Persona 5 Strikers Trophy Roadmap
By DK and Samakin_Pie
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 4/10
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 40-50 Hours
- Offline Trophies: 47 (1
, 3
, 6
, 37
) - Number of missable trophies: 1 (What are Friends For?)
- Glitched trophies: None
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: No
- Minimum Playthroughs: 1
- Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Partially – You can revisit all the Jails but NOT the cities!
- Release Date: February 2020 in Japanese, June 2020 in Korean and Traditional Chinese, February 19, 2021 for remaining regions
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)Introduction
Welcome to the Persona 5 Strikers Trophy Guide! This game is basically a sequel to Persona 5, but with a twist. Instead of being a traditional turn-based RPG the game takes a different direction in its gameplay. Imagine a mixture of Persona and a Musou Game. You will face huge waves of enemies at the same time, while being able to stop the time by using your persona to cast attacks on your enemy. Traditional Persona elements like All-Out Attacks and Batton Pass were also implemented into the fast combat system of this game. Storywise the game takes place 6 months after the events of Persona 5, the protagonist visits his friends in Tokyo to spend the summer with them by going on a road trip across Japan. Even without playing the original game, you can play Scramble and still get an idea what the story is about, since the game makes sure to explain plot to you as much as possible.
Step 1: Play through the game while doing all Requests (Side Quests) + Important Grinding Spot
The game itself takes a good chunk of time to finish and it has 2 missable trophies, one for doing all Friend’s Requests (Side Quests), and one for making 12 kinds of dishes. For the Friend’s Requests, the most important thing is talking to your teammates at every possible occasion. They will give you requests which can only be obtained in certain locations at certain times, see Persona 5 Strikers – All Request Locations. You can return to any Jail you have visited later on, but you can’t go back to the cities you have been to. For the 12 kinds of dishes, make sure to finish the requests in a city and buy all the recipes for cooking as well, since those can also be missed. Don’t let the trophy list fool you, doing 50 Requests won’t be enough for platinum. You will need to complete almost all of them since some of them unlock new BOND Skills or new Personas.
The fastest way or reaching Max BOND is killing Metatron over and over again and you can do that in the final dungeon of the game.
Step 2: Endgame, Unlocking New Game Plus & Persona Compendium
After finishing the final boss battle you will have the opportunity to still visit all the dungeons. Additionally, a bunch of new requests will unlock as well for you to tackle. You will not be able to start New Game Plus without finishing certain requests first. The trigger for unlocking NG+ is defeating the Reaper, more on that topic in the trophy guide for the Reaper trophy. You will have to level up a lot and grind for Band Points as well at this step. It might take a while, so prepare for a grind. Make sure to fuse all the Persona in the compendium as well, except for the last one at Level 90 which you can only fuse in NG+.
Step 3: New Game+
For the “No Looking Back” trophy you have to start a New Game+ run on the Merciless difficulty, but you can simply unlock the trophy and reload your master save to restart it on an easier difficulty instead. In NG+ you will have to play until you can use the Fusions in the Velvet Room to fuse the final Persona missing in your list.
Useful Tips, Tricks and Guides:
- Persona 5 Strikers – All Requests Guide (Side Quest Locations)
- Persona 5 Strikers – Mona Desire Boxes, Dire Shadows, Strong Enemies Locations
- Persona 5 Strikers – All Personas
Persona 5 Strikers Trophy Guide
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True Phantom Thief Earned all trophies. |
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| Earn all other trophies in Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers to unlock Platinum (DLC not required). | ||
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Cage of Lust Closed Complete the Shibuya Jail. |
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| Unmissable story-related trophy. | ||
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Cage of Vanity Conquered Completed the Sendai Jail. |
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| Unmissable story-related trophy. | ||
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Cage of Gluttony Torched Completed the Sapporo Jail. |
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| Unmissable story-related trophy. | ||
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Cage of Desolation Condemned Completed the Okinawa Jail. |
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| Unmissable story-related trophy. | ||
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Cage of Wrath Collapsed Completed the Kyoto Jail. |
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| Unmissable story-related trophy. | ||
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Cage of Arrogance Cracked Completed the Osaka Jail. |
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| Unmissable story-related trophy. | ||
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Humanity’s Companion Completed the Jail of the Abyss. |
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| Unmissable story-related trophy. | ||
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Walk Your Own Path Completed the Tree of Knowledge. |
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| Unmissable story-related trophy. | ||
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Back in Business Witness the Phantom Thieves’ reunion. |
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| Unmissable story-related trophy. | ||
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Farewell to the Past Wolf awakened his Persona. |
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| Unmissable story-related trophy. | ||
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A Newfound Heart Sophia found strenght of heart. |
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| Unmissable story-related trophy. | ||
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It’s Showtime! Activated Showtime. |
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This will be the first trophy you will unlock in the game, once it appears on your screen press  +  to activate the powerful Showtime. |
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Sseker of Power Used Incense. |
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| You will get Incense as a reward for some of the requests. Then simply use it in your item list to strengthen your character’s HP or SP or on one of your Personas. | ||
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Unshakeable Teamwork Performed an All-Out Attack 150 times. |
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| Once you hit a weakness of your enemy it will enter a dizzy state and pressing after that will trigger an All-Out Attack. You have to perform it 150 times, hitting multiple enemies with an attack only counts as one. |
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Know Your Enemy Hit the enemy’s weakness 300 times. |
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| Every enemy has a weakness you can hit. An enemy group only counts as hitting the weakness once and hitting the same enemy with a weakness multiple times doesn’t make the counter go up either. So you can’t just hit the same boss over and over again with his weakness. Make sure to go for weaknesses as much as possible. | ||
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Phantom Striker Defeateded 200 enemies with the phantom dash. |
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| Phantom dashes are the moves you activate with while interacting with objects like lamps, skateboards, chandeliers etc. Kill 200 enemies with those attacks. |
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All That Glitters Defeated 10 Treasure Demons. |
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| Treasure demons look like red jewels in Jails. Once you hit them you get 30 seconds to defeat them. Don’t worry, you will find way more than enough of them and they aren’t hard to defeat at all. | ||
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Death Defied Defeated the Reaper. |
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Defeating the reaper is necessary to unlock the New Game+ in this game. Unlocking the fight against the Reaper takes some preparation as well. In order to fight the reaper you will have to:
Once all of those requests have been finished, you will receive the final request to fight the Reaper in the Okinawa Jail (he will be at the very end of the Jail). He isn’t particularly difficult in this game when your characters are leveled up. He is tanky and might take some time to defeat, but on easy difficulty you should have no problems with him at all. |
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Mask Connoisseur Complete the Inmate Registry. |
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| See » Persona 5 Strikers Complete Persona Compendium. | ||
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Best Friend Mayed out a BOND skill level. |
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| See next trophy. | ||
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Eternal Bonds Maxed out all BOND skill levels. |
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| This will be one of the last trophies on your way to platinum. You will need a lot of BOND points to level up all the skills. You will get BOND points for basically everything in the game: Requests, doing stuff with friends, beating bosses etc. Getting to MAX rank 99 takes a while and is tedious. You can repeat the Metatrom Request in the final Jail over and over again since it can get you 15,000 XP in a relatively short battle if you know what you are doing, you are looking at about 15 hours of grinding Metatron once you have finished everything else in the game. If you want to refight Metatron in the last Jail you will have to accept the “Angel of Contracts Descends” Request after each fight for Metatron to reappear.
A faster method for grinding BOND requires you to play the game on Merciless mode in NG+ and fighting Dire Shadows there will get you significantly more XP – but you obviously have to come prepared for the difficult fight. The further you get into the game, the more XP you will get from Dire Shadows. While the one in the Shibuya Dungeon gives you 42,000 XP, the one in Sendai gives you 62,000 XP. So the choise is up to you: staying on NG and fighting metatron for less XP or getting a build ready for Merciless and fighting the stronger enemies there. |
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Eye for Talent Spent Persona Points to strenghten a Persona’s stats. |
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| In the Velvet Room you can use Persona Points to level up your Personas. This isn’t what the trophy wants you to do though. Pretty late in the game you will unlock the ability to level each persona parameter individually and this is what you have to do for the trophy. | ||
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Knife in the Dark Performed 50 ambushes. |
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| While traversing through Jails you can get behind an enemy and press for a sneak attack. Perform 50 times for the trophy. |
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Best of the Best Trained all Phantom Thieves to level 70. |
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| Self-explanatory. You should reach it near the end of your playthrough. Repeating the strong enemy request in Sendai Jail (Fighting Seth) gives you 10,000 XP for a pretty easy fight, so if you have the need to grind go for that request which you can repeat endlessly. You have to get ALL team members to level 70 for this. | ||
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What are Friends For? Cleared all special requests from Phantom Thieves. |
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| *Missable Trophy*
Be sure to talk to each of your friends every day and finish their requests as soon as possible. They will sometimes require other requests to progress. Make sure to use the guide linked below. There is a possibility of the trophy not unlocking even though you have finished all the requests, so make sure to save your game on different save slots just in case. |
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Who Dares Wins Defeated a Dire Shadow |
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| Dire Shadows are the enemies surrounded by lightning which you can find in each palace. They are very powerful so do not bother with them on your first visit of a Jail. Come back for them once you are high leveled (even after the final boss). Once you defeat your first one you will get the trophy. | ||
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The Most Daring of All Defeated all Dire Shadows. |
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| Since the game has 8 Jails there are 8 Dire Shadows to defeat (1 per jail). Do not try to beat them immediately and come back for them at the end of the game. They are always close to one of the Jail’s checkpoint so they aren’t particularly hard to find. | ||
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Ultimate Trump Card Obtained all Master Arts for Joker. |
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| See “Skilled Thieves” below. | ||
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Jolly Roger Obtained all Master Arts for Skull. |
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| See “Skilled Thieves” below. | ||
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Gentleman Thief Obtained all Master Arts for Mona. |
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| See “Skilled Thieves” below. | ||
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Flame Dancer Obtained all Master Arts for Panther. |
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| See “Skilled Thieves” below. | ||
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Peerless Blade Obtained all Master Arts for Fox. |
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| See “Skilled Thieves” below. | ||
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Fist of Justice Obtained all Master Arts for Queen. |
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| See “Skilled Thieves” below. | ||
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Sophisticated Lady Obtained all Master Arts for Noir. |
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| See “Skilled Thieves” below. | ||
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Technological Marvel Obtained all Master Arts for Sophie. |
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| See “Skilled Thieves” below. | ||
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Repentant Fang Obtained all Master Arts for Wolf. |
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| See “Skilled Thieves” below. | ||
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Master Thieves Obtained all Master Arts for all characters. |
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| Each character has 4 skills/combos to unlock. In order to unlock a skill you will have to fill a progress bar you can view under Status – Master Arts. Once you have filled all the 4 bars with each character you will get the trophy. You can use whoever you want in whichever order you want for that. Wolf is the only character who unlocks later in the game, so he probably will be the last one you will have to level.
To progress the bar simply kill enemies with the character you want to level, use combos you have unlocked etc. It doesn’t take especially long to unlock those trophies, so do not worry about them too much. |
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A Helping Hand. Completed a request. |
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| You will receive your first request during the 2nd Jail. | ||
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Those Who Heed the Call Completed 50 requests. |
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| See All Requests Guide. Note: Keep in mind, doing just 50 won’t be enough for Platinum. You will have to do almost all of them, since some of them unlock new BAND skills or Personas. | ||
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Item Sweeper Obtained a total 200 items from the Jails. |
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| Inside Jails you will come across items or floating cubes which you can collect. Each Jail will have a lot of them and they will respawn on each visit. | ||
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Short Order Cook Cooked food for the first time. |
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| Your first dish will be cooked automatically, cannot be missed. | ||
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Master Chef Cooked 12 types of food. |
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Before leaving each city make sure to visit all the shops there to buy dish recipes. Throughout the game you will find more than the 12 required recipes. Try to buy as many ingredients as possible each day to have enough of them for each dish. Below the list of all recipes in the game. Should you miss any, you can rebuy them from Sophia in the RV later on.
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Impulse Buyer Bought something during a limited time sale. |
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| Instead of the old shops from Persona 5, Sophia will be your shop this time around. You can access her shop in your RV. Once you see an item on sale buy it for the trophy. She will regularly have items on sale once you level up the BOND skill for Sophia’s shop once. | ||
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A Little Memento Obtained a souvenir for the camper. |
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| Clear requests for your friends and talk to them regularly and you will receive a gift from them for this trophy. You will receive the item needed from Yusuke 0n August 7th before leaving Sendai towards Sapporo, if you follow the Requests Guide and talk to your friend regularly you’ll get it. Since you receive a lot of items from your friends, it is not entirely clear which count for that trophy, but it shouldn’t be a problem. | ||
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Treasure Hunter Opened 50 treasure chests. |
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| In Jails you can find treasure chest which can be looted. In later Jails chests will require you to buy the lockpicking BAND Skill to open them. Chests respawn on revisiting Jails, so you can get way more than 50. | ||
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No Looking Back Started New Game + on Merciless difficulty. |
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| After defeating the reaper, save your game. While reloading the game, it will ask you if you want to start a New Game + run. Select Yes and choose the Merciless difficulty for the trophy to unlock, it will unlock as soon the NG+ run starts. You can simply quit the game afterward and reload your save again and play on an easier difficulty instead for your cleanup in NG+. | ||
Brandon says
I am on my third playthrough; RISKY difficulty. Main story is cleared and Reaper is defeated.
I reached BAND level 99 and have all the trophies except for MAX BAND skills. My entire top row of skills (HP/SP/St/Ma/En/Ag/Lu) are locked at level 14 saying the next level is not available, and the requirements where it usually tells you the request you need to complete only says ‘???’.
Any idea what I am missing?
DK says
I can only recommend you doing ALL requests since they unlock some skills behind them. I didn’t have that problem in my 2 platinum runs so far.
Did you clear ALL requests that were given to you or did you skip some?
Brandon says
I do have quite a few requests still open; I just find it strange that this can happen in three playthroughs. All previous limits at least told you which request needed to be completed; along with the requests themselves stating they unlock BAND limit. I’m kicking myself for assuming this would unlock during RISKY; I didn’t want to start tackling each request without knowing whether or not this would actually unlock the final limit.
awaa7412 says
vdv
Gus says
Anyone else having issues with this trophy list? I’ve got the first two trophies, but when I try to check them out in my trophies tab the list for P5S simply isn’t there, and when try to sync with psn I get an error.
Sergio says
The trophies aren’t live yet on the psn servers. Probably because we’re playing early access (before the official launch date). Don’t worry it’ll go live probably tomorrow so you’ll be able to see your trophies on your console.
Rin_TohsakaUBW says
It’s most likely because the game isn’t officially released yet on the 23rd.
PowerPyx says
It seems they forgot to put up the trophy list on the Sony servers. Likely because the game has multiple release dates (early access was Feb 19, the “Standard” release is on Feb 23). Guess they scheduled the trophies for Feb 23 to go live.
You can already earn the trophies in the meantime and they will sync retroactively. They will be stored offline on your console until then. When the trophy list is up on Sony Servers all your trophies will show up normally (no need to redo them).
Rynam says
Something about the missable Trophies, seems Master Chef isnt missable. You can buy recipes you miss at the RV for a higher price. At least according to the tutorial message.
So only the one with requests from friends should be missable.
Bean says
Instead of grinding the metatron boss for 15 hours for band points, is it possible to do this in ng+ (Do the band points/skills carry over)? Excited to get the game on 23rd but not a big fan of beating the same boss over and over!
TheKingOfPain says
Band Points do carry over and you could go through NG+ on Merciless (if you choose it, you can’t change difficulty any longer), but the quickest way to get that trophy would still be grinding Metatron on Easy (2 minutes each time) for 10 hours, considering that you’ll be level 60+ by the end of the story…and Iwouldn’t go Merciless at level 62.
Bean says
but you could make a backup save, start ng+ on merciless for the trophy, and then retrieve the back save to start ng+ over on whatever difficulty I actually prefer like normal. Then basically play through ng+ on your chosen difficulty and accumulate the bond points normally?
Just want to make sure it’s an option to play through ng+ and accumulate the bond points normally to make the grind for max level more enjoyable…
TheKingOfPain says
Sure, you can do that if you wish. I’m pretty sure even a full NG+ run wouldn’t be enough to accumulate enough points, but that’s totally an option.
Jaxteller2112 says
How do you grind Metatron? It looks like it’s not there anymore for me After I killed It.
Rin_TohsakaUBW says
@Jaxteller You will get to grind Metatron for XP and Bond Points when you’re in post-game. The one encountered during the main story doesn’t count.
Byron says
Do we know whether there will be EU and NA stacks? Like P5R. Or it’s just NA/EU shared list like P5?
cez says
I mistakenly deleted a request in first playthrough is my chance at the platinum gone?
mUnday says
They can be taken again after being canceled.
Wargazsem says
Repentant fang has glitched for me. I have everyone’s master arts completely done so this will also block me from getting the Master Thieves trophy.
Wargazsem says
Forgot to say that I went back on two different save files and got the last master arts on Wolf and it didn’t unlock.
Brapr88 says
The guides and game were unclear, can I load a mastered safe file without going into NG+? I’m afraid to shut down the game because I’m not done grinding the endgame.
Will says
No you cannot I got screwed by this after beating reaper you cannot leave the save file other wise you are forced to start a new game plus
Mark says
When you choose to load a save and it says mastered that just means that you can start a NG+…. YOU DO GET AN OPTION TO START WITHOUT NG+ TOO!
LogicHunter says
In ‘Master Chef’ – buying the prepared meal in the locations is triggering a part where the characters eat with me.
Does that count as cooking or not?
For example, gyutan stew – ate it with sasuke but in the van it mentions I’m missing carrots to cook it… Should i buy carrots (where btw) and cook the meal for it to count?
Rin_TohsakaUBW says
That will not count as “cooking” as you have to buy the ingredients needed for the Gyutan Stew and cook it at the hideout.
Bila says
Yes, you need to cook using ingredients
Joshua says
Master Theives trophy is glitched on both PS4 and PS5 I have both consoles I have all the Master Arts trophy for everyone and the trophy isn’t popping no matter how many times I reset and redo Zenkechi’s last Master Art.
GamingTroller101 says
The best BOND Farm is not Metatron. You waste so many hours just farming that. Instead, play Merciless on NG+ and reach the point in the Alice Jail where you can access the first Dire Shadow. You get approximately 42,000 XP per defeat and Dire Shadows respawn only on Merciless. It takes about 5 minutes per run. You could also finish the story up to the Sendai Jail for the 2nd Dire Shadow at about 62,000 per defeat.
TRD says
Awesome
TrophyCheese says
Grinding the Dire Shadow in the Sendai Jail on Merciless difficulty is significantly quicker to Max out Bond than fighting Metatron repeatedly on Easy/Normal/Hard.
Merciless gives out significantly more XP and Bond points.
Tony says
One hint for finishing up those master skills — any stage that has a vehicle section (like the one where you drive a cart into enemies) will fill that up very fast. Every kill/hit seems to add to the meter. I wound up filling up someone two levels just doing that and it took less than 30 seconds.
Depressed says
What happens if I put the fights on the easiest difficulty? Is it still a challenge? Or do you have it easy and without problems? It is good to know this information.
I still don’t know if they have also fixed the bug with the trophies, I only have a ps4