Hidden Desert is a location in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
Progression[]
After getting the Blood Steal shard in Dian Cécht Cathedral's upper reaches, your course through the "true route" of the game continues through the west half of Forbidden Underground Waterway, where the randomly dropped Aqua Stream shard will allow you to travel far southeast into the Hidden Desert — the zone at the southeast corner of the castle map.
The immediate objective of the zone lies at the series of rooms accessible from the elevator east of the zone's warp room, where there is a boss battle that will take place against a previously encountered character. When this is done, take the elevator down to the now-unsealed room just underneath the boss room to find a white skill shard, Deep Sinker. This will allow you to walk along the floor in underwater environments and cast directional shards like Reflector Ray underwater, which will be necessary at the far southwest end of the Forbidden Underground Waterway to reach the Secret Sorcery Lab zone.
While you are exploring the Hidden Desert, you can take its west exit out into the south-central part of the Forbidden Underground Waterway that is entirely separated from the rest of the zone above, letting you collect treasures and open another warp room. Back in the Hidden Desert, however, a room just above a one-screen sandfall at the midpoint between the two warp points can be reached by use of the Reflector Ray (aim the Reflector Ray upward through the falling sand, activate it, and jump at the precise moment Miriam exits the beam to perform an extra midair jump and this way reach the room with the treasures above); this hidden room contains the Potent Ammunition/R recipe book.
This zone is famous for occasionally giving you pieces of Gold material in its blue chests, which is needed for all sorts of endgame-level crafts and shard enhancements and can be dismantled into 10 Dark Matter a piece. An easy way to refill these chests manifests in the lowest right of the three elevator-adjacent chambers once you have reached the Den of Behemoths zone near the end of the game, where pressing up against the glowing tablet will transport you into the special area called The Tunnels. Whenever you warp back to this room from there, the blue chest right next to you will have already been closed and restocked with random items.
Characters[]
Enemies[]
Boss[]
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Armor[]
Accessories[]
Shards[]
Recipe Books[]
- Potent Ammunition/R (requires Invert)
Blue Chests[]
Bookcases[]
Other modes[]
Bloodless Mode[]
Bloodless must go through a series of steps to reach this area. She must first go to the Towers of Twin Dragons and defeat Valac to claim the Blood Steal ability. She must then use the Blood Steal to drain the blood fountain in the Entrance, which gives her access to dry parts of the Forbidden Underground Waterway.
A corridor in the Waterway contains the Water Demon's Blood, which makes it safe to swim in water. She needs that ability to swim through an eastern tunnel to the Hidden Desert. After defeating Alfred in this area, she can go to the room below to claim the Blood of Flight, which functions as an unlimited space jump that can be used to reach new areas.
Blood Shards[]
Aurora Mode[]
Once Aurora has defeated Valac and grown back into an adult, she can swim through the Forbidden Underground Waterway to reach this area, which is optional even on the path to the true ending. Defeating Alfred (whose aggression is never explained) causes her Light Ray to increase in grade and opens access to the room below, which contained Deep Dive for Miriam, and now contains a Shard for Igniculus.
Gallery[]
Map[]
References[]
- ↑ After defeating the boss of this stage, Alfred, and obtaining his shard, Deep Sinker, the player needs to return to the Forbidden Underground Waterway and explore the rest of the stage (through its underwater caverns) to continue progressing through the game.
- ↑ Optional. Only accessible after having first visited the Den of Behemoths. Accessed by riding the elevator up one floor and interacting with the stone slab located in the corresponding room.
External links[]
- 100% Map Exploration for the Cartographer Achievement by πth0n at Steam - Source of the map.
- Bloodstained (Part 12) Underwater Access, Hidden Desert, Alchemist Boss, Deep Sinker