(Under construction!) General Tips & Strategies

Chapter 1: Dinner Out

Before you start playing, let the game load into the opening cutscene then immediately quit. Start the game again and your load time should be quicker. This is the biggest time save for this chapter.

When you gain control of Jackie and are told to "check out the rack on the brunette to the right", immediately look left. There is a cutscene skip directly after this. 

The opening chapter is basically a 4 minute autoscroller. There's not a lot you can do to speed things along, but you can slow it down if you're not careful. 

Most of the enemies on this level are inconsequential, but there are two points where enemies must be killed for the level to proceed. Make sure your pistol is reloaded beforehand to save time. If you killed the enemies fast enough, there will be a slight pause before Jackie is dragged off again.

The split for the end of this chapter is the load point after the screen goes fully white, after a molotov is thrown at your face.

There are no relics in this chapter for Relic%.

Since you are not yet in possession of Darkness Powers at this point, gunfire is permitted in Darkness%.

Any% Route (04.01.19)

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Relic locations

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TT5xE6x9m15CULccUFaGOpCleosBdmKlzAiUueOjpPQ/edit?usp=sharing

#	Time Loss for Detour |	Location ( Chapter / detail )
1	0s				 |	Payback / In front of you after you break the door after getting the uzi
2	5-6s				 |	Payback / Behind you after entering the area with all the subways
3	11-12s			 |	The Family / Left when going up the stairs, on the left in the room ( a book )
4	1-2s				 |	Q and A / After breaking the doors, it's on the right through an open door
5	3s				 |	Q and A / At the car scrapyard, left of the darkness upgrade shop
6	1s				 |	Q and A / After the Swifty fight, to the right of the door you need to break
7	2-3s				 |	Q and A / After the first door you break in the warehouse, down to the right
8	5-6s 	(optimally)	 |	Q and A / In the final area, behind a breakable door on the left
9	11-12s			 |	Strong Silent Type / At the start, on your right at the back
10	1s				 |	Strong Silent Type / Behind the double door the enemies break open
11	1s				 |	Deal with the Devil / in the starting room, on the left
12	1s				 |	Deal with the Devil / Outside, to your right; right before the first 2 enemies
13	5-6s				 |	Home Invasion / Before going to Dolfo, on your left behind a door
14	2-3s				 |	Home Invasion / After getting inside, in the room to the right of the bar
15	0s				 |	Saying Goodbye / In the starting area, grab it after 'beating' Bragg
16	0s				 |	Saying Goodbye / After breaking a gate protected by a light, straight ahead behind building
17	3s				 |	Fun and Games / When enemies first appear, in the corridor to the left
18	4-5s				 |	Fun and Games / After being trapped between two gates, in next area on your right
19	0s				 |	Fun and Games / During the ambush a door will open to the left of the shooting range, in there
20	1s				 |	Fun and Games / In a room in the building left of the clown gate ( grab with arm )
21	0s				 |	Fun and Games / In the room with the truck
22	1s				 |	Fun and Games / in the ticket booth right before the cart ride
23	2-3s				 |	Rat in a Maze / in a side room in the cellar
24	0s				 |	Rat in a Maze / in jackie's dad's office
25	2s				 |	Homecoming / behind the wall you break to make a platform
26	3-5s				 |	Homecoming / After the ambush room, don't jump in the hole yet, behind a wall
27	0s				 |	Last Stand / In the final room near the entrance
28	2s				 |	Heart of Darkness / In the starting area, before Jenny to the right
29	1s				 |	Heart of Darkness / While going up towards jenny, it's on the path to your right


The ones marked off for NG any% ( in the google doc ) are grabbed to be able to purchase darkness powers that speed up the run.
The times you buy upgrades are:
1 - Right before the swifty fight you buy gun channeling
2 - At the start of home invasion, you buy swarm and longer gun channeling
3 - After 'beating' Bragg the second time, you buy the gun channeling upgrade to shoot through walls

Timesaves (tricks / glitches)

ALL CATEGORIES:

Chapter: Q and A

After the Jenny cut scene in the diner, you can grab the back door through the wall to save a few seconds.
This is very easy to do and saves a bit of time.

Video:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/41698623

Chapter: Strong Silent Type

The moment you have to talk to Venus, it's possible to jump at the same time. By jumping and then talking to Venus, Jackie's initial dialogue will be skipped ("You must be Venus. I'm Jackie, Vinnie's friend." ). Then you can press space to skip Venus' dialogue and move on.
This can be annoying to get and you really only have one shot at it, but it's not too bad.

Video:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/41698363

Chapter: Saying Goodbye

After 'beating' Bragg the 2nd ( gate with bridge ) and 3rd time ( gate towards final area ), you can get him to push you forward by standing in front of the gate. The distance of the push depends at what height you are when he pushes you, so having a nicely timed jump will boost you further.
Any jump will always boost you a little, so you'll always save time, getting a really good push is hard to get.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgQmhwn0gGo

Chapter: Fun and Games

After the first section of enemies, there's a gate that closes on you and turns some lights on, forcing you to walk around to shoot the light.
By not going into the gate and breaking the boards on the right with your darkness arms, you can avoid having to run around and shoot the light early.
It's in the second part of the video, the first part can't be done in every category.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91P01F9IPGQ

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NG+ any% and NG any%¤

Chapter: Saying Goodbye

After the second time you 'beat' Bragg, you will be in an area with some enemies and a gate that's blocked off by a light. By using gun channeling with the ability to shoot through walls, you can shoot the light early and avoid some enemies and save a chunk of time.
Once you find the spot to shoot, it's fairly easy to get. Just make sure you have gun channeling ready for use.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0G_7-Iz1K0

Chapter: Fun and Games

After the first section of enemies, there's a gate that closes on you and turns some lights on, forcing you to walk around to shoot the light.
Before triggering the lights to turn on, enable gun channeling, go in and shoot the light through the wall. This avoids having to go all around / break any boards at all.
It's in the first part of the video, the second part is a backup that can be used in every category.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91P01F9IPGQ

¤: for NG any%, these time saves involve having the darkness power to shoot through walls while in gun channeling mode, this requires a total of 3800 dark essence. Getting this much essence in a NG run requires getting several relics. See https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TT5xE6x9m15CULccUFaGOpCleosBdmKlzAiUueOjpPQ/edit?usp=sharing to see which relics you get. 

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NG+ any%

Chapter: Q and A
In the final room, the room where swifty is hiding in is protected by a light shining on the door. You can shoot this light through the wall using gun channeling powers.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fts0uL-zEgw

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Darkness%

Chapter: Q and A
During the swifty fight, it's possible to spawn 3 explosive tanks to throw at swifty. It's more clear in the video how to do it. Make sure the second one you throw is the 3rd spawned one behind you.

Video:
http://youtu.be/EI5JrYh5_eE

Vendetta notes (04.01.19)

Гайд NG Any% [RU]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17l8B2e6D2SpT6uYDjSwqDGFkVfztAGUtCBiCkIPIlPE/edit?usp=sharing

नाम	लेखक
(Under construction!) General Tips & Strategies	MagnumRex 9 years ago
Any% Route (04.01.19)	Mekarazium 3 years ago
Relic locations	हटा दिया गया 9 years ago
Timesaves (tricks / glitches)	हटा दिया गया 6 years ago
Vendetta notes (04.01.19)	Mekarazium 5 years ago
Гайд NG Any% [RU]	Zzzonked 2 years ago