After the Story: Jeanne, the Picture Book and the Golem
The story-clear rewards, then the Old Picture Book's secret chapter and the Golem extra chapter, all played from Chapter Select.
The story is finished, and everything from here on is played from Chapter Select, the dartboard map in Viola's room, or from the Gates of Hell, which opens from the same map. This section collects what the story clear hands over (a new weapon and demon, the training Handguns, and Jeanne as a playable character with her own guns), then two short extras: the Old Picture Book and the secret chapter inside it, and the Golem extra chapter opened by the four Medallion Shards. Every weapon and demon the story gives is now in hand. The Phenomenal Remnants come next, in their own section, because two of them need Jeanne; the Seed farm, the shop sweep, the three Witch Trials and the Rodin fight come after those, so the trials are faced with the Remnant rewards and the shop accessories in hand.
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After the Story · Story clear – Nothing to find: both are yours once the ending and the credits are over. Equip Cruel Altea from the weapon menu and add Labolas to your demons before the fights below.
After the Story · Story clear – They arrive with the same clear as Cruel Altea; check that they show in the weapon menu. They work in story chapters and Phenomenal Remnants, but they are deliberately weak and can't do Colour My World's combo finishers, so nothing in this guide needs you to use them.
The plain pistols from the Prologue's opening fight, now a weapon of their own for Bayonetta and Jeanne. The story clear on any difficulty unlocks them.
After the Story · Character choice – Nothing to do: from now on, Jeanne is offered alongside Bayonetta (and Viola) when you start a Phenomenal Remnant, a Witch Trial, the Golem extra chapter or the Rodin fight. In story chapters she still plays only her own side chapters.
After the Story · Character choice – It is hers as soon as she is playable, and she also gets her own version of each weapon Bayonetta owns. Pick Jeanne the first time a fight below offers her and check her weapon menu.
After the Story · Gates of Hell – Open the Gates of Hell from the Chapter Select map and look under Rodin's Treasures, the part of the shop paid in Halos: the book costs 1,000 Halos on the current version. It is on sale by now either way: it may go on sale after Chapter 1, or only once the story is over.
A sealed book with three keyholes, sold at the Gates of Hell. Once opened, it holds a short secret chapter.
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Before update 1.2.0 the book cost more, and its three Tricolored Keys had to be found in the rift stretches of Chapters 1, 4 and 13 after buying it. On 1.2.0 the keys are handed over on the Chapter Select screen, so there is nothing to search for; a save that already held one or two keys gets the rest.
After the Story · Old Picture Book – Back on the Chapter Select map, the book sits in the lower-left corner. On version 1.2.0 its three Tricolored Keys are handed over by themselves on this screen, so there is nothing to hunt for: with the keys in place the book opens and offers the chapter (later, throw the dart at it). Walk into the forest, rustling bushes for Orbs, and play the rhythm spell on the Inferno flower that blocks the path to turn it into a bridge. Two more Inferno flowers are tucked away off the path: cast the same spell on both until a jingle plays, then head back toward the start, to the spot before the path forks, and open the chest that has appeared there. The chapter ends abruptly on a "To Be Continued?" screen.
A short storybook chapter with its own art style, played once the book's three locks are open. A hidden chest inside unlocks the Super Mirror 0 costume.
After the Story · The Artifact Unleashed – With all four Medallion Shards (Chapters 1, 4, 7 and 10) the Blue Medallion is complete, and a green icon shows on the Chapter Select map; throw the dart at it and pick Bayonetta, Jeanne or Viola. The Golem keeps changing into the shapes of enemies you've already fought and adds laser attacks, and it is fast and hits hard: go in with your strongest loadout. It turns into a chest when beaten. No icon means a shard is still missing: replay its chapter from Chapter Select.
The Artifact Unleashed, a one-verse fight against a lone Golem, opened by the Blue Medallion. The first win gives a full Witch Heart and a full Moon Pearl.