Overview
This guide includes the locations of hidden weapon upgrades and unique defensive items. It is also a guide for item delivery sidequests; the correct NPCs are listed here, to help cut down on backtracking and blind searching. Finally, solutions to some of the game’s more difficult puzzles are described.
Weapon/Character Upgrades
Freyja Weapon Upgrade Locations
Note that Ultra level weapons will fill-in the Super-tier skills if you missed them. I list these in the approximate order I discovered them.
- Super Sword: Cathalla; from the western entrance, turn north and walk between the treeline and the wooden fort walls it’s in a large chest all the way up there
- Super Bow: Kitty City; in the northeast corner, push the big snowball to the east unlocks a path leading eastward to the Bow
- Super Axe: Robius Mines above frozen waterfall
- Ultra Axe: Adaperion Sewers; found in a secret area reached through a semi-hidden tunnel (at the far left of one of the areas).
- Ultra Sword: Behind secret crank door in lategame blue cave (see image for hint)
- Ultra Bow: Extremely easy find, short distance into Skrift Ruins
Defense-Increasing Items
These items permanently increase the DEF of a specific party member by one.
- Freyja’s Shield
- Chest near the end of Mitten Mines, West of the exit ladder (first in the chain of ladders) to Edelweiss Park
- Bam’s Mittens
- Located very imminently south of Furtroit (the town is visible from the secret path with the Mittens). Possibly must be accessed from underground.
- Phenez’s Skull Fragments
- Found in Skrap Wasteland taking a straight East path from Kindan (NOT toward Skrift Ruins)
- Mishima’s Expansion Board
- Head out the northern exit of Ulvizaker village into Tidandi forest. There is a gap in the trees immediately to the west containing the board.
Mishima Chip Locations
Listing these is unnecessary because they absolutely must be found for you to progress; however, they fit the theme of ‘character upgrades’.
- Grey: up a ladder from Akio sewers
- Cyan: pink area just south of Akio, near the cave in which you discover Phenez
- Gold: inside Katharos Estate
Item Deliveries
Throughout Toward The Pantheon, you will discover hidden items whose purposes may not be immediately clear.
Items that cannot be used in battle can either be used to raise stats (i.e. Protein Powder, Defense-boosting items) or must be delivered to a specific NPC or location. This section focuses on the second type: deliverable items.
It is recommended that you complete the Chocolate Smoothie, Ham & Cheese Sandwich, and Silver Coins deliveries before entering Katharos Estate, because the items received from those deliveries can be used in the building. Some areas of Katharos cannot be revisited (specifically, the area where the Gold Crank is used).
Before Katharos
Chocolate Smoothie
Give to Momoka, Southeast from Adaperion tent
->Gives Famallama Key
->Usable after Bam’s first maze (before splitting up) in the Katharos Estate, near the first Hamster Key
->Discover Protein Powder X2, Firestarter Bomb, lore pages
Ham & Cheese Sandwich
Needed by cat at the northern end of Furtroit, preferably before entering Katharos Estate
->Gold Crank reward (actually unnecessary) At time of writing it’s possible just to use the regular crank on the pentagonal hole in Phenez’s route of the Katharos Estate
->Using it in a certain place leads to a Dead Memory and Protein Powder (check wall on the right)
Silver Coins
Give to Yukari in Akio
->Found in Skrap Wasteland (chest obscured partially by tree, near a house)
->Receive Red Crank which can later be used in Katharos Estate
->Just inside the main entrance door, to the left, there is a hidden path that leads to a scrambled door with a red lock. Katharos must be completed before the barrels blocking this hidden entrance will disappear. Open the red lock to find diary notes on the floor, and the item Bloody Axe
->Deliver the Bloody Axe to Wuotan in Keltoi to receive the Akenoid Jewel, which can be sold for 2000 gold .
Yukari’s dialogue suggests there are three legendary cranks; the locations of two of those are covered in this guide – where is the third?
Anytime
Jar of Flour
Deliver to woman in Ulvizaker Village (first house southeast of camp)
->Gives Brown Key to house in Garrius
->Garrius house holds:
Protein Powder X5, Bag of Dread, Ultra Mega Catnip
Back Scratcher
Found after Katharos Estate
->Give to Kiwi in a house in Cathalla (east side, next to Bun Buns)
->Receive Ultra Mega Catnip, Yellow Battery, Bag of Dread, Tuna Nigiri
Snowcat Head
Found in Skrift Ruins: Deliver to NPC in Kitty City (top of the area, at the centre)
->Receive Big Bombs X5
The Hanger’s Tale
Wanted by Boltrek in Skrift Ruins
->Found in Bam’s route of the Katharos Estate (Minecart room, bottom left)
->Receive Protein Powder X1
Misc (Puzzles and Extras)
This section is for assorted tips, documentation and unsolved secrets.
The music that plays during a tent cutscene seems to be locked to that tent, and will repeat for later cutscenes at the same location.
Valley of the Darken
“Only those who know the darkness can traverse the Valley of the Darken”
Though I originally thought the hint meant I would be able to pass through as Phenez, I couldn’t get through the valley on a first-playthrough file. Confirmed to be a New Game+ feature by Atralane, who had this to say:
“The path takes you to a strange abandoned house, containing notes that seem to provide codes for alternate modes you activate via the Credits screen before you start a new game. I couldn’t get the codes to work for me, though; it might be an input issue on my end. The two codes I saw sounded like they were for some kind of overpowered/over-leveled mode and maybe some kind of cosmetic swap for the characters?”
Abandoned House
There is an abandoned house in the pink woods before Akio, somewhere in the north/northeast. To enter it, you circle around the structure and enter from the back. The interior shares a feature with the house in Valley of the Darken: the house contains notes with codes that may unlock new features, including a suspected hard mode.
Gold Door
There’s a gold door at the bottom of a cavern, just to the west of the exit of the Adaperion sewers. If you return to the door once you’ve obtained Mishima’s Gold Card, there are four dead memories waiting behind it.
Katharos Estate Puzzles
- Solution to first statue puzzle: Human Left, Cat Right, Soldier Right, Electropunk Center, Ghost Left
- Solution to Mishima’s statue puzzle: Human Left, Electropunk right, Gold Electropunk Center
- Mishima’s Gold Card Puzzle: Spell GRIM on the panels; the rightmost panel shows which shapes stand for the letters (I and R are quite similar to their actual form)
Katharos-unlocking Gem Locations:
- Southwest from Ulvizaker Village (must use Phenez’s skill to pass guards)
- South of Keltoi behind a Chip door (must use Phenez’s skill to pass guards)
- In the top house of Furtroit
- Cyan: Up a ladder early in Skrift Ruins
- Yellow: Edelweiss Park, behind a Grey Chip door
This guide will continue to receive updates as new secrets are discovered. If you found the guide useful, please consider rating it.
Special Thanks to Reggiez for providing some of the sidequest solutions, and for the location of the Ultra Axe. Special thanks also to Nordom for confirming the locations of the Super Sword and the Super Bow, for locating Mishima’s Expansion Board, and to Atralane, who solved Valley of the Darken and discovered the Abandoned House.