Rare Replay
200 Achievements
4,000
200-300h
You are the Keymaster
Atic Atac: Escape from the castle with any character.
15
0.25%
How to unlock the You are the Keymaster achievement in Rare Replay - Definitive Guide
I'd suggest Putting infinite lives on before playing, as I died 4 times
"I found this on xboxachievements.com
All credit goes to the owner of the guide: Skullfire58.
This method takes about 5-30 mins. if not less
Atic Atac Walkthrough
This path will work for all three characters, as it does not use any of their unique shortcuts. Make sure that when you complete the game on one character, you select New Game instead of just jumping right back in. Otherwise, the locations of certain items will be randomized.
Using this path I was able to finish with no deaths. You don't even need the Red Key. Just make sure you keep an eye on your health and rewind if you get hit to conserve as much health as possible, especially in the room with the Demon. He deals a massive amount of damage, and you'll most likely have to circle him a couple times for the door to open.
The amount of time it takes will vary as well, mainly due to the random opening/closing of the doors. I did one run in 7:06 and then another in only 5:56 simply because the doors were more cooperative that time.
(Note: There are some screens that are staircases linking the different floors, and these only have one possible door to go through other than the one you entered, so they have been omitted from this guide. You'll usually encounter them at the end of one of the numbered steps.)
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Legend:
U = Up
D = Down
L = Left
R = Right
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1. D, L, U.
2. L, U, Fall through the Trapdoor.
3. U, L, L Past Frankenstein, D, D, Pick up the Blue Key.
4. R, R, R, D, D, Pick up the Bottle of Booze.
5. R, R (Blue Door), R, U, U, L Past the Demon, L.
6. D.
7. L, U, U, L (Blue Door), L, L, U, U, R, R, Fall through the Trapdoor.
8. Pick up the Yellow Key and head through the top-left Yellow door, L, U, Place the Bottle of Booze in any corner of the room to lure Igor away from the Blue Door, then go through it. Pick up the AC Gold Key Piece.
9. D, D, R, Go through the bottom-right door, Go through the bottom-right Yellow Door, D (Blue Door), R (Yellow Door), R, D.
10. R, U, Once in the Main Room drop the AC Gold Key Piece.
11. U (Blue Door), Drop the Blue Key, L, D.
12. R, Pick up the Green Key.
13. L, L, D (Green Door), L, Ignore the Red Key, L (Yellow Door), D, L, Pick up the G Gold Key Piece.
14. R, U, R, R, U, R, U.
15. R, D, Drop the G Gold Key Piece.
16. U, L, D.
17. L, U, U, R, D (Yellow Door).
18. L, L (Green Door), L, D, D, D (Yellow Door), Pick up E Gold Key Piece.
19. U, U, U, R, R, R, U.
20. L, Move down immediately to avoid being launched into the Trapdoor, D, D, R, U.
21. R, D, Cycle your inventory until you get the E Gold Key Piece in the left inventory slot. Pick up the G Gold Key Piece and then the AC Gold Key Piece. Leave through the right ACG door."
You earn this achievement when you beat the game for the first time, by collecting all three parts of the 'key of A.C.G.' and using these to unlock the door in the starting room and leaving through it.
With credit to SkullFire58 for the original posting, here's a step-by-step walkthrough - this can be followed for any character as it doesn't use any of the character-specific secret passages. Note that this walkthrough doesn't require the use of the red key at any point (though you should still pick it up at least once for the "Inventory Management" achievement).
If you get lost at any point, you may find it useful to refer to the castle map included at the start of the roadmap.
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Legend:
U = Up
D = Down
L = Left
R = Right
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- D, L, U
- L, U. Fall through the trapdoor.
- U, L, L (past Frankenstein's monster), D, D. Pick up the blue key.
- R, R, R, D, D. Pick up the bottle.
- R, R (through the blue door), R, U, U, L (past the demon), L.
- D.
- L, U, U, L (through the blue door), L, L, U, U, R, R. Fall through the trapdoor.
- Pick up the yellow key and head through the top-left yellow door, L, U, Place the bottle in any corner of the room to lure the hunchback away from the blue door, then go through it. Pick up the AC key piece.
- D, D, R, D (bottom-right door), D (through the bottom-right yellow door), D (through the blue door), R (through the yellow door), R, D.
- R, U. This is the room where the game started, with the A.C.G. door - drop the AC key piece.
- U (through the blue door). Drop the blue key. L, D.
- R. Pick up the green key.
- L, L, D (through the green door), L, Ignore the red key. L (through the yellow door), D, L. Pick up the G key piece.
- R, U, R, R, U, R, U.
- R, D. Back in the starting room. drop the G key piece.
- U, L, D.
- L, U, U, R, D (through the yellow door).
- L, L (through the green door), L, D, D, D (through the yellow door). Pick up head key piece.
- U, U, U, R, R, R, U.
- L. Move down immediately to avoid falling into the trapdoor. D, D, R, U.
- R, D. You are now back in the starting room with all three key pieces, so pick up the key pieces in order to assemble the key - first the head piece, then the G and finally the A.C. Leave through the ACG door.