Achievements / titles question

[Cress]

I know that I need to basically complete every single thing in the game to get all achievements, but something is bugging me: I downloaded the costumes DLC and that gives you some titles that you weren't supposed to get at that point in the game, like the waitress costume, or patty's great pirate title (which you get by viewing all animations from her Mystic Arte).
So, my question is: Can I skip doing the sidequests that otherwise would give me those titles, or are there other unique items or events tied to them that I need for the achievements?

[Tanasinn [AZ]]

I have heard that you need to do the quests that would give you the titles in order to get the achievements.

It makes sense. Give a pack so people who don't really care can get the different outfits quickly and easily, but the die-hard/cheevo hunters have to earn them.

[an unknown entity]

I haven't bought any DLC costumes, but as someone with all titles here is my take on the matter:

I don't think circumventing the events to obtain some titles by buying DLC will cause the achievement not to pop once you get the final title (Estelle's Collector's book title). The only thing that seems to matter is having the titles available on the status screen and not whether you have actually cleared their respective events, as it's also perfectly possible to inherit titles into NG+ through the grade shop, not redo their events, and still get full completion.

For the DLC-based title acquisition to impair achievement progress, they would have had to set up specific ingame flags to punish people for buying them in the first place. I can't really see anyone doing that kind of thing.

At the very least, the DLC titles should allow you to obtain Estelle's final title. If the achievement does NOT pop right then and there, then you will have to actually do the respective events. However, I see no reason not to ignore their sidequests for the time being and see what happens when you get there, as most of these titles seem to be the ones that are not actually missable and more of a pain to obtain through regular play (e.g. Patty's MA title, waitress titles).

[Cress]

Originally posted by an unknown entity:

I haven't bought any DLC costumes, but as someone with all titles here is my take on the matter:

I don't think circumventing the events to obtain some titles by buying DLC will cause the achievement not to pop once you get the final title (Estelle's Collector's book title). The only thing that seems to matter is having the titles available on the status screen and not whether you have actually cleared their respective events, as it's also perfectly possible to inherit titles into NG+ through the grade shop, not redo their events, and still get full completion.

For the DLC-based title acquisition to impair achievement progress, they would have had to set up specific ingame flags to punish people for buying them in the first place. I can't really see anyone doing that kind of thing.

At the very least, the DLC titles should allow you to obtain Estelle's final title. If the achievement does NOT pop right then and there, then you will have to actually do the respective events. However, I see no reason not to ignore their sidequests for the time being and see what happens when you get there, as most of these titles seem to be the ones that are not actually missable and more of a pain to obtain through regular play (e.g. Patty's MA title, waitress titles).

I did the Raven one (learn 100 skills) and obtained the title that I already had since the beginning of the game. So it didn't change anything, besides the extra scene and dialogue...

[an unknown entity]

Originally posted by Cress:

Originally posted by an unknown entity:

I haven't bought any DLC costumes, but as someone with all titles here is my take on the matter:

[...]

I did the Raven one (learn 100 skills) and obtained the title that I already had since the beginning of the game. So it didn't change anything, besides the extra scene and dialogue...

Yes, and in NG+ you also get title notifications for ones you already have. I really think you should ignore the events tied to DLC costumes for now and see whether you'll get the achievement once Estelle's final title has been unlocked. If not, you could easily complete them after the fact since none of them are missable (at least those tied to minigames).

At best, you'll save yourself the hassle of doing a few annoying minigames. At worst, you will lose perhaps 2 hours to them at the very end.