Knights Contract

This is a tip for the rather difficult QTEs wich have a small time window to press the appropriate button.
First of all the Guide button is needed because you can't interrupt the QTEs with a regular press on the Start button.
Then you should have a list of the button presses for the QTEs for the boss you are fighting for.
Then when the QTE sequence starts, hit the Guide button and memorize the first button you need to press. Hit the Guide button again and press Start to continue the sequence, wait for the prompt and hit the appropriated button. Now press the Guide button again and memorize the next button prompt needed. Hit Guide again and Start to continue the sequence and so on. This makes the QTEs an absolute breeze which takes much of the difficulty away.

If you have ever played a hack and slah (god of war) you shouldn't have any trouble starting out on this difficulty right off the bat. I did and had no issues...the QTE's are bit of a pain as you have about a 1.5s or less window to push the buttons. For the most part just button mash or if you feel the need to be proper...do the combos as they are shown...but for the most part xxxy will do the job..vines are your friend and the fangs you get later on will become your favorite spell. If it gets a bit hairy you can pick out targets and trap em..this game is extremely forgiving...except on the QTEs....those can go to hell..have fun!

oh and the general setup i rain with was Vines, Hammer, Trap, and Swords...later in the game you'll switch out the Vines for the Fangs...I suggest leveling up the Vines first though...the crowd control that it offers at level 3 is amazing...GL!!

To make this game easier I recommend starting on Squire difficulty for the first playthrough. You will unlock Hexen difficulty after you beat Squire and then if you plan to beat this game on hexen difficulty for that achievement you will unlock this achievement as well. Try to get as many S rank as possible. It is on this difficulty I recommend getting all the S rank for another achievement. Lost pages carry over by the way to other playthroughs. Just be sure to save after the last episode after the credits when the game ask you. And then to continue for another playthrough don´t chose new game. Instead load that save and choose the difficulty you want to play on and then continue.

That is were you can also replay later on Squire difficulty to get all the S rank. I never used the weapon you get from S ranking all the levels on one difficulty. But this weapon could help a bit on witchcraft difficulty. But it is not crucial if you ask me.

So start with Squire and try to do as many finishers as possible so you get more energy you use to level up your weapons as they also carry over. The lance and vlads impaler and colchis trap are the most important for the bosses.



The video above helps out a great deal! Credit to the person making it!

Memorise when the QTE shows up. What is the scene before it shows up. And you can press the guide button to pause. Then look at the video for the next scene were the next QTE comes up. The repeat press QTE can sometimes be pressed in advance. Makes it much easier. Some of the QTE require you to be faster than others. I believe it depends on how the big circle is when the QTE shows up. You can see in the video that they are smaller sometimes. For example Episode 19 when fighting that boss for phase 3. The second input for the QTE is RB and that one is very tough. I believe the one after with the X input is very tough as well. Both those circles are small. For those I just memorised when they show up and it made it much easier. But I could not press in advance before the circle showed up. But I was like ready because I knew exactly when. So that should really help.

Here are all the QTE inputs for each of the bosses: (I mark them in spoiler tags to avoid spoilers).