---------------------------Archangel Game-Guide by Koi-------------------------------------Disclaimer----------Hi all, this is my first guide, so please don't go hard on me! Also pleasedon't put this document on any site without asking me first, thanks!--------Foreword--------I know exactly, that this game is not the best that was ever made or game ofthe year or even a good game at all. But if you looked up this guide, it meansthat for some, unfathomable reason you like it as well. For this reason Itried to write this guide in a way, so you can get the most out of yourgameplay (e.g. you can Rambo your way through the game with using and upgradingyour chosen form only, but wheres the fun n challange in that :D).Secondly Ive played the game in normal and this has two reasons: first, youdont get any benefits, form playing on hard (extra Essence, etc.) and the easygame was too easy. Normal is challenging enough to be able to use your otherskills, but not too hard to be forced to use only the forms. Thats all. Oh,and use a lot of Quick Saves!!----------------About this Guide----------------As this is my first guide (ever), I'll try to explain how I choose what to putin it and what not to. What you'll find here iso) Skillso) Weaponso) Questsexplained.What you won't however, are hidden items/places, maps, or generally what you'dconsider a walkthrough. I think the game is pretty linear, so it's difficult toget lost, or get stuck, there aren't any skull-breaking puzzles either, so noneed for a walkthrough. If you happen to get lost though, you may email meabout it, but please be very specific and try it yourself first.------Skills------As you make progress, the protagonist, Michael Travinsky, evolves, goes throughtransformations, which affect his look, but most importantly his skills. Witheach transformation he gains new skills and a new look. You can add a new levelto a skill by gaining enough 'Essence' (basically experience points), which youhave to spend manually. Each skill has 3 levels and each level costs more exp.than the previous. You gain Essence by killing evil creatures or completingquests. o) 1st transformation (at the very beginning, by the Lord of Light himself)Here you have 2 choices, either choose the ghost form or the warrior form! Themain differences are:- Ghost form: attacks with energy bursts, which deal are-of-effect damage, isalmost invisible and very silent (adds with level of skill). The descriptionsays, your physical abilities are lower but your spiritual, higher. Actuallythis does not affect your "normal form" abilities, so you won't get more energywhen choosing Ghost form or more health by choosing Warrior. Ghost form is justas (almost) invincible as Warrior, however the Ghost has same movement speed inEVERY direction!! This is a big difference, because you always walk slowerbackwards, except with this ability! Notice, you cannot float over water oranything, although it might seem like the Ghost is floating, so don't try it :>Also notice that with ghost form you wont really need invisibility or silentmotion.- Warrior form: it's basically a brute. Invincibility and high damage output,nothing special. Actually this one is the more useful form of the two.You also get a set of skills with your first transformation:- Regeneration: you should get this skill as your first! Its extremely usefuland although points added will only increase the speed not the effectiveness ofthe life/energy conversion, you SHOULD upgrade! You will spend a LOT of timestanding and waiting for your spirit energy to recover, so the faster you usethis skill, the faster you energy can start regenerating. It might seem stupidto put points in it just for that, but believe me its not!- Holy Protection: the description to this skill is very unspecific. Actuallyas I've observed it, it works to protect against the following special attacks:- WORKS vs: Poison Vulture, Small Spectres, Fallen Angels (mele &ranged attack), Former Human (poison dagger)- NOT WORK vs: Dark Angels's burst attack, Naakratal's energy-ball, Evil One'slightning projectile, Spectre's poison attack, Keron's self destruct explosion.Which means this is a pretty useless skill to buy, because: fallen angels canonly be killed with the Sword of Light, Former Humans can (and will) attackwith guns as well and finally theres only ONE small spectre in the entire (!)game! This leaves the vulture the only reason to purchase this skill. NOTRECOMMENDED!!- Darkness Vision: this skill illuminates dark areas it can be useful in cavesor other dark places. It can't hurt to have this skill, especially because italso highlights living beings aura!You can upgrade it to lvl 3, you wont loose that much essence and you may beable to use it throughout the entire game (especially if in act II in greatspaces, where you wont be able to tell where enemies are, because of thedetailed environment). o) 2nd transformation (after beating Aklesiah in the swamps)- Hypnosis: this skill will paralyze a foe, if: first you turn it on (consumesenergy), you hit it with the Sword of Light (also consumes energy) and it onlylasts for about a second at level one and only adds +2 seconds with each level.Yet its not as bad, as one would think: at level 3 you can use Hypnosis onenemies youd anyway have to kill with the sword of light (like bosses orFallen Angels), hit em till you run dry, then wait till your energyregenerates and repeat. You can also combine this with Spirit regenerationlater: you do what I described earlier, then turn on Spirit Regeneration andrepeat. Notice that while enemies are in Hypnosis, they can still attack you.(!WARNING! only use this if you have a lot of medpacks or in a seriousbossfight) Recommended in Act II & III.- Light Shield: reduces damage by 25% with each level; consumes energy whenactive. So why not use one of the 'forms' instead? They are invincible! But: ittakes time to transform, this only takes a second to activate. Still, you won'tget full invincibility, only about 75% damage reduction, which is pretty good,especially if you don't plan to invest into the 'forms'. It will also becomemighty good, once you get to New Berlin, where everybody will be shooting atyou from afar and you don't want to transform every time you encounter someone.Definitely a must!!o) 3rd transformation- Silent Motion: it reduces the noise you make while running. It is veryuseful if you want to sneak around and once its fully upgraded you can walk upcompletely to an enemy without being noticed. This makes instant sneak attacksvery easy (especially in Act III where you will encounter lots of DarkArchangels and killing them in one blow is priceless :D). It's not as great asLight Shield or regeneration though.- Spirit Regeneration: converts life into energy. You can use it incombination with Hypnosis (see exact method above). Otherwise its prettyuseless, but Id still recommend it to Holy Protection for example. You canwait with it till Act III where it will truly shine in the boss fights or vsenemies you can only kill with the SoL. You also need to consider whether toupgrade or not, because if you dont you can turn it off so it wont cost youtoo much HP, but if you want to use it with the Hypnosis-technique it isrecommended to upgrade, because you want to do the procedure as fast as youcan, so you can continue to fight with Hypnosis.o) last transformation- Invisibility: its almost completely useless, although it has some scoutingpurposes (if you dont play as the ghost). In Act II it is superfluous becauseof the many narrow spaces you will be fighting in as this skill does noteliminate the sound only your appearance (and enemies will start looking foryou if they hear you, so you wont be able to ambush them like this). Effectwears off if detected (this is actually good, cause you wont waste energy).Not recommended.-------Summary-------Ive managed to acquire 15600 Essence points to the end of the game and theamount that comes from completing quests is Act I (1550) + Act II (2500) + actIII (1750) = 5800. This is 37% of the Essence you can gather, the remaining 63%comes from defeating enemies.Id choose these skills, with these form combinations:Warrior:First you put one point into Regeneration, then max out Darkness Vision, thenmax Light Shield (so it will be lvl 3 in Act II), here you will need one moreinto Regeneration, then max Silent Motion, +1 Warrior , +1 Regeneration, +1Warrior and finally max Spirit regeneration. Ive found this to be the mostoptimal and once you reach the really tough bosses in Act III, you can spend inHypnosis from your remaining Essence.Ghost:+1 Regen, +3 Darkness Vision, +3 Light Shield, +1 Ghost Form, +2 Regen, +3Hypnosis, +1 Ghost form, +3 Spirit Regen-------Weapons-------Old Ages1.) Sword of Light: this weapon will accompany you throughout the entire game.It uses energy, so you can't just swing it around all the time, it aint thatstrong either (about the damage of the short sword), but there are certain bossmonsters, you can only kill with this particular sword (gets an upgrade laterin Act I, after you take Zealeth's potion to Manalah; you'll get to swing 2more times, than before)2.) Knife: standard knife, this has the least damage of all the weapons (4 hitsfor a Jaws, 'bout 6 for Naakratal). Use it in the beginning but as you getothers, don't use it any more.3.) Short Sword: good at the start, but will become weak later. (2 hits vsJaws, 4-5 vs Naakratal)4.) Axe: this is a little better than the short sword, but still takes 4 hitsto kill a Naakratal.5.) Heavy Sword: the strongest mele weapon in the game. Takes 3 hits to kill aNaakratal or a Furred monster.6.) Bow: slow, but strong ranged weapon, difficult to aim though. It has coldand fire arrows beside the regular ones. It can be useful later in Act I(catacombs for example) to freeze a standing enemy, then hit 'em with anormal arrow. This'll kill most enemies (and you won't be able to use thecold arrows for anything else really).7.) Crossbow: the description says it's stronger, but actually it's not. Itfires in a straight line and it doesn't goas far, as the Bow and it onlyhas one type of ammo. Use it to quickly dispatch Keron's before theyexplode, or hit Ghost Monks before they come close. 1 hit with crossbow,then 2 with Heavy Sword, this way they just wont be ably to cast their spell.Berlin 20391. Sword of Light2. Knife3. CUW-9 Pistol: great throughout the entire Act II, especially once you getthe silenced version.4. CUW-9 with silencer: once you get it, dont use the normal one anymore. Itmight happen that even if you dont see anybody around, once you fire yourpistol, they will swarm at you. Its great for taking out enemies even if theyare crowded, because they cant hear you.5. pump-action shotgun: your regular shotgun. Slow rate of fire, but greaterdamage. Avoid use (only if you run out of other ammo)6. Sniper: use it sparingly. If theres a rocket-man or something powerful,take it out first, then handle the rest.7. GMS-30 rifle: best weapon in Act II. High rate of fire and high damageoutput, although you can run out of ammo pretty fast, so dont waste it!8. Liberator Rocket Launcher: its great for cleaning out rooms at the end ofAct II (especially in combination with Light Shield), but dont waste it onsingle foes. It also uses heat seeking rounds, but I didnt find use of tehmForgotten Place1. Sword of Light2. Axe3. Shotgun4. Pi-U energy concentrator: its like a spirit energy - rocket launcher. Ituses your spiritual energy as ammo. Very effective but use it sparingly. DoesNOT replace the SoL, so dont try to fight bosses with it!!------Quests------I'll not explain every quest, but only comment on those, that need to behandled otherwise, than one would think (important is, who gives them). Questsare not necessarily done in the order, as they are numbered (I just figuredit'd be easier to write 'em down like this :D). Essence reward in brackets.Act I1.) from: Abbott of the Azure Order (100)Your first quest, given right at the beginning. Youll get this as you makeprogress.2.) from: Dirkon, the Librarian (50)kill 10 evil creatures, the return to him (reward: Bolts). Its as easy as itgets.3.) from: Ivy Rose (300) Find the three stones. Youll get this as you make progress.4.) from: Monks ghost (50)No matter which path you choose at the crossroads, the Forest or the Villagepath, youll come across obelisk-like stones, which if you strike with theSoL, you can free the Monksghost trapped inside (although the one in the forest is more hidden, whereasthe other is right in the middle of the road). No matter which one you findfirst, hell tell you, that his brother is trapped inside the other, so go freehim. (hats where you get another quest)5.) from: Zealeth (250)You find this hermit on the village path at a solitary tower in the wilderness.He tells you to get some Flowers (which of course only grow in the Cave whereyou cant go yet), so he can make a potion, thatll strengthen your Sword! Onceyou are in the Cave of the Seven Signs, you need to look for a place, wherethere is a ledge, with water underneath it and with teeth-like spikes on it.You need to make a big jump over the water better save before you try. Hereyoull have to make a choice later, whether to do this quest for the upgrade,or do the quest the normal way. This involves going into the Cave of the SevenSigns and breaking the ice, that holds the heart stone. If you find the flowersin the cave and apply the upgrade through Manalah, you dont need to find theseven signs, only the stone. If you couldnt find the flower, youll need tofind the seven signs (both are equally hard to find, now that you know wherethe flowers are) and melt the ice. The last sign is at the ice. This quest ismore lucrative in more ways: you get to swing your sword 7 instead of 5 times(!) and you get 250 instead of 200 Essence for completing the quest that youanyway need to do, to progress in the story. So CHOOSE THIS OPTION!!! Dontchoose the normal way, because itll not only net you more Essence, but alsothe Sword upgrade.6.) from: Village Elder (100)Dispose of the leader of the Bat People, this Ngath. Go to the cave on theother side of the river to do this.7.) from: Ngath (100) Ngath tells you that the Elder is possessed by evil and needs to be put down.8.) from: a lady in the village (after you defeat the demon that possessed theelder) (200)to get the heart stone you need to place the seven signs into seven altars inthe Cave of the Seven Signs. This will melt the ice prison it is held in.***WARNING*** do NOT do this quest, ?ecause you will get less Essence than withthe Zealeth quest (see above). If you acquire the upgrade, you wont be ableto do it this way anyway (because the last altar is at the stone and when youenter the chamber youll automatically break the ice, so putting in the lastset of Signs wont matter anymore).9.) from: Brother of the Monk (that you freed) (50)Hell tell you, that there is something hidden in another runestone somewherenearby. It can be found near the Cave of the Seven Signs entrance. Look around,youll only get an axe though, but its worth for the Essence.10.) from: Navaya (150) Dispose of Aklesiah.11.) from: Aklesiah (after you defeat the demon who possesses him) (100) He tells you that Navaya is evil and to dispose of her.12.) from: Ngath (50)Visit Manalah (this one, after you defeat the Elder in the village and returnto Ngath with the news, then he sends you off with this quest)Defeating Kreyah: the boss of Act I will spawn ghost monks, until you dontkill those, you cant harm Kreyah. You can hurt them with conventional weaponsthough, so dont waste energy using the SoL. Once you defeat the ghosts, hitKreyah with the SoL. He will spawn (now less) ghosts, so just repeat till hesfinished.Act IIThis act is very linear, so you dont need to find the quests, they will begiven to you at the end of the previous one. I only wrote them down, because Iwrote the ones fro Act I as well (:D) and because you can calculate with theEssence/skill purchase.1. from: hotel clerk (100)2. form: Arquan (300)the blue moon hotel is on Black Rose Square. You can get there via train.3. from: monk (250)the Crash Test Dummies bar is also on Black Rose Sqr.4. form: Anna Polansky (100)the K.E.O.S. Plaza is on K.E.O.S. Plaza :D its like the square, you can getthere via train.5. form: Samuel van Dorn (200)6. from: Mark Houser (?)7. from: monk (after you bring him the Phantom Device) (200)8. form: Ivy Rose (once you killed van Dorn) (100)9. from: Mark Houser (at Arquans Bookstore) (300)10. from: Jack Oshinava (200)11. from: Leslie (350)12. form: Mark Houser (via phone) (400)Act IIIThis Act is even more linear than the previous two. There arent many questseither, but Ill include boss fights this time (it might be necessary againstsome of them).1. from: Kramath Citizen (300)2. from: demons in the bar (200)3. from: returning to the demons (50)4. from: Garret (500)5. from: Ivy Rose (700)defeating Phear: first of all, watch out for the turning blades in the room.Hit his shield with shotgun rounds, till it is destroyed. Then hell use AoEattacks (I didnt manage to find out how to avoid those) just hit him with theSoL and hell be down in no time (especially if you have found the swordupgrade in Act I).defeating Astaroth: hell spawn Dark Archangels to aid him. Ignore them, justrun around trying to hit him and as you do, immediately dodge his retaliatingattacks. Once hes down, finish his servants and off you go!Defeating the Warrior: this is your spiritual Warriors reflection, so if youplayed with this, youll be familiar with its strengths and weaknesses. If youhave Spirit regen and Hypnosis its hight time to put it to use! Sneak into theroom (not to waste energy turning on Hypnosis too soon), once you see him turnon Hypnosis and charge at him. Once your energy runs dry, quickly turn onSpirit regen then Hypnosis again. Remember that while enemies are in Hypnosis,they can still attack, so keep your distance! Repeat until he dies.Defeating the Ghost: same sh*t here as before. Except that the ghost has an AoEdamage!! This will make things worse if you dont have enough medpacks (youneed to go sparingly about medpacks in Act III for this single fight, nokidding). Dont be surprised if youll be using medpacks like crazy. Try to dothe same as with Warrior except without Hypnosis (as he can attack you with hisranged attack) because it is just a waste of energy vs the Ghost. Youll use upa lot of medpacks but dont worry: if you do this, youre through with theworst part.Defeating the Lord of Darkness: you saw the door behind you in the cutscene? Ithas a bar on it. Attack that till its broken. While you wait for spiritregeneration, just run around and try to kill the two Dark Archangels whileavoiding the shots from above you. Dont care if you cant kill them till youget your energy back, just run back to the door and start hitting it, youll doit with the second refill. Congrats, youve beath the game!! :)