Beautiful metroidvania. Two playthroughs required. Some missables due to areas you can't return to, covered in Full Review. ~15+ hours to 100%, based on skill.
Beautiful metroidvania. Two playthroughs required. Some missables due to areas you can't return to, covered in Full Review. ~15+ hours to 100%, based on skill.
You will need to do (at least) two playthroughs: A completionist playthrough, and a speedrun + deathless + no ability upgrades playthrough. You will take care of all the missable achievements on your completionist playthrough.
First Playthrough
During your first playthrough, make sure you get all secrets, cells, map stones, and spirit wells in the areas that you cannot return to. These areas include:
Ginso Tree (5 secrets, 1 energy cell, 1 spirit well)
Misty Woods (4 secrets, 1 energy cell) Due to how this section works, you will not be able to reenter an area after going to the next one; keep a backup save from before entering Misty Woods to make sure you don't miss anything.
Mount Horu (Once you enter here, you cannot return to the main world map! Make sure you have everything you need before entering. You should have 37/42 secrets, all life cells, 14/15 energy cells, 7/8 map stones, and all spirit wells. Make sure to finish off any miscellaneous achievements you may have missed as well. For Secrets: The counter on the steam achievement might be 1 off, showing as 36/42 instead. This is purely visual and you'll still get the achievement upon acquiring the last secret.)
Video guide for collectibles is available below. Areas with missables are timestamped in the video description.
General achievement guide for cleanup before entering Mt. Horu:
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Second Playthrough
Speedrun, Deathless, and No Ability Upgrades Trifecta This actually isn't too bad, as you still get to use the skills from the Ancestral Trees. Once you learn Bash you can simply go past enemies without taking a hit, make sure to use it often as it is very useful for avoiding danger. Make sure you skip cutscenes as these count towards the in game time. Savescumming is also very easy to do. Also make sure that whenever you save, you keep a backup. On the screen that you choose a save, you can press "C" to copy a save file from one slot to another. When you die on a save, the death counts even if you leave and reenter the save. Delete the save you died on and copy the backup over, this way you can keep your death count at zero. Since this is your second playthrough and you don't need to go hunting for secrets, you will finish well under 3 hours of in game time; you really don't have to worry about being super fast.
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