Tackling 100% completion in Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse takes a thorough approach across multiple areas, secret rooms, and demanding boss fights. This comprehensive belmonts curse achievement guide covers every single achievement, collectible location, weapon family, and alternate ending to help you reach maximum progress.
You will need to keep a close eye on hidden ceilings and track your map zones carefully since purple areas indicate missed items while golden areas confirm full exploration. Bringing a patient mindset for backtracking makes finding all 34 Mirrors of Life and 40 clues much smoother.
Before diving in, make sure you understand how custom settings can ease certain grinds without disabling achievement unlocks. Review the breakdown below to plan your route through every boss, secret, and outfit.
In this Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse achievement guide, I cover all the achievements and explain how to unlock them, including hidden boss achievements, collectibles, weapons, Arcana blessings, and alternate endings. I also list all 34 Mirrors of Life and 40 clues to help with 100% completion.
I include tips for finding secret areas, unlocking every ending, and tracking missing collectibles. Custom settings can also make the game easier without affecting achievements.
Achievements List
Transylvanian Express
Cover 19.86 km
Keep exploring and moving through the game until you have covered a total distance of 19.86 km.
Jack of All Trades
Find a weapon of each family in the game
Find at least one weapon from each of the following weapon families:
- Whips
- One-Handed Swords
- Two-Handed Swords
- Dual Blades
- Spears
- Fists
- Weapon & Shield
Lamplighter
Destroy 666 candles
Destroy candles as you explore each area until you have smashed 666 in total.
Stuff of Legends
Find a legendary weapon
Explore the different zones and secret locations until you track down a legendary weapon.
Narcissus
Activate every mirror of life
There are 34 Mirrors of Life scattered across the game world. Explore each zone thoroughly to activate every single mirror.
Paris Streets – 5
- Burned District
- Central Sewer Drain
- Gate to the Stone Bridge
- Prison Tower
- Undercity
Holy Innocents’ Cemetery – 4
- Ancient Sewers
- Cloister
- Overgrown Crypt
- Pauper’s Grave
Catacombs of Paris – 2
- Quarry Elevator
- Realm of Old Night
Notre-Dame – 3
- East Gallery
- Notre-Dame Undercroft
- West Triforium
Main Hall – 9
- Archives
- Ballrooms
- Boudoirs
- Elevator Tower
- Entrance Corridor
- Servants’ Quarters
- Storerooms
- Torture Chambers
- Waterworks
Library – 2
- Exhibition Room
- Rhetoric Shelves
Clock Tower – 3
- Eastern Summit
- Foundry Apex
- Mechanic’s Ascent
Master’s Quarters – 1
- Sanctuary of Solitude
Hall of Mirrors – 5
- Familiar Way
- Heart of the Maze
- Nightmare Atrium
- The Descent Into Memory
- Threshold of Vision
The Greatest Detective
Find every clue
There are 40 clues in total to uncover. Start with The First Card and collect the remaining notes as you investigate every area and hidden nook.
Paris Streets – 9
- A Monster terrorizes Paris – Path of the Rat
- A Lever for the Well – Ruined Market
- The Warrior is at the top of the Tower – Burned District
- Carpenter’s Crane Sketch – Upper Tower
- Hospital Relic – Bishop’s Office
- Tomb Relic – Bishop’s Office
- Catacomb Relic – Bishop’s Office
- Balancing the Scales of Justice – Palace of Justice
- Stolen Oboles – Hospital
Holy Innocents’ Cemetery – 4
- Cemetery Fountain – Fountain of the Innocents
- The roots of the Hollow Tree – Pauper’s Grave
- Roman Baths – Sepulcher of the Knight
- Guardian’s Gaze – Roman Baths
Catacombs of Paris – 2
- Death Mark – Charnel Galleries
- A Door made of Flesh and Eyes – Circle of Greed
Main Hall – 6
- Builder flees to the Clock Tower – Abandoned Workshop
- Alucard Guides – Old Gallery
- Artist hides in the Main Hall – Elevator Tower
- A Strange Painting of Notre-Dame – Gallery of Eternal Night
- Brauner’s “Masterpiece” – Brauner’s Atelier
- Carmilla in the Library – Brauner’s Atelier
Notre-Dame – 7
- The Prophecy – Gallery of the Four Virtues
- Melody Sheet for the Concerto of Notre-Dame – La Flèche
- The Masters of Music hide from Death – Collapsed Crypt
- Melody Sheet for the Fugue of Notre-Dame – Great Organ Room
- The Corrupted Pipes of the Notre-Dame Organ – Transept
- Melody Sheet for the Sonata of Notre-Dame – Sealed Scriptorium
- Feat of Strength – Chapel
Library – 4
- Star Chart – Astronomer’s Office
- Blood Poem – Natural Philosophy Shelves (secret area)
- Organic Astrology – Drawing Room
- Magical Brush – Observation Tower
Clock Tower – 3
- Blueprints for the Clock Tower – Daedalus Crossing
- Isaac waits in the Clock Tower – Mechanic’s Ascent
- A Sketch from Talos – Builder’s Bureau
Hall of Mirrors – 4
- The Temptress guards the Hall of Mirrors – Glass Gallery
- Eleanor Flees to the Cemetery – Heart of the Maze
- Kneeling is the Way – Looping Hallways
- The Reflection Deceives – Steps of Misdirection
Collector
Find every health and mana upgrade
Hunt through every region and hidden chamber to pick up all maximum health and mana upgrades.
Pick a card, any card
Unlock all blessings for every Arcana
Grind out every blessing available for each Arcana. For quick and easy progress, use the area just left of the Undercity Mirror in Paris Streets where dense enemy spawns make farming simple.
To complete the Medusa Arcana blessing requiring enemies to die from fall damage after being petrified, head toward the Prison Tower where harpies respawn reliably.
When solving puzzles in Notre-Dame, check rooms featuring colored glass for symbols matching the organ, and follow ominous candles to find the correct path.
Perfectionist Hunter
Reach 100% game completion
Equip the ring found on the Master’s Quarters roof to track missing items. Purple map zones show remaining collectibles while golden zones mean you have explored everything.
Dialog Skipper
Finish the game in less than 4 hours
Speedrun the campaign and complete the entire game in under four hours.
Required ending: Good Ending (confirmed).
Always the same roof
Why does Dracula bother to hide things there anyway?
Keep an eye on upper ceilings while exploring from the middle stage through to the late game.
Head to the single save room in the Master’s Quarters, walk left into the large arena, and utilize the whip grapple points at the top to hoist yourself onto the roof.
Armed to the Fangs
Find every weapon in the game
Scour every region and hidden stash until you have collected every single weapon.
Hidden Achievements
Boss Achievements
Blood Tells
Defeat the Fallen (Leon)
Defeat the Fallen, Leon, to unlock this boss achievement.
Flammable or inflammable?
Defeat the Warrior (Joan)
Defeat the Warrior, Joan, in combat.
Snakes speared in the ruins
Defeat the Prophetess (Medusa)
Defeat the Prophetess, Medusa.
Talos Aversion
Defeat the Builder (Talos)
Defeat the Builder, Talos.
Blood for Blood
Defeat the Occultist (Carmilla)
Defeat the Occultist, Carmilla.
Death… killed?
Defeat the Shadow (Death)
Defeat the Shadow, Death.
All that glitters is not gold
Defeat the Miser (Mammon)
Defeat the Miser, Mammon.
The King is dead, love live the King
Survive the Judge’s verdict (Saint Louis)
Gather enough health and mana upgrades to fill at least four full hearts, bringing your maximum HP and MP to 180, then survive the Judge’s verdict.
I am Arthur, King of the Britons
Defeat the Brittle King (Arthur)
Defeat the Brittle King, Arthur.
Finish Hector’s work
Defeat the Zealot (Isaac)
Defeat the Zealot, Isaac.
Succubued to her wounds…
Defeat the Temptress (Succubus)
Defeat the Temptress, Succubus.
Die monster! You don’t belong in this world!
Defeat Dracula
Defeat the final boss, Dracula.
Shadow Work
Defeat the Self
Defeat your dark counterpart, the Self.
Miscellaneous Achievements
True Belmont
Kill an enemy with the Fallen’s Arcana spell while having a whip weapon equipped
Equip any whip and eliminate an enemy using the Fallen’s Arcana spell.
Belmont’s fall
Finish the game and get the bad ending
Fight Isaac as soon as possible and ignore your allies to secure the bad ending.
The hunt goes on
Finish the game and get the normal ending
Bypass the Cursed Horologium trap. Interacting with it prompts Rose to mention Death’s magic, pointing you toward the required item.
Equip Death’s Arcana, Soul Harvest, and interact with the grand clock to clear your path, then finish the game to claim the normal ending.
Curse lifted
Finish the game and get the true ending
Collect all four Virtue blessings in the Gallery of Four Virtues within Notre-Dame as part of The Cursed tarot. After beating Dracula, use the magic spell to unlock the true ending.
Skins Unlock
Rose’s Outfit
Default Outfit
This default appearance is available right from the start of the game.
Trevor Style Outfit
Comes with Midnight Edition
Obtain this alternate outfit by purchasing the Midnight Edition.
Sypha Style Outfit
Comes with Midnight Edition
Unlocked automatically with the Midnight Edition package.
Sonia Belmont Style Outfit
Input the Konami Code
Enter the classic Konami Code on your controller:
↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → Dash and Jump
Cursed Style Outfit
Unlocked with Bad Ending
Unlock this outfit by completing the game and triggering the bad ending.
Alucard Style Outfit
Comes with the Pre-Order Bonus
Claim this stylish outfit as part of the pre-order bonus bundle.
Doppelganger Style Outfit
Unlocked after defeating the Self
Defeat your dark shadow boss, the Self, to add this unique outfit to your wardrobe.
Keep an eye out for hidden platforming ledges when backtracking through late-game castle spires.