Connoisseur of the Arts Achievement - Total Cash Cost

[GreyGore]

Can someone provide the total amount of cash needed to unlock everything in the gallery? I've been itching to write an achievement guide for the game and in my hurry to complete it, I forgot to take screenshots of each individual gallery category (so as to sum up the total costs) :<

[Zork Nemesis]

Well over a lot. I had half the gallery unlocked when I started playing Extreme. I made close to 40 million bucks in that one playthrough and I still couldn't afford everything that was left. If I had to estimate, expect to spend 80 million.

Some of the TV show art gets expensive too, the most expensive item in the gallery is 1.8 million in TV Art 2 and many TV Art pieces are 800k+

[JP32]

hard and extreme playthroughts didnt get me enough money for everything, but I have around 80% of them unlocked, so I guess I'll have todo one-two extreme playthroughts for getting rest of them

[behindtimes]

67110K

[GreyGore]

Thanks for all the replies :) I figured I'd try to subtract my current cash from the "Total Cash Earned" value from the leaderboards to figure out what I had spent already - it gets me a figure around $67,186K, so I'm thinking I should e-mail the folks at WayForward and ask directly, as it were (unless they could reply here, which would be super convenient :P).

Seeing @behindtimes number (thanks for checking, by the way!), I wonder if I've done a couple of the calculations wrong, though...

@JpJs, From what I've seen, a full playthrough on Hard where you know most of the level layouts (and thus can avoid taking damage when grabbing optional stuff etc) should earn you about $20-ish million (accounting for the three "hidden treasures" worth 1 million each) - each level seem to give anything between $3 and $4,5 million, plus another $1-odd million for the Money Bin tutorial level, plus another $1-ish million from the Mount Vesuvius finale.

Haven't checked what the difference is in Extreme, as I've only had one successful run (in which I actively avoided most of the treasure for fear of losing valuable hearts/lives), but I'd love some more numbers once you're done :).

[behindtimes]

For your calculation, did you make sure to remove the current amount of money not spent from your current cash? E.G. You've collected 123456 gold, but you haven't spent 456 gold. You need to subtract that to find that you spent 123000 gold.

[GreyGore]

I'm moderately sure I did, but it's so late/early here that I've got some doubts :P I'll do it over again tomorrow (later today), most likely. Again, thanks for the replies and taking the time to figure this out :)

[Spacecataz]

First 3 sections cost me 12 million and some change.. 6? more to go.

[JP32]

Just got it, youll need exatly 70817000$ in total, I have 71178400$ in total(45. in leaderboards), and 361400$ "extra" in gallery after getting everything.

And extreme gives you most cash, as many health powerups and extra lives are replaced with diamonds, plus youll get lot more extra cash for completing level.

Also another trick is to get special stage every time, if you havent unlocked everything in gallery yet, its easy to get, as you'll need to have 7 in your current money aumont before going to level.

BTW all achievemnts took me 9h, 3:70 in-game

[GreyGore]

Just completed the achievement (at last), but there's something fishy going on - with a total earned of $67,271,500 and leftover cash of $173,500 it seems the total amount of cash I used to unlock all the art has now dropped to about $67,098,000.

I'm beginning to wonder if maybe not "all" cash collected is tallied into the total, maybe only the cash earned from full runs (i.e. completing the escape from Mt. Vesuvius) is counted? That might explain the discrepancies, if people have had a string of unsuccessful runs (I've had a few on Extreme, plus one on Hard), that might throw the totals off?

Proof screenshots:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=170049041

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=170049058