Bayonetta Origins: Cereza And The Lost Demon – The First Elemental Core

Having ventured now into the labyrinthine maze of Avalon Forest, Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon begins to challenge the player with a series of increasingly complicated puzzles and new mechanics in its third chapter. From Jade Hill to the beginning of the Sunspeckled Grove, you’ll discover several new areas for the first time, but with every area, you’ll also encounter just as many new foes.

Following on the path of the White Wolf, your adventure begins near the Jade Hill Sanctuary. Mysterious pawprints lead you forward but don’t get too caught up in the tempting path before you. After all, Bayonetta Origins will always reward the curious player looking to explore its many hidden paths – and there are many to find in this chapter.

Jade Hill – The Return

As you leave the Tir Na Nog, you’ll notice a few changes in Jade Hill. Going south and then left will send you into battle against a pair of fairies and end in a dead end of frozen brambles that cannot be broken just yet.

Instead, travel ahead across the vines and stop for a moment to take the sidepath due southeast. You’ll find your first Journal resting on the edge of the chasm. There is a set of frozen brambles to the east from here, but – like the first set – there is nothing to do here at this point.

From here, return to the main path and follow the glowing footprints into a large grove area. You can find a Remembrance spot on the ledge here for a nice view, but otherwise, continue on the path until you reach a brown ledge you can climb on.

Use Cheshire to break the brambles to your left and discover a hidden chest with the Umbran Syrup potion.

Again returning to the path, follow it down to the Sanctuary. If you interact with the Arcane Lantern here, you will find that you’ll have the added option now to retry a Tir Na Nog or try it as a Time Challenge.

On the yellow mushrooms to the left of this Sanctuary is the second collectible Journal.

Continue climbing the yellow mushrooms on the left side to find a vine you can travel across. A chest filled with resources can be found on the other side. After collecting it, return to the ground by jumping off the edge.

Now, go down the path to the right of the Sanctuary to find a hidden grove with a locked treasure chest.

To unlock this Treasure Chest, you’ll need to:

1. Attack the first yellow bulb with Cheshire.
2. Thorn Bind (Cereza) and Slash with Cheshire on each yellow bulb until all are defeated in the time limit.

After opening this chest for resources and a Demonic Mist potion, you can:

• Head north from here for an optional Tir Na Nog.
• Head south on the mushrooms to reach another resource chest.
• Head west to return to the Sanctuary and progress the story path.

Tir Na Nog – Prison Of Thorns (Optional)

This Tir Na Nog is very straightforward, with no puzzles to solve. You need only defeat the enemies in the arena ahead.

However, there is a caveat to your combat. To proceed, you’ll need to defeat each of the enemies while thorns bind them. You cannot damage them while they are not bound.

The best strategy here is to use Hug Mode to its fullest advantage. Calling Cheshire back and holding him can help Cereza gain her magic back faster, and picking up the butterflies on the edges of the arena can also replenish her magic gauge.

Once you are finished with these enemies, you can claim your prize and leave.

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Leafy Nook

As you enter the nook, quickly detour to your left on the mushrooms to reach a higher ledge. A faerie will attack you here, but you can make quick work of it to reach some flowers for resources. After jumping down, beware of the trap-like flower that can close on Cereza. If you’re trapped within it, you’ll need to have Cheshire or Cereza free the trapped teammate.

Afterward, you can continue forward past a set of brambles into an area with two flower traps. Use Cheshire to attack and destroy them before gathering their resources and then continuing past a second wall of brambles.

Devious Trappers (a type of faerie that lays traps) will spawn in this area, and Cheshire will need to defeat them without stepping into the traps themselves. Afterward, there are a few nooks and crannies around this central place to explore.

• Climbing the mushrooms on the northeast side of this area and throwing Cheshire up will allow access to a breakable flower and a door you cannot open yet.
• Climbing the mushroom ladder on the northwest side will lead to a treasure chest of resources behind a bramble wall.
• Following the northeastern path past the ladder will eventually lead to a warped illusion and a Tir Na Nog you need to complete to progress.

Tir Na Nog – Calamity

Climbing the staircase, open the main door with your Witch’s Pulse. Past this door will be a combat test against several faeries, including Devious Trappers. Defeat them all, dodging the traps and the beams and countering where possible.

Once they are defeated, you can continue forward to claim another Vitality Petal from the chest nearby and return to the Leafy Nook.

Leaf Nook – Continued

When you return, you can now backtrack on the path a bit to return to a set of brambles on the left side of the path where you can grow some flowers for Onyx Roses.

Afterward, continue forward with the pawprints, but instead of continuing where the Tir Na Nog barrier was settled, take a quick detour right through a fallen tree log to open a chest with an Umbran Syrup potion.

Go back and now progress past the Tir Na Nog location across a mossy log bridge to a grove with an Arcane Lantern, a Sanctuary, and a Skills Mirror that will allow you to now purchase and learn new skills for both Cereza and Cheshire provided you have the resources to do so.

After taking some time to learn a few skills, go behind the stone and climb the staircase that twists around the backside of the Sanctuary. Here, you’ll find a chest with resources. Afterward, return to the grove and go down the right path to find another piece of Journal. Collect it and continue with the wolf’s pawprints to find an area with several platforms you can jump between.

A faerie will try attacking you from the northernmost platform. You can attempt to jump over with the green flower and strike in melee combat or use Cheshire’s Counter to deflect its attacks. A breakable flower lies just behind it.

Another breakable flower can be found on the right platform, which you must jump to using the green flower to jump over to the upper-west side of this area. You can take a moment to grow the flowers for Onyx Roses nearby, and a treasure chest can be found directly behind it on a narrow path.

Proceed with the pawprints due northward. You’ll find several laser beams that have timed blasts here. If you’ve invested in the special Hug Mode dash at the last Sanctuary, you can dash through both of them after they’ve fired.

However, if you haven’t invested in the dash, you must approach one at a time. The first is on the ground and requires you only to run through once it’s blasted. The second requires some jumps over small gaps.

While this isn’t hard to navigate, it does slow you down a bit and will require you to time it a little more carefully. From here, keep going forward until you reach the next new area.

Lake Nimueh

After entering this new area, you can go across the flower bridge, but if you’d like to face another Tir Na Nog and gather materials, you’ll want to ignore the flower bridge you can conjure on the right for now and continue north through the brambles.

Going past the view of the map to come, round the corner (ignore the bush on the corner; it spawns a faerie that will attack you in return for crafting material rewards), ignore the vine bridge, and descend the mushroom stairs into a new grove where you can find an illusion and a hidden Tir Na Nog.

Tir Na Nog – Limitations (Optional)

This Tir Na Nog, like the last, is very straightforward. It’s a timed battle, and you’ll need only defeat the enemies in this area within the time limit in order to win.

Your priority should be the carnivorous plant on the far side of the arena, as its attacks can effectively zone you and cause a long list of problems. Use Cereza’s Thorn Bind and defeat it with Cheshire before taking care of the enemy faeries.

Killing them quickly will end the battle, give you access to the chest with another Vitality Petal, and allow you to destroy the dungeon’s heart. Afterward, you will return to the Lake.

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Lake Nimueh – Continued

After returning to Lake Nimueh, return to the rope bridge around the corner from earlier. Cross it, stopping on the left path to open the treasure chest.

It is a trap, bringing you into an ambush of Devious Trappers, but they are easy to dispatch. Once they are gone, collect your resources as a reward and then jump back onto the path and head north.

Skip the rising and falling platforms for just a moment in favor of heading even further north, destroying the traps, and claiming the Onyx Rose flower at the dead end. Only once the nearby resources on the ground are collected should you return to the rising and falling platforms and jump on.

Jump off the first platform onto the second once it’s high enough to do so, and then jump onto the wooden platform. Crossing this wooden platform, dispatch the faerie on the far side and ignore the turning mechanism with the purple flame (there’s nothing you can do with it right now). Head north until you reach a golden bulb.

Attacking with Cheshire will lead to a small puzzle to open the chest behind it:

• Use Cereza to Thorn Bind each sprouted bulb one at a time
• When bound, use Cheshire to attack it once
• Move on to each bulb, repeating the first two steps within the time limit as each bulb appears
• Once two waves of bulbs are defeated, the Chest will unlock

If you do not use Thorn Bind before Cheshire attacks, the bulbs will float in the air and out of his range.

The chest contains a large number of resources, and it also contains one Demonic Mist potion.

Now return to the start of the Lake Nimueh area, where a bridge can be conjured across a gap. Do so and turn left to spy the wolf surrounded by faeries.

You’ll need to defeat all three of them to progress. Thankfully, there are no particular handicaps this time, and they aren’t difficult enemies, so you should be able to deal with them quickly. Your only reward will be the resources you collect from their initial defeat.

Continue west to find a flower you can grow, allowing you to float up onto the log above. After jumping off it, you’ll find an area with two large opening and closing flowers. Summon Cheshire and break the barriers while being aware of the timing of these large flowers.

A good strategy here is to send Cheshire forward against the flowers while they’re closed and then run across them as soon as they open.

If Cheshire cuts things a little too close, you can panic-button him into Hug Mode to call him back without worrying about him becoming trapped. Once the barrier is broken, you can run across (or dash with Hug Mode), permitting the timing of the flower allows.

On the other side of this brief puzzle, a faerie is waiting in ambush on the other side. With Cheshire in the front, either deflect its attacks with Counter or run forward to attack it with Slash.

Crossing this small bridge will then bring you to the next new area.

Sunspeckled Grove

Following the path forward, you’ll encounter your first Spriggan in a faerie ambush. They carry large shields but, thankfully, don’t do much else. Use your Thorn Bind to hold them still while Cheshire attacks them from behind. Defeat two Spriggans and another faerie to claim victory.

With the faeries out of the way, progress northward to enter an illusion field. Follow the path around until you reach a treasure chest. You can’t open it right now, so ignore it and continue west to reach a ledge.

From here, you can dispel the illusion in front of you so a green flower will appear, allowing you to jump across and access the Tir Na Nog on the other side.

Tir Na Nog – Rotation

This trial will introduce Pixies, a sharp-shooting long-range faerie that can fly. They are a bit bothersome to deal with as Countering isn’t very effective here. You’ll need to wait until they land after a few shots, allowing Cereza to bind them to the ground and have Cheshire defeat them.

After the first two are defeated, a second wave will appear with two standard fae and a third Pixie. Defeat them all to claim victory and continue on.

In this part of the Tir Na Nag, we’re presented with a puzzle. Send Cheshire into the wheel contraption and have him move left to lower the platform. Cereza can then climb on top of it.

Move Cheshire right to raise the platform and move it to the end, where Cereza can move a box. Push the box to the nearby ledge so she can use it as a stool to get up.

Move Cheshire out of the first wheel and into the second, with Cereza on the platform above it. Move left to bring her to the chest of resources above her and then right to continue. From here, you’re presented with a slightly tricky timed movement puzzle. Turrets will fire across your path in timed bursts. You’ll need to pass through their narrow window to progress.

• Move Cheshire up through the first turret just enough to put Cereza through (Cheshire can’t be hit in this part, so don’t worry about getting the whole contraption across).
• Pause, timing the second turret.
• Quickly move upward when the opportunity presents itself to reach the next platform.
• Step Cereza and Cheshire off simultaneously and move left just enough to see the next set of turrets ahead.
• Move Cheshire through the bottom puzzle first, moving just after the turret’s blast hits the far wall.
• Repeat this step with Cereza but pause to dip into the safe corner above the line of fire.
• Move Cereza again once a second blast has passed to reach the ladder.

• Place Cheshire in the wheel contraption as Cereza begins to climb.
• Use Cheshire and the wheel to block the turret blasts as Cereza climbs.
• Place Cheshire’s wheel at the furthest it can go at the top as Cereza finishes climbing.

Once both have reached the top, Cereza can now use Cheshire’s contraption to cross the gap and continue forward. Cheshire will need to first, however, destroy the glass wall in his way with a Slash. This will allow him access to enter the next wheel.

Instead of going upward, take a short detour downward to find another chest of valuable items. Only then should you continue upward.

Here, you’ll find a continuous laser turret that raises and lowers itself. As long as you don’t rise from the horizontal section below it, you cannot be hit by this laser and can take some time to study its movement pattern and speed.

Wait until it reaches the near bottom and then slowly rise with it. Its laser will eventually be blocked by a wall in your way, and you can progress into the next section.

Several flying enemies will fire turrets across your path here. This puzzle has three tiers, each going up a level, and each tier features two flying enemies.

The first set is not moving, and you can easily take your time using Thorn Bind to defeat them. The next two continuously move left and right, so you’ll need to take extra care to stay out of their path and have enough time to use your Thorn Bind before being knocked off.

If you’re knocked off, don’t worry too much. There’s a mid-point save before the second level of enemies that you can start from, and enemies that were previously defeated will not respawn.

Once you’re past all the flying enemies, you’ll once again find yourself face-to-face with a pair of continuous laser turrets that both rise and fall. Timing them both, you’ll need to quickly rise between the walls that will act as a barrier between you and the lasers.

Thankfully, this is the last section, so getting past them will bring you to the final area with a Vitality Petal and the Tir Na Nog crystal. Collect your prize and destroy the crystal to return to Sunspeckled Grove.

Sunspeckled Grove – The Return

Having made your way back to the grove, travel backward toward the chest from earlier quickly to open it for three whole potions. Then you may continue past the Tir Na Nog site and gain an additional Journal entry. Going forward, you’ll find a Sanctuary save point with the chance to learn some skills.

If you’d like the resources, you can also take a moment to venture South from the Tir Na Nog’s location to use Cheshire and jump across a large gap to reach another treasure chest.

There is also a second chest of resources behind and to the left of the Skills Mirror in the Sanctuary.

Beyond this point, the White Wolf will appear and lead you forward. Chase after it until you come across an open grove where you’ll have your first Boss Encounter: Fomhorach.

This boss is a shielded enemy, so you’ll need to contribute what you’ve learned from the Spriggan enemies from earlier to get the upper hand. Thankfully, his attacks are limited, and his minions pose more of a threat than he does.

If anything, he might prove a mild annoyance in getting rid of his minions as his shield can sometimes cover them. Defeat him and his many allies to progress into a lengthy cutscene.

Wood Shrine (Sunspeckled Grove)

Having gained the ability now to use the Earth Elemental Core and use its abilities with Cheshire, you’ll need to use these new skills to leave the area. But first, absorb the vitality of the flowers within this room.

Travel southward to get no small amount of resources and find a locked chest. For this chest puzzle, you’ll need to:

1. Attack the first bulb with Cheshire to begin.
2. Transform Cheshire back into Hug Mode.
3. Run over to the far bulb.
4. Restrain the bulb with Thorn Bind.
5. Destroy it with Cheshire’s Slash.

The chest will then be unlocked and grant three potions, but it also is a distraction from the flower you can open with Cheshire’s Wood abilities behind it. Open the flower to create a pad you can jump on and cross the water with. Here, you’ll find another Journal entry and a chest filled with 100 of each resource.

Return to the main room where you watched the cutscene to obtain the Elemental Core. Open the door on the left with Cheshire’s Grab, and then absorb the vitality of the flowers in your path.

A second flower along your path and facing the wall is hiding a chest. Absorb this flower to both increase your magic threshold and gain access to this chest for some extra resources.

Use Cheshire’s tongue to grab a flower on the far side of the gap at the end of your path, creating a bridge you can now cross. Afterward, throw Cheshire onto the ledge in front of you before moving him around to pull the next flower and allow Cereza across to rejoin him.

Have Cheshire destroy the wall-door north from here to reveal another treasure chest of Onyx Roses.

Returning to this area and heading east will successfully move Cereza and Cheshire into the fourth chapter.