This guide helps you to watch all the 4 possible endings and get the according achievements (for missables see the corresponding section). Two of which are bad endings, one a more neutral ending, and the last one being the perfect true ending.

I will also provide valuable information on some game mechanics and special items that can be found for those interested. In the map section you can also find different 100% maps that might help you as well.



This guide is currently updated for version 1.5.7. It will receive future updates if it is necessary.
Please let me know if I missed something important that changed because the patchnotes do not mentioned all of the (little yet important) changes.

Official patchnotes: 1.0.20, 1.1.2, 1.3.7, 1.5.7.

The endings are connected to two main conditions:

1. freeing the Mysterious Pirate from the clutches of Short Fuse Jones
2. collect all golden tooths from Flora's crew and obtain Sammy (the speaking skullhead)

Anything else is not important, like freeing the imprisoned pirates or missing out the optional bosses, like the Necromancer or the Lighthouse Keeper. This is because only the crew member bosses of Flora drop the golden tooths which are needed to get Sammy. As Flora Burn does drop one tooth herself you can get Sammy only after triggering the endgame.

Speaking of the endgame. A temporary endgame run will trigger as soon as you freed the Mysterious Pirate and successfully beat Flora Burn in her first encounter at the peak of Samhain Summit. The map won't be easily accessibly anymore because a lot of barriers are placed around the map, and the teleport portals cannot be used again for quite some time. So if you have unfinished business left to do, don't fight her yet.

Hints: With version 1.3.7 and above, you will be able to erase barriers with the serpent magic and Dolores can unlock the portals again in her secret chamber when you reached the ship and spoke to her. You can only access her by unlocking the true ending conditions and beat Flora on her second encounter though.

To erase barriers, just press up when you stand before them after gaining the power to do so. You will keep your savefile at the last savepoint if you finished the game, so you are able to roam back and collect missed achievements or collectibles afterwards. That way you can 100% the game anytime and unlock the true ending as well afterwards.

This game does only know 4 permanently missable achievements, all but one of them are connected to the 4 different endings. Due to their story related progress in which you unlock them, doing the wrong order might end up in missing out up to 3 endings along with their corresponding achievements if you are a perfectionist in your very first playthrough.

Quit and reload if you noticed you have done something you might not wanted to and aim for getting all achievements in a single run:



Running like a coward - This one can be done right off the start of the game until endgame in Samhain Summit starts. I suggest to right do it asap. See chapter 1.3 for details.

Crystallized forever - This one you will miss as soon as you freed the Mysterious Pirate at Banba's Forest, so don't do this (reload if necessary). See chapter 1.4 for details.

Sailing the skies - Most common ending players will unlock. Just don't collect Sammy at the cemetary from Dolores before fighting Flora again. See chapter 1.5 and 1.6

No one can beat me (beat all bosses). There is one true final boss and one special KS campaign boss. The latter, Mamma Ratelli and her Barrelosaurus, will only spawn if you beat Fatso and Fatsie at Fódla's Bog before fighting Flora at Samhain Summit. This is due to the fact that she will occupy the former boss arena. So make sure you did so. See chapter 4.7 for details.

All other achievements, including the most elusive 'The Fighter' achievement, are not permanently missable and can be done after completing the game by just reloading the last savefile and backtravel.


If you want a perfect savefile with which you can go for all 4 endings whenever you want to, don't untie the Mysterious Pirate after fighting Short Fuse Jones (or don't fight that boss at all yet) but collect any other golden tooths. Then save before the first Flora Burn encounter at Samhain Summit peak.

Make a backup of your savegame. For Steam Windows PC your savefile is located in the folder (just copy paste into file explorer)

%APPDATA%\..\LocalLow\Petoons Studio\Curse Of The Sea Rats\SaveData\

There you will find a subfolder with your Steam-ID. The files themselves are named SaveData0.game to SaveData2.game depending which saveslot you used (0 being the first slot).

With this save you can replace or duplicate your progression to another slot anytime. It is best to do this directly in the main menu, without the load game overview opened.

Though it is not mandatory to make such a backup for a 100% achievement singe run as long as you keep to these rules in order to unlock all endings:

1. do the coward ending the soon as possible
2. don't fight Short Fuse Jones (or untie Mysterious Pirate after the fight), fight Flora first
3. then untie Mysterious Pirate and avoid Dolores at the cemetry (shouldn't be hard)
4. after Beating Flora the 2nd time, backtravel and collect Sammy from Dolores

Just quit game and reload your last checkpoint if accidentally untied Mysterious Pirate or collected Sammy too early.

This map shows all crew member bosses needed for the golden tooths, the boss which keeps the Mysterious Pirate captive and should be avoid as long as you want to go for the bad endings, and where the endgame begins to trigger.



This map shows the blocked areas during endgames (red markers) and possible routes to the ship. And also where to find the special boss Mamma Ratelli with her Barrelosaurus, or Dolores for unlocking the portals again after triggering the endgame (only accessible under true ending conditions).


Hints: the route top bottom is the fastest, but only accessible of you opened the secret pre-endgame. You will also miss the Barrelosaurus if you choose the fastest route. In general, using the waterfall slide passage is always the best option to go for to reach the ship faster.

The first ending you can basically already trigger right after the game started. Just don't accept the deal with Admiral Blacksmith to free Timothy to get your freedom back in return.

To do so, just return to the ship and speak to the guard multiple times. He will get annoyed at some point and says he only will let you through with the permission of the Admiral. Go speak to the Admiral to get it. He warns you about the consequences. Just don't care and board the ship anyway to go into jail and leave Timothy in the evil witches hand and an uncertain future.

You should unlock the achievement 'Running away like a coward' with it and the game ends without rescuing Timothy, loosing your chance for amnesty and awaiting your harsh trial in Britain.

Bug: On Switch version receiving the Blacksmith's Permit from the admiral may render you impossible to access inventory for the rest of the game. So I suggest not to collect it until you really want to go back onboard. Reload old save if necessary.

You battle Flora Burn in the first encounter, but without the help of the Mysterious Pirate.

In this case Flora will act like she was defeated, but waits for the right moment to steal the amulet from you. Without it and any further help, you neither be able to free Timothy out of the crystal, nor you will receive the serpent ring, your only chance left to fight Flora again. You have lost to Flora's plan and her trap perfectly worked out. The game directly ends here giving you no chance to enter the endgame at all.

This will unlock the 'Crystallized forever' achievement.

You have to free the Mysterious Pirate by beating Short Fuse Jones and untied him. Then battle Flora Burn at the Samhain Summit. She will neithertheless steal your amulet, but the Mysterious Pirate will help you free Timothy out of the crystal and obtain the old serpent ring of Flora.

This will trigger the endgame in which you follow Flora back to the ship through a maze because a lot of ways are blocked by barriers Flora left for you to slow your down. Teleport potals are now inaccessible as well because the serpent ring does not have such powers and the heroes don't accept selling their soul for dark magic. Find your way around and walk. There are multiple paths, the fasted one going over the Home of the Morrigan area and using the Spider Cave - waterfall slide to LaChusa's Pit. But if you do so, you will miss the special boss fight Mamma Ratelli (a Kickstarter stretchgoal boss). If you play the game first, go over the Chu Chulainn Road, you automatically stumble over this boss then. Take a look on the endgame map in the map section to find a suitable route for you. Some are only accessible if you opened secret passages before or you obtained the necessary key for the door.

When you reached the ship, just fight your way through to Flora Burn. You will be able to beat her, but she will once again trick you. She will obtain the amulet and the ring this time, making her almighty at last. She will set off laughing with the now cursed flying ship. You will remain being rodents.

This will unlock the 'Sailing the skies' achievement.

This time you will not only free the Mysterious Pirate after the boss fight with Short Fuse Jones, but also collect all 7 tooths before challenge Flora Burn personally. The Mysterious Pirate will return the favor and free Timothy out of the crystal and also helps you to get the much needed serpent ring. Now make your way to the cemetary to Dolores (above the temple entrance nearby) to recruit Sammy. This will then automatically lead you to the true ending.

With the last golden tooth from Flora Burn Dolores can revive her former lover Sammy to an undead flying skull being (a fun camo of Murray the talking skull from Monkey Island). You will also unlock the 'Golden Smile' achievement with it. Sammy will act as a companion that will randomly bite the enemies and has a big grudge on Flora for personal matters.

Hint: it may happen that Sammy disappears during your endgame run. You can just save and reload to get him back, or you just don't care about. The game will neithertheless take into account that he is with you and join you for the final fight against Flora at the end.

Fight your way to the ship to confront Flora again. This time, after you beat Flora, Sammy will prevent Flora from getting the amulet and the ring. Instead Short Fuse Jones will pick them up and will mutate to Long Fuse Jones in the process. But before you fight him in an extra 3 phased final boss battle, make sure to drop down and visit Dolores again if you want to unlock the portals again with her voodoo magic.

After beating Long Fuse Jones, Wu Yun, the ghost sensei, will recover your human forms and scatter the ring and amulet into different directions to prevent them from ever be claimed again. You will unlock the 'No more fur' achievement with it. Also the 'No one can beat me' (beat all bosses) if you faced Mamma Ratelli in the endgame run.

Note: With version 1.3.7 the post credits scene with a short teaser was removed (intended or by accident we don't know). However, with 1.5.7 it is displayed again and may be a hint we may get a sequel one day hopefully.

First off, you can change characters anytime on any savespot. Later on you will get the transmutation ring if you beat Morrìgan (an optional boss) which grants you the power to switch characters on the fly. So don't bother, you are not nailed down to one character for the rest of the game. It is meant to use all characters to their full potential. Feel free to test them out by yourself and level them up depending on how urgently you need their special abilities for certain bosses or situations.

The following judgement is my personal one based on my experiences, the ingame abilities and stats of the characters. Note that they do not differ if you chose the (much easier) Jolly Roger or (harder) classic mode.

But still pick the character who pleases your overall gamestyle most or tactical switch to another if you plan to fight certain bosses or to cross a dangerous area (eg. using David's or Akane's dash in the Cliff of the Winds, or Buffalos ranged attack in the Moonlight Lough).

Hint:
• DPS is judged on damage and attack speed
  
• Defense and critical hits is a combined judgment of more than one stat

See the next sections to learn their specific strenghts and max stats. Some of them have to be unlocked by beating certain bosses or bought with spirit points later on to get the full potential of the character.

• Role:            All-Rounder, Good Beginners Character, Highest DPS Mage
  
• Element:     Fire
  
• Dash:          Floating Forward Dash
• Hitbox:        Normal
  
• Attack rate:  Medium
  
• Defense:     Parry

* the milk bottle will gain you +50 HP and the blacksmith (not the admiral) +10 to attack permanently


Pros:

David has an straight floating dash making him a good beginners character. He has a vampiric life leech abilityon his base attack which will safe a lot of consumables. His fire magic is one of the top damage magic dealing attacks in the game due to the burning effect which can be unlocked later on. Also, David has also the funniest dialogues in the game.

Cons:

David has the lowest weapon damage but still with a fair attack speed due to his 4 hit combo you can unlock.

• Role:            Ranged Combat, Stealth, Supporter
  
• Element:      Air (Thunder, Wind)
  
• Dash:          Rolling Dash (invu frame)
  
• Hitbox:        Normal
  
• Attack rate: High
  
• Defense:     Dodge (Counterattack)

* the milk bottle will gain you +50 HP and the blacksmith (not the admiral) +10 to attack permanently


Pros:

Buffalo was balanced a lot during the recent patches, but she has still the fastest combo attack speed giving her still a fair DPS output. She is also great in ranged combat and stealth attacks to play things safe. She is a perfect supportive coop character with her electrocuting ranged attacks. Also her Dodge ablity is a better version of Parry as it directly counter damages enemies. Her rolling dash also has an invu frame that lets you roll through enemies and shots, making her pretty good if you are used to evasive characters. Playing out her rolls and ranged attacks make things pretty easy. She is a typical high risk big reward character with options to go ranged whenever necessary.

Cons:

Her specializations come with a big price. Buffalo has a weak defense and only little HP, so you need to be really careful with her if you go in for melee attacks (so use dashes a lot). She has also no own healing ability, means she has to rely on consumables or you have to use the transmutation trick to switch to Bussa to heal. Be careful with the aerial knives attack, they will stop her momentum midair completely. Buffalo is a fragile but good boss fighter in experienced hands. She lacks good platforming capabilities though and is because of this a character more suitable for experienced players.

• Role:           Heavy Tank
  
• Element:     Earth
  
• Dash:          Floating Attack
  
• Hitbox:        Normal
  
• Attack rate: Slow
• Defense:     Steady Block (100% safe except boss attacks or contact damage)

* the milk bottle will gain you +50 HP and the blacksmith (not the admiral) +10 to attack permanently


Pros:

Bussa is an underestimated character. His best part is the unique block that ignores incoming damage and can be hold - no need to time anything like with the other characters. Also he has a lot HP and defense. This makes him an awesome boss killer as you can survive the nastiest attacks. He could be the gamechanger for the still missing harder game modes from the KS stretchgoals. His healing magic is also a good thing during map roaming, you will need much less items. With the patch to 1.5.7 he got also a floating dash, that does deal additional damage, making it the best dash form of all characters for the time being.

Cons:

He is mostly focused on defense, so he does not deal a lot damage. Unfortunetally the voice acting is sort of weird, the intended accent feels just off and not fitting. Breaks a lot of immersion in my opinion. Although he got constantly buffed over time, I just can't really like this character's playstyle anyway.

• Role:           All-Rounder, High DPS, Versatile Mage
  
• Element:     Water
  
• Dash:          Floating Forward Dash
  
• Hitbox:        Big (upwards and w/ multistab)
  
• Attack rate: Medium
  
• Defense:     Parry

* the milk bottle will gain you +50 HP and the blacksmith (not the admiral) +10 to attack permanently


Pros:

Akane is a pretty versatile character. She has a the biggest weapon hitbox with upward attacks and the multistabbing move. And she does inflict extra damage if you use aerial attacks. In fact after Buffalo got nerfed, she is the top DPS character at the moment. She also can unlock an basic ranged attack that comes in handy a lot of times (though it seems to not trigger always). She is also the only character that can perform a triple bounce arial attack from above if you keep holding the down and attack button - this will inflict a lot of damage. She has like David a floating dash perfect for platforming parts.

Akane has the ability to auto-refill her energy (1 orb every minute). This gives her technically unlimited usage of magic attacks if she has the time to wait for it. This can be helpful with the boss Mamma Ratelli or Morrìgan because the magic attack Tsunami will hit them even when you cannot by normal means.
Also don't bother to abuse her to recharge your energy when you have the Transmutation Ring.

Cons:

Akane, like Buffalo, has no healing and therefore has to rely on item healing. The low defense and little health does force you to plan your attacks careful with her.

This is a surival mode over 10 rounds (checkpoints), each containing multiple waves with enemies, one or multiple bosses at once to challenge your might. In addition the time will be taken to challenge you even more.

Your character is always level 1, but has basic abilities like magic lvl 1, dash or double jump. You will gain choosable perks, also some fixed item set and abilities over time. If you die, you have to start from scratch.

• learn the waves and train bosses before speedrunning
  
• try out different characters, each character are strong/weak against certain bosses
  
• use the buff items at boss fights, don't safe them too much
  
• use the 2 milk bottles as healing items (+50 perma-health but 100% refill of HP as well)
  
• try not to get hit too much, health is critical (except for Bussa)
  
• attack/crit related perks are better for speedrunning (what dies fast does not deal damage)

David Douglas ⭐

Right off the start quite good, but without his usual perks like the vampiric attack he lacks the cutting edge to be a good speedrunning character. His strength is a good weapon hitbox and the standard magic attack that is always a good option for some quick ranged extra damage.

Akane Yamakawa ⭐

Although she is my favorite character in the story mode, she lacks critical abilities like the ranged attack or extra aerial damage. Her standard magic is not too useful, and the multistabbing stops you too long in the tracks that makes you vulnerable a lot. She has the same issues fighting bosses like David as she is as fragile as Buffalo but has much less options. The only very good attack is the triple-bounce on enemies, but that doesn't work on many bosses well enough to even things up.

Bussa ⭐⭐

Like formerly predicted, Bussa is very useful in hefty battles as he tanks a lot and can heal himself with his abilities you gain later. He does also deal good damage and his attack dash is pretty good. Unfortunetally his magic attacks are quite useless, and the awesome block does not work against bosses. Still he is the best choice if you want to win the survival mode.

Buffalo Calf ⭐⭐⭐

Although she went through some big nerfs, she is one hell of a high-risk-big-reward character that has lots of options. Even her standard magic attack is useful. She has problems to deal much damage and is very fragile though. But her evasive roll with the invu frame does pay off against bosses a lot. Melee attacks inflict more combo damage, but using ranged attacks or magic at the right time can be faster and keeps you from getting unnecessary damage. Her aerial attacks and non-floating far rolls makes her difficult to control, but if you get the hang of it, she is very powerful and has the best speedrunning capabilties at the moment.

She is actually the best character in my opinion for quick runs due to her unique advantages. My personal best is 11:07 atm and there is still enough space to enhance things. Though I think getting below 10 minutes is nearly impossible.

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Legend:

• beige - normal rooms
  
• golden - secret rooms (usually have to be force opened; 19 rooms in total)
  
• red - boss room
  
• blue/cyan - portals (have to be activated in exchange of spirit points)
  
• green - savepoints (replensih health and orbs, buy upgrades, switch difficulty and character)

Note: In fact completion marker can exceed the 100% to 103% ish.




I marked everything important I mention in the sections below.


If you want a more detailed one with nearly every information, this external map is one of the best I found so far. You will find the download link in the description of the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGRQ4IAbtpY

Defeating Morrìgan in Home of the Morrigan will grant you the Transmutation Ring. A very awesome item. Like the Tasmanian Sword in the game 'Wonderboy Dragons Trap' you can change your character whenever you want. Use it directly in the inventory, or press the left analog stick on your controller. For keyboard players it is the TAB key. Careful, you will get stalled for a whole second.

Use this to your advantage. With fully upgraded characters, you can always auto-refill your energy switching to Akane, go for range attack with Buffalo, or heal yourself with Bussa whenever you see fit.

Hint: you need 3 stones to open the door to the Home of the Morrigan. See the map I provided. For one stone you have to visit Dan Black first to get to know that Charlie (a fun camo of Harold from Day of the Tentacle) has the stone to be able to obtain it from him.

Fighting the optional boss Necromancer you will get the Resurrection Ring which will automatically heal you when you die. But it is a one use item. After this, it transforms into the Dull Resurrection Ring, rendering it useless until the Necromancer is fought and beaten again, and its power gets replenished. Technically, you can fight and defeat the Necromancer unlimited times as he is an immortal boss.


The Necromancer has 3 phases. The first one is easy, but the other two are working on platforms. if you fall off, you will die instantly. The second phase is the most difficult, while on the third one you just stay on the roating platforms, and use ranged attack or upward attack when beneath the boss.

During second phase I suggest you stay mostly on the big shield platforms as long as possible because the small one will vanish more quickely - and if you are still going to use them, watch and position yourself always close to the bigger ones to have always a kind of a safety net. Be aware that the giant hands of the Necromancer are also platforms themselves, ideal attack positions for Buffalo's ranged attacks.

Clever movement during the platforming parts is important to prevent a quick death, so characters with floating dashes are a good thing to use. And just don't rush it. The boss doesn't deal a lot of damage. Use long ranged attacks (Buffalo) or magic attacks (Akane) if you want to play it safe.

Also note that the blue plasma balls can be deflected with attacks (Akane's upward attack is shielding you perfectly).

In general power ups work on all characters at once.

Don't miss to drink the Milk Bottle from the farm house. It will grant you +50 max HP permanently.

Also get a Shilling (2 can be found, but you only need 1) and visit the lighthouse with it (the key to the lighthose is in LaChusa's Pit. If you use the left telescope on the top of the lighthouse, you will unlock the blacksmith (not Admiral Blacksmith). He will upgrade your weapon and raise your basic attack by +10 permanently if you talk to him.

With the new version Petoons added the Explorer Googles that unlocks the bestiary to help you keep track of the enemies which you defeated during your acutal game run.

There are two specific achievements related to the bestiary which needs you to defeat (not kill) every enemy ('The Fighter' achievement) and bosses ('No one can beat me' achievement) at least once.

You will get the googles by defeating Banana Rama, so you won't have them from the start. You can then access the bestiary over the inventory by selecting them. The 'Show Info' button currently don't seems to work and is displaying no informations at all.

The enemies in the bestiary are sorted by type. Means it is difficult to predict the area they are to find by their respective position in the list. Many of them have multiple spots to be found and will hardly be missable, so I will just mention one possible spot for them just in case. Though there are a few pretty difficult to find or often ignored enemies I will mark with a star.

There are 2 bosses and 2 mobs not listed in the bestiary, but 2 unknown extra spots. While the missing bosses are mandatory to get the 'No one can beat me' achievement, it is not known if that goes for the mob enemies as well. So I will give them a (honorable) mention here just in case:

Safe your level-up elixiers you usually find in secrets for higher levels. Best is to use them around level 35-40 before the endgame in Samhain Summit as max level is 50. Still keep some to make boss fighs easier (see chapter about easy boss fights). It is not mandatory to waste them, XP is easily farmed along the way. Also, for pure XP farming, it is not necessary to collect the money or spirits on the ground. XP is gained instantly the enemy dies.

The game uses adaptive enemy levels connected to story progression, so level of enemies may vary along with their respective XP, gold or spirit they drop.

Note: Jolly Roger mode enemy mobs only respawn if you reach a save room and not if you reenter the room. So farming in classic mode is much much faster and adviced. So switch temporarily if necessary.

Two of my favorite farming spots can be found here:




This place is in general an awesome midgame farming point. If you use Buffalo Calf's long ranged triple knives attack to spread damage and detonate swarms of the lvl16 Fireflies, you will level up quickly while roaming through the area. You can also just leave and reenter the areas again to let the enemies respawn instantly to kill them even quicker.


Better, especially for pre-endgame gold and level farming, is the temple (Ancient Ruins). Right above the Necromancer lair there is a room with quite a bunch of lvl22/24 skeleton enemies that can be eradicated quickly or easily with a ranged-combat character like Buffalo. Alternatively you can use area-of-effect magic to wipe them out quickly. Most effeciently with David's Tornado. Also his vampiric attack will provide constant healing while you clean the room. Just leave and reenter this area and keep killing. I prefer to enter the room from below and release the Tornado magic, then clean the rest with standard attacks.


At the very same spot, if you are more lazy you can just drop down to the high chamber from above and kill that lvl30 Wraith Berserk for a huge amount of XP, gold and spirit points quickly as he uncloaks right next to you. Then just jump up to switch screen, drop down below and rince and repeat the procedure.

As long as you are able to kill it before it attacks you with 1-3 blows, it is super fast to get to level 50 with it.

Bosses can be tough, especially when you are lower than LVL 30 and playing the classic mode with contact damage. While it is always an option to come back later when you are at higher levels, sometimes you just don't want to avoid them for gathering certain abilities or sidequest items.

But as long as you don't get robbed, money will never be an issue in this game. So shopping and using healing items during boss fights will make this game pretty easy.

While healing items can be collected, most of them are unique and should be avoided to waste them. But there are five healing items that can be bought unlimited times from the shop (some of them only later in the game). Always fill up your inventory with them before boss fights and assign them to the quick use function:
1. Healing Nostrum (100 HP, max 10)
2. Healing Nostrum+ (200 HP, max 5)
3. Healing Nostrum++ (400 HP, max 3)
4. Tasty Sandwich (150 HP, max 10)
5. Apple (75 HP. max 10)

They give you a whopping 5450 HP of extra time for brainless hack'n slaying while tanking damage. Use them aplenty in the boss fights to make them a real breeze. Only Mamma Ratelli and the Necromancer can still be still difficult due to their special fight mechanics.

And if you want to be real smug, keep your level-up elixiers (which can be found in secrets usually) for later, very difficult boss fights or final bosses. Every level-up comes with a free fill-up of all HP and energy for all players still alive and can also be assigned to the shortcut function. This makes them the best healing items in the game. You will get more than 10 in the game. Just don't waste them, but use them wisely on boss fights you have most troubles with.

So actually just recklessly hack and slay the bosses to death and use your expendable consumables regularly to keep you alive. See bosses tremble facing this almighty power they can't do anything about.

Remember that you can furthermore switch difficulty anytime to Jolly Roger mode if you need to at savepoints if you are stuck on a fight. Without contact damage most bosses are way more easy to beat. It will be possible to switch back to classic mode later. There will be no downsides for cheesing things via temporary difficulty change.

Hint: The game also supports a local hotdrop in/out coop mode for up to 4 players at once. And Petoons still didn't added a proper adaptive difficulty for coop mode. For every player joining the party things get more easy, especially because you can revive each other and have more overall DPS. Only downside is that you have to share your spirit points for purchasing abilities. But it will be still more beneficial to grab some friends to help you out and have more fun anyway.

Mamma Ratelli (a fun camo of Mama Fratelli from The Goonies movie) and her Barrelosaurus is a KS stretchgoal boss added to the game. That's why this boss is no regular bossfight. You can only find her during the endgame and is missable. The very same boss area where you fomerly had fought and beated Fatso and Fatsie in the Fódla's Bog swamp. If you missed out Fatso and Fatsie she is permanently missable.

You can damage the Barrelosaurus with the red explosive barrels by attacking them. This does also apply to multiple barrels at once (easier to perform with David or Akane due to their bigger weapon hitboxes) and even hitting and repel them midair.

Also you can damage the boss with the most powerful magic attack. This makes Akane a valuable character against Barrelosaurus. Her auto-energy refill ability gives you regularly a free magic attack. Keep in mind it got nerfed drastically with patch 1.3.7 (refill need 5 times more time).

If you have the Transmutation Ring from Morrìgan consider switching to David to do the Blazing Tornado fire magic attack - it is the strongest if you leveled him up. Then switch back to Akane. Be careful with the transmutation stall time. Don't get knocked off the screen by the flying barrels or you will die instantly.

If you play out your cards well the fight can be done in less than 60 secs.

With version v1.3.7 Petoons erased the insta-death ftom the game (except some boss fights) when falling off limits or pits. In fact, especially in the Lighthouse, Erius and Banba Forest you can fall off and land on lower levels. This can be used as a direct shotcuts anywhere you see fit. Basically you will always land in the section directly underneath or close by the room you fell off on the map.

But there is one particular horizontal special shortcut passage behind the waterfall between the areas LaChusa's Pit and the Spider Nest that should be pointed out. To use this passage you have to crouch.


This is super handsome to skip the Cliff of the Winds while travelling from west to east, and vice versa. During endgame it is always a good way to get back to the ship more easily. Especially the Home of the Morrigan route (if the secret was opened pre-endgame) it is in fact the fastest way which will also skip an optional boss fight.

Those shotcuts are perfect for any speedrunning purposes.

In the corner room to the far east of the Ancient Ruins, Petoons added a Treasure Map in a chest that once was occupied by a Carrot Cake with the patch 1.1.2. This map does unreveal the locations of all buried treasures for the sidequest marked with 'M' in the Banba Forest.

Other treasures than that won't be revealed on the world map though.

Grand reopening, thanks to Dolores! ♥

One of the most criticized mechanics in the first released version was that once the endgame triggered, portals were closed for good and barriers were still spreaded around the world. This made backtravelling for collectibles very difficult and is against usual Metroidvania open-world principles.

Petoons had a heart for their player fanbase and added Dolore's portal service with v1.3.7. She will replace Wu Yun's portals with her voodoo magic. Though she will be only available (for story reasons) before the very final boss if you met the true ending conditions.

You will find her right after fighting Flora the second time and before the true boss battle by dropping down the floor. Access the left portal room and pay to activate her portal to set her voodoo service up and running. Enjoy having the portals back.

In the Fisherman's Cave you will come across some imprisoned 'sailors' - that claim to be innocent. They will ask you to get the key from their canid guardian right next to them.

To do so you have to retrieve the old bone for the dog from a chest in the far upper section if Fisherman's Cave. You can then give them the key to open the cage. If you do so, however, they will knock you out and steal all your money.

There is neither a benefit for freeing those pirates, nor you will find them later on to get back your money once they ran off with it. As money can be farmed easily in this game this is no big issue though. But if you want to free them anyway, I suggest spending all your money in the shop before you do that.

However, if you gave the old bone to the dog, you will find the dog chewing on the bone later near Mollys Warehouse. So you may give the bone to the dog, but not the key to the pirates. One happy dog, and some scoundrels stay were they belong, best solution in my opinion.

Hint: In the game Hollow Knight there is a quite similar event if you trust people too easily. You will get ripped off by a banker as soon as you horded too much on your account. But in this particular case you can find him later on in the game and punish him to get back your money.

If you have any advises, additions or critics to this guide feel free to leave me a comment.