Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 5/10
- Offline: 12
- Online: 0. No Xbox Live matchmaking.
- Approximate amount of time to 200: 10 Hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 4+
- Number of missable achievements: 0
- Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No
- Does difficulty affect achievements?: Yes, complete one playthrough on Supreme Master.
- Glitchy achievements: None
- Unobtainable achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed?: Second Controller
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Online MP and Wallace DLC
- Difficulty: 3/10
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Time to 250
: 2-3 Hours [if using cheats]
- Unobtainable: None
Introduction
Side scrolling brawling action comes to Xbox Live Arcade in the form of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game. Complete with 8-bit-esque graphics, music, and presentation, this game is truly a blast from the past... and stuff. Based off the comics (but right in time for the movie), you'll battle through 7 stages with 4 playable characters, as well as an unlock-able bonus character. The achievements are reasonable and generally obtainable. One depends on a bit of luck however, but hopefully luck will strike in one of your required 4 playthorughs (meeting then defeating Mr. Chau)
Cheat Early, Cheat Often.
Cheats do not disable achievements. Your best cheat is the having the Power of Love sword unlocked at every level.
Power of Love sword unlocked at any stage
at the Title Screen
Once you quit the game this and any cheats have to be re-entered. You can find other cheats, such as Zombie Survival mode and others below. Zombie Survival is great for practicing combos all while leveling up. Most of the other cheats are for novelty purposes.
First Playthrough
As you are required to beat the game with all four characters, may as well beat it with Scott first, as it is required for an achievement. You're also required to beat the game on Supreme Master difficulty, so you have a choice to make as to whether you want to hammer that out as well. My suggestion is to make a quick run of the bosses later on Supreme Master instead, as this counts as beating the game on that difficulty. You level up as you play though so you will get better, in addition to buying items to boost your stats.
If you don't feel like doing either of these objectives you have three other playthroughs to do this, so you can do them at your liking. With each character, call upon and land your striker (Knives) at least once with each of them. Hopefully you will find Mr. Chau along the way. If so, fight him, and unlock him (and Mrs. Chau) as a striker. Use and land a striker move as both Mr. and Mrs. Chau.
Playthroughs 2-4
Now, complete the game with Ramona, Stills, and Kim on Average Joe difficulty, making sure to use their striker moves at least once. If you missed something your first time, use this as your chance to mop up. You should have amassed 1,000 kills by now, as well as ate every food item.
Supreme Master Playthrough
If you opted to make your Supreme Master run last, you're probably doing yourself a favor, as now this should be very easy with your Level 16 character and max stats. Start a game on Supreme Master in Single Player, and you can now simply defeat the 7 evil exes to get the achievement. Since you've already beaten the game on Average Joe, you will be able to play the last portion of each level.
Use all 7 Strikers
After beating the game as all four characters, you unlock a secret character, NegaScott. Use his and land his striker move, NegaKnives, and you should have called upon all strikers:
Scott (Knives)
Ramona (Knives)
Stills (Knives)
Kim (Knives)
NegaScott (NegaKnives)
and (Mr. Chau)+(Mrs. Chau). Beat Mr. Chau in a random encounter to unlock him and his wife as strikers. Make sure to land a hit with everyone. The Chau's are only unlocked for the player that beat him, and both their striker moves occur randomly so keep using your move until they appear.
Online MP and Wallace DLC
Walkthrough
First up, select Wallace as your character and start on level 1-1 then get a second player into your game (can just be a second controller offline) then have them press (and hold) LT and RT then press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A. They will explode and drop $50.00. Grab that with player 1 and repeat until you have just over $700.00. Now continue through the level until you get to No Account Video - head in there and pay off the late fees, then buy 10 copies of Seven Shaolin Masters to max your stats. Followed by 13 copies of Alone and Disturbed to max out your level.
You can now either blitz through the game or exit back to the main menu and use the Power of Love sword cheat to make things EVEN easier enter the following cheat code: on Title Screen (has prompt to Press Start):
Either way, you only need to defeat all of the bosses to get "And....it's a wrap" so if you have already completed the game you can load up the relevant bosses/levels to get this done fast. Be aware that you HAVE to defeat Gideon last (others can be in any order) and this CAN be done offline. I would recommend you do it online though so that all of your KO'ed enemies count towards "Wallaciraptor!".
Next up you can do the online stuff. If you did all of the above online with a buddy then you will get "Wallace the novice!" after completing your first level. If you did it offline then just find a buddy and start level 1-1 on Average Joe. Play to the end of that level with each of the following characters (Scott, Ramona, Kim, Stills and Wallace) to get that achievement and to snag the last achievement for this pack "Everybody wants to play". You merely need to complete ONE level with each character for that, so swap out after each one. Fastest levels (with maxed characters) are either 1-1 or the level 3 Boss battle "The Main Stage". If you didn't already snag Wallaciraptor on your Wallace run then all the kills you get doing these online stages will count too.
Conclusion
If you've beaten the game with everyone, and used all strikers, you should be all done. If not, you most likely have only one or two achievements left. Levels are re-playable so you shouldn't miss anything. Main thing is: have fun. If you're going for full gamerscore, you have plenty of time to just play the game normally first playthrough, then concentrate on getting everything else on your other three.
Cheat Codes
Power of Love sword unlocked at any stage
at the Title Screen
Zombie Survival Mode
at the Title Screen
Boss Rush Mode
at the Title Screen
Pick the Same Character in Multiplayer
at the Title Screen
Blood Mode
at the Title Screen
Turns Coins to Animals
at the Title Screen
Sound Test Level
at the Overworld Map
[XBA would like to thank litepink for this roadmap]
[XBA would like to thank jackanape for the Online MP and Wallace DLC addition]