How to Unlock Everything in Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse

Last Updated on 30 October, 2026

Dracula’s castle hides far more than the bosses standing between Rose Belmont and her final target. Reaching 100% in Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse requires a thorough search of Paris and the castle, a full weapon collection, dozens of clues and heart fragments, every Mirror of Life, and a complete set of Arcana blessings. Three different endings and a four-hour speedrun add further challenges.

This guide brings those tasks together in one place. Follow the achievement roadmap, use the regional checklists to track collectibles, and complete the ending-specific requirements deliberately.

Before You Start

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is an exploration-driven 2D action adventure starring Rose Belmont. The game takes place in Paris in 1499, 23 years after Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse. Its seven weapon families and 16 Arcana cards support several different approaches to combat, but exploration is just as important for completionists.

Steam lists 29 achievements. Before starting a completion run, keep these priorities in mind:

• Leave Custom Mode off. Enabling it can make some achievements unobtainable. Use standard settings for an achievement run, especially the speedrun and ending challenges.
• Explore thoroughly. The progress meter tracks rooms and other world objectives in addition to collected items. Opening the map and checking unexplored branches is essential to reaching 100%.
• Mark blocked paths. Some rooms and collectibles require movement abilities or Arcana you acquire later. Use the map markers to remember where to return.
• Track separate objectives. Reaching 100% on the progress meter does not mean every collection achievement is complete. In particular, the requirements for all weapons and all clues go beyond the respective counts included in the progress tally.

All 29 Achievements

Use these lists to see which objectives remain. The sections later in this guide provide the detailed routes for the collectibles, endings and special challenges.

Story and Boss Achievements

These achievements generally follow story progression. The Judge’s verdict is different: visit the Palace of Justice in Paris Streets and balance the Scales of Justice beside the tree. This awakens Saint Louis, awards The Judge Arcana and Valmanway, and unlocks the achievement.

Exploration and Collectible Achievements

Endings and Special Challenges

All Skins and How to Unlock Them

Rose has seven appearances, including her default outfit, a story reward, a secret code unlock and edition-specific bonuses.

Unlock Sonia Belmont’s Costume

The Sonia Style Costume is hidden behind the Konami Code. From the title menu, open Credits and enter the sequence without pressing unrelated buttons between inputs.

A successful entry returns you to the title menu and displays a costume-unlocked message. You can then select Sonia Style Costume from the Character Skin option in the System menu.

The Alucard Style Costume is a separate eligible early-purchase reward. Trevor and Sypha belong to the Midnight Edition, which also includes the Family’s Grace relic and a digital sound and art gallery. These bonuses cannot be unlocked using the Sonia code.

All 28 Weapons

There are seven weapon families, each with four weapons across the Ordinary, Refined, Masterpiece and Legendary tiers. Jack of All Trades requires one weapon from every family; Armed to the Fangs requires all 28.

For Stuff of Legends, find any Legendary weapon. One available option is the Vampire Killer whip, which Trevor gives Rose in Deacon’s Quarter in Notre-Dame. Continue searching for the other weapons afterward; collecting one Legendary armament is not enough for Armed to the Fangs.

Find War and Famine

The Legendary dual blades War and Famine are hidden behind the Notre-Dame organ puzzle. The puzzle also completes a Work of Mercy associated with The Shadow, making it useful for both weapon collection and Arcana progression.

1. Find the clue about the corrupted Notre-Dame organ pipes and enter the Great Organ Room through the Notre-Dame Undercrypt.
2. Use the melody sheets found for the three pipes. Read the clue entries from the Tarot menu and step on the matching zodiac plates in the indicated order to cleanse each pipe.
3. After defeating Death, visit the Stained Glass Gallery. The lit candles beneath the zodiac windows indicate the order of the symbols for the final sequence.
4. Return to the Great Organ Room and step on the plates in this order: Gemini, Scorpio, Aquarius, Virgo, Sagittarius, Aries.
5. When the puzzle completes, take the stairs to the left and read the plaque to open the trapdoor. Drop into the hidden crypt and open the container holding War and Famine.

You can begin working on the puzzle after defeating Talos, but the final sequence requires Death to be defeated first.

All Health and Mana Fragments

Collect 24 Brave Heart Fragments to complete the health upgrades and 24 Wise Heart Fragments for mana. Each set is spread across eight regions, with three fragments of each type in every region listed below. Four fragments of the same type complete one upgrade, giving you six health upgrades and six mana upgrades in total.

Two locations deserve special attention. In Poetry Shelves in the Library, the Brave Heart Fragment sits on an altar beyond a spike gauntlet. The Library Foyer’s Brave Heart Fragment is hidden in an upper passage behind thorny growth that you can break by attacking it.

All 40 Clues

Clues come from objects and discoveries scattered throughout the game, including notes, paintings, statues and other environmental details. Finding them unlocks The Greatest Detective. The location list below preserves the recorded names so you can match them against the clue entries in your Tarot menu.

The final clue is easy to overlook because the Hall of Mirrors contains several deceptive routes and hidden passages. If your clue collection stops at 39, search the Looping Hallways for Kneeling is the Way.

All 34 Mirrors of Life

Mirrors of Life act as save points, restore health and refill potions. Activate all 34 to earn Narcissus.

Arcana, Works of Mercy and Blessings

Arcana provide Rose with spells, and their Works of Mercy are challenges that earn Blessings. Spend those Blessings on Gifts to improve the matching spell. The Pick a card, any card achievement requires all 42 Gifts from the 15 collectible Arcana. The Cursed is the starting card and does not count toward those 42 Gifts.

Some Works of Mercy count only while the associated Arcana is equipped. When attempting a spell-specific or combat challenge, equip that card before beginning and check its counter in the menu. The requirements below cover the recorded tasks for each Arcana; the game’s own menu should be used to track individual progress.

Requirements:

How to work through Arcana challenges efficiently

Open the Equipment menu and select the Arcanas tab. Choose a card and review its Works of Mercy before travelling. Some objectives are cumulative, such as killing enemies with a spell, while others require multiple enemies to be hit by a single cast or a status effect to deliver the final blow.

Combine objectives when you can. If you are exploring the Clock Tower, for instance, make progress on The Zealot’s room-exploration task while searching for weapons and other collectibles. At the same time, keep track of any challenge that requires a specific spell to be equipped.

How to Unlock All Three Endings

The three ending achievements depend on the Clock Tower Bridge sequence and which spell you carry into Dracula’s final fight. The route to the true ending requires extra work in Notre-Dame, so do not leave those trials until the last moment if you want to finish them in the same progression run.

Bad ending: Belmont’s fall

When you reach the clock on the Clock Tower Bridge before obtaining or equipping Soul Harvest, use it to trigger Death’s trap. This leads to the bad ending and unlocks Belmont’s fall.

After the credits, choose Resume to continue your save.

Normal ending: The hunt goes on

Reach Dracula’s final fight and defeat his second, winged form on the Castle Rooftops without Absolution equipped. The achievement unlocks with the normal ending. Dracula’s battle begins in the Court of the Night in the Master’s Quarters, then continues into the rooftop phase.

True ending: Curse lifted

The true ending requires The Self Arcana and its Absolution spell. First complete the four Virtue trials and ring the four Bells of Virtue in Notre-Dame. Each bell’s window opens only when you have the matching spell equipped.

After ringing all four bells, return to the altar at the Gallery of the Four Virtues and defeat the Doppelganger, Rose’s shadow. This unlocks Shadow Work and grants The Self Arcana, which contains Absolution.

Equip Absolution before heading to the Court of the Night. Keep it equipped throughout both phases of Dracula’s fight, then defeat his winged form on the Castle Rooftops. The true ending plays and Curse lifted unlocks.

Additional Achievements and Secrets

Always the same roof

Location: Master’s Quarters, Sanctuary of Solitude.

This hidden secret is in the final room before the Dracula fight, just past a Mirror of Life. Use the grapple points and whip rings to climb onto the alcoves above the doors. Continue along the upper balconies, using wall jumps and the Astral Whip to reach the concealed space at the top of the room.

Entering the hidden area unlocks Always the same roof. A chest inside contains the Gloomstone relic.

Lamplighter

Destroy 666 candles. Candle destruction accumulates over your save, so strike them as you explore rather than hunting for all 666 at the end. Candles are common throughout Paris and the castle, making this an achievement that often progresses naturally during a thorough run.

Transylvanian Express

Travel 19.86 km in total. The distance accumulates during normal exploration, so keep moving through new rooms and revisiting routes as needed. There is no need to take a dedicated detour solely for the distance unless the achievement is still locked after the story.

True Belmont

Equip a whip-family weapon and use The Fallen’s Holy Cross spell on the same enemy. Because the exact required finishing hit is not fully clear, keep attacking that target with both the whip and Holy Cross until it dies. The key is to have the spell and a whip-family weapon equipped during the kill.

Dialog Skipper

Finish the game in less than four hours. Check the play time on the System tab of the pause menu and plan this as a separate run. Learn the main routes, avoid optional detours, skip dialogue where possible, and leave collectibles for another playthrough or cleanup.

Keep Custom Mode disabled for the run because it can block some achievements. The requirement is based on the time shown in the game, so avoid unnecessary backtracking and focus on reaching and defeating Dracula’s second form before the four-hour limit.

Final 100% Completion Checklist

Perfectionist Hunter unlocks when the Progress meter reaches 100%. You can check it under your play time on the System tab in the pause menu, and each region also has its own percentage on the map.

The meter counts more than pickups. Exploration accounts for a large share of completion, alongside objects and progression milestones. Make sure you account for:

1. Every room revealed across Paris and Dracula’s castle.
2. All experience statues and breakable progression objects that contribute to the area total.
3. Every tracked item, including relics, weapons and clues counted by the Progress meter.
4. All 24 Brave Heart and 24 Wise Heart Fragments.
5. All permanent ATK UP and DEF UP books.
6. All area exits, background doors and Arcana absorption milestones.
7. The required story steps, Ferryman’s Wharf visits and four Virtue trials.

Do not assume that a full progress meter means you have earned every collection achievement. The completion tally tracks fewer weapon and clue entries than the full requirements for Armed to the Fangs and The Greatest Detective. Check those collections independently.

If your percentage stalls below 100%, open the map and inspect each region for unexplored rooms. Return to blocked paths after acquiring new movement abilities and check optional branches rather than focusing only on visible chests. Mirrors of Life, candle destruction, and enemy kills do not independently add to the progress percentage, although Mirrors and candles have their own achievements.