You will encounter Yoda in arcade mode when you play as The Apprentice (who is unlocked by completing arcade mode with Yoda). Can be done online if your opponent chooses Yoda as well.

See "Mystery of the Swords" for more info.

The two difficulties do not stack, you will need to do one on Hard and one on Normal. If you are having trouble, try the tricks for the Tower of Lost Souls/Arcade Mode using Astaroth's cheap moves.

Simple enough. Easier on Normal.

See "Hero on the Battlefield" for more info.

Refer to this to better understand the scoring system.

The Consecutive win bonus really makes the difference in the end with a total of 127k. So assuming you never lose a round entirely (Losing a round and throwing the fight to retry will void all Consecutive win bonuses):

Stage 1 - No Consecutive Win Bonus
Stage 2 - 1000
Stage 3 - 2000
Stage 4 - 4000
Stage 5 - 8000
Stage 6 - 16000
Stage 7 - 32000
Stage 8 - 64000

Various bonuses:

Soul Gauge bonuses - 1500 to 3500
Time Bonus - 3000 to 8000
First Hit Bonus - 1000
Perfect - 15000
Health Bonus - 100 to 10000
"X" hit combo - Depends on damage and number
Unblockable attack - 1000
Wall hit - 1000
Last Attack - Depends on damage
Ukemi - 100
Impact - 500
Overkill - 100
Critical Finish - 1500

Alternatively, You can throw a battle if you don't get a perfect without any point deductions. But if you do this, you will lose the consecutive win bonuses.

Tip: Use Astaroth's cheap combo by holding Down/Back and X, then hitting Y. If done right, he will wind up a low swing and knock your opponent down, then do a hard overhead swing. Repeat these two moves over and over and they shouldn't be able to even move.

You will need to earn at least 30 free treasures in the TOLS by completing various tasks. The lists of tasks can be found here. You get an extra treasure for every five floors in descent mode as well. If you get that achievement, you'll have four treasures, then simply do 26 of the 60 tasks fromn the list.

Reach Floor 20 in the TOLS on descend. You unlock Descend when you complete 20 floors of acsend. Wait until you have unlocked more equipment to create a custom character with High attack, defense, Hp, Hp Drain A and/or Hp Burst.

Complete 60 floors of the TOLS on Ascend. The key to completing this is creating custom characters with the appropriate skills required for some floors. Generally, try to create a character with high defense and high hp, adding in skills like Hp Drain A and Hp Burst.

For 45-47F in particular, create a character with Yun-Seong's soul, high defense, high hp, soul gauge vamp and soul gauge damage A. You may need to spam his Forward+Y+Y combo (which they will almost always block), then use a critical finish to beat them.

Astaroth's cheap combo as described in the Arcade Mode achievement works well here as well.

If you are stuck at any time, please ask for assistance in this thread.

A Critical Finisher is performed after a Soul Crush by pressing . Each character has a Soul gauge represented by the colour of the round gem next to the Hp bar. An opponent's Soul gague is reduced when he/she blocks an attack. When the opponent's Soul guage depletes to such a state that the Hp bar begins flashing red, any time the opponent blocks another attack, he/she may get Soul Crushed. This will show your opponent flickering red with electricity and his/her Soul Gauge will turn black and make a noise that sounds liks breaking glass. From there, you have about 1 second to press . This is known as a Critical Finisher and it ends a battle immediately.

Level Yun-Seong to level 9. Create a custom character with low attack, high defense and high hp, but more importantly, give your character Soul Gauge Vamp and Soul Gauge Damage A. Spam his Forward++ attack (which they will almost always block) to get this quickly and often.

Use Mitsurugi and these moves:

• High attack - X, X or Y+B
• Middle attack - Down/Back+X, Y or Y, Y or Back+Y+B, Hold X+Y
• Low attack - Down/Back+Hold X

Anytime your opponent strikes a pose and says something, try to hit them. No real science to it. This can be done online in a ranked or player match as well.

See "Scorpion's Sting" for more info.

• Create a character with high defense and high hp.
• Give him/her Auto Impact A and Impact Heal
• Just hold block and let the enemy attack you
• Play one of the harder floors in TOLS acsension. Play the one with Cassandra because she attacks very often and very quickly.

An easy way to get this online is to get a friend to play as Yoda and you play as Kilik. Get your friend to do light attacks with Yoda () and then you press (->) + (). Yoda is the easiest character to do impacts against as he has to jump to do light attack, so it is easy to anticipate. So when you see Yoda jump do the Impact.

• Create a character with high defence and high hp
• Give him/her Master Impact and Impact Heal
• Play one of the harder floors in TOLS acsension. Play the one with Astaroth because his attacks are slower and you can anticipate them easier.

Use a Forward+ or Forward+ attack as soon as the battle starts, or hold Foward and hit B to do a running/sliding attack. If you draw first blood in five consecutive rounds this will unlock.

This is a cumulative of all game modes, including online. You'll get it going for the other achievements.

Soul Crushes are required for Critical Finishes, so you will get this going for the 100 finishers. See "Scorpion's Sting" for more info.

Play on stages with walls and when the opponent is near the wall, perform a throw or a strong attack. Personally, I used Mitsurugi's basic + throw when the opponent's back is facing the wall. Using the Apprentice, if you back up against the wall, his throw will turn them around and blast them into the wall.

This should come while working toward everything else.

If you don't have this after all the other achievements for lack of blocking, simply play through story mode or the Tower of Lost Souls and just hold down .

This should also come naturally. You can make a custom character with Auto Grapple Break A equipped to help.

Again, should come while working toward everything else.

In Create a Character mode, select any regular character, select slot 3, make any change, exit and save.

In Create a Character mode, select the character icon with the Green haired male and pink haired female. Create a custom character, exit and save. You'll need to do this to work on some of the harder TOLS floors anyway.

You level up characters' styles by defeating an opponent (not a round or total damage done). E.g. In the first battle of Story mode, you face 3 enemies, your character style makes progress towards leveling up when you defeat just 1 opponent.

If you play TOLS with 2 characters, whoever defeats the opponent gets the "exp" towards leveling up their style. Even if Mitsurugi does 90% of the damage and Yun-Seong delivers the final blow, Yun-Seong will get the "exp."

In character creation, do the following:

Style: Mitsurugi

Weapon: Masamune

Suit: None

Head: Nightmare Helm

Eyes: None

Neck: Guardian's Neck Cloth

Shoulders: Viking Shoulders

Body (Vest): Executioner's Garters

Body (Jacket/Shirt): Frilled Shirt

Arms: Caretaker's Gauntlets

Legs: Guardian's Breeches

Socks: None

Shoes/Boots: Vagrant's Waraji

Skill Settings:

 1. Auto Unblockable Attack C (already on weapon itself)

 2. Auto Grapple Break C

3. Shave Damage B

4. Nullify Counter C

Then choose 'finish' and it should unlock.

Play 100 Player or Ranked matches in total.

This is cumulative of Player and Ranked matches. Just play with a friend and have each other use a different character every time with the round setting to 1.

• You unlock stages as you complete story mode, so play through story mode with all characters first to make sure you have all stages unlocked.
• Fulfil the TOLS ascension floor 14 requirements to unlock a stage (Phantom Pavillion - Seesaw)

List of all maps:

• Thesmophoros Imperial Garden
• Distant Marsh
• Hall Of The Warrior God
• Star Destroyer Docking Bay - Laser Gates
• Star Destroyer Docking Bay - Bridge Overhang
• Tower Of Remembrance - Encounter
• Tower Of Remembrance - Degradation
• Tower Of Remembrance - Spiral Of Time
• Tower Of Remembrance - Ancient Gate
• Kumpaetku Shrine - Dream Remnants
• Egyptian Temple - Sacred Flame
• Ostrheinsburg Castle - Twilight
• Jyurakudai Villa - Virgin Snow
• Grand Labyrinth - Corridor Of Suspended Time
• Sailor's Rest
• Phantom Pavilion - Seesaw
• Phantom Pavilion
• Wolfkrone Monument
• Ice Coffin Of The Sleeping Ancient
• Ostrheinsburg Castle Throne Room

Win 2 Ranked Matches in a row. Some claim that this is glitched, so just host the Ranked Matches and win 2 in a row.

See "Hero King" for more info.

You earn points for winning Ranked Matches and leveling up goes by pretty quickly. You will need to win around 80 matches to reach level 20.

An unblockable attack is when the screen darkens and a character's weapon gets engulfed in flames. Defeat an enemy with an Unblockable attack to unlock this. An easy way to do this is to use The Apprentice and lower your opponent's health to about 20%. Back off and perform Back++. This is an unblockable, ranged lightning attack.

Win a round when your health is low. This should come naturally, especially during the harder TOLS floors and doing Hard story mode.

• Make a character with low attack, high defense, high hp
• For skills, have Hp Drain A and/or Hp burst
• Play TOS ascension Floor 24 and just let them attack you
• When you are low on health, finish them off 1 by 1 to regain health, or use Hp burst
• Keep the last guy at low Hp so that you can win quickly because I got this achievement with 4 seconds left

Alternatively, go online and do this in a player match with a friend.

Defeat an opponent with 20 different characters/styles. You will get this while going through all the story modes.

After you learn a character's moveset and get enough practice, you will be getting Perffect's fairly regularly. Alternatively, just keep replaying the first 2 battles of story or arcade mode.

Win a fight and have the last 2 digits in the Total time match that of the round time. You will get this by luck.

Get a double K.O such that both you and the opponent get K.Oed and the round ends in a draw. Use Yoshimitsu and do this:

Get each player to about 30% health. Run forward and then hit/hold +. He faces the other way and stabs himself through the body such that his sword goes through his torso and stabs the enemy as well, doing about 50% damage to each of you.

• Buy all the greyed out characters in Create a Character mode
• Unlock 5 Bonus characters by completing Story mode (see below)
• Complete Arcade mode with Yoda to unlock The Apprentice
• Go to Museum > Chain of Souls and exit

5 Bonus Characters and how to unlock them

• Shura -- Ivy, Taki, Raphale, Setsuka, Seon Mi-Na, Cervantes, Kamikirimusi
• Ashlotte -- Astaroth, Maxi, Lizardman, Sophitia, Rock, Talim, Angol Fear
• Kamikirimusi -- Xianghua, Tira, Cassandra, Mitsurugi, Amy, Yun-Seong, Shura
• Angol Fear -- Kilik, Algol, Zasalamel, The Apprentice, Scheherazade
• Scheherazade -- Voldo, Hilde, Nightmare, Siegfried, Yoshimitsu, Yoda, Ashlotte

Buy everything in Illustrations, High Quality Models, Promotional Material and Special. You have to unlock all characters first.

Each character has a total of 8 weapons, you have to buy them all in Create a Character Mode. By default, each character has 6 weapons, completing story mode with them unlocks 2 more weapons.

Complete Siegfried's story mode and buy Soul Calibur (Final Form) in the Create a Character Mode.

Complete Nightmare's story mode and buy Soul Edge (Final Form) in the Create a Character Mode.

You DO NOT have to complete 40 floors of TOSL descend mode to unlock all accessories. When you unlock 30 achievements in the game, you unlock more equipment/accessories to be bought. Accessories belong to "Special equipment" which only a few characters like Yoda, The Apprentice, Bonus Characters and Algol can access.

Buy equipment from the Create a Character mode until you reach 350. I got it way before I bought all the equipment for males alone.

See "Looter of the Battlefield" for more info.

You need to unlock all characters and complete story mode with all of them once to buy two extra weapons.

• You need to buy all equipment for males and females.
• 8 weapons for all 34 characters
• Buy all special accessories
• Check Voldo if you can't get the achievement, there is an item called "Imprisoned Mask" that only Voldo can buy