Like a Dragon Gaiden Trophy Guide & Roadmap

This trophy is awarded for completing the 1st Chapter of the story. This chapter functions largely as a combat tutorial, introducing you to all the new features and gameplay elements. At the start you will play a short section in Ijincho which you aren’t able to return to until the end of the game, but there are no missable items here so you don’t need to worry about doing anything specific in this area before progressing the story.

This trophy is awarded for completing the 2nd Chapter of the story. In this chapter, you gain access to the open world of Sotenbori and are introduced to the various parts of the Akame Network, which is what a large chunk of the side content is related to. During the story here you’ll be required to raise the Network level to at least level 3 to unlock Requests, but you can complete as much or as little side content as you want otherwise. After the introduction to the Akame Network you will be taken to The Castle and are introduced to the Coliseum, which is the largest individual side activity in the game.

This trophy is awarded for completing the 3rd Chapter of the story. In this chapter you’ll be required to progress a bit more through the Akame Network leveling, along with reaching Gold rank at the Coliseum for story events. You will also reach a point where you are no longer able to access The Castle for a short period due to story Events at the end of this Chapter which you are prompted before, but you will be able to again shortly into Chapter 4.

This trophy is awarded for completing the 4th Chapter of the story. In this chapter you mostly spend some time hanging out with some of the Omi Alliance yakuza, then take control of The Castle which allows you to return there. In the section where you are hanging out if you win at golf and billiards gets you an extra 100,000 Yen as a reward, but nothing else extra. You’ll also be introduced to the Four Kings Coliseum storyline, which makes all of the side content available to complete from that point on.

This trophy is awarded for completing the 5th and final Chapter of the story. This chapter is basically just the final combat and story section of the game, with a whole bunch of cutscenes and dialogue between and after. Before the final section starts you’ll be prompted twice about a “point-of-no-return”, but the actual trigger to start the final section is when you rest on the couch at Akame’s Hideout. Make sure you’re stocked up on healing items before then. If you don’t want to complete side stuff before finishing the story don’t worry, as you can load your completed save after the story to continue in Premium Adventure.

The final boss isn’t anything too out of the ordinary in this game, it is just relatively lengthy as the fight takes place in a number of selections and the boss has two full strings of health bars. Be sure to watch your health especially if you’re not playing on the lowest difficulty, as the boss can do extremely heavily damaging attacks that can potentially instantly knock you out if you’re hit by them. These most frequently occur in the section of the fight after you’ve dropped down on a chandelier, so make sure you keep your health full after this and either perform an Ultimate Counter on them or back away from the boss. Also, keep watch for the  QTE that occurs right at the end of the fight.

See Legendary Dragon for more information.

See Legendary Dragon for more information.

See Legendary Dragon for more information.

Starting out upgrades will only cost money, but higher-level upgrades will also cost Akame points, which are earned from completing the various Akame Network activities. It is recommended that you DON’T purchase any upgrades with Akame points until after you purchase her discount Investment options, which become available at Network level 7. You can still earn enough Akame points regardless of buying the upgrades, but if you make sure to buy them first you can be sure you’ll have many more Akame points than needed and don’t need to do extra work in the Activity Log (completion list).

This trophy is awarded for reaching Silver rank at the Castle. This occurs automatically during the story when you return to The Castle and are introduced to more aspects of the Coliseum.

This trophy is awarded for reaching Gold rank at the Castle. You are required to do this to progress the story in Chapter 3 as you need to access the VIP Lounge, which requires being Gold rank. This requires raising the Network to at least level 10, along with completing any 3 Silver rank Coliseum matches. Once you do this you’ll be prompted to return to Akame to receive Golden Tiger and next rank.

See Go-To Guy for more information.

See Go-To Guy for more information.

You are introduced to the Akame Network early in the game in Chapter 2. The Network functions as sort of a hub for a lot of the side content in the game, with the Requests being most of what this game’s substories are. There are a total of 26 requests so you need to do over half of them, though it is recommended to do all of them as they all give a decent Akame point amount, money, and some recruit Members to the Joryu Clan which you need for the Coliseum fights.

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See Neighborhood Hero for more information.

See Neighborhood Hero for more information.

These missions become available in Chapter 2 when you are introduced to the Akame Network. These are all typically single-action side missions represented on the map by an exclamation mark or a fist. Generally, you just need to do single tasks like give the person an item, grab something with the Spider, take a picture for them, or fight a group of enemies. Completing them as you come across them is recommended as they all earn Akame points which contribute to network level, and a large portion also give money rewards for completion. The requirements are generally very self-explanatory: items people request can all either be purchased in Sotenbori or at The Castle, picture hints are relatively obvious, and people who want you to dress up in certain ways will tell you the exact items they want to see you wearing.

There are a total of 107 of these missions available (going by the list in the Activity Log), so only need to finish under half of them. There are already 50 missions available midway through Chapter 2 once the second set are added to the map in Sotenbori, so you can complete this number very early if you are diligent about finishing them as soon as possible.

During the bond events, you’ll sometimes have dialogue options you can pick. Whichever you pick doesn’t matter, the results are the same regardless. For the final bond event, there will be a fight against a group of enemies, after which you’ll complete the events and earn this trophy.

See Prizefighter for more information.

See Prizefighter for more information.

See Prizefighter for more information.

Fans are earned after every successful Coliseum match, with higher-rank matches earning more fans. Earning fans has no specific purpose aside from being something that the Clan recruitment characters require you to have a minimum number of before they’ll work with you. The highest level recruitment character in the upper level of the Casino requires you have 5,000 fans before he’ll work with you, so the total required is very low compared to what is required for this trophy. If you manage to finish everything else and didn’t reach this number of fans, you can keep replaying the Platinum tier Hell Team Rumble match recommended for other grinding until you do.

In the Silver rank matches there isn’t anything that should give much trouble. The most notable matches are the two Try and Hit Me matches, which you need to first accept by visiting the opponents in the Gambling Hall and Casino after they message you. You then get one shot at these fights before you have to wait for them to text you again (which is also how you replay them if you win and want to again). Both matches force you to use Yakuza style, but this is still relatively easy to win with by just doing a couple attacks, followed by the  finisher combo. You should eventually hit both opponents with the finisher moves just by locking on to them and the swing through will eventually hit them.

The Silver rank Hell Team Rumble matches should all be relatively easy, especially if you’ve unlocked fighters from the Requests first. In the matches that include large enemies focus on all of the others first, and remember to use your Order ability every time it is charged.

Gold Rank is where more interesting matches start occurring, with the Hell Team Rumble matches allowing a full 10 Clan members in them, along with the introduction of the Gambling Match that allows you to bet money (and is quite easy, so always bet the maximum amount). When working through the Team matches try to have at least finished all of the Requests to recruit those teammates, then exhaust recruitment on the first three recruiters. You should then be able to set yourself up with a nice spread of only Silver and Gold fighters, which is enough to get you through all arena matches and the Four Kings storyline if you don’t want to regrind the leveling on the opponents from the expensive recruiter.

For grinding in this rank it is recommended that you keep playing the Team matches over the solo ones, even if you can do the solo ones faster. Leveling your Clan members is more important, and once they are leveled you can do the Clan matches much faster. It is also recommended to grind the first Gold Rank match (Gold Tiger Festival 1) as it doesn’t have any large enemies. The monetary and XP reward is slightly less, but you can easily finish it in a little over 30 seconds so in the long run it is better for grinding.

A trick to make these matches even quicker is that the Ultimate Heat version of the Firefly attack is extremely strong for not requiring any extra heat gauge. The explosion from it is huge and deals a large amount of damage, which makes cleaning up the enemies in the Team fights very quick when they’re bunched up.

Platinum Rank includes more matches than the prior ranks, with some unique solo fights and the very helpful Ultimate Gambling Match. When this is unlocked you should always make sure to keep 10 million Yen on hand, as that is how much you can bet in the Ultimate Gambling Match each time, and like the first one it is quite easy relative to that reward (though you can save beforehand and reload if you mess up).

The solo Hell Rumbles in this might seem a little daunting, but remember to use Firefly with Ultimate Heat and you can clean up the large groups easily. For the 100 enemy fight if you’ve upgraded Kiryu’s damage enough you can just zip around using the Serpent gadget and knock out enemies by running into them.

For the Hell Team Rumble matches use the same strategy as before. If you want to regrind the level on the highest tier recruiter fighters you can, which will make these even easier once the fighters are leveled. For grinding replay Platinum Tiger Festival 4, as this doesn’t include any large enemies so can be completed much quicker than the other fights.

The final two Special Event Matches require you to complete the Four Kings storyline first before they are available. The first fight is against all of the Four Kings in a row in solo matches, and the second which is only available after completing all other matches is a series of fights against an enemy that emulates the fighting style of well-known characters from prior games. Neither should be too hard after everything prior if you’ve been making sure to upgrade Kiryu’s abilities while working through the rest of the Coliseum.

See The Can’t Stop Us All for more information.

See The Can’t Stop Us All for more information.

After you are awarded Silver rank at The Castle during the story you are able to play Hell Team Rumble matches, which use recruited Characters in the Joryu Clan. These are characters you recruit from throughout the game, either through completing Akame Network requests or paying the recruiter characters around the Castle, which is how you get most of the high-level Characters. There are a total of 37 possible characters in the base game, so you need to get most of them to earn this trophy. Note this doesn’t include the 4 characters included with the preorder DLC, though they do count towards the trophy total if you have them.

A number of the Requests give Clan members as completion rewards, so it is recommended you complete these as soon as possible as a number are quite good. The requests that award these are as follows:

• End the Destruction (gives 2 Clan members)
• Recruit Homeless Yamanaka
• The Strongest Convenience Store Clerk
• Save the Pro Wrestler
• The Cat-Lovin’ Rapper
• The Struggling Host
• Liberate the Hammer Man
• Final Showdown: Red Peacocks
• Final Showdown: White Knights
• Final Showdown: Black Swallowtails

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Aside from these, there are 4 Recruiters in The Castle who you pay money to recruit a limited number of Clan Members each. The higher-level ones require you to have more Fans and higher rank to recruit, though the final one only requires 5,000 Fans so you will hit this number and be able to use him fairly quickly when you are working through the Coliseum battles. You can find them by looking for the magnifying glass icon on the map, which will disappear when they don’t have any possible recruitment options left. They are located in the following locations in order from cheapest to most expensive:

• Fighters Lounge Counter
• Coliseum Lobby to the right of the Reception entrance
• VIP Lounge Pool seating area
• Casino VIP Area

Finally, there are a handful that will appear standing around the Fighters Lounge counter that you can speak to after beating them in arena matches. Watch for these when you go back through that area.

See To Train Beyond for more information.

See To Train Beyond for more information.

Bonding with the clan members refers to both their level from EXP and from the Bond Gauge, and to “bond completely” you need the Clan member to have reached Level 20 and be at Level 3 Bond. These are both raised by completing matches with the Clan members, with the amount of EXP earned is dependent on the match rank, but the Bond increase always being +100 for each match completion. The right-side vendor in the Fighters lounge also sells consumables you can give to your fighters, increasing their XP and Bond level.

Reaching Level 3 bond requires 100 Bond XP, so 20 matches per member or two purchases of the Sakura level Sake cup. Level 20 takes a while longer depending on what level matches you are doing, or if you’re purchasing the Guide to Cooperative Fighting consumables. It’s not recommended you use the extra training from the man in the corner, but the consumables are very helpful if you’re trying to cycle in Clan Members you get later. It takes 6 of the most expensive EXP consumables plus a little extra to get a Clan member to level 20.

The fight with Dan Brody is a Clan match, unlike the one you had during the story. If you want a much easier time you can work on setting up your Clan members before starting, any of these Four Kings fights, as you aren’t prevented from doing any of the Team Coliseum matches before completing these.

Aside from the extra team members, the fight is basically the same as the one in the story aside from him having an absurd amount of health (a similar issue you’ll have in the third King fight). Dan Brody spends most of his time just summoning drones and being a mild nuisance, so like normal Team matches focus all the other enemies first, then everyone can focus Dan Brody alone. If you are running out of time due to his absurdly high health try leveling your team more and increase Kiryu’s damage if it isn’t maxed already.

Unlike the fight against Dan Brody this is a solo match, which actually makes it far easier than the Dan Brody fight as it’s not timed and Samejima only has 4 health bar segments. The only notable thing about the fight is that he can be mildly annoying constantly jumping around, but as long as you are diligent about chasing him down quickly he isn’t very dangerous.

This fight is another Team fight, and because of it is actually probably the most annoying fight in the game. JUSTICE pulls in both Samejima and Dan Brody to fight with him, and Dan Brody again has the same absurd health pool that he had in his own fight. You again want to focus on the grunts first, then if your team hasn’t taken them out focus on JUSTICE, then Samejima, then Dan Brody last. If you’re running out of time on this one you may need to grind your team all up to max level (which is required for To Train Beyond anyway) which should then help you deal with all of the Kings in a reasonable time in this extremely overtuned team fight.

This fight is back to being a team fight again after the over-the-top Team fight against JUSTICE, which means that again like Samejima it is very easy. Ugajin’s main gimmick is just that he can use all of the gadgets, including the disc launcher encountered on an enemy earlier in the story. Aside from that he should actually be quite easy, with his very reasonable health bar and damage output.

In this game to challenge Amon you first need to complete the entire Coliseum storyline by defeating the Four Kings. Once this is complete you receive a new Request called “Operation Family Welfare” where you deal with the criminals who stole the gadgets from Mizorogi. Completing this then gives you access to the second last Special Event Matches in the Coliseum, followed by the final one that requires having completed all other matches. You will then receive the Substory “Path to the Strongest”, with the first step being a battle against Tetsu Amon that is started by speaking with the gold robot to the left of the Coliseum reception.

The fight against Testu-Amon is another Team fight, and for this one, you will want to set yourself up with a fully leveled team of Gold and Silver fighters, along with most of Kiryu’s upgrades and high-level equipment. This is even more of a slog than the Four Kings fights, so you want to be as prepared as possible going in. Setting Kiryu up also works to be set up for the real Amon fight immediately after.

For equipment, the minimum recommended would be the following:

• Great Fortune Gold Undies (purchase for 50 million Yen from Boutique VIP vendor, extremely helpful as it gives resistance to all 4 status effects)
• Dragon Binding (purchase for 2~ million Yen from Boutique VIP vendor, high attack and defense)
• Sengoku Armor (decent attack and defense bonus, obtained from coin locker. If you feel like grinding more you can swap this with Chainmail Armor purchased from Boutique VIP vendor for 9~ million Yen)
• Eye of the Dragon (decent attack and defense bonus, purchased from Mizorogi’s shop for 1.2~ million Yen)

For team setup, you don’t need to worry much about placement, just stick defenders in the front and healers behind. The layout only determines where they start in formation, so you want the defenders taking the initial attacks before you can get in. A team comp you can use without having the preorder characters is list below, left to right in formation. Note that there are only two healers, but a number of the other characters also recover health, so having those two is basically back up.

• Masaharu Kaito (Defender)
• Super Guard Machine (Defender)
• Gary Buster Holmes (Attacker)
• Mr. Masochist (Defender)
• Fumiya Sugiura (Attacker)
• Chicken Man (Attacker)
• KATSUWO (Healer)
• Toru Higashi (Healer)
• Yappi-Kun (Attacker)
• Sheep Man (Attacker)

In the fight itself treat it the same as before: try to focus on the weak enemies first to take them out quicker, then focus on the gold Amon bot. Keep note of your health as well as all of the enemies can use Ultimate Attacks which will do very heavy damage if you don’t evade or counter them.

Finally, once this match is completed, you are challenged by Gai Amon. Before heading into this fight, make sure you’re fully stocked up on healing items, as this is a normal fight and not an arena fight. You can purchase all the versions of the normal healing items (Toughness, Tauriner, Staminan) from both vendors at Boutique. If you want to be really prepared you can also then fill your inventory fully with all the consumables purchased from the convenience stores in Sotenbori. Once you’re ready to fight, speak with Amon by the entrance of the Castle.

Because this is a normal fight and not a Coliseum fight, it sort of ends up being more of a slog than any difficult. Amon uses all of the gadgets like Ugajin did in a similar manner. The main issue for this fight is that he heals himself, with drones at the start of the fight and whenever he hits you at the end of the fight, so you need to counteract the gadget attacks more directly than the Ugajin fight where you could mostly ignore them, along with using Heat replenishing items to finish him off quickly.

At the start, he’ll immediately summon a drone swarm that hovers above his head. These drones prevent you from doing a lot of damage as they constantly heal Amon while they’re hovering over his head, so you need to deal with them whenever they come up. This is done by switching to Agent style, activating Extreme Heat, then holding to very quickly summon drones yourself which will clear out his drones (this is why making sure you’re stocked on healing items is a necessity).

Once you’re aware of this bit with the drones, the rest of the fight with Amon is basically just him being a nuisance and dragging it out. He will constantly rope you with his own Spider, which you need to mash  to escape from and quickly dodge away from the bomb he throws. He’ll sometimes summon another swarm of drones that fly in a circle, and then all fly toward Kiryu. These ones can just be guarded against and they will all disappear immediately after hitting you once.

He has two full strings of health bars, and once he reaches the last couple he will power up and this is when his attacks will start healing himself (by a significant amount) so you want to finish him off quickly. Charging your Heat with consumables and then using Heat Actions in Yakuza style is the fastest way to finish him off, there are a number of easily triggered ones while you are in Ultimate Heat that can make quick work of him. Once defeated you’ll obtain this trophy, along with the War God Talisman as a final reward.

See Trendsetting for more information.

See Trendsetting for more information.

Outfit items are the ones you can set up Kiryu to wear during normal gameplay or in the arena through the menu at Boutique in The Castle. There are a handful of items you can obtain from places like Akame’s shop, but the majority are purchased through the menu at Boutique.

There are a total of 70 items (going by the list in the Activity Log not counting the starting outfit items) so you need to obtain around 2/3 of them. The ones available to purchase from Boutique are added as you increase your rank at The Castle, with all of them being available once you reach Platinum rank. Note that the Casual and Coliseum sets have a few different options, in that the Casual set you select Hats and Glasses, and in the Coliseum set you select Masks, and can’t overlap these.

You can track how many you’ve currently obtained with the Playing Dress Up, Fashionista, and Dressed to Kill entries in the Adventure category, though note that the trophy seems to only count ones obtained other than the default outfit items, so you need to subtract 3 from these totals to determine the amount you’ve obtained towards the trophy totals.

• Shogi
• Mahjong
• Pool
• Blackjack
• Poker
• Golf
• Darts
• Oicho-kabu
• Koi-Koi
• Master System
• Pocket Circuit
• Karaoke
• UFO Catcher
• Virtua Fighter 2.1
• Sonic the Fighters
• Fighting Vipers 2
• Motor Raid
• Sega Racing Classic 2

For both this and the Castle hostesses you will want to equip the gear item “mini-more Perfume” that can be purchased from Ibisu Pawn Sotenbori. This increases the amount of affinity you gain through interactions, which will make this quicker. It is also helpful to leave this until the end of the game because then you can waste any money you still have buying expensive drinks or giving gifts.

Normal responses when you pick topics are generally straightforward. Don’t pick the silly answers and you’ll generally gain affection. The ones that do matter are the unique questions the girls will ask when the affection meter is in the small section at the end, where you need to answer the question correctly to complete the affection level and move to the next one in your next visit.

Kei
First Affection Level
Do you know what a streamer is? -> Someone who does live broadcasts online.

Second Affection level
What do you think my goal is? -> To become a legendary streamer.

Third Affection level
I wonder if I’ll ever be able to do that… I’m worried. -> I believe in you.

Ayu
First Affection Level
How should a club’s number one act? -> They should be a role model, a leader.

Second Affection level
What career would be best for me? -> How about running a beauty salon?

Third Affection level
I started studying to get the license I need! -> Congratulations. Let’s raise a glass to you.

The same rules apply here as apply for the two girls at Club Heavenly. The only outlier is that Ai’s questions and answers can be a bit odd, so she may require a bit more back and forth.

Kaname
First Affection Level
Spending time with you doesn’t feel like work. -> Really?

Second Affection level
Do you think I can make it as a pinup model? -> You have my support.

Third Affection level
Can you put me at ease? -> Just be your usual self and you’ll do fine!

Kokoro
First Affection Level
What’s your greatest accomplishment? -> It’s still to come.

Second Affection level
I’m saving up for my dreams. -> Then I’ll be sure to ask for you every time!

Third Affection level
Maybe I should give up on something. -> Don’t give up. Go for what you want!

Ai
First Affection Level
Can we take this to the next level? -> I’ve been hoping for this since we met.

Second Affection level
I have a thing for jawlines. -> Can you be more specific?

Third Affection level
There’s something I’m hoping to hear from you… -> You’re everything to me.

It starts with 4 games available by default, so you need to obtain at least 1 other game to play to earn this trophy. You can start and then immediately return to the game selection menu to “play” the 5 games, you don’t need to make any specific progress in them to count towards this trophy or the Activity Log requirements for playing the games.

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• UFO Catcher
• Virtua Fighter 2.1
• Sonic the Fighters
• Fighting Vipers 2
• Motor Raid
• Sega Racing Classic 2

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If you want to optimize your time there are also two Stroll’n’Patrol missions where someone at the bar asks you to complete the Easy, then Normal challenge, neither of which is retroactive if you do the challenges early, so if you want two mission completions you’d have to do anyway wait until the person asking appears in the Bar.

Easy – 1: Bank the shot off the top wall to bounce back and sink the red ball.

Easy-2: Bank the shot off the right wall to hit the red ball in. You want to avoid having the white ball hit any of the black balls, so you can add backspin by hitting the bottom of the white ball when hitting the shot, which should stop the white ball as soon as it hits the red ball.

Easy-3: In this one you are already aiming straight at the red ball and don’t need to move, but you are aiming to jump the white ball with the ramp which can be a bit tricky. Pull the right stick back about 3/4 of the way to hit the ramp without sending the white ball too far.

Normal-1: Here you are ramping the white ball, aiming to hit a yellow ball on the other side which will then hit the red ball into the pocket. You are aiming to hit the ramp slightly left of center (from the overhead view) which should line you up about halfway on the yellow ball on the shot view. Shoot with about half power. This one can take a bit of adjusting, but note that if you’re lucky and the white ball bounces in a way that knocks the red in it still counts.

Normal-2: Aim towards the bottom of the table to bank the white ball off the wall to hit the yellow ball. This is lined up perfectly so that it should then hit the red ball, pushing it over the ramp into the pocket. Only use about half power on your shot, if you use too much power the red ball will ramp off the table.

Normal-3: Aim the ball directly in the middle of the ramp near you, then shoot with almost or completely full power. This one is quite finicky and might take a number of tries with minor adjustments on where you are hitting the ramp. Try to keep as many shots as you can through the first two rounds for this reason.

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