Overview
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Introduction
This guide is intended to explain each of the achievements in the game and how to obtain each of them, as well as some tips from my own (as of writing 110+) hours of play time.
Disclaimer: The guide is still being developed and thus is not yet complete, I plan to make a separate guide for NPC locations related to the achievement which will require another playthrough or 7 on NG to document all locations. In addition due to the game still being updated some information present may be subject to change.
Story Achievements
This section covers achievements gained by progressing through the story normally.
Start the game. Most difficult achievement in the game bar none.
Defeat Officer Diamond. Fairly easy, the best opportunity to punish with Asaru is during his round trip attack where a Just Dodge removes the briefcase and leaves him extremely vulnerable.
Defeat Officer Club. Best strategy is to play hit and run, wait for his attacks with long recovery and strike. With Card Rush you can chip away at his health and guard while running. If you’re feeling cheeky you can attack him during his aerial attacks to stop his assault and start yours.
Defeat Officer Heart. His attacks are powerful but many, especially his horizontal + vertical projectile combo leave him very open, dash or jump behind during or immediately after these attacks to punish.
Defeat Officer Spade. Arguably the hardest of the Officers, moreso due to a recent patch stopping Business cards from launching certain enemies like bosses and stronger mooks while grounded. Best advice I can give is to try to get close while dodging his projectiles, if you don’t get caught in the spam his long recovery animations easily allow you some free damage.
Meet Amelia. You automatically encounter Amelia in the entrance after defeating your second Officer.
Defeat Kazama. Kazama’s 3rd and final fight takes place in the Back Lot and is easily the most frustrating for a new player. It’s advisable to deal with enemy waves as they spawn since Kazama himself only has a few projectile attacks you can avoid if you keep an eye on him and a close range attack.
Defeat Chidori. Chidori’s second fight takes place at the end of the Executive area. Her first phase is identical to her previous fight but her second phase seriously buffs her attacks, never underestimate her range and your best chance to punish is when she finishes her triple teleport combo.
Defeat Mr Showtime. Arguably easier than Chidori and Kazama, but has some tricks up his sleeves. His rotating orbs can be quickly dealt with using the charged Umbrella attack (or Judgement Cut for all my fellow DMC bois) and if you can launch him you can take quite a lot of his health before he can tech out. In the final phase make sure to abuse the infinite Overclock to constantly stagger and combo him or he’ll regenerate all his health.
Defeat Irene. Her 3rd fight takes place in the Back Lot but is significantly less frustrating than Kazama’s final encounter due to the lack of enemy mooks flooding the elevator. Best advice for Irene is to learn her attacks, allow her to get close and move in to punish once she leaves an opening. Blocking can significantly help with not only this fight but almost any other part of the game, her highly telegraphed attacks make her decent practice for mastering Royal Guard blocking.
Defeat Mr Assault. Probably one of the easier bosses in the game but still pretty good. His second fight activates the overclock where you should do your best to time your blocks to avoid damage rather than try to block them. If you don’t have blocking yet you can try to abuse the hyper armour of her smashes to take no damage from them. After some time you’ll unlock Overclock yourself to turn the tide, and it’s straightforward from there.
Defeat Officer Joker. The final boss of Amelia’s campaign. By now you should have bought Amelia’s Ebon Thunder from the skill shop, seeing as it’s among the most useful moves in the game. Personally I like to use Ebon Thunder to get close to Joker as they teleport (The move can also go through and destroy projectiles and Joker’s black hole so use that to your advantage) and then switch to Asaru for fast damage and quick evasion, Joker’s attacks hit hard and wide, so Just Dodge is almost a necessity for surviving close to Joker. In the second phase focus on bringing their sheild down as fast as possible, otherwise depending on the moves Joker uses the game very quickly becomes a bullet hell. Once the guard is broken you’ve basically won so long as you keep up the attacks as they lay there helpless.
And those are all the achievements one can earn by normally progressing through the story.
Combat Achievements
This section covers combat-related achievements.
Defeat 100 enemies
Self-explanatory, should occur naturally by the time you reach the first Chidori fight,
Defeat 1000 enemies
Same as above, self-explanatory, will be achieved in the course of replaying the game.
Defeat 3+ enemies at once
Will likely be achieved during the first Asaru playthrough, enemies can be attacked until they have no health and won’t die until hit by a stronger attack, so if you want to achieve this quickly, attack 3 unshielded enemies until they’re in this state, plant business cards on all of them (dash out of the throw animation to cancel the automatic explosion) then manually detonate them simultaneously (done with down on the D-pad or 4 on KB/M). Alternatively, enemies that take a lethal hit during Overclock do not die until OC is deactivated so if multiple enemies die upon its end they should trigger the achievement.
Get a battle result of SSS
The key to getting that Smoking Sexy Style is attack variety, but there are a few ways to get this quite quickly. Attacking a large group of enemies with Amelia’s Super Corridor Smash can massively increase her style meter, but regardless, this should be unlocked naturally as you become a better player.
Defeat the Officers in the Executive Area
This may seem insanely daunting but if you go in knowing what to do it’s absolutely doable. I recommend doing this on Normal, though Hard isn’t much of a step up in terms of difficulty, and choosing Amelia to go for this achievement with. What you’ll want to do is brute force your way through this encounter by constantly breaking the Officers’ shields for food, which is why I suggest using Amelia. Another tip is to try and keep any Officers you’re not actively attacking off the camera, which stops them from attacking you. Try and keep the pressure on one Officer at a time, as getting rid of one as early as possible significantly eases the rest of the fight. Amelia’s Super Mode also grants her invulnerability so make the absolute most of its duration and perform a Super Corridor Smash towards its end. Keep this up and you’ll defeat the Officers and unlock an alternate cutscene.
Difficulty/Extra Mode Achievements
This section will cover achievements gained from completing the game on higher difficulties as well as achievements from the Extra modes.
Negabot Employees
I’m working on a separate guide for the employees, it can be found here: [link]
Other Achievements
Achievements which don’t fit under the previous categories will be found here.
End notes
The guide is still a work in progress, downloading all the images needed, obtaining all necessary screenshots for the NPCs and typing/formatting with Valve’s systems is rather time consuming. In the meantime, as I work on updating and completing the guide, I’m gonna be a huge shameless shill and suggest you check out my YouTube channel where I often upload Assault Spy content as well as videos for a variety of other games: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Ij0Vrjv4ykMHq4u1VPSTQ
Thanks for reading 😀