See Savior of Falana achievement description.

See Savior of Falana achievement description.

Side quests are indicated by the green feather in your quest log. Start side quests by talking to NPCs who have the same icon above their head. All of the side quests are started in the towns of Aurora Village and Mudpot. There are 21 sidequests in all. Press the  button to navigate to your quest log and view your objectives for each one.

Merchant

• A New Venture

Aurora Village

• The Blacksmith
• Reunion
• Number One Fan
• Lost Time
• Out to Dry 
• C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER 
• What's in the Box? 

Fale Quests

• Better than Nothing 
• Taking Point
• Slimed
• Reinforcement 
• Freedom of Movement 
• Find the Sparklies

Mudpot

• A Better Fidget 
• Hittin' Stick 
• Trolk Vengeance 
• Pearly Whites
• Red Moss
• Over the Fence
• Snowflakes 

See the videos below if you need help. They will show you the location of each part of the quests and the locations of any items you may have to collect. Click the annotations to skip to any quest.

See That's More Like It achievement description.

Combos are performed by attacking enemies and chaining hits in quick succession. After hitting an enemy, you have a few seconds to score another hit before the combo ends. Taking any damage will also cause your combo to end. Your combo counter is at the top right of your screen.

This mostly involves repeatedly firing projectiles in combination with dust storm on large groups of monsters. Projectiles track enemies and hit many times to increase your combo quickly. If you're already very high level and find yourself doing too much damage, unequip any items that add damage. You can also find an Ugly Pendant and equip it to lower your stats to 10%. Try to end your combo shortly after your combo counter reaches 1000 hits. Getting hit and having your chain broken even after surpassing 1000 hits will NOT earn you the achievement.

This can be done very easily, very early in the game on the first two giants you fight. If you're already past that part, you can also get it fairly easily on Rock Hounds in chapter 2. You'll regularly run into big groups of them. Further still, in chapter 3 you'll constantly run into big groups of zombies which should also make a thousand hits easy. My combo of choice is +

This game is all about the hacking and slashing. You'll kill enemies to level up, and you'll be required to kill all enemies currently on the screen before you'll be allowed to advance between areas.

You'll have 500 kills long before the game ends. If you're in a hurry, enemies will respawn when you leave and re-enter an area. You can rack up kills quickly this way.

You'll find treasure chests scattered throughout the world, usually off the beaten path. Collectibles and other goodies are marked on your map by a circle. Look for these and explore those areas. You'll stumble upon many chests throughout the game without any effort.

A key is required to open a chest. These can also be found scattered throughout the world and also indicated by the circles on your map. Complete the button matching mini-game to open the chest and collect its contents.

See Baker's Dozen achievement description.

Cages are similar to treasure chests, but require 4 keys and are usually harder to find. Each cage houses characters that may be familiar to you. When rescued, they will appear in the Sanctuary. Visit the Sanctuary from the world map when you have all 12 to unlock the achievement.

You'll need 48 keys to unlock all 12 cages. Keys can be found scattered throughout the world, and bought from shops. Shops will only sell you up to 6 keys total. The rest you'll have to find. They're not too hard to come by. Explore the areas marked with a circle to look for keys and other goodies. 

Some cages will require abilities you won't unlock until later in the game, such as the slide, double jump, wall climb, and boost jump. All the abilities are required to advance the story, so don't worry about not being able to find them. Boost jump is a possible exception, but it's in the same room as the cage in Chapter 5 so it's not too hard to miss.

The video below shows the locations on the map, and how to reach the cages from there. There's some cool stuff to discover, so some of this stuff may be considered spoiler worthy.

Story related and can't be missed.

You'll play a tutorial early in the game where you learn how to use Fidget's projectiles, dust storm, and combining the two. Press  to fire projectiles, then hold  to do a dust storm.

Story related and can't be missed.

Ability orbs grant you new skills. Usually something like dashing, or a new projectile for Fidget. The first one, the dash ability, is hard to miss. Later on you'll collect more abilities that are required to progress.

Leveling up in this game involves assigning skill gems whenever you reach the XP threshold. Whenever you level up, you'll be prompted in the bottom left saying skill gem available. Hit the  button and navigate to your stats. Select a stat and hit  to add a stat. Hit  again to confirm and unlock the achievement.

See The Stuff of Legends achievement description.

Challenge arenas are hidden around the worlds map. There will be a small tutorial with information about them the first time you find one. They're basically time trial obstacle courses. I suggest you wait until later in the game to make these easier. I found the double jump ability very helpful. The vine climb ability is also required for some of them. Any arenas you've previously found will be marked on your map by a red area.

There are 6 arenas of increasing difficulties. The first couple are very easy. The time limit on the last few are very strict. You'll most likely have to play through the courses a few times and memorize the path to score 4 stars.

Scoring works on a points system. At the end of the arena, your score is tallied. Each arena has a required score for four stars. Killing an enemy scores 100 points, smashing orbs scores 500 points, and your time left adds to your score at the end. Taking damage causes you to lose 100 points. Smashing every orb and killing every enemy is usually enough to earn you 3 stars. You'll also have to finish with enough time on the clock to bring push your score into the 4 star threshold. 

They're easy enough to find, provided with the locations on a map. If you're still having trouble, this locations guide will show you how to get to each arena starting from the world map. If you're having trouble completing the arena, use the arenas walkthrough.

Bombs are purple glowing fruit you can find hanging in the environment. You'll play a tutorial and learn about them the first time you find a breakable wall. Lure at least 6 enemies toward a bomb and hold  to pull the bomb with dust storm. Best done in chapter 1 as the enemies have less health and more likely to die in one hit from a bomb. 

There's a bridge in Abadis Forest that you cross as part of the story. There's 3 bombs in this area, along with many Avees (flying monster) that you can kill for the achievement. If you don't get it your first try, you can leave the area and the monsters & bombs will respawn.

You'll play a tutorial for how to parry early in the game. Hold  when an enemy attacks to parry. This prevents any damage that would've been done to you, and also stuns the enemy.

Let a monster hit you until your life is flashing red. Hold  the same time they attack to parry and unlock the achievement.

You have to complete the first part of a sidequest called The Blacksmith to gain the ability to craft items. Obtain this quest from Avgustin on your way through Aurora Village. He will give you a blueprint which is also required for crafting. Other blueprints are random drops from monsters you kill.

Make your way to Archer's Pass from the world map. Find Haley at the top of this region. Select a blueprint and craft it. If you don't have the materials, you can buy them directly from her. Be sure to catalog your materials by selling them to shops so they'll be available when you need them. You can also return and talk to her again later to craft items, or find the communicator in the next part of the quest which allows you to craft from anywhere.

Fale is the collection quest giver in Aurora Village. There are six separate quests where he'll ask for items from certain monsters. All the monsters you need to kill for these items are conveniently located in Abadis Forest. 

• Better than Nothing - 5 Imp Hides
• Taking Point - 8 Beast Spears
• Slimed - 4 Slimy Spikes & 4 Slimy Coats
• Reinforcement - 2 Giant Rocks & 2 Giant Cores
• Freedom of Movement - 6 Avee Wings & 6 Avee Claws
• Find the Sparklies - 3 Florn Tentacles & 3 Florn Sparks

Once you've obtained at least one of any item, sell one to any merchant to catalog the item. When you do this, the shop will restock them over time, allowing you to purchase them instead of farming more monsters. As long as you're killing the majority of monsters, and cataloging any new materials you find, this achievement will come with ease.

Start the game on tough or hardcore, and do not change the difficulty once you've started. There's no achievement specifically for hardcore, so play on tough if you want to make it easier. You'll take more damage in higher difficulties, you'll heal less at save points, and energy is recovered more slowly.

Obviously you'll want to avoid being hit. Food items are limited and they're used up very quickly if you let yourself get hit too much . You'll most likely die few more times early on. Dying can be frustrating if you've made some progress and keep getting sent back to the checkpoint. Don't be afraid to backtrack just to level up.

Combos
The best way to keep from dying, is to never give them the chance to hit you. Use the launch combo often to get them off the ground and combine Fidget's projectile with dust storm to juggle them.

My go-to combo for most of the game was +

 launches any enemies in front of you,  fires Fidget's projectile, + combines with the projectile to do massive AOE damage. All the melee attacks give you plenty of energy to keep firing projectiles. Keep all enemies on one side of you so you can't get hit from behind.

Jumping and doing +HOLD is good for getting around enemies while doing good damage.

Against single targets, I use . 

 launches, followed by 3 quick melees, and  at the end throws them into the ground for huge damage. After the throw, there's enough time to walk up to launch them and do the exact same combo over and over until they're dead.

Stats
I stacked HP and defense early on. This allowed me to take a few extra hits. This was probably wasn't the best strategy, as it took forever to kill monsters, thus increasing the amount of time/opportunity for enemies to hit me. On higher difficulties you die in a few hits anyway and you use up your food items way too fast. It's better to concentrate on fast kills and avoid taking damage. 

Fidget is probably the best stat you can upgrade. The projectiles track enemies, juggle them, and hit them many times for lots of damage. Projectiles might not seem to do much damage at first, but as you level it up you'll see huge damage increases. I relied heavily on projectiles. Remember to combine them with dust storm or + in the air. I didn't invest much in attack. Most of my attack and defense came from items. My stat priorities when leveling up were Fidget > HP > Defense > Attack

Shops
Be on the look out for shops and visit each one to look for upgrades. Each chapter ups the monster difficulty significantly. I hit the wall hard going from chapter 1 to 2. However, there was a shop early in chapter 2 where I bought some new equipment that gave huge stat bonuses to attack and defense which made it a lot easier.

Blueprints
Dropped blueprints will allow you to craft better items than what's likely to be available in shops. Make sure to catalog all your materials so they'll be readily available to buy from the shop whenever you want to craft something. It's worth it to find the communicator (side quest after finding the blacksmith) to craft anywhere without having to return to the blacksmith. Once you start crafting items with 200+ stats in Chapter 3, the game becomes very easy. I recommend items with Fidget multipliers. These will add insane damage to Fidget's projectile attacks.

You'll gain the ability to slide part way through Chapter 2. It's part of the story so you can't miss it. Perform a slide attack by press +. Attack an enemy until it's low on health and slide into it for the kill and the achievement. 

This is a side quest obtained at the end of Chapter 2 in Mudpot. Talk to Bopo after completing the main quest in Chapter 2 (after defeating the boss). He'll ask you to bring back snow from the mountains. First, you'll need to find the cooler in Blackmoor Mountains, which is the next area you will go to as part of the main story. Once you have that, go to any area that has snow and you'll automatically fill the cooler with snow. Bring this back to Bopo in Mudpot to complete the quest and unlock the achievement. 

Haley is the blacksmith you'll meet as part of The Blacksmith side quest. Talk to Avgustin on your way through Aurora village to start the quest. When you get to the world map, go to Archer's Pass, navigate to the top of the area and drop down the pipe where you'll find Haley and unlock the achievement.