As well as not being able to change the difficulty and having only three lives, you have only 5 minutes to get the high scores. Rinse and repeat what you did in step 2, this time in Caravan mode. Once you have the score related achievements, let yourself get beat and upload your score for the related achievement. Concentrate on your ship and incoming bullets and ships, not necessarily what you are aiming at. The longer you take killing the bosses, the higher your score. You get points as long as you are scoring, so keep firing even when there are no enemies on screen, and avoid using your specials. The trick to getting to a high score taking your time where you can with enemies. In Hi-Score Mode, you have to test yourself against the computer at level 4 difficulty, with only three lives to play with. Once you have them, let yourself get beat and unlock the two high score achievements. Play until you have all of the point achievements, getting to grips with the game as you go. You can go as high as 99, but chose how ever many you feel may be necessary. You can change the settings to make things easier for yourself by pressing and changing the difficulty to 1, and changing the number of players to as high as you like. You only need to play each game mode once, but depending on luck and how fast you get learn the enemies patterns and game mechanics, may take few more tries. As with most of the other games so far released in the ACA series, this side scrolling shoot 'em up is a pretty fast completion, requiring little skill to finish. Zed Blade was released on NEOGEO back in 1994 by NMK, and has been ported directly to the Xbox One by our new best friends over at the bizarrely named Hamster Corporation. If this happens, just hard reset your Xbox and attempt again and it should unlock. *All ACA games have a tendency to not unlock random achievements. Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None Does difficulty affect achievements: No Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 3 Approximate amount of time to 1000 : 1-2 hours

Within the blade trophy guide