Drakengard 3 Guide
Drakengard 3 Guide
Drakengard 3 Guide
Hi, this is my first time writing a guide, so be prepared for it to be a little rough. I will attempt to outline the
requirements to complete the game all the way up through Ending D and obtaining the alternate costume
for Zero. Before going any further: No, there is not a flowerless Zero costume. This will also not hold your
hand. The levels are linear and have very few branching paths.
Also, if you have any information for me such as typos or you think theres something I missed or a
different strategy, please feel free to send me a PM on GameFAQs.
Gameplay Basics
Combat in Drakengard games is always pretty basic, but Zero has a few things that makes her unique
compared to Nowe and Caim from the previous games. For starters, she can dodge and perform weapon
combos by changing in the middle of a combo. She can also Parry incoming blows by pressing the guard
button (Circle) right before an attack. Lastly, she can enter Intoner Mode by hitting R3 + L3, turning her
invincible and increasing her damage and attack speed.
Levels can also, largely, be ran through with only a few set fights being truly necessary. The only time you
are required to fight is when you are sealed into the room, with exceptions being addressed in the guide.
At any point in the game, you can check the combo list to see how to perform the weapons moves.
Experiment to see what you find comfortable, but I will make recommendations throughout the guide on
effective weapons.
After the Titan is the long bridge with the Intoner mode tutorial. If you want to, let out your pent up
aggression on these hapless fools. Once you get to the end of the bridge, the level is over.
Verse 2
(No Chests)
Boss Fight: Sisters
The games throws you straight into a fight with four of your five sisters. You take very little damage from
them, and anyone you aren't locked on to can be lifted with the Rising Spinslash combo. Just relax, enjoy
the dialogue and murder them.
Turn the corner and straight ahead is the first chest containing a weapon. Go up the path and you'll finally
be out of the cinematic sequence. You'll also notice that you're sword has downgraded, so take some
time to get used to the new, limited combos before proceeding. Past the shield barricade, there's another
chest on your left that contains a base material.
Keep following the path and you'll see the third chest. Jump up and grab the gold from it before
continuing.
Examine the stall to learn about the weapon shop and unlock the gate to proceed. I recommend you
equip the Eternal Voice before you continue, since it does more damage and seems to attack faster.
Verse 2
(Chests: 600 Gold, Copper Base Material, 1200 Gold)
Talk to Mikhail to proceed.
Proceed along the path and you'll soon run into your first Lancer. These guys will charge and do pretty
serious damage, make sure you know where they are at all times in a fight, however thier charges are
really easy to parry, which will knock off a large chunk of health and make them easy to finish off.
The beach up ahead doesn't immediately seal off until you jump up and over the wall.
If you've been following the guide, you should have enough for Sinful Scream, which I recommend using.
The 2 hit combo is easy to dodge cancel out of, and it is a significant increase in damage.
Verse 3
(Chests: 800 Gold, 1600 Gold, Copper Base Material)
Follow the path through the doors and look in the right corner for some boxes with treasure in them. Keep
going and you'll see a small jumping section, fall down for hte first chest on the left.
After the checkpoint, you'll be under cannonfire for a while. It can't hit you in the little tunnel up ahead, but
you should get used to dodging it in the middle of a fight. Better now than later. Speaking of that tunnel, at
the end of it, underneath, is the second treasure chest.
Anyway, you'll head into a small corridor. follow it, but look for the small room on your map as you go
through it. Inside is another chest. Keep following the path until you hit a pier where you'll get your first
dragon riding section. Use lock on to track the cannons and spam square. When the charge tutorial pops
up, ignore it and keep spamming fireballs. The level ends when you sink their battleship.
Verse 4
(No Chests)
Cutscene followed by the first boss fight with one of your sisters... who cops out and summons something
to fight you.
Once you hit the checkpoint, look right. You see that ramp? Go up it to an area above with some shield
knights. Behind them is a weapon chest. After that, you'll go through a small barricade section. At the end
is a door leading to another sealed area, you'll start to recognize them by that iron door alone.
After the dog flees, you'll have enemies to fight before you hit the next sealed area. If you're Intoner
gauge isn't full, I'd take some time to clear them out.
I recommend switching to the Cermonial Blade before moving on to Verse 2 for the longer combo and
upgrading Twisted Hunger to Lv. 2. You can buy Thunder Lord if you want, but I would hold off on it until
later.
Verse 2
(Chests: 1300 Gold, 2500 Gold, Copper Base Material)
Follow the path straight, the only thing off to the right are two crates with some money in them. Go past
the warehouses and up the stairs to a sealed fight.
Follow the path forward, jump up to the archers (kill them if you want) and over to the other archers. Run
over to the cliff and jump down for another Sealed Area.
Square into Triangle combo is useful for doing a lot of damage to it, just be sure to dodge the club. When
his armor is off, if you activate Intoner mode and keep hacking at him to stun lock him and prevent him
from going beserk. At this point in the game, it probably won't kill him, but he'll only take a few more spear
stabs before dying.
After a small cutscene, you'll hit the checkpoint. Go inside and go right. Jump up the platforms to get the
second treasure chest. After that, blow through the shield soldiers, go up the stairs, and then head
outside again. Go over the bridge, you can run past the Ogre if you don't want to fight it, Go inside, jump
up to bypass the big shield barricade and go over. Ahead you'll see another chest guarded by shield
knights and a cannon soldier, charge through them to get it. Go down the stairs and you'll be in the final
Sealed Area of the level.
Restock on healing items if you need to after the cutscene. Buying strength and defense potions may not
be a terrible idea either.
Verse 3
(No Chests)
Welcome to the ground Mikhail mission. You start the level by getting a tutorial on his triangle breath
attack, which is a really strong move to use on ground based enemies.
Round 3: Gigas
You get to fight three of these bad boys. On a dragon. That can fly. And they don't have ranged attacks.
...
Okay to be fair, it's faster to land and breath fire on them than it is to bombard them from above, but one
way is safe and the other is not. It's up to you.
Verse 4
(Chests: Copper Base Material, 1700 Gold, 3400 Gold)
Go forward, past the rise with the archers and towards the left where the path splits a little. Go through
the shield knights, over the barricade and grab the first chest. Go back and take the path right this time to
encounter your first spirit enemies. These things either posses a soldier, buffing it and making it immune
to stuns until you knock it out of them, or floats around at throws it's chakram at you. The basic strategy
you'll use to deal with them is to either hit the soldiers as their being possessed and try to kill either them
or the spirits. Strategy to is to bait them into attacking and then parry them, knocking the spirits out
instantly. Avoid fighting possessed soldiers if you can. Past the spirit enemies, you should see the second
chest on the ridge to the left. You can go around the small bend to get to it. Continue along the path, past
the shield knights, to the first sealed area of the level.
After that, the game ends. Thanks for reading the guide, have a nice day.
So, you really end up in a small valley with the checkpoint. For the final chest go behind you and hop onto
the hill. Look to your left and jump up the cliffs until you reach the chest. From there, drop down and go up
the scaffolding till you get to the top. Go through/past the barricade and cannoneers to reach the final
area.
Sealed Area: Titan
You remember this guy from the start of the game? Same tactics apply here, though sometimes he'll take
a new stance and swing the sword upwards. You can also knock him down if you hit him enough, and he
isn't as easy to stunlock this time. Be sure to dodge or block as needed and call Mikhail when he is
available to blast him. Spear can work if you line up the rapid attack well, but sword is probably the way to
go here.
Verse 5
(Chests: 550 Gold, Copper Base Material, Thunder Princess Spear Weapon)
Go up the stairs and immediately on the right is a series of jumps to make to get to the first treasure
chest. Go back and then continue until you hit the sealed area.
Follow the path to the left and you'll find a simple platforming section. After that is some soldiers, an ogre,
and another moving platform that doesn't lead anywhere. Past all of that, is another sealed area.
You'll hit a checkpoint after that, continue up the stairs until you see a box floating up and down. Climb on
it and ride it up to the second chest. Keep going up until you find the next jumping segment. Make your
way accross to a rather familiar looking gate.
Once the Titan is dead, go into the hole he came from for the final chest which holds the Thunder
Princess spear weapon. Go up the stairs, wait around a bit if you want to hear the dialogue, and you'll
reach the top. Once back at the main menu, stock up on healing items, cause this next one could be a
problem.
Verse 6
(No Chests)
This is the first 'on-rails' dragon section of the game and it's also the final verse of chapter 2. I'll out line
the basic strategy here, and I'll list the order and direction the Wyverns appear from in the 'waves'. For
basic strategy, lock on to each group of Wyverns and use the homing fireballs to kill them. The boulder
Wyverns you need to aim at and spam non locked on fireballs.
Wave 1: 28 Wyverns
3 from the right screen, 3 from the left screen to the center
4 horizontally in front.
4 vertically in front
6 in front
2 from the center
6 from the left
Wave 2: 27 Wyverns
The Wyerns will start shooting energy at you here. You can evade with R1 if you need to.
Wave 3: 24 Wyverns
Wave 4: 29 Wyverns
3 top middle
4 in the middle
6 from the top left to the middle
1 Big Wyvern in the middle
6 from the left to the middle right
6 spiraling in the middle
3 Big Wyverns; 2 right, 1 left
If you can perfect this Verse, you'll get a trophy. That means kill all wyverns and don't die to Armaros. It's
not terribly difficult, but is made easier with healing items and more HP, so you could come back later.
You also unlock a new weapon, a new follower, and the Mountain Payday mission, though I wouldn't
recommend doing it yet. Switch out your blade with Zero's upgraded sword and then continue
Up ahead is the second chest just sitting there. Grab it and keep going. You see those archers that the
scene zoomed in on? Go up there and there's the third treasure chest. Past that are some undead,
continue along the bend, and you'll reach the next Sealed Area.
Verse 2
(Chests: 2700 Gold, 5400 Gold, Silver Base Material)
Start the level by going down the path, murdering as you go. As soon as you come to the ivy blocking the
way, spear charge through and hit the first chest. Keep going until you hit the sealed area.
Sealed Area: Trolls
These are your first troll enemies and they're fairly annoying. For starters, they're the only mob (that I've
found anyway) that can heal themselves. They do it by eating a fish from their pots, which takes a long
time and gives you ample opprutunity to combo them. They also swing their flails at you, but the attack
only comes from their left side (your right). They will also jump into the air and come down for a butt
smack, which does significant damage and is probaly thier fastest attack. Finally, if you're too far away,
they will jump forward for a body slam attack, which will knock you down. They do have a bit of a problem
with turning though, so if you can get behind them you can stun lock them with the fist or spear spam.
Before you leave, there's a chest up on the ridge where one of the trolls started. In your way are soldiers
and cannoneers as you continue down the path. Break through the vines and undead and you'll be in
another sealed area.
The game continues, but before you go anywhere, after the second bridge is the third and final chest.
Follow Mikhail and you'll eventually hit the end of the level.
Verse 3
(Chests: Silver Base Material, Golden Petals Weapon, 8600 Gold)
The level trolls you right off the bat, with two of them no less. If you want to kill them, try to seperate them
first. After that surprised, go past the tree with the face and up the cliffs with the archers and over. Go
forward a bit and the area will seal.
This next tunnel I recommend you run past here because the trolls and undead can gang up on you pretty
hard. After, you'll see two familiar sights.
On the right side of the arena is a chest, grab it before you leave. Go into the tree, wait a few minutes and
then exit out the other side. On the right IMMEDIATELY after you exit is another chest, grab it during the
sealed area.
Sealed Area: Soldiers and Trolls
They're pretty spaced out. Kill the soldiers then worry about the trolls. The first troll is alone, but the other
two are pretty easy to seperate just be ready to dodge a body slam.
Continue down the path, you'll run into more wolves and the last treasure chest. Go through the root
tunnel and you'll hit the last sealed area of the level with two Undead Gigases
Verse 4
(Chests: Silver Base Material, 3300 Gold, 6500 Gold)
Go forward for a Chakram tutorial. Kill the enemies with the chakram and keep going forward.
Immediately behind the shield knights and to the right is a treasure chest. Go forward and you'll see your
first Gargoyle Cube.
Go through the door and you'll see more. Immediately to the right is a treasure chest.
Go next to the door to end the level. You know all that money I told you not to spend? Here is where you
should spend it. Buy the Eternal Wail and upgrade it twice. It's now our hardest hitting weapon for a while.
Verse 5
(Chests: 3300 Gold, Silver Base Material, 6700 Gold)
Welcome to the Lost Forest. Go forward and follow the statue across the bridge. After the bridge is a
chest on the left. Go right, past the barricades, until the vines seal you in.
Once you're out of the foggy forest, you're thrown straight into a mini boss.
It'll charge, which will likely be the first attack it does. dodge to the side.
It will swing with it's blades, first it's right, then it's left, finally both blades at the same time. Parry or be far
away from it.
It'll lift it's legs and then start pounding the ground in front of it.
To beat it, get to it's side and start attacking. If you stagger it, it'll lift it's legs and turn towards you. Move
to it's side and keep attacking. If you do enough damage at once you can knock it down, which will keep it
on the ground for about 10 seconds, enough time to pound it into the ground. Feel free to use Intoner
mode, there's nothing else past this.
Verse 6
(No Chests)
There's a bunch of enemies in your way, but your goal is to get to cut the vines trapping Mikhail. Get up
there and circle around until you find the area that's close to the vine. Walk near and a cutscene will start,
leading into...
After the battle, you'll unlock Forest Payday and a Silver Base Material. Around now is a good time to
start doing some of the Accord missions from earlier levels. You may also want to level the Chakram
once.
Go down the path and follow it past the shield soldiers. Stop there and look to your right. Jump onto that
platform then look across to see a barricade with a chest behind it. Drop back down and continue into the
sealed room.
Go forward and you should see a chest immediately on the right. Keep an eye on your map as you go
and take the first left branch you can see for the final chest. Go back to the path, past your first Knight,
through the shield guards and into the boss area.
It'll shoot lasers out of his eyes. The move is small and doesn't track.
It'll shoot rocket fists into the air which come down and try to hit you. Dodge the circles and punish the
golem for the long cooldown time.
It'll try to hit you when you're near it. Dodge to it's side and be careful of the second strike.
It will jump and butt slam, causing an energy ring.
A few more weapons unlock from the shops. I recommend upgrading the chakram a couple more times
and then moving on, though.
Verse 2
(Chests: Silver Base Material, 13000 Gold, Ring of Lament Weapon)
I like the complaints about darkness when the place is really well lit. Go forward and the door will shut
behind you (big surprise). Do not follow the arrow, instead go right and you'll find your first treasure chest.
Now go down the path and you'll eventually come to the first sealed area of the level.
Go towards the door and they will show you where the next chest is. Yes, it's a trap. When you get to it,
the room will seal and skeletons will try to attack you. Kill them and then go to through the other passage.
Follow the spiral path down till the room finally seals.
See the platforms. Upper left is a chest. Once past the jumping 'puzzle' you will be in a large room with
narrow walkways and a big chasm. Fight your way through, I do not recommend ignoring enemies here.
Once at the end, cutscene, and then Ogre fight.
Verse 3
(Chests: Silver Base Material, 5000 Gold, 9000 Gold)
I'm going to resort to images here for the chests, because descriptions won't help very much. I will include
the map in the images as best I can and apologize in advance for the poor quality of the images.
Anyway, go down the path and you'll hit a cutscene that shows a red mini sun off to the east. Go there,
sticking to shadows to recover your health as you go, and you'll encounter some wizards.
Another sun spawns on the other side of the desert. On the way, make sure to grab the chest, which is
kind of on the western side of the middle area inside a building with some bars on it (terrible description, I
know that's why there's an image).
Grab the chest in the back of this area before you go. It seals after the next sun spawns. The final sun is
in the northern area. Once you pass the checkpoint the next chest is off to the left. After the chest, go to
where the last red sun is.
First Chest
Second Chest
Third Chest
Verse 4
No Chests
Kill all of hte soldiers to unlock the path down to the boss fight. You'll be glad for the Intoner mode soon
enough.
So, now you have a new disciple, who gives you a new sword, and Mikhail evolved again leveling Zero's
Blade once more. You also get a Silver Base Material... but you can buy those. Also Desert Payday
unlocks, which is what you'll be using to get a lot of money later in the game.
Wave 1: 10 Spectres
Wave 2: Gabriel
And then right into a 'boss fight'. Gabriel is back, and this time flying behind you. His attacks are:
He spins in the air and throws swords made of light at you. These can be destroyed for Intoner gauge.
He breaths a fireball at you. You can hit him in the mouth when he does this, but the timing is a little hard.
He charges up and then fires a laser at you. You can prevent the laser by hitting him in the mouth a
bunch of times, which causes him to stumble in the air. The laser hurts so it's recommeneded you try to
do just that.
Dodge his attacks while aiming at One or Gabriel's mouth. After enough damage is done, this part is over.
Wave 3: 20 Wyverns
The first three appear as you're flying down and are on the bottom right. After that, use the lock on to hit
the rest of them. Most of them come from the bottom left or hover near the center.
Wave 4: 10 Wyverns
They're mostly in the way as you dodge the buildings and come in pairs.
Go down the path and to the right to get the first chest. Go up the stairs and to the right of the next stairs
to hit the second chest. Go up the stairs and through the door.
Go up onto the familiar looking bridge, cross it and RIGHT AFTER the last barricade stop and turn to your
left for the last chest with a weapon in. If you hit the cutscene you went too far. Approach the gate to be
sealed in.
Go forward and then left. Approach the gate, then go through the gate and the level is over.
Verse 3
(Chests: 20000 Gold, Gold Base Material, Seer's Lure Weapon)
Go forward, around and through the door to hit your first Imp enemies.
Go through the checkpoint and do I even need to point out the first chest? Go forward and bust through
the barricade. Behind the giant shields and to the right is a second chest. Keep going, busting through
barricades until you get to a place you might recognize from the tutorial. Before you step forward, get the
last chest on the right.
Verse 4
(Chests: 7000 Gold, Gold Base Material, 13000 Gold)
Go up the stairs. And get locked in a room with 50 soldiers. No, I'm not devoting a section for it, you
should know how this will turn out. In fact, this whole spiral staircase section is one sealed room after
another with mooks. First Soldiers, then soldiers and cannons, then soldiers and wizards. Finally, right
before the boss room, is a checkpoint with 3 chests. Go through the giant doors for the final boss of
Branch A.
He'll jump into the air and shoot blades at you. To dodge, jump.
He'll fly towards you. To dodge, just jump out of the way.
He'll stay on the ground and try to tail swipe you. Jump to dodge.
He'll charge up a fireball to shoot at you. This is your chance to attack.
When he charges the fireball, be on the ground and spam square. When he is stunned, go up to him and
breath fire on him. Repeat for every time he makes himself vulnerable, it should take 3 'cycles'
Verse 1
(Chests: Gaia's Flame Weapon, 23000 Gold, Gold Base Material)
In the area you spawn in, go to the right side for your first chest. Follow the branch tunnel to your first
sealed area.
After this area, the next area has a bunch of undead and the second treasure chest. Go through the
archway to get locked into another area.
Sealed Area: Necromancers
These are similar to the wizards, though they shoot faster. Just kill them as you go through. Near the end
of the area is a chest on the right.
Verse 2
(Chests: 8000 Gold, Gold Base Material, 16000 Gold)
Immediately turn left and grab the first chest. Go through the tunnel of hell (I hate wolves) and into the first
sealed area.
Follow that path that opened up and you'll run into an area with a chest right in front of you. Smack it.
Go straight ahead and then you'll go into a rather gruesome cutscene. I'm kind of jaded on this stuff and it
made me wince.
Verse 3
(Chests: 25000 Gold, Gold Base Material, Darklord's Flame Weapon
Go down the tunnel.
Leave the sealed area then go forward. You can kind of see the treasure chest up high. I recommend
killing the soldiers or else they'll follow you and generally pester you until you get to the next sealed area.
In the first little opening, there's a chest off to the left before the second half of the tunnel. There's a
barricade in the way but you should be able tto see the next fight.
Sealed Area: Arch Titan
Mikhail can stun him, I recommend liberal use of Intoner gauge and maybe hit and run tactics. Unlike the
trolls, I recommend playing defensively unless you have the damage to chain stun him.
The next tunnel has two sets of lancers and some archers with vines seperating them. Go through the
tunnel and you'll find a familiar stump, but up where a chest was earlier is a crate. There is a chest on
other side of the log with three archers, though. Past them is another sealed area.
While replaying levels for the FAQ, this is around where I got Decadus and Dito to give me their second
weapons. It might take a couple more missions I recommend using them
Verse 4
(Chests: 17000 Gold, Gold Base Material, 9000 Gold)
You should recognize the next area.
Go forward for some trolls and a very obvious chest on the left.
Verse 5
(No Chests)
Another familiar area with more enemies. Go forward and you'll soon see why there are no treasure
chests.
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Branch C (Emesis)
Verse 1
(Chests: Gold Base Material, 29000 Gold, Moonfire Weapon)
So.... yea... this area again. Same deal as last time. Due to the difficulty of describing the areas, I'll try my
best, I'll be including images of where they are.
Head for the first cold globe. Make sure you hit the torches as you go to negate the cold damage.
You see where this is going, don't you? Before you go towards the next cold sun, head left towards the
archway a bit and you'll see an out of the way torch. A chest is in the shadow of the building it's by.
First Chest
Second Chest
Third Chest
Verse 2
(Chests: 20000 Gold, 10000 Gold, White Base Material)
Once you spawn, turn around and on your right is a chest. Go forth and murder. When you get to the
jumping puzzles, there's another chest on the left side of the room, near the exit. Go forward and be
careful, there's trolls in this dungeon.
Go up the spiral path, past the checkpoint, into the pit with the undead and use the platforms to jump over
the wall.
Jump across the chasm and on the left is another chest. Grab it before you head out.
Verse 3
(Chests: Once a Woman Weapon, White Base Material, 40000 Gold)
The intro scene shows you the first chest, behind you and to the right. Go down the path and head left to
get a cutscene which shows you the second chest. Grab it and then hop over the wall to see three
knights. Go past them and into a sealed room.
Go forward, under all the arches, try not to get shot, and into the next area.
Step outside the door then turn your camera to look to the right for the last chest of the level. Continue to
the end of the level. I took the time to level Sins of the Fallen after this stage, if you have been using Dito,
you should definitely have it by now.
Verse 4
(Chests: 33000 Gold, White Base Material, Final Knell Weapon)
Jump onto the bridge and go forward. The first chest is in plain sight. Go towards the big doggy.
There's a chest on the left as you exit. Go down the stairs and straight forward to enter another fight.
Just outside the door, to the right, is the last chest. Be sure to grab it before you go too far forward.
Verse 5
(Chests: 23000 Gold, White Base Material, 11000 Gold)
Go straight. Hit the chests as you go. Don't die.
After the first phase, the second phase is pretty simple. Strafe left and right until it stops shooting metal
bits at you. When it shoots laser at you, you should shoot it with fireballs. Shouldn't be too hard to kill.
And that's the end of Branch C. To unlock the D branch, we're going to need to go do some side missions
as well as replay some older missions to unlock the extra weapons from your other two followers.
Go down the path, keeping an eye on the right to see the first chest. Keep going along the path, killing
enemies as you go. You'll eventually run into a sealed area.
Go through the opened path and on the left is another chest. Keep going until you see Zero's house. The
last chest in behind the shield barrier to the left.
Go forward and Cent points out the first chest. Keep going and Cent will keep pointing them out. After the
second chest, the path doesn't exactly seal, but you'll have to kill three ogres and spirits. Just use the
Intoner gauge and rip them apart. The level ends after you hit the last chest.
After that mission, you'll have the basic requirements unlocked to go to Verse D... except one thing. You
have to get ALL of the weapons. For the easy way, scroll to the bottom of the FAQ for the easy list. The
first thing to do is buy all of the weapons in the shop. Then you're off to do Accord missions.
First-Time Reward: Can carry more Recovery Potion (S) Unlocks: Horn Hunting
Horn Hunting
The enemies have a bit more health and do more damage. You still have a lot of time to complete the
mission, but you have one more item to collect. Same amount of enemies to kill though. The Lancers that
join the soldiers aren't terrible, but make sure you know where they are so you aren't charged by surprise.
Pinkstone Pilgrimage
This should be the first steel chest request you perform. The easiest way to break the chests with swords
is to use straight triangle attack on it. You have plenty of time, so kill enemies if you want, just remember
to break the chests.
Unlocks: Communicorns
Communicorns
This is the same as Pinkstone Pilgrimage, just more powerful soldiers and less time. Focus more on the
chests, and if you get Intoner mode, use it to break one of hte chests quickly. First-Time Reward:
Copper Base Material
Seaside Payday
Wait till you have a spear and you'll wreck this. You're up against a Gigas, so wait for him to provide an
opening then destroy him. The goal you want to aim for is killing the Gigas with enough time left to kill at
least 2 Gold soldiers, though early in the game you should be able to at least kill one Gold Soldier without
much problem. Just try to remember to pick up the money. You should easily make at least 15k a run.
Hawk Whisperer
Kill everything, suck up items. The timer is shorter and you have an Ogre to deal with, but as we know by
now spears are made for bigger enemies. You can use bombs to smash him a lot.
Eagle Scout
Same strategy as last time, the only difference is more lancers and ogres. Dodge cancel to avoid the
jump heavy attack to hit the chests faster.
Mountain Payday
I would hold off on Mountain Payday until late game when you have a really good spear, because the
Titan can take juuuuust enough punishment to not make this worhthwhile. That being said, it's a Titan,
wait for an opening and destroy it and try to get as many gold soldiers as you can. Average payout should
be over 20k if you take out at least one Gold soldier.
Lucky Fangs
This mission is a pain if you don't have a decent weapon. The charged punch works well, as does the
multi-hit combos. Be careful getting the chest on the stump, the archers can and will knock you off.
This mission is a pain. It starts with an undead Gigas stomping around the chest and ends with a titan
standing over the last one. To top it off, you do not have time to kill any of them and complete the mission.
Ideally, you want to lance spam the chest, then immediately go to the stump with the second chest, killing
the archers and intoner mode for the last chest.
Food Festival
You have a bunch of soldiers and some undead. The undead are instantly killed by the bombs and are
pretty weak to fist weapons. A high damage fist weapon can clean up in this mission.
Stinger Meds
I think this mission is actually easier than the last one. There are more bomb carriers and it's pretty easy
to land some on the skeletons. You have a shorter timer limit this time, but you should be able to kill them
faster.
Forest Payday
The Centaur here goes down fast to any spear with 300 or more damage. Try to kill as many gold soldiers
as you can. Should be an easy 30k.
Famous Fossils
Murder them with your best chakram. It's not a hard mission.
Compass Cash-in
This mission and the next two are fairly difficult. You have to destroy the chests, but you don't have time
to kill anyone. You must bee line from chest to chest and avoid hits as much as possible. The first one is
going to be the simplest. First-Time Completion: Silver Base Material
Ancient Treasures
The only difference between this mission and the last is there are more enemies, and some of them are
bigger.
First-Time Completion:
History Unearthed
It looks like you face one titan, but in reality you'll fight three total. The first one has a lot of health, but the
next two are weak by comparision. Effective use of bombs can anhilate the titans.
This mission is easy compared to Book Club Discipline. Attack the Titan and hit bomb carriers as you see
them, setting them off to chunk the Titan's health. When the two dogs spawn, hit bomb carriers near them
to do massive damage.
First-Time Completion:
Cathedral Payday
You have a small boss gauntlet full of things you should be more than capable of killing quickly. The
payment for this one isn't as good as the Desert Payday.
Survival
The First Survival
These go in waves, with each wave giving you an opprutunity to back out and get some money and exp,
or keep going and risk what you have to gain more. I'll go over the contents of each wave briefly and if I
believe a strategy is required, I'll discuss it below the wave.
Second Survival
Third Survival
1. Soldiers & Spirits - Focus the archers, use the sword for mobility. Parry Lancers to knock out the spirits.
2. 2 Gigas - The one on the left enrages
3. Ogre & Sand Ogre
4. Lancers & Centaur - The lancers need to go down first.
5. Necromancers & Undead - Chakram charge kills the Necromancers in two hits.
6. Titan Lord - When he holds the sword up and charges, he can't be stunned out of the attack and it does a
lot of damage.
7. Imps - They spawn one at a time.
8. Demon Cerebus - It can summon undead if you let him.
9. Arch Titan - His combos are more aggressive, but if you can get him to kneel down to try and heal, you
can do a lot of damage very quickly to him.
First-Time Completion: White Base Material
Final Survival
Go over the bridge and inside the buidling, up the stairs and through the door to your next big fight.
Sealed Area: Titan Lord
This guy starts off by doing an air slash, which you'll have to dodge or parry. Get in close and stab him
with the spear until dead. You can stun lock him if using a leveled Final Knell. Also, off to the left is a
chest.
Go up the platforms to the left and through the shield guards to get the last chest. Hop back down and
into the final room.
Verse 2
(No Chests)
Boss Fight: Zophiel
This boss is pretty much just like Gabriella, except Zophiel is a little more aggressive. The halo rings he
shoots out might be a little bigger too. When he opens his mouth to breath fire, shoot into his mouth.
When he goes down, firebreath works well or activate Intoner mode on top of him. It may take a while to
whittle him down, so prioritize evasion.
Beating this Verse unlocks Book Club: Innocence and level 4 Zero's sword, which you should equip
immediately.
Verse 3
(Chests: 14000 Gold, 29000 Gold, White Base Material)
When Accord said this branch is broken, she wasn't kidding. The troops start to get a bit... crazy. Go
down the path and through the tunnel to the first sealed area.
Go down the path, I recommened killing at least the soldiers before trying to break through the ivy wall
otherwise you'll get chain hit to death, literally.
Verse 4
(Chests: 15000 Gold, Black Base Material, 29000 Gold)
The enemies in this level have some interesting dialogue. Crazy, but interesting, and it's one of the
reasons I like the english dub. Anyway, the path opens up as you approach it so keep going. In a small
clearing you'll see three chests to the left. Keep going and you'll be in a field of flowers. That should terrify
you if you're paying attention to the story.
Once 99 Galgaliel are defeated, Five comes out of stasis and the real fight begins. She uses the same
spear moveset you do, but the twist is the Galgaliel are still around and their invincible as long as Five is
up. Drop her as fast as you can, watch the cutscene then do it again. When she goes into stasis, you
have a limited time to kill all of the Galgaliel on the field. If you have Intoner mode, now would be an okay
time to use it and triangle to charge each Galgaliel. When they're dead and the timer hits zero, you can
attack Five again and finish her off.
I recommend using the Black Base Material earned here to upgrade Final Knell. You also unlock Book
Club: Discipline here.
Verse 5
(Chest: Black Base Material, 15000 Gold, 30000 Gold)
The area starts off with platforming. Off to the left is a chest. Jump down to lock the doors.
Go through the door, take the first left then follow the hall into the spiral path into the sealed room.
Go through the door.. To leave the room, you just have to climb up onto the ledge. To get the chest, you
have to kill all of the skeletons and then use the platforms that drop down to get up to it. Follow the path in
the next room.
Verse 6
(No Chests)
This is a large flying segment and the enemies come pretty fast, but mostly across the center of the
screen. Use lock on and it should only take a couple of tries to perfect it. Spam regular fireballs on the
cubes.
Verse 7
(Chests: Black Base Material, 16000 Gold, 33000 Gold
The camp is a little quiet, so it's story time. Let's go beack into the time of greyscale and learn about how
Zero got her flower. Start the level by going forward.
Go forward and you'll start running through a familiar section. Keep going, none of the doors seal behind
you. Once you reach the big shield blocking your way, jump up the cliffs next to it. Behind the big shield is
the first chest. Go over the bridge and down the stairs. Next to the stairs is the second chest. Go through
the door and jump over the hole in the cliff that the archers are next to. When you approach the next exit,
it seals.
Go through the gate and down the path. When see the archers and lancers there will be platforms past a
'gate' as well as Accord's Shop. The third chest is on the platform to the left. Approaching Accord's shop
ends the level.
Verse 8
(Chest: 33000 gold, Black Base Material, 17000 gold)
I consider this the final level of the game. The Verse after this is just a really long rhythm section. This
level itself is is just a string of sealed off arenas.
Final Verse
(No Chests, only pain)
This section is evil incarnate. If you've come this far, then here is the brick wall you will have to surmount
for 100%
Zero leaves the Camera where it is and is a baseline for the fight
Five sends the camera high into the air making the rings harder to see.
Four starts sending out closer notes.
Three zooms the camera in on her face.
Two gives you a close up of Mikhail.
One barrages you with notes while causing the camera to go beserk.
Finally, the group will combine EVERYTHING into a last section of notes.
--u--Warning:'''It is not over when the screen fades. At the start of Mikhail's second sentence is a final
note. If you miss it you start over.
If you want a little help, below is a video timing guide uploaded byChrystofax. To sync up the video, play
the video up until the firstnote hits Mikhail in the video. Pause it then play up to the same pointin game.
when the note hits Mikhail, hit unpause when you hit thebutton to stop the note.
Weapon Locations
This section are for those who are just stuck trying to unlock ending D. The weapons are listed as they
appear in the weapons list in game and will include the name of the weapon and a brief description of
how to obtain it.
Swords
Zero's Blade: Start the game with it
Sinful Scream: Shop Chapter 1 shop; 3600g
Eternal Voice: First chest in Chapter 1, Verse 1
Ceremonial Blade: 'First' chest in Chapter 2, Verse 1. After the first sealed area, go right up the ramp.
Thunder Lord: Chapter 2 Verse 2 shop; 7700g
Virginal Sin: On the Move Accord Mission
Saintly Brimstone: Chapter 4, Verse 1 shop; 21000g
Bloodletter: Chapter 5, Verse 3 shop; 37800g
False Pact: Given to you by Cent
Broken Iron: Shooting Stars Accord Mission
Gaia's Flame: Branch B, Verse 1; first chest at the start of the level.
Moonfire: Branch C, Verse 1; third chest, by the torch near the archway after the second cold sun.
Skyward Thunder: Branch B, Verse 3 shop; 50400g
Crise and Whispers: Second Cent weapon; use Cent in missions to unlock.
Once a Woman: Branch C, Verse 3 chest; first one right behind you
Imperial Fang: Branch C, Verse 2 shop; 60900g
Feral King's Wildblade: Lost Verse 2 shop; 73500g
Mourning Thorn: Lost Verse 3 shop; 75600g
Nier's Blade: DLC (Does not count for Branch D or achievements)
Kaine's Swords: DLC (Does not count for Branch D or achievements)
Spears
Combat Bracers
Chakrams
Contributors
I'd like to thank everyone who helped in no particular order:
Zmuggernaut for his awesome weapons guide and pointing out another efficient way to earn money
Chrystofox for getting the video from Nico Douga as well as the original poster of the video from Nico
Douga.
People on the forums for help during my initial playthrough
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