Living Legend Achievement in Vanquish

  • Living Legend

     

    50

    Complete the game without dying, regardless of difficulty level.

  • How to unlock Living Legend

    Missable achievement

    Alright, for this one, you will have to run through the full campaign without dying once! You can get this achievement on any difficulty. So, whether it be casual, normal or (god) hard, it doesn't matter. On casual difficulty, you almost seem invulnerable and it'll take quite a lot of bullets to bring you down. On hard difficulty, you will die a lot (at least, I did)!! Never, ever use "mission select" on your playthrough because it will make this achievement not unlock!

    Now, several people have found this little trick (also shown in the video below): when Sam dies, you'll be brought back to the "mission failed menu" where you can choose to get back to the last "checkpoint", "restart" the whole mission, or go back to the "title screen". Choose "Title screen", and from there choose "Game" then "Continue". It is similar to the "Checkpoint" on the previous screen, except for these two major differences:

    1. Title screen & Continue = registers zero deaths / Checkpoint = registers one death
    2. Title screen & Continue = weapons are set to previous settings / Checkpoint = weapons remain upgraded

    Tip: You might want to backup your saved game onto a memory unit or USB stick once in a while, so that you can return to an older saved game. If somehow you mess up by accidentally choosing "checkpoint" and you do not have a backed up saved game, you can press again, then select "restart". This will reset your deaths to zero but only on that mission (and not the entire Act!), and your weapons will have the same upgrades and ammo as when you started the mission the 1st time (thanks Solty).

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Comments
  • This is not so hard to get. If you die, say from some super kamahamaha FU insta kill. All you gotta do is the moment you start dying, hit pause, return to the title screen and continue your game. make sure you do this before the death sequence finishes or it won't count. Once you get to the score screen AFTER the final credits, it should pop up. You can always check your death count after each mission to ensure you are still keeping the zero deaths.
  • RoughGalaxy: "make sure you do this before the death sequence finishes or it won't count." I've been doing this after I die (when I get the "Mission failed" screen) and I'm still at 0 deaths, so I guess you don't need to do it before you die.
  • Yea, as long as you don't hit "retry" then you should be safe with this achievement.
  • I once pressed checkpoint after dying, while it was loading I realized my mistake and went back to title screen asap. When I continued and got that part done it still showed me 0 deaths and I got the achievement, so as long as you don't let the game save after dying it won't record it.
  • i managed to do the entire game without dying so i didnt have to use the title screen glitch
  • @#5m well aren't you special?
  • i did the go back to the menu when you die, before it asks you to restart at checkpoint, every time i died i finished the game with 0 deaths and didnt get the achievement.
  • gonna try this achievement this week!!!
  • It works if you just go to title screen right as you die then continue game I can verify!!!!

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