This method may require you to take damage from enemies/the environment. Get close enough to your shade to attract its attention, and then let it follow you to a location which is more reasonable for you to kill it or let it kill itself on an environment hazard.In these circumstances, there are a few options: In some cases, your Shade will spawn in a poor location that makes retrieving it hard (e.g. In early game when you don’t have a surplus and don’t have banked Geo in the form of relics, Geo is fairly important so losing all the collected Geo may force you to farm enemies. If you die a second time, then you will lose the Geo you collected up until that point.You will be “crippled” in terms of your soul meter only being able to fill up to 2/3 full (equal to 2 heals/spells) until you retrieve your shade.We recommend, however, that you take the time to backtrack and collect your shade before doing anything else because of two important facts: When you die, it might be tempting to just move on and not bother with retrieving your shade. Do not be surprised if by late-game you find yourself with several thousand Geo left over and every shop bought out.Īlways be sure to retrieve your shade as soon as possible after dying if you’re playing in normal mode

The lantern is available after finding Sly early game, so you will have to save up Geo for buying it, but other “large” costs occur later in the game when you have started to build up a good surplus. The single largest “required” purchase for beating the game (if you don’t want to navigate dark rooms blind) is the Lumafly Lantern from Sly at 1800 Geo while the single largest required cost for 107% is the Pure Nail upgrade at 4000 Geo (upgrading Fragile charms to Unbreakable is not required). Nevertheless, important sources to consider for geo early game include: While you can farm enemies for geo, further areas in the gradually scale up the amount of geo dropped from common enemies so if you’re patient there isn’t a need to farm.

Speedrun in Classic mode with sub-5 hour completion and then sub-20 hour 100% completion to earn three achievementsĪfter finishing these playthroughs you will just have one achievement left which requires completing the Pantheon of Hallownest, a brutally difficult hour long boss rush.Geo in early game is tight, but by end-game you will have too muchĪt the start of the game you’ll find yourself fairly short on the geo amount you want to have in order to afford several useful items from Sly and Salubra.

Steel Soul playthrough with 100% completion to earn five achievements.Classic mode playthrough with 112% completion to earn 54 achievements.There are 63 achievements, none of which involve any sort of co-op or online play.Ĭompletion requires at least two playthroughs. The game has a bit of a Dark Souls feel: minimal direction is given, death results in a dropped soul that you must return to in order to recover your geo (game currency), difficult boss encounters that require practice in order to learn their attack patterns, and a somewhat minimal narrative that is expanded through NPC interaction and world exploration. Along the way you will encounter NPCs, battle numerous enemies and bosses, find upgrades, and learn spells and abilities as you attempt to uncover the secrets of the world. You control the Knight as he explores the insect kingdom of Hallownest.

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