TechnoMage: Return of Eternity (PlayStation) - RetroAchievements/guides GitHub Wiki
Name : TechnoMage Return of Eternity
Platform : PSX
Genre : RPG
Developer : Sunflowers
Publisher : Sunflowers
Release date : 06-29-2001
The game follows a very linear path with no side quests; every single quest present in the game is part of the main story and mandatory for progression.
As Technomage is a chill and easy little RPG, the set doesn't contain hardcore achievements. Some may represent a challenge, but nothing too daunting. The entire set can be completed in a single playthrough, but players need to pay attention to many missable cheevos.
I hope you will enjoy this hidden gem !
This guide is just about the set and presents a way to get all the achievements in one playthrough.
If you want a detailed playthrough, you can check this one : https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/198897-technomage-return-of-eternity/faqs/12887
It’s Just the Beginning (1) Reach level 2
Rookie (2) Reach level 5
Journeyman (5) Reach level 10
Veteran (10) Reach level 15
Tough Boy (3) Increase your Strength to 10
Berserker (5) Increase your Strength to 20
Wise Man (3) Increase your Intelligence to 10
Nobel Prize (5) Increase your Intelligence to 20
Solid Like a Rock (3) Increase your Constitution to 10
Tank (5) Increase your Constitution to 20
Mystic Wisdom (2) Reach lvl 7 in Mysticism and unlock the first perk
Mystic Strength (3) Reach lvl 14 in Mysticism and unlock the second perk
Rothschild (2) Have 500 golds in your pockets
Rockefeller (5) Have 1000 golds in your pockets
Merchant (10) Have 3000 golds in your pockets, get ready to do business
❔| To reach 3000 gold, you will have to sell a lot of potions, which will make your playthrough harder to finish (but still feasible). There are not many shops in the game and they will buy only a limited amount of your items, so be sure to take every opportunity to sell some of your stuff. Here's the list of shops:
- SteamerTown - Lars' Shop
- Jelon - Lonicera's Shop
- Canyon - Torlore at the Shach Camp
- ShachTown - Yayzn at the Marketplace\
Selling 1/3 of your stuff should be enough to reach 4000 gold in chapter 8.\ Be sure to always kill every enemy and destroy every crate to collect a lot of money and, of course, try to take as few damage as possible to keep more potions for selling.
Mystic Charged Attack (5) Reach lvl 21 in Mysticism and unlock the third perk
Mystic Energy Drain (10) Reach lvl 28 in Mysticism and unlock the fourth perk
❔| To reach level 28 in Mysticism, you'll have to attribute 8 points to the skill or 7 if you found and used a cube.
Master (10) Max out one of your skill
❔| To reach level 40 in one skill, you'll have to focus on one of your skills and attribute it at least one point every level + 2 points through magic cubes. I highly suggest you maximize your Strength or Intelligence to get more damage during your playthrough. (intelligence is the best option for damageless boss fights)
Here's the cubes location that I remember :
- After leaving DreamerTown, automatically added to your inventory (CON)
- Lars' Shop (STR)
- During Spider Boss Fight, in a corner (INT)
- Lonicera's shop (MYS)
- Torlore's shop (CON)
- Yayzn's shop (INT)
- A Ghost during a not missable event in chapter 6 (STR)
- In a crate in the Jungle during the last chapter when Ramogad disappears in a hole surrounded by a lot of crates. Just break them all and you'll get the cube. (MYS)
Legend (25) Reach level 20
❔| While it's almost impossible to miss the level 15 achievement, reaching level 20 can be missed if you skip too many enemies during your playthrough. Try to kill everything, everywhere; this way you will also get all the "Discover 100% of Map X" achievements and earn a lot of money for "Gold related" cheevos.
❔| Before every Boss fight, the game will ask you to save the game, be sure to keep a save somewhere for those fights so you will have time later to focus on it and practice instead of spending too much time immediately. Some of them are quite challenging and will require some die and retry to understand the pattern of each Boss.
Toothpick (2) Chapter 1 : Find the Dagger
None Shall Compass (5) Chapter 1 : Kill the Giant Rat and get the Compass
Chapter 2 (10) Leave Dreamertown
Grown up, Melvin! (1) Chapter 1 : jump on your mom's table
❔| After the introduction, leave your room and jump on the table to piss off your mom. Congratulation, you are now a true badass.
Thirst for Knowledge (1) Chapter 1 : Read all the 7 books at the Library
❔| Go to the Library of DreamerTown, bring back the books to the librarian to gain access to the bookshelves and read every one of them.
A Fresh Start for Glacnore (1) Chapter 1 : Give Glacnore 5 golds for his information
❔| Go to the Inn and talk to Glacnore; he will ask you for 5 gold to give you information. Accept it.
Mouse Trap (10) Chapter 1 : Kill the giant rat without taking damage
❔| During the fight with the Giant Rat in Uncle Rissen's basement, kill the boss without taking any damage.
It's not that hard if you get the timing right. Try to approach him, and he will attack you; avoid it by moving backward and immediately go back to him to hit once and move back again. Don't try to hit twice or there's a high chance that the Boss will touch you on his second attack; he's fast. Repeat the strategy a dozen times, and you're good.
Now We Are Talking (2) Chapter 2 : Get the Sword
Are You Ore-Kay Rumtok?! (2) Chapter 2 : Save Rumtok the miner and get the Crowbar
On Fire (2) Chapter 2 : Find out what's going on at the graveyard and learn the Fireball spell
I See Dead People (2) Chapter 2 : Reach the end of the Crypt and get the Ankh Amulet
Open Day (2) Chapter 2 : Gain access to your father's house
Hopscotch (5) Chapter 2 : Kill the Scrapyard Monster and get the control wheel
Chapter 3 (10) Get the Ring of Life and enter The Hive
Cube of Strength (3) Chapter 2 : Get a Magic Cube of Strength
❔| Go to the store in SteamerTown and buy the cube from Lars; it will cost you 200 gold, so be sure not to buy other stuff first. If you don't have enough money, smash some crates and search every houses. Don't use the cube right now if you want to unlock the "4d6" achievement.
Gravedigger (1) Chapter 2 : Inspect every tomb at the cemetary of SteamerTown
❔| Inspect every tomb at the cemetery of SteamerTown
Resourceful (5) Chapter 2 : Seal the burst steam pipes without buying a cork from Lars
❔| To get this done, you can't buy the cork from Lars at the store. You will need to find 6 corks around the city. They are in containers; just inspect everything and destroy every crate, and you should be good. Their positions are random, so I can't give you their exact positions.
It's a me, Melvin! (5) Chapter 2 : Resolve the water tank puzzle in SteamerTown in as few turns as possible
❔| At the end of the chapter, during the Water Tanks riddle, you will have to solve it in 4 moves. When you are facing the Tanks gauges, use the left one 3 times, then the front one once, and you should get the achievement.
Machinist (25) Chapter 2 : Kill the Scrapyard Monster without taking damage
❔| You will have to kill the Scrapyard Monster without taking any damage. I highly suggest you keep the mana potions found during this chapter for this fight. Be very careful at the beginning of the fight and use sideways to reach the boss because the main access seems to trigger some weird damage from an unknown source at the beginning of the fight. Just watch and learn the pattern, he's not very hard to predict.
Father and Son (2) Chapter 3 : Find your father somewhere in the Hive and get the Bombs
Don't Mace With Me (2) Chapter 3 : Get the War Mace
I Know It Was You Fredo! (2) Chapter 3 : Meet Fredo and learn the Ice Claw spell
Crystals?! Really?! (2) Chapter 3 : Get the Green Crystal
Chapter 4 (10) Kill the giant spider and reach the Fairy Forest
Ferdinand Magellan (5) Chapter 3 : Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Entrance
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Entrance
Marco Polo (5) Chapter 3 : Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Godon
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Godon
Be super careful on this one. If you go meet your father too quickly without discovering everything before, you will not be able to go back and miss the achievement. Make a save at the beginning of the level.
Francisco Pizarro (5) Chapter 3 : Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Passage
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Passage
Henry Hudson (5) Chapter 3 : Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Fredo
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Fredo
Vasco Da Gama (5) Chapter 3 : Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Labyrinth
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Labyrinth
Bartolomeu Dias (5) Chapter 3 : Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Steep Tauron
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Steep Tauron
Christopher Columbus (5) Chapter 3 : Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Graves
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Hive - Graves
Cube of Intelligence (3) Chapter 3 : Get a magic cube that increases your intelligence
❔| During the Fight with the Giant Spider, turn around the walls to the Northwest corner, and you'll find the Cube. Don't use it if you want to unlock the "4d6" achievement.
Arachnophobia (25) Chapter 3 : Kill the Giant Spider without taking damage
❔| You will have to kill the Giant Spider without taking any damage. I highly suggest you keep the mana potions found during this chapter for this fight. Here's a pattern to speed up the first half of the fight: You have to hide yourself behind the walls at each corner of the room; the Giant Spider will position herself in front of one of the sides of the corner, waiting for her prey. Just leave by the other side, kick her ass and move back to your position.
- Do this 2 times;
- the third time, cast a fireball because if you hit her with a melee weapon, she will hit you with a nasty jump.
- The fourth time, she will trick you and will move directly after you leave your hideout; operation abort, step back.
- Repeat this process until 50% of her HP bar.
- After that, she will start to jump and invoke baby spiders from time to time. The pattern will be way more chaotic, so I suggest you only use spells until the end of the fight. Be super careful with all the baby spiders and take your time to kill them all to avoid taking damage from them. You can also play it like a maggot and only use spells, but it will take a lot of time, and you will probably run out of mana potions and will have to wait for natural regeneration to cast your spell. (Again, be careful with baby spiders)
Mystical Tool (2) Chapter 4 : Get the Radar
The Faster of Two Weevils (2) Chapter 4 : Win the beetle race and get the Speed Boots
I Don’t Like Raga, Oh No, I Kill Him! (5) Chapter 4 : Defeat Raga, save Gwen and learn the Viper's Vortex spell
Magic Amulet (2) Chapter 4 : Return to Dahlia and receive the Magic Amulet
Branch Merged (2) Chapter 4 : Give the tree guardian his old branch back and get the Bow
Is That a Wand in Your Pocket? (2) Chapter 4 : Bring Horpach's magic wand back
The Plot Thickens (2) Chapter 4 : Get the Yellow Crystal
Smiling Princess (2) Chapter 4 : Get the Princess to smile again and get the Chain Mail Coat
Chapter 5 (10) Beat the Giant Toad in the Dark Forest and reach The Canyon
Jacques Cartier (5) Chapter 4 : Discover 100% of the map in The Fairy Forest - Fairy Meadows
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Fairy Forest - Fairy Meadows
James Cook (5) Chapter 4 : Discover 100% of the map in The Inner Forest
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Inner Forest
Call of The Void (1) Chapter 4 : In Jelon, jump into the void immediatly after the Fairy guard reminds you that you have no wings
❔| When you enter Jelon Town, just talk to Fairy Guard at the entrance and jump into the void immediately after the dialogue.
Cube Of Mysticism (3) Chapter 4 : Get a magic cube that increases your Mysticism
❔| Go to the shop in Jelon (Lorineca) and buy the Cube. Don't use it if you want to unlock the "4d6" achievement.
Samuel De Champlain (5) Chapter 4 : Discover 100% of the map in The Dark Forest 1
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Dark Forest 1
Toadally Destroyed (25) Chapter 4 : Kill the Giant Toad without taking damage
❔| You will have to kill the Giant Toad without taking any damage from him or from his critters. The most important thing to do during the fight is to take care of these critters as the boss will continue to throw more of them at you during the fight; they are fast and unpredictable, so you better have to kill them as soon as possible to avoid being submerged. Prefer ranged attack with your spells to kill the minions. Try to always hide yourself under the trees when the boss is in the air; this way, he will not be able to land on your head. Once he's on the ground, he will make one of these attacks:
- The boss will turn back and throw Critters at you. Move immediately and kill them asap
- The boss will attack you from range with his tongue. Dodge it and hit the boss 2-3 times
- The boss will Blow at you to try to push you in the water. Dodge it and hit the boss 2-3 times. You will notice that there's a beehive in the tree. If you hit it, the boss will come to eat those bees, letting you some time to hit the boss 7-8 times. You can do it 3 times before the hive is destroyed. You can easily remove 40% of his life this way, without any risk of being hit; I suggest you use it halfway through the fight. You will probably have to practice a little to learn the pattern, but it's far from impossible.
Hookey Dookey (2) Chapter 5 : Meet Dagomar and get the Grappling Hook
Hammer Time (2) Chapter 5 : Get the Hammer
Don't Forget Your Umbrella (2) Chapter 5 : Learn the Meteor Storm spell
Heigh Hooo (2) Chapter 5 : Gain entry to the old mine and get the Stoneskin Belt
Third Times a Charm (2) Chapter 5 : Get the Blue Crystal
Chapter 6 (10) Beat the Deranged Machine and reach the High Mountains
Leif Ericson (5) Chapter 5 : Discover 100% of the map in The Canyon - Passage
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Canyon - Passage
Cube of Constitution (3) Chapter 5 : Get a magic cube that increases your Constitution
❔| At the Shach Camp at the beginning of the chapter, buy the cube from Torlore for 200 gold.
4d6 (10) Keep one of each cubes in your inventory
❔| After buying the last cube from Torlore and if you kept the three others, you will get the achievement.
Stop Bullying Him (2) Chapter 6 : Help Bullyforth and get Merlin's Cape
Upgraded Bow (2) Chapter 6 : Find the Fire and Water arrows
Now You Can See the Light (2) Chapter 6 : Find the librarian's spectacles and get the fourth Crystal
Thunder (2) Chapter 6 : Find the Magic Lightning spell
Chapter 7 (10) Free the dragon Ar-Khan, save Talis and reach the Volcano
Zheng He (5) Chapter 6 : Discover 100% of the map in The Tower - Snow World
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Tower - Snow World
Roald Amundsen (5) Chapter 6 : Discover 100% of the map in The Tower - Intra Muros
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Tower - Intra Muros
Sir Francis Drake (5) Chapter 6 : Discover 100% of the map in The Tower - Library
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Tower - Library
Dragon Slayer (25) Chapter 6 : Kill Yor-Khan without casting any spell
❔| You will have to kill the Dragon without casting any spell; just use your melee weapons or your bow and keep an eye on your health as you will be very exposed during the fight.
Battlemage (2) Chapter 7 : Find the Magic Battle Shield spell
Lumberjack (2) Chapter 7 : Find the Axe
Ballots Box (2) Chapter 7 : Find three voting coins for Mulorne and get the Experience Amulet
I’m Dreaming of a White Crystal (2) Chapter 7 : Get the White Crystal
Shake Shake (5) Chapter 7 : Kill the Lind Wyrm and get the Earthquake spell
Chapter 8 (10) Solve Atlaran's riddle, get the stardust and fly to a myterious tropical island
Robin Hood (25) Chapter 7 : Kill the Lind Wyrm only using your Bow
❔| Be sure to keep a fair amount of Arrows before the fight. You can buy some at Shachtown. During the fight, you can go to the upper left corner, kill the fireball machine, and you will be out of range for most of the Boss' attacks. Simply use your bow to kill the boss, but beware of the bouncing fireballs that can still hit you from that spot.
White Knight (2) Chapter 8 : Save Talis and get the Gloves of Dexterity
Master of the Arena (5) Chapter 8 : Finish all arenas and place the seals on their pedestals
The Hero of Gothos (50) Chapter 8 : Defeat Dagomar and save Gothos. Congratulation !
Mercator (5) Chapter 8 : Discover 100% of the map in The Ruins - Beach
❔| Discover 100% of the map in The Ruins - Beach
Gladiator (25) Chapter 8 : Finish the arena of weapons without taking any damage
❔| Finish the arena of weapons without taking any damage. Just hit and run and be careful between fights to be at the center of the arena to avoid their first attack.
I Can Do It Half Naked! (25) Chapter 8 : Finish the arena of Defence without changing your equipment or taking any potion
❔| Finish the arena of Defence without changing your equipment or taking any potion. Take your time.
GoLame (25) Chapter 8 : Kill the Golem without taking any damage
❔| You will have to kill the Golem without taking any damage. Before starting the fight, equip a bow, the Frost Bolt, the Magic Amulet, and the Speed Boots. After the beginning of the fight, a flying mob will pop, use your Frost Bolt to freeze him, giving you some time to position yourself in a safer place. Wait for the boss to stop his attack and activate your speed boots and run towards the left of the room. The mobs will lose your tracking and you will be out of range for the boss. Switch to the Lightning spell and alternate between spells and arrows to kill the Golem with ranged attacks.
Tough Nut (25) Chapter 8 : Kill the Final Boss using maximum 3 potions of any kind
❔| Prepare yourself for a hard fight. To maximize the benefits of your 3 potions, be sure to have 3 Large Combined Potions in your inventory. I suggest equipping Merlin's cape because a lot of damage will come from enemies' spells. During the first phase of the fight, try to stay at the beginning of the room; you will have fewer adds to deal with. Use your most powerful spell when you have enough mana to quickly drop the HP of the boss and make him move to the next platform. When it's done, go put the crystal at the center of the room and pass the bridge; you can try to stay on the bridge as long as possible if you can hit the boss with arrows and spells, this way you will be able to make some back and forth to avoid adds and damage and even get some natural regeneration. Continue to do that until the last platform (don't forget to make pauses between each phase to naturally regen your HP). After placing all the crystals, you will have to continue to hit the boss several times to finish the fight; this part seems a little random so if you are totally unlucky, it can take a moment to trigger the end of the fight, be patient... or lucky. Congratulations, you've mastered the game!