All Cards Route

This is the route I use to do All Card runs. Since you have to get every card regardless, the primary difference between the normal and secret ending is which location you run to at the end.

Keep in mind I’ll be referencing a couple of glitches/tricks here, if you want a more detailed explanation of those I made a separate guide post talking about them.

The Route:

-Before you start your run, make sure you have an additional instance of the game launcher open so you can use it to quickly restart later in the run. 

-Upon starting, run through the spawn area while collecting the left arm (martyr piece 1 of 5) and head into the forest

-Head into the left cabin to collect the cursed mask, then move towards the central cabin, collecting the right leg (2 of 5) on the way. Inside the cabin grab the shotgun, then immediately exit, grab the pistol next to the road before finally interacting with the car

-After the car ride you will be in the hallway leading to the desert, go inside the desert while making sure to have the cursed mask and pistol equipped. 

-Run to the left pyramid, collecting a fortune tarot, before running back to the zone entrance. Enter and exit in order to respawn the fortune tarot, then run back and grab a second fortune card

-Equip both fortune tarots and begin farming the desert enemies. This is the most luck dependent part of the run, as you’ll need a lot of different drops, but with two fortune tarots each enemy will give three drops. On the way during your farming make sure to also collect the left leg (3 of 5), the temperance tarot from the right pyramid, and the wormhole engine from the altar (used for fast travel later). 
Here’s the enemy drops you’re looking for:
Tarots 1-9*
An additional Strength and Chariot Tarot (Optional but highly recommended)
Cuirass 
Piercing Spear (Optional, less important)
*If you have all the other items but are missing the priestess (tarot II), then you can grab one from the bathroom in the spawn area later.

-Once you’ve finished farming, head to and defeat the scarab boss (I use pistol + cursed mask + 2 strength cards). I’ve found the safest method to kill them is to shoot at them from right at the entrance to the room, then slowly inch forward while shooting them. If you move at the right speed you should be able to kill them before you finish walking over them. (you can safely just climb up onto them).

-At this point you should have Tarots 1-10 (10 is Fortune), 14 (Temperance), and 19 (The Sun). Now you want to exit the desert, then exit the hallway through the right path, picking up the right arm (4 of 5), before heading through the coastal zone, grabbing Tarot 11 (Justice) from the tower on your way to the spawn zone. 

-Clip through the armory using the torso to push you in order to grab tarot 20 (Judgment), then after clipping out run to the torso’s spawn room to kill it (I use pistol + Cuirass + Judgment + Hierophant), netting tarot 16 (Tower), then grab tarot 12 (Hanged Man) from the corpse in the leftmost corner of the room. 

-Next is the second set of farming, which is hopefully much shorter since you only need two tarots: 13 (Death) and 15 (Devil). You can technically also get a few other cards like Justice and Hanged Man here, but since this is later into the run I prefer to minimize the amount of luck needed. You get these from room behind the torso boss area, and the enemies are armored, so this is where the piercing spear is used (use the shotgun if you didn’t get one. the piercing has to come from your weapon since you’ll want the fortune tarots equipped to maximize drops).

-Once you’re finished farming, head back to the forest area, enter the factory and kill the daemon (I used the same setup as for the torso boss) for tarot 18 (Moon).
-Next use the painting in the leftmost cabin to fast travel to the temple, where you grab the head (5 of 5), clip through the roof in order to get tarot 0 (Fool), and finally defeat the troll boss (I use pistol + cursed mask + judgment + devil)  for tarot 17 (Star).
-Return to the room behind the torso spawn and interact with the altar to get the last tarot you need: 21 (World).

-Once you have the World, run back to the coastal area to start unchaining the martyr. Make sure to begin loading your second game instance to save on loading times. First you interact with the altar in the coastal area, then you run inside the temple and turn in your five body parts onto the torso before quickly closing your game. 
-In the newly booted game instance, simply run to and complete the desired ending of your choice.


Miscellaneous Notes:

I prefer to organize my tarots in order using the rightmost twenty inventory slots, with the fool and world cards being to the left of the other twenty.  This isn’t necessary, but is very helpful in making sure you aren’t missing a card.

Moving diagonally is faster than moving in a single direction, so do that wherever possible.

As often as possible, keep your best speed boosting items equipped, only taking them off for killing bosses/farming enemies

If you want to hit an enemy from far away, the spot I’ve found that typically is the most consistent is the bottom of the enemy’s model.

Basic Any% route

This is the route currently used for PAGAN: Autogeny. The goal for the run is to kill the four main bosses and get the cards/items necessary to revive the martyr.

-grab mystic blade, left arm, go to forest (through the tunnel past the food court)
-get pistol, shotgun, right leg, go back where you came
-head to the passageway to the left, then go through the right exit to the water ruin.
-grab the Justice card behind where you start at, go to entrance to the red ruin.
-get right arm, take path to the desert
-get and equip X-Fortune from the pyramid and start killing enemies to try and get 2X Strength, 2X Chariot, and 1X Magician. The second strength is technically optional, but it'll make killing Scarab easier. While farming, be sure to get left leg and the warp stone.
-Once you've collected everything, go and kill Scarab. (Equipment: Pistol, 2X Strength)
-Get card from Scarab, if The Sun wasn't dropped reset.
-From the desert, go back to the water ruin and go into the temple indented into the hillside.
-get head/ranger's cloak, kill boss (Pistol, Ranger's Cloak, Justice, Strength), get card, take painting warp back to forest.
-go to the factory and kill boss (Mystic Blade, Ranger's Cloak, Justice, Magician)
-go back to the start area again and head into the tunnels from the right of the water ruin entrance for the last boss. (Shotgun, Ranger's Cloak, Justice, Magician)
-turn in cards at altar, get card, return to water ruin, turn in card to unrestrain martyr, head back to hill temple and put all the parts on the body, go outside.
-Once the next area loads you're safe to exit and re-open the program to skip the cinematic.

-Once you're back in the game, go to the water ruin and then the red ruin. In here, go through the passageway that opened up and walk to the martyr statue. Run ends when you interact with the statue.

Deleting saved data

If you do multiple runs in a row, it's a good idea to know how to reset save data quickly.

From OLEANDER GARDEN (the developer):

"1. Open reg edit, and navigate to Software\OleanderGarden\Pagan3

2. Delete every value except "Default"

3. Save, and restart the game"

Item Stat Changes

Here’s a list of the exact stat changes each item in the game has. The numbers were taken from the gameObjects.JSON file in the Pagan3_data/data folder. I sorted the items by category and then listed them by order of appearance in the file.

Stats:
The stats that can be changed by items are as follows: health, faith, strength, pierce, armour, speed


Health (HP) Increases your maximum health


Faith (FTH) is needed to damage ghostly enemies (the daemon boss and the torso boss, as well as the brown generic enemies in the temple)


Strength (STR) is the other type of damage, and is used for all the enemies that don’t use faith

Pierce (PRC) is needed to bypass armor, and is used in conjunction with either strength or faith to damage armored enemies.

Armour (ARM) reduces the amount of damage you take

Speed (SPD) increases your movement speed

Items:
If a stat isn’t listed for an item then the stat change is +0.

Weapons:

Piercing Spear: 
str + 1
prc + 7


Mystic Blade:
fth + 1
str + 1

Old Pistol:
No stat changes

Battered Shotgun:
str + 1
prc + 5

Armour:

Cuirass:
arm + 3

Ranger’s Cloak:
spd + 2

Priestly Vestment:
fth + 2

Cursed Mask:
fth - 3
str + 3
arm -3


Tarot:

The Fool:
No stat changes, used to unlock the secret ending

The Magician:
fth + 1

Priestess:
fth + 2

Empress:
str + 2

Emperor:
str + 1

Hierophant:
fth + 3

Lovers:
arm + 1

Chariot:
spd + 3

Strength:
str + 5

Hermit:
spd - 1
fth + 3

Fortune:
No stat changes, gives you an extra item drop on enemy kills however.

Justice:
fth + 2
prc + 2

Hanged Man:
spd -3
str - 10
fth + 4

Death:
spd + 3
prc + 3
str + 3
fth -10

Temperance:
spd - 3
str - 5
fth + 7

Devil:
fth -20
str + 6
prc + 6
spd + 6

Tower:
arm + 3
spd - 1

Star:
prc + 4
hp + 5

Moon:
prc + 2
hp + 10

Sun:
hp + 15

Judgment:
prc + 7
arm + 7
fth + 7

World:
No stat changes, used to unrestrain the martyr 

Misc Items: These items can’t be equipped and as such don’t change stats
Labour Voucher:
Has no purpose

Left Arm, Right Arm, Left Leg, Right Leg, Head:
Used to build the martyr

Wormhole Engine:
Used to enable fast travel between the temple and the town

Known Glitches/Tricks

So there’s a couple of tricks I know of that can be used to save time, depending on which category you’re doing. 

Loading Skipping: This can be used in any category. After you release the martyr, the game closes and you need to reboot, which can take a while. However, as long as the triggers for the martyr being released have occurred before an instance of the game finishes loading, then that instance will have the changes caused by releasing the martyr (the primary one for our purposes being that the ending zones are now available). Thus, you can cut out on loading time by starting one instance of the game and timing the end of the loading for precisely when you finish unleashing the martyr. 

This is pretty easy to do but does require a little bit of setup before starting the run

1) Before you start a run, open up two instances of the game launcher. Launch One, and Alt + Tab from the loading instance to the other. (This ensures easy access during the run itself)

2) Once you’re at the point where you’re near releasing the martyr, quickly Alt + Tab to the launcher instance and press enter. This will begin loading the game. It takes the game ~20 seconds to finish loading for me, and if the game finishes before you complete the other steps then you’ll have to open up the game again and won’t have gained any time, so be careful.


3) Quickly Complete the two steps to unrestrain the martyr (interact with the altar and then use all five body parts on the torso in the temple), then immediately Alt + F4 to shut down this game instance.


4) If you’ve timed it right, you’ll load into your second instance of the game with the martyr effects in place. (You’ll also still have the martyr body parts, since the game only updates inventory on room transitions and so the last saved inventory before you closed the game had the body parts).

Here’s an example of what the second part looks like in action that I took from one of my runs.
https://youtu.be/BVd8ZJk8gOE


Clips and Out of Bounds Shenanigans: 
The rest of the tricks I know of all involve messing with collision in some fashion. I’m not sure how many are actually glitches and how many are intentional, considering that the first one is pretty clearly intended behavior.

I compiled a video of the ones I know of and will have explanations below. Apologies for the lackluster editing, It’s definitely not my strong suit.

https://youtu.be/7IoB2fuwnwQ

Fool Card:
This first clip is explicitly required to complete anything other than normal any%, as the other categories all need the fool card. 

I’m not completely consistent with it, but the strategy I’ve found works best is to attack the specific temple enemy depicted in the video, then run and push them towards one of the corners behind them. Afterwards, spam jumping at them until you get flung above the roof and simply jump into the room with the fool card. The ability to do this might have something to do with whether or not the enemy’s spinning, but I’m not entirely sure. Regardless, with this and the other run-relevant clip I’d just recommend practicing until you feel comfortable with it.

Torso Armory Clip:

This is the hardest of the three tricks to pull off, and the one with the most time lost if it goes wrong. I recommend only doing this for All cards runs, as there it can save you a lot of time over getting level ten in everything to unlock the door normally. (I assume, I haven’t actually tested it).

Essentially how this works is that the blue fire around the giant torso boss, which typically instantly kills you, *sometimes* doesn’t if your defense isn’t high enough. It also can push you through corners, which is used here to bypass the door on the armory.

The setup for this involves having enough speed, armor, and health in order for it to be viable for you to survive. I use the cuirass, one sun card, and one chariot card. Afterwards, to get started, just shoot the torso, which will cause it to begin moving towards you, and then run to the armory door.

There’s two clips involved, one to get into the armory, and the other to get out. The first clip is fairly easy, just stand in the armory door’s left corner with your back to the door and hold back and left. You should slide right into the armory. 

Once you’re in the armory, quickly run in, grabbing the tarot card. Next is the hardest part of the trick, since now you have to get past the torso in the incredibly cramped armory without dying so you can then clip back out. My strategy here is to run to left corner of the room to lure the torso so there’s then enough space to maneuver around the right side and back to the door. Deaths here either come from the fire sometimes deciding to damage you, or being pushed out of the map entirely. If you think you’re stuck without a chance of getting out, take off your cuirass, since it’s a lot faster to die from being burned rather than the long wait time that comes from falling.

The clip back out is performed similarly to the first clip, but likely with the added pressure of having a lot less health from various damage you’ve taken throughout. I suggest immediately fleeing all the way down to torso’s spawn room, where you can recover health and then continue with the run.


The other tricks in the video aren’t really things that I found viable for saving time in runs, but I put them there because I thought they were cool.

Name	Autor
All Cards Route	Helvitza 2 years ago
Basic Any% route	grampaglasses 5 years ago
Deleting saved data	grampaglasses 5 years ago
Item Stat Changes	Helvitza 2 years ago
Known Glitches/Tricks	Helvitza 2 years ago