Katana ZERO
22 Achievements
1,000
20-25h
Xbox One
Xbox Series
Gold Medal
Achieve a total rank of gold or higher in a full speedrun.
100
0.16%
How to unlock the Gold Medal achievement in Katana ZERO - Definitive Guide
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You unlock speedrun mode after you beat the game once. Before you attempt this, go to settings and play around with screen shake and hit pause. I left hit pause at 50% and disabled screen shake completely. This is just for preference though, it has no bearing on completion times.
Afterwards, go back to the main menu and hit the speedrun button. This is the most important part. There are a few options you can enable/disable. Enable Action Only, disable Cutscenes, enable skip replay, show timer and death count. You can also change the swords (if you unlocked them). I played through with Master Sword. In think it's easily the best of them since the projectile usually hits enemies behind doors if you hit them open. It's also a massive help against the final boss since you can hit her with it while she charges her beam.
That's it for the settings.
There are no fixed times/deaths for gold medals, you just have to play through and get lucky at the end. All that counts is the amount of gold (or even better, platinum) medals you collect through the run. I believe the game averages out the medals at the end to give you the final score. I have no idea if the final time has any bearing on the final medal. These are the times I achieved for a gold run.
Some random tips:
- You should take advantage of the fact that the first few levels are easy. Try to rush through with 0 deaths. I find that it's easiest to get a platinum medal for Factory, Hotel and Prison. This should give you some room to mess up later on.
- Try to use slow mo sparingly. The timer still moves at normal speed, even if you use slow mo so it's a huge waste of time. I only used it against shotgunners and the shield guys + against most bosses.
- Look at some speedruns on youtube. They usually have perfect routes and a few other tricks I didn't mention (small exploits to get a few seconds of advantage)
-All in all, dying doesn't matter too much. What's most important is completion time. Try to focus on that. Apparently deaths do matter when it comes to platinum medals. A platinum medal is only awarded for a gold time run + 0 deaths. There is still some room for mistakes though as you can see from my scores.
- Don't use the gimmick swords like claymore or phoenix. They are way too slow. Either use the standard katana or master sword. Master sword is identical to the katana and prism sword, only it fires a projectile that can kill any unarmored enemy. Try not to rely on it too much as it needs to recharge after firing.
- Try not to take it too seriously. It's incredibly easy to mess up during the final half of the game and even a small error can be enough to tilt you.
But above all: Good luck. I don't know why but the times to finish for gold medals are brutal and leave almost no room for error.
Afterwards, go back to the main menu and hit the speedrun button. This is the most important part. There are a few options you can enable/disable. Enable Action Only, disable Cutscenes, enable skip replay, show timer and death count. You can also change the swords (if you unlocked them). I played through with Master Sword. In think it's easily the best of them since the projectile usually hits enemies behind doors if you hit them open. It's also a massive help against the final boss since you can hit her with it while she charges her beam.
That's it for the settings.
There are no fixed times/deaths for gold medals, you just have to play through and get lucky at the end. All that counts is the amount of gold (or even better, platinum) medals you collect through the run. I believe the game averages out the medals at the end to give you the final score. I have no idea if the final time has any bearing on the final medal. These are the times I achieved for a gold run.
Some random tips:
- You should take advantage of the fact that the first few levels are easy. Try to rush through with 0 deaths. I find that it's easiest to get a platinum medal for Factory, Hotel and Prison. This should give you some room to mess up later on.
- Try to use slow mo sparingly. The timer still moves at normal speed, even if you use slow mo so it's a huge waste of time. I only used it against shotgunners and the shield guys + against most bosses.
- Look at some speedruns on youtube. They usually have perfect routes and a few other tricks I didn't mention (small exploits to get a few seconds of advantage)
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- Don't use the gimmick swords like claymore or phoenix. They are way too slow. Either use the standard katana or master sword. Master sword is identical to the katana and prism sword, only it fires a projectile that can kill any unarmored enemy. Try not to rely on it too much as it needs to recharge after firing.
- Try not to take it too seriously. It's incredibly easy to mess up during the final half of the game and even a small error can be enough to tilt you.
But above all: Good luck. I don't know why but the times to finish for gold medals are brutal and leave almost no room for error.
19 Comments
The Ju1ce
You can cheese it with Dash/Quiting. (Closing Game)
I just put down a time of 23 minutes doing so and unlocked the achievement.
I highly recommend using the videos from Youtuber Kainalo. He breaks down every room in the game. You won’t be able to keep up with him but personally I was able to execute 95% of his strats, albeit a little slower. Some I took and improvised. Feel free to throw in some slow mo here and there aswell, I did but not too often.
The game saves only at the beginning of each room. This means that you can even hang around in any room practicing for as long as you like during your actual speed run. Do this by binding the Quick Restart to one of your buttons in the controller setting.
Now you can kill every enemy and die as many times as you like and just hit your Quick Restart button. So long as you DO NOT enter the next area. Once you nail the room once or twice, it’s time to Dash/Quit your game a few times and reload so you can try to execute it for the run.
I also recommend that people do their Hard Mode run first and then tackle the speed run. After completing Hard Mode, Normal is going to feel like child’s play to you.
FYI… This profile does not have the achievement, so don’t be bothered.
Good luck people.
You can cheese it with Dash/Quiting. (Closing Game)
I just put down a time of 23 minutes doing so and unlocked the achievement.
I highly recommend using the videos from Youtuber Kainalo. He breaks down every room in the game. You won’t be able to keep up with him but personally I was able to execute 95% of his strats, albeit a little slower. Some I took and improvised. Feel free to throw in some slow mo here and there aswell, I did but not too often.
The game saves only at the beginning of each room. This means that you can even hang around in any room practicing for as long as you like during your actual speed run. Do this by binding the Quick Restart to one of your buttons in the controller setting.
Now you can kill every enemy and die as many times as you like and just hit your Quick Restart button. So long as you DO NOT enter the next area. Once you nail the room once or twice, it’s time to Dash/Quit your game a few times and reload so you can try to execute it for the run.
I also recommend that people do their Hard Mode run first and then tackle the speed run. After completing Hard Mode, Normal is going to feel like child’s play to you.
FYI… This profile does not have the achievement, so don’t be bothered.
Good luck people.
By PennyWise36One on 10 Oct 2021 08:29
I don‘t dislike this guide but i disagree with one thing here.
- Deaths matter ALOT, espescially in short levels like Dragontape. So be sure to complete them with 0-3 deaths. In longer levels it‘s much more forgiving. You should still practice them to keep the count as low as possible.
The medal you get at the end is NOT an average of all medals. One run i finished with 4 platinum, 1 silver, 1 bronze and the rest gold and i still got silver in total. So bad medals are weighted much more!
Also for tips i used this guide by a speedrunner: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWSp-9Wr5dM9WMte-_Sk...
I didn‘t use every single strat he uses, because some of them are too inconsistent for me to pull off so i mixed in some of my own starts.
- Deaths matter ALOT, espescially in short levels like Dragontape. So be sure to complete them with 0-3 deaths. In longer levels it‘s much more forgiving. You should still practice them to keep the count as low as possible.
The medal you get at the end is NOT an average of all medals. One run i finished with 4 platinum, 1 silver, 1 bronze and the rest gold and i still got silver in total. So bad medals are weighted much more!
Also for tips i used this guide by a speedrunner: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWSp-9Wr5dM9WMte-_Sk...
I didn‘t use every single strat he uses, because some of them are too inconsistent for me to pull off so i mixed in some of my own starts.
By LxVaiN on 25 Oct 2020 08:37
