- Estimated Platinum Difficulty: xx/10
- Approximate Time To Platinum: 20-30 hours
- Offline: 40 8 2 1
- Online: N/A
- Missable Trophies: None, via Episode Select
- Minimum Playthroughs Needed: 3
- Difficulty Affects Trophies: Yes
- Glitched Trophies: None
- Cheats: None
Introduction
Set in the days when a healthy paranoia about witches was considered normal, Knights Contract follows the twisted tale of Heinrich, an immortal executioner, and Gretchen, a resurrected witch. Once the victim of Heinrich's blade by the order of the game's antagonist, Dr. Faust, Gretchen now has him under her control as the two must work together to rid the land of the supernatural foes who are cursing its people with the black spell of death.
Armed with a razor sharp scythe and explosive witchcraft, players will use these tools with spectacular effects in order to return civility to the land. As players succeed in their journey, they can deal tremendous damage to their on-comers or unleash a gruesome finisher by coordinating the efforts of Heinrich and Gretchen. However, players must also keep a close eye on Gretchen as her mortality is the key to the duo's survival as Heinrich can never be vanquished. It's time to let the combos fly and lay waste to the hordes of darkness with a liberal dose of medieval panache.
[Official Description]
ROADMAP
1) COMPLETE THE GAME ON SQUIRE AND AIM FOR S-RANK.
If you want, feel free to start on Knight difficulty if you're confident in your skills with hack and slash games. Otherwise, I recommend you playing through the game for the first time on Squire, to get the hang of each level. You will be unlocking all of the story related trophies, as well as most if not all the combat and miscellaneous related trophies. However, Your goal in this first playthrough for each episode will be to:
- Earn an S Rank in each episode
- Find all of the collectibles
If you gotten an S rank in each episode, upon defeating the final boss you will unlock the Spirit Cannon. This weapon is very useful in defeating the regular enemies in the game. If you failed to S rank in one or two episodes, go through and S-Rank them via Episode Select, and defeat the final boss again in order to unlock the Spirit Cannon.
Note you must S-Rank each Episode all under one difficulty and defeat the final boss in order to unlock the Cannon; you cannot mix and match Episodes from different difficulties.
2) COMPLETE THE GAME ON HEXEN KNIGHT.
Beat the game once on any difficulty, and you'll unlock Hexen Knight, which is this game's equivalent to Very Hard. The only difference is now you'll be incapacitated much more easily and bosses are even more of a pain to defeat. Same layouts and strategies still apply though, so you shouldn't have much trouble going through this.
Fortunately, all your upgrades and everything you've collected on your first run is carried over. If you somehow missed any collectibles on your previous playthrough, find out which one's you've missed and collect them this time around.
Refer to Legendary Executioner for tips.
3) COMPLETE THE GAME ON WITCHSLAYER.
By completing your second runthrough on Hexen Knight, you can play through the game for the third and final time on Witchslayer difficulty, the game's hardest difficulty.
With your fully upgraded Witchcraft's, combined with the Spirit Cannon, breezing through this game a third time despite the jump in difficulty should be easy.
Again, refer to Legendary Executioner for tips if you need it.
4) CLEAN UP.
Though most likely not needed, you might be missing one or two of the combat related trophies, particularly the ones requiring you to defeat 200 enemies using Knight's Fury and Witch's Embrace. Refer to the trophy guide for tips in how to grind them.