Fast Route Through Jill’s Side [sub 3 hour + knife only]

Overview

A fast route through Jill’s campaign that assumes some prior knowledge. Great for sub 3 hour and knife only.

Intro & Notes

This is a guide for people looking to get both the sub 3 hour weapon/achievements and the knife only achievement. Even if you are not doing a knife only run this route is a fast way to get through the game and should help you.

Pausing the game does not stop the game timer. save then quit if you need to take a long break.
Cutscenes also count to the game timer so skip them all.

In your playthrough you only need to kill:

1 dog
Elder Crimson Head,
Yawn in his second encounter
enough enemies to safely carry the fuel in the lab
Tyrant

so don’t worry too much about having to fight a lot of people its not that bad.

If you want to finish the game with only the knife then don’t play on anything above easy or you will have a really rough time.
This guide focuses on getting the “worst” ending because that is the fastest route through the game.

If you are not doing a knife only run then shooting plant 42 is faster than using J-Volt and I suggest you do that instead.

If you would like a more detailed video explaining how to do all of this. Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snHo1sgSLDE .

Mansion 1

This is the hardest part of a knife only run because of the dogs you need to kill and the elder crimson head. Make sure you go into the elder crimson head fight with at least 5 healing items on a knife only run and fight the dogs on the small set of steps when you are getting the imitation armour key, they cannot use their arm grab attack when you are on the stairs.

This is an optimal order for finishing fast:

Arrow
Use arrowhead to unlock door
Sword key
Head past where you get the 1st floor map.
Herbicide
Dog whistle
Lighter – you don’t want more than 2 health items at this point or you will run out of space.
Kill dogs on stairs
Get real armour key
Go find Richard
Get serum, drop sword key and handgun off.
Kill the plant
Take 3 greens and mix all.
Take the death mask behind the plant
Save dickard
Get missing part of music sheet – requires lighter
Wood emblem
Music sheet 2
Moonlight Sonata
Switch emblem
Clock puzzle
Shield key
Yawn – get death mask and leave quickly. Stay only if you need the shotgun as it adds a few minutes to your total.
Get Death mask from knight push puzzle. top-right, bottom-left, bottom right.
Downstairs to light puzzle
Pick up Mask in the new shortcut.
Use masks then leave to get healing items
If you are on a knife only run **SAVE NOW** this fight is really hard.
You don’t need any keys you have unused so put them away.
Fight Elder Crimson
Get emblem from coffin
Unlock the door towards the residence.

Forrest and Residence

For knife only players
In this area you want to collect health items whenever it’s safe to pick them up and before you leave the house to go back to mansion store them away for the final area. When you go back to the mansion you will easily find enough new health items both on the way and in there.

Fast Route:

Head through woods to get crank. West then North opens the gate.
Drop off your weapons. (pick them back up before you return to the mansion you don’t need them for this section)
Empty pool
Enter house
Get red book
Listen to Barry at room 002
002 Bathroom – Get key
Unlock 001
Bathroom control room key
sharks (pickup and save the green herb you get before the tank)
drain the tank
Combine 2 green herbs you find in the health kit with green herb from before.
Get the key beside Mother Neptune.
Gas the bees
Get their key
Reorder books
Open the lock to the V-JOLT mixing room. The code is random but only ever has 3,5 and 6 so you should brute force it easily.
Mix the V-JOLT 1+3 6+4 10+7 17+3
Use it
“Fight” plant 42
Take it’s key.
Save if you feel you need to.
Pickup your weapons.
Return to the mansion.

Mansion 2 + Lisa

Going through this area I found that I had more than enough healing items and at some times my inventory got quite full so don’t carry around too many herbs.

Yawn battle 2
If you are running low on health try not to get caught in the middle of his body and just stab him in the butt if you are feeling confident then stab him in the face and risk taking more hits but save a little time.

Route:

After you skip the hunter cutscene head upstairs past the save save room and unlock the room with the pushing puzzle and the walls that try crush you.
Get medal book
Follow the path and reset the elevator.
Ride elevator.
Pick up the herbs at the top if you are feeling extra cool
Pick up battery
Through shield key area to Yawn part two
Stab his butt
Get medal book
Get box from 1st floor right side.
Gem + box = short puzzle and emblem key
Unlock office door with emblem key but don’t enter
Use battery
Remove waterfall and go down – Crank Required
Fix the elevator
Before going down elevator make sure you have 2 free item slots.
Get past Lisa
Get stone ring
Go back to mansion
Get the stone and metal emblem back out of the wall
Get the metal object from the office
Combine the two halves of the 2nd emblem.
Head down towards the lab
make sure you take the 2 medals so there is no time wasted you might want to save here
Death to Barry (Firing the rocket at the second form tyrant does not void the achievement However this is a huge time waster so make sure he dies.)
mo… therrrr….
Insert medals

down to the lab for the last section

If for some reason you also want to save Chris then use the yellow gem to get the MO Disk before going down but I don’t recommend for a sub 3 hour run on the game.

Laboratory

Knife only advice
You actually need to kill a few enemies in the area but none of them should give you trouble as long as you have enough health items going into this area. I would say 4 good health items is an amount I would be happy with.
Killing zombies – Stab up and hit them in the face.
Killing chimera – Run behind them and stab their butts
Kill tyrant – Run around his small arm and hit him in the back. Takes only about 20 stabs.
Make sure you don’t kill any zombies too early or you risk them turning into crimson heads, kill them before doing the nitro refuel. You only need to kill the one chimera that guards the fuel capsule. You also need to kill all the zombies between the two areas you take the fuel through. Getting hit can cause the fuel to explode. If you find yourself in trouble you can run for 3-4 steps then walk another 3-4 then run etc… and that will not blow up the bomb.