Venetica Achievement Guide

Venetica

Guide By: olsci2

There are 50 achievements with a total of 1000 points.

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Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 5/10
- Offline: 50 (1000 )
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 1000 : 30+ hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 2+
- Number of missable achievements: 4
- Glitched achievements: None
- Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No Cheats
- Does difficulty affect achievements?: No

Overall this game is not very hard, especially since you can play it on easy and still get all the achievements.

Introduction:
Welcome to Venetica! This game has a total of 50 achievements and requires two full playthroughs to get its two different endings. In the game you can chose between three guilds that you can join and you are required to complete all guild missions for one of the achievements, so after you are through with the two playthroughs (with different guilds each time) you need part of another playthrough where you join the last remaining guild. Luckily you do not need to complete the game again this last time, only focus on the quests of the remaining guild.

The game has four missable achievements: Apple Wine, Stealth Master, Rogue Vengeance, and High Esteem.

As far as glitches go, the game is definitely not bug-free, but doesn't yet have confirmed glitches that impact achievements. What can happen though is that due to a bug (e.g.: the rogue who stole the key from the Persian sometimes disappears from the cut-scene and the game completely, so you can not get the key back) you can not progress in the story and have to reload an earlier save. As always with these games, save often. There is no autosave, so make sure you save every half an hour or so. I would also suggest that you use at least five different save slots.

I recommend that you create and keep a save once you obtained the “Trust to be Earned” mission from Nox. This is the point where you have to choose between the three guilds. You can only be a member of one guild per playthrough, so this should be the point you will replay the game from when you completed your first two playthroughs.

First Playthrough
During your first playthrough you should focus on getting all achievements that you can obtain in one game. I recommend starting by finishing the game the honorable way and joining the Order of the Holy Seal guild. In this game you will get as strong as possible in the game, so I recommend you try for the No Drugs achievement during this playthrough. It sounds tricky, but you can do many other things to restore health (e.g: sleeping, take it from enemies with mental powers, getting a doctor to heal you) avoiding healing items does not make the game a lot more difficult.

In the end you should have six achievements missing, one for the alternative ending and five for the guild missions you could not complete yet.

In general, use the optional quest guide to make sure you accept and solve as many quests as possible. The quests there together with the main quests will ensure that you have the Quest Master achievement by the end of Act 3.

To achieve the honorable ending all you have to do is to watch out for your conversations with Benedict and your father, Death. Always pick answers that suggest that the reason you do all this is for and to be with Benedict again, avoid the ones that suggest revenge or vengeance. In the end, let Death kill Victor. Solving the quest as described in the quest guide might also help. Altogether, expect to spend 18+ hours on this playthrough.

Here are the missable achievements in the order they appear in the game: Apple Wine, Stealth Master, High Esteem, and Rogue Nightmare.

In this game you will join the Order of the Holy Seal, so make sure you grab the unfitting plate mail from the chest in your room in the Order, and also in the third act go and train group fighting with Rangar.

Second Playthrough
Start again on easy from the very beginning, but this time go for the villainous ending. This ending requires that every time you talk to Benedict and Death pick answers that suggest you do all this for revenge and vengeance. During the quests, always pick to fight as soon as the option is there and in the end, kill Victor yourself.

When doing the mission “Trust to be Earned” for Nox, choose one of the remaining two guilds (the Net of the Mask or the Hooded Wings) and finish their questline. Create a save right after accepting the mission from Nox, this save you will reuse for the third partial playthrough.

While playing, focus only on the main storyline and the quests for your guild. In the first story mission in the Inner City, you have to talk to Tusker in his hideout. If you tell him who you are, you instantly get to the ship. If not, you have to reach 300 reputation points to progress the story. In this latter case, just do two rogue and one gripper queen missions, they give you 100 rep each and are quickly finished. It takes about 9 hours to run through the game like this.

Clean up – Third (partial) Playthrough
Use the save created during the second playthrough, just after accepting the “Trust to be Earned” quest from Nox. This time pick the last guild and play through their missions. Unfortunately all guild missons require that you access the Arsenal, so you have to progress the story as far as killing Hector on the ship. It is also necessary that you get the skill to talk to the dead, which you obtain by cleaning up the chapel for Brother Johan in the Arsenal, put together the statue and meet Benedict. It takes about 5 more hours to finish the missions for the last guild, once it is done, the Knowledge of the Guilds achievement unlocks and you have finished the game. Congratulations.

Thanks for Tender Branson8's tips to complete the Roadmap.

x360a would like to thank olsci2 for this Road Map

The End

Game completed

This achievement is story-based and cannot be missed. After you kill Victor, the last boss in the game, the achievement will unlock.

During the first part of the battle, ignore Victor and use remove curse on the Doge and then beat him up. Repeat this three times to end the fight.

In the Twilight World, keep rolling from the energy balls Victor fires at you and get close to him, so that you can use your weapon to attack him. Once you kill him in this form, there will be yet another part in the real world where you are up against Victor's human form. Use your weapon of choice, keep rolling from his attacks and utilize your "Passage" skill to disappear and reappear with a back attack.

No Drugs

Game finished without consuming any healing items

Throughout the whole game simply do not use any potions or food having healing effect. You can use beds to rest, rings with a healing effect, spells stealing health from enemies, pay a doctor to heal you, drink from wells to restore mental powers and you can die and be revived using your twilight energy. Just don't consume any healing items at any time.

First Chapter Complete

Chapter 1 completed

This achievement is story-based and cannot be missed. After you kill the Mistress, the path to Venice will be opened and the achievement is unlocked.

During the boss fight, use a hammer to destroy the five pillars holding a structure from which she is throwing the shurikens. When the structure is destroyed, she will also fall down and you can use any of your weapons to kill her. I found my hammer very efficient, but she is not too difficult with whatever weapon you use.

Once you kill her, there is a second fight where you have to kill her in her demon form in the Twilight World. Just roll from her tentacles and when the tentacles roll in, use your Moonblade to kill them. If you do not go near to her, the tentacle attacks can not even reach you, but the tentacles still get close and can then be attacked. Once you got rid of the five tentacles, go for her head and roll to avoid her poison attacks.

Second Chapter Comlete

Chapter 2 completed

(1)

This achievement is story-based and cannot be missed. After you kill Hector there will be several cut-scenes and then achievement unlocks.

Hector can not be hurt by weapons. Once the fight begins, run to the back of the room to destroy his urn. Afterward, stand near one of the two columns in the middle of the room, wait until he attacks, roll away, so that he can smash the column. Let him destroy both columns to finish him off in this world.

His form in the Twilight World is also pretty easy. Attack his weak right leg until he falls, then keep hitting his back. Do this a few times and he will fall on his belly. Hit his head while carefully avoiding his bites and he will be finished quickly.

Third Chapter Complete

Chapter 3 completed

This achievement is story-based and cannot be missed. After you defeat the Princess the achievement will unlock.

This fight is extremely easy. Keep avoiding the skeletons and focus on the burning totems that the Princess summons. Destroy four of these burning totems and she is defeated.

In the Twilight World, she has a bird form and will attack with laser beams. Keep rolling to avoid the attacks. After a few beams she will land on the ground, that is when you have to hit its beak. She will leave a spear and a shield behind. Grab and equip them quickly and use the shield to reflect the beams back on her. Do this four times and the fight will be finished.

Legendary Hero

Level 32 reached

If you do all the optional quests by the end of the game you will be around level 28-30 and have the True Hero achievement already. The most efficient way to ensure you do not have to grind much before getting Legendary Hero and finishing the story is to obtain one of the treasures. Once you get to Africa, make sure you dig up the Harvester in the second northeast cave. This is a weapon that boosts the XP you get per kill. Use the Harvester from then on whenever possible. In case you did not get to level 32 before removing the curse from the door before the last fight, go to Africa and kill Baka Beasts or alternatively keep entering the arena (talk to Gero in the Jama village) and kill the contestants there. You have to reach level 32 before attempting to kill Victor to get the achievement.

Treasure Hunter

Dig out all treasures

(3)

You can buy a shovel at Dominicus (across the Doctor's house in the Arsenal), equip it and look for the treasures hidden in the world. Instead of looking for all the treasure maps, here is a link to the official Venetica forums with detailed instructions for where to dig. The maps are based on the PC version, but I found all the treasures using these maps.

Note that there is a story quest towards the end where you have to dig out the skull of the Jailor's wife. This is also considered a treasure and the achievement only unlocks once you find this one as well.

Quest Master

Complete 50 quests in one game

You have to accept and finish 50 quests in one playthrough. Here is a thread that contains a list of the optional quests in the game. The achievement popped only after 53 quests for me, together with the achievement for completing Act 3.

Trained Villager

Training in village successfully accomplished

(1)

In San Pasquale use the steps close to your house to go down and meet Brawler, talk to him and complete the first training. All you have to do is to perform four successful attacks with

button.

Trained Attack Combiner

Combined Attacks training successfully accomplished

The combined attack skill you will have to learn from Yngvar. He is in the Windmill Tavern located in the Southern Bay. Once you free the innkeeper and their guests, you have to talk to Yngvar and ask him to teach you combined attacks. Simply perform a roll with

followed by a counter-attack with

four times successfully.

Trained Roller

Rolling training successfully accomplished

In front of the Forest Hut you will meet two quarreling brothers, Don and Nesto. Once you helped them by retrieving their father's will from the building (by pressing the switches in this order: from the left 2nd, 4th, 3rd, 1st), talk to them and they will teach you to roll. All you have to do is to successfully roll away from their attacks four times by pressing

Arena Champion

All enemies in the arena defeated

(3)

Gero is located in Africa and in the last chapter you can go to him and register for a tournament (quest "Let the Games Begin!"). You have to beat five waves of enemies consisting of 2, 2, 2, 4 and, in the final round, 5 contestants. I found the spike and scale combination very useful. Just keep hitting and rolling and you will be fine. Note that your health does not replenish between the rounds.

Leather Style

Leather mail acquired

Before leaving your village to Venice, go to the upper exit of the village and go to the left to an open area with quite a few assassin's. Defeat their leader and you will get the item Leather Mail (unfitting). If you have already 500 ducats, you can ask Mattheo to customize the armor for you. If you do not have so much money yet, sell all the swords, go and collect copper ores to sell, etc... or simply wait until you have the Smithy in Venice and let Mattheo customize it for you then.

Plate Style

Plate mail acquired

In your room in the Order of the Holy Seal there is a chest that contains the Plate Mail (unfitting). Mattheo can customize the armor for you either in San Pasquale or if you have acquired the Smithy in Venice already, then there.

Honorable Success

Play and complete the game the honorable way

During the conversations of the main quest, pick answers that are suggesting that you do all this for Benedict or restoring peace to the world. Avoid the answers hinting you do all for revenge or vengeance. Also, try to solve quests - where possible - without fighting and in the end let Death kill Victor. It unlocks after completing the game.

Villainous Success

Play and complete the game the villainous way

During the conversations of the main quest, pick answers that are suggesting that you do it for revenge and vengeance. Also, in the optional quests, do not pick the peaceful solutions, fight wherever possible. Additionally, in the end kill Victor yourself. It unlocks after completing the game. If Scarlett sits on the throne after all is over, you will know that you have succeeded before the achievement pops.

True Hero

Level 20 reached

See Legendary Hero

Burglar

Gain 1200 experience by cracking locks

You get the skill to crack locks in Act 2. Once you have it, open all doors and chests you encounter. You only get 15, 30 or 50 XP per lock depending on how complex the lock is, so it will take quite some time and you will only get it towards the end of the game. You crack locks by repeating the sequence Don and Nesto shows you using the

and

buttons.

High Esteem

Earn 2000 reputation points

(1)

If you follow this quest guide and make sure that you do not steal anything when you are seen, then you will end up with just about enough reputation points to unlock the achievement. Always make sure to accept the tasks before taking care of them (ie. get the quest before actually killing the gripper queens), just to avoid the game not giving you reputation points for your deed.

Bright Views

Find a special lookout point in the Outer City

Enter the Western Tower (southmost door in the Amphitheatre), go to the top floor, exit to Outer City, cross the bridge, change into the Twilight World and enter the nexus portal.

Dark Views

Find a special lookout point in the Arsenal District

(1)

From Largo's Administration Center go straight, cross the wooden planks and enter the second door to your left. Once inside you can switch to the Twilight World, locate and enter a nexus portal. Go down the stairs and exit the door to the Arsenal. You will get the achievement and also the chance to kill the stone beast on the bridge for the Pale Heart's quest.

Sherd Master

Destroy 100 vases

Just keep on breaking vases during your adventures. After you finish the Rogue Games mission and get the Stealth Master achievement, go back to the deck and destroy all vases to get the achievement sooner. You should have it sometime in Act 2.

Scythe Master

Learn the strongest Scythe skill

To unlock the strongest skills for a weapon you have to go to specific combat trainers who can improve your physical skills for the respective weapon. You do not need to max out all the previous skills on the tree to be able to unlock the strongest skill. Raise a skill one level to unlock the next skill, the strongest skill is the last on the tree. Here are the trainers and the last skills for the specific weapons you need to learn to unlock the corresponding Master achievement:

Scythe - Hurricane (Rangar - Outer City)
Sword - Death Birth (Rangar - Outer City)
Spear - Spear Fury (Akbah - Africa)
Hammer - Bludgeoning (Akbah - Africa)

Sword Master

Learn the strongest Sword skill

See Scythe Master

Hammer Master

Learn the strongest Hammer skill

See Scythe Master

Spear Master

Learn the strongest Spear skill

See Scythe Master

Trained Blocker

Blocking Training successfully accomplished

In Venice when entering the Order of the Holy Seal for the first time you will meet Rangar. After a short cut-scene, you can ask him to teach you how to block. First, you have to learn the block skill from him, if you have not learned it from any of the previous trainers already, for the weapon you intend to use. Once learned, put it on one of the shortcut buttons on the digital pad. When Rangar attacks, press the button you assigned the block skill to, after the block quickly press

to counterattack. Do this four times to unlock the achievement.

Trained Group Fighter

Training against many enemies successfully accomplished

This can only be obtained if you joined the Order of the Holy Seal. Once you are in Act 3, you can go back to Rangar and train with him fighting against a group. He will ask you how many enemies you want to fight against, pick 4 (there is no achievement for 2 or 3) and then reduce the health of all four enemies enough for them to leave the arena. Use a hammer and perform combos and they will not even hit you.