Welcome to the GUACAMELEE! 2 Trophy Guide! The long awaited sequel to the 2013 platformer/fighting game in Metroidvania style. Once again you will have to save Mexico as Juan, a mexican Luchador with questionable superpowers. This time around you will have to prevent Otromundo from swallowing the Mexiverse. All this because of Salvador, the main villain of the game.
The gameplay hasn’t changed much since the first game. You will gain some new superpowers as well as regain your old ones. Pollo (Chicken) system has been upgraded the most, which makes Pollo a lot less useless in combat.
The trophy list is very similar to the original Guacamelee!. Finding all the collectibles, secrets, beating the game on hard, some combat trophies and a few easter eggs. Veterans of the first game shouldn’t have any problems with the game but newcomers could find some of the later platforming and fighting areas a bit tricky.
In the guide I will mostly be assuming, that you already have all the powers. Means, I will sometimes tell you the way to obtain a trophy, which might sound a bit weird to you, while reading the guide for the first time but will totally make sense if you go for it in the endgame. After the story you can continue to mop up collectibles in free-roam and repeat the endboss for the good ending.
If you want you can start out on hard difficulty and do everything in one playthrough. To do this, enter this code in the title screen:Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right,Square,Triangle,TouchPad.
This will save you one playthrough. However, this is not really advisable. It may be a bit too much for the first playthrough for most players. It won’t take much longer if you do a normal playthrough first and then a second hard one. Beating it on hard only takes 8 hours when you already know the game plus it makes for a quicker initial playthrough so kinda evens out. If you’re up for a challenge you can try starting on hard.
Start the game and follow the story, collecting everything you can on your way. You will get all the story based trophies and most likely all the combat based trophies. After the story you can still free-roam to mop up collectibles and find the keys for the good ending. After completing the story it creates a checkpoint before the final boss, so you can go grab the 5 keys and repeat the boss for the good ending — nothing is missable. 91% trophies means, use your first playthrough for collecting all the trophies except the one for finishing the game on hard.
Finding all the collectibles isn’t particularly difficult, but getting them sometimes might be a little bit tricky because of hard platforming sections. If you can’t figure out how to get to a collectible you’re likely missing a power. The luchador powers are all automatic story unlocks. The pollo (chicken) powers are from chicken dungeons marked by a golden icon on the map, some of these are optional but necessary for collectibles. Explore carefully and clean up everything after the story. You can also fast travel between areas by talking to the giant stone heads.
To sum it up: the best course of action is to beat the story, grab everything you can along the way, get your missing chicken powers, keys, and collectibles after the story, when you have all 5 keys repeat the final boss for the good ending.
You will unlock Hard Mode after finishing the game once. On Hard enemies deal more damage and some time-based sections have a shorter time window. You can play the game in coop to make it a bit easier, since one player can draw attention of the enemies to save the other one. More tips will follow in the Hard Mode Trophy section.
Obtain every trophy in the game
Defeat Calaca
Regain the mask
Defeat El Muñeco
Between your damage phases he will start spawning chickens, which will fly across the screen. You can easily dodge them except the last wave, for which you will have to activate one of the 2 traps at the corners of the map for the chickens to fly against. This way you will avoid getting damaged by them.
Defeat Uay Pek
After draining 2/3 of her life, she will transform into a big monster which you can’t damage at all. Do not worry, this is totally scripted. The monster will swallow you and you will have to damage her heart from the inside. This part is super easy, since nothing will attack you there.
Defeat Cactuardo and Zope
Defeat Uay Pek a second time
Discover the Pollo Illuminati’s headquarters
Reach 150 on your hit-meter
Use all four of Coscorrona’s special throws
One-shot an enemy with a fully upgraded super move
Defeat a Piñataface
Kill 50 enemies as chicken
Eagle Boost from 10 different hook points without touching the ground
First you need the Eagle Boost ability, which you get automatically very early in the game. This is unmissable from the story. It allows you to hatch on to “hooks” that hang in the air and look like golden eagles. You do this by pressing .
Where you unlockthe Eagle Boost is also the best place to get this trophy. From the exit of Los Manglares to the upper entrance of Templo de Jade there are exactly 10 of these hooks hanging in the air. Simply jump from one to the next. When you’re in Los Manglares looking at the exit to Templo de Jade you can’t miss them, in fact you need to use the eagle hooks to even enter the upper Templo de Jade. Easiest method is to start at the upper hook, let yourself fall down and keep hatching on to each hook as you fall. See the video above for exact place and method.
Juggle an enemy with 6 Chicken Shots or Slides before it touches the ground.
The best way to do it is in Flame Face training arena. Poncho can’t die so he is a good target for this one. Simply keep sliding in Poncho as a chicken to keep juggling him. You unlock the slide power automatically as part of the story.
Find Juan and Lupita in the Darkest Timeline
Cleanse the Mexiverse of the vehicular menace
It’s the glowing door that connects the regions ‘Infierno’ and ‘Badlands’. It’s visibly called “Bonus Street” on the map (has this actual text written on the map). Fastest way to get to it is to travel to the talking stone in Badlands and drop down to the southern section in the middle of Badlands.
Dodge 10 enemies’ attacks by rolling
Enter the Heart of Dankness… and return
This one is a joke by developers to pay back the haters of the first game. It’s a meme cave easter egg. The devs are trolling the haters who didn’t like the memes in the first game. You can find the entrance in the ‘Infierno’ region. Check the video above for the exact location.
Open a loot box
You can get this in one of the houses in Villachula. This is another joke by the developers to make fun of lootboxes. You will have to pay gold to open a door… another door… a chest… another chest in order to get … well see for youself. You will find it pretty much guaranteed while cleaning up the map for the 100% collectibles.
Defeat El Trio de la Montaña
The area will have a different gameplay compared to what you have seen so far. You will have to face the enemies in a Final Fantasy like turn-based rpg combat using commands to attack the enemies and heal yourself. It is really easy, just heal yourself when your health is low and you will finish it in no time. If you’ve already collected plenty of health chests and upgraded your special move damage, you can do it all without healing.
Feed the hungry guard
Another trophy which you will run across automatically while cleaning the map for 100% collectibles. You will have to unlock the egg-laying ability first (complete chicken dungeon in Infierno) — seetrophy “These are not fertilized” below. The chicken will want you to show him how to lay eggs… so just do it and get the trophy. You can find him in Isla Bonita, in the same house which leads to Tule Treetops Top. It is the west-most house in Isla Bonita. The video above shows how to get the egg-laying ability and where the hungry guard can be found.
Complete all of Flame Face’s challenges
You can find flame face at all settlements in the game, e.g. in Los Manglares where the houses are. You’ll have to talk to him as part of the story early on. To get access to all challenges you must first have unlocked all powers for pollo (chicken) and luchador. The chicken powers are from chicken dungeons marked by a golden icon on the map. The luchador powers are all automatic story unlocks.
Lay a dozen eggs
You will unlock the egg-laying ability in a Pollo challenge dungeon near the exit of Infierno that connects to Isla Bonita. It’s accessible at the end of the game and gets marked on the Infierno map via a golden chicken icon. When you come from Isla Bonita to Infierno, keep going straight, don’t drop down, do a chicken slide when you hit the end of the path to enter the dungeon area. Once you have beaten the dungeon and unlocked the egg ability simply lay 12 of them for the trophy.
Find 100% of the hidden items in a temple
Complete a Pollo challenge dungeon
Fully purchase one trainer’s skill tree
Complete a secret Chicken Key Challenge
Open the Golden Door
In order to open the door you will have to find all 5 key pieces.
See Guacamelee 2! All Key Locations
- After defeating Cactuardo
- Enter the Templo de Jade through the entrance at the bottom of Los Manglares and finish the challenge there
- At the very botton in the central part of Los Manglares after finishing the enemy gauntlet and defeating 3 Javier Jaguars
- Found at the top of Tule Treetops Top which you can enter through a house in Isla Bonita
- Found during the exploration of Infierno
Some of the challenges are pretty tricky but not impossible. Once you have all the key parts head back to the Illuminati headquarters in ‘Prison El Corazon’ and open the door there.
Receive the Holy Hen’s message
First, you must do the trophy “Very Special” which involves collecting the 5 key parts and opening the door in the Illuminati headquarters, ‘Prison El Corazon’ region. After opening the door you will have to finish a series of Chicken platforming areas. At the end of the area you will be granted the message which is needed for the good ending. If you get stuck at any platforming section, check the video above from 21:46 onwards.
Defeat Jaguar(s)
After finishing a long gauntlet of enemy encounters you will have to fight Javier Jaguar. Instead of fighting one of them, you will have to face 3 of them at the same time! I recommend defeating one after another in order to not having to focus on dodging 3 attacking kitties at the same time. In case you die there’s a checkpoint right before the fight, so you don’t have to go through the entire gauntlet again.
Defeating the Jaguars will also grant you a key part need for the good ending of the game. Again, if you have trouble with this challenging section, go collect all health/stamina chests first and come back when you’ve completed all other areas in the game. Then it will be much easier. The skill “Mindful Meditation” from Chamoya skill tree is super helpfulbecause you can instantly recharge health and stamina in combat. This way you can simply dodge away from the 3 tigers and recharge your health. When only two are left it gets much easier.
Kill 1000 mean, nasty skeletons without families
Purchase all of the upgrades
Achieve 100% completion in all areas
Simply put:Visit each segment of a region and all chests get automatically marked.
If you can’t figure out how to get to a collectible you’re likely missing a power. The luchador powers are all automatic story unlocks. The pollo (chicken) powers are from chicken dungeons marked by a golden icon on the map, some of these are optional but necessary for collectibles. Explore carefully and clean up everything after the story.
For the 100% complete maps, see the following guide:Guacamelee 2 – All Area Maps 100% Completion
Use this to uncover all regions and you’ll automatically get all chests to show on the map.
Beat the game on Hard mode
The enemies will deal more damage and some times based areas will have a shorter time window.
Playing in coop will make it easier in combination with last skill in Flame Face section. This will allow you to heal while holding down on the left analog stick. This can help you while playing in coop, since one person can heal while the other distracts the enemies. You shold also invest your money in upgrading your special attacks, since they will make the fights a lot faster.
Defeat Salvador
The 2nd phase is pretty straight forward and similar to Javier Jaguar fight from Guacamelee!. Dodge his attacks and destroy his shield with the right move depending on his color.
Reach the good ending (collect all keys)
There are multiple steps to this, essentially you need to go through the trophies “One down…”, “Very Special”, “Talk to the Hend”.
- Get the 5 Key Pieces. SeeGuacamelee! 2 – All Key Locations
- After getting all 5 key pieces, return to the Chicken Illuminati Headquarters in ‘Prison El Corazon’.
- Use the key to open the door there.
- Now you must finish a series of chicken platforming areas.
- At the end you are granted the message which is needed for the good ending.
- Defeat the endboss Salvador in Templo de la Serpiente.
Luckily, it’s not missable because you can replay the endboss as often as you want. After finishing the story, it creates a checkpoint before the final boss so you can keep playing / cleaning up collectibles, find the key parts etc.
When you have everything you can replay the endboss once more to pop the trophy.