Sunday, February 21, 2010

Lost In Nightmares - Score Star Location List

There are 18 Score Stars hidden throughout the Lost in Nightmares side story and finding them all will help boost your overall point total at the end of the side story and give you the following trophy/achievement:

--> Wish upon a Star

Destroy all 18 of the Score stars found throughout "Lost in Nightmares


The following is a list of all 18 score stars found in Lost in Nightmares along with pics!

Score Star 1

Location: Spencer Estate
Points: 500

Move down either set of steps along the side of the main stairway and step in front of the barred gate. Turn around and look up to find this score star attached to the backside of the ceiling lantern below the main stairway.



Score Star 2

Location: Spencer Estate
Points: 500

Move up the stairs and step onto the second floor of the Spencer Estate while still in the main hall then find the entrance doors to the mansion then look directly above them. This score star is lying in the middle wall alcove right above the entrance doors. The middle chandelier may block the view of it if you stand in the middle of the second floor.



Score Star 3

Location: Spencer Estate
Points: 500


While on the second floor of the main hall of the Spencer Estate, move toward the side without the gap in the walkway then look back toward the chandelier hanging on the middle of the ceiling. This score star is attached to the top portion of the backside of the chandelier.



Score Star 4

Location: Spencer Estate
Points: 500

Move down the hallway past the door on the side of the second floor with no gap. This score star is lying on top of the cabinet in front of the door at the end of the hall. The cabinet has some plates lying on top of it as well.



Score Star 5

Location: Spencer Estate
Points: 500

While in the Dining Room, look up on the southwest corner of the second floor to see this on the wall. It's on the second floor portion to the left of the clock.



Score Star 6

Location: Spencer Estate
Points: 500

Look behind the chimes inside the grandfather clock in the Dining Room to find this score star hanging inside the clock.



Score Star 7

Location: Spencer Estate
Points: 500

Past the Dining Room, enter the restroom below the staircase. This score star is hanging above the urinal in the restroom.



Score Star 8

Location: Spencer Estate
Points: 500

This score star is lying inside of a small cage with a white sheet draped over it in the storage room where the heat sensitive paper is found. It's lying next to a crate.



Score Star 9

Location: Spencer Estate
Points: 500

This is hanging on the ceiling of the corridor with the barred gate that the characters will pass by on the way to the storage room. This can be seen much better after a character pulls the lever inside of the corridor to stop the ceiling spikes. It's on the ceiling of the left corridor that the player will pass by before getting to the lever.



Score Star 10

Location: Spencer Estate
Points: 1000

After or shortly before a character steps into the room with the spiked ceiling trap, this will be hanging on top of the south wall above the wall safe. This can be shot before or while the spiked ceiling lowers. It MUST be shot before the spiked ceiling lowers too much - run and flip the switch without shooting it first and it can't be shot.



Score Star 11

Location: Prison
Points: 500

After the characters drop off the edge of the wooden ledge right after using the crank and moving below the mansion, look to the left and look above the shelves to see this score star hanging on the wall above the shelves.



Score Star 12

Location: Prison
Points: 500

After moving below the stairs to the cell area of the Prison, this will be on the floor of the fifth cell to the right. A dead test subject is inside of the cell and is lying on the floor with its hand over the score star.



Score Star 13

Location: Prison
Points: 500

After rounding the left corner of the cell area, a Guardian of Insanity will walk by on a ledge up above. Walk ahead just a bit then turn and look up to see this hanging on the second floor wall above the cells.



Score Star 14

Location: Prison
Points: 500

Before moving up the first set of stairs in the cell area, look inside of the closed cell below the stairs. This score star will be hanging on the left wall inside of the cell.



Score Star 15

Location: Prison
Points: 500

After moving up the stairs, your characters will likely fight a Guardian of Insanity. This score star is attached to the wall of the first cell to the right after stepping away from the stairs.



Score Star 16

Location: Prison
Points: 500

After moving down the stairs from the second floor cell area with the first Guardian of Insanity, this will be lying on the bottom shelf of a set of shelves near a dead test subject. Basically when you move down the stairs, take the left path and it will be on the lowest shelf.



Score Star 17

Location: Prison
Points: 500

In the area with the water, move along the left path and collect the silver crest from the chest off to the left. Keep moving down that path and look along the barred alcoves along the left wall. This score star is inside the sixth barred alcove in the group of alcove past the chest - second alcove from the back. This alcove is right below a staircase.



Score Star 18

Location: Spencer Estate (Library)
Points: 500

After the maze portion and before the fight with Wesker, once the characters move up both sets of stairs, grab an M92F handgun from a dead body then return to the front of the hall near the staircase to see this score star hanging on the top portion of the back wall. To save some time in retrieving it, a player can aim upward and knife slash it.




Extra Score Stars

These extra score stars are found in breakable objects or by performing the listed task:

Small Score Star

Location: Found in breakable objects.
Points: 300

Medium Score Star

Location: Found in breakable objects.
Points: 500

Large Score Star

Location: Kill a Guardian of Insanity and it will drop this.
Points: 2000

The Guardian's eye on the back side of the growth along its right arm is its weak point. Shoot the eye on its back to make it kneel then hit it with a melee attack for extra damage. All gunfire to any portion of the body will damage the Guardian, but these shots will make it spew acid from its arm that can damage a character from close range.

Extra Large Score Star

Location: Knock out Wesker during the battle with him.
Points: 3000

During the fight with Wesker, counter either of his dash attacks by entering the button sequence that appears on the screen then run up to him and hit him with a melee attack as the button prompt appears while near him. He will automatically perform a dash toward one of the characters eventually.

He can also be forced into performing a dash attack by shooting at him so that he dodges your handgun bullets three times - he will dash toward the attacking character afterward and that is when a player can dodge then run up and hit him. The shots have to be from long range!

Dodging a forced dash = normal melee attack prompt afterward
Dodging a normal dash (that Wesker does himself) = tag team melee attack prompt afteward.

On co-op play, both players can run up to Wesker after one player dodges then both players can activate the melee attack simultaneously.

On single play, DO NOT allow the AI partner to pick up an M92F handgun before the fight with Wesker. The partner will constantly shoot at Wesker and screw up your chances for forcing Wesker into a dash attack.

You'll get the Kung Fu Fighting trophy/achievement for gaining this score star.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Guide


Well, I said I would get this guide done before the DLC for Resident Evil 5 got here... Two days left! Haha.

In a way, this is not the type of guide that I envisioned. This guide is rushed and I'm not really happy with it. I should have started on it in December rather than the beginning of January. There's really so many other things that I'd like to add to this (S-rank tips, youtube videos, etc). I don't know if I'll ever get around to it though.

If you're familiar with my Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles guide on GameFAQs then you'll probably notice that my guide for Darkside Chronicles follows the exact same template. I usually change them up, but I felt having these two similar to each other would be for the best.

Big thanks to the readers that emailed me in December asking about a Darkside Chronicles guide and an extra special thanks to thesilentman226 from IGN. All of you were a great motivation and I probably wouldn't have even started this without your support.

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Future Projects

Anyway, now that I've finally had a break from Resident Evil 5... it's about time to plummet into it once again! I'm going to take a lighter approach to Mercs this time though. I got WAY too involved in the competitive side last year. I'll be more constructive this time and limit my time between playing and writing.

Like I mention in the RE:DSC guide above, there are a few future projects that I am planning for Resident Evil 5:

1) Lost in Nightmares guide
2) Desperate Escape guide
3) Mercenaries Reunion guide
4) Full Revision of the existing RE5 Mercs guide of mine (possible rewrite)

I'm not going to rush through all of this either, so it's probably not going to be posted up very quickly.

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REmotivated

Aside from all the above, it really felt good to actually write again. I spent the latter half of last year simply playing RE5 in my free time. It felt good to actually write for a game again. Feels like it's been so long.

After all, this DSC guide is just a warm-up to what else will come later this year. I've found my motivation to write and be constructive in my free time again and that motivation is really strong!