This is a story related achievement. Your very first battle in the game will unlock it.

This is a story related achievement. You will unlock it after defeating the judge.

This is a story related achievement. You will unlock it after defeating Marc Antony in Lust.

Use your cross attack () while evading his attacks. The video below shows it how it's done on Hellish difficulty, so it shouldn't pose a problem on anything lower.

This is a story related achievement. You will unlock it after defeating Cerberus in Gluttony.

This is a story related achievement. You will unlock it after defeating Alighiero in Greed.

Charge your cross attacks (hold down ) for an easy kill on any difficulty. The video below will show you how. If this is your first playthrough, you will not have the 'Memory of Acre' relic yet, and you will have to time the release of your cross attack.

This is a story related achievement. You will unlock it after escaping Heresy.

This is a story related achievement. You will unlock it after defeating Francesco.

Equip the 'Memory of Acre' relic and charge your cross attacks (hold down ) for an easy kill on any difficulty. The video below will show you how. The 'Memory of Acre' relic can be found right before this boss. The location is explained in the guide.

This is a story related achievement. You will unlock it after defeating Lucifer. If you have trouble doing the final boss, switch to Classic difficulty or watch this video:

See Power of the Cross.

Click here for a location guide.

If you miss the original location, they will appear again in other fountains you encounter later on in the game. If you did not complete this in your first playthrough, you'll be able to find the remainder of the pieces you miss in the exact same locations you found the others before.

'Backup' Locations:

-Anger: Do not drop down to a big circular platform, but continue along the cord to find an orange fountain.
-After the mirror maze area, you'll climb down a wall with several fire spouts. After you get to the bottom, you'll be in an area with mana and health fountains. Jump up to the alcove to the right. Then jump left across the gap. You'll see an item fountain behind you and one further ahead. You have to jump kind of around the wall to get to the one further along, which has the stone in it.

See Well Done, Judas.

See Well Done, Judas.

Throughout the game, you will encounter orange fountains, which award souls, and some of them a silver coin. For every five silver coins you collect, you will get a small soul boost when defeating enemies. Click here for a location guide to all 30 coins.

See Dark Relics.

See Dark Relics.

Relics are accessories you can equip, granting you additional stats. Holy/Unholy ones require you to reach a certain level in the respective tree to equip them, while others are unaligned and can be equipped right off the bat. You can wear up two relics, increased by another two if you acquired the extra relic slot skill in both trees. Collecting souls while wearing them will increase their stats and level to a maximum of three. Refer to the relic itself to view the increments. You can find a location guide to all 31 relics here.

Both shades can be found in Lust and they are pretty hard to miss. The location guide mentions when you're about to encounter these 'achievement shades'. Grab the shade by pressing . Absolve them by pressing , if you punish them (), you will miss this achievement.

You'll find him on a platform in the Violence desert area, pretty hard to miss. The location guide mentions when you're about to encounter this 'achievement shade'. Grab the shade by pressing . Absolve him by pressing , if you punish him (), you will miss this achievement.

Shades are lost souls scattered throughout the game, they are easily spotted by their aura and chatter. Shades can be absolved or punished by grabbing them with . The you either push to punish or to absolve them. Punishing adds Unholy experience, whereas absolving them will grant Holy experience. Click here for a location guide.

The poet can be found at regular intervals, mostly before entering a new area or encountering a boss, giving you a piece of back story. You can talk to him by pressing . Keep talking to him until he disappears as he hands out relics which are needed for another achievement.

Note: There's one appearance that can be missed, in the room right before the first boss encounter. Make sure to look around for him, before you grapple your way to the boss.

Souls are collected by defeating enemies throughout the game. With these, you can buy new skills in the upgrade screen. This will come naturally as you progress through the game. This is cumulative and you do not need to stockpile 60,000 souls.

Shortly after you take control of the huge demon and have decapitated the boats (Charon's) head, you will need to climb up a wall whilst still in control of the demon. Once you reach the top you will be back in control of Dante, continue forward until your reach a demon door. Once you're at the door turn around and you should notice the head has been smashed through the wall, just walk up to it and hit the when prompted. You'll push the head into the sea and the achievement will unlock.

See Poetry in Motion.

See Poetry in Motion.

Equip the Coin of Plutus relic (refer to the collectibles guide for the location) as it will extend the delay with three seconds before your hit count resets. Without this, don’t even try it. Be sure to equip it after acquiring, so that you can upgrade it to level three. It will take a few tries to succeed due to unlucky respawns and knockdowns, but it'll work eventually.

Best locations:

- Right before the 10 challenges, in the sandy area, you need to push a platform up the hill. Enemies will respawn and annoy you while you do so. Take the opportunity to spam your cross attack until the counter hits 666.

- One of the 10 trials requires you to stay in the air for 8 seconds. Enemies respawn while you do this, so take the opportunity to spam your cross attack again.

Minions are the regular enemies that you come across during the game. They come unarmed, armed with swords, armed with swords and shields and charred minions also count towards this achievement. There are 100's of these enemies in the game and will unlock as you progress through the story.

Demons are easily recognised as they are the large enemies that are black and look like a minotaur. They are sometimes armed with swords and shields and can sometimes even fly. There are plenty of these in the game so you shouldn't have trouble unlocking this achievement.

You first encounter these very early on in the game, they are the baby enemies who instead of having arms, have swords. They are very easy to kill and deal very little damage. If you have not unlocked this by the time you are fighting the boss in 'Lust', you can simply not hit the boss and she will infinitely spawn unbaptized babies out of her breast.

You first find these in the 'Glutton' chapter. When you first fight one you are shown a cutscene about all of your fellow crusaders performing gluttonous deeds. These enemies look like a very overweight and ugly woman. They also attack with an excrement attack in which they vomit on the ground. There are only a few of these in the game so if you don't unlock this by the end of the game you can simply play 50 Waves of 'Gates of Hell'. There are loads of them throughout the 50 waves.

Heretics are first encountered in the 'Heresy' chapter which is just over the midway point of the game. These can be recognised easily because they look like female circus ringleaders and they have a purple orb glowing above their head. You cannot damage these with your Beatrice's Cross attack so you have to melee them enough and the orb will disappear. When the orb disappears, you can now attack them in any way you please. There are loads of these throughout the game so you shouldn't have trouble netting this achievement.

You need to acquire the counter move from the unholy tree. Press to block an incoming attack, Dante will block in slow-motion if timed right, finish it by using or . I suggest doing this on minions, even then, they’re not a one-hit kill. Keep doing this throughout the game vs minions and you should be able to unlock it pretty fast.

Another method is deflecting the bats' fireballs which is done in pretty much the same way, but requires the followup skill from the first counter move. , then ).

Self-explanatory. Use magic to kill enemies. Minions preferably, as they die the quickest.

You will find these scattered throughout the game. You should have no problem finding them. These are the green fountains, make sure to use them, even though you're not in need of health, until you get the achievement.

You will find these scattered throughout the game. You should have no problem finding them. These are the purple fountains, make sure to use them, even though you're not in need of mana, until you get the achievement.

Absolve minions, babies and enemies that require a finishing move by pressing . This will accumulate Holy experience. Charon’s Oar (refer to the collectibles guide for the location) will boost your holy exp by 10% per level (max 30%). You cannot do both in one playthrough. Start resurrection mode (new game +) to continue leveling the second tree.

Punish minions, babies and enemies that require a finishing move by pressing . This will accumulate Unholy experience. Tail of Minos (refer to the collectibles guide for the location) will boost your unholy exp by 10% per level (max 30%). You cannot do both in one playthrough. Start resurrection mode(new game +) to continue leveling the second tree.

Reach Holy level 7 and buy all the skills in this tree.

See Man of Evil.

Reach Unholy level 7 and buy all the skills in this tree.

You’ll not be able to do both trees in one playthrough, so focus on one tree per playthrough. Fire up resurrection mode to continue maxing out both paths.

This is an extra feature that unlocks by completing the game. It is an arena-like game mode against the clock which hosts 50 waves of enemies with increasing difficulty. Time is your biggest enemy here. Shred through the waves as quickly as possible, and you might just be able to complete this. Set the difficulty on classic for an easy achievement, don't take it easy though, time still is your main foe.
Note: You can 'cheat' your way through the waves by having a maxed out holy tree and spamming . Expect to get bored though.

You will receive extra time bonuses for the following goals:

Complete a wave: 30 seconds
Do not get hit during a wave: 15 seconds
Absolve/Punish an enemy: 5 seconds

Simply complete the Dark Forest DLC on any difficulty. It's that simple. Start DLC. Finish DLC. Earn achievement. It's not rocket science.

Just follow these steps on the Dark Forest's challenges and you shouldn't go wrong:

1st challenge :
You must run into 5 entrances. Each time, you must take the entrance that is located directly to the EAST of the ray of light (take the 1st entrance clockwise).

2nd challenge :
You must run into 5 entrances. The first entrance, you must move the lion to the entrance that is located to the WEST of of the ray of light (ie : the first entrance anticlockwise). Then go to this direction. Then with the second, third, fourth and fifth entrance: you must move the lion to the entrance that is located to the OPPOSITE DIRECTION of the ray of light (when you do that there will be a continuous ray of light)). Then go to this direction.

3rd challenge :
Block the top entrance with the statue. Then as soon as the ray of light points to the left entrance, go there, then IMMEDIATELY AFTER, take the right entrance and you'll catch the murderer. There'll be some monsters to kill then the achievement will pop up.

Rather self explanatory. Just create a single-player trial with Dante as the character and a point total above 5000, but less than 7500, then upload it. A quick tip for tweaking the point value of your trial is to just make a single wave of enemies and increase/decrease the enemies' strength and difficulty as needed to achieve the correct amount of points for the gold or platinum medal depending on the achievement you're going for.

Again, rather self explanatory. This time create a 2 player trial with Dante/Lucia with a point total above 7500 and upload it. See the Creationism achievement for a good point tweaking tip. Make sure your trial is Lucia & Dante, and not Dante/Dante or Lucia/Lucia, a common mistake as some simply make a 2P trial but forget to change the characters.

Have a friend use the "most recent" filter to find your trial after you upload it. Once they play it they can rate it 4 or 5 stars. As long as they're the first person, once they're done and your rating is 4 stars or higher, the achievement will pop. If it doesn't, simply back out of the DLC and reload it.

You're going to want to do this at the same time you aim for the "Well Played" and "Played Me!" achievement. You simply have to play and rate 100 trials. Nothing more, nothing less, so combining this achievement with those aforementioned achievements will allow you to kill two birds with one stone.

Simply add any 10 trials to your favorites by pressing the d-pad. This is by far the easiest achievement in the DLC.

See Well Played.

Using the 'bomb' method most people making short trials are using now, I created bronze, silver, gold and platinum trials that take 6-10 seconds, 6-10 seconds, 12-20 seconds, and 18-30 seconds to finish respectively. They're by my gamertag (lifeexpectancy) and they're named Bronze in 6 to 10 sec, Silver in 6 to 10 sec, Gold in 10 to 20 sec #1-50, and Platinum in 18-30 sec #1-25 i.e. 75 different unique gold/platinum trials all identical for quick work towards your rate 100 achievement.

Simply run up, hit the bomb, and hold block. It explodes killing all enemies and the trial is over lickity split. That way all you have to do is play/rate the 75 I've uploaded and you're 3/4 of the way toward "rate 100". Just replay the same bronze or silver one over and over to get your medals after you've played/rated another 25 community trials. I wish I'd discovered this before I spent 4 hours playing and rating my slower trials! Getting 25 platinum ones done even with the time it takes to go back to the trials list only takes 15-20 minutes now. I estimate 50 gold medals at 20-30 minutes tops. Silver and bronze will be extremely fast because you don't have to exit to the menu to pick another trial.

Use the filters to find the trials made by me (lifeexpectancy) and set 10 at a time as your favorites so that after you finish a trial and it goes back to the list of community trials you can simply press  and switch to the next one you haven't played/rated rather than having to set up the filters all over again. Rinse and repeat until you've rated my 75 trials (or just 60 of them, then replay the gold for your last 15 medals if you intend on doing all 40 EA trials and rating those). Then it's a matter of simply replaying the same trial for the rest of your bronze/silver medals. I estimate you can finish all 3 achievements in 2 hours absolute max now using these faster trials.

"It's in the Trial" is by far the hardest DLC achievement in the pack, mainly because the EA trials can be tough and unforgiving.The fact that there are only currently 25 single-player and 15 2-player trials - at the time of writing - means that you're going to need to master all the tricky ones. Good luck!

If you're stuck, see the general technique guide HERE. A big thanks to all the other contributors in that thread for their more specific move per enemy advice.

While working towards the "Well Played" achievement, this achievement will come naturally. You just have to earn points, 100,000 of them.

While working towards the "Well Played" achievement, this achievement will come naturally. You just have to earn points, 250,000 of them.