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How to unlock the BFA achievement in Darksiders III - Definitive Guide

DLC EDIT UPDATE: Many are reporting that this achievement is now bugged. According to the tracker it is still unlocking for some people, but the bug appears to be common nonetheless. Hopefully THQ addresses and fixes this.

The BFA achievement requires you to unlock all other achievements to unlock this.

-It does not have to be done in one single playthrough.
-If it doesn't unlock right away, save the game and turn off your Xbox and relaunch the game. (Seems to be the case most often)
-You don't have to find literally everything such as angelic artifacts to unlock this. There are a total of 6 Essence of Chosen along with 72 Angelic and 72 Demonic Artifacts in the game. You only need 5/6 to get the achievement, so you can miss a few and still unlock everything.
-You can get every single achievement in a single playthrough on apocalyptic difficulty, although "For Whom the Bell Tolls, "Demon Meddler" and "A Parting Gift" are missable. If you do miss them start a new game on Story difficulty and remember that you only need the 4 hollows to do the Abraxis sidequest, so as soon as you beat Gluttony go to the Scar without worrying about Sloth or Wrath.

As far as apocalyptic difficulty goes the biggest tips I can give are:
-Don't dodge too early. Dodge right before their attacks come in contact with Fury, not when their attack animation starts,
-Buy a lot of fortification shards. These greatly reduce the damage you take and allow you to survive most boss fights easily.
-If you die during a boss fight when you used shards, close out of the game as soon as Fury does her dying animation and before the black loading screen. This will prevent the game from autosaving and allow you to keep your items, as grinding for them can become a huge pain.
-Save all the humans as soon as you get all 4 hollows. The rewards you get for saving them are nearly game breaking and make some of the later bosses a joke.
-Keep most attributes balanced.
-Defeat all the Chosen bosses as soon as you can and use "The essence of chosen" to max out your enhancements. There are 6 total Essences you can get per run, and only 5 are needed for an achievement.
-If you are doing apocalyptic on your second playthrough and just need that achievement, its possible to fight Pride right away as soon as you meet her (which is available after you have the first hollow). This will probably be patched, but it pretty much allows you to beat the game by only fighting her and the final boss if you feel confident in your dodging abilities.

Edit: Appears the early pride fight is patched. Perhaps playing offline with an older patch could get around this.

DLC Edit: With the introduction of DLC, a few extra options have become viable. First of all, you can now get unlimited Essence of Chosen via the crucible. New game plus was also introduced and this could likely give you a much easier way of beating Apocalyptic as you will already be fairly leveled up and equiped from previous runs. Just make sure you change your difficulty to Apocalyptic before you land the finishing blow on the final boss.
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I can confirm that your method does help unlock the achievement after getting all other achievements.
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By LostTemplar62 on 08 Dec 2018 05:58
Didn't unlock for me despite unlocking everything else. Can confirm dashboarding and reloading does the trick!
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By Han D Maiden on 16 Jan 2019 02:44
Had to do the dashboard reloading as well, unlocked once I got to the Continue, New Game, Options page. Definitely worthwhile noting in the solution
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By Peter Slocombe on 17 Jan 2019 21:00
How do I skip and just fight pride?
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By PlanesWalker 97 on 10 Feb 2019 15:05
Unless its been patched you just go through the portal after talking to her for the first time and then walk up to her door.
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By Senseless Ogre on 14 Feb 2019 21:49
Pride skip didn't work for me, had to do the whole thing. There are still a few areas in the scar you can skip to get to wrath faster.

Achievement didn't unlock for me either had to quit as mentioned by others and it popped when I hit continue.
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By Calex dEUS on 19 Feb 2019 10:08
It didn't unlock for me when I got all the achievements, and still didn't unlock when I quit the game and restarted it. Any ideas? Pretty pissed off, not gonna lie.
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By Niku no Nioi on 25 Apr 2019 03:47
Same problem. I have everything else unlocked (including all DLC) and the no BFA. At least it worked for a while unlike Darksiders 2....
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By LordMakanaki on 30 Apr 2019 02:32
I think there’s one more DLC, so hopefully it’ll have achievements and unlock when we earn one of them. My tracker says 97%
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By Niku no Nioi on 30 Apr 2019 02:35
I'm at 95% with all the achievements (including dlc) unlocked...
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By Fringe of Fate on 03 May 2019 00:45
Same. I have every achievement (incl DLC) except this one. It's stuck on 85% and I have tried the rebooting/restart/continue stuff suggested above. Looks like the newest patch broke it.
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By I AM CULLY on 03 May 2019 23:21
It's probably broken by last update. My percentage shows 93% and no BFA. I've read about the same situation on Steam and PS4, so it seems it's not a platform related problem. Also on readit Community Manager of Gunfire Games (VertVixen) has written, that they are looking into it now.
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By PetrozPL on 06 May 2019 16:16
I am having same issue got all the achievements but bfa hasn't unlocked but they just fixed darksiders 2 for the same problem so just a 4 year wait to 100% this game
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By Joey Cobra on 22 May 2019 13:33
BFA stuck at 95%. Every other main game achievement unlocked just fine. I've tried everything but nothing works. Amazing how they managed to f**k this cheevo up three times in a row.
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By Nahkaremmi on 31 May 2019 17:54
BFA stuck at 93% as well. Every other achievement unlocked. It's getting old THQ.
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By Tuschi on 04 Jun 2019 23:37
I'm also stuck at 97%, even after finishing Armageddon Mode (New Game+). I hope they can fix this bug.
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By Fejer on 05 Jun 2019 06:44
Im stuck too i got 97% and i aint getting the achievement too the last one im pissed too
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By d0mell on 14 Jun 2019 18:41
It's broken for me too. Stuck at 93% with all DLCs done and base game completed.
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By BloodGodAlucard on 28 Jun 2019 19:24
Restarting my console/game didn't work for me. Fantastic.
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By hobojesus84 on 01 Jul 2019 18:54
The same. 89% while all the achievements were unlocked also DLC.
Solutions below didn't work for me.
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By TheMorphi on 10 Jul 2019 13:11
*Professor Farnsworth voice:* Good news everyone!

The achievement unlocks at the menu with the new update. Can't wait to buy Genesis and see what's broken in that one too.
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By Niku no Nioi on 16 Jul 2019 16:17
Yep it's fixed now. It popped for me when I was at the title screen post update. clap
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By BloodGodAlucard on 16 Jul 2019 17:44
Popped during the loading screen!
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By LordMakanaki on 18 Jul 2019 08:56
It's apparently fixed: Here are the patch notes: https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/4016503/
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By Fejer on 22 Jul 2019 06:29
Like with a few other gamers this unlocked for me around level 60 and i still have two achievements from the base game to get and dunno why that happend seems like thqnordic dont know how to fix stuff good on xbox one took em 3 years to fix the broken bfa one from darksiders 2 deathinitive edition may be an update soon for the ones that aint unlocked this yet
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By Gunrunner318 on 02 Aug 2019 02:34
I think the achievement now tracks your points earned for the game, not which achievements you earned off the base game: mine unlocked during my first Crucible run, which I did before I faced Pride. The Crucible achievements did get me over the 1k bump, which is when the achievement triggered.
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By EvilOverlord on 29 Sep 2019 19:17
popped during the reload after the Gluttony fight, during the first APOCALYPTIC playthrough. tho i did unlock Made of Sterner Stuff from NG+ pack. maybe it just counts to 49?
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By headXcrash on 07 Dec 2019 13:38
Same as others, needed to reboot the game and as soon as I pressed “Continue” on the main menu, it popped.
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By WhyattThrash on 22 Dec 2019 21:44
It counts total achievements, not the specific base achievements.
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By Lavindathar on 20 Mar 2020 16:43
Mine unlocked early as well, due to the Crucible achievements. However, this achievement popped the next day when I launched Darksiders 3 agian. So, it takes its time to calculate how many achievements you got so far.
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By Dokter V on 02 Apr 2020 13:45
As of yesterday, the glitch is still active, I played the Void DLC before finishing my first play through and got BFA.
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By wes coasn on 10 Apr 2020 13:15
I also got this while playing the dlc. I noticed the progress went up as I unlocked dlc achievements.
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By Rosshk on 26 Apr 2020 15:32
Still happening. Unlocking achievements from the Void has increased my progress in BFA. Yeah!
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By Kanchanaburi on 17 Oct 2020 01:58
I got this after my first playthrough. I had a lot of achievments from the DLCs and startet a game +.
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By Sunny Kloud on 19 Feb 2021 14:27
Weird AF 🩹🙄
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By Martyboy4 on 31 Aug 2021 21:12
Just checking if this is still bugged or not?
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By MugenKairo on 19 Nov 2021 21:28
For Darksiders II Deathinive Edition, THQ fixed this achievement after 3 years. This company is trash and only fix things for PlayStation.
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By NessNoldo on 04 Aug 2022 04:58
I still have the two grind heavy achievements left to do and yet i got this achievement ~2 minutes before i finished my first playthrough.

Maybe the buggy achievement is somehow triggered because i did my very first playthrough on Apocalyptic difficulty?
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By WB Lonewolf on 13 Jun 2024 16:28
A note: this achievement could be glitchy that it does not unlock when everything else is done; I dash boarded to start a different game, and then restarted Darksiders III, and then the achievement unlocked soon, before the menu page was loaded.
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By on 06 Dec 2018 15:21
This achievement unlocked when I completed my first run (on apocalyptic) and while still missing 3 of the base game achievements. But I had done 4 of the DLC ones. So I assume it indeed counts total achievements and unlocks when you hit the 49 mark and not simply all the base game ones.
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By Philip Andrews on 09 Feb 2020 19:58
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Just a note regarding the DLC: it seems like you unlock this whenever you get to 49 achievements won, I popped this during the crucible, and am still missing 2 achievements from the base game.
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@ all hail soad.this happend to me also and ive only have 2 achievements to unlock from base game and its weird how it pops like that
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By Gunrunner318 on 01 Mar 2019 01:47
I can confirm too. Missing this and the apocalyptic achievement from main game. After the first achievement In the DLC it’s popped!
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By Renattooo on 10 Mar 2019 16:35
Same here. I have 3 achievements left from the base game and this has just popped for me after loading up the game. I completed the dlc last night and this is the first time of going back on the game since
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By stretters87 on 11 Mar 2019 13:59
Same for me as stretters87 said. I competed the main game on story mode, then completed the DLC, logged off for the night and came back on in the morning and it popped.
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By KillaKevin24 on 28 Mar 2019 03:11
I have 58 of 59 achievements and BFA refuses to pop just like in Datksiders 2 Deathinitive Edition
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By Moon Knight 875 on 15 May 2019 16:10
Stuck for me too. Got every other achievement including DLC. I hope they fix it soon. Same problem every time. Unbelievable.
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By Tuschi on 04 Jun 2019 23:27
same im at 97% done everything restarted the campaign. tried restarting my xbox like many others have suggested and nothing is working
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By JoKeRWiNs89 on 10 Jun 2019 03:48
@moon knight 79 i dunno if you or anyone knows but they fixed the bfa achievement in ds2 deathinitive edition i just had the rest of the difficulty ones to unlock and bfa unlocked also for that game
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By Gunrunner318 on 29 Jul 2019 04:18
Tuschi I see it is now unlocked for you. Did you do anything special? I'm about to buy the game but won't if this is still bugged.
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By Frankie DrumsNY on 20 Aug 2019 18:08
Same here, randomly popped while booting the game with 5 base game cheevos remaining... laugh
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By Wicelow on 28 Aug 2019 19:56
Mines also unlocked via the DLC, at exactly 49 achievements unlocked. I'm guessing the requirement is having 49 achievements unlocked regardless of it being the base game or DLC, since the original game only had that many achievements.
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By regret on 06 Aug 2020 18:11
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Bug note: Many gamers have been reporting that this achievement is a bit buggy as I have experienced myself. Once the credits roll and you're back on the main menu. Close the game out then relaunch it. Continue with your game and once Fury respawns, the achievement will unlock.

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  • Trophy difficulty level : 6/10.
  • Offline Trophies : 50 ( 1, 1, 16, 32).
  • Online trophies : 0.
  • Estimated time to obtain platinum : 25+ hours.
  • Minimum number of playthroughs to platinum : 1 (2 recommended).
  • Glitched Trophies : None.
  • Number of trophies you can miss : 3.
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls / For whom the bell tolls - You need to kill “Lust” without killing the archangel Uziel;
  • Demon Meddler / Demon-annoyance - We need to kill the demon Abraxis before we go kill the sin “Pride”. It is located in the Scar location;
  • A Parting Gift / Gift of the Dying - when you find the demon Abraxis, in the dialogue with him you need to select “Kill Abraxis”, then go to the “Lord of the Void”, in the conversation select “Spare”.
  • Difficulty level affects trophies : yes. Death Incarnate / The embodiment of death , you must complete the game on the apocalyptic difficulty level.
Guide .
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Glitched trophies: a lot
It’s strange that the platinum card says no, although on the same playstationtrophies org the road map says “Glitched trophies: Many.”
What kind of trophies that didn’t appear are people complaining about on foreign sites: trophies for difficulty levels, upgrading improvements, upgrading things, saving 20 people, spending 50 points.
What didn't work for me:
Complete the game on Apocalyptic/Normal difficulty . In the finals I received a trophy only for “beating the game on any difficulty.” Fortunately, I’ve already learned from glitchy trophies, so as I progress through the game, I sometimes make backup saves (which I advise you to do in this game). So before the final boss there was a copy of the save on the flash drive. By replaying the final battle, I received my well-deserved trophies.
Spend 50 stat points . I only came to my senses in the postgame, when I was collecting all the trash. The level was 57, all the points that were pumped in, but there was no trophy. I copy the save before the boss fight. Level 46, I break all the accumulated souls, it becomes level 55, I distributed all the points between skills. No trophy. I remember that Vulgrim can reset everything. I reset, get my 50-odd points, pump in again. 1, 2, 3...10, 11, 12 ding trophy. Where is the logic here, I don’t know, and is it worth looking for it in glitchy trophies.
Save 20 people . After receiving the trophy for 15 people, I began to count how many more I found... I counted two. I looked all over the video guide, there was no one, I found everyone myself. Ultein, who gave me this medal for saving people, only confirmed that all 20 people were saved. “Well done for saving everyone, you deserve the last improvement, thanks for your help.” I received the trophy in the new game when I saved the first three. Well, it turns out that the statistics took into account only 17 of those saved on the first playthrough, and assigned three to the trophy only in the second playthrough. And thanks for that, I didn’t have to look for everyone again.
Increase the Nephilim's deferment pool 4 times . I realized too late that I didn’t receive this trophy. All 4 upgrades are easy to find, so everything was found by the final boss. And it's not in the game anymore. Start the game again. OK. I take the first nearby upgrade, after a half-hour speedrun... and ding. Yes, the statistics glitched again, and I got the trophy when I took 5 upgrades.
The problem is not that widespread, and most people get platinum without problems. But there are some lucky ones like me. Be careful.
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By danteqw on 11 Feb 2019 22:24
At 1.10 the glitch works
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By hostel on 27 Sep 2019 10:21
I would advise you to first go through on normal, knock out the maximum number of trophies, and then just go to the apocalypse through “New Game +” pumped up and prepared, without being distracted by anything...
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By borogoz on 15 Sep 2019 13:38
It is also easy to miss the trophies associated with collecting 30 pieces of splits, debris and other things. In particular, I was unlucky on the 5th fragment of adamantine, since its enemy, the carrier, fell into the abyss, and this fragment remained there. There was no way to pick it up, the snake hole didn’t help, the data wasn’t updated, be careful.
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By Megatron545 on 06 Sep 2019 21:42
be careful with the glitch, I lost the portal through which to go to the final boss, I found out about this at the end of the game, I had to go through it again
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By whiser on 12 Oct 2019 10:11
As of June 30, 2021 , the glitch with duplication of absolutely any picked up items works. I used it when completing NG+ on Apocalyptic difficulty. With its help, I quickly ran through the game and easily took out all the bosses. He cloned absolutely everything that came to hand - lurchers, all existing fragments, adamantine, and so on. As a result, with the help of all this, I pumped up the level to 300, all weapons to level +10 (standard is only 3 weapons to level up to +10), balanced all improvements for weapons (standard only 5 improvements), all costumes, but only up to level 3, then didn't bother.

To fight bosses, I used a fortifier fragment (farmed 500+ pieces) + a chaos fragment + with upgraded weapons, you can increase the time spent in the form of chaos up to 200%. With such a set, not one boss will do anything. Before the battle, we use a fortifier to reduce damage, immediately use the form of chaos, when it’s over, use a fragment of chaos and transform again, and so on until you finish it off.
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By THE4ZTEC on 30 Jun 2021 23:31
The glitch is working. But I encountered another problem. Having pumped up my character to level 100500, I simply could not defeat anyone at all. The enemies seem to level up along with you. Everyone starts to one-shot you, and the bosses become completely unkillable. Tried to kill Lust. He kills me with any blow, and in 2 bursts of rage I only took off 5 percent of his health. In short, you need to make a separate save in the cloud, then farm level 50, 1 million exp and 500 items for trophies. Then rollback the save.
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By Ateisticos on 04 Oct 2019 15:34
Patch 1.10 has not encountered a single buggy trophy, everything crashes properly.
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By nick22011985 on 13 Oct 2019 12:56
Don’t even pump your character up to level 100 with a glitch; halfway through the game you’ll just die with 1 hit from us and inflict a small level.
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By devilsar on 24 Dec 2019 22:11
A tip for casuals like me to save a lot of time (100% - 58 hours, I could have done it in 25 if I had started with dupil from the very beginning):
1. All the bugs still work, and don’t be afraid to use them; all items, even blocks, are knocked out in the crucible, just consider it a significant time saver.
2. Level 300 boosts strength by 2.5 times (100,102,100), enemies began to be killed only a little faster, in principle, the apocalypse could have happened at level 35 (I reached the scar in the second playthrough at this level), but with hint number 3!
3. In the game, the things that make the game easier to complete are weapon upgrades, upgrade upgrades, and armor. Therefore, collecting all kinds of additional ingredients is very necessary, but it is better to combine the ingredients in bulk to save time.
4. From the guardians you can get 4 more weapons and the best armor in the game. Even if you don't use these weapons, the passives from the upgrades still work, so you can build a set of 10 upgrades.
5. For a long time I was looking for which improvements were better, but in the end I downloaded everything, and inserted everything related to health and chaos. An interesting improvement turned out to be that it returns damage to enemies after their first hit, subsequent ones are canceled, since the damage was dealt, this will stun enemies, and you can tank almost any enemy.
6. Along with the improvements, any boss was killed on the first try and with one use of chaos (it is enough for 75% of the health of most bosses)
7. Text guides for a detailed walkthrough are very slow, and as practice has shown, almost all of them are incomplete; it is better to run around with pride before the second meeting and collect everything that is missing.
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By DeathlessBear on 20 Jul 2023 15:23
There is a great glitch in the game for duping items.

The essence of the glitch is the endless selection of objects lying on the floor.

Stand in front of the objects in the game and go to the main menu, then go to the settings and AT THE SAME TIME press circle + triangle (to understand what happened, you will be thrown into the main menu, at the top there will be a confirmation window that you want to reset the settings, but using the d-pad you can switch menu items) point to “load game” (third from the top) and press the cross. Then load the save (press the cross again) and confirm. Next, you will still see a reset confirmation window at the top. Once you load into the game, press the touchpad and press it again.

Your buttons are not working right now , , , , Options, Circle and all D-pad buttons.

Approach the desired item, press the touchpad, then start spamming the circle, you can pick up the item as much as you like, the main thing is not to press the touchpad again, otherwise the item will finally be picked up.

To solve the bug, go to the nearest autosave and turn off the game, then simply continue in the menu.

Another good tip for beating the game with this glitch. Collect shards that restore the form of chaos, or collect souls and buy them. With Chaos Form, almost all bosses on Apocalyptic fly away in one use of the form, literally a couple of bosses fly away with two uses of forms. With this, the difficulty of platinum becomes literally 1-2/10

I am attaching a video with a guide: https://youtu.be/aN3sCi__puo
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By SoulEater286 on 22 Sep 2019 15:04
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Here is an interesting speedrun for 4 minutes.
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