- Estimated achievement difficulty: 5/10
- Offline: 50 (1000 )
- Online: 0
- Approximate time to 1000: 8-12 hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
- Number of missable achievements: 2 (Skullbagger 1 and 2)
- Number of glitched achievements: 0
- Do cheat codes disable achievements: No cheats
- Does difficulty affect achievements: Yes
Introduction
Viking: Battle for Asgard has 50 offline achievements for a total of 1000 . Difficulty achievements are stackable in this game, so I would suggest that you playthrough on Hard difficulty. Hard is not particularly difficult and feels much the same as it would when playing through on Normal. It should take you between 8-12 hours to complete.
WARNING: The following achievements are only obtainable once in the game, if you miss the chance and save your game, you will have to restart from the beginning to obtain it.
-Skullbagger 1
-Skullbagger 2
Playthrough
Most of the achievements you gain will come naturally as you progress through the game, although there are some tougher ones. Blinded to Fear is easiest done from the start of the game, simply take your time and don't get surrounded. You can move away from enemies and recover your health if needed, just don't use a potion. The Perfect Killer can be done on your first Champion. Make sure to kill any other enemies around it before taking it on and spam axes on it, which will do most of the work for you. Also be sure to collect as much gold as possible on each island and visit the arena to buy all the moves there, this will both make the game easier and give you several achievements.
The most important thing to remember as you play is to get the skulls for Skullbagger 1 and Skullbagger 2 on the first opportunity you get. If you fight the battle for that town and you have not already got the skulls, you will be unable to return to get them. The exception to this is Thornvik on the 3rd island, where you can reload your save after the battle and the skulls will have respawned.
Hel
The final battle can cause many headaches and this is the stratergy I used to complete it on the first try without any problems. Attack the enemies until you get four rage orbs, then hold to block, then Spam + to knock them into the fire which kills them for you. On the posts themselves, use + twice to quickly destroy them and then repeat the blocking process until the fire drops, so you can access the next post. Repeat this on all four posts until you get to Hel. On Hel herself, throw several axes at her then go through the long button sequence to finish her off.