheap but surprisingly riveting game to play and go back to. With long cinematic cut scenes and interesting dialog and plot progression, this cheap hack-and-slash can easily turn into one of the most memorable medieval games to date. Just a word to the wise though many people do experience some form of bug interference or glitchy achievements throughout their time with The Cursed Crusade. I can't say I personally ran into any of these problems, but many people have claimed to so beware.
Abbreviated Walkthrough:
Getting to 1000 shouldn't pose too much of a problem, but to get to it we will go in three steps:
- Introduction Walkthrough/Collectables
- Nightmare Runthrough
- The Mop Up Session.
Introduction Walkthrough:
The game itself will not take long to get a handle on. It is a basic hack-and-slash button masher with combos representing the single most important aspect of this game as they can turn the tide on a battle in seconds. I suggest taking this first play through slowly, enjoy the cutscenes and get the collectibles out of the way now. We will be referring to a guide compiled by olcsi2 to get us through probably the most time consuming part of this quest. The Collectibles Guide will help us working on our character and hopefully get him near max before going into the Nightmare Runthrough. You are awarded victory points after completing a mission and collecting the coffers and the crucifixes. Something to keep note is that during missions where you spend substantial time in the Cursed world you will need to purify souls which will also yield more victory points. As you will need to do this again in the Nightmare Runthrough you can opt to just kill the necessary number needed to move on, but I advise purifying them all to help rank you up faster.
Missable Achievements:
As you play through this first time you will get a majority of the achievements as they are story related but there are two specific missions that have more special requirements that could be referred to as missable on your first try:
- Chapter 2 Mission 4 Achievement- Slow and Steady
- Chapter 4 Mission 2 Achievement- Innocent Blood
We will hit those two specific achievements when we get to their guides themselves.
Nightmare Runthrough:
I keep referring to this as a runthrough because this is exactly what you should be aiming for when completing this. This shouldn't give you too much of a headache with your character being more powerful and with you being keen to how each mission plays out for the most part. But let's throw a couple tips down that should enable you to plow through this runthrough in no more than 4-5 hours.
- Skip cutscenes as you have seen them all before in your first playthrough and they take a lot of time.
- Anytime you are not tasked to kill the enemies in an area just run through them to your next objective. Killing enemies on nightmare will take time and will test your hack-and-slash/button smashing skills and truthfully, we are trying to runthrough this one.
Honestly you shouldn't have too much trouble with Nightmare difficulty. Remember to just skip what you can and only do what you absolutely must. If you are good at button smashers this should be along the same difficulty as your first playthrough because of your much stronger character. Onto our mop up.
The Mop Up Session:
Anything and everything that you may have missed in your first or second playthrough can easily be achieved by using the mission replay or by going back into missions to get more victory points. As I said early on some of the achievements/missions may appear to be bugged or glitchy so this could be the place to fix anything that may have happened.
Conclusion:
Hopefully at this point you followed this guide, didn't encounter any bugged achievements, and are now enjoying the glory of having another 1000 game. The Cursed Crusade is truly one of those games that goes completely unnoticed but is a treasure chest of button smashing fun.
[XBA would like to thank THE DEADLY DOG for this RoadMap]