100% Achievement Guide

Here's an easy-to-follow guide on how to get all 26 achievements in Shantae: Risky's Revenge (Director's Cut).

Standard Achievements

These achievements involve doing general things that don't focus much on combat.

Ret-2-Go!

Beat the ambush


The first achievement you'll get. When you first start a new game, you'll have to fight a wave of enemies attacking your lighthouse. Simply defeat them by using your hair whip attack and the achievement is yours.

You Are Here!

Get the map


After you first fight Risky, you can head into Scuttle Town and purchase a map at the store for 20 gems (if you're low on gems, you can just go on the outskirts of the town and fight a few enemies). The store is in the middle layer of Scuttle Town to the right with a reddish covering above it. If the achievement doesn't unlock when you buy it, open up your inventory and look at the map, and it should unlock.

Yakkety Yak!

Talk to all NPCs in town


You'll be able to talk to everyone at the start of the game. Go from left to right in each plane and it should take you about a minute. They're very easy to find and get to, except for one girl on a roof on the back plane (you need to go on the plane behind that one and jump to it using one of the panels).

Enough For Everyone!

Max out potions


Slightly misleading description, because you also need to max out magic vials, not just potions. You can hold 9 potions and 9 magic vials, and they can only be bought at the shop in Scuttle Town. Each individual potion costs 10 gems and each magic vial costs 15 gems, though you can purchase three at a time for a slighlty discounted price (25 gems for 3 potions and 40 gems for 3 magic vials). If you purchase them via the discounted three packs, it will cost you 195 gems.

Heart of Stone

Puppy Denied


When you reach the forest, you'll have to find a zombie named Rottytops (she's to the very right of the first plane when you enter the forest). Talk to her and she'll give you a puppy. Now keep going farther back into the forest and you'll eventually find the first dungeon. Head right of it, and you'll find another area of the forest. Keep jumping back and you'll find a house which you can enter.

Talk to the lady inside and she'll notice that you have her puppy. When she asks if she can have it back, choose no, and you'll get the achievement.

Play Dead!

Kill the puppy


When you return the puppy to the chef (you'll eventually have to give it to her) and after the chef gives you the Tasty Meal, crouch down next to the dog and whip it with your hair. It'll fly in the air as well as leave some gems and give you the achievement.

Old Moneybags!

Max out the gem counter


You need to have 999 gems to get this achievement. I suggest going through your journey as normal without spending too much gems at the shop. Look for chests and pots in caves or dungeons (the Hypno Baron's dungeon has lots of gems).

Speed Run the Baron's Lair

Lab 2 speed run


Very misleading achievement. You may be thinking that you need to get a fast time on the Battle Tower (since it has a timer and some may consider it the 2nd lab), but you actually have to beat the Hypno Baron's dungeon [apparently] within a certain amount of time (the Hypno Baron's dungeon is where the 3rd seal is on the shore). I don't know the exact amount of time that you have to beat it, but I slacked off a bit and still got it on my first try.

Got the Touch, Got the Power!

Own all magic and book upgrades


All of the magic and book upgrades are purchased in the Scuttle Town shop. You can purchase a few for just gems, but most will also require magic jam. If you want all of the upgrades, you will need all 17 magic jams and about 2055 gems.

Cross Your Heart!

Beat the game with no Heart Holders


There are 3 heart holders in the game. Their locations (also pictured below):

• In a chest on top of a pillar near the start of Lilac Fields
  
• In a chest in a cave in the forest where everything is dark
  
• In a chest in an underwater cavern near the lighthouse

Simply avoid opening these chests and finish the game. The only real difficult parts without extra hearts are the Battle Tower and the final boss battle. I suggest bringing tons of potions wherever you go if you're trying to get this achievement.

Enemy/Magic achievements

These achievements involve fighting enemies in certain ways or using certain items.

Bonfire!

Burn a Vine Pot


Vine Pots can be found in the first dungeon. Purchase the fireball item from the shop in Scuttle Town (for 30 gems) and fire it at the plant to watch it burn.

Electric Squid!

Beat Boss 1 with only electricity


The first boss (the Squid Baron) is at the end of the dungeon in the forest. Make sure you have the Storm Puff or any of it's upgrades with you. When the Squid Baron goes to the side and spawns mini squids, use as many Storm Puffs as you can and it should deal a lot of damage. If done right, you can beat him in less than a minute with this.

Elephant Obliteration!

Stomp more than 6 blocks in a row


You'll find the Elephant Stomp in a small cave to the right of the Battle Tower in the desert (where you get the 2nd seal). You need to destroy a rock with the elephant charge to get inside the room with it.

When you get the Elephant Stomp, use it on the blocks next to you to get the achievement.

Pikeball Power!

Keep Pikeball active for 2 min


You can purchase a pikeball for 50 gems at the store. I suggest you also purchase the Magic Fill item for 150 gems+1 magic jam before attempting this achievement so that your magic can refill. Activate your pikeball and find a place with mini magic vials so you can grab them while your magic meter depletes (or you could find an area with a bunch of enemies and hope that they leave some magic). If you drink a magic vial from the store, your pikeball will stop. If you have the Magic Fill book, you should only need one or two mini vials to last two minutes.

Fire Breath!

Stomp a dragon head


You'll find some dragonheads throughout the game, although the best place to stomp some is in the Hypno Baron's dungeon, since there are about three that can be stomped.

You'll also have to stomp one to get to Risky's lair, so this achievement is unmissable.

Move Over Zeus!

Kill 50 enemies with lightning


You can purchase the standard Storm Puff item in the Scuttle Town shop for 50 gems (as well as the upgrades if you have more gems and some magic jam). Aside from the Storm Puff, I also recommend buying either magic vials or the Magic Fill item so that you can get some magic power. The Storm Puff item is a bit slow and it might take a while to get this achievement, however there's an easy way to do this.

Go to the Pumpkin Fields and you'll find some pillars with some enemies walking on them. Lots of enemies spawn here, so try and create a cloud above a bunch of them. If done right, you should be able to kill at least 5 enemies. When they're dead, walk to the right a bit and go back so that they'll spawn again. Do this for about 2 minutes and you'll have the achievement.

Romper Stomper!

Kill 100 enemies via stomp


Same thing as the Move Over Zeus achievement. While the Pumpkin Fields is a great place to rack up kills, you should also use stomps on your journey since it's very powerful (if you use it enough, you might not even have to use the Pumpkin Field trick).

And Stay Down!

Kill the same skeleton 6 times


You'll first find skeletons in the Hypno Baron's dungeon (the one on the shore), but afterwards they'll spawn in places such as the forest. Hit it with your hair a few times and it'll die, and eventually come back to life. It only takes one hit to kill it if you've killed it before, so it shouldn't be too hard.

Late Night Gamer!

Kill a Druid at midnight


Druids are the wizard-like creatures with robes that cast spells on you. They can be found in the Hypno Baron's dungeon, but will also spawn at places such as the mayor's Seaside Resort later on. Either wait until it's 12:00 a.m. in real life to kill one or you could try changing your steam date.

Tinkercide

Destroy all Tinkerbats the Sunken Cavern.

The Sunken Cavern is a shooting area where you control Shantae and fight off several types of enemies, and is located in the same underwater path you follow to face of Risky. Tinkerbats are the small pirate enemies that will attack you with spears. Go to the left of the screen and keep moving up and down while firing and you should get just about all of them. If you miss one, you can restart by going back to the area of water you were at before (or reload a save). I somehow got this achievement after destroying the first half of tinkerbats (not sure if it'll unlock if you do the same).

Potions Smotions

Beat the genie clone without using potions or magic vials


The genie clone is the final boss of the game and she can be quite difficult. I suggest you find all of the heart containers and get both the Mega Pike Ball and the Super Silky Creme to make this fight easier. Before you fight her, you'll have to fight Risky in her ship. Her ship will be destroyed when you hit the 4th explosive barrel so drink a potion before that so you'll have full health.

Now you'll have to fight the genie. Here are her main attacks:

• Monkey Bullet: She'll do the monkey dance, turn into a monkey, and shoot to the opposite walls. You can try hitting her as she moves up and down, but when she stops moving, get out of her path
  
• Elephant Charge+Stomp: She'll do the elephant dance and charge at you. Then she'll keep stomping from left to right in the air. At first, she'll only stomp halfway across the screen, but when you hit her enough she'll stomp all the way
  
• Mermaid Bubble: She'll do the mermaid dance and go into the air and shoot bubbles. At first they're easy to dodge, but when you hit her enough she'll do more at a faster speed. You can either try dodging them or hide under her (although she'll fall on you and you'll lose a bit of health)
  
• Running: She'll run from left to right and will occasionally jump. Simply avoid her when she does this

Follow these tips and you should be able to defeat her without drinking a potion.

Ending Achievements

Mighty Shantae Champ!

Seen ALL endings


There are four endings in Risky's Revenge (which to be honest aren't that different aside from the ending images). You'll get the Mighty Shantae Champ achievement for getting all of them. Here's how to get each individual ending:

Be the Hero!

Seen ending 1
Ending picture: Shantae

Beat the game without collecting everything and with a total playtime over 4 hours.

Completionist!

Seen ending 2
Ending Picture: Risky

Beat the game with everything collected and with a total playtime over 4 hours.

Speedy and Greedy!

Seen ending 3
Ending Picture: Rottytops

Beat the game with everything collected and with a total playtime under 4 hours.

Speed Runner!

Seen ending 4
Ending Picture: Bikini Shantae

Beat the game with a total playtime under 2 hours. It does not matter if you have everything or not.

Some Tips

Things to be collected for endings 2 and 3:

• 17 Magic Jams
  
• 3 Heart Holders
  
• All 13 Spells/upgrades in the store
  
• Map

Here is a complete map that shows all collectibles in the game[fc01.deviantart.net]

Tips for speedrunning:

• Know your way around the game
  
• Use Shantae's backwards dash
  
• Don't be scared to stop for supplies: you'll never know when you'll need them
  
• Save! If you screw up on something you can just reset and go back to your save with your wasted time back
  
• For ending 3, try and collect everything in each area in one go. For example, if there's an area that has one magic jam that requires the monkey bullet, and another jam that requires the elephant stomp, don't bother going there unless you have both

Credits

Hope you found this guide to be helpful. Aside from myself I would like to thank the following for the creation of this guide:

WayForward: Making such a great game as well as others such as Mighty Switch Force (and finally making a PC version of this game)
Nintendo Power: Helped me discover about Shantae and provided a very helpful map in their Holiday 2010 issue
Steam user Bαcon: Fixed an error regarding speedrun times and linked a useful map

Hopefully we can get a PC version of Mighty Switch Force or the original Shantae game.

EDIT: At least we got one down.

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[『•Guuh•』]

Thank you

[KingChoi]

Thank you very much!

[STRΛNGER]

Do ending chievos unlock if I go with magic mode!? And if yes, does it help the run to become faster or should I stick to original?

[十六夜Shiny☆]

thank you

[bw-jack]

Nice guide.

[TransparentBlue]

Late but since it's not mentionned anywhere on this guide, you're triggering the quick kill glitch (iirc it's either damaging the boss within the same frame as taking damage or hitting the boss with several attacks on the same frame) which will not get you the achievement if you do it even on accident.

[Sliter]

Hey thanks for this! helped a lot, specially on the kill count ones.
Sadly I got a bit spoiled looking the achievements before finishing the game first time lol
But I have a problem with the "Potions Smotions", my final battle aways end strange...

-First go: not all itens, last spikeball upgrade activated and hair attacks, no potions used ,[/strike]Final destination[/strike], the game just " blocked" my movements and the screen fadded, but the boss still battling, she turned into elephant and did the stomp combo while the screen was fadding, then it went to the last cutscene as I won the battle, and no [potions] archievment, the battle looked kinda fast...
-the next 2~3 I've lost lol
-Last go: almost the same of the first, but now got all the itens, battled the same way, ended the same way (maybe faster?) but instead of the elephant, she went running to one side, still nothing of this achievement

[Fierce1]

Oh... I had played the app version which had it unlocked from the start. I see.

[BC]

@Fierce1 It's from Magic Mode which you get by clearing the game.

[Fierce1]

How do you unlock that alternate outfit of hers?