Any decent guide on getting titles?

[E.P.D. Gaffney]

So, I decided I'd get all the titles in the game, starting with S-ranking all the difficulties I hadn't S-ranked. So far this is working out, except on Easy I beat the game in about 100 minutes but didn't unlock Lightning Speed.

Lightning Speed says to beat the game in 'under 2 hours, on any difficulty'. Yet, it turns out Easy doesn't count. Which is annoying as S-ranking requires you to take a lot of extra time on some fights (notably the R-04 GRAD fight that you can normally just skip entirely and takes like 20 minutes to S-rank), causing my Hard run to clock in at just over 2 hours.

Another one is Precision Machine. Says to cut 30 limbs, and yet what it actually means is you need to cut 30 of each limb.

[Pekeponzer]

Don't know if you still need help but:

- Precision machine actually requires you to sever off 30 of each bodypart (head, both arms, both legs). Easiest way is to check your stats on a certain difficulty after a run is complete, make note of how much you need of each and go to 07 to farm them (kill enemies, save, restart, hammer guys don't count for legs)

- Lightning Speed requires normal+ run, even though it doesn't state it. Ran into the same problem as well

- For the "speedrun" titles (within a certain amount of hours, no dying), I suggest doing a speedrun and a second run where you do all S. While an all S run within the timelimit is technically possible, the game tracks your titles independently, meaning you don't have to do them all in one run

Also I hope you've done "naked and unloved" before doing S-rank runs, as the only way to do it after getting a HP/FC upgrade is to start a new game (not a save file, mind you) which wipes all of your customization progression & rankings.

Side note: I've been thinking of making a mega guide for all collectibles/combat sections to have a guide on steam but will have to see if I can muster the motivation to make it

[E.P.D. Gaffney]

Thanks. I did get all these and find out all that, with the exception of Naked and Unloved, but my file already had nearly all the S ranks by the time I decided to collect titles. I hope I can find a way to hex-edit the save or something. It's weird design the way it is.

I got my S ranks and Lightning Speed at the same time actually. Probably on the normal difficulty run.

Ha I've considered making a guide as well but never found the time and motivation, either. I think better guides for the DLC wouldn't be amiss as well. I'm finding Blade Wolf's VR04 really hard to S-rank on Easy because it seems set up to make it easy to beat but not easy to S-rank, whilst I remember S-ranking it without major trouble on either VH or Revengeance (I think the VR missions are fixed at Revengeance settings for both difficulties anyway).