Slay the Princess The Pristine Cut New Routes & Achievements Guide – A guide for any new players and all returning players who want to play through pristine cuts new content without having to mindlessly search each dialogue !!
Slay the Princess The Pristine Cut New Routes & Achievements Guide
For any new players here how to get the 3 base routes :p
Damsel: don’t take the knife with you, save the princess, resist the narrator trying to kill you
Prisoner: take the knife with you, save the princess, resist the narrator trying to kill youSpectre: take the blade and stay silent, attack the princess without talking to her, don’t drop the blade and slay the princess, receive your reward and choose ‘this is bullsh’ and “Do you have any idea on how we can get out of here?” and ” anything to get out of here”
Damsel 3:
Rescue the damsel, then either
- (explore) “what do you want to do?” and (almost) get the deconstructed damsel
- “Okay, clearly something is happening here..”
This will lead you to have the “Voice of the Paranoid”
or
- Lead her to the exit
- “All we need to be happy is each other..”
This will lead you to have the “Voice of the Opportunist”
Prisoner 3:
In the prisoner’s route,
Give the prisoner the blade and wait for her to kill herself
Pick “Leave the basement to claim your reward”, and either
- “Pick I don’t want to die again” / “I dunno, I’m pretty happy”
- “(Explore) Is there no other way?”
- “Give the blade to the voice of the skeptic
This will lead you to have the “Voice of the Broken”
You can also accept the narrator’s happy ending multiple times to obtain the “Voice of the Cheated”
or
- (explore) “What do you suggest then?”
- Slay yourself
This will lead you to have the “Voice of the Paranoid”
Spectre 3:
once in spectres route,
- Attempt to slay/grab the spectre
This will lead you to have the “Harsh” princess
or
- Do not grab/slay the spectre
This will lead you to have the “Gentle” princess
Pick (explore) “What do you want me to do”
Allow her to possess you
Slay the princess while she is in your body
Achievements
- Shadows on the wall: Requires you to have the voice of the Paranoid, (can be obtained from normally playing through the route with para, but if u didn’t get it:) Try to get up from your seat, “I can’t seem to get up”, “You said he? who is he?” and choose the option that mentions smitten
- Game night: requires you to have the voice of the Opportunist and just play through the route as normal
- We don’t have to let go: when down to the final flame, pick “we do not have to let it go out”
- I meant it: ask her what she wants to do/take her hand as you leave the cabin
- It is finally over: slay the princess
- No exit: take the blade but don’t use it
- The riddle of steel: Requires the voice of the Paranoid, take the blade then choose one of the talking dialogues (ex hi), try to cut yourself free, keep cutting, and cut yourself free.
- Allegory of the cage: Requires the voice of the Broken/Cheated, toss the blade away
- Free will: Toss the blade, and go through the route as normal. choose “(explore) you know its funny… “, drop her
- You don’t have to keep picking the same option: pick “there has to be something for us to do other than wait” multiple times
- Wait wait wait wait wait!: with the “Harsh” princess, when you are back in your body, Tell her to stop ( “wait wait wait im back in my body stop!” ) / Say nothing
- An opportunist at heart: with the “Gentle” princess when you back in your body, Turn around and leave the cabin without her
- Princess and the Dragon: slay/get slain by the princess
- What once was one, then was two: leave the cabin
Requires the voice of the Contrarian:
Obtained from taking the blade with you defying the tower and then killing yourself
- Leave something to be remembered by: Pickup the blade, charge into oblivion, hurl the blade at her
- A window to the unknown: Embrace your new goddess, make her suffer with you
- Grace: (can be obtained with either voice): Embrace your new goddess, suffer alone
Requires the voice of the Paranoid:
Obtained by not telling the chap1 princess abt her ending the world, Do not take the blade in towers chapter and choose (explore) “no i wont tell you”, stay silent then refuse her
- Courage and madness: Take the blade, choose “No we have to push harder”
- A Goddess Unraveled: Take the blade, do not waver (aka don’t pick an explore option), fight back
(didn’t know “embracing your goddess” locks you into a window to the unknown and prevents you from getting “a goddess unraveled”, oops ^^”)
Requires the voice of the Stubborn:
Obtained from taking the blade in the beast chapter and dodging until you get the option to wait and strike her back
- Heroic Strike: Take the blade, step into the dark ready to fight, take the opening, and strike
- She eats he eats: Step into the dark ready to fight, embrace your instincts
Requires the voice of the Skeptic:
Obtained from dodging all of the beast’s attacks until you can no longer dodge
- Hunger pangs: Do not take the blade, lure her out, turn back for the blade
- The lion and the mouse: Do not take the blade, approach her and offer your hand
- coup de grace: Take the blade, lure her out, approach her with the blade behind your back, slay her
Adversary > fury:
Get to the adversary and go in unarmed, fight her then give up when given the option / leave to retrieve the blade (do not pick the blade up once your upstairs) either stay or try to leave
- Going the distance: In the adversary fight her with unarmed and always choose to get up, then in the fury choose either of the “Round 3” options, keep pushing forward.
- A hint of feeling: Bring the blade, let her torture you, slay her
- A new leaf in a weathered book: Let her torture you, ask her to leave with you, offer your hand
Tower > fury:
Take the blade with you and defy the tower, before the broken kills you slay the tower instead
- Quantum beak: Take the blade, let her torture you or try to fight her, then shed your vessel
- A weathered heart, held in ribbons: (can be obtained with either fury), do not take the blade with you and let her end you (for adversary>fury = fight the adversary unarmed, don’t give up both times, give up when the fury tortures you)
Others:
- A song to remember: collect all the cgs
- Your new world: Be cruel to all the princesses in your route (either slays them, hurt them or, when confronting the shifting mound select the text with the red outline, destroy her
Note: these are the specific princess that has the red-outlined text that I’ve found/heard abt
- Deconstruct the damsel
- Killing happily ever after
- Killing the den with your humanity intact
- Killing the den within the tunnel
- Killing the wild
- Leave the (kind) dragon behind
- Dropping the cage
- Cut yourself free from the cage
- Stab the apotheosis in the eye
- Make the apotheosis suffer
- Unravel the apotheosis
- Killing the fury
- Leaving without the fury
- Killing the eye of the needle
- Throw the wraith into the abyss
- Find the stranger
- Either razor
- Either greys
note: Thorn and MoC are the only chap3 princesses that don’t have red text variants
betraying the witch also does not give you a red text variant.
Unfortunately, I’m not gonna compile a list for the gallery completion, I just simply don’t have the time + I already forgot how I got most of the cgs so yeah:,) but if anyone needs any help with certain CGs feel free to type it in the comments and I can try to help !!.