GUIDE TO 100% 

[SPOILERS AHEAD. SCROLL DOWN AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.]

Welcome to this guide to "A Hell of a Bloody Dragon". 

I will use big seperators like such for anyone that wants to stop midway and continue without spoiling too much but are stuck in 1 step.

I will explain the extra % with some explanations and story on the reasons why I made it this way aswell.

Part 1: 16%

This is what anyone willing to finish this game will get.

To get 16%:

- Start Story.

- Leave the Crypt.

- Speak with the Red Lord to unlock the city gate.

- Speak with the Yellow Chief to unlock the ability to speak with Jim's dopplegangers and brothers to start reducing the dragons potential locations.

- Once you have 1 left, go speak with the dragon. (Again if already done).

- Speak with Josef and finish his dialogue to get 16%. And this Dialogue: The last page of the book seems to have been riped off, someone wanted to stop this story and managed to do it.

Notes:

- At the ceremony you can speak with people but it's more for fluff and world building.

- Collecting weapons is not necessary and doesn't contribute. It just helps you in this world.

Now this is only 16%. If you speak with the red dragon at the ceremony at the end, he will tell you that you can go home. The maps updates with a new objective to go home.

Instead of speaking with Josef you can just walk outside and "go home" which is the crypt where you come from.

You will have a glitch effect which means you progressed when you go outside.

Part 2: 33% The Hub World.

- Walk outside after the ceremony and ignore Josef.

- Head back to the crypt.

- Lay down back in your grave.

This gives you 33% however the text displays: The last page of the book says the following: The hero has returned home but his mind is unsettled, he tries to rest but something prevents him from going truely home

So we managed to find the end but there are still elements missing. You are not complete.

To get more %, you need to find what's missing of you.

Part 3: Finding more on how to complete the game

Looking around the coffin, you will find that there are 3 new things in this room. 3 altars with some VFX effects on them but nothing on them yet.

Stepping outside the Crypt, you face a very empty world. No NPC, no music. It feels like a bug or a glitch in the game. As if it was left behind. The door of the city is open and you can explore the same world as before but this time it's empty.

You also have a new UI element in the menu on pressing escape.

How to find the objects that fit on the altar... You might explore for a while before knowing what to do. When the game doesn't help you, there is two things you can do, read the game website for more info, look at the screenshots there or look at the game files.

Looking at the game files, a folder "Huqt Cu" is sitting next to the .exe.

Within the Huqt Cu we find 2 things, screenshots and a text file. Screenshots helps to find some locations or guide you to the correct places. Or highlight what's coming.

The text is in a weird language, It's english but it's encrypted with Ceasar cipher. The first 666 is the encryption. 

If you translate the message with an online ceasar cipher reader with a step 666.

You get the following text:

"666

Day 1

I played this game multiple times now but somehow I never end up finishing it, I always have missing %

Day 2

The game seems to glitch.

Somehow, I keep looping back into this place.. It never wants me to finish it at 100%...

Day 3

There must be more. I want to know the end of this story...

I let the game aside, but I want to go back.

Day 6

I start exploring the corners. Trying to find what I missed. I searched all the castles. Until I saw it, right at the end of this nice view. I found something. Some sort of Artefact! 

I shoot at the artefact and it does nothing, I can't damage it. So I let my soul get absorbed watching it for a while. 

I found myself within corridors... My mind got absorbed and I lost myself there...

Day 7 

I managed to get back. But it only gave me a few more %... I need to explore more! 

After a while, I find some sort of artefact buried in the mountains. I thought the passage was broken as the bridge collapsed, but somehow it's manageable! Suddenly, I'm freezing...

Day 8

Once I was back to reality after my freezing adventures. I'm very excited to have found a few more % to completion, again. 

I look for more and... Water water water!! I found it it was in the river! I'm finally approaching the end I feel it.

Day ç&à

But now... this red appeared... I need to look at it... as he's looking at me... 

And there it is, finally, the game revealed itself completely to me!

Finally, I can go home. I have seen what needed to be seen."

Part 4 : Labyrinth

Now that we found the text, the first few days look like what we got so far. We explored and couldn't find anything more. 

But on day 6 we read this: 

I start exploring the corners. Trying to find what I missed. I searched all the castles. Until I saw it, right at the end of this nice view. I found something. Some sort of Artefact! 

I shoot at the artefact and it does nothing, I can't damage it. So I let my soul get absorbed watching it for a while. 

I found myself within corridors... My mind got absorbed and I lost myself there...

Lets go through step by step:

1. I start exploring the corners. Trying to find what I missed. I searched all the castles. Until I saw it, right at the end of this nice view. I found something. Some sort of Artefact! 

The castle you need to head to and mentioned above is the one with the very long vista point. The one with a pink flag with a triangle on it. At the center up of the map. The one above the waterfall.

Once in the castle instead of going in the arena were there was previously a hammer weapon to collect. You can head on the left toward the view. 

This is in the last shot of the trailer: at 00:57 sec in the trailer. Aand also the last screenshot of the official page here: https://antoinefauville.itch.io/a-hell-of-a-bloody-dragon (as an extra hint)

2. I shoot at the artefact and it does nothing, I can't damage it. So I let my soul get absorbed watching it for a while. 

You need to stare at the artefact on the floor for a few seconds. Shooting does nothing.

3. I found myself within corridors... My mind got absorbed and I lost myself there...

You are now in the labyrinth. I will let you explore here, but don't forget to pickup the power up, it's very useful. A speed boost.

To exit the world, find the artefact at the end of the labyrinth and you will be back in the hub world.

Part 5: The Freezing Mountains

We found the labyrinth but we are not yet complete. I hope you got the speed boost in the labyrinth world.

Looking at the next step, Day 7 we have the following:

I managed to get back. But it only gave me a few more %... I need to explore more! 

After a while, I find some sort of artefact buried in the mountains. I thought the passage was broken as the bridge collapsed, but somehow it's manageable! Suddenly, I'm freezing...

Looking at the screenshots we have asside the text, we find a collapsed bridge at the starting area of the Red City. On the right after exiting the crypt. 

Now there are multiple ways to cross the bridge. You can go on the left of the hole above the waterfall or you can cross the mountain on the right from the Red City.

Once you crossed it, you will reach a glitch area. The artefact is further on the left. Stare at it and you will end up in the Mountains.

Finding the artefact will bring you in the hub world.

You can find a health boost

Part 6: Ocean

The next day says the following: 

Once I was back to reality after my freezing adventures. I'm very excited to have found a few more % to completion, again. 

I look for more and... Water water water!! I found it it was in the river! I'm finally approaching the end I feel it.

This one is very straight forward if you followed up to here. 

Follow the main river and at one end of it, which is highlighted in the screenshot in the folders of the Black City. You can see the artefact in the screenshot at the end of the river.

Same as the other, look at it and you are now in the ocean world.

Finding the artefact will bring you in the hub world.

You can find here a power boost

Part 7: Red

Once you get back out of the Ocean world. The Red City is now turned even more Red.

If we check the crypt we have all the artefacts. But we still don't have 100%

In the Red City, there is now a cursed pillar surrounded with intense Red light.

Stairing at the artefact placed on the altar of the Red pillar, we are sent to the Red World. The final world.

You can kill what lies inside.

Part 8: Last Part. End of the Story & 100%

Once you exit the Red world, you can head back to the coffin and finaly put yourself to rest. 

You Should now have 100%, Congratulation!

Meaning and explanations:

You are brought back from the dead, but the reality isn't what it seems. You are first faced with a "story", the story that you tell yourself, the story of life and a story that is just a surface. A lot seems wrong, people sounds stupid, the world is absurd. Up until the end you don't question the story you go through because things are going for you, you find activities to do, things to collect, people to speak, monster to kill. Until you are asked to go home.

The world starts glitching and your reality fades out. The game stops abruptly speaking with Josef or isn't complete as this is not you. You hit a surface and an absurd world that was only a projection until now. 

You were dead and the world you knew is long time gone. The reality you remember has been disturbed and made absurd, war happened, the war you fought many years ago and died in. You came back from the dead to re-live in this world but nothing was the same.

Collecting these artefacts is the only way you can find yourself again, searching deep inside your fears and through distant memories to collect your brain all together to finaly face the evil of yourself, what killed you and brought you to sleep. 

You first face a maze, a spiritual maze, the mental maze, on which you gain back some of your strengh and agility.

You then face the freezing mountains where you fight your fear of height, Jumping from memory to memory until you get a core memory back.

You then face the fear of the unknown in the ocean world, a flat horrific world where everything seems close and far at the same time, where as sailors at sea, you see a disturbed reality that you navigate through to come back to reality. But keeping the cap and going straight is the best lesson any sailor can learn. Go through what's menacing and vanquish your fear.

Lastly, you face what killed you, your vision of it is horrified as your memory is vague and partially destroyed. The monster takes a form of a dragon and you get a chance to kill it.

You fought through your fears and killed the ultimate horrific memory, to head back to your grave once and for all. A complete peace, a satisfied mind, where you realised that the only thing that was preventing you to see the reality and the light was yourself.

You may now rest in peace, for ever and ever.

I hope this guide helped you, let me know if you are still stuck somewhere, I'll happily update this :)