In this Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition Secret Mission Guide, we will detail all the secret missions in the game and how you can complete them.  Secret missions are hidden objectives that require a certain task when you are fighting a boss in the game. each boss fight requires a hidden task to execute in order to complete the secret mission.

There are many bosses in Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition, and when you are fighting each, you can perform certain tasks that are mainly hidden from you until you actually complete them. There is no way of finding the details of the Secret Mission until you have actually completed it.

This is where our guide will help you as we have detailed all the secret missions there are in the game. with the help of this guide, you can perform the tasks that are required when you fighting a certain enemy.

Completing Secret Missions allow you to exchange for extra Grade and rewards after the battle is over. You can always retry the mission at a later point if you have missed them.

Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition Secret Mission Guide

Below we have listed and detailed every Secret Mission in Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition. There are 25 Secret Missions, ranging from fairly intuitive to basically very tough ones that are impossible to figure out. Read our guide to get your objectives complete in the right way.

Secret Mission # 1 – Zagi

Objective: Defeat Zagi while protecting Estellise from Zagi’s Attack.

This secret mission can be completed in the first boss fight. It is a simple Secret Mission to complete, where the best thing to do is keep Estelle alive and to keep Zagi away from her. Estelle fights back but is not in the action too much. All she does is throw some healing spells in the second part of the fight.

Secret Mission # 2 – Goliath

Objective: Down Goliath by attacking its Achilles’ heel while it charges X Buster

When you are fighting with Goliath, you will notice that he will periodically charge his X buster to attack, while standing tall on his legs. You need to hit his right foot while he is charging up. On his left foot will be a blue patch that needs to be hit. The best way to do this is to free run behind him to be able to cleanly hit his leg. In order to guarantee that you have this task completed, make sure you execute this multiple times.

Secret Mission # 3 – Gattuso

Objective: Take a page from Karol’s book and use the billybally plants to knock down Gattuso.

Gattuso is a difficult opponent to fight especially in the early stages of the game. you can always return later in the game to fight Gattuso again to complete later on when you have more powerful abilities and weapons.

To complete this objective, you need to target the billybally plants that are around the arena and to hit them to release a puff of stun powder. The stun powder stuns anyone that gets into it, Gattuso and your party members are all vulnerable. You can counter this by attacking the plants from range using Azure Edge, or attempt at a later stage with a Stun Bracelet/Talisman.

Secret Mission # 4 – Zagi (Ragou’s Ship)

Objective: Lure Zagi to the side of the ship and knock him overboard to cool him off!

This can be a very tricky task to do, especially in the early stages of the game. to complete this task, you need to knock Zagi off the ship. You increase the chances of this happening if you stand yourself  close to the edge of the arena.

When Zagi uses his Cyclone Shot or Light Spear, he elevates well over your head. Once he is up high, attacking him by going into Overlimit can give knockback Zagi a little, and maybe enough to knock him off the edge. The method does not guarantee that this will work, but you can give it multiple tries.

If this does not work out for you, you can revisit the fight with Rita’s Tractor Beam that makes this a lot easier to complete.

Secret Mission # 5 – Dreaded Giant

Objective: Down the Dreaded Giant when it rears back and leaves itself wide open.

This is a comparatively easier mission that the ones above. You will notice that the Dreaded Giant will rear up on his hind legs multiple time through the fight. That is the moment you need to hit at his feet in order to knock him over.

Make sure you do this several times to make sure that the Secret Mission counts as completed. Alternatively, you can try using Azure Edge or other ranged artes, or go into Overlimit yourself to prevent being knock over.

Secret Mission # 6: Gigalarva

Objective: Use Raven’s Serpent arte to set a trap for the Gigalarva and prevent it from healing itself.

To complete this Secret Mission, you need to first reduce Gigalarva’s hp to half or less than 24,000. Then you need to take control of Raven and use Serpent over and over again to make sure you get this task completed.

Secret Mission # 7 – Barbos

Objective: Take out the bridge supports to keep Barbos from calling out more of his thugs.

This is simple task, where before you begin fighting Barbos, free run around the area and hit all the bridge switches to complete this Secret Mission. The bridge is used by Barbos to call in more enemies, which can be deactivated in the first place by hitting the switches.

Secret Mission # 8 – Cursed Wanderer

Objective: Strike down the Cursed Wanderer while it is reloading.

To complete this mission, you will notice that one if the Cursed Wanderer will jump in the air and fire his pistol several times. You need to hit this Cursed Wanderer when he goes for a reload of his pistol. This will ensure you have completed the mission.

Secret Mission # 9 – Zagi (Coliseum)

Objective: Allow Zagi to absorb too much magic and destroy his bodhi blastia in the third battle against him.

To get this mission completed, you need to set a shortcut to Rita’s Fire Ball and keep firing them for Zagi to absorb. Though the fireballs will heal Zagi, they will overload the blastia on his arm.

Secret Mission # 10 – Pteropus

Objective: Defeat the Leader Bat to prevent Pteropus from recombining.

You will notice that after taking some damage, Pteropus will split into several Magic Bats, Attack Bats and one leader bat. Finding and hitting the leader bat guarantees that they will not reform back into one.

Secret Mission # 11 – Outbreaker

Objective: Destroy the core in the battle against Outbreaker to prevent magic from inverting day and night.

This Secret Mission is similar to the previous one where Outbreaker will split out his core and hold it front of his face before reabsorbing it. The best way to hit the orb is to use Yuri’s Severing Fang each time the Outbreaker splits it out. To destroy the core completely, you will need to have him spit out the core at least two or three times.

Secret Mission # 12 – Belius

Objective: Light up all the Candlesticks in the battle against Belius to eliminate the illusions.

To get this Secret mission completed, you will notice that about halfway through the fight, Belius will split into two by summoning a copy of himself. When he splits up, you have to run around and light the four candles that are around the room, to make the copy vanish.

You can use any fire elemental spell to light the candles, simple using Destruction Field or Fire Ball will work easily. Though you have to be quick about it as the candles blow out before all are lit.

Secret Mission # 13 – Nan and Tison

Objective: Time your strikes between Nan and Tison’s attacks to knock them down.

This is a difficult Secret Mission, as you have to effectively complete two separate missions in the same fight and, and each one involves a tight window behind artes that the bosses wont be using that often.

Tison needs to be knocked down after his Dragon Blade: Advent ability, while Nan has to be knocked down after her Rending Slash ability. Her ability involves her jumping in the air and then landing with her blades stuck in the ground. The most difficult part is waiting for her to perform this arte.

It becomes difficult in the later stages of the fight as she relies more on casting spells, healing and even resurrecting Tison if he has died. This is why its best to be read to strike when you get the opportunity early in the fight.

Secret Mission # 14  – Schwann

Objective: Down Schwann by attacking when he clutches his heart after his mystic arte.

to complete this Secret Mission,  you have to wait for Schwann to use Blast Heart and then go for a knockdown when he is clutching his chest. You can use the Lone wold Storm arte to knock him down.

Secret Mission # 15 – Zagi (Heracles)

Objective: Use Karol’s Nice Recovery Smash arte to heal Zagi’s poison in the fourth battle against him.

This is an easy Secret Mission, where you need to use Karol’s Nice Recovery Smash to heal Zagi’s poison once he applies to himself.

Secret Mission # 16 – Baitojoh

Objective: Hit Baitojoh three times during its Ice Edge attack and fish out of the ice.

This is a tricky Secret Mission, as Baitojoh is a speedy boss to fight and does no expose his fins for a long time when he is under the ice. there are two ways you can go about with this, either you can try with ranged attack like Azure Storm, or try to hit multiple times with the Twin Punishing Smash with Karol if you can get close enough quickly.

Secret Mission # 17 – Estellise

Objective: Use the Mother’s Memento in Yuri’s battle against Estellise

To complete this Secret Mission, you need to use the item Mother’s Memento during the second half of this boss fight. To get the memento, rest at the inn in Mantiac after getting Ba’ul but before heading to Myorzo.

Secret Mission # 18 – Yeager

Objective: After breaking Yeager’s guard to create an opening, use Raven’s Rain arte to make his hear explode.

This is probably the most difficult secret mission in the game. a few things you have to make sure about is that Raven’s Rain arte ability is not equipped to change into a Rainsong. Make sure to put Rain on one of your right stick’s shortcuts.

First you have to fight Yeager until his health drops less than 50%. Then you need to break Yeager;s guard with several consecutive hits. Abilities like Severing Fang and Shining Dragon Swarm will help you in this matter, and then try to finish your combo with a heavy attack to attempt to break his guard. You will then have to finish your combo with a heavy attack to break his guard.

As soon as you see the opening you have to immediately have Raven cast Rain as soon as you see the opening. Make sure Raven is in a good place to hit the opening as the duration is very short.

Secret Mission # 20 – Alexei

Objective: Down Alexei attacking him when he’s tired after his mystic arte.

Use the Maris Stella against the Cursed Wanderer during the second fight with them. You must get the Maris Stella in Zaude by approaching the center gate before unlocking it with a red ord.

Secret Mission # 21 – Gusios

Objective: Attack Gusios’ tail, and then down him with a close attack while his feet are raised.

In this Secret Mission, you have to break the boss’s guard when he rears up on his hind legs. He does this when he tries to cast spells and perform other attacks, as well as frequently go into Overlimit which prevents him from being knocked over. Its not hard and might take more than a few tries.

Secret Mission # 22 – Khroma Dragon

Objective: Down Khroma by timing your strikes between certain attacks of hers.

This is another mission requiring you to knock down a boss. But with Khroma’s ability this is fairly easy. When she roars to cause rocks to fall down from the ceiling, you can go to knock her down during the ability.

Secret Mission # 23 – Flynn

Objective: During the battle against Flynn, have Flynn use every arte he can, including a mystic arte.

To get this complete, you need to allow Flynn to use all his ability during the fight before finishing the battle. The game also lets you know when he has used all of his abilities. Below are all the abilities that he has in the game:

• Rising Falcon
• Sonic Thrust
• Dragon Swarm
• Hell Fire Blade
• Tiger Blade
• Shining Falcon
• Beast
• Severing Blade
• Demon Fang
• Demonic Circle
• Demonic Chaos
• First Aid (Heal)
• Guardian Field (Heal)
• Holy Lance (Spell Arte)
• Luminant Scythe (Spell Arte)
• Radiant Dragon Fang (Mystic Arte)

Secret Mission # 24 – Zagi (Tarqaron)

Objective: In the fifth battle against Zagi, down him by attacking after he gets exhausted from Blastia Bane.

To get this Secret Mission done, you need to knock Zagi down when he uses the Blastia Bane ability with your heavy hitting artes to knock him over.

Secret Mission # 25 – Duke (Second Form)

Objective: Defeat Duke using a mystic arte during your second battle against him

You need to finish off Duke, who is the final Boss in his Second Form. Defeat Duke with Yuri’s default Mystic Arte; Savage Wolf Fury.

This concludes our Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition Secret Mission Guide. Feel free to comment below.