Blades of Time Roadmap and Trophy Guide

[Mitsuru Kirijo]

Originally Posted by immikeulate

I'm confused so is this game a 20 hour plat or 40 hour plat like other guide says. That's a huge discrepancy.

I've played the game 3 times in slightly under 30 hours: first playthrough on Normal finding all notes and chests took about 12 hours; second playthrough on Hard finding all chests and grinding out three kill-related trophies took about 8 hours; third playthrough on Normal in order to re-find all notes and chests when I decided to make a guide took about 6 hours...

Obviously, I can only judge these things based on my own experience, and everyone's play time will vary, but I can't see how the trophies would possibly require 40 hours of playing.

Originally Posted by Alex Fly

Complete guide with lots of details and some really useful tips like on how to deal with each boss and the location of all chests and notes, excellent work you did there ! Thanks for this great guide !

Thanks for your kind words.

I was really tired when I wrote the guide, so I have a few things that I need to clarify and a few syntactical things I need to clean up, but the guide is done and should be ready for submission today - all questions, suggestions, and criticisms are welcome.

[blevensp1]

Another good looking guide, for a game with an acquired taste. Is the combat more engaging than X-Blades, I could not get motivated enough to finish that game.

[leowtyx]

Good Luck....

[Mitsuru Kirijo]

Originally Posted by blevensp1

Another good looking guide, for a game with an acquired taste. Is the combat more engaging than X-Blades, I could not get motivated enough to finish that game.

The combat - like the game in general - is more physical than X-Blades, and by that I mean that everything has more weight to it: at first, when you face more than a couple of enemies at one time, you really feel like you're being overpowered and beat down; then, when, you get used to how the game plays, you have this kind of sense of "Let me at 'em" - you can't wait to try and tear into a group of them...So, yeah, I would say the combat is more engaging - the finishing moves and their accompanying animations feel really satisfying, the shooting is a bit cumbersome but fun...

You're right, though, about the game being an acquired taste: the whole thing doesn't have too much in common with X-Blades besides a blonde heroine named Ayumi; Blades of Time has changed an awful lot of things, and, frankly, the game is pretty cracked - it's like it plays like a poor man's Bayonetta mashed into a rich man's Clash of the Titans with a bank account in the name of a middle class man's Darksiders; and the look of the game seems to be equally inspired by Frank Frazetta, Conan the Barbarian, Flash Gordon, and doodle art...

So, if you're looking for a recommendation, I can't quite give one other than to say that I loved the game; but, really, that shouldn't be taken as anything other than an example of my really peculiar taste - and I'm not sure how much of an endorsement that is.

[tuffmuff]

*guide stuck*

[Puzzler]

I didn't even know this had been released until literally just now, first thing I did was check if there is a guide. Happy to see there is, and it looks great. Going to order the game tonight and plan to make full use of it.

Hope I enjoy the game as much as I did X-Blades, I was in the minority of people who actually loved that game!

[Cetra]

Originally Posted by Puzzler

I didn't even know this had been released until literally just now, first thing I did was check if there is a guide. Happy to see there is, and it looks great. Going to order the game tonight and plan to make full use of it.

Hope I enjoy the game as much as I did X-Blades, I was in the minority of people who actually loved that game!

Do not expect too much. It has lag problems during the scenes which can be very annoying. Well - at least the EU version has those lag problems. I also like X-Blades but the 1% story is a problem for me. Without the lags of Blades of Time this sequel would probably make things much better for me.

I hope there will be a patch released soon.

[FLIPADELPHIIA]

I love you

[DARK3N]

Thank you very much for this guide, it was really helpful!

[Roughdawg4]

If you want to defefat the shaman boss with no damage there is a much easier option, Time Rewind.


Hit the shaman with a bunch of attacks and then time rewind and repeat. You will defeat him in 30 seconds and he will never get off an attack