Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles Trophy Guide & Roadmap

To get S-Rank on a Chapter you must get S-Ranks on EVERY fight in the Chapter (and in the case of Chapter 7 the Minigames are also needed). If you have a single A-Rank and the rest are S-Ranks it won’t give you an overall S-Rank Rating on the Chapter. Every single fight needs to be S-Rank to get an S-Rating overall. Furthermore, you must also get S-Rank on Hard difficulty for Special Missions and Minigames. Story fights are only available on Normal difficulty, but the Special Missions need to be S-Ranked on Normal AND Hard difficulty. Hard difficulty isn’t that much harder than Normal difficulty though, the enemies just have a little more health.

To get a guaranteed S-Rank, you should win the match without taking any damage (having 100% health at end of fight), beat it as quickly as possible (to get all 1500 points for time bonus), Land 5 or more Skills ( attacks), Boost and Surge once ( when the boost in bottom left of screen is charged). At the end of each fight it shows the score calculation so you can see how well you did and where you can improve. You can also check your ranks from the Story Menu at any time, click on a fight and choose “Rank Breakdown” to see the score calculation.

Most of the main story fights are quite forgiving and you pretty much always get S-Ranks. There are fights where you can still easily get S-Rank with only 50% health left, if you get all the points for beating it within the time limit.

There are only a few tricky ones. The Chapter 6-8 Special Missions (bosses) are much more challenging than the rest because they have 2 health bars. Some of the Chapter 8 story fights are also a bit tricky. In particular, the most difficult ones are Chapter 7: Tea Splasher minigame on Hard, Chapter 8: Special Mission “The Temple Fiend”, Chapter 8: Fight against Akaza. If you can do those 3 you can do the rest easily.

It’s best to focus only on the main story first and mop up the S-Ranks after the story. You can select any fight directly from the storyline without needing to replay the chapter. It will let you jump straight to the fight you didn’t get S-Rank on. If you lose too much health, either back out to storyline to restart the fight, or let the opponent defeat you and then choose to restart from Last Autosave (don’t pick “Continue” option as it voids the S-Rank).

S-Rank Fight Tips:

• Recommended Team & Attacks (Fast way to finish Matches for Time Bonus): Kyojuro Rengoku + Sakonji Urokodaki – with Kyojuro do + > + (repeat 3 times to juggle enemy in air) > to finish with Sakoni’s team attack. This should juggle the opponent in the air and does an easy 25-hit combo that deals a lot of damage. You don’t absolutely need to do 3 special attacks in a row, the more hits you do the less damage they deal. Just do as many as your special attack meter permits (blue bar at top of screen, recharges automatically over time). Kyojuro is unlocked in Chapter 8, so at the end of the game.
• Alternative Team (Easy Method to finish with 100% Health, but slower): Zenitsu Agatsuma + Sakonji Urokadaki – with Zenitsu, let his Special Attacks recharge (blue bar at top of screen), then spam + left stick combos on the enemy. This attack has really good range. After landing the first hit, tilt the left stick in the direction of the enemy and again press and repeat as many times as your Special meter allows. While your Special Attacks recharge, run in big circles around the arena to avoid the opponent and always spam when a support attack is ready. It’s a pretty easy way to win any match with 100% health left, no skill required. However, it’s not always the quickest method and you may lose out on a time bonus. For some opponents it works great, for others it’s too slow (on some of the later Special Missions it’s too slow).
• Always dodge sideways to evade enemy attacks. After they miss an attack, press (without tilting left stick) to rush to the opponent and then unleash the combo described above.
• When an enemy starts glowing, he/she will do a series of powerful attacks. During this just focus on running / dodging sideways in big circles around the arena and spam support attacks after the enemy finishes an attack animation. The support attacks are a good way to deal extra damage while you run away, which lets you finish the match quicker for the time bonus points.
• Generally, dodging is safer than blocking . Blocking can be good for some of the Chapter 8 bosses, but other than that I only used dodge & running away.
• For Chapter 8 Temple Fiend Special Mission, when he summons 2 copies of himself at the end, you can target them with the Right Stick to kill them, or try to evade them and keep focusing on the main boss (if the main boss dies, the match ends instantly). Try around what works better for you. Focusing on his 2 copies takes longer, so you might lose out on the time bonus if you’re not fast enough, but ignoring them makes it harder to not get hit. Always spam the support attacks and try to land a quick attack when he is glowing and bombards you with attacks, the main difficulty is finishing this fight quickly to get the time bonus. Akaza is another Chapter 8 fight that you need to do pretty much perfectly with 100% health left, got to learn his attack pattern perfectly which can take many tries.

Chapter 7 Minigame – Gourd Breaker S-Ranks:

Buttons are usually connected by a colored line. You need to hold the first button and then release it when the second button gets to the ring in the middle of the screen. E.g. if there are two  Buttons following each other and they are connected by a line, you would hold the  Button when it reaches the ring in the middle of the screen, keep holding it and let go when the 2nd  Button reaches the circle in middle of screen.

Try to get many “Great” ratings for S-Rank. When you need to break the 4 Gourds after reaching certain point thresholds, you must tap the last button very quickly. On Hard difficulty the Gourds require more button presses to be destroyed.

The button pattern / order is the same each time, so it’s just a matter of learning by repetition, memorizing the buttons and building muscle memory. You don’t need all Great ratings for S-Rank. Just don’t get any bad ratings and get mostly Great ones and break the Gourds quickly.

Chapter 7 Minigame – Tea Splasher S-Ranks:

You need to press the buttons when they are inside the rings in the middle of the screen. The most important part is to build up a long combo by not missing any button presses (not getting any “Bad” ratings). Ideally you can get mostly “Great” ratings, but it’s still better to get only some “Good” ones than to miss a button entirely as it would reset your multiplier.

It’s just a matter of practice by repetition. It can seem difficult at first but the button pattern / order is always exactly the same each try. So the more times you try it, the more muscle memory you will build for the button order. It can be a bit frustrating at first so try for 15 minutes and give it a break, then try again a bit later. After a while you’ll know the button order from memory.

For the purpose of this particular trophy, only 5 on normal difficulty are required.

Some are automatic story unlocks, can’t miss them. Others are picked up in the Chapters. They are all automatically marked on the map by a gem icon . In the Story Menu it shows you where missing Memory Fragments are when you scroll over them. You can then replay the particular Sub-Chapter if you forgot one (no need to replay the entire chapter from scratch). In the story Menu you always see the Memory Fragments branching off from the Sub-Chapters, which is a quick way to tell what Sub-Chapter they are from. Because they are all automatically on the map you won’t need a Collectible Guide for this one.

Important: To pop the Memory Fragment trophies you must also VIEW the fragments from the Story menu (blue icons in story branch). Just collecting them isn’t enough. You are allowed to skip their cutscenes by holding and it still counts as having watched it. The ones you haven’t watched will show a red exclamation mark in the Story Menu, which goes away after having watched them. This way you can quickly tell which ones you have left to watch. Some collected Memories will show up under older Chapters, e.g. in the Prologue.

Buttons are usually connected by a colored line. You need to hold the first button and then release it when the second button gets to the ring in the middle of the screen. E.g. if there are two  Buttons following each other and they are connected by a line, you would hold the  Button when it reaches the ring in the middle of the screen, keep holding it and let go when the 2nd  Button reaches the circle in middle of screen.

Try to get many “Great” ratings for S-Rank. When you need to break the 4 Gourds after reaching certain point thresholds, you must tap the last button very quickly. On Hard difficulty the Gourds require more button presses to be destroyed.

The button pattern / order is the same each time, so it’s just a matter of learning by repetition, memorizing the buttons and building muscle memory. You don’t need all Great ratings for S-Rank. Just don’t get any bad ratings and get mostly Great ones and break the Gourds quickly.

You need to press the buttons when they are inside the rings in the middle of the screen. The most important part is to build up a long combo by not missing any button presses (not getting any “Bad” ratings). Ideally you can get mostly “Great” ratings, but it’s still better to get only some “Good” ones than to miss a button entirely as it would reset your multiplier.

It’s just a matter of practice by repetition. It can seem difficult at first but the button pattern / order is always exactly the same each try. So the more times you try it, the more muscle memory you will build for the button order. It can be a bit frustrating at first so try for 15 minutes and give it a break, then try again a bit later. After a while you’ll know the button order from memory.

Press + > + (repeat 3 times to juggle enemy in air) > to finish with teammate’s attack.

Weaken up the opponent to about 15-20% Health. Then activate Boost and while Boost is active press 5x (without using left stick) to do a Light Attack with a special animation at the end. This will actually cause more than 5 hits, which is fine for the trophy. What the trophy means is that you must press 5 times to trigger the “5-Hit Combo” animation (which only works after you Boosted with and you can’t tilt the Left Stick). You can also see this by pausing the Match and going to Command List > Normal Attacks > Light Attack 5 Hit-Combo. Just make sure that the final hit that ends the match is the animation that plays when the 5-Hit Combo ends.

For this trophy you only need to finish the Challenges of 10 Characters, meaning you can skip 2 Characters.

They are just normal one-round matches with 2 extra requirements. For the trophy you don’t need to do the optional objectives at all. You only need to beat the opponent 10 times for trophy purposes, which will count as “cleared”.

Each Challenge takes about 60-90 seconds with loading times. This trophy will take about 2 hours total (100 Challenges x 1 – 1.5 minutes each).

Potential Bug & Fix: If this trophy doesn’t unlock after the 10th character challenge, a fix is to also complete the 11th and 12th character Challenges and it should unlock.