Kameo 100% guide

• One story playthrough. The story is short and easy. Nothing in the story is a true missable, because the hub areas stay open after the credits and every action level can be replayed.
• Collectibles for Game Complete. You need all 100 Elemental Fruit, all 12 Elixirs of Life and all 4 Crystal Eyes, plus the finished story. The 100 fruit come from 74 pickups, because 13 of them are large fruit worth 3 each. Many collectibles need warriors you only get later, so this guide routes each one at the point where you can actually take it. The Collectibles list at the end of the guide holds every pickup.
• Six solo 'A' ranks. These are the hardest base-game achievements. You need 15 to 30 million points per level in Score Attack, which means building large multipliers, avoiding hits, and farming Doom Trolls.
• Co-op with a second controller. The five co-op boss achievements, the six Co-Op 'A' ranks and both Rune Battle achievements work in local split-screen with a second controller that you can leave idle.
• Power Pack content. Expert Mode on all six action levels, six Time Attack 'A' ranks, and two Rune Battle achievements. Time Attack is built for two active players, so plan on a partner for it.
• Xbox Live hosting. 10 Live Co-Op games, 20 Live Co-Op games and 50 Live Co-Op games need you to host real Xbox Live co-op sessions with a second console. This is the only part of the list that needs online play.

• No achievement is currently confirmed unobtainable. Players are still completing the full 50-achievement list in 2026.
• The three Xbox Live hosting achievements are currently obtainable: players were still unlocking 50 Live Co-Op games in August 2026. Do them last, once everything else is done.
• HISTORICALLY REPORTED BUG: In the game's early version on the original Xbox 360, some story achievements, most often Freed Lenya and Found Chilla, failed to unlock. An early title update addressed single-player achievement unlock failures, and these achievements unlock normally today. As a precaution, glance at your achievement list after each boss.
• CURRENTLY COMMUNITY-FLAGGED / BUGGY: The six Co-Op 'A' achievements. A split-screen A on the results screen does not always unlock them, so aim well above the listed score (see Co-Op Level Runs).

• Score Attack 'A' ranks are judged on the Score Received figure at the top of the results screen, not the Total Overall Score below it. Players often misread this.
• Cheats unlocked from high scores stop that level from scoring. Never have a cheat switched on during an 'A' rank attempt.
• Use Score Attack from the main menu rather than replaying from the Magic Mirror in the Chamber of Living Portraits. The Mirror can remove your equipped Crystal Eye and sometimes fails to save scores.
• Once you bomb the Thorn's Castle gate, the story runs straight through Thorn's Pass and into Thorn's Airship. There is no way back to the hub areas until after the credits. Finish the collectibles before you bomb that gate (see the cleanup section).

The opening level is a tutorial. Kameo borrows Chilla, Pummel Weed and Major Ruin here, but these are lent warriors. None of the "Found" achievements unlock during this level, and you do not have the Wotnot Book yet, so you cannot buy upgrades or change your Crystal Eye.

Play through it normally. This is also the first of the six Score Attack levels, but do not worry about score yet. You will come back with fully upgraded warriors.

After the castle, Kameo is sent to the Enchanted Kingdom and you get the Wotnot Book. The Wotnot Book tracks your Elemental Fruit, Elixirs and Crystal Eyes, so use it to check your counts throughout the game.

Follow the story into the well by the Warrior Trainer's hut. Defeat the light demon, absorb its light, and hit the Shadow Troll to free your first warrior.

You will pass through the Enchanted Kingdom many times. Use this first visit to start on the three collectible sets that Game Complete needs.

• Elemental Fruit (100): Small fruit count as 1 and large fruit count as 3. Pick up every fruit as Kameo, including any that a warrior knocks loose. Each of the four shops (Enchanted Kingdom, Forgotten Forest Glade, Mountain Falls and Snow Top Village) sells two fruit at 30 Runes each. Each of those four areas also has a five-sign ? quest that ends in a fruit plant, and villagers with ? over their heads reward fruit for their side requests.
• Elixirs of Life (12): Each one permanently lengthens your health bar. Four are sold in shops at 20 Runes each, one comes from the Warrior Trainer, and the other seven are found in the world or earned from puzzles and quests.
• Crystal Eyes (4): All four are in the Enchanted Kingdom. You equip one at a time. Each needs a different warrior or upgrade, so you will collect them across the story: Restoration now, Spirit after Ash, Protection after Chilla, and Strength after Thermite.

The Wotnot Book shows your fruit as "X of 100", but it does not tell you which ones you are missing. Each story section below lists exactly what to collect there, and the Collectibles list at the end holds every pickup.

Collect these now:

• Shake the dancing plant beside Pummel Weed's well, at the side of the Warrior Trainer's hut.
• Typhoon's house (southeast, behind the unicorn statue, near the lake): pay 10 Runes and answer his six questions with 7, 5, 8, 5, 4, 0. A wrong answer costs another 10 Runes to retry.
• The beach near the shop and Typhoon's house has a row of shells. Use Pummel Weed's Creeper, then Uprooter, on every shell. The middle shell holds a fruit and the far (rightmost) shell holds the Eye of Restoration.
• Use Creeper to slip under the courtyard gate near the shop and shake the dancing plant at the entrance to the Chamber of Living Portraits.
• Read the five ? signs in order: by Lenya's pool, by Yeros in the inner courtyard, on the Throne Room balcony, behind the shop stall, and left of the Mystic's hut. A fruit plant appears by the Mystic's hut.
• Buy both fruit and the Elixir of Life in the shop outside the castle when you can afford them.
• The Warrior Trainer gives you an Elixir of Life along with the Wotnot Book.
• Pick up the Elixir of Life in front of the Magic Mirror in the Chamber of Living Portraits.

Spend fruit in the Wotnot Book on warrior upgrades as you go. A full upgrade takes 8 fruit per warrior, 80 in total. Every warrior should be fully upgraded before you start the Score Attack 'A' ranks.

After your first ride through the Badlands, you reach the Forgotten Forest Glade. Collect the Glade's early items, then head into the Mushroom Cavern to take on the second Shadow Troll.

On arrival:

• Shake the dancing plant at the Glade entrance.
• Defeat the two trolls attacking Dil at the first hut on the left. Dil gives a large fruit.
• Lift and throw the five plants on the stone circle between the four eyed trees until a fruit appears.
• Shake the dancing plant behind Creeper's boulder-blocked house in the southeast.
• Smash the two crates beside Nettle's beetle-infested house (left of the shop) and shake the plant behind them.
• Read the five ? signs: opposite Creeper's house, on the bar jukebox, on the submerged stump by the four trees, on the hollow-tree branch toward the Mushroom Cavern, and beside Dil's hut. The fruit plant appears by Dil's hut.
• Buy the shop's two fruit and its Elixir of Life.

Continue through the Forgotten Wood to the Forest Temple. This is the Forgotten Forest action level, which you will replay later for Score Attack, co-op, Expert Mode and Time Attack. The boss is Old Mawood.

Ash opens several items in the Glade and the Enchanted Kingdom. Buy Ash's Wildfire upgrade (2 fruit) first.

• In the Glade, kill every beetle and beetle spawner around Nettle's house. Only Ash can destroy the spawners. Nettle gives a large fruit.
• In the Enchanted Kingdom's Dungeon of Eternal Life, go to the second chamber and light the two dragon-head torches either side of the locked gate. The soldier there gives a large fruit.
• In the next room, knock over the oil cauldrons on the wall with Ash. The rightmost one drops a fruit. One cauldron keeps playing the fruit jingle after its fruit is gone, so do not count on the sound.
• Off the campfire chamber, light the two dragon-head torches beside a different locked gate for the Eye of Spirit.
• Once you have done the dungeon, pull up the red-bulb plants in the grass outside the Chamber of Living Portraits. One hides a fruit; the one nearest the sign, left of the entrance, is the usual spot.

Your Wotnot Book should now read 29 of 100 Elemental Fruit.

From your second trip across the Badlands, three of the four Warrior Trainer challenges in the Lost Ruins are open. You reach each one through a tunnel at the back of a Badlands hut; smash the furniture or boxes covering the entrance. Each challenge gives one fruit, once only, and a failed attempt costs the fee again. Give Rubble the Rapid Charge upgrade (2 fruit) first; his Gravel Blast handles all three.

• Pumpkin Panic (10 Runes): smash 75 pumpkins in 1:00. The hut is on the side road south of the Forgotten Forest.
• Beetle Brawl (10 Runes): kill 120 beetles in 1:00. The hut is one of the pair in the northeast, between the Glade and Mountain Falls.
• Troll Trouble (10 Runes): kill 40 trolls in 1:30. Its tunnel is behind overturned tables in the hut with the frozen ice blocks, in the west pair of huts in the snowy area. The fourth challenge, Elemental Evil, shares this tunnel but needs all ten warriors, so leave it for the final cleanup.

While you are at the snowy west pair of huts, take two more fruit. In the hut with the ice blocks, melt all four blocks with Ash; one holds a fruit. In the other hut of that pair, smash the stack of boxes and shake the plant behind it.

After the second Badlands battle, the story moves to Mountain Falls.

Before Lobster Hollow:

• Buy the shop's two fruit and its Elixir of Life.
• Flip every shell beside the shop with Pummel Weed's Creeper and Uprooter. One hides a fruit.
• Shake the dancing plant on the sandy path behind the shop, south of the sealed door. This is also the spot of a ? sign.
• In the Shrine of Light, light all eight dragon heads with Ash (six inside, two outside by the back door). The elder gives a large fruit, and an Elixir of Life sits inside the shrine.
• Once the story has you repair the bridge with Ash and Rubble, shake the dancing plant just across it, to the right of the Lobster Hollow entrance.

Then find the Shadow Well in Lobster Hollow for the next warrior.

A Shadow Troll grabs Deep Blue on the way up. Beat it in the Shadow Realm fight.

Deep Blue opens the water-based items in Mountain Falls. This is the biggest fruit window in the game, so take your time.

• Pearl quest: dive with Deep Blue and blast open three clams (near Reefus' house, near Aegea's hut and near Scooner's Shack). Push each pearl onto the starfish, then speak to the squid man. Once his wife moves from the door, his large fruit appears, and Scooner's Shack now holds an Elixir of Life.
• Reefus' house (first house on the left as you enter Mountain Falls): spray the two Water Trolls with Deep Blue until they turn solid, then smash them with Pummel Weed for a large fruit.
• Treasure Cave: open it by knocking a boom-root plant into the entrance with Major Ruin and lighting it with Ash.

Inside the Treasure Cave:

• Shake the dancing plant on the right path at the entrance.
• Spray the first Water Troll solid and smash it for a fruit. Major Ruin climbs the ramp into this chamber.
• Free Mizu by hitting all four tentacle eyes at the same time with Rubble's Blast. If that fails, spray the eyes with Deep Blue as they open. His girlfriend's large fruit can be picked up on the way out.
• Spray and smash the three Water Trolls in the next chamber; one drops a fruit.
• Rush up the second ramp in Mizu's prison tunnel and smash the chest for a fruit.

Then take a trip back to the Enchanted Kingdom:

• Water the farmer's crops by the Mystic's hut with Deep Blue's Spray and talk to him for a large fruit.
• Rush the vases with Major Ruin. The back-left vase in the Chamber of Living Portraits (left of the Magic Mirror) and the second vase on the left inside the Throne Room each hold a fruit.

Your Wotnot Book should now read 64 of 100.

The Water Temple is the third action level. The boss is Corallis.

Chilla's ice spikes open the last batch of items before the snow region.

• Mountain Falls: spike the date pod of the palm on the southern island, and the palm east of the boom-root plant near the stone bridge. Each drops a fruit.
• Forgotten Forest Glade: push the boom-root plant next to the boulder at Creeper's house with Major Ruin and ignite it with Ash for Creeper's large fruit. Then go to the vine-blocked branch toward the Mushroom Cavern: Creeper under the vines twice, burn the spawner with Ash, and spike the ceiling pods with Chilla. Only one pod holds the fruit.
• Badlands: in the hut just outside the Forgotten Forest Glade, kill the four trolls and spike the ceiling pods with Chilla; the front-right pod holds the fruit.

In the Ancient Tower in the Enchanted Kingdom, climb with Chilla on the ice walls and Major Ruin across the gaps:

• On the ground floor, take the left fork to an ice block on the far-left ledge and melt it with Ash for a fruit. On the right fork, drop onto the lower ledge past the ice panel and break the chest for another.
• On the second floor, clear the beetles with Ash and shake the plant past the first ice block. The Eye of Protection sits in the centre of this floor, off the Throne Room.
• Free the three children frozen in ice on the bottom, middle and top floors. Their mother leaves a large fruit at the base of the tower.

Your Wotnot Book should now read 77 of 100.

After the third Badlands battle, the story moves to Snow Top Village. There are two Shadow Wells here.

Before the first Shadow Well:

• Spike the icy acorn pod in the first round area with Chilla.
• Spike the acorn pods above the shop.
• Buy the shop's two fruit and its Elixir of Life.
• Chom's Den: pay 10 Runes and melt one of three ice blocks with Ash. The prize block is random, so retry until you win the fruit.
• An Elixir of Life sits on the ledge by Chom's Den. Go through the gap in the fence using Major Ruin's Hop and then Rush.
• Spike the Snow Top dragon with Chilla so it drops its bomb egg, and roll the egg to the rock above the water pool to open the plateau. Melt the ice blocks near the dancing kid's fire with Ash; one holds a fruit.
• Help the girl with her dragon by hitting it with Chilla's spikes at three locations. Her mother gives a large fruit.
• Climb the second ice cliff above the water pool. Use Chilla to make a Wyrm drop a bomb and roll it into the tree next to the rock pile to blow the door open. Melt the ice blocks with Ash to free the bug lady's husband. His wife gives a large fruit, which is left back in the previous area.
• At the end of the bridge below the big ice wall that leads to Sulfur Cavern, drop to the ground and shake the dancing plant.
• Read the village's ? signs as you pass them: behind Chom's Den, behind the shop, and at the base of the big ice wall. The fourth sign needs Flex and the fifth needs 40 Below, so the reward comes later.
• Two more Elixirs of Life are in Badlands huts near the village: one north of the village, behind a table in the hut with the 40 Below skin, and one southeast of the village, near the red shrine.

40 Below breaks ice chests and rides the ice paths.

• On the way out of the Crystal Grotto, break the ice chests at the base of the entry slope with 40 Below. One holds a fruit.
• Ride the ice path from the schoolhouse to the island and shake its dancing plant.
• Ride the second ice path to its end and break the ice chest.
• Follow the 40 Below ice route and the Flex plants to the Snow Temple entrance. Read the fifth ? sign just outside the entrance and shake the fruit plant that appears.
• Instead of entering the temple, take the ice bridge just past the entrance with 40 Below and follow it around to the alcove on the left. Shake the dancing plant there. This is the fruit most often reported as the last one missing.

Your Wotnot Book should now read 97 of 100. Then follow the story through the Badlands to the Snow Temple.

The Snow Temple is the fourth action level. The boss is Queen Thyra.

The story sends you back to the Forgotten Forest Glade to reach Ogre's Swamp.

1. Pay 5 Runes to play "Precious Memories" on the Glade's bar jukebox for the Warrior Trainer, so he remembers the way.
2. Grab a Magmite outside the stuck door, have Snare spit it at the door, and ice-spike it with Chilla to blow the door open.
3. In the swamp, shake a trumpet flower and drop the open flower so the Ogre charges and knocks down a fruit. Drop that fruit into a steam vent. Repeat until all three vents are plugged and the well door opens.
4. Shake the dancing plant behind the well for a fruit. Take it on this visit.

Then go into the swamp's Shadow Well and beat the last Shadow Troll.

You now have every warrior, so every collectible in the game is reachable. Finish them here. Once you bomb the Thorn's Castle gate, the story runs straight through Thorn's Pass and into Thorn's Airship with no way back to the hubs until after the credits.

1. In the Chamber of Living Portraits, use Thermite's Mortar and Bomb to launch a bomb into the ring held by the giant Thorn statue. The Eye of Strength is in the rubble. Pick up any other Crystal Eyes you skipped.
2. In the Badlands, go to the hut next to the Beetle Brawl hut, between the Forgotten Forest Glade and Mountain Falls. Get past the four Shield Trolls and blow open the stone chest with Thermite for a fruit.
3. Play Elemental Evil (20 Runes) in the Lost Ruins tunnel of the ice-block hut, the same tunnel as Troll Trouble. You need 40 kills in 5:00, in waves of ten: Plant Trolls (use Ash), Fire Imps (Deep Blue's Spray), then Rock Trolls and Ice Trolls (Thermite's Mortar). The fruit comes after 40 kills; later waves are not needed.
4. Open the Wotnot Book and confirm 100 of 100 Elemental Fruit, 12 of 12 Elixirs of Life and 4 of 4 Crystal Eyes. Skins are not needed.
5. Spend your fruit so every warrior is fully upgraded.

If you are short, check the Collectibles list at the end of this guide area by area. The ones most often missed are the Snow Temple alcove plant, any spot where only one of several pods, shells or blocks holds the fruit, the red-bulb plants outside the Chamber of Living Portraits, the Ogre's Swamp plant behind the well, this Thermite chest, and large fruit that a villager leaves somewhere else (the Ancient Tower base, the squid man's house, the area where you freed the bug lady's husband, and the way out from Mizu).

Required for Game Complete: the three counts above plus beating the story. Sources agree on what is needed, but none confirm when Game Complete unlocks if you pick up the last item after the credits. The safest route is to have everything before you bomb the Thorn's Castle gate. It should then unlock at the end of the final fight. If you do finish the story first, your save is not ruined: collecting the missing items in post-game free roam has been reported to unlock Game Complete.

Head into the Badlands. A cutscene shows the troll army, and your horse is no longer available, so travel with Thermite's shield. Bomb the Thorn's Castle gate to begin Thorn's Pass, the fifth action level. Thorn's Pass and Thorn's Airship run as one continuous stretch, and the bridge is destroyed behind you during Thorn's Pass. The boss of Thorn's Pass is Lord Drok, a giant war machine. There is no story achievement for this fight, but beating it unlocks the level for co-op and Score Attack.

Crossing the drawbridge at the end of Thorn's Pass takes you straight into Thorn's Airship, the last action level. The final fight starts in the ship's bow. Beat Thorn, then finish off Kalus when he tries to bring Thorn back.

From the main menu, choose Solo, pick your saved game, then choose Score Attack and the level. The saved-game step is easy to miss. Your save's warriors, upgrades and equipped Crystal Eye carry in. Thorn's Castle has no Wotnot Book, so equip the eye you want and save before you start that level. Leave all cheats switched off (Wotnot Book, Bonus section). Keep the in-level score display on in Options.

The rank depends only on your score, not your time. Read the Score Received figure at the top of the results screen. The scores needed for an 'A' are:

• Thorn's Castle: 15,000,000
• Forgotten Forest: 15,000,000
• Water Temple: 17,000,000
• Snow Temple: 30,000,000
• Thorn's Pass: 30,000,000
• Thorn's Airship: 30,000,000

The game does not show the exact threshold, so if the grade is not an A at the listed score, keep going for a higher score.

Each kill's points are multiplied by your Brutal, Carnage and Frenzy multipliers, so multiplier height matters far more than the number of kills.

• Carnage goes up by 1 for every kill.
• Brutal goes up for a kill with a single move, or a kill using the environment: ledges, spikes, grinders, pits, flames, big explosions, or burning.
• Frenzy goes up when kills come in quick succession. A chain of kills adds one less than the number of kills in it, and the chain breaks after a pause of a few seconds.
• Losing multipliers: every hit removes one of each multiplier. Burning removes one of each per tick, so put fires out fast; switching to a rock warrior (Rubble or Major Ruin) stops it. A fall removes one of each and respawns you, sometimes among enemies. Dying or falling into lava loses everything and restarts the level. Dragon kills raise Carnage, but their points are not multiplied.
• Warrior Focus: landing many rapid hits fills a meter under the multipliers. In Focus, everything slows except you and the Doom Trolls. Focus lasts as long as you keep landing hits on something.
• Doom Trolls: these small, fast, white trolls appear only in Warrior Focus, and only if your Carnage is at least 10 when Focus starts. More Carnage means more Doom Trolls: roughly 1 at 10 Carnage, 3 at 20, 5 at 30 and 7 at 40. They are worth huge points. Each run has a limited number of Focus spawns, so entering Focus with low Carnage wastes them. Once you kill every Doom Troll on screen, more only appear after you leave Focus and enter it again.

The basic farming loop is the same on every level:

1. Kill steadily with one-hit and environmental kills, without taking hits, to build Carnage well past 10.
2. At a spot with a steady stream of enemies, trigger Warrior Focus.
3. Kill the Doom Trolls first. Keep one normal troll alive as a punching bag to keep Focus going.
4. When the Doom Trolls stop coming, leave Focus, rebuild, and repeat. Do not kill every normal troll until the Doom Trolls stop spawning, because surviving trolls are what let you re-enter Focus.

Useful tools:

• Pummel Weed: Weedkill (go underground with Creeper, hold LT until he glows, release next to an enemy) gives reliable Brutal kills in open areas, but it flings enemies away near ledges and walls. His jab combo (LT, RT, LT, RT, done twice with a short gap) is a reliable way into Focus.
• Major Ruin: Hyper Cyclone (LT+RT) enters Focus and clears Doom Trolls.
• 40 Below: Ice Quake with the Eye of Strength can enter Focus and kill almost every Doom Troll at once. Avoid it near ledges, where it knocks your punching-bag trolls off.
• Rubble: his Blast hits all around him and clears Doom Trolls well.
• Chilla: carry up to three trolls and hurl them, or Ice Spike enemies, for Brutal kills.
• Snare: throw rolling and armoured trolls into propellers or out of windows for Brutal kills.

Upgrade every warrior, and have all 12 Elixirs and 4 Crystal Eyes before you start. Weedkill and the Eye of Spirit are used most.

Work through the levels in this order: Thorn's Castle, Water Temple, Forgotten Forest, Thorn's Pass, Thorn's Airship, then Snow Temple last.

Co-op is played in split-screen. Choose Split Screen, press Start on a second controller, and load your story save. You can only play levels in co-op that you have already beaten in single player. You do not need a second person for the co-op boss achievements or the Co-Op 'A' ranks. Player 2's hits and deaths do not touch your multipliers, and they respawn when they die, so you can leave the second controller idle.

Co-op adds warp points at cutscene triggers and respawn points. When one player crosses one, the other is warped there, so an idle player 2 is carried along.

If controller 2 cannot join, sign it in to a second Xbox profile (a free account works). Some backward-compatible 360 games need a signed-in profile for player 2. This has not been confirmed either way for Kameo.

A co-op mission is the scoring part of the story level, followed by the boss for the last five levels. Play each of the six action levels once in co-op and go for a Co-Op 'A' on every run. The boss achievements unlock whatever your rank, so every finished run counts even if you miss the 'A'.

Use the same route as the solo ranks in this guide. The normal split-screen 'A' needs the same score as the solo 'A' (15 million for Thorn's Castle and Forgotten Forest, 17 million for Water Temple, 30 million for the other three). A co-op 'A' does not unlock the solo ranking achievement, so you need separate solo and co-op runs.

Keep player 2 close to you whenever Warrior Focus starts. Otherwise about half of the Doom Trolls may spawn next to player 2. The supply of Doom Trolls is still limited per run, just as in solo. Use local split-screen, not Xbox Live: Live co-op has no Doom Trolls.

Read your score before the boss fight; it is not known whether boss points count toward the rank, so finish the run and check the results screen.

With the Power Pack, the solo menu lets you choose Normal or Expert before you pick a level. Co-op also has an Expert option. Expert Mode is a harder, remixed version of each action level. You have every warrior but none of your upgrades, you deal half damage, enemies are much tougher, your health bar is short, and Crystal Eyes are disabled. Each achievement only needs you to finish the level; score does not matter.

Community guides recommend switching on the Invincibility cheat, and optionally One-Hit Kill, from the cheat sets you unlocked through Score Attack. Cheats are switched on in the Wotnot Book under Bonus. They stop you scoring, but score does not matter here. Switch One-Hit Kill off for Snow Temple: the walrus you must protect dies almost instantly with it on. Invincibility is fine there. If an achievement does not unlock on a cheated clear, replay the level without cheats.

Time Attack is in the co-op options, so set it up like a co-op run: Split Screen, Start on controller 2, then your story save. Unlike the other co-op content, Time Attack is built for two active players. One player runs ahead while the other fights to keep Warrior Focus going, which slows the clock. An idle second controller cannot keep Focus up, so plan on a real partner, especially for Water Temple, Thorn's Pass and Thorn's Airship. Trying with an idle second controller is untested; if you want to try, Forgotten Forest, Snow Temple and Thorn's Castle are the most forgiving.

How it works:

• The clock counts down, and your rank depends on how much time is left when you finish.
• The warp gates are the checkpoints. Each adds time to the clock, and whoever crosses one pulls the other player to it, so the fighter never has to keep pace with the runner.
• Warrior Focus slows the clock, so every Focus your partner holds buys time.
• Move fast: Major Ruin's roll, Kameo's hover, and Thermite's shield roll are the main ways to cover ground. Ignore enemies that are not in your way.
• Runs vary, so restart early when the opening of a level goes badly.

Finish with at least this much time left (the published targets are approximate, so check the results screen):

• Thorn's Castle: about 2:30 left
• Forgotten Forest: about 1:45 left
• Water Temple: about 0:50 left
• Snow Temple: about 0:25 left
• Thorn's Pass: about 0:30 left
• Thorn's Airship: about 0:20 left

Do them in this order, easiest first: Forest, Snow, Castle, Pass, Water, then Airship last.

Rune Battle is the two-player versus mode added by the Power Pack, also found in the co-op menu. A second controller works fine for both achievements.

These three achievements need you to host Xbox Live co-op games on one save file. A second controller does not count, and neither does joining someone else's game. You need either a partner on another console, or a second console, a second Xbox account and a second copy of the game of your own. Online play for backward-compatible games normally needs an Xbox online multiplayer subscription.

Status (checked 2026-10-04): currently obtainable. Players were still unlocking 50 Live Co-Op games in August 2026. We did not find a recent write-up of the exact backward-compatible hosting setup, so check that 10 Live Co-Op games unlocks before grinding to 50, and use Xbox Live rather than System Link.

The fastest method: host a private Live game, invite your partner, choose Time Attack on Thorn's Airship, and let the clock run out. An expired Time Attack counts as a hosted game. Restart and repeat. Use the same save file every time, because the count is per save, and keep your own tally since the game does not show one.