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Legendary Dark achievement in The Darkness

Legendary Dark

Complete game on hard setting

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  • SashamorningSashamorning
    15 Aug 2011 15 Aug 2011 29 Jan 2012
    Note: Some people have said that this resets your MP stats. That didn't happen to me, but if you're working on MP, do that first before attempting this.

    You can do this in a MUCH easier way. I beat the game 4 years ago on Easy, and just popped this one now. You don't even have to play through all of chapter 5, just the last checkpoint, which the game conveniently saves for you.

    1) Beat the game on Easy. Or Normal. Your choice. You could also beat it on Hard if you want to, that would also work. wink

    2) Assuming you didn't beat this on Hard (and that's why you're reading this), go to the dashboard and move your savegame to a memory stick.

    3) Go back into the game and start a new game on Hard. Play through to the first checkpoint. (I went all the way to after the car crash, but you might be able to do this before that.)

    4) Exit the game. Go to Options => Game => Select Storage Device. Select your memory stick.

    5) Select Continue Game. You will find yourself at the bottom of the lighthouse. Run up and finish Paulie. You'll find that he's quite a bit trickier than he was before... the game has scaled the difficulty up to Hard.

    6) The cheeves for Hard and Normal will pop during the cutscene.

    For those wondering about the MP glitch... I finished the game in '07. Four years later I went back and did all of the MP cheeves. Then I loaded up my old save on Easy and tried this. Pop! So I didn't have any issues with the MP making me miss the achievement, and the workaround works.

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    RacxieShould have checked the comments as I just spent ages downloading it to my 360 seen as I wasn't able to move the save to an external drive on my Series X laugh

    @ProfJuh that's exactly what I just did and (fortunately) had no problems with loading my save, so sounds like you must just have been really unlucky.
    Posted by Racxie on 11 Jun 23 at 21:47
    Games MasterCame to say that if on Xbox one just back out when choosing a storage device but a few people already have noted this +1
    Posted by Games Master on 31 Jan at 13:14
    MIL5YVOODOO85 comment still works for Series X. Cheers!
    Posted by MIL5Y on 21 Feb at 10:03
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  • Aura of HeroismAura of Heroism
    12 Mar 2010 14 Mar 2010
    If you have already beaten the game on normal, load up chapter 5 on hard and just beat that chapter. You will then get the achievement for beating the whole thing on hard. Nice time saver considering chapter five isn't all the hard.
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    Dadmixstill works and got me over the 100,000g line dance
    also didn't reset my stats I finish/played multiplayer before trying this as well.
    because of the glitch I've herd about when playing multiplayer first I did clear my cache and play on hard till the very first checkpoint where Jacky says a few words,then I quit and followed the guide.

    cheers
    Posted by Dadmix on 27 Feb 19 at 02:22
    WKFJonesystill works May 2019, on XB1 BC
    Posted by WKFJonesy on 23 May 19 at 19:11
    DMThirteenWorked on Series X, Oct 2023. Just didn't pop right away. In fact, I thought it hadn't worked and just noticed a day later that it had while checking TA.
    Posted by DMThirteen on 29 Oct 23 at 22:07
  • MortyDiceMortyDice
    15 Sep 2009 30 Jan 2009
    Legendary Dark seems to be a glitched achievement. From what I've read, there seems to be an issue with multiplayer games which cause the game to reset to 'Normal' setting. Or it could just be random. However here's a solution to be 99 % sure to get it:
    - Play one chapter at a time by selecting it and choosing Hard
    - Complete that chapter in one play
    - Do not play mutiplayer games until you have it

    If you have further information, do send a message and I'll edit this solution.
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    Crimson DrifterI played the single player game at will and didn't have to chapter select or do chapters in one play, but I DIDNT touch multiplayer at all, so I for sure suggest no MP.
    Posted by Crimson Drifter on 01 Mar 09 at 04:32
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