Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Achievement FAQ Version 1.0 By Miles R. (eye 8 ur brains) WARNING! THIS FACT CONTAINS SPOILERS, SO DON?T COMPLAIN THAT I SPOILED THE GAME FOR YOU. ---------------------------------------------------------- LEGAL- Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is developed by Hothead Games and Penny Arcade. All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their respective trademark and copyright holders You are free to copy, distribute, and transmit this work under the conditions that it is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way, not used for commercial purposes, and that credit is given to me. If you wish to use information in this guide in a way not specified by the above terms, please contact me. Credit goes to tastefulmrship for the walkthrough that helped me and others get "Silent But Deadly," an almost impossible achievement! Credit Also goes to everyone at Xbox360achievements.org who helped contribute to this guide. For any questions or suggestions, contact me at [email protected] using the subject line "FAQ question/suggestion." Or you could contact me through my Xbox Live Gamertag: eYe 8 UR BRAINS. ------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents- 1. Stray Cat [#CAT] 2. All Together Now [#ALL] 3. A Winner Is You [#YOU] 4. Nine Lives [#NINE] 5. Pack Rat [#RAT] 6. Steel Devils [#DEV] 7. Pacifist [#PAC] 8. Fight 'Em With Items [#EM] 9. Level Awesome [#LEV] 10. Clean Sweep [#CLSW] 11. Final Boss Attack list [#ATK] 12. Silent But Deadly Walkthrough by tastefulmrship [#TASTE] 13. My suggestions [#MY] 14. Q & A [#QAA] ------------------------------------------------------- Stray Cat- [#CAT] This is a story based achievement obtained quite early in the game. ------------------------------------------------------- All Together Now- [#ALL] Wait untill all three characters have charged up their special attack (Y Attack) then on any character trigger the special attack by pressing Y and select the attack with x3 on the logo to obtain this Achievement. ------------------------------------------------------- A Winner Is You- [#YOU] Complete the first episode. See [#TASTE] ------------------------------------------------------- Nine Lives- [#NINE] Get an enemy down to 1hp then use T.Kempers attack. This attack only causes 1 damage. Alot of this is down to luck of getting an enemy to 1hp but if you are having trouble an easy way to do this is to start a new game and get it during the tutorial battle because you can not die during this battle. So you can get the enemies down to low hp and use T.Kempers attack more then once without the risk of being killed while waiting for the attack to recharge. ------------------------------------------------------- Pack Rat- [#RAT] Find all twelve concept arts and all five music albums listed below. Concept Art 1 Location - Desperation Street - Cul-De-Sac - In your neighbours mailbox. Concept Art 2 Location - Desperation Street - Cul-De-Sac - Mailbox on the opposite side of the road to 1205 Concept Art 3 Location - Desperation Street - The Orange Tree - Mailbox in front of 1121 Desperation St. Concept Art 4 Location - Anne-Claire's Room - The photo above the window. Concept Art 5 Location - Anne-Claire's Room - The bed side lamp Concept Art 6 Location - Hobo Alley - Cheswick & Grove - The wanted poser on Witch-B-Gone. Concept Art 7 Location - Hobo Alley - West Chesnut Park - Rubbish Pile (Behind three animate trash enemies from the dustman mission) Concept Art 8 Location - Hobo Alley - Grove Bend - Poster on the pub's window. Concept Art 9 Location - Hobo Alley - The Sh*thole - Picture next to the entrance. Concept Art 10 Location - Pelican Bay - Tollbooth - Ice cream sign just north of flying pricks darts mini-game. Concept Art 11 Location - Pelican Bay - Midway - Red Poster to the left of where the floor is striped red and black. Concept Art 12 Location - Pelican Bay - Permonade - The Heavy Anchor in the middle. Music Record 1 Location - Desperation Street - Cul-De-Sac - The mailbox in front of where you find T. Kemper. Music Record 2 Location - Hobo Alley - The Sh*thole - Meat Grinder in the robot room. Music Record 3 Location - Anne-Claire's Room - Behind Anne-Claire on the shelf. Music Record 4 Location - Pelican Bay - Midway - Unlocks when you've solved the "Entertain Us" fortune (The second fortune in the Mistress Mysterious Case). Music Record 5 Location - Unlocks when you complete the game. ------------------------------------------------------- Steel Devils- [#DEV] To check to see if you have missed any robots, check the map to see if you are missing any weapon parts from any of the levels/zones. Once you have got all weapon parts from each level/zone you will unlock this achievement. Look in every milk bottle, seagull, and box that shakes to find the hidden ones. The parts on the tables in the Sh*thole also count towards the achievements ------------------------------------------------------- Pacifist- [#PAC] This is easily obtained in the tutorial battles before you meet up with Gabe and Tycho. Just keep timing your blocks and you will start counter-attacking. Keep this up until they are defeated. ------------------------------------------------------- Fight 'Em With Iems- [#EM] Self-explanatory. Use all the items in the game. You will not find the last item until the last level. ------------------------------------------------------- Level Awesome- [#LEV] Get all three characters to level 15, you will get this during the course of the game and while trying to get "Clean Sweep" ------------------------------------------------------- Clean Sweep- [#CLSW] The enemies are easy to spot in the panels just make sure you don't skip any fights and kill all of them. ------------------------------------------------------- Attack list- [#ATK] Full Body Attacks Rise of Damnation- hurts all characters and does about 120 unguarded Effect: bringsdefense to 0 Hush- does about 75 unguarded Effect: none Attack Up- He only uses this once Down to Knees Attacks Music of the Spheres- INCOMPLETE Void Jab- INCOMPLETE Head attacks Personal Attention- does about 100 unguarded Effect: attack down Gagging Gust- does about 75 unguarded Effect: none ------------------------------------------------------- Silent But Deadly Walkthrough by Tastefulmrship- [#TASTE] Credit for the following goes to tastefulmrship from Xbox360achievements.org How to kill Silent God without using HEALTH items. Fill up your hot toddies (8x320 damage), explosive clown noses (4x160 damage) and dynamites (2x1260 damage). You'll need one final ingredient; all 5 double mild weak sauces to reduce his attacks to almost nothing. You'll also need some (or all) of your Support Characters ready to keep the battle flowing. (This is not vital as they will charge-up during the battle.) Use up ALL of your explosive items. This will bring him down to around 38500HP. His first move is always increase attack, so use your first DMWS to reduce it. (He doesn't seem to ever do increase attack again for some reason.) Make sure you use the item after he has done the increase attack, otherwise your DMWS will be canceled out. Attack with normal attacks, remembering to keep an eye on the pink status icon above his strength bar and blocking any attacks he squeezes in. (Each attack will do around 600 damage.)(I tried using 3x Team-Up move, which does 3500+ damage to him, but you need to be good with your blocking as you'll be waiting ages between attacks.) When you see the pink status icon disappear from his strength bar, just get one of your party to use another DMWS to decrease his attacks. At about 38000HP he falls to his waist and at 24000HP he's down to just his head! This is where the fun begins. (You should still have over 300HP for every character. If not, don't worry. You can lose a character and still get the Achievement.) From 24000HP onwards, you need to be good with your block when he charges you. The timing is pretty precise; he will lift a tentacle, then just as you see it move down, hit a trigger button to counter-attack. You'll probably be down to your last DMWS and once it goes, your timing is crucial. (You cannot COUNTER-ATTACK his other move, you can only block it.) Keep pummelling and counter-attackinging away until he's finally defeated! (Give yourself a pat on the back!) The real trick to this strategy is to try and keep the battle flowing as much as possible. If you're attacking him, he can't attack you! (The same applies to all enemies in the game.) So try to join the Support attacks with your Normal ones to minimise his opportunities. It took me three attempts to get the Achievement and at the end Tycho still had 300+HP, the other two had 400+HP. Credit ends here ----------------------------------------------------------- My Suggestions- [#MY] The Silent One is definitely a challenge to beat without health items if you're trying for the achievements. I suggest that you keep him from attacking by chaining your attacks with the help of support characters. What I did was maximized my prototype robot support character by using him in every battle I could before fighting the final boss. His attack gets stronger every time you use him. There is also an amusing sort of scene that occurs depending on how strong you have gotten him. The first scene shows you from a short distance away and then an explosion occurs, the second shows you from out of town and the explosion, and the third (my favorite) shows a view from space were there is a huge state sized explosion. What I find that keeps you alive is getting him down to his knees before he could use the Rise of Damnation which lowers your chances of survival by dropping your defense to 0. He is not too dangerous when he is down to his knees. You can't counter attack any of these attacks, so just keeping blocking. The one person you need to protect most is Tycho because he has the lowest amount of health if you are trying to get the immortal achievement, if not, then don't worry about him. Feed Tycho plenty of defense ups if you're looking for the Immortal achievement. Once the Silent One is down to his head, he starts attacking in chains which makes things a lot tougher. In order to kill him fast, avoid his "Personal Attention" attack because it lowers your attack. If he manages to hit you with it, then use an attack up item. You really need to learn to counter attack his tentacle attack because it will kill you fast. For some reason, he always targets Tycho although sometimes he will attack the others. You will probably have to fight this boss a few times like I did to get the hang of counter attacking and blocking. Once you have that down, you're all set! Good Luck! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Q & A- [#QAA] Q: What is the final boss supposed to be, a giant squid? A:He is actually the god, Cthulhu, dressed as a mime. Q: Cthulhu? A: He is a fictional character from the stories written by H.P. Lovecraft. Q: How do I pronounce that? A: ku-thoo-loo Q: How can I help you complete your guide? A: email me at [email protected] or add me on Xbox Live, gamertag eYe 8 UR BRAINS Q: When does the second episode come out? A: Quarter four of this year.