Road to Empress 2 Achievement Guide: How to Unlock All 57 Feats
Ascending to the throne in Road to Empress 2 requires more than just political maneuvering; it demands a completionist's eye for detail. With 57 achievements—referred to in-game as Feats—to unlock, you will likely need multiple playthroughs to see everything the court has to offer.
These Feats provide valuable resources like Eggs and Flowers for social interactions, as well as coins to help you navigate tricky ending screens. Here is how to tackle the various categories of achievements.
Gameplay and Attribute Achievements
Many of your early achievements will come from mastering the game's mechanics. Key highlights include:
- Nimble Moves: Successfully complete your first quick-time event (QTE) by choosing to flee Ganye Temple and stabbing Xiu Li with your hairpin in Chapter 1.
- Martial Arts Master: Complete all QTEs throughout the entire game.
- The Perfect Monarch: Max out all five attributes to 100 points. This requires careful decision-making throughout your playthrough.
- Master Detective: Use coins to activate Hint Mode when restarting a chapter after a failed decision.
- Whispers Behind Your Back: Click the speech bubbles on characters during the Destiny chapter summary across five different chapters to see their comments about you.
Collecting and Social Feats
The game tracks your interactions with characters and your discovery of hidden content through several collectible-based Feats:
- Lingering Echoes & Voices: Listen to 30 and 100 voice messages respectively. These appear on ending nodes; look for characters with speech bubbles beneath the text.
- Archivist Extraordinaire: Unlock all videos in the character profiles found in the main menu.
- Flowing Vitality & Fragrance Lingers: Spend 999 Eggs and 999 Flowers respectively. You can use these in the Character menu to express your favor or disdain for specific NPCs.
- Screenshot Addict: Take more than 10 screenshots by clicking the screen during a video scene and selecting the camera icon.
Dialogue and Branching Paths
Your choices define your path, and some specific dialogue options lead to unique achievements:
- Slap Specialist: In the 'A Familiar Face' node, choose to slap Liu Xi 15 times. You will need to make the slap choice five times to hit this total.
- Dragon Tamer: When Li Zhi asks you to stay, choose the 'Flirt' option and then immediately walk away.
- Sleep Can Wait: Finish all three conversation topics with your sister during the 'A Bedtime Story' node.
- Time to Step In: Purchase the girls being sold at the Mirage Pavilion using the money obtained from selling your hairpin.
Court Mode Achievements
Once you have finished the main story at least once, Court Mode unlocks, allowing you to rule as the Empress. You can earn the following by managing your kingdom:
- The Throne Has Spoken: Decide someone's fate in Court mode.
- Imperial Grace & Imperial Fury: Promote or demote over nine people, respectively, during an edict session.
- Diligent Sovereign: Review more than 25 memorials within the Court interface.
Remember to utilize the 'Chapter List' and the 'Current' button to quickly jump between nodes and clean up any missed endings or dialogue choices. If you find yourself stuck, don't hesitate to use your collected coins to purchase hints for those difficult decision-based branches.