Beat the Game (Restricted Items) Route Notes

Unless otherwise stated, should get the survival and speed stars in each level

1-1 Carved in Stone
Get secret star
50 pearl chest in center (optional, if you are consistently short pearls for the Kapono menu)

1-2 Pearl Fever
Get secret star
 
Menu
Remove Vahine from party
Equip Steevs default hat
Level Steev to 7

1-3 Getaway
Pickup Tiara from chest with Vahine


1-4 Thieves got your back
Get Secret star (south-west corner)
Get sushi from south-east chest
All squids must survive

1-5 Last Stand
Get secret star (north-west corner)

Forced menu
Do not recruit Clint or Sammo
Buy Devils Helmet and Drink hat and equip both.
Never buy straw hat, use it to quickly get to the hat shop

1-6 Turtle all the way
Get secret star (west side)

1-7 No one in paradise
Kill only the massive crab to unlock the exit (Steev should deal 20 damage per hit and it has 60 hp)

1-8 Aukai has gone dark
Recruit Kapono (Hut near bottom center)
If any level bonuses were missed in previous levels, get backup star in the bottom right corner.

Menu
Recruit Kapono
Replace Steev with Kapono
Equip all hats to Kapono
Level Kapono to 11. Should have exactly enough pearls.

1-9 Lady in the water
Get Secret star (north-east corner)

1-10 The one from Thalas
Get Secret star (north-west turtle fin)

1-11 Backs to the wall
No secret star

1-12 The Iron Throne
Backup secret star here if you've missed any level bonuses (west side corner)


1-13 Golden fingers
No secret star

1-14 Echos in the dark
No secret star

1-15 Holding ground
No secret star
Pickup legion helmet from center chest

1-16 Big Damn Heros
Get secret star (east side by turtle head)

1-17 Flash-back
Get secret star (north-north-west, before the current)

1-18 Stone temple pilots
No secret star
Faceplant the urchins for shortcut

1-19 Day of the temptation
Use inventory sushi
Get secret star (east side after the current)

Menu
Add Steev to party in slot 2
Buy Legion helmet and Tiki mask
Equip all to Steev and Kapono
Level Kapono to 19


1-20 The trail
No star
Kapono cleans up south, Steev west

1-21 The Goo, bad and ugly
No star

2-1 Seawood, pop. 1
Get secret star (center of arena)
Get sushi in east chest

2-2 Shell Shocked
Get secret star (east of saloon entrance)

2-3 Damsel in Stress
Get secret star (north)
Optional revive in south-east chest

Menu
Recruit Clint, Venus
Buy Stetson, Cowgirl hat (Shooter)
Buy Wonder Cap, Tiara, Nacre Crown and Angel Ring (All healer hats)
Level Kapono to 20
Steev to 9
Clint to 4
Vahine to 3 (optional for meat shield)
Equip all hats to Clint
Equip all hats to Venus
Equip all hats to Vahine (optional for meat shield)


2-4 Downtown
Secret star in south-west current (Technically skippable, but would highly recommend)


2-5 Lonesome Squidboy
Get Secret star (directly north of starting position)

2-6 Point and Shoot
Get secret star (west)
Get Mighty Kraken from north chest with Vesper

2-7 Meat Shield
No secret star
Party member deaths are expected (and optimal)
Going over time is expected
At full health, Venus can tank 2 hits
If leveled and hatted, so can Vahine, otherwise 1 hit only

2-8 Sea Rider
Open shortcut with east switch
Get secret star north of the seahorses first stop

2-9 Dances with Shrimp
Get secret star (west current)

2-10 A Cavalry of Calamaris
Get secret star (center)
Get shuriken from west chest

2-11 Badland
Get secret star (lower path past the urchins, opposite the chest)

2-12
Last of the Molluscan
Get secret star (Through east portal)

2-13 Blackstar
Get secret star (by the urchins north-west of first horse stop)

2-14 The Spirit of the West
No secret star

2-15 Pale Hunter
No secret star

Menu 
Upgrade horse to blackstar
Buy Billy hat, Derby hat, and Fishbone hat (scout)
Equip all to Steev and Kapono 
Level Kapono to 26
Level Steev as much as you can (probably 14)

3-1 A Bucketful of Pearls
Backup star in north-east-east corner

3-2 The Gun, The Brad, The ugly
Cheat and follow Brad through portal
No secret star

3-3 Barren
No secret star
Fail quick kill

3-4 Mouth of Madness
No secret star

4-1 Clint Seawood
No secret star
Use Mighty Kraken on Cleef

4-2 The Quick and the Squids
Get secret star in south-east upper corner
Get north-west chest jellyfish (inside house)
Kill Steev for speed and grapple him for safety 

4-3 Power up, Kid
Get cursed shell
No secret star

Restart Game
Level Steev as much as possible (probably 21)
Buy and equip cursed shell to both scouts


6-1 Belly of the beast
Get secret star from east current
Use Steev to kill north-east enemy and nothing else, as not to spawn extra wave of shrimp

6-2 Tremors
No secret star

6-3 God of War
Get Shuriken from north-east chest
No turn bonus
Get secret star in north-west room
Use sushi if necessary

6-4 Gladiator
Use inventory sushi to beat level in 1 turn
Leftmost enemy in Kapono room is load-bearing
No secret star

6-5 Sword and Tentacle
Grab two chests east of start (2x Sushi)
No secret star


Menu
Level Steev to 25
Pearls are no longer relevant

7-1 Noodle in Paradise
Grab North sushi chest

7-2 Battle Royale
7-3 Ghost in the shell
Use sushi as needed

7-4 Spirited Away
Use mighty kraken, and shuriken for triple kills
Use Jellyfish to hit final switch to avoid shrimp wave
Use sushi as needed

Squids Level & Hat Progression

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zzOu2NBiZymZ1jtkFhebpnYLQ3p_oZQb8IzwBgDzGBM/edit?usp=sharing

Name	Author
Beat the Game (Restricted Items) Route Notes	Uppercasserole 3 years ago
Squids Level & Hat Progression	Uppercasserole 6 years ago