Where's Everything in Minishoot' Adventures

This guide covers locations for progression and other items that I noted down as potentially tricky while re-playing the game.

It does not cover items that you can unambiguously locate with in-game methods.

You can click on images to open full-size versions of them.

The guide does not contain story/enemy/boss spoilers, but it does show different places in the game world.

With that out of the way,

Achievement warning

Here's a thing to know about the game: it's pretty doable to get all the achievements, but the difficulty-based achievements are granted based on what the lowest difficulty was on the save file.

So, for example, if you've started the game on Explorer difficulty and switched to Advanced later on, you will not get the "The Epic Journey Ends" achievements - better start a new save file if you want to go for all of these.

Aiming mode setting has no effect on achievements - you can use what you'd like with this one. I think auto-aim is neat when playing on a controller as it lets you move some movement inputs to face buttons instead.

Maps

I'm making these a separate section as you can unlock a bunch of them in whatever order you like.

Dungeon 1

I feel like you can't really get lost with this one, you get the Boost power

and then you press this button to open the entrance:

The introductory dungeon is pretty normal, there are just a couple not-so-hidden items here:

Dungeon 2

First, you need to go south to the woods, do a little hook to the east, and find this building:

It will lead you to the area west of where you have entered, and you'll be able to access the dungeon's whereabouts by going north.

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But there's another interesting thing in the area: this building!

I think you could skip it and still beat the game, but there's some stuff inside.

And now back to that dungeon.

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To get to the objective, you'll need to get in this hole:

And then beat up this big turret to open the southern bridge:

Things are straightforward from thereon.

While you'll be passing by the south-west corner of the map, check behind the suspicious statue in a chapel-looking building for a useful item.

The dungeon has just a couple additional items, a scarab (north-east, hidden wall) and a heart fragment (north-west).

The dungeon's upgrade, however, will allow you to access a handful new places across the map.

Dungeon 3

First you go to the eastern area:

Then north, and then through this specific tunnel:

There's a shop and you should probably buy a map before continuing.

Here's where the braziers (?) for the objective are if you get lost:

With all of these lit up, you can continue to the objective and eventually get to the dungeon.

This one's fun!

Here's the battery that a bunch of people (including me!) forgot the first time around:

You get to it through a hidden wall next to a time trial track, just about north-west of the area's power item pedestal.

There's a heart fragment on the east:

You open it up by getting to a button through a bunch of tunnels from the central part of the dungeon.

There are also two scarabs (located north-east and west, respectively):

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And once you're done with the dungeon, you could take a little detour to the optional dungeon in the desert on the west - it has a power item, a scarab, and... is that all? I think that was all.

Dungeon 4

You get in the area through the entrance on the top of the western region.

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There's a building here that you can enter with a little work

That building's notable features include a power, a well-hidden button, and a well-hidden scarab:

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Apart of being used to traverse the area, those sewers (?) have a few items in them:

Races

You'll need to do all of these to access some "extras" after beating the final boss, but doing them before that will give you a useful item.

Note that you can temporarily re-allocate your upgrade points into movement to make these easier if you need.

Race #1

Race #2

It's in that tower with a scribble of 3 slimes in front of it, to get there you have to touch 3 circles in the area:

The race track's on the east of the underground area that you'll get to.

Race #3

Race #4

Race #5

Race #6

Race #7

Race #8

Reward

Once you're done with all of these, you can get the item here:

Other bits

Other random things that you might have missed:

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There's a scarab in the underground area accessed through the south-western building:

I think that's the part that you can only access after you have Surf and PowerShot?

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Places accessed by falling into the right hole:

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You get the "Finding your place" achievement for entering this building and sitting on the chair after rescuing these three ships:

Feel free to ponder the lore implications of this scene.

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You get the "Thanks for listening" achievement for standing next to the bard (at town's north exit once rescued) for a little while.

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You get into this part of the underground area with the big key from the tower described in Races > #2 section

Finale

I think the area is relatively straightforward?

To get in the dungeon, you need to clear two mini-dungeons.

One is open, other is opened by pressing a button under a pile of rubble.

Once you did both, you get an item that opens the dungeon:

The dungeon's alright. If you're playing on Advanced difficulty, remember to use the abilities that you have hopefully acquired from optional areas.

There's a checkpoint and an option to exit the dungeon just before the boss fight, so you can try this even if you feel like you could use more upgrades. When you re-enter later, you won't have to re-do the whole thing.

Extras

So you've beat the game, but what's a game without an optional bonus dungeon?

You'll need the item that you can get after completing all the races to get in there.

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And after you're done with that, there's another bonus dungeon that you can try!

This one has different challenges with revised boss fights in it.

After you're done messing around with these and are all-around satisfied, in the same dungeon you will find an option to formally finish the game, obliterate your save file out of existence, and get the (hopefully the last remaining) "Without looking back" achievement.

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Thanks for reading!