Asking for clues for "The Face of Madness" achievement

[mike19911209]

I tried to find the answer myself, but I don't have any clues. How can I achieve the achievement "The Face of Madness"?

[Moknicorra]

It triggers upon interacting with the statue that lets you skip to the next quarter of the day. I'm 100% not sure what the exact conditions are, but I think you need to have at least one character reach the Despair level of trauma. At that point (I think, maybe Despair 3), the statue's graphics will change and it'll give you new text when interacting with it.

[mike19911209]

Thank you, I will try it after I pass the level~ haha

[Veracius]

I think there's a collective insanity tracker, the more sanity your characters lose, the higher it gets, even if you recover sanity this tracker won't go down. Pretty sure you can just keep making your characters become more and more desperate until the statue reachest the face of madness level.

[per.ludos.vita]

Do you know how many stages of the statue there are? I've seen three thus far.

[Veracius]

Not sure how many stages but in the last stage the statue is beheaded and covered in thorns . I think maybe 4 or 5.

[per.ludos.vita]

Yeah, I got it after playing a bit more. It looks like there's five stages. Classic Blasphemous-style art and progression—I love it! Missed it completely (along with the changes in each character's portrait as their sanity drops 😱) on my first playthrough because I was so paranoid about letting anybody's sanity get too low, though. 😅

(I didn't need anybody to go past Despair level I, btw. Just let everyone build up to their two unique phobias one at a time, then curing them with panaceas and moving on to the next character, and that seems to have been sufficient.)

[Moknicorra]

Must be a Total Collective Sanity Lost thing, in that case. In the playthrough I got the achievement, Leonora was the only character I'd gotten traumatized with, no one else ever got any further trauma than their initial one. I initially thought the achievement wanted me to kill nuns with Leonora with X level of trauma, so I got her down to despair 3, killed nuns, and the achievement didn't pop. When I went to the statue to skip time and heal Leonora and figure out what to do next, I saw the change and the achievement :P

[Veracius]

Originally posted by Moknicorra:

Must be a Total Collective Sanity Lost thing, in that case. In the playthrough I got the achievement, Leonora was the only character I'd gotten traumatized with, no one else ever got any further trauma than their initial one. I initially thought the achievement wanted me to kill nuns with Leonora with X level of trauma, so I got her down to despair 3, killed nuns, and the achievement didn't pop. When I went to the statue to skip time and heal Leonora and figure out what to do next, I saw the change and the achievement :P

It is collective sanity lost, I comment this in my guide.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3420251585