Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 5/10
- Offline: 40 [1000]
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 50+ hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1.5 [See below]
- Number of missable achievements: Yes 38 achievements
- Do cheat codes disable achievements: No Cheats
- Does difficulty affect achievements: No
- Glitchy achievements: None
- Unobtainable achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed: None
Introduction:
Spectral Force 3 is a JRPG much like Zoids Assault, Operation Darkness, or the concept of any Tactic based RPG. You have a numbers of characters that level up, upgrade equipment, and have dialogue. There are many an opportunity to procure more party members during your playthrough based off of conditional fights. It has moderately fun game play with a sharper learning curve than the aforementioned titles. This game is far less forgiving achievement wise but is well worth a play if you enjoy RPG's.
Preparation:
Firstly ALL achievements unlock after the mission is complete and you have saved the game.
The game consists of "Find Work" tasks, Missions, and Dialogue. To best prepare there are 1.5 playthroughs required, Where in you will destroy the Nameless Army then the Underworld army in your first playthrough, but NOT Overlord Army(for "Al" see below). And the inverse will be done on your second playthrough, Underworld and then Nameless.
Your mercenary rank will not carry over to your second playthrough, which is required for some character recruitments, neither will characters recruited, or the character levels. All you keep for your second playthrough is money and items. To raise your rank complete missions in fewest turns possible with high combo hit count and damage done with 0 retreats and you should get an A. You will need many A rank missions to recruit many different characters.
The order in which you destroy the other armies plays no affect,except with characters "Break" and "Al", but to recruit everyone Flauster and Shilineeg must be preserved until they are the only two armies left. The computer can also destroy armies so keeping multiple saves is advised as thus in case you need to revert.
- World Map (current/ every Month)
- During Preparation
- World Map (every 3 Months)
- World Map (every 6 Months)
- End game save or World map (every year)
If the Computer destroys underworld or nameless armies out of the order you seek, reload your save and instead complete work for the army that was destroyed, this should prevent their destruction. Most work however I completed leading with Flauster.
Focus all funding on upgrading your character weapons between missions, this can be accessed through the smithy option and requires materials and money to upgrade weapons. Upgrade your favorite characters with the gear you get from recruiting other members. They won't be using it unless you bring them to the mission so there is no point on equipping everyone
Check the Converse option at the world map screen after EVERY mission. It only takes a few seconds and all dialogue in game can be skipped if you desire it so.
Casters with a high enough INT stat can be power leveled by grouping your party into a cross or "X" formation and casting buff spells such as lightning wings or protective barrier, which can be crafted through the blacksmith. Equip it to your caster and spam it during combat. This is useful for leveling a character you will need for an upcoming mission that requires you to bring along specific characters.
Use Battle formation attacks (see below) often to knock out the achievement.
You can speed up the movement of all actions both AI and player by holding down the button thus exponentially cutting down playtime.
Missable Achievements:
All but two achievements I would technically say are missable. The two you likely can't miss are "Culcha" and Total Enemies Defeated." "Culcha" is a story related mission and she joins your party automatically upon completion. "Total Enemies should come naturally, with ease, about a third of the way through the game, assuming you aim to obtain a 1k.
For "Battle Formations," "Max Combo Hits," "Total Damage," and "S rank" see the below descriptions, everything else works as thus.
Complete missions when they are available, Always check for dialogue options, and resort to the above posted guide or the descriptions below for help or tips. Do "Find Work" tasks when there are no longer missions available.
[XBA would like to thank h4mm32 for this Roadmap]