Total Achievements: (47)
100% completion time: ~50-80 hours (Varies).
Difficulty modes:

• Easy
  
• Normal
  
• Hard

New Game+: Yes (Repeatable no enemy stats change)
Missables: Yes
Mode: Single-Player

Achievement Types:
1) Story Related: (15)
2) Side Quests: (3)
3) Collectables: (9)
4) Bosses/Kill: (12)
5) Miscellaneous: (8)

We need a minimum of 5 playthroughs (4 if you reload your old save), Route A, B, C, D & E then the second walkthrough is Speedrun under 15 hours. These routes are almost identical well the big difference is how they play out, cutscenes, etc.. On the other hand, we do not ever get a chapter selection in this game similar to how you do it in Automata so make backup saves and be careful when you save.

Try getting every nook and cranny word collectables as well as achievements. Try not to worry if you miss some achievements the missable words will be done on our first playthrough and the very last one is a new Route A playthrough aka Speedrun.

To get all 100%, we will be doing the game achievements of the following:

• All in a single playthrough using backup saves
  
• Weapons/Upgrade Grinds
  
• Collectables such as words, fishing
  
• Boss time clears
  
• Route/story clear
  
• Speedrun

Before this, while the game I experienced did not have framerate drops this is an optional mod that is worth downloading if you want a slight improvement.
1) Special K website
https://wiki.special-k.info/
2) Some mods like the ReShade and FPS fix are nice:
https://niermodding.com/mods/replicant

Okay so there is a lot to explain so I divided it into paragraphs but in this NieR: Replicant, you do not have the secret shop to buy achievements and the combat is basic and not platinum tier level, tedious sidequest, and a lot of materials I mean a lot of them to collect. You must collect, grind, and run from point A to point B. There is fast travel but it never unlocks early you need to be nier the end game route (Route A) to unlock it. For someone who is nitpicking, searching every nook and cranny, checking and listing everything then this game is for you as well as this guide while at the same time being a diehard fan of grinding games in JRPGs.

I recommend saving at the right time for all the achievements and many more before Route E. Like in NieR: Automata, this game fortunately has only five endings as in five routes so worry only the endings, especially the third and fourth routes where you get them by only choosing two choices. Our progress will include weapons that are saved before each new Route playthrough and we must make use of save slots. There are only 3 save slots which is why we save one of our main and then save either empty slots. After that, it follows like how you play Automata but differently.

During Act I, you can freely roam around as young NieR, collect, and do all chores to begin with but all your options are limited such as weapons to upgrade but not quest. This is important to note for quest because in Act II you cannot go back and do those Act I quests since they will be permanently locked until you start a new walkthrough, so you can do around 20 quests before entering the Manor the second time in Act I. In Route E, you have one missable so we must do that and never forget before progressing through the story.

The total grind should be +20 hours even after the story. There are a total of 34 base weapons + 4 YoRHa DLC weapons. With weapons, the grinding will come at the cost of time and planning and hitting them at Lv. 4, make sure to heavily hoard and loot a lot of materials and list what you need because you will be buying and selling them or alternatively grind on the DLC and lastly doing quests though in my experience I recommend the DLC it just takes less time around 10-12 minutes in easy than doing quests but it just gives you enough golds as many times as you want to grind at the same time getting materials also, unfortunately no annoying mats like the black pearls to farm here but at least there are good ones to farm.

Fortunately, the upgrading achievements allow all YoRHa weapon DLCs to be included which I used since it costs less mats. Which weapons to max upgrade it or not is just up to you but for me I personally despise the Forlorn Necklaces and Black Pearls. On the other hand, our character level will be higher as it increases our stats and damage but there are no leveling achievements that are related so do what you will. Additionally, when you hit levels 40-50 things start to become very easy so enemies are not problematic while grinding the same area over and over again.

I forgot to mention but yes golds for the achievement, Man of Means Achievement, is non-cumulative, basically when you sell it then you need to regain that loss of gold total you initially had pre-sell so this is why we must not save it after all you can grab enough materials to sell and just sell to reach 1 million then reload your save it is simple as it is hence there is no missables except for the few I mentioned.

However, I'd like to say that this is by far the most grinding but exhausting I did out of all the material farming I did in other games. NieR Automata was not by all means bad to do at least despite grinding almost a lot of materials (not including Secret Shop) but this game makes you go from point A to B with one fast traveling which is by boat. Tediously, the enemy respawns when you load the next level while coming back to the same area again. This requires perseverance and commitment since enemies drop your preferred mats after 4-12 spawns on the same spot that is why you must progress the game instead of doing this early on in the game and then you plan which areas to grind I provided a link for mats while you can freely collect them or maybe after Route E. You can farm for 25%-30% item drop rate word, increasing the chance to drop rare mats.

Additionally, hard difficulty makes enemies health spongier so you will spend time mashing mouse buttons and spamming dodge and roll (which is my case), so you get a nice challenge but at what cost? The time you spent is too much on this one especially late game where you need achievements via bosses. Fortunately, there are no difficulty-related achievements so do either difficulties.

There is an option to switch game music to Automata's and lastly the Voices, the English and Japanese are superior in this game but I play with Japanese so enjoy the experience.

Hope my guide will help but it may not be perfect so will probably improve this a bit. Last time, this guide contains spoilers including my checklist.

Check my other guide where I draft, put in my findings on collectables, enemy types and of course weapons. This is where I basically have a checklist in case I miss everything at least it's finished.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2957880173

1) Route A: Tokyo, (Our) Village/Northern Plains, Eastern Roads/Lost Shrine
2) Do combo and sheep grind. Progress through Lost Shrine after
3) Quests: 0/30
4) Words: 0/60
5) Weapons: 6/38
6) Sealed Verses: 2/8
7) Achievements: 4/47
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There is not much achievements but we can get two early on. After that just try to survive without dying which in my experience before I never died. Lastly, the Iron Pipe (keep this in mind later on) does not count here since you want to find it, the text will appear saying you Obtained it, this ensures we will be on the progress of Weapons Collector achievement so for now not yet.

Also when you play through the game you can worry about stuffs to do on Part 2 except the quests from the Fisherman which will be locked on Part 2 if you did not do previous parts so do them for our fishing achievement, you can also worry about the grinding in Route B since Route A even watching cutscenes will not be that bad to complete for our Lightspeed Fighter Achievement. I will say this also on the end of this guide but you just reload your Route A save if you can beat the game in 10-12 hours enjoy the story slowly but not too long (refer to Lightspeed Fighter Achievement for more information about the 'Speedrun' achievement criteria it is simple).

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Combo Fanatic
You pulled off a 50-hit combo.
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Achievement #1: This is where a hard difficulty comes useful, in my past experience I decided to play on hard without the knowledge of this until later game. There will be hordes of shades yes you will be close to dying but doing this on easy is not possible due to the one hits, by luring in 3 or more normal shades or more than that and hit them multiple times you get the achievement and last of this so better early than later to do.

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Combo Master
You pulled off a 100-hit combo.
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Achievement #2: After this, you can keep killing more shades until after the mini-boss which will appear later. Cutscene will also play out. But, you need to watch out for Attack gauges, while not too bad on easy and even normal in hard it was a problem for me as I know I became exhausted dealing with it but well hope you do not need to deal with what I experience and enjoy the game as you wish. You can use the weakest sword and anything tanky but that will be up to you on which Shades to fight not the weakest unarmoured foes.

You can see how it's played out on this video by the channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADYx76w3Ayk

Tip: Save often, find something good and how much you grinded you save there are some scattered around but you will know by them and plus this is very useful for later achievements.

In here is very important to note, we need a lot of stuffs and necessity even gold to build up, well do not be buying stuffs excessively because we can also grind the free DLC which nets us necessary resources, being million golds and other upgrade mats.

Weapon #1 - Nameless Blade: Starter weapon. Easy to upgrade although the lead pipe is our first weapon, this is truly our first to count on Weapons Collector achievement.

Weapon #2 - Virtuous Contract: Starter DLC weapon, this may not count as Weapons Collector achievement since originally we need all base game weapons.

Weapon #3 - Cruel Oath: Starter DLC weapon.

BUT you cannot upgrade them for now because through progression you will unlock a shop in the Junk Heap surface which is where you get during Act I.

We will be able to do few quest later on, for reference go to my Checklist guide and follow accordingly. I will also do almost all to 30 quests to get the achievement during Act II which has locked Act I quests but not Act II especially the Fisherman quests so we won't let that happen. Keep in mind we will be needing to level up our fisherman skills so do your quest and fish later when you visit Seafront first time.

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The Sheep Whisperer
You killed 100 sheep.
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Achievement #3: You can do this on the Northern Plain, the reason why is I later discovered that it's too late to do them on Act II of Route A where you cannot find them as common due to the story progression. This grind can be done along with the quest called Old-Fashioned Home Cooking. Instead, reload the level by leaving then coming back so the 20 sheeps can respawn but otherwise don't sweat it you'd kill them as you enter Northern Plains each time.

You'd also stock up on items like goat meats so we can at least sell few items to get our weapons, Material Hunter achievement etc. For more raw material and other upgrade mats check on this Wiki[nierreplicant.wiki.fextralife.com].

Weapon #4 - Lily-Leaf Sword: Purchased in the Home Village from the Blacksmith store for 2,400 gold.

Weapon #5 - Beastbain: Purchased in the Home Village from the Blacksmith store for 16,800 gold. Consider putting it here if you are grinding and selling many items.

Progressing through the story where you get to the point of Yonah missing.

More on this location where you can go fishing, we will do that later as well as collecting resources for now we collect whatever we can find and do achievements. Again, your mileage on what quest you plan to do may vary so I may do all on Act I but there is more needed to be done for our Fishing Achievement at Act II.

On your right direction is the Lost 'Forest' (yes air quotes), the left is the Lost Shrine.

We can find a map in here btw so it comes handy, we will revisit this area later and is the key part in progressing. You will see with achievements and others but keep in mind we need to grind on one of these areas if you want with words coming to play.

Weapon #6 - Nirvana Dagger: When you are at Floor 2, you will end up seeing one breakable box, a weapon is inside.

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The Book of Legend
Grimoire Weiss joined your party.
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Achievement #4: Story Related. Grimoire Weiss is your first permanent companion for the rest of the game. He will be found on the Lost Shrine where you fight your first boss (who will be related to the two achievements later on at Act II so this is the same to bosses except the few). On having Grimoire Weiss we will be expecting to collect words but bear with me when I add more words in this list so parts and sections will expand upon further as like I said replicate (no pun intended :)) achievements and roadmaps.

Sealed Verse #1 - Dark Blast: After listening to us and Grimoire Weiss talking, we have a white flash will allow us to obtain this Sealed Verse, having our first magic ability. We need all Sealed Verse which are story related abilities for achievement.

Sealed Verse #2 - Dark Lance: A cutscene will play, after that we obtain this next Sealed Verse.

1) Route A: Revisited areas (Village etc.), Aerie, Southern Plains, Seafront
2) Progress through the story and complete quests
3) Quests: 18/30
4) Words: 8/60
5) Weapons: 7/38
6) Sealed Verses: 3/8
7) Achievements: 6/47
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We should begin our quest completion and other farmings because we have Grimoire Weiss to checklist, there is one quest for what we need on the Boar. Complete the quests you can find inside the Village, sometimes you go outside of your Village and revisit back which is what we will do throughout our story on places. I put checkmarks and that means they are completed for my playthrough. Your mileage may vary but you get half the golds you can obtain from quests or 400K to help our Man of Means Achievement but you will be looting and selling materials often if you do not need them we can find that happen in Junk Heap later on and remember to refer to my checklist it includes all Part 1 and Part 2 Route A quests I put in.

Following quests before progressing: Book Smarts ✔, Lost Eggs ✔, Boar Hunt! ✔, Shopping List (Seafront > Village) ✔, Fragile Delivery (Aerie) ✔, Gatekeeper's Errand ✔, Old-Fashioned Home Cooking ✔, The Tavern Keeper's Grandmother ✔

You are free to start them because you may find some items needed for the quests and to save time in figuring out and you can have and leave them uncompleted later on, as long as you did almost all quests to reach 30 in Act I you can worry with the few planned on Act II which is the recommended needs. Like I said I made a checklist for all quests even how-to on there if that's okay for you but I put them there so you can save time the quests in my experience can be rather monotonous or tedious which is why I followed other guides.

By the time you'd collected and loot any raw materials, you would immediately interact with the person after you start the quest and get that done.

Word #1: Lug: Found in Northern Plains by small shade, during daytime even while trying to ride the Boar of course.

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All Aboared!
You rode a boar for at least five minutes.
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Achievement #5: Found to be done in Northern Plains, you can freely ride around and even kill Shades (be sure not to get hit by them otherwise the timer will reset on your clock). Do something else while waiting.

If you still have the package save here at least you will get it done.

Word #2 - Pah: In Aerie where you of course fight the small shades

Word #3 - Mah: Same as always on top, they are mage small shades.

Word #4 - Geb: Still on top, small mage shades.

Word #5 - Bes: You will encounter the big shade with weapons so lance him and execute.

Finally you are done with the package.

Word #6 - Var: When you are done with whatever you need, go to the other side that will be visited later on the game but you go through the 2D section and the last area as of now we fight another hordes of shades, there is one Shield-wielding Large Shade (unarmored) so kill it and get your word.

Sealed Verse #3 - Dark Hand: Our next ability can be found when investigating Kaine's place. Defeat her and the next boss then for a solid good few minutes you will obtain it after you take control of your character.

You will be presented either visiting Popola first or Yonah, it does not matter so pick one, I choose Yonah.

When they mentioned about new enemy that is where the word is.


Weapon #7 - Moonrise: When you are killing the shade, the guard will thank you for it and will give you Moonrise.

We got more quests and some more things to do in here.

Following quest: Fisherman's Gambit 1-3 ✔

We need to level up our fishing skills, get ready to wait for few hours so I recommend doing this now unless you are locked until you progress through the story. Also we will go back to Seafront and few quests will begin to appear.

To fish, you can alternatively hold down S and in case guide the rod right when the fish or object (yes there will be junks so get ready) is trying to get away from you. This will still lead to the same outcome but if you failed well an exaggerated text will appear but if you succeed simple you proceed back to Yonah. This will not void The Fisherman's Gambit quests.

More fishing info here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2467166886

For now, do two quests from the fisherman.


Not much here but if you found any word from a specific weather let me know.

Following quest: A Dog Astray ✔, A Return to Shopping ✔, Fragile Delivery 2 ✔, Yonah's Cooking ✔, Herbal Remedies ✔, On The Wings of Eagles, The Ballad of the Twins

I planned to not do some of the quests ones without the checkmark but we can guarantee we get the two quest achievements later on. Like I said check my checklist guide on all quests.

We can buy the following maps from here: Eastern Road, Aerie, Forest of Myth, this may come in handy in case if your new. This also does not mean we get achievements for that.

Okay so now for the next part, you can complete your needed quests you had items bought from Seafront, in this case two for me.

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Village Handyman
You completed 10 quests.
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Achievement #6: If you have begun early you can unlock this achievement after completing the last two for this achievement. We only need two more if you want to do all of them in Act I but otherwise Act II offers a lot of quests still.

Tip: You can switch weathers by reentering levels, the Southern Plains I got was bright so you can take note of enemy spawns based on that. You can do this to items because that will help with rare items and you need a lot of materials because we will upgrade our weapons later. Additionally, by loading saves you can do that also which is good especially farming Black Pearls in Seafront.

Do some quests before we progress via by story.


Word #7 - Soles: If you of course load your save you get cloudy weather on Village so if you enter this area you will find a mini-shade boss. However be careful if you are Lv. 7 or 10 less you will get destroyed. This is optionally also

Following quest: Fisherman's Gambit 4-5 ✔, A Signature Dish, The New Merchant in Town

You should be all set to worry for Act II Fisherman quests so you can be sure to get the last fish as well as every type of fishes.


Word #8 - Besi: When trying to do your quest it is found again as Soles is.

Moving on to Junk Heap.

1) Route A: Revisited areas (Village etc.), Junk Heap, Desert, Facade, Barren Temple
2) Progress through the story
3) Quests: 20/30
4) Words: 16/60
5) Weapons: 9/38
6) Sealed Verses: 6/8
7) Achievements: 8/47
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Word #9 - Hoda: Hordes of small shades will come to you, kill any of them and one word will appear.

Word #10 - Ashur: The same as Hoda you got in, luckily these seems to be fixed so like always no word dupes just one obtained and move on.

On this place after passing by Northern Plains, we get the ability to upgrade weapons. Since we are young we only wield one-handed weapons but on the next Act we can have more weapons including the DLCs both Automata and World of Recycled Vessels. You will obtain a map here also.

It is worth mentioning that we will farm in this area, easy, normal or hard your choice they can slightly change the item drop chances but you'd be also using word item droprate as an enhancements such as what JRPGs had done. Consider your choice in upgrading I may have to add checkmarks on weapons I am willing to upgrade or used to.

Just some common (green coloured drops) by yellow lit robots. Titanum Alloy (yellow coloured drops) are found also by red lit robots so after x3 found go back to the brother's shop.

When our weapon, Nameless Blade, is upgraded to Lv. 2 for free we can begin to either grind or progress through the story to get more materials, anytime you feel like grinding metal parts just stop by this place though if you want to increase a little bit of drop rate just change to hard it took countless hours to grind weapons even on hard so find a weapon to upgrade easily, I recommend weapons from Automata they got cheap mats to collect on. Collecting golds is not a problem as in Act II DLC (50,000 G on the last level floor for infinite times to play each) and some Facade quests will give you more.

For now we must progress the story our mats are way too low and insufficient to upgrade any weapons.

You will find almost all red lit robots, after the gimmicks you'd be familiar with in other games, you can go to Weapon Testing Area or the Depths.

Sealed Verse #4 - Dark Gluttony: On the Arena is a boss which you fight again. Once you're done with it and cutscene played out, you will obtain the new Sealed Verse.

Word #11 - Solir: Getting this after the Shade boss goes to the other side, you will again face off the shades including the one wielding magic staff, kill it and get the word.

Word #12 - Ashurir: Near this other side is on the bridge just kill the shade staff user and get one word.

Sealed Verse #5 - Dark Phantasm: Of course you will kill the boss then watch a cutscene and the screen fades to black giving you this Sealed Verse.

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The Wild Companion
Kainé joined your party.
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Achievement #7: Story Related. Kaine is your second permanent companion for the rest of the game. She will of course join you after killing the Aerie's first Shade boss.

Word #13 - Vara: On small shades at the open.

Word #14 - Geba: On the small mage shades via near Forest of Myth entrance.

There may be few more words in here but we can just stop at 60 and if you miss where I miss just refer to the checklist or other guides of course.

Available quest: Yonah's Gift ✔

If you go back to this spot to pass by to the Eastern Road of course.

You can start fishing x3 Royal Fishes in here before going to the Desert if you have completed Fisherman's Gambit 5 due to how strong they can be and the meter's depleting slowly.


We also need some mats here, some will need a level reload via reentering as always. When checking your list of fishes caught you should have every fishes you can find and do at this moment but a reminder we need 14 fishes in total at Act II. For now we get inside Facade to also help with things to complete achievements. The desert also has some annoying fishing parts so you have to persevere and try many times even the last fish is found here but it is frustrating and can take minutes to deplete their health completely. Again we are saving enough gold even if it's not much but we will farm on that DLC.

Explore around the town, progress through to try getting the Barren Temple main quest.


Inside you will need to complete trials until you reach to the end. There are words also to collect.

Word #15 - Besa: During the "Evasive Mouse" Trial room where the medium sized shades with a weapon appears, kill one and get this. Do not worry if you mess this up we can get the next other words.

Word #16 - Mahir: Same even when you evade accidentally on the Shade.

It's fine to miss some words at the temple.

Available quest: Item Unknown

Re-enter this area to allow quests to appear. You can buy a Facade and Desert map on the items shop.

Weapon #8 - Rebirth: After defeating the Barren Temple boss (Shahriyar), speak to the Prince and after he thanks you he will give you this weapon.

Sealed Verse #6 - Dark Wall: When trying to leave, once again the Prince talks to you, automatically you get the Dark Wall after another conversation.

Weapon #9 - Earth Wyrm's Claw: At the Facade weapons shop for 8,400 G.

A reminder that you can check other guide which consists of materials to safely sell.

Available Quest: The Runaway Son, Fragile Delivery 3 ✔

Complete some quest if you can, in this case from Yonah.

On Facade: The Littlest Hero, Apology From a Fool, The Missing Girl, The Tangled Message quests will be available.

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Jack of All Trades
You completed 20 quests.
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Achievement #8: All quests done thanks to the checkmarks in this case Fragile Delivery 3 and all quests I followed while progressing through the story calculated but at least we need to do 10 more in Act II because there are needed quests for our other achievements so we can ditch the ones we don't need to do otherwise if you're a completionist for games then do so.

Let us move on to other few parts before the Act I conclusion.

1) Route A: Revisited areas (Village etc.), Forest of Myth, Emil's Manor
2) Progress through the story
3) Quests: 20/30
4) Words: 26/60
5) Weapons: 11/38
6) Sealed Verses: 8/8
7) Achievements: 9/47
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Save before doing anything like I said often as it is. Don't worry about dying since you learned how the game works but yeah let's get going.

I will give a quick answer since you will read a text wall and answer riddles if you value your time:

Mayor:
"The answer is... a secret." - "Sunlight!" - "A man."

Sealed Verse #7 - Dark Execution: Complete the Mayor's dream sequence.

Villager Girl:
Proceed the following directions: North - East - North - East - North

Villager Guy:
Answer: "The real one is Beta."

Weapon #10 - Faith: Complete two dream sequences and go back to the Mayor.

Word #17 - Kon: Outside from the Forest of Myth is from Small Shade Mage.


Available quest: Letter to a Lover

POINT OF NO RETURN: When Yonah tells you to visit her new friend, you will come to this point that yes it is the part where you should have a no point of return, this might be early to say and can be triggered after visiting the Manor but just an early warning before proceeding, do your 20 side quests or more and collect Act I weapons which you already did as well as words which mostly are unmissable before proceeding, we got more words and fewer one-handed swords to collect throughout which will appear.

Word #18 - Hodi: Before visiting the Manor, we get this word on the medium shield Shade.

Word #19 - Otir: When you fight your first two medium shade inside you will get this word on one of them.

Word #20 - Mahes: Enter to the last left side door before the front door where you fight the Medium Shade weapon wielder after grabbing the Light Key and get the word from one.


Weapon #11 - Blade of Treachery: Using your Darkness Key while fighting the Shades with young Emil, you will see a breakable wooden box which has the weapon in it.

Sealed Verse #8 - Dark Whirlwind: The last Sealed Verse can be obtained when you defeated Grimoire Rubrum.

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The Magic Man
You learned every type of magic.
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Achievement #9: Story Related. All of the 8 Sealed Verses are collected, now we will be able to go back to the Village and finish this Act.

Personally, I love using Dark Hand, Dark Lance, and Dark Blast while evade is my SHIFT.

Again, point of no return takes place when Popola needs you to collect Vapor Mosses on Southern Gates so if you interact with it then get ready.

Word #21 - Ashures: On the way to the shopping area you will find it on the Medium sized Shade who wields weapon.

Word #22 - Varo: The one who wields a shield while fighting the "Brute"

Word #23 - Lugka: One of the Shade

Word #24 - Gebo: One of the Shade

Word #25 - Kones: Inside the Village Library there are Shades so one must drop it.


Word #26 - Beso: One of the Shade at the same area.

1) Route A: Revisited areas (Village etc.), Underground Laboratory, Lost Shrine
2) Progress through the story, do some boss achievements
3) Quests: 21/30
4) Words: 40/60
5) Weapons: 20/38
6) Achievements: 13/47
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Weapon #12 - Kusanagi: Starter weapon, immediately along with the other three weapons we get but easy to upgrade.

Weapon #13 - Virtuous Treaty: Starter DLC weapon, our second two-handed weapon.

Weapon #14 - Transience: Starter weapon.

Weapon #15 - Virtuous Dignity: Starter DLC weapon.

Word #27 - Hodo: Kill one of the Armoured Shades and get this word.

Word #28 - Gebu: Same area.

Available quest: Thieves in Training ✔, The Creaky Waterwheel
Where Devola is always, we can choose quests on Seafront: Masterclass Lighthouse, The Scattered Cargo, The Fisherman's Gambit 6

Weapon #16 - Axe of Beheading: On the Weapon shop for 19,200 G.

Weapon #17 - Sunrise: On the Weapon shop for 21,600 G.

Word #29 - Hodal: On the small shades unarmoured.

Word #30 - Pahu: On the small shades unarmoured.

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The Mellow Companion
Emil joined your party.
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Achievement #10: Story Related. Emil is your third and last permanent companion for the rest of the game. This will unlock automatically when you enter his Manor.

You will also find a needed map in here.

AA:
Word #31 - Ula: One on the small unarmoured Shade just kill it.

KA:
Word #32 - Gebil: One on the medium unarmoured Shade.

Weapon #18 - Fang of the Twins: On the breakable boxes just destroy it and weapon will be waiting for you.

SA:
Nothing much here.

Word #33 - Pahil: On the next room before the locked door we get this by a small unarmoured Shade.

At this percentage that'd be 27/50%, keep collecting words even if you miss them, remember we have a lot to collect here so don't worry missing in this Act.

TA:
Nothing much.

NA:
Word #34 - Mahira: Small unarmoured Shades

HA:
MA and YA keycards are left on the same area then we progress.

Word #35 - Varu: By the mini Shade boss after grabbing the YA keycard.

Word #36 - Besal: When trying to get the RA Keycard, you will fight unarmoured small shield magic Shades.

RA:
Word #37 - Konira: The same mini boss Shade from HA room.

WA:
The final and also an actual boss room.

After saving your progress before Act II, you can save your progress after the Underground Laboratory. This will be what we considered the real story as every new route playthroughs we start comes back to this part. Also all quests should be unlocked if you find them so no more exploring new areas.

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Release
You freed Kainé from her petrification.
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Achievement #11: Story Related. Automatically unlocks when you end up at your house.

At this point when Popola mentions a canal being repaired we can finally get to the fast travel point after roaming around the game for hours.

Available quest: The Damaged Map ✔

In here we will be getting our first boss achievement later, you should be on easy this make achievements a lot easy than you'd expected and a spear is always in my experience the best type of weapon to use against bosses we can get our hands on the Phoenix Spear because that is the best weapon of the entire game pretty much you can upgrade it to Lv. 4 and kill enemies with less effort. Anyways do not worry if you can't kill bosses faster once you finish this route or the next we can try again just make sure to make a new save despite having three save slots otherwise just copy your files but I prefer the in-game method. When in doubt just save before attempting boss battles. I will get the Phoenix Spear when progressing the story I can miss some boss achievements due to Route C difference on one boss so save some for that.

If you can stock up few buff potions or just be quicker in finding the timing of bosses to deal damage you won't have problems. We will be doing our grinds to make things easier on weapons especially upgrades.

Weapon #19 - The Devil Queen: By the box to destroy them so you can grab the weapon.

Word #38 - Ulo: When you're on the second floor you can kill one of the sword armoured Shade.

Word #39 - Konesra: You are going through set of doors and solving cube puzzles and before the mini boss Shade area you are in the Shade room where hordes will comes (You can get one Twisted Ring by the knight-like Shades which are rare and can be farmed in Lost Shrine and Aerie), you should kill the knight-like Shade to get this.

Word #40 - Otesra: Just where the save is and door back to the room we get our next word by the armoured small Shade.

Weapon #20 - Beastlord: Breakable box on the roof area before the boss.

Here I mentioned with the timer boss within 3 minutes and 20 seconds, this is plentiful but you either need to skip all cutscenes or just skip few seconds before resuming to fight to not miss the whole scene, this is why we need buffs like Strength Capsule which I may used two times against Gretel, I think either Virtuous Dignity or which spears have increase Magic power such as The Devil Queen should help and do it fast you can end this fight with around 10 seconds just set your clock timer.

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King of the Lost Shrine
You defeated Gretel within three minutes and twenty seconds.
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Achievement #12: This one is easy, you just need less than two Strength Capsule. Do not worry we will get our hands on Phoenix Spear later. Speaking of timer, this timer will start when you load immediately and see a cutscene of the Hansel & Gretel room, but only Gretel remains. I use my Virtuous Dignity Lv. 1 only. You get this unlocked as soon as you begin to fight against Kainé.

Be prepared against Kainé, hope you got few stocks of Strength Capsules or two of them. Oh yes be sure to catch all dialogues

This is why we have a save but you'd skip cutscenes anyways, we need to stop her Shade form in 1 minute but this one is easy also at least. I got this achievement done in 35 seconds by the timer.

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A True Friend
You stopped the berserk Kainé within one minute.
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Achievement #13: I still used Virtuous Dignity Lv. 1 against her, keep hitting her on the wall while using magic blast, then use Strength Capsule which gives you enough power to stop her. Automatically unlocks when the screen flashes white.

You can earn these and other boss achievements on any routes like I said, if you understand the story cutscenes but you didn't get two of them now is the good time in here.

1) Route A: Revisited areas (Village etc.), Forest of Myth, Aerie, Junk Heap
2) Progress through the story, do some boss achievements
3) Quests: 23/30
4) Words: 50/60
5) Weapons: 23/38
6) Achievements: 14/47
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We can now freely explore and find all Stone fragments, we will be needing to get many loots and items so to help with achievements. I might miss only maybe one boss achievement due to how it plays out which you will see later. Anyways, I will do quests that helps achievements so others is your choice but they give good gold rewards.

Our choice does not matter either Forest of Myth or Junk Heap but once you choose which to visit you will need to do that first.

Available quest: A Child's Final Chance ✔, Contract for a Contractor, A Bridge in Peril ✔, The Promised Gift

Word #41 - Lugza: On one of the small Shade.

Word #42 - Besol: On one of the small Shade.

Word #43 - Mahka: On one of the Shade who uses two arms to shoot orbs at the bridge.

Word #44 - Otka: Same as Mahka but on the other side.

Word #45 - Besil: At the small armoured Shade like the others.

If you need to keep the weather cloudy for our quest A Bridge in Peril just as you get Cloudy from Aerie or Forest of Myth exits just keep re-entering our Village if your specific giant armoured Shade did not spawn. This Shade requires a lot of armour breaking attacks like Dark Hand and melee may be risky if you are Lv. 20, eventually it will break like it's head part with Dark Hand.


Word #46 - Ashurka: Kill this very tanky Giant armoured Shade.

Weapon #21 - Labyrinth's Whisper: Of course you will get this without missing it.

Nothing much here other than getting our stone fragment:
23 - Blue
33 - Green
63 - Brown
As always like before pay very close attention to the colour and companion while reading text just a reminder:

• “Only one person brings the boy comfort: a healthy young girl with tan skin and [ANSWER] eyes.”
  
• “Her friends and fellow warriors come and go. Some flee in terror. Some are eaten. She began the fight with [ANSWER] companions, but most are gone now.”

Example: Blue & 33

Third choice sequences does not matter.

If we then choose to talk to Popola we go to Aerie otherwise go to Junk Heap if you like.

There is a Faith weapon on the shop here before you begin the boss battle. When you begin the fight here you will not be able to visit Aerie again this is it but we did a lot of things so no need to check every nook and cranny.

Word #47 - Solkarr: One of the knight-like Shade will drop this when you go through the bridge from the initial point.

Word #48 - Mahzarr: On your way at the top and still fighting armoured Shades you get one of the word from the armoured knight-like Shade.

Anyways the boss battle needs to be beaten under 8 minutes, I think the timer starts when we begin to fight Wendy as the health bar appears. We must make sure to be quick here but you can as well be skipping cutscenes to help the achievement since it roughly takes 7 minutes and around 40 seconds to beat it, if this is your first time don't sweat trying to rush the story the other two boss from here I did was easy even without skipping cutscenes but yeah Route B to D should still give us plentiful amount to work with missable boss timer achievements even though I had 100% this game before.

Word #49 - Ulol: While fighting Wendy, unarmoured Shades will appear and you can kill one to get this word.

Weapon #22 - Iron Will: Although we got our weapon from Gideon we have to wait for it to be repaired but it can still be used even when broken.

We got our access to a newer level for B2 hence why I did not start grinding on Act I in order to progress the story. If you started grinding a lot of raw materials before the Junk Heap then you can work on getting achievements but we can do that later it is very long and tedious to do but luckily that is why we have our 4 YoRHa DLC weapons installed.

We can also wait for the last weapon which is OP and cheap to upgrade unless you insist on getting the other weapons but I will mention all even after Weapons Collector achievement after we collected everything before Ending D. Oh yeah I forgot, we should have around 40+ raw materials in this case 41 before I reach Junk Heap because of 50 total raw materials for our achievement, we are close to finishing the word achievement also.

Nothing much but this may be where we can grind and re-enter for our rare materials very crucial. For now we collect x1 Memory Alloy for our Iron Will. P-32 Giant Robots drop those rare mats including Titanium Alloy so keep revisiting this area if no luck or just need more.

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Material Hunter
You collected 50 types of raw materials.
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Achievement #14: No doubt one of the easiest achievement that will pop up naturally. I think I sold raw materials hence 47 total including 3 new ones (Severed Cables, Broken Battery, Memory Alloy).

Weapon #23 - Beastcurse: Before our later boss fight it is on the breakable box.

We can move up to the surface, we may need to come back here later.

We now need to send our key item to Gideon, he will notify us that our Iron Will will be repaired after doing other search for stone fragments.

Tip: Just sell what can be bought from the shop while the next Route we will grind more Golds which have mats we need at World of Vessel DLC.

Word #50 - Ulu: Near the ladder to the bridge we descend and fight few Shades.

Nothing much other than Popola telling us to go to Seafront. We will do all of the few stuffs to clean-up before doing the boss which is the main part also.

1) Route A: Revisited areas (Village etc.), Seafront, Desert, Facade
2) Progress through the story, do some boss achievements
3) Quests: 28/30
4) Words: 54/60
5) Weapons: 29/38
6) Achievements: 17/47
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We are progressing to finish our Route A but we should do key and main story parts and we can take a break by doing some clean-ups. Just in case we need golds via completing quests so even past 30 count we can do some since we need enough the weapons cost expensive especially the Phoenix Spear but it's worth it and don't forget to sell your stuffs which you can buy later.

On Emil's Manor, we can talk to the Butler for one quest only: A Tale of the Study ✔.

Word #51 - Varil: This is from that friendly Shade, still tanky but it will drop you the word.

Word #52 - Varul: Going back outside while it's still Sunny we still find the same Medium armoured Shades who will drop the word.

Word #53 - Lugkarr: Same Shade.

Available quest: The Great Tree, Staying Afloat, The Scattered Cargo, Fisherman's Gambit 6-8 & Final Gambit ✔, The Masterless Lighthouse

If you didn't do the Act I quests that will be continued for Act II then it will not appear here such as Bon Appetit! quest but that's fine we are almost done.

Weapon #24 - Vile Axe: Cost 21,600 G on Weapon Shop.

Weapon #25 - Spear of the Usurper: Cost 19,200 G on Weapon Shop.

Weapon #26 - Phoenix Dagger: Cost 36,200 G on Weapon Shop.

Nothing much other than to progress.

This is a different and special boss, you cannot try to kill her in a way you'd expect to do but instead you need to wait further to Route C because there's is a different cutscene and how you approach her. This affects how the timer is set so this is clearly intended as how it should be. It takes 5 minutes within to beat her for the achievement so not yet.

Word #54 - Ashurfarra: After killing Louise you get this word.

Available quest: Search for the Shade

We can finally use the boat again so we shall do our quests and all.

In fishing, you should be quick and this means paying attention to the bobble when it taps the water you must press S immediately for example the Sandfishes, we are gonna be catching fishes and doing quests after an Achievement unlock so we have enough to buy weapons. Alternatively you can farm Royal Fishes to earn more golds until you are done with Route A.


Blue Marlin: you may need to consider about the bob dipping almost completely into the water, you need to be quick as much and with the skill you have the Blue Marlin should be possible. We only need a Lure no Sardines needed even if you fished Sharks or Breams for profit we just need to be patient and persevere.
On 0:37, the bob dipped in slow motion but real time you just press S as this is too fast but possible,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjuEHjlg3zQ

Dunkleosteus: A soft - hard - hook is by nibble level before the bob is completely submerged, though you need to be quick which is possibly more RNG and the health to deplete on them is very slow but if you want to make this easier just max out your fishing skill. It can be caught with a Sardine or lure but Lure is possible so I choose that. It takes time and patience and perseverance but the fight to catch it is the same like harder/easier fishes to catch, right now I got the fish even but it is around 3-5 minutes and the bar will go slowly.

Black Bass can be caught with lure on Eastern Road while Catfish is by using Carp. Catfish will eat your bait right away so make sure to press your S to begin after the bobble dips once.
Your fish records should be like this:

• Sardine - Lugworm
  
• Blowfish - Lugworm
  
• Bream - Lure
  
• Shark - Sardine
  
• Blue Marlin - Lure
  
• Dunkleosteus - Lure
  
• Carp - Earthworm
  
• Rainbow Trout - Lure
  
• Black Bass - Lure
  
• Giant Catfish - Carp
  
• Royal Fish - Earthworm
  
• Sandfish - Lure
  
• Shaman Fish - Lure

Only Rhizodont and Hyneria are left to complete this list so we get the Sardines like a lot but catch a lot of Royal Fishes if you're low on gold, we can get all weapons before Facade Act II. Rhizodont will appear when you hit S key at the right time on the bobble being it's 3rd dip or submerged.

Complete all fisherman's quests, we currently are at 28 quests completed.

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A Round by the Pond
You caught one of every type of fish.
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Achievement #15: You caught all 15 fishes then you are finished with this achievement.

In my opinion, Blue Marlin is annoying to catch.

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Fish of Legend
You caught a rhizodont.
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Achievement #16: The last fish to catch, not going to lie this took a solid few minutes to catch it and the fish is way faster and going to likely break your fishing rod if you don't pay attention, you need max level fishing also.

Available quest: Life in the Sands, The King's Mask

Weapon #27 - Captain's Holy Spear: At the Weapon shop costing 30,000 G.

Weapon #28 - Phoenix Spear: At the Weapon shop costing 37,400 G. One of the OP weapon in this game so take it.

A Royal Compass will be given to you by the Guard on the Prince's place so you can navigate through the sandstorm.

We got a choice later on:
Check to see if a letter's arrived from the younger brother.
Go meet with the king of Facade.

Weapon #29 - Ancient Overlord: When preparing for the battle you can get this from the King.

We defeat the leader of the wolves within 3 minutes and 30 seconds, once again don't rush if you want to watch the entire story. However, this is an easy boss there's no need to skip every cutscenes.

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Protector of Facade
You defeated Roc within three and a half minutes.
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Achievement #17: Easily done even without Phoenix Spear but I used Phoenix Spear since of course we can breeze through. It took me 2 minutes 44 seconds to complete this criteria.

1) Route A: Revisited areas (Village etc.), Facade, Barren Temple
2) Progress through the story, do some boss achievements
3) Quests: 30/30
4) Words: 61/60
5) Weapons: 31/38
6) Achievements: 21/47
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After we get almost all Stone fragments being our last one on Junk Heap, we still can do some clean-ups well only few of them in Facade.

Available quest: Nightmares and Dust, A Shade Entombed ✔, A City Reborn

Word #55 - Besu: In the Barren Temple during A Shade Entombed quest where we need to do the trials again some unarmoured Shades will appear at the first area.

Word #56 - Paho: During the 7th door where Time-Forgetting Monkey rule is active you will find the Sealed huge Shade which when killed drops it.

Available quest: Disturbing the Sleep of Kings (only available after A Shade Entombed) ✔[/b]

Word #57 - Gebal: When you go back to the Barren Temple for the quest and enter to the 8th door you get the word from the armoured Shade you killed later on.

Don't worry if you died you still have the words at least.

Word #58 - Otza: Kill the huge mini boss Shade.

Word #59 - Konkarr: Another word from the boss room of Act I where the mini boss Shade is.

Weapon #30 - Labyrinth's Song: After completing Disturbing the Sleep of Kings quest this is our immediate reward from the King.

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Go-To Guy
You completed 30 quests.
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Achievement #18: All finished with this one, if you calculated and had used my checklist or others you can get this as you completed your 30th quest. Do some remaining quests for weapons only.

Word #60 - Ulal: On the Lost Shrine during our Damaged Map quest we fight those big shade mini-boss and kill it.

This for some reason stays 49% since Ashurfaara is our additional word it does not count so despite reaching 60 we reach 61.

Tip: Start doing Magical Stone and Damaged Map quest together before you proceed to Shadowlord's place so you can get those key items at the same time, I figured that out when I had found a root for the Great Tree quest which I won't finish but for you this mileage may vary. This is alternatively done when you found all key fragments and it is a recommendation by others otherwise you'd waste time going back and forth so later I will need to go back here for a key item for Forest of Myth again which is also where we need that weapon and a stage to grind too. For Damaged Map quest I will finish that quest after Junk Heap key fragment.

Nothing much to do other than story progression.

This boss needs to be defeated in 4 minutes and 30 seconds. It is also the easiest boss to fight so no skipping cutscenes but we can use dark blast and lance to damage it constantly and try our best to melee it close before it flies around.

We pop one Strength Capsule first phase then once cutscene appears without skipping we should be seeing P-33's wings destroyed at least the health is less than 25%. Just go through two times dodging falling debris and once damaging him to 0% you can kill the Shade. Cutscene will play out and after it's finished our timer is done and unlock the achievement.

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Boss of the Junk Heap
You defeated P-33 within four and a half minutes.
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Achievement #19: Not as hard as it is, just read what I typed and you should be good to go.

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Key Collector
You completed the key to the Shadowlord's castle.
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Achievement #20: Story Related. This unlocks automatically on the surface when you proceed to the exit. Find all keys after killing all bosses for this then use it to open the Sealed barrier that is the descend to the place of Shadowlord, but before you enter when the game warns you of no point return make sure you grind achievements and weapons of Route A but we will be doing that later it is story as always first same with no skipping cutscenes.

Available quest: The Shade Army

Word #61 - Hodol: Just kill any of the armoured small Shade that is near the bridge ladder.

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Wordsmith
You collected 50 percent of all words.
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Achievement #21: As always, 60 words is all you need to reach and yes there's still more throughout the story. You can grind words on the area where Forest of Myth is which has the weapon we needed aka in the Tokyo level.

Like I said the point of no return is Shadowlord's Castle so descend then never go back up.

Available quest: The Magical Stone ✔

Available quest: The Despicable Man

On the Northern Plains since you still choose to keep the ornament (it saves you time rather than selling it on Facade) you still get the weapon, thus completing Damaged Map quest.

Weapon #31 - Labyrinth's Shout: Completed Damaged Map quest on Northern Plains, like always you just need 33 base weapons to allow ending C and D to happen.

Weapon #32 - Iron Pipe: This is the mentioned temporary weapon in Prologue but is now added to our arsenal when we enter inside the building on the dreams, break one box and grab it.

We can grind in this dream infinitely as possible if we lack mats.

1) Route A: Revisited areas (Village etc.), Shadowlord's Castle
2) Progress through the story, complete Route A
3) Weapons: 34/38
4) Endings: 1/5
5) Achievements: 25/47
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Nothing much we can kill more Shades to get words.

Our new area, we just need to find weapons in here but not a lot going on just watch the story and do some boss achievements if possible. Oh yes we get a map and fewer words later on.

Weapon #33 - Phoenix Sword: Break one of the boxes on your left near the door riddle.

We defeat them first within 3 minutes, this involves no cutscenes skipped as always but not very tricky you may have more potions to buff yourself two times within 60 seconds so watch cutscenes and keep hitting them and using dark magic well blast could work but spam magic if you can.

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Permission Granted
You drove off Devola and Popola within three minutes.
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Achievement #22: As like other boss achievements we do this in this route.

This is just straightforward, 2 minutes is just plentiful when you start seeing Goose's Boar form so pop a Strength Capsule and damage it.

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A Dirge for the Hero
You defeated Goose within two minutes.
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Achievement #23: Yeah not much to say about this. When a cutscene plays out before it turns into an armour version you unlock this achievement.

Weapon #34 - Dragoon Lance: One box waits for you before you run up the stairs, break it to obtain this spear.

You may take more than 3 minutes 30 seconds to beat them due to not skipping cutscenes.

Cutscenes can take long here but it's expected first time unless you skip, the duos are easy to fight also. For Grimoire Noir we need to defeat him in 1 minute 30 seconds while Shadowlord is 4 minutes 20 seconds.

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A World in Flux
You defeated the Shadowlord.
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Achievement #24: Story Related. Last boss achievement for this route.

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Call Her Back
You viewed the first ending (Ending A).
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Achievement #25: Story Related. Our first ending will be played, after watching the entirety including credits, you will be prompted to seeing text of new additions for Route B this as well unlocks the achievement.

1) Route B: All areas replay
2) Progress through the story, complete Route B and some remaining boss achievements
3) Weapons: 37/38
4) Level 4 Weapons: 5/33
5) Endings: 2/5
6) Achievements: 30/47
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In this route, all story parts will be starting at Act II mostly, and enemies this time will have dialogues so the story changes perspective. We have our progress saved so this means unless you made a new save we just overwrite our old Route A save. Most cutscenes stay the same but with some dialogues so do boss achievements here or next Routes, after a cutscene transitions to a black screen and there are new novel sections of each characters so skip most boss scenes but not skip the end of bosses you know who dies to know triggers of novel sections make sure to time your clock of course. Otherwise, still enjoy the story without skipping especially the longer ones and the novel sections when we will do all boss achievements at the Route C because there is a special one over there.

Oh yes there is nothing stat-wise changes on enemies/bosses essentially NG+ but no penalties added. Like I said again we will read novel sections that adds more to context. You can also change music to Automata's OSTs so that's great well this first NieR game needs more attention.


A new additional content which is this Recycled World Vessel DLC is available now. No longer we need to worry of shortages in golds we can farm them here plus we also need to complete three floors which each of them has a weapon and they are needed for our Collector of all weapons.

We should also be farming mats here especially rare ones, check your own list of what you needed which I provided it, already it should help. Main objective is to farm as much golds until a million as we can and mats overall.

On one of the Steam guide, tip from Rummas:
At the Lost Vessel free DLC, you get the following:
Amber, Copper Ore, Eagle Egg, Gold Ore, Iron Ore, Meteorite, Moldavite, Pyrite, Rusted Clump, Silver Ore, Titanium Alloy

*The most common ones for me were Copper Ore, Iron Ore, Rusted Clump, Silver Ore and Titanium Alloy.

There are five levels here, when cleared will aware you with the Kabuki outfit and 1,000 experience points.

Weapon #35 - Fool's Embrace: Complete third level from the First Floor.

There are five levels here, when cleared will aware you with the Samurai outfit, 4,000 experience points and 10,000 G.

Weapon #36 - Fool's Lament: Complete third level from the Second Floor.

There are five levels here, the third has the place where you'd farm mats you needed and when cleared will aware you with the 10,000 experience points and 50,000 G. If you die here the game will save so you won't lose the mats you grabbed yes it's okay to die so try again until you complete the DLC

Weapon #37 - Fool's Accord: Complete third level from the Third Floor.

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Weapons Collector
You found every weapon.
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Achievement #26: Looks like you have found all 33 weapon, this last weapon is optional but we need it for easy upgrades so we upgrade our weapons when we have done collecting but you can do some then get achievements.

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Dear Diary
You completed the "Recycled World" quest.
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Achievement #27: Complete all three floors to get this achievement. You may as well have all weapons unlocked from here except for the optional weapon at the end but we will get it.

Everything we will be doing is repeating the same thing to obtain fragmented keys but cutscenes stay the same on boss fights.

Tip on Northern Plains: In a cloudy weather, use the quest related to Boar it is repeatable and anytime you fail by dismounting from the Boar will fail the quest, making you try again via interacting to the guy while at the same time resetting the enemy Shade spawns this shall provide useful farming rare mats such as the Forlorn Necklace and Dented Metal Bats. However, excluding Forlorn Necklaces you can be able to grind those rare mats I mentioned on Forest of Myth (Dream) which helped me.

Tip on Junk Heap: If you are farming Memory Alloy but you got Titanium Alloys instead, you can die when you don't have it dropped by idling near the robots it will respawn you near the mini-boss room door of P-32s but you can do the other way by reentering via going back up to 1F by elevator then going back down to B2. This is the same to the other side that would take time to get by rail cart. The fastest way to die of course is even on hard just hope you are high level to do this (Level 30+) but on easy it should be the same process.

Also don't forget to stop Kainé and Emil fighting on easy by ordering them so you can kill yourself. On easy however Emil will keep healing you but sometimes you can kill yourself without interruption so we will do hard for this grind.

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Upgrade Apprentice
You upgraded 5 weapons to their maximum level.
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Achievement #28: After upgrading 5 weapons to level 4 we will get this achievement unlocked. We can upgrade our following though yours may have a different Lv. 4 weapons maxed but we start easy. My following are: Nameless Blade - 4 YoRHa DLC Weapons. This will seal our way to completing the Forging Master Achievement which is of course 33 max upgrades. Remember you can save these upgrades later on for our non-cumulative gold progression to a million just more reminder.

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Scourge of The Aerie
You defeated Wendy within eight and a half minutes.
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Achievement #29: I had to skip most cutscenes 2 times getting me to have a 30 second remaining for the timer but for new players watch out for novel section though this may be part of the timer so meaning you either wanna skip this for achievement or not, I suggest you reading the novel of Emil's it is what it is you can skip cutscenes safely on Route C I just had to put all summary timer of bosses in there aesthetic-wise with all boss achievements but you will unlock this achievement when you take control of yourself near the save point.

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Lingering Memories
You viewed the second ending (Ending B).
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Achievement #30: Story Related. When you get a prompt for Ending C requirement you get this achievement.

1) Route C: All areas replay
2) Progress through the story, complete Route C and read novels, skip boss cutscenes if familiarity occurs
3) Weapons: 37/38
4) Level 4 Weapons: 18/33
5) Endings: 3/5
6) Achievements: 37/47
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This time we replay the game after overwriting our save (make sure to make a backup just in case and start on that Save 2 for example). We can safely skip cutscenes especially all Route B dialogues but verify first on one example we get additional cutscene during/after Louise fight and the rest you can skip, then there is the part on Shadowlord's Castle after the Popola/Devola fight we finally also complete those novel sections in there that should end and endings like always play way different so don't skip them also. When we see an option on the memories prompt we click yes.


Gretel - Within 3 minutes 20 seconds.
Kainé I - Within 1 minute.
Wendy - Within 8 minutes 30 seconds.
Louise - Within 5 minutes.
Roc - Within 3 minutes 30 seconds.
P-33 - Within 4 minutes 30 seconds.
Devola and Popola I - Within 3 minutes.
Goose - Within 2 minutes.
Devola and Popola II - Within 3 minutes 30 seconds.
Grimoire Noir - Within 1 minute 30 seconds.
Shadowlord - Within 4 minutes 20 seconds.
Kainé II - Within 3 minutes 30 seconds.

Everything we were supposed to do especially when I try hard to restrain not skipping cutscenes can be done here now. The same preparation like before, it's this sort of repetitiveness that made you want to play all Routes until Route E hence plan how you want to experience the game. The last boss achievement is also done in Route D if you skip cutscenes on all bosses since you know the story do not worry if there will be new cutscenes and dialogues in Route D path that is basically why we use saves in Lost Shrine to play Route D if we are finished on Route C. When you skip cutscenes you won't skip novel sections and the title of them all so we are safe.

If you need resources and gold just farm on the DLC or do it on Route E after since you should be at Lv. 35 it only took 15 minutes less for me with how far I progress and level up.

In the Forest of Myth as always the number and colour I put before had switched but might as well share what mine was:
23 - Green
33 - Brown
63 - Blue

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The Little Mermaid
You defeated Louise within five minutes.
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Achievement #31: Skip cutscenes since they are the same. The timer like always starts when her health bar appears, the same thing like Route A and B. On the beach part Louise fight takes a different turn so instead of all Route A and B where the Postman distracts her we can run towards her when we take control of us and kill her at the end and the timer is also tight but we should be at Lv. 35+ so essentially you just use whatever you can to keep hitting her like bosses. The remaining time is 26 seconds for me and this achievement unlocks when you skip cutscene after the last of it but everything stays the same even the end of it.

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Gratitude
You gave Louise's letter to the postman.
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Achievement #32: Story Related. This is unlike Route B because Kainé gave the letter to the Postman so after the white flash transition or during you get this achievement unlocked.

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Reform Specialist
You upgraded 15 weapons to their maximum level.
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Achievement #33: After upgrading 10 weapons to level 4 we will get this achievement unlocked. The following Lv. 4 weapons I invested on are: Nirvana Dagger - Labyrinth's Whisper - Beastbain - Faith - Labyrinth's Song - Blade of Treachery - Labyrinth's Shout - Fang of Twins - Earth's Wyrm Claw - Vile Axe. Keep farming on the DLC and buying materials you need them more.

SAVE, we need this as we replay Routes. Keep in mind all cutscenes on this place will still be the same but one more novel and we are good to go already for our next Route, this includes few boss achievements we can do here or on Route D it's up to you for story.

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Educated Warrior
You read all novel segments about your friends' pasts.
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Achievement #34: Story Related. After the last novel of Emil, you will watch the same cutscene from the Popola fight then you unlock this achievement during that.

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Book Burner
You defeated Grimoire Noir within one and a half minutes.
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Achievement #35: Timer starts as soon as the cutscene starts, luckily you are already invested into levels and some weapons w/ potion buffs so keep hitting him. This will unlock when you see a white flash. This fight got me to 1 minute remaining time but kill him before the shield appears again.

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The Once and Final King
You defeated the Shadowlord within four minutes and twenty seconds.
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Achievement #36: This boss has multiple phases but skip cutscenes you will get it when the black flash upon killing Shadowlord. Like always use magic to stun him such as Dark Hand or keep on hitting him. Make sure to counter his attack by dodging and attacking with your physical buff potions. Last phase which is the 3rd is just killing him without magic just like before. Alternatively this is done in Route D but C if you skip we can do this later before Route E. This fight got me to 1 minute 50 seconds remaining so plentiful.

After the cutscene and all, this is the final boss for this Route truly which we need to defeat within 3 minutes 30 seconds. We can do this timer based boss on either this Route or Route D and we got two choices so it's straightforward but for phase basically the first phase is dodging her while you can try hitting her it won't change until she decides to move around so without magic this is why we have potion buffs to help us. Second phase is the last which is to keep dodging her and attacking while she attacks you. After that then it is done.

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Thank You
You viewed the third ending (Ending C).
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Achievement #37: Story Related. For this achievement in order to achieve the ending it is straightforward like really you choose the first option, ending the Route after cutscenes where like others we unlock this achievement.

1) Route D: Shadowlord's Castle
2) Progress through the story, complete Route D, use save slot backup to continue, and a few boss achievements if missing them previously.
3) Weapons: 37/38
4) Level 4 Weapons: 18/33
5) Endings: 4/5
6) Achievements: 40/47
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Hope you save your first slot that is all you need or just don't save via exit. This route allows us to basically make another choice so we can finish this it is basically Route C but choosing differently. We skip cutscenes as always. You still have your save to go back to after making that choice on Route C that is of course why we have made saves for this moment. Warning though you need to do Route C before this because we get something to experience what is special but you will be locked until we finish that Route.

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Soul Crusher
You defeated Devola and Popola within three and a half minutes.
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Achievement #38: Keep skipping, even the novel section (titled 'Promise' for a reminder we already read that) and skip until you take control of yourself then this achievement unlocks. This fight got me to the 58 seconds remainder so don't worry if there are multiple cutscenes and reading to do.

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The Strongest Bond
You defeated the berserk Kainé within three and a half minutes.
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Achievement #39: Since we know the story at all we can skip cutscenes, we just need to do the following: Dodge on Phase 1 then Phase 2 is just damaging Kainé while dodging while using physical buff potion until she goes down below 0 HP bar. Once the screen goes white where you see Kainé and take control you unlock this achievement. This fight got me to 1 minute 10 seconds remainder.

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Something Very Special
You viewed the fourth ending (Ending D).
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Achievement #40: Story Related. For this ending you choose the second choice, you will actually get the best part about this game I could spoil it here but you should be doing this blind you will see it.

1) Route E: Northern Plains, Forest of Myth
2) Progress through story, complete Route E
3) Weapons: 37/38
4) Level 4 Weapons: 18/33
5) Endings: 5/5
6) Achievements: 42/47
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The final route, we just experience this short route and do what we must. Whether you farm or do it later for Weapons is up to you some of you may have 5 max leveled this or zero max upgraded weapons that you can do it even after Route E ending so that we can use the last weapon to add the max upgraded counter which is needed if you desire to not suffer grinding more Black Pearls and rare mats. We get to do something that may be missable unless you replay (needs work) so we won't miss that. Section of this title is just well if you read the Grimoire NieR you'd know some reference.

To do this route, we need to start a new game no questions play through Act I like how you would but however you will know how things will turn out at the story part it is a surprise anyways :).

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Daredevil
You risked life and limb 10 times to discover someone's secret.
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Achievement #41: To earn this missable achievement we have to peek her underwear closer at the beginning of the level which is in Aerie then after 10 times she will decide to kill us after multiple warnings from her.

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Achievement #42: Story Related. This is the final achievement for the story, so this is unlocked when you watch the credits and before the prompt with few new unlocked contents.

1) Epilogue: All areas
2) Cleaning miscellaneous and lastly heavy grinding
3) Weapons: 38/38
4) Level 4 Weapons: 33/33
6) Achievements: 45/47
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If you got grinding to do then we should be here.

Weapon #38 - Kainé's Sword: This is the last optional weapon we need for our upgrades since we progress this is for our upgrades which fortunately counts. This can be found of course on the Aerie inside Kainé's home so we only need to use our old save that was restored.

With all informations used we can grind and do such as cultivating Lunar Tear once, grind using the DLC to build up resources and gold and just visit areas to grind mats on, for more informations check my checklist as always. Your weapon upgrades will depend, best if you grind golds before doing this and decide if you want to follow my Lv. 4 upgrades from the checklist where I put the checkmark or not, Black Pearls are kind of annoying as well as Forlorn Necklaces in my experience but Black Pearls are better to grind than Forlorn Necklaces as they are both rare mats to get.

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Man of Means
You accumulated 1,000,000 pieces of gold.
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Achievement #43: Having enough golds is needed for our buys on raw materials and upgrades, you sell what you don't need and keep playing the DLC level which like I mentioned grants you 50,000 G after 10-12 minutes of the Third Floor each time. Keep in mind you can save and then once you sold all items and mats to a million gold then you can reload the save previous after doing your Junk Heap grinding session or any materials safe to sell you can also buy lots of raw ores and metals for weapon upgrades the most is what you expect for a JRPG.

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Forging Master
You upgraded 33 weapons to their maximum level.
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Achievement #44: After upgrading 18 weapons max we will get this achievement unlocked. My following upgraded weapons are: Fool's Embrace - Beastcurse - Moonrise - Transience - The Devil Queen - Dragoon Lance - Axe of Beheading - Iron Will - Lily Leaf Sword - Captain's Holy Spear - Kusanagi - Fool's Lament - Fool's Accord - Rebirth - Beastlord - Ancient Overlord - Iron Pipe - Kainé's Sword.

The remaining weapons as post completion of this achievement are the: Phoenix Dagger - Phoenix Sword - Sunrise - Spear of the Usurper - Phoenix Spear.

Either this or after the weapon grind, we can do the Lunar Tear cultivation achievement.

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Legendary Gardener
You successfully cultivated the legendary flower.
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Achievement #45: We need a lot of golds if we are to try this just in case, you can use your desktop time which you can change and do some gimmick inside the game which still works and you don't want to be waiting for days if you care about the time you value, otherwise play like normal and do other things.
This guide did a good job as well as other videos which I will link too by Gaming with Abyss
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2467443439

Make use of saves and be sure to change back to the present time before saving if you care about your time you achieved on Steam which is what I did luckily you can do that while in-game not quitting, speaking of which that is still viable than quitting the game and relaunching the game again when changing and experimenting in cultivating your own Lunar Tear.

1) Route A (Speedrun)
2) Speedrun in under 5 hours
3) Achievements: 47/47
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At this point no other things to worry about we need to speedrun the game which is not so bad. On the other hand, you did all the available needed requirements for achievements hence this is our 6th playthrough.

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Lightspeed Fighter
You completed the game within fifteen hours.
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Achievement #46: This is easy that it might as well should of been within 6 hours or less (maybe no), I saved this for the last due to the blind playthrough mindset for some people you'd have to skip doing most quests and collecting as well as being too perfect trying, what you need to know is:

• Hours spent can be in total of 3-4 hours if you want it now or 10-12 hours for first-time, I may had done this in 6 hours while speedrunning.
  
• Pausing the game will not stop the timer just save your game and exit out to the main menu if you need to take breaks at least that is what they said you can check display for testing if you want before exiting our main menu and save again after waiting for couple more seconds by 'pausing' in-game.

Alternatively, you can actually reload your old save if you have not slow down your walkthrough, meaning if you had blindly beaten Route A in under well 10-12 hours then you can do this achievement it is that simple but beating this in 3-4 hours is not that bad so either way works for you then do so. When you complete Route A this achievement unlocks.

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The Final Verse
Congratulations! Thank you for playing!
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Achievement #47: Story Related. If you did all 46 achievements after all of miserable grinding you get this unlocked immediately and congratulations, otherwise just do the other achievements you've missed.

NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... is a prequel to NieR Automata which is a reason I played this game first before Automata. Since this is an old game there may be some old mechanics and the story overall but it stands out as being captivating and heartwrenching that it feels unforgettable.

This is what I need the most, NieR Replicant being just my first introduction to this game as well as watching Drakengard games (sorry not the 2nd installment). It is just NieR Automata which is the last thing but I love those games, and got invested into the story I had wished to invest more time into them long ago it is my cup of tea. Since this is an upgrade to the game I do like everything from the old story, characters, and the presentation but all changes to fit this 'remaster' really are worth it. I'm glad I played this for the second time it never fails.


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100% finished, keep it up people and good luck :)

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