NIER Achievement Guide

NIER

Guide By: PeRFeCK

There are 41 achievements with a total of 1000 points.

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Overview
+ Estimated achievement difficulty: 4/10
+ Offline: 41 (1000)
+ Online: 0 (0)
+ Estimated time for 1000

: 50-70 hours
+ Minimum playthroughs: 1 full, 2 half, and 1 quick 'beat the final boss' run.
+ Missable achievements: The Sheep Whisperer, Lightspeed Fighter, Legendary Gardener, Boss 'Time Limit' Achievements
+ Glitched achievements: None
+ Cheats disable achievements: No cheats
+ Difficulty affect achievements: Nope!
+ Unobtainable achievements: 0
+ Extra equipment needed?: None

Introduction:
Read the Ending Guide before attempting Ending B to have a general understanding of what will be required to get all endings, and to save yourself the most amount of time.

*General Warning* - Viewing Ending D will ERASE ALL of your saved games. This makes many more achievement's technically 'miss-able', but if you follow my instructions (in the Ending Guide), there is a way to prevent this from hindering your achievement progress. Consider yourself warned!

Breakdown:

Ending A: Plan to beat the game in less than 15 hours to earn Lightspeed Fighter. It is recommended that you play on the Normal difficulty (game allows you to change difficulty at any point) or lower to accomplish this. To give you a general idea, I was able to beat the game in a speed run in 7 hours and 30 minutes, which included skipping all text and cut-scenes (and I knew exactly what I was doing). Since its the first time you are playing the game, enjoy the story, but complete a minimal amount of quests and always follow where the red x is telling you to go next. However, to enable gardening and more efficient gardening, you must complete 2 specific quests, so do quests "Shopping List" and "A Return to Shopping" given from the Village's florist ASAP because they can be missed later in the story! If you follow these steps and play on Easy/Normal, you shouldn't have a hard time making 15 hours. At some point in the first 5 hours of the game (because after a certain event, sheep will no longer be found) - save your game and get The Sheep Whisperer. Then load your game directly after it unlocks to ensure you keep a low playtime. At the end of this run, you should have grabbed Call Her Back, Material Hunter, All Aboarded!, and all of the story related achievements.

Ending B: Relax, take your time on this run. Start looking to complete your weapon collection, but don't worry if you missed anything. Explore dungeons, and break every box you come across. Complete at least 30 quests to receive Village Handyman, Jack of All Trades, and Go-To Guy and start earning enough money to get upgrades and buy other quest items. Complete the fishing quests and earn Fish of Legend and A Round by the Pond. Completing this run gets you Lingering Memories.

Ending C: This time you will need to make sure you have 100% weapons (use the Weapons FAQ), earning you Weapons Collector. You can choose to attempt Man of Means, and get 1 million gold BEFORE you buy the remaining weapons, as they cost around 200K. If you haven't gotten Combo Fanatic and Combo Master by now, you should be strong enough to use my second method to get it. You should also be strong enough to plow through all bosses to earn every 'Time Limit' Boss achievement. Completing this run earns you Thank You.

Ending D: During this run, you should focus on earning Wordsmith. Completing this run gets you Something Very Special. Again...be prepared with a 'backup' plan (pun intended) before letting the game delete all your saves.

Cleanup:
First, tackle the Legendary Gardener achievement. Next, complete many quests and start upgrading every weapon for the three weapon upgrade achievements (these will probably be the last things you get, and are the most time consuming, use this guide for help). Last but not least, if you haven't gotten Man of Means by now, decide if you will earn money via harvesting (recommended), fishing, Junk Heap runs, or remaining quests. Completing all quests should net you around 500K, so you will still need to grind for money. Good luck (you'll need it)!

[x360a would like to thank PeRFeCK for this Road Map]

Combo Fanatic

Pull off a 50-hit combo.

(1)

See 'Combo Master' below.

Combo Master

Pull off a 100-hit combo.

(9)

These achievements should be fairly easy to pull off. If you need help, here are a few places you can get them. Getting hit stops your combo, so don't get too greedy and dodge accordingly.

1. When you reach the part in the story where you go underneath the mansion, there is a room with a massive amount of shades, at the beginning of Underground Facility: B2. Equip your weakest 1 handed sword and go at it, dodging when needed. If you get hit, die and try again.

2. On your second or third playthrough on your way to the Shadowlord, you should be able to kill the 'reviving pig' in 20 hits or so. Spam your sword and you should be able to kill him while he is reviving, before he hits you. Your weapon attacks faster the higher combo you have, so once you get the first 20-30 hits locked, you should be set.

The Magic Man

Learn every type of magic.

(4)

This will come naturally as you progress through the story. Not possible to miss.

Wordsmith

Collect 50 percent of all words.

(1)

You learn words randomly while killing enemies. This will be one of the last achievements you get, and came during my 4th playthrough at level 38. Be patient and it will come with time, you can check your word completion percentage via the menu.

Weapons Collector

Find every weapon.

(5)

No weapons are missable! There are a total of 30 weapons. To break it down, it's 13 one-handed swords, 8 two-handed swords, and 9 spears. Many weapons can be bought in shops, although they can be very costly. Two quests, "Disturbing the Sleep of Kings" (given by the King of Facade) and "The Damaged Map" (given by the Village blacksmith) give weapons. Some weapons are found in dungeon boxes, so make sure you smash everything you see. For more detailed information, visit the Weapon Location FAQ.

Village Handyman

Complete 10 quests.

See 'Go-To Guy' below.

Jack of All Trades

Complete 20 quests.

See 'Go-To Guy' below.

Go-To Guy

Complete 30 quests.

You can be picky with the quests that you choose because there are a lot more than 30 available. If you are having trouble finding a quest, go to the pub in the Village and Devola will point you in the right direction. Unfortunately, most quests are time consuming and usually require that you report back to the quest-giver. In addition, there appears to be a limit on accepted quests, once you hit it, you won't see any more quest offers until you complete one.

I recommend you do all of the fishing quests in Seaport because they count towards two other fishing achievements.

Man of Means

Accumulate 1,000,000 pieces of gold.

(2)

You must have 1 million gold in your inventory all at once, anything you've spent in the past does NOT count. Check to see how much money you will have after selling all your items, then grind the rest out. You can make money by harvesting (recommended), catching fish (royal fish for 4K each), completing quests, or doing junk heap runs. Since Harvesting is recommended, I will explain it here:

Buy 99 rice/wheat seeds and 99 bounty fertilizers from Seaport
Fertilize, then plant rice/wheat in all 15 harvesting spots (located next to your house in the Village)
Save game
Exit the game to the dashboard, advance your system clock by one day (if clock is at 4/25 then go to 4/26)
Load game
Harvest all 15 spots, sell your items at the Village shop, then repeat.

Since signing into Xbox Live updates your current time, make sure you unplug your Ethernet cable or wireless adapter so you do not sign in.

Rice is worth the most money but you will notice that the game only allows you to carry 99 of one item at once, and you can optimize your time/money output by planting 10 spots with rice and 5 spots with wheat, therefore only having to run to the item shop to sell twice per date change.

Educated Warrior

Read the final novel segment.

(1)

This will come naturally as you progress through the story. You obtain it at the beginning of your Ending B run. Not possible to miss.