The Surge 2
57 Achievements
35-40h
Hello Darkness My Old Friend
Be transformed by Athena into a dark avenger, ready to reshape the world. Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
9.8%
How to unlock the Hello Darkness My Old Friend achievement in The Surge 2 - Definitive Guide
1) Defeat the final boss and choose to either kill or spare him to earn one of the ending achievements. The achievement should pop as soon as the ending cutscene begins, after some dialogue with Athena.
2) After you have obtained the first ending achievement, quit out of the game and reload it.
3) From the main menu, choose continue game then hit Y to revert your save to the last medbay visit. It will ask you to confirm, select yes.
4) Defeat the final boss again and then choose the OPPOSITE of what you did in step 1 to earn the other ending achievement.
I advise you to make a save before the final fight (in the game menu put your game offline)
and turn off the game to produce a synchronization on the cloud. Go fight the boss, after have achieved your success « reborn » or « hello my darkness », (do not leave the game not to save) follow the following steps:
- XBOX button
- Manage the game
- Recorded data
- Delete the game data from the console (do not delete the ones from the cloud) and check that the data is deleted
- Restart the game
So you'll reappear in the last station before the final boss's fight, all you have to do is beat again the boss and make the other choice you have need. In one part, you will have these 2 successes and in New Game +, you will only have to finish your last achievement. :)
When you kill him you get the "Hello Darkness My Old Friend" achievement.
Obviously if you missed any achievements in the first two steps of the Road Map above, you'll need a second playthrough anyway, so don't worry about the offline trick. Regardless of doing one or two playthroughs, make sure you remember what your first choice was to make the opposite the second time to get both endings.
If you plan to only do one full playthrough, make sure you go offline prior to the final boss fight. There is a choice to be made after the fight, and each side of the choice will reward one ending and corresponding achievement. The game will immediately end with no option to reload prior to the boss (loading your save from the menu will instead begin NG+), so by playing offline you can finish the game, then delete your local save (NOT the cloud save) and once you reconnect to Live, you will download the cloud save from prior to the final boss allowing you to then get the second ending. Refer to Step 3 in the Road Map for more information.
Obviously if you missed any achievements in the first two steps of the Road Map above, you'll need a second playthrough anyway, so don't worry about the offline trick. Regardless of doing one or two playthroughs, make sure you remember what your first choice was to make the opposite the second time to get both endings.