I will include anything for Hard Mode in terms of advice that I can, as while I write this guide I am playing on that mode.
In the beginning…
Chapter One
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The ride, and Grave’s End Construction site
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Hey everybody, and welcome to the walkthrough. I tend to get wordy, but I’ll do my best to keep it basic and omit major spoilers for you. Shall we step into The Darkness?
Enjoy the ride. I HIGHLY recommend you turn on the subtitles here, and set your autoaim and how fast your turn and look in the options menu. Turn on ALL the subtitles, trust me. They won’t distract too much when you get used to them, and they can be very valuable to you during certain plotpoints.
Once you’re armed, locked, and loaded, fire at will on the men dressed like construction guys. You have unlimited ammo and won’t have to reload magically this entire ride! Enjoy.
I think there are around 10 of them minimum, if you want the achievement for Roadkill you need to nab around six to eight kills here. It’s tough and may take several tedious retries of the whole opening scene. Try to aim a few feet ahead of the targets. Yes, the man on the windshield counts. I think. Pay attention to the select screen and all the turorials, to make my job here easier, caphiche?
When you get control again, talk to your buddy and note the door right next to him. When you’re finally armed, talk to him again, and shoot open the door by blasting the lock on it. Head inside and try to be croutched so that you aren’t detected by the two men. If you wait a long time you might come up on three, as one is in a nearby hallway. Listen in if you want (always fun in this game), and get ready to do some shooting.
Basic tips here. Aim for the head and chest areas. If you get in really close, you’ll do a cool execution move. It differs depending upon what you press to do the kill, even pressing both buttons to fire is different!
Follow the linear path, taking cover to heal your health back, and take on the next four or five guys. When you’re on the roof, a man shoots out the window, kill him off, ignore the chopper, and enter the window by jumping up the ducts.
Enjoy the little message from Uncle Paulie…or show him what you think of him by shooting the t.v. Approach the closet, run for the nearby window, enjoy the nap.
When you wake up…it’s time to get the hell outta Dodge!
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Trinity Church
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The birth of the Darkness
Escape!
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Again, straightforward path. Listen in on the mooks tailing you, and hit the bricks. Be wary of the two guys here, shoot em from the side once you learn their position. They wouldn’t give you any mercy, why should you? Or, you could just duck and pray to sneak past them. Careful though, if you take a while a third man drops over the wall, and more are coming from outside the gate area! If you look up and right from where you emerge, you’ll see a tunnel area leading down to the bathroom.
Search around until you can find a bathroom area down the stairs. Speak to your buddy in the bathroom, and don’t hurt him. Trust me. He’ll tell you how to leave, but still don’t hurt him, for a future thing in Chapter 5, k?
Now that you’ve dispatched a couple of goons, been hiding, and are ready to go, head up to enjoy your newfound powers.
Do what it says and summon your first Darkling. Lovable lil Imp, eh? He’ll help you leave. Go around to the duct and use your creeping dark on the moron with the key. Now go down the subway steps and unlock the door with said key. Welcome to Canal Station.
Now, don’t forget, devour every heart from every dead body you create. And pick up all the ammo you can carry, especially on Hard. You can’t eat the hearts of the innocent, so don’t go around killing the undeserving. That’s not the way. Also, stay out of direct light, and keep darklings in shadow too. If there isn’t any, destroy the light source. While in shadow, The Darkness can eat the dark to gain power back. Your body shield is important, so try to fight while in the dark!
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Canal Station
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Calling some folks
Meeting some folks in the subway
Heading out to Chinatown
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There’s a phone in the very first room you’re in, where you recieve the page. Call Jenny now if you like. Remember, to progress, you need to call her up.
Head around the corner and speak to Enzo. Good man, funny guy too. He’s one of the old schoolers, a “family man” through and through. He’ll tell you where to find yet another phone, if you want it for later. Now, if you go straight at the stairs, you’ll hit the lower east side. No need to go there just yet, but you can if you want. You’ll be there real soon though. Go down to the platform.
Explore this tiny area. There’s a rambling guy talking about a dark war here, and this other guy near the Chinatown Entry, Scarr. If you look close enough on the tracks, and in back areas of the platform, you may find some collectable notes, with numbers for you to call up, for fun. You can board a train for the Fulton Street Station, but there’s really no need just yet. Go for the Chinatown exit, and speak to a man standing on the middle flight of steps about his music. Help him out, because that’s what the old school mob does! Or don’t, but I’m going to highlight all the extras in the guide, so be ready to skip a bit if you don’t wanna do it.
Go back down and find Scarr on the platform, get in his face, and get your buddy permission. Go back to speak to the man on the steps again, for helping you get his praise and a collect- able number!
Watch t.v. if you want, for as long as you want, and get ready to go find Jenny’s place. Stop to speak to old man Nicky on the way out, he’s got some advice and a heads up for you. He can also supply you with directions directly to Jenny’s place through the alleyways.
Move on, out of the station and up into Chinatown.
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Chinatown (1st visit)
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Go see your lady
Off a few mafioso triggermen
Help out Chen, and meet Butcher Joyce
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Lookie here. Straight ahead is a Darkling costume. Keep an eye out for these shiny cases throughout the game. Up on your right you’ll find a thug walking the street, he’s heading towards a couple more. You’re now in a fighting map, so you can feel free to use the Darkness powers and your guns here. There is a map immediately on your right if you want to try and learn Chinatown now.
Take it’s advice, and stay in or make shadows for you and your darklings. Use guns, creeping dark (from behind foes), or a darkling, hell, all of the above, and make mincemeat outta the bad guys before they shoot you up. Keep your eyes open, a handful patrols the streets. I count eight initially. Four down the far right side of the street, four in front of you. I’m on Hard mode, however. Moving on, if you think you hear another guy, or just don’t feel right, send out a darkling! They can give you a heads up verbally. You can order your darkling buddies to cheerfully hang in one spot briefly by using the X button, they go to where you look/point.
From the subway entry, take your first left through a tiny, L shaped alleyway. Then, take an immediate right and find the other alleyway in the middle of the street here. From there, pass through, make a left, then another left to hear Jenny yell for you. Go into this little area, take the back door inside the building, and go up a couple of flights to find apartment eleven in the corner. Ring the bell.
What a sweetheart. Do like she asks, and when you’re prompted to choose how to talk, say what you like. Though, I think, for the most storyline, I’d choose “protect her from the truth”. Follow her to the sofa, and don’t forget to get Butcher Joyce’s number. Yeah, he made it in, realitively unchanged from the comics! Get the number, and remember to call him at some point during your stay. For now, do what you like. If you stay long enough cuddled up on the sofa, you’ll get an achievement. Good man! Whenever you’re done, look around to prompt for a stand command. Whatever you did here, go ahead and use Jenny’s phone to call Butch.
Do as he says, you need the help, trust me. Leave the apartment slowly, and look outfront, directly down the alley you didn’t come from. You’ll see a man running, and two thugs. Listen to them, then send up creeping dark to kill em both, or just off them yourself. Speak to the man. You can do what you want, but if you tell the truth, he’ll like you more and give you a collectable paper. Now, eat these hearts, and if you’ve eaten every one till now, you should gain a level. It means you have more power. A longer lasting shield in Darkness mode, and a longer lasting power mode to draw from in general from your abilities. Look near this guy, there’s a map to get your bearings here. You’re heading for Doyer’s on the map. It’s a small box, see? It actually will connect you to the back of a place on the Lower East Side map.
Best to backtrack to get there. Go back towards Jenny’s place and then back to where you started this map, sort of. Instead of taking that other L shaped alley though, seek out yet another small alleyway, to find the Doyer’s lot. When you get near enough, you’ll find at least three triggermen, ready to do the job on you. Butcher said not to be seen, but this just can’t be helped. If they’re dead, they can’t talk, right? Find a nice, dark spot near enough by and use Creeping Dark if they give you problems. You can eat them so long as they don’t look directly at you. If the creeper get’s shot, it leaves though, be careful. If you eat the heart of each man you kill like this, you’ll sustain this form much longer. When at least those three are down, cautiously make your way into the Doyer’s lot.
Get into the mouth of the alley and use a creeping dark to do some recon on the two thugs at the loading bay of the resturant. They’ll chat a bit about Jackie and Paulie. Do what you gotta do. You can use a berserker darkling here, the creeper, or your own guns to finish these two. Eat up, hop the rail, and head into the rear of the resturant, to the kitchens. You’re now technically in the Lower East Side map.
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The Lower East Side
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Escape the resturant “Olive Corner” alive
Outrun the airborne assualt
Pay Dutch Oven Harry a visit
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Ok, just as a heads up, you’re going to visit two spots in this area you will never be able to visit again in the game, so if you’re looking for a darkling outfit and some collectables from the list, be sure to get them here or be ready to reload all of chapter one to reach this point again.
Good ole Butch. Meet up, chat, search for collectables if you want, and help lift the bodies. Speak some more, say what you want, and rush back inside. Great, just great. Shrote’s men are here. You’re in trouble now.
Rush the lobby, and shoot out the two lights. FAST. Get in the far left corner (left from where you enter) and duck. Use a darkling if you want, and watch the far window. In they come, pretty cool entry too. Shoot, shoot, shoot. Now, take a central or right(ish) position, but stay away from windows or you might get pegged from outside. Boom, in come two more, from the front doors. Take em out however you want, but fast, and get outside the place. Watch out, they’ve got body armor. Grab their shotguns if you want, but I’d stick to the pistols, to keep them away from good shotgun range against you.
When in the alley of the Lower East Side, call up a Darkling, and cover behind the dumpster. Use a Creeper if you want, and take out the cops here. Remember, they are shotgunners. Some have longer range weapons too. Don’t forget to eat hearts.
Rush to the street, and be wary of other cops and a chopper (!!!) off to the far right of you. Rush left, and don’t stop, look for a small alleyway. A car appears, and there’s a gate. Lucky for you, you can call a darkling (and have to) to open the gate up. Take out your new targets and head left. Eat, and grab weapons. Up the ladder. Carefully drop down and watch out for more opposition. Avoid the chopper at all costs, it’s deadly on any difficulty. Make for the street straight ahead of you, and look for an opening in the fence on the left. Look in briefly, a car slams through for you. Go to it, after taking down the cop, drop downstairs on the left, and enter the Whitefish Poolhall. Go normal.
Fulton St. Station
St. Mary’s Orphanage
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Relive Jackie’s childhood briefly
Explore the burnt out Orphanage remains
Close the chapter with a bang
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Over by the t.v. on St. Mary’s platform side of things, you’ll find Jimmy. Speak briefly and rush past him to the Orphanage.
While here, listen to the three chat if you want, take em out, and move into the Orphanage area.
Haunting. Look around, follow the path, get some collectables if you want, pay attention to the visions. The Darkness will talk to you alot if you go into the right places here.
Finally, witness the horror, and the chapter ends. It wanted you strong. It didn’t count on you being dead. Some birthday , right chief? Prepare for the infinite shores of Hell…
