Like a Dragon: Ishin! Trophy Guide & Roadmap

• Fill your inventory with Longevity Pills. This can be purchased from Ecchudo Pharmacy in Rakunai once you complete the friendship with Ecchudo Apothecary, adding this to his inventory. It is one of the best healing items in the game, healing a huge amount of health and refilling heat.
• Craft a Shiranui sword through smithing. This sword is a mid-level one with a fire effect, which allows you to nearly stunlock most bosses by lighting them on fire. It doesn’t have very high crafting costs, so is viable to make without a ton of grinding. If you need to increase your Smithing Level to make it you can do this quickest by purchasing swords from Rakugai Arms Dealer and donating them.
• Purchase the Golden Gun using tags at the Gambling Den. The Golden Gun is extremely good for how early you can get it, and can carry you through the entire story. Check out Cocksure  for info on how to exploit the Chicken Race betting for tags and profit.
• Craft some level of armor. Along with making the Shiranui, you should craft at least some level of armor to increase your defense. Make sure you’re not accidentally using the Tranquil Towel which you can get early in the game and has decent stats but stops you from gaining heat. You can also easily obtain a purple Furinkazan breastplate from Bakamatsu Bob by completing the Meals section of the Completion List (eating every item at every restaurant).

Combat Challenge

1 . Defeat all enemies – Just use Gunman style, stand in one spot, and shoot enemies as quickly as you can.
2. Defeat all enemies – Same as the previous, just use Gunman style, stand in one spot, and shoot enemies as quickly as you can.
3. Defeat all enemies using only Brawler style – You should immediately focus on the two weak guys with Guns, standing left and right of Ishikawa (the guy with the flaming sword) then just do a constant combo on Ishikawa to stunlock him and build heat. Once you gain one bar of heat knock down another enemy with a charged  in a combo, which allows you to do the heat action where you swing them around, hitting nearby enemies. Return to focusing on Ishikawa and repeat until the other enemies are all dealt with.
4. Defeat all enemies using only Swordsman style – All enemies in this challenge use guns, so they don’t have much health. The main issue is getting between them as quickly as you can. Basic attacks are fine for most, and will take either 3 or 4 hits. If you build enough heat you can use the action when one shoots at you to instantly take out one of the enemies.
5. Defeat all enemies using only Gunman style – Mostly easy, focus the two Ninjas first because they can throw stun shurikens at you, then the rest of the normal enemies. Save Kobayashi (the armored enemy) for last, and use your built-up heat to perform a couple of heat actions on him, which will break his armor.
6. Defeat all enemies using only Wild Dancer style – The main issue here is that most of the enemies have armor, so you can’t just shoot them. Keep chaining the basic combo to clear enemy armor, then if you end up clearing armor on a bunch of enemies without killing them you can use the combo to shoot a number of them. The most helpful heat action is when you are standing between two enemies and activate it to hit two at once. This does a large chunk to both armor and health.
7. Defeat all enemies within 15 seconds – All enemies die in one hit, but you have base stats and only 15 seconds to deal with them all. The easiest method is still just running up to enemies and using the attack to hit them. May take some luck.
8. Defeat all enemies within the time limit – Again with base stats, but you have more time and can use other styles. You walk down a path to the end, then circle back to defeat the final group of enemies. Use Gunman the entire time, the first set of enemies will die in one hit, but the group that appears behind you will take about 10 shots each, which you will have plenty of time for if you’re quick in the first half.
9. Escape from Kochi Castle within the time limit – This is basically just repeating the entire combat section from the end of Chapter 1 of the story. You can mostly use Gunman, the main spots you can’t are where you run into armored enemies. The guy blocking the hallway with the barrel has armor, so swap to Swordsman to hit him a few times, then swap back to Gunman to finish him off. In the large underground room is the main boss, but you can quickly take out the other enemies with Gunman before he reaches you, then swap to Swordsman. The final room you can try Gunman from the top of the stairs, or switch to Wild Dancer and move into the room. Once you interact with the door that lead to the boss fight you complete the challenge.
10 . Defeat all enemies within the time limit – Back to use only base stats Ryoma, but this time you can’t take any damage. There are 50 total enemies that will appear all around you, so your best bet is to switch to Gunman and not lock on, just rotate the camera and your movement stick to quickly swap between enemies. You can basically outpace the spawning as long as you don’t move, so the only ones to worry about are the enemies who have guns, but they take a bit before they shoot at you after they spawn, so just watch for them and deal with them quickly.

Skill Challenge

1. Defeat all enemies with heat actions, each must be unique – You have Legendary Ryoma for this challenge, so just swap between styles. Remember you can trigger actions from things like grabs, so you have tons of options.
2. Defeat all enemies with special moves using – You have unlimited heat, so just use either the Gunman and Wild Dancer moves to hit multiple enemies at once. For the two armored enemies at the end you can switch to Swordsman and keep hitting to chain the move between them and take their armor off faster.
3. Destroy all scarecrows – This is basically just a shooting gallery. Take out Gunman and mash like your life depends on it. Note that the squares on the floor are where the scarecrows appear from, and they don’t turn (aside from the ones that shoot at you) so if you take more than one try note which way they’re facing, then next attempt move behind them as you do more damage from the back. The red ones can damage you, but you can’t die, but this takes up valuable time so you still want to try and take out the darker red ones that shoot at you first.
4. Achieve a 99-hit combo – You want to immediately switch to Wild Dancer, and alternate between using the basic combo and the combo. The combo increases your combo count by a huge number when you get off the gun attack at the end, but then you want to immediately dodge and chain into the combo to keep moving. The main thing that can screw this up is if an enemy starts guarding, or if you get hit which immediately drops your combo.
5. Achieve Godly rank – The description is seemingly incorrect because you need an overall rank of “Deadly”, which is above “Godly”. If you did Ginryu’s training in the story this is basically the same, but you need to get the top rank instead of the middle one. You want to purposely do as many unique actions as possible, such as dodging, parrying, getting various lengths of combos, and performing unique heat actions. You can see your rank increase as you go, and when you achieve a rank of “Deadly” you will immediately complete the challenge, whether or not there are enemies left.
6. Protect Akimoto – Akimoto can only take about 5 hits, and actively tries to attack enemies, endangering himself. To start off you can swap to Gunman, shoot a few times with , then use the combo to knock down a bunch of the enemies. Then you want to switch to Wild Dancer and basically follow Akimoto around doing the combo to clear enemies near him and push away other enemies with the gun attack. May take a bit of luck not having Akimoto run across the entire area through the enemies, getting himself instantly killed.
7. Defeat 100 enemies using the cannon – This is basically the section from the story where you used the cannon, but you have to defeat way more enemies now. The most frustrating part is mostly just aiming, as it can get weird if enemies run up to the railing, you need to aim directly at them, but not at the railing to actually hit them.
8. Defeat the red, yellow, and blue ninja in that order – You must specifically defeat the 3 ninja enemies red > yellow > blue WITHOUT damaging any other enemy. You aren’t timed in this challenge, so just take your time and make sure they’re on their own. A relatively safe strategy is to switch to Gunman and then grab the Ninja to attack them. Just make sure you position yourself so that there is no one behind them when you attack, as the bullet from the grab will actually hit enemies behind the grabbed enemy. They’re relatively safe to then shoot when they’re on the ground after the grab.
9. Defeat all enemies using only pick-up weapons – A classic challenge, you can only use the items you pick up in Brawler style. There are a couple of Tuna in the room you start in, and some lumber and bamboo underneath. Use the tuna first, then the lumber to clear out as many enemies as you can while they’re bunched up. If you need there is a third tuna out in the other room, then clean up with anything you have left.
10. Defeat all enemies – This challenge has no time limit, you just need to defeat all enemies. It’s extremely easy, though unlike the original game, you can’t use the machine guns for whatever reason. Use Gunman to quickly clean up the normal enemies, then swap to Wild Dancer to clean up the armored enemies and you’re done.

Speed Challenge

1. Race to the Imperial Palace – You have 50 seconds, race to the north of the map. This one is straightforward, you just can’t sprint for very long, so make sure to stop sprinting so you don’t get winded.
2. Evade the chickens and collect 10 eggs – Basically like the delivery chase in the main game, but you are evading chickens around the map. Run counterclockwise to the marked spots, and when you run over the shiny bit on the ground you’ll automatically pick up the egg. The main issue is that you still have very low sprint stamina, so make sure not to get winded or you’re done immediately. Also don’t double back on where you’ve just ran if you have a chicken chasing you.
3. Escape from the Shinsengumi – Like the stealth sections from the main game, you need to make it to your destination without being caught and not being actively chased at the end. Head east and take the path down the edge of the city all the way south. If you are still being chased at the end there is a Palanquin near the finish point you can use to lose pursuers. If you get grabbed you can actually escape by mashing , so you have a bit of wiggle room going near the Shinsengumi members.
4. Reach the destination without being caught – You need to actually reach the destination without being seen at all, not just grabbed. You have 5 minutes, so plenty of time to take it slow if needed. The easiest method is taking an immediate right, then two lefts to go around the building and back to the main road. Go all the way south to the river, and jump in the Palanquin immediately after the water wheel. Wait for the Shinsengumi soldier to start walking back towards Teradaya, then follow him and hop in the barrel. Wait for him to go back the other way, then hop out of the barrel and head to the finish line.
5. Catch the Ultimate General – This is a chase where you are trying to catch someone running away from you. They travel in a counterclockwise path around the area, so the main goal is just to catch them as quickly as possible, following basically the same path. When you go past Smithing you can take a shortcut to the left, but watch out because if you come out of the path ahead of them they’ll turn around. Remember to press to grab them.

Ultimate Challenge

1. Defeat 2 bosses and 8 regular enemies – The two Bosses you have to defeat are the Masked Man and the Man in White. For the Masked Man use Wild Dancer, and just keep chaining the combo. If he deflects you or stops being stunned by an attack dodge around him while he attacks forward. For the Man in White, you can basically just use Gunman, as he’s not as quick and has long slow attack strings. When he does the move where he walks towards you with his arms open just keep shooting him to finish him off. For the final group of Guys you want to use just Wild Dancer to take off their armor, then switch to Gunman to clean up. The final group of enemies seems to be significantly nerfed from the original version of the game, as the Boss enemy does barely any damage to you.
2. Defeat 2 bosses, 10 British Soldiers, and a bear – The two bosses you have to defeat are Komuso (the basket helmet boss) and Thomas Glover, then the soldiers and the bear are together. You can use Wild Dancer for basically all these fights, treating the bosses the same as normal. For the soldiers and the bear you want to try and split them up, taking out the soldiers with melee while avoiding the bear. Like the prior challenge, this seems to have been nerfed and neither the bear nor the soldiers do a ton of damage or act very fast, so just be smart and don’t try to deal with the bear while there are still soldiers.
3. Defeat 3 bosses – The bosses are Takeda, Harada, and Ito. As before, you can just use Wild Dancer to deal with them Harada and Ito will deflect more often than prior bosses, so watch out for if you get deflected or if they don’t stagger because they’ll do an attack that swings through though. Ito has a very easy tell since he always holds his sword above his head, so basically just watch for if he doesn’t drop it when he gets attacked because he’ll swing through whatever you’re doing.
4. Defeat 3 bosses – The bosses are Okita, Nagakura, and Kondo. The same as 3, use Wild Dancer the entire time. Okita has some easy tells for his moves, because he’ll normally dodge behind you, or will do the obvious laugh before he does the jumping attack. Nagakura either guards a lot or just eats attacks, so he’s generally easiest to deal with if you keep circling around him frequently because almost all of his attacks are thrusting toward you. Kondo works somewhat the same, but he has one attack that can be annoying. If he puts some distance between you, he’ll rush forward and tackle you, doing a three-hit combo that knocks you down. If he does this make sure to immediately dodge sideways when you stand up to avoid him repeating it.
5. Defeat 8 bosses – This is now basically the rest of the bosses in the game, but you don’t heal between fights. In order, they are: Yoshida, Tokugawa, Okda, Katusura, Saigo (Large Man), Akimoto, Sasaski, and Takechi. The only one that is really out of the ordinary is Saigo, as you are forced to fight him using Brawler style. Otherwise, treat the fights the same as you did prior, you just need to be more careful as you don’t regain any health. Some of the slow bosses you can also swap to Gunman for easy damage, especially after heat actions when enemies are on the ground. For the fight against Saigo he seems to use charge attacks a lot of the time, so just make sure you dodge around them when he does. You can basically just keep doing the base combo and then dodge around him every few hits, nothing fancy. Takechi is the only boss that should really cause any issues. He’s in a power state the whole fight, so just takes your attacks a lot of the time and doesn’t get stunned, especially in the second phase when he’s mirroring Ryoma’s Wild Dancer style. You can try saving up Heat for him, but the moves do significantly less damage overall compared to prior fights as he has way more health. Try to keep circling him to avoid attacks when he swings through you, and don’t get too greedy. This is also the one time it might be more worth switching to Swordsman, as Takechi has a couple of combos that if you get hit by in Wild Dancer you’re just stuck in and have to take, whereas in Swordsman you can guard after the first hit.

You can check out the following pages for in-depth information on Completion List tasks:

• Substory Guide
• Diligence Record Guide
• Completion List Guide
• Smithing Guide

You will earn this without trying while working on The Gods Hath Been Humbled  and Taskmaster  , but to earn more Virtue faster you should purchase the “Virtue Cultivation Level” upgrades from the Shrine before anything else. These upgrades increase the amount of Virtue you gain from all sources by up to a total of 50% at the last level. This lets you purchase all the upgrades from the Shrine very early, then make extra Virtue for items you can purchase from the Shinto Priest shop later.

• Obtain items from pots
• Pray at shrines and jizo statues
• Draw water from the well
• Play with your dog/cat (Another Life)
• Collect eggs (Another Life)

You can check out the following page for a list of all requirements and more in-depth explanations of how to complete them: Diligence Record Guide

You can check out the following page for the location of and how to complete each Bond: Diligence Record Guide

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» Like a Dragon: Ishin – Substory Guide

Brawler

• Book of Revelations: Throw – Earned from the final training session with Komaki. To attain the revelation you need to parry attacks with , then the  prompt will occur right after the parry when it triggers. This one seems to take quite a lot of use to trigger, so don’t worry if it seems like it isn’t working right away. Unlocks the ability Essence of Reverse Throw.
• Book of Revelations: Strike – Earned from completing Scarecrow Chateau – Advanced Room 10 for the first time. This room is very easy if you just shoot all the scarecrows with Gunman. To attain the revelation you do basically the same as Throw, where you parry enemies with . You then need to attack enemies during the invulnerability period after the parry, which is what War Cry Counter is. Keep attacking enemies with and eventually the prompt will appear immediately after the parry (not while punching). Unlocks the ability Essence of Grand Bruising.

Swordsman

• Book of Revelations: Flash – Earned from the final training session with Ginryu. To attain the revelation you first need the ability Splendid Skill: Fair Weather unlocked. You then guard with and press right when an enemy hits you. If done with the correct timing you will push back the enemy, instead of just swishing your sword in the air. Eventually, there will be a prompt after correctly executing Fair Weather. Unlocks the ability Gleaming Scythe.
• Book of Revelations: Smash – Earned from defeating the 8th target in the Wanted Men missions. To attain the revelation you need to break enemies’ guard, which is most easily done with the attack. If you’re struggling to find enemies who actually guard then you can play the later battle dungeon missions where enemies guard a lot more. You can somewhat farm guard breaks by trapping an enemy in a corner and continually attacking with the :o:. If you’re aiming to do this make sure you’re using a sword without any elemental effect so that they aren’t knocked down. Eventually, there will be a prompt immediately after breaking an enemy’s guard.

Gunman

• Book of Revelations: Spree – Earned from the final training session with William. To attain the revelation you first need the ability Jumping Shots (though this is the second ability in the tree so it’s likely you have it). You then need to run towards enemies and press  to shoot them while charging forward. Eventually the prompt will appear right after the move. Unlocks the ability Essence of Oh-Be-Joyful.
• Book of Revelations: Gust – Unlocked from trading with one of the men in Unyuan (William’s hideout). He’s the second one on the east wall and wants 5 Carved Wooden Bears, which you can get from Battle Dungeons or as a random enemy drop. To attain the revelation you first need the ability Texas Two-Step, which is one of the ones that becomes available through William’s training. Confusingly though to trigger the revelation you don’t dodge and shoot, you specifically need to dodge forward with then hit to tackle the enemy. The prompt will then eventually appear right after the move. Unlocks the ability Essence of Old Scratch.

Wild Dancer

• Book of Revelations: Frenzy – Earned from the final training session with Ginryu. To attain the revelation keep attacking enemies with the  combo. When the  prompt will eventually appear between the second sword hit and the gun attack. Unlocks the ability The Bloody Wheel.
• Book of Revelations: Evasion – Earned from completing Scarecrow Chateau – Hell Room 10 for the first time. To attain this revelation you just continually dodge enemy attacks with  and you will eventually receive the prompt after an evade. This does also need to be enemies wielding swords, not spears or guns. Unlocks the ability Dance of Mourning.

To check how many total you have gathered you can check the Trooper Registry option in the Battle Dungeon menu. There are a total of 400 in the game now, so you only need 1/4 of all potential troopers for this trophy.

» Completion List Guide

» Diligence Record Guide

» Completion List Guide

» Diligence Record Guide

» Completion List Guide

» Diligence Record Guide

» Completion List Guide

» Fishing Guide (All Fish)

» Diligence Record Guide

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» Diligence Record Guide

To receive the prompt to make the debt payments, you need to reach certain cumulative totals of cash from trade orders, which are at 5, 10, 20, 30, and 40 ryo total trade. Once you make the final payment there will be an extra scene with Haruka and the Priest, then you’ll earn the trophy. You should have more than enough money to pay off the debt when required while working on all other requirements, but if you haven’t done so yet you can check out Cocksure  for an explanation on how to exploit betting on Chicken Races.

After purchasing one your home will automatically change to the new design, but to earn this trophy you need to manually change the look yourself. In your house go to the smaller box to the left of the cabinet where you complete orders. Here you can change the interior or what Haruka is wearing. Manually change the interior to any other option than the current one to earn the trophy.

Non-Gambling

• Singing (Karaoke) – Utamarua located in Fushimi
• Buyo Dance (Fan Dancing) – Nichibuza located in Rakunai
• Udon Shop – Umai Udon located in Fushimi
• Courtesan Games – Yamabuki located in Gion
  • Sake Showdown
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors
  • Sensual Healing
• Mahjong – Mahjong Spot located in Mukurogai
• Shogi – Shogi Parlor located in Rakunai

Gambling

• Chicken Races – Chicken Racing located in Rakugai
• Gambling Den Games – Gambling Den located in Rakugai
  • Cee-lo
  • Cho-han
  • Oicho-kabu
  • Koi-koi
  • Poker (any type)

» Completion List Guide

» Completion List Guide

As of patch 1.03, there is a bug in the game that allows you to always win without actually spending any tags. Basically, you can place all of your bets, choose to back out of the race so that it refunds all your bet tags, then quickly choose “Start Race” before you’re kicked out of the menu, which then starts the race as if your bets had still been placed, even though all your tags were refunded. Once you get set up if you are quick enough you can bet on every single possible outcome, resulting in wins like the below screenshot.

This takes a bit to work up to because you need 50,000~ tags to bet on every possible betting spot, but working up you can just bet on all options in the Single, Quinella, and Double Exacta tabs as you earn more tags.

The flow basically works as follows:

1. Choose Buy Tickets > Dividend List. The Dividend list is basically just a list of all possible bets, which you can then individually select and place a bet amount on. You can select the spot in the List and hit  to increase to the max bet of 300, then confirm the bet.
2. Repeat for all possible spots in the tabs you can. You cycle through the tabs with and , and when you get to do the Triple and Quituple Exacta you need to scroll down the list for all possible bets. If you’re quick you can choose every possible spot within the 120 seconds time limit, but if you’re not fast enough to do that you should just focus on the Quintuple Exacta list as it has the highest payout overall.
3. When you are finished placing bets, back out to the first menu. Choose to Exit Chicken Race (or just hit ) and you will be refunded the tags you placed. Immediately hit  twice and select Start Race. This should start the race before you are booted out of the Chicken Race menu, with all your tags refunded but the game still acting like you had placed your bets, resulting in your still winning after the end of the race.
4. Repeat as many times as you want to win tags.

This method is effectively foolproof as long as you back out of the race, because if you don’t select Start Race quick enough you just have all your tags back. If you’re not sure that you’re quick enough make sure to leave yourself enough time to go back to the menu and back out of the race.

Once you have enough tags you can then go to the Gambling Den nearby and trade your tags for items: Gold Plates to sell for cash and the Golden Gun to use as your weapon for most of the game.

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