Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Reunion Trophy Guide & Roadmap

• Method #1: Increase Buster Sword Proficiency to 12.5% (PS4) / 25% (PS5). The Buster Sword is an automatic story unlock in Chapter 6. The easiest way to increase it is to enter the Buster Sword stance with + and spam Darkness Materia (reward from Mission 4-4-2 and 8-4-6). Each kill grants proficiency. You can combine doing this with playing Missions at a Save Point. After reaching enough proficiency you get a notification on the screen that tells you the damage limit has been lifted while in Buster Sword stance.
• Method #2: Equip “Brutal” Accessory (Reward from Mission 7-4-6 and 9-5-1, in a chest in Mission 9-6-3). This raises your damage limit to 99,999.

After you did one of the two methods above, the next thing you need is a Materia that can deal 99,999 damage in one hit. The best option is “Costly Punch”. The easiest way to get it is by fusing Materia “Goblin Punch” (reward for Trophy:  Waterfall Chaser in Chapter 9) + any of the purple Materia bought from Shop “Research Dept. QMC+” (from Chest in Chapter 9  Gongaga – Outskirts). Alternatively, a Costly Punch is found in in chest in Mission 9-5-4.

The damage output of this Materia scales to your overall HP. When you have 9999 HP and hit an enemy’s weak spot or hit from behind it should often deal 99,999 damage. This is one of the best materia in the game and you should be using it against high-level bosses anyway.

This takes place in Chapter 1. After the Save Point “Mt Tamblin – Mountain Path”, you will launch an assault on Fort Tamblin. The section for the trophy starts after entering the Fort, when you see a tracker in the top left corner that says “Fortress: Remaining Forces”. You must defeat all enemy groups inside the fort. There are 16 groups total. They are shown by white sword icons in the top left corner. They will get a green checkmark when defeated. Initially, it only displays 11 of 16 sword icons. The remaining 5 are hidden: 3 behind rotating doors and 2 in towers.

If you reach the end of the fort section and haven’t defeated all enemies, you will get the dialogue option “I’ll take out all the enemies here first!”. By picking this you can stay here and finish the remaining enemies until all 16 show a green checkmark. Pay special attention to the 2 wooden towers and the 3 optional rotating walls, press on them to make enemies appear.

After you have all 16 green checkmarks exit this area. The enemies in the remaining fort area don’t matter (the only area after this is with save point “Fort Tamblin – Courtyard” and the double-boss in the temple). Only the 16 with checkmarks matter.

The trophy unlocks after completely exiting Fort Tamblin, when you return to the woods and have a cutscene with Lazard, before 3 Ninjas attack you. Lazard will give you the Fire Armlet as a reward for doing a perfect job. The trophy pops during the cutscene immediately after he gives the Fire Armlet.

Chapter 2 (still doable until Point of No Return at end of Chapter 7)

At the very start of Chapter 2, before departing on your mission, you will be back in the main hub area. Don’t talk to Tseng yet (don’t start the mission yet). Instead, leave through the Briefing Room door to reach the Fountain area. Immediately turn around and go back the way you came to enter the Shinra Building again. Interact with the doors/elevator and choose to go to “SOLDIER Floor”. When you arrive talk to the NPC, afterward don’t enter the Briefing Room, instead walk along the SOLDIER Floor and check the doors on the side, enter the one that says “MATERIA ROOM” (it’s left of a save point). Talk to the Researcher inside on the left to unlock Mission 8-2-1, then complete through 8-2-6 to get 6 Mako Stones (you can play missions at the Save Point). Give the 6 Mako Stones to the Researcher to earn the trophy. The missions go up to 4 stars difficulty. Use Cure a lot to heal. The 4 star enemies are weak to Fire, when you run out of MP refresh with Ether (press to select during combat).

If you find this too tricky in Chapter 2 or missed it, you can still do it any time until the Point of No Return in Chapter 7. The missions are playable from any save point and you revisit the hub area between main chapters to talk to the Researcher.

Chapter 2

In Chapter 2, after talking to Angeal’s mother in Banora Village, you can find 5 golden sparkling items but can’t collect them yet: 3 in the village, and 2 leading up the cliffside to Tseng. Make sure to interact with each of them once, this is mandatory to pick them up later! When done, talk to Tseng to enter the Factory. After leaving the Factory and slicing the 10 rockets for  Slicin’ SOLDIER, you will get a 45 second timer to return to Angeal’s mother and pick up the 5 items you previously interacted with. If you didn’t interact with them, they won’t show up now. If you interacted with them, they will be in the same place as before (2 on path up hill, 3 in village). Grab them all before entering the door toe Angeal’s mother, then the trophy will pop.

Chapter 3

After learning Materia Fusion and going to the Director’s Office, the assault on Shinra Building will begin. During the elevator ride choose “Get off and look around”. Then save the 3 people on the SOLDIER floor (2 in the hallway, 1 in Training Room). Go back to the elevator and choose “Head to the entrance right away”, then finish the 2 mandatory fights. When outside in Sector 8, save the two people in LOVELESS Avenue to pop the trophy. So in total there are 5 optional encounters to save people (3 on SOLDIER floor, 2 in LOVELESS avenue).

Chapter 3

At the start of Chapter 3 you will unlock the fights in the “Training Room” of Shinra Building (SOLDIER Floor, outside Briefing Room). From where you start the chapter, turn to your immediate left and enter the Training Room. Finish all 4 Virtual Data Fights to get the trophy. The 4th is against miniboss called “Experiment No. 88”. An easy tactic is to always attack it from the side or from behind, because it can’t attack to its side. It will only be aggressively attacking when you stand in front of it, so avoid that. When you’re behind, it can use a tail whip, but landing a full combo will knock it back for a moment so you can keep attacking. Even on Normal difficulty the fight takes a while but just use your normal melee attacks and heal with Cure when needed. After the 4th fight the trophy unlocks.

Chapter 4

After leaving the Slums, in the Fusion Chamber room with Hojo, interact with the machine on his left. It will count down from 5 seconds, stopping at 3 seconds. Continue counting to 0 seconds and stop it correctly to get 100%. You must press after exactly 5 seconds, only the timing of your button press is important, not the time it takes for the “press button animation” to play it. When pressing after exactly 5 seconds it takes another 2 seconds for the animation to play out which is fine and doesn’t affect anything. It might take a few attempts. If it didn’t work you can immediately retry as often as you want. No need to reload saves between tries.

Chapter 4

After leaving the Slums, in the Fusion Chamber room with Hojo, follow the bridge in the middle and interact with the fusion chamber. Answer the questions correctly:

1. A SOLDIER operative like Sephiroth
2. State-of-the-art science and technology
3. A person unafraid to challenge Shinra

Chapter 4

After leaving the Slums, in the Fusion Chamber room with Hojo, press the switch next to him while having Steal materia equipped. You get the Steal Materia automatically from Bruno in Chapter 4 when leaving the Slums, which is just before you reach the Fusion Chamber with Hojo. You will need to use Steal Materia on all 6 Experiment Enemies to get their keys, then open the cells and open the 3 chests in each cell, and return to Hojo before the time runs out.

Chapter 5

Speak to the SOLDIER 2nd Class in Sector 8 – LOVELESS Avenue and agree to help find the Wutai Spies. Locate all 6 Spies to receive this as a reward. Must talk to each Spy 3 times, they must be found in a fixed order, nothing will happen if you try to speak to them out of order.

1. Man walking the street outside LOVELESS Avenue Theater
2. Shinra Trooper walking in Sector 5 Market (go there via Fountain > Train Station > Market)
3. Male Shinra Employee coming out of elevator in Shinra Building Entrance, upstairs. If he doesn’t spawn right away, run in circles downstairs and upstairs again until he shows up in front of the elevators.
4. Woman talking to a man in Fountain area, outside the entrance to Sector 1 Train Station
5. Shinra Employee in front of the rocket in the Shinra Building Exhibit Room
6. Kid with a hat in Sector 6 Slums Park (access via Fountain > Train Station > Market > after leaving market turn right to enter Park)

Chapter 7

Speak to the Genesis Fan in Sector 8 – Fountain, and suggest merging with a richer club. Head into LOVELESS Avenue and speak with the Genesis Fan there. Return to the first Genesis Fan at The Fountain and talk to her again. For the Angeal Fan Club, speak to the child in Sector 8 – Fountain who is looking for his mother. Then head up to Sector 1 – Train Station and speak to the mother, and select the “mother without honor” option. Then return to where the boy was and speak to the mother again.

You will get this by following » Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion – All Collectible Locations (100% Trophies & Missables).
For specifically just all Wonders see » Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion – All Nibelheim Seven Wonders Locations

Chapter 10

When you enter the Depths of Judgement, there’ll be three paths branching off, with this area being the hub. In each area there will be a large stone tablet you can interact with to read an Act of LOVELESS. Depths of Judgement will have “LOVELESS – Prologue”, Portal of Severance (west) will have Act III, Howling Fang (east) will have Act II and just outside the entrance of Lake of Oblivion (south) will be Act I. After reading all four tablets, enter Lake of Oblivion and around the area will be 5 mako springs you can interact with to spawn an enemy. Defeat all 5 of these enemies and a path will open to the Cage of Binding, to the north of the lake. This unlocks the trophy.

Chapter 2

In Chapter 2, after talking to Angeal’s mother in Banora and going through the factory, you will automatically reach a section where you must slice 10 rockets flying at you. Can’t miss it, this is a mandatory story part. You have to slice all 10 rockets in a row without missing any. Press to slice when the blue reticle shows up on-screen. You can also use the sound the rockets make and watch when they turn red, but watching for the blue reticle is the best cue. You have to time it perfectly. The 10th rocket is the trickiest one because it’s coming from a different camera angle than the first 9. Don’t attack prematurely, wait until the blue reticle shows up on it for a split-second, that’s when you must slice it.

If you fail, complete the sequence and the last autosave. Luckily, it will put you back right before the rocket section so you can retry immediately. You can skip the initial call/cutscene by pressing to save time on retries. To be safe, you can also make a Manual Save inside the Factory just in case you accidentally advance far enough for the autosave to be overwritten.

Chapter 4

In the Chapter 4 Slums Market area, after getting your wallet back, interact with the “Shopping Paradise” store to start this minigame. You must count to the correct number of drops displayed. Drip = 1, DripDrip = 2, Splash! = 10. Press when the correct amount has been reached to make perfect perfume. You can retry this as often as you want but it costs some money each time (there’s also a save point right next to it).

Chapter 4

In the Chapter 4 Slums Market area, after getting your wallet back, talk to the boy in the corner for a number-guessing minigame. You must guess how many kids walk by, between 1-6. Ask Aerith for her guess, she will give you 2-3 numbers (she gives 2 when your affection is above 50, and 3 when below 50). If you pay 50 gil, the boy will give you three numbers. Select the number that is shared between these for the correct answer.

Example: Aerith guesses 3,4,6 and Boy guesses 1,2,4 the correct answer is “4” because they both included it in their guess.

Chapter 4

In the Chapter 4 Slums Market area, after getting your wallet back, interact with the “Item World” store to start this minigame. You must collect all 20 materia around the Market in under 14 seconds. Sprint and spam to pick up the items, make sure to not miss any. Talk to the shop keeper after collecting the last materia. If you took more than 14 seconds the trophy won’t pop. If you did it correctly the shopkeeper will rate your performance with “Godlike Speed”.

Chapter 5

At the start of the Chapter enter the Training Room and talk to the man to start the Squatting Minigame. Beat all four opponents. You must press while squatting down, at the following times:

Speed 1 = press when hands and feet line up
Speed 2 = press when hands and sword line up
Speed 3 = press when arms are swung furthest back
Speed 4 = press as soon as he ducks down

Turning on controller vibration can also help with the rhythm.

Chapter 5

Before infiltrating the facility in Modeo Ravine (story-related, snowy area), make a manual save. There’s a save point right before it. After infiltrating the facility, avoid the patrolling guards. Crouch in the blue zones with  to hide, and run past when they’re not looking. When you reach the exit without being seen the trophy will pop. If you were seen, reload the last manual save to retry.

Chapter 6

During the assault on Junon, a minigame will start where you must stop enemies from reaching the purple outline at the end of a road. It will show a counter in the top left corner how many enemies you defeated. Stay near the end of the road where the enemies are heading. Run into all the enemies heading towards the gate to fight them and defeat them all. Don’t let any reach the gate. There are 30 enemies total, if you didn’t let any reach the gate the trophy will pop.

Chapter 9

After leaving Nibelheim, you will go down a hill and have to shoot robots with sniper rifles. You have to kill all robots at sniping spots without any of them escaping. If you alert them and take too long they will run away after a short time. Aim for the head as it does enough damage to instantly kill all the regular ones. After fully upgrading the rifle you can also aim for their shields as they are easier to hit and the fully upgraded damage still deals good damage plus staggers the robots on each hit. There are no checkpoints during this minigame, if a robot escapes you must reload the last autosave to respawn at the start and redo everything.

1. 1st sniper will have 1 stationary robot.
2. 2nd sniper will have 1 stationary robot.
3. 3rd sniper will have 2 moving robots.
4. After the 3rd sniper run back and forth to farm kills on normal robots and fully upgrade your sniper rifle before triggering the 4th sniping spot.
5. 4th sniper will have 3 moving robots in the distance, kill the one on the right first, then left, then middle.
6. 5th sniper requires going right at the split in the road, it has 3 stationary robots that you can instantly kill by shooting the barrel.
7. 6th sniper is down the road on the left with 2 boss robots: BIGGS and WEDGE, who have 9999 HP each. With a fully upgraded rifle it will take 3 headshots to kill one, and you can simply fire a smart bomb to kill the other one.
8. 7th sniper is at the next split on the left with 3 robots. Quickly kill them before they retreat, with fully upgraded damage you can simply shoot their shields which staggers them but still kills them quickly (this is easier than trying headshots and missing).
9. 8th sniper is the final one, it’s when you follow the road to the right. Shoot the barrel near the left robot, then headshot the other two or just shoot their shields quickly. If they try to retreat, you may be able to hit the barrel to stop them.

Continue to the end of the section and the trophy will pop before the next save point.

Chapter 9

In the Hills area of Gongaga, after the cutscene with Genesis, run around until you complete 7 battles. Try to leave the area and you’ll be prompted with a minigame, choose the first option to participate in it. Chests and enemies will fall down the waterfall, and you will need to collect all 10 chests. They will fall in the same order: Chest in the middle, two enemies on the left and right, two chests on the left and right, repeat this for 10 chests. If you get hit by an enemy you’ll be stunned and miss the next two chests, so every time you grab the middle chest, you will want to quickly run to the left out of the water to safely dodge the enemies, then quickly run back to grab the chests. If you get hit by an enemy and miss a chest, simply leave the area and come back, then redo 7 battles to trigger the minigame again. Getting all 10 chests will also reward you with Goblin Punch, which can be combined with any of the DMW Materia (purchasable from Research Dept. QMC+) to create Costly Punch, one of the best combat materia.

Chapter 4

In Chapter 4, in the Sector 5 Slums Market area, you must reach high affection with Aerith. Aerith affection will go up by +10 for interacting with each of the three shops when looking for Bruno, +1 for each time you select “Wait” when you talk to the girl (+10 total), +2 for each Potion given to the boy (+10 total), and +5 for choosing the first option when you speak to Aerith, or +10 for choosing the second option. This is +60 by the time you get your wallet back. You then get +5 every time you make perfect perfume (Master Blender trophy), +5 for getting the fastest time on the materia collection (Godlike trophy). Craft the Perfume 3 times in a row perfectly without miscounting the number of drops (Drip = 1, DripDrip = 2, Splash! = 10). This brings you to 75 Affection total. Leave the market and continue with the chapter until you reach the end of Sector 5. There you will run into Bruno, during the dialogue he must say “You and Aerith make a Good Couple”. If he says you are an “okay couple” you missed something or blended bad perfume (if you miscount the drops during perfume blending Aerith won’t like it and this can reduce your affection).

Alternatively, or in case this gets patched in the future, you can play through Hard in New Game+. This only takes around 90 minutes if you skip all cutscenes and dialogue and already got 100% completion on the first playthrough to deal 99,999 damage per hit. All your equipment carries over into New Game+.