LocoCycle Achievement Guide & Road Map

LocoCycle
LocoCycle Achievement Guide

Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
- Offline: 20 [400]
- Online: 0 [0]
- Approximate time: 5 Hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1+ playthroughs
- Missable achievements: No [Level Select]
- Does difficulty affect Achievements: No Difficulties
- Unobtainable/glitched Achievements: No
- Extra equipment needed?: No

Introduction
LocoCycle is an action game by Twisted Pixel where you play as a motorcycle who is dragging her mechanic behind her. IRIS (the motorcycle) wants to go to the Freedom Rally, but Big Arms, the company that paid to manufacture her is trying to get her back or destroy her.

Upgrade Note
I would upgrade in this order:

Melee
Turbo
Health
Weapons

Don't be afraid to use all your points after every level, doing so will allow you to do better in later levels, which will allow you to earn more points per level.

The reason I recommend upgrading in this order is because you will be able to fully upgrade your melee ability before reaching level 5-2 and will be able to get "Champion Streaker" without having to replay the level and not having your weapons upgraded doesn't seem to affect your ranking.

Step 1: Story
Just play through all the levels. You don't have to worry about getting A Ranks on the levels. It is not required for any of the achievements and I'm not sure that it is even possible on a few of them until IRIS is upgraded. However, the better you do the more points you will have for upgrades and extras and the less replay you will have to do. This will get you most of the achievements in the game.

Step 2: Garage
Now from the main menu go to the garage. You should have enough points to purchase everything here so do that now. This will get you "Big Movie Watchings", "All Game Secrets Revealed", and "Behind the Scenes Bonus DVD". If you don't have enough points to purchase everything go back to a level you did poorly on the first time through and with IRIS fully upgraded you should be able to do much better. The reason you want to replay a level you did poorly in is because of the way points work. When you replay a level you get the points you earned minus the points you earned previously so if you play a level you did well on you will get very little out of it.

Step 3: Mop-Up
Finish off any of the random achievements you have left. Most of these can be done on level 1-1. "Pablo Thanks You"can be easily done on level 1-3. "Champion Streaker" will need to be done on level 5-2.

Conclusion
LocoCycle is an interesting and decently fun game. You will have another 400 before you know it!

[XBA would like to thank TemporalWizard for this roadmap]

The Nicaraguan Getaway

20
Finished Prologue.
Story Related. Can't be missed.

This will unlock as soon as you complete the Prologue.

New enemies:

Out Runner - These are the Jet pack wearing guys. Use turbo to catch up to them, press to enter Melee mode then melee them with and to take them down.
Adios, Mexico

30
Finished El Highway.
Story Related. Can't be missed.

This will unlock as soon as you complete Level 1-3.

New Enemies:
- Black Sedans - The easiest way to take these out is to shoot them with .
- Leaper Agents - These are the guys who leap off the black sedans onto IRIS. Once a leaper agent makes it onto IRIS you must take them out with a counter (Press when the Red Reticule appears over them).
- Trucks with the Guys firing Rockets - Counter all three rockets back at them to defeat them.
Boss Fight:
- Avoid his wheel attack and keep shooting him with until his health bar is depleted. You will then be able to counter his wheel attack and then melee him with and .
- This brings you into a quick time event.
- After the quick time event melee him again.
- Then you have another quick time event.
- Then you will have to melee him with Pablo.
- Next he will start dropping mines and doing wheel attacks. Avoid these while shooting him and when you deplete his health you will be able to counter his wheel attack. There is no health bar this time, but you will know when to counter because he will stop dropping mines and the reticule will appear over the wheel.
- Melee him one more time and you will have defeated him and earned this achievement.
Here is a video showing this boss fight:
Conquered Canyons

30
Finished Hidden Canyons.
Story Related. Can't be missed.

This will unlock as soon as you complete Level 2-3.

New Enemies:
- White SUVs - Shoot these with to defeat them.
- Motorcycles - You can take these out with or if your close enough. Otherwise shoot them with to defeat them.
- Super Out Runners - These are just like the Out Runners except they fire at you before you catch up to them and enter melee mode. If they hit you, your turbo will reset and you will lose ground and have to start over. Avoid there attacks, catch up to them, enter melee mode with and use and to defeat them.
- Jeeps with Grenades - Avoid the grenade blasts and shoot the jeep until it explodes.
Quick Time Event VS Truck:
At the end of Level 2-2 Iris will break down as a large truck is barreling down towards them and Pablo will have to fix her before the truck reaches them. The following can be done in any order, except for the fifth one which will always be last.
- Push to the right and press . In this part you will press to activate the torch and use to follow three patterns that will show up on the screen.
- Push the forward and press . Pablo will need to pound out a section of IRIS with a hammer. There will be a little bar with a vertical line going back and forth when it is in the center press . Keep doing this until the section is pounded flat.
- Push to the right and press . Press to have Pablo grab the wires then use for the left wire and for the right wire and start to bring them together. Keep moving them closer together until the electricity flowing between the two wires turns blue then hold it there until Pablo automatically ties the wires together.
- Push to the left and press . Spin the to screw the first two screws in then spin and together for the third screw.
- After you have fixed all of IRIS' problems keep pressing to have Pablo kick start IRIS.
Here is a video showing this:

Boss Fight:
1. The boss will throw his bladed shield at you several times, avoid it until he throws it and it starts bouncing on it's way toward you. You will be able to counter it with . You will have to do this three times.
2. The boss will run parallel to you tossing cars at you. Fire bombs at him with and avoid his attacks. Occasionally he will cut a car in half, counter the two haves back at him. Keep doing this until his health bar is depleted.
3. Quick Time Event
4. Press the buttons that appear in the lower left hand corner of the screen to have Pablo damage the mech and pull the Pilot out.
Here is a video showing this boss fight:
The Retirees Are Safe

30
Finished Cruisin' Keys.
Story Related. Can't be missed.

This will unlock as soon as you complete Level 3-3.

New Enemies:
- Agents on Stilts - When close enough go into melee mode with and use and to defeat them.
- Boats - Shoot these with to defeat them.
- Jet Skis - Shoot these with to defeat them.
- Boats that drop mines - Avoid the mines and shoot these with to defeat them.
- Hoverboard Agents - There will be a quick time event where you press and then IRIS will launch Pablo. As he flies out it will be an overhead view and you must guide him left and right to take them out. On the way back it switches to a side view and you must guide him up and down to take them out. Any that you miss will then crash into IRIS doing damage.
- Big Science Balls - Avoid them with turbo and by moving left and right while they roll around you in patterns and then melee them with and to defeat them.
- Armored Trucks - These will pull in front of you the back will open and there will be a large Agent in that back. He will throw out shorter agents with bombs strapped to them that will stick to IRIS. You must use your turbo to catch up to the trucks and attach them to the truck. Once you get three attached the doors will close and the van will explode. In later levels you will have to attach two sets before the truck will explode.
Boss Fight:
As the Achievement says in this fight you are up against a helicopter with an unusual pilot. This boss has several phases:
1. The boss will fire a missile at the traffic. Avoid the flaming cars that come at you. When the last car comes at you line up with it and you will be able to perform a counter on it to hit the helicopter. You will have to successfully hit the boss three times before you move on to phase 2.
2. The boss is following you and shooting at you and enemies on motorcycles come to attack you. Use and to defeat them while avoiding the bosses attacks and knock a driver onto the helicopters windshield. One will stick to the windshield per group of enemies. You will have to get four stuck to the windshield before this phase ends.
3. In this phase the Boss will try to physically attack you, when it does counter it. You will have to successfully counter three times.
4. Attack the boss with and .
5. The boss will drop mines, avoid these. After each section of mines the boss will drop a large bomb. Pick this up with and throw it back at him with . You will have to do this three times.
6. Now the boss will try to physically attack you again. Counter him four times.
7. Attack the boss with and .
8. The boss will fire a missile at the traffic. Avoid the flaming cars that come at you. When the last car comes at you line up with it and you will be able to perform a counter on it to hit the helicopter. You will have to successfully hit the boss three times before you move on to the next phase.
9. The boss will try to physically attack you again, just counter whenever he does.
10. Attack the boss with and .
Here is a video showing this boss fight:
No More Snow Patrol

30
Finished Bi-Polar Offroads.
Story Related. Can't be missed.

This will unlock as soon as you complete Level 4-3.

New Enemies:
- Level 2 Boss - Enemies that look like the boss of level two will start showing up in Level 4-1. They will shoot at you and then throw their bladed shield at you. Avoid their shots, use to counter the shield back at them then use turbo to catch up to them and melee them with and to defeat them.
Boss Fight:
For this fight you are controlling Pablo instead of IRIS. You will use to aim and to fire. This fight is just one long shoot fest. Red Reticules will appear over different areas of the boss. Shoot within these areas when they appear. Occasionally the boss will fire missiles These will also be marked with red reticules. Take these out when you see them. Enemies on motorcycles will show up a couple times take these out when you can, but prioritize firing on the boss.

Here is a video showing how to defeat this boss:
Scottsburg Defender

30
Finished Neighborly Farmlands.
Story Related. Can't be missed.

This will unlock as soon as you complete Level 5-3.

New Enemies:
- ATVs - You can take these out with an or melee attack if you are close enough, if not just shoot them with to defeat them.
Quick Time Event:
At the end of Level 5-1 Iris will break down on train tracks and Pablo will have to fix her before the train reaches them. The following can be done in any order, except for the fifth one which will always be last.
- Push the forward and press . Pablo will need to pound out a section of IRIS with a hammer. There will be a little bar with a vertical line going back and forth when it is in the center press . Keep doing this until the section is pounded flat.
- Push to the right and press . In this part you will press to activate the torch and use to follow three patterns that will show up on the screen.
- Push to the right and press . Press to have Pablo grab the wires then use for the left wire and for the right wire and start to bring them together. Keep moving them closer together until the electricity flowing between the two wires turns blue then hold it there until Pablo automatically ties the wires together.
- Push to the left and press . Spin the to screw the first two screws in then spin and together for the third screw.
- After you have fixed all of IRIS' problems keep pressing to have Pablo kick start IRIS.
Here is a video showing this:

Boss Fight:
Once again your fighting your old buddy Spike. This fight is a Street Fighteresque battle, including controls. I'm not actually sure it is possible to lose this battle, because whenever Spike knocks IRIS down Pablo gives her a pep talk and gives her energy bar back.

Here is a video showing this battle:
Free To Do What We Wanna Do

50
Finished Final Level.
Story Related. Can't be missed.

This will unlock as soon as you complete The Final Level.

For this level you will be stationary using to aim and to shoot. Some enemies will have a red target area that you must shoot them in to take them out.

Here is a video showing how to complete the level:
Back In Yo Face

10
Countered 50 total enemies.
When an enemy is getting ready to attack it will have a red target reticule over it hit when this happens to counter the attack. You need to counter a total of 50 times to earn this achievement.
Tables Have Turned

20
Countered 150 total enemies.
When an enemy is getting ready to attack it will have a red target reticule over it hit when this happens to counter the attack. You need to counter a total of 150 times to earn this achievement. You should get this by the end of Level 5-2 by just playing the game.
Streaky Goodness

10
Combo streak reached 250.
You must reach a combo streak of 250. You will first be able to earn this around level 4-2. Just make sure to keep attacking the enemies and countering or throwing Pablo if you have the upgrade that causes a Pablo attack to interrupt an enemies attack to avoid an enemy attack breaking your combo streak.
Champion Streaker

25
Combo streak reached 1,000.
You must reach a combo streak of 1000. You will only be able to get this on level 5-2 and you will need to have your melee attacks fully upgraded. Just make sure to keep attacking the enemies and countering or throwing Pablo to avoid an enemy attack breaking your combo streak.
Why So Hostile?

10
Blew up 200 civilian cars.
Once you've upgraded IRIS' weapons to the point where she shoots missiles as well as the normal ammo just keep shooting at oncoming traffic and you will have this before long.

Alternate method by Cilisien:
In Level 4-2 you can get this during the part where you have to control the truck. Just keep ramming into oncoming traffic.

Here is a video showing method one:
Rubbin', Son, Is Racin'

5
Took out a Big Arms car using only melee.
You must beat a car to death with or . If you shoot or ram them at all it will not count for the achievement. This is easily done on level 1-1 once IRIS is fully upgraded.
Car Go 'Splode, Just In Time

15
Blew up Leaper Agent's car before he reached you.
You must destroy one of the cars with the guy that jumps on IRIS before the guy jumps off the car. This is easily done on Level 1-1 after IRIS is fully upgraded. Just keep your fire focused on the Leaper Agent's car as soon as it appears on screen.

Here is a video:
Big Oil Never Had a Chance

10
Beat a tanker truck sequence in less than 60 seconds.
This is the hardest achievement in the game. You must destroy the three tankers in Level 1-1 in under one minute. You will need to have IRIS' weapons and turbo fully upgraded. You need to keep turbo on except when it is recharging and avoid the hitting the cars protecting the tankers. Attacking them will just slow you down.
Pablo Thanks You

25
Took no damage during a whole level.
You must beat a level without taking any damage. This is easily done on Level 1-3 after IRIS is fully upgraded.
All Tricked Out

15
Maxed level up on all weapons and abilities.
After each level you can spend the points on upgrades for IRIS. You will get this achievement once IRIS is fully upgraded. You should get this when you upgrade after level 5-2.

I would recommend upgrading in this order:
1. Melee
2. Turbo
3. Health
4. Weapons
Don't be afraid to use all your points after every level, doing so will allow you to do better in later levels, which will allow you to earn more points per level.
Big Movie Watchings

10
Unlocked all film bonus content.
From the main menu, go to the garage. Go into the Film section and Purchase everything.

Here is a video if you still need help:
All Game Secrets Revealed

10
Unlocked all game bonus content.
From the main menu go to the Garage and in the Game section purchase everything.

Here is a video if you still need help:
Behind the Scenes Bonus DVD

15
Unlocked all bonus content.
Purchase all upgrades for IRIS and everything in the Garage.

You should have plenty of points after one playthrough to purchase everything. If you don't have enough points go back and play levels that you did poorly on and with IRIS upgraded you should be able to do a lot better and earn more points. The way the points for replaying levels work is that you get the points you earned minus the points you earned for previous playthroughs so you have to do better than the first time to get any more points out of a level.