Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom
39 Achievements
27-33h
The Explorer
Solve the puzzle in the Room of 9 Pillars
1.4%
How to unlock the The Explorer achievement in Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom - Definitive Guide
But finding the doors is not the problem. Once you find one, you have to have an overall team affinity of 50 for that element. You check your overall team affinity in the Team section of your menu. So if you find the Fire Door, your team affinity for fire has to be at least 50 or higher.
When you reach Giants Hall, you can manipulate your affinity with the Lightning and Plant Idols on each side. The only one I had to change was to lightning which would open the Fire door as well. Earth, Water, Air, and Plant should be done without manipulation because...
Chado = Earth
Poky = Water
Kayenne = Air
Askel = Plant
Rosalya = Fire
I changed Rosalya to a permanent Lightning and changed Chado and Askel to lightning to open the Lightning door, then changed those two back to their original affinities.
Locations of Doors:
Earth Door: The Forest of Meonis, Lightning Hidey-Hole
Fire Door: Meonian Peninsula, Opalin Bayou
Air Door: Mantara City, Agora
Plant Door: Bloodor Field, Scarlet Promenade
Water Door: Shiyawo Mountain, near Mother's House (Chado's Ability to bust down wall)
Lightning Door: Gendys Plain, Rosayla Door Near Shjue
Once you are in a door, you will see a crystal and some chests, activate all 6 crystals behind each door to face off against The Explorer.
MAKE SURE YOU ARE AT LV 50
He is a LV 50 Boss that is kinda tough. Once defeated their is a chest in the back. Get it and achievement unlocked.
The Room of 9 Pillars is a game-long puzzle that you will tackle in pieces. The first step is to find a set of doors hidden around the world and enter them to hit a switch behind each one. These doors will only open if your "affinity" for the respective Shi (element) is high enough. It seems to be that your entire party must add up to ~125 or so. I was able to open the Earth door with Chado at 81 and Poky at 53. I don't know the exact number required, but aim for that.
When you reach Giant's Hall in the Bloodor Field location, you will find three "affinity stones" that will allow you to max out a specific affinity for the on-screen character. You can use these on two characters to quickly hit 200 and open any door. It costs 5000 Uzu per respec though, and you'll likely want to respec them back to what they were previously as well. The doors are found in the following locations:
- Earth Door: The Forest of Meonis, Lightning Hidey-Hole
- Fire Door: Meonian Peninsula, Opalin Bayou
- Air Door: Mantara City, Agora
- Plant Door: Bloodor Field, Scarlet Promenade
- Water Door: Shiyawo Mountain, near Mother's House
- Lightning Door: Gendys Plains, inside Shjue
The Lightning Door will require Rosayla to access (it is the door the story teaches you how to find, to enter the back section of Shjue). After opening all the doors and hitting the switches behind them (which will rotate the various platforms in the pillar room), you can then take on a Level 50 boss. Beating the boss and collecting the treasure behind him will unlock this achievement.
Each character has a base elemental affinity:
- Child - earth
- Pocky - water
- Cayenne - air
- Askel - plants
- Rosalia - fire
Door location:
- Earth Door: The Forest of Meonis, Lightning Hidey-Hole
- Fire Door: Meonian Peninsula, Opalin Bayou
- Air Door: Mantara City, Agora
- Plant Door: Bloodor Field, Scarlet Promenade (you need to throw a stone at the wall for Chado)
- Water Door: Shiyawo Mountain, near Mother's House (you need to throw a stone at the wall for Child)
- Lightning Door: Gendys Plain, Rosayla Door near Shjue