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I wrote this walkthrough because i bought Anachronox and found out that it is one of the best adventure/rpg games available currently and the other reason was that there aren?t many walkthroughs on internet of this game... For little misc. info this walkthrough is based on Anachronox version 1.1 ===================================================================== Anachronox Story The first artifacts were found about three hundred years ago. Left by some long-dead alien race, strange mysterious devices were found all over the galaxy. Dubbed Mysterium Technology (or "MysTech" for short), these ancient machines are considered prized collectables, even though their purpose has never been fully understood. Perhaps left behind by the same mysterious race, interstellar travel proved possible by planet-sized spheres in space called Senders. By flying toward one of the spikes on its surface, a ship is shot through a hyperspace tunnel, and can travel across the boundless reaches of space to another Sender. Senders have become the hubs of lucrative trade and galactic civilization. At the center of the universe lay Sender One, and inside the shell of this titanic Sender floated the city of Anachronox. Theory has it that Anachronox was once home to millions of quarantined aliens who slowly died of some sort of horrible plague (Anachronox literally means "poison from a previous time"), leaving this city to fall to ruins, to be taken over by the refuse of the galaxy as the center of their nefarious dealings. Here our story begins Sylvester "Sly" Boots sat in Rowdy's, a seedy bar on the seediest street in a section of Anachronox called "the Bricks". After being beat up for not paying off a debt in time, Boots realizes he's gotta get a job or he's dead meat. He gets work as a bodyguard, hired by an old man named Grumpos. They travel to a planet, which suddenly splits in half! Boots is thrown into a large galactic mystery of who is trying to crush our universe and why. Soon Sly is joined by his lackey robot, an old flame turned mercenary, his holographic secretary, and a renegade scientist on a journey across six planets, trying to find the answer.... ===================================================================== Characters Information in this section is taken from official Anachronox website. Sylvester " Sly " Boots [ Main Character ] =========================================== Age 29 Weight: 195 Height: 6'1" Eyes: Blue-green Hair: Dark brown Skin: Slightly swarthy-white Weapons: Guns. World Skill: PickLock Sly Boots is a private eye with an office on the city-planet Anachronox. He's a regular at "Rowdy's", a bar in the seediest section of an already seedy section of the city called "The Bricks". If you ever need his services, check the storage room upstairs. It's his office. He's bold, brash, overconfident, and thinks everyone likes him. He fancies himself a ladies' man, but really isn't. He claims to have held a lot of jobs and be proficient at everything, but he actually learned just enough to get him into trouble. His main friend is a Personal Android Lackey he's had since age nine. PAL-18 is the only one who can stand him, and that's because he has to. Sly's only other consistent "friend" comes in the form of a Cordicom LifeCursor, a floating mechanical arrow that accompanies him from case to case. Inside the LifeCursor lives his holographic secretary, Fatima Doohan. She keeps track of his quests and other day-to-day activities, all with a heavy dose of attitude. She was his real, flesh-and-bone secretary until she was killed in an accident two years ago. Boots digitized her, and now she's bitter about living the rest of her "life" in servitude. Boots ran away from home at age 17. He did odd jobs, playing mechanic, handyman, and ambulance driver before working as a photographer for a private detective on Cordica. He changed his name from Silvestro Bucelli when he started up his own detective agency in a ritzy area of Anachronox. When his practice went south, he wound up as more of a nefarious delivery/bodyguard agency, with the occasional detective job. But don't feel too bad for him. He's a jerk. Grumpos Matavastros ==================== Age: 71 Weight: 250 Height: 4'11" Eyes: Blue Hair: White-Gray Skin: Pale Gray World Skill: Yammer Scholar, outdoorsmen, eccentric recluse, and renaissance man, Grumpos Matavastros is also one of the hairiest men in the galaxy. Former curator of the MysTech Museum on Anachronox, he now devotes his life to the study of MysTech--ancient alien artifacts mysteriously scattered across the galaxy. He's always cranky, and rarely laughs, unless something excruciatingly painful happens to someone else. Despite a chaotic upbringing, Grumpos never had problems defending himself against childhood bullies with his trusty staff. Given to him by his combat mentor, his great-grandfather Aloysius Matavastros, his staff has been by his side for fifty years. All manner of staffheads have graced the top of the weathered walking stick, which he cherishes like a member of his family. A notorious pack-rat, Grumpos pays for a roof-access apartment where he has constructed a corrugated metal workshop. Inside, he continues his obsession with MysTech. In his spare time, he plays mumblety-peg and tries to solve the mysteries of the universe. Did we mention he's as hairy as a hound dog's patoot? PAL - 18 ========= Age: Activated 20 years ago Weight: 40 Height: 3' Eyes: Glowing Yellow Metal: Gray-white World Skill: CompTalk On his ninth birthday, shortly after the death of his father, a wide-eyed Silvestro Bucelli ripped off the wrapping paper on his only gift. Inside, he found a gleaming PAL-18 unit. Built by Cordikids Toys, this Personal Android Lackey (Model 18) was to serve as his friend, servant, and baby sitter for the next twenty years. Despite suffering through Sly's tumultuous childhood, and misplaced adolescent aggressions, PAL-18 has remained his dutiful and loyal friend. PAL doesn't have a choice. Cordicom recently released a PAL-21 model. Toy enthusiasts agree that though the new features do make it a better all-around lackey bot, it lacks the bouncy charm and playful design of the PAL-18. Nevertheless, PAL tends to feel inferior to the new models. PAL-18 currently collects dust in a dark corner of Boots' office, out of batteries and out of mindshare in a detective's worldview gone sour. Doctor Rho Bowman ================== Age: 28 Weight: 135 Height: 5'9" Eyes: Brown Hair: Dark Brown Family: Gerald Bowman, 65. Valeta Bowman, 66. World Skill: Analyze When Dr. Rho Bowman's controversial book, MysTech Awake!, first hit the SenderNet feeds two years ago, it was an immediate success. Eschewing technical jargon for layman aesthetics, its espousal of radical science with a subtext of spiritualism struck an immediate chord. The book was widely interpreted as a metaphor for the awakening of self by a generation of people looking for answers. The scientific community hated it. Not just for her particular brand of populist prose, but for stating her theories were proven based on one unreplicated experiment. Criticized for peddling bad science for profit, Rho was branded a "heretic" by the Scientifica Association and cut off from all her major funding. With her career in the scientific community was over after an effective smear campaign, she disappeared into obscurity. The daughter of an acclaimed astrophysicist and a respected mechanical engineer, Rho spent her formative years traveling wherever her parents were lecturing that given week. Her entire life, she has never felt that she belongs anywhere. She is intelligent, well-spoken, compassionate, straightforward, and determined. Paco " El-Puno " Estrella ========================== Alias: The Fist Place of Birth: Crystopolis, Krapton Group Affiliation: None Base of Operations: Casa de Rage, Krapton First appearance: Krapton Comics #12 World Skill: RageMight Krapton Comics were a line of superhero comic books based on the exploits of real-life superheroes from planet Krapton. Rage of the Fist was their flagship title until lagging sales and a general disinterest in super heroes put Krapton Comics out of business. With his enormous fists, Paco was capable of busting through barriers, and clobbering opponents with his powerful RageMight punch. He also had the power of flight, although there have been rumors that he's recently lost the ability. Highlights include: Rage of the Fist #3 (First appearance of scientist sidekick, Dr. Hush-Hush); and Rage of the Fist #32 (First appearance of super villain Rictus, who would become his chief nemesis). Back issues available through Cordicom Comic Book Warehouse. Stiletto Anyway ================ Age: 25 Weight: 120 Height: 5'7" Eyes: Brown Hair: Dark brown (now dyed purple) Ethnic background: Chinese-Brazilian Weapons: Knives World Skill: ThrowLoonie Stiletto's past is shrouded in secret. This is all we know: She is bold, confident, magnetic, devil-may-care, and she travels light. Rumors have floated by -- some say she was seen on Sender Station. Last most folks knew, she was slumming around Cordica. Some say she was on Anachronox. Whenever someone knew for sure, she was gone. A steel glare and a shift of the hip convey she is not taking crap from anybody. A turn of sharpened heel, a tilt of a polished knife blade keep all at a distance. And that's how she likes it. ===================================================================== Genaral Info / Features Anachronox ("uh-NAK-ruh-nox") is a 3rd person, 3D role-playing game (RPG) using the heavily-modified Quake 2 engine (32-bit graphics, particle system, spline-based camera scriptor, APE programming language). The player controls up to three characters at a time, from an eventual cast of seven, exploring the galaxy. Gameplay is exploration and interaction of the environment, melee with various galactic foes, and discovery of unique weapons and items that aid you on your quest. You can choose different characters to play and different ways to do things, leading you to different events and areas in the game. Each character has different Battle Skills with unique effects, and World Skills they can use to access places and info the other characters can't. For instance, one character can talk to computers, another can "Yammer" people, annoying them so much by blathering on that they provide the info you need! Exciting features include the third-person camera; real 3D battle sequences in context; 2D and 3D mini-games; lipsynched dialogue and facial expressions (mesh-deformation) during in-engine cinematics; multi-source blended directional vertex model lighting; procedural models; procedural textures (interform, etc); environment mapping; specular highlighting; various multitexture effects (shaders, etc); robust, powerful particle system (editor shipped in box); epic storyline with a rollercoaster of emotion; and tons of amazing weapons effects. ===================================================================== Requirements MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS PII 266 MHz (or equivalent) Windows 95B/98/ME 64 MB RAM 12 MB 3D accelerator card with full OpenGL support DirectX 7 (included) 4X CD-ROM drive RECOMMENDED AMD Athlon or Intel Pentium III processor Windows 98/ME 128 MB RAM 16 MB 3D accelerator card with full OpenGL support 8X CD-ROM drive Sense of humor NOTE: 3D accelerated video card with OpenGL drivers required. It may be necessary to update your hardware drivers before playing. ===================================================================== World Skills ============= This section has world skill of each character and the location of their upgrades. ********************************************************************* Sylvester Boots : PickLock You can pick locks with this skill , there are many locked doors and treasure chests that require this skill. Master Skill Upgrade : Boots will meet Detective Rukh for the first time at Anachronox Tour, he wants you to run an errand for him (find any evidence in the dead man's home). Then you will meet him again at Sender Station and ask you if you see anything suspecious (Take a picture of the dead person who blasted the door to Red Light District). After you come back from Hephaestus, you can find Detective Rukh at the Red Light District asking you one more time for a favor. Do it and you will get Master LockPick. ********************************************************************* PAL - 18 : Comp talk You can " hack " some computers and security systems with this skill. Master Skill Upgrade : Talk to Infantine inside Anachronox Tours tram station, he will lecture PAL and then teach him Master CompTalk. ********************************************************************* Dr. Rho Bowman : Analyze Can analyze some unknown stuff with this skill. Master Skill Upgrade : Talk to Dr. Brywelle at the GDP on Sender Station. He will tell her that some of the scientists who survived the incident are re-doing a commitee and they are welcoming her to join. ********************************************************************* Grumpos Matavastros : Yammer This skill can annoy / make crazy some people. Master Skill Upgrade : Grumpos: Have Grumpos yammer Brother Gnosticus, at Sender Station Gate 2 before leaving for Hephaestus. He will then teach Grumpos the master skill for Yammer. ********************************************************************* Stiletto Anyway : throw loonies Can throw loonies to open secret passages,doors. Master Skill Upgrade : Talk to one of the Vigil after the battle on Limbus. The Vigil will tell you that he has a vision of a woman. ********************************************************************* Democratus : tractor Beam some items to you. Master Skill Upgrade : Democratus: Have Democratus talk to the diplomat in Frank's Flophouse. He is standing near Frank. ********************************************************************* Paco " El-Puno " Estrella : RageMight Master Skill Upgrade : Talk to the Mrs. Invisiblus in the poor side of Hephaestus. She is located on the very top ramp, in a house. ********************************************************************* ===================================================================== Battle Skills This section explains each characters battle skills and where to obtain them. ( this section is not ready yet ).I think every character has 4 Battle skills.These are the skills i have found so far. Descriptions for some skills will come later. ******************* * Sylvester Boots * ******************* Skill : Fatima Screen Location : You have this skill at the beginning of the game. Description : A shield that takes away half of the damage done to you. Skill : FlashBlind Location : Detective Rukh gives FlashPak when you help him the first time. Description : Stun the monster for a moment Skill : Aerial Trigger Location : A chest in the white caves on Democratus. Description : A mortar that hurts all the monsters on the screen. Skill : Cap Location : The chest in Boot`s office closet ( Need Master PickLock). Description : A sniper shot that deals a lot of damage. ********************** * Stiletto Anyway * ********************** Skill : Pain Pirouette Location : Her beginning skill. Description : She does somersault and dive kick at the target, deal a lot of damage. Skill : Charm Location : Talk to the woman in bathroom at Cold Sweat Sex Machine Description : Skill : BladeFan Location : Talk to a soldier in Doren forest base , or buy it from Zordo later in game. Description : Throws her blades in the air and kick it towards the monsters, deal damages to all the monsters on the screen. Skill : Stealth Location : Located in a chest in Democratus war ship bay. Description : ************** * Grumpos * ************** Note: To upgrade his skills, you need to go to Pay2Pray and pay to meditate (located in Vend-O-Mart on Sender Station). Skill : Yammer Location : Natural born old man skill ( his base skill ) :) Description : Grumpos talks alot and stuns the monster for a moment. Skill :Staff Sweep Location :Get from Jack at Whackmaster Jack's, have Grumpos talk to him. Description : Grumpos spinning around with his staff and fly around the monster(deal damage to all monsters.) Skill :Heal Field Location :You get it from a hippie at the top of Vend-o-Mart on Sender Station. Description : Heal all of friends' HP. Skill : White Light Location : Late in game, get from Floater near Barton Arms in the Bricks (after Detta declare Anachronox marshall law). You can also buy one from Pay2Pray. Description : Heal all of friends' HP and disinfect any Mystech effects (i.e. frozen,burn, poison, etc.). ************ * PAL-18 * ************ Skill : Windmill dash Location : PAL-18 beginning skill Description : PAL dash at the target, deal a lot of damage. Skill : Testalus Sphere Location : You can buy one in almost any shops. Description : Two yellow glowing balls fire out electricity and deals damage to all monsters. Skill : Taser Drain Location : For sale in shops late in game. Description : Skill : Transfer NRG Location : Talk to Zordo when Detta declare Anachronox marshall law. Description : *************** * Democratus * *************** How to install upgrades: There is an engineer from Democratus in the Penthouse suite at Sender Station, he will build them for you (for a price). Skill : TractorHold Location : Beginning skill Description : It stuns the monster for a moment. Skill : Stare Down Location : In a chest near the truck on Hephaestus. Description : The planet turns big and fire the laser at the monster. Skill : Missile Barrage Location : Plans scattered around Votowne after Villian Ship. (Check the dark corners of every sector) Description : Fires nuclear missiles and deals damage to all the monsters. Skill : Laser Array: Location : Plib the Seller has one later in the game. Or you can get one in the Villian ship where once you open all the red doors (need to backtrack and Master LockPick skill is required). Description : Mini satellites fly out and attack one target, then one giant satellite finishes it off. ****************** * Dr.Rho Bowman * ****************** Skill : PlasmaWall Location : Her beginning skill Description : A wall that rotates around and deal damages to all the monsters. Skill : Scanalyze Location : Buy it from Plib the Seller in Mystech Museum. Description : Analyze one of the monster. Skill : MysShield Location : You can get one in the court room in Mysterium Tower. Description : A shield like Boot's Fatima Screen. Skill : Pocket Singularity Location : Throne room in Sesostris on Limbus. Description : ********************************** * Paco " El-Puno " Estrella * ********************************** To irradiate the stones: There is a robot in the Mystech factory that will do it for you. Skill : Ground Pound Location : Given Description : Paco hits the ground and a giant fist pops up and hit the target from the bottom, also stuns the target. Skill : Radius Rage Location : Given Description : Paco hits the ground and many giant fists pops up, deal damages to all the monsters on the screen. Skill : Proxima Punch Location : Get the crimson stone from hotel on Limbus. Description : Skill : FireFury Location : Beneath tracks at OneGate Station. Description : ===================================================================== TACO locations ******************** * South Anacrhonox * ******************** * There's one at Whackmaster Jack's, you need PAL's CompTalk to open up a secret closet. * Ghalla's Creatures Repair back room has one. * Frank's Flophouse Room 6, the room where you sleep in. * Grumpos's balcony, near his Mystek shack * Junkyard: Just before Eddie's hideout, there is a spiral ramp, go around behind it (instead of up). * Mystek Tunnel, there is a TACO in a chest * Anachronox Tours, use PAL's world skill to open a secret room behind exploding broken elevator. * Platform Area, use Democratus's world skill from level 3 on the elevator. * OneGate Station, there is one near the parked cars ****************** * Sender Station * ****************** * Inside the station, there are two guys arguing because one of them cannot pay for his custom, pay for him and you will get a TACO. * Go to Red Light District, then go to Orange Navel, get a girl to go upstairs and there's a TACO in Room 2. * You can buy one from Tubby's Grease Shack for 50 loonies. * Retrieve El Puno toy for MugMug (using Democratus' world skill) and it will give you a TACO. ********** * Sunder * ********** * Inside the Rainbow Lab Building, behind a pillar in the break room. Democratus * At the Republic Inn, there is a TACO in room 401. * After the Rictus' Ship, return to the council place and talk to Sgt. Guff (the military chief advisor, one with strange mask and green shirt) and he will give you one. * Rictus' Ship In the storage room where there's a red door you can go in later. ************** * Hephaetus * ************** * At the Entertainment District, there is one in the Eco Bar. * Factory: In the office where the employee is being fired, which is to the "Irradiatatus" robot's right, through the big door and beyond the room with 3 conveyor belts. * Upper Tower: Next to the ninth enigma. ===================================================================== Walkthrough Feel free to post any items , sidequests , or other stuff that i have missed. 0.1 Rowdy?s bar / your Office =============================== Recommended level : lv.1 Items found : Cordicam Digital Camera,20 bucks, So the game begins , after beginning scene it is time to look for some work. Now head to upstairs in to your " office " , there you will find your PAL - 18 but it is out of business , you will have to find a new battery for it.So ignore it for time now. Then pick the lock on the door and then inside the room , pick up money and there is a chest that requires higher picklock skill so be sure to come back later. Before Leaving your office pick up your camera from the desk. There is a strange looking woman in the bar near the stairs to upstairs speak with her.You will need to remember her later in game. Then back at bar talk to Valesta ( blonde girl on bar counter ) she gives you your first job for a long time. Now exit. 0.2 Fountain Spiral Area =========================== Recommended level : lv.1 Items found : HealGrease Plus On the passage to Spiral area speak to flying creature , it gives you an advice to speak with his cousin in spiral area. Go forward , here is your first fight only bad thing is that you cant win it. After you get beaten up Fatima will instruct you to visit WhackMaster Jack. In the same room there is Healgrease on the ground , pick it up and then continue to spiral area . There you should find WhackMaster Jacks place.Go there.... 0.3 Whackmaster Jacks Battle Tutorial ====================================== Recommended level : lv.1 Items found : Here is not much to do, speak to the guy in red clothes upstairs of this place to begin your combat practice.Exit the place after you are done with training. 0.4 Fountain Spiral Area Again =============================== Now head to the route that has few elevators and use them to get to Casinox area. 0.5 Casinox Area ================= After you have taken elevator you spot woman near a timeminder talk to her and you will find out that she wants to know where Simon Langer lives ( this is a small sidequest that gives you 75 bucks from completing it ) after you have spoken to her continue your trip to overlook on this area there you should talk to flying creature after you have done this take the elevator up to the real Casinox area.. In the way there is a guard that has a question for you , He shows you a photo of a woman and asks you have you seen her.Do you remember that lady on the bar at the beginning ? that is her.You can answer either yes or no.. The Casinox area is mostly unavaible to visit since there is burning man running there the Nox guards have sealed the place until the disturbance is over.. So continue your trip to another elevator and proceed to Junkyard area... 0.6 JunkYard ============== In this area there are few diffent shops and routes to Tenements and the actual Junkyard so you could either proceed with your mission and go to Tenements or if you want to try collecting some cash and experience then head to junkyard area from the ramp.. Remember the junkyard since you will have to visit there pretty soon in the game.. 0.7 Tenements and Franks Flophouse =================================== In the Tenements you should head to Franks Flophouse , so go down by the elevator and then head to the flophouse that is located right next to the elevator.. Inside there you can picklocks of every room except room B.Room C requires more skill, Room A is your main goal since it is the place that you will find the person you are looking for, every room has minor treasures. After collecting the treasures from the rooms head to room A and talk to the lady there also collect the item from the table. Now you should head back to beginning of the game Rowdys Bar and report Valenia that you have found her friend.After doing that head to Building 5 in Tenements area . 0.8 Building 5 in Tenements ============================ Now head to the elevator C, then head to second floor there search apartments : 05 apartment where Simon Langer lives 19 apartment where Grumpos lives Some other apartment contain few minor treasures you can search them if you like, when you are ready head to apartment 19, After cutscenes Grumpos tells you that he will hire you if you are enough skilled to prove your skills you need to get noxguard helmet size 5. At one alley you can see someone beating one guy and two noxguards guarding there , talk to the one and ask him about the helmet size 5 he tells you that platform area has one guard that has size 5 helmet. So lets head there.. 0.9 Casinox Area Again ======================== Now that the route is open head to platform area elevator here. 1.0 Platform Area ================== Now head to level 1 with the elevator and there you will find a noxguard that has the helmet, you can get it in two diffent ways either talking to him peacefully and finally he gives it to you but you could also talk the agressive way to him and fight him to get the helmet after you have gotten the helmet it is time to head back to Grumpos.. 1.1 Sub Quest Time ==================== ************************ * Brebulan Photographs * ************************ OK, To gain this sub Quest talk to the NoxGuard at passage to casinox area.He says that he need 5 brebulan photos,so you need to find those brebulans, here are their locations : * One in Casinox area near the entrance to platform area * One in Anachronox Tours area , in the restaurant * Two in Junkyard area standing in front of some building * Two in Tenements area , one in the upper section near a NoxGuard and one on the lower area on some alley. * One in Zordos gun place area After gaining photos of all Brebulans return to the guard that gave you the quest and to claim your reward which by the way is $500. ===================================================================== About the Author Other walkthroughs written by me : Omikron:The Nomad Soul Character Version: Final [ 2.00 ] Language: English Next Update: N/A Available at: www.Gamefaqs.com DiscWorld Noir Walkthrough Version: Final [ 1.00 ] Language: English Next Update: N/A Available at: www.Gamefaqs.com Black and White Evil Guide Version: 0.9 Language: English Next Update: Not very soon Available at: www.gamefaqs.com Anachronox walkthrough Version: 0.2 Language: English Next Update: Soon Available at: gamefaqs.com and gamespot