Beginner tips for the first hours

1. Attack walls at dead ends and anything that looks cracked or recessed: many secret rooms sit behind breakable walls. One guide adds that some passages need a slide or the whip to reach.
2. Open the map and add your own markers on locked chests, ledges you can't reach and suspicious walls. One guide says you can place 50 at once; remove a marker once you've cleared that spot.
3. After each boss, check your markers. New abilities open paths you couldn't use before.

See the boss pages for where those fights are and how to win them.

1. The Arcane Whip comes after The Fallen. Use it to hook onto glowing anchors (and some enemies) to swing across gaps and spikes.

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   0:08–0:12 · 4 sHooking a glowing anchor with the Arcane Whip

2. Holy Light comes after Joan. Hold the button to pass through Chaos Shards that block paths, and press it just before an attack lands to parry. Practise the parry on ordinary enemies first; its timing is much tighter.

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   1:59–2:15 · 16 sHoly Light: hold it to pass through Chaos Shards

1. Slide works as your dodge: slide through or past an attack to get behind an enemy, then hit it from behind.
   Spoiler clip · Slide under an attack to the enemy's other side, then hit it · reveal

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   0:59–1:04 · 5 sSlide under an attack to the enemy's other side, then hit it

2. Jump attacks that come in low, such as a sword dragged along the ground.
   Spoiler clip · Jump a low sweep along the ground · reveal

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   4:39–4:42 · 3 sJump a low sweep along the ground

3. Stop after two or three hits in a boss's opening and back off, rather than finishing a combo and getting caught.

1. Pick up every red and blue book: red raises attack and blue raises defence.
2. Collect Wise Heart Fragments: four of them enlarge Rose's mana bar. One guide says four red heart shards do the same for maximum health.
3. Finish each Arcana's Works of Mercy, a checklist of challenges such as hitting 20 enemies with your starting fireball. Completing them makes the spell stronger.
   Spoiler clip · Works of Mercy checklists on the Arcanas screen · reveal

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   3:34–3:48 · 14 sWorks of Mercy checklists on the Arcanas screen