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Spend Amrita at a shrine’s Level Up menu until your character reaches level 10. Check the character level in Status, rather than the level printed on a weapon.

The same method continues to Grizzled Veteran. Use your Amrita before a difficult boss so a failed grave recovery does not cost your next level.

Equip a Crucible weapon whose item panel shows a Crucible Art, then use that weapon until its familiarity bar is full. These weapons drop from Crucible enemies.

Watch the familiarity bar on the weapon itself. Replacing it every time a slightly stronger drop appears delays the unlock. Finish one weapon’s bar and read the learned-art notification. The art remains available after the weapon has taught it.

In Samurai Style, attack or guard to fill the Arts Gauge. Spend the charged state on a Strong Attack or Martial Art that actually kills an enemy. Repeat for ten finishing blows.

With Type A controls, weaken a small enemy with , then use while the Arts Gauge is ready. The empowered attack has a blue effect. An empowered hit that leaves the target alive is useful combat, but not a trophy kill. Rest at a shrine to repopulate ordinary enemies if you need more targets.

Get ten final blows with Ninjutsu in Ninja Style. With Type A controls, changes style, then + , + or + uses the Ninjutsu assigned to that input.

Select and assign a damaging technique in Customize Martial Arts/Ninjutsu. Weaken enemies first, then let the projectile or explosion finish them. Melee attacks and evasive play recharge the Ninjutsu Gauge. A sword kill while in Ninja Style does not count.

Interrupt ten red-aura Burst Attacks. On unchanged Type A controls, press as the attack is about to connect. The successful counter stops the attack and damages the enemy’s Ki.

The first red glow announces the move, but is not a universal press-now cue. Watch the actual swing or lunge. Practise on one large enemy near a shrine, leave room behind you and reset when necessary. Ordinary dodges and deflects do not substitute for this counter. If you changed the control preset or separated Style Shift from Burst Break, use your assigned Burst Break input.

After the story enables Guardian Spirit Skill Burst Break, charge Spirit Force by attacking until the skill icon is lit. Use a Guardian Spirit Skill to interrupt an enemy’s red-aura Burst Attack.

On Type A, use + or + for the assigned skill. Make its hit connect during the red attack. A normal style counter earns progress for Burst Break, but this trophy specifically needs the spirit skill.

If an early attempt only damages the enemy, continue through A Fiery Invasion and its story tutorial before trying again. Recharge Spirit Force after a failed attempt.

Purify a Soul Core as described in Soul Core Owner. At a shrine open Manage Soul Cores → Onmyo Box and place a usable core in a Yang Position. Assign its Summoning Seal to an item shortcut and use it in combat.

A core in a Yin Position supplies a different Onmyo effect. If the Yang seal is still locked, defeat that yokai’s Crucible Wraith first. You need to complete the summon, rather than merely equip the core.

Raise one sub-region’s Exploration Level to 4. Complete nearby Myths, enemy bases, Lesser Crucibles and collectible activities rather than only crossing the area.

Open the map and use on the region to inspect its exploration panel. Once it reaches 4, remaining collectible locations become visible. I would build this habit in the opening Tenryu River area, then use it throughout the hunt. A blocked Spirit Vein can wait until its story spirit is unlocked.

Win one open-world Master duel. A God Among Men gives the full regional checklist and the gated encounters.

Approach the Master alone and accept the challenge. Dismiss companions and leave online play if no duel option is available.

At the blacksmith in the Eternal Rift, choose Forge and create one piece of equipment. You reach this hub through the story after the first Crucible.

Disassemble unwanted gear for smithing materials, then select a recipe you can afford. Keep equipped gear and any set pieces you are saving. Merely buying an item is not forging.

Visit the Eternal Rift blacksmith and select Remodel. Choose a piece of equipment, select an available attribute change and confirm the Remodel action.

Changing which weapon is equipped or adjusting its appearance does not count. If the preview offers no usable change, select another item with an available remodel option and the required cost.

Shoot down a floating Chijiko, then approach and pet it. The pet interaction completes the activity, not the ranged hit alone.

With Type A controls, aim with and fire with . If it circles out of sight, wait for another pass or move to a clear shooting position. Eagle-Eyed covers the full set.

Finish three missions with qualifying help present. Story NPC allies count, and blue-grave Acolytes can also supply the requirement without finding a human partner.

For deliberate cleanup, replay a short mission through Battle Scroll, summon a blue-grave Acolyte and keep it alive through the mission's final encounter. Finish the result, then repeat until three completions register. Running around beside a summon in free roam is not a mission completion.

Online Expeditions are another option through Shrine → Co-op, but are unnecessary for the platinum. This broad helper rule differs from Hell Rising's Aid Offered, which excludes Acolytes.

Complete Scampuss chases until you obtain a Scampuss Furball. Return to the Eternal Rift and visit the large Scampuss marked there, then exchange one furball.

The first pet at the start of a chase is not the reward. Follow the cat and pet it again at the end. Scampuss Enthusiast explains the different chase behaviour. If the large cat has not appeared yet, finish another chase and revisit the hub.

Interact with a hot spring and sit in it. Walking through the water does not complete the bath.

The early Tokaido spring near Cape Cavern is a convenient first stop. Spa Lover covers the full collection and the springs hidden inside mission maps.

Pick up a Soul Core dropped by a yokai, then reach a shrine and pray to purify it. The red core in your inventory is not ready for use until it has been purified.

Return directly rather than risking the drop in another fight. Once purified, it becomes available in Manage Soul Cores and the trophy unlocks. You can then use that core for Yokai Manipulator.

Clear every enemy in one enemy base. Search upper walkways and interiors if the objective still shows enemies remaining.

The capture notification and changed map marker confirm the clear. Total Control covers all 26 base-game bases and the quest-gated ones.

Enter a Lesser Crucible, defeat every enemy wave and finish the interaction with its remaining red obstruction. Wait for the purification result and cleared marker.

These small arenas differ from the large story Crucibles. Lesser Crucible Eradicator covers the full base-game set.

Complete the blacksmith’s A Fierce Flame Myth, then return to the Eternal Rift. Soul Extraction turns spare equipment into the material used for Soul Matching.

Extract from something you do not need, open Soul Match, select the equipment you want to raise and confirm an affordable increase. The completed match awards the trophy. Its purpose is to improve equipment, so do not sacrifice a valuable set piece just for the first demonstration.

Reach character level 100 through Shrine → Level Up. Spend the Amrita earned from enemies, missions and equipment offerings.

Explore the side areas as you move through the campaign. There is no need to grind an opening-area enemy for this target while later missions offer much more Amrita. If the story is complete and you remain below 100, offer unwanted equipment or replay a mission you can clear reliably, then spend the earnings. Holding enough Amrita without purchasing levels does not count.

Earn the other 50 base-game trophies. The 13 Hell Rising trophies are separate and do not gate the platinum.

Use Answering to the People for the Myth checklist, Devotee for mission-only checkpoints, and the individual collection entries for the remaining regional counters. A new difficulty is unnecessary for this trophy.

Track Myths separately from missions

Complete all 39 base-game Myths. These are the open-world errands recorded under Main Menu → Progress. A Battle Scroll side mission is not automatically a Myth, even when a Myth sends you into one.

Talk to the gold person markers and track the active Myth in Progress. Follow its objective markers, collect the requested items and return for the final conversation. Story progress opens further requests, so revisit earlier eras after reaching Bakumatsu.

Completion checklist

Compare these names with Progress rather than searching an already finished map at random.

Requests that are easy to overlook

Yokai Horde Picture Scroll: In Heian’s Kamo Village, start at Path of Koyama. Descend the snowy path and take the first Spirit Vein on the left. Search the black-mist corpse on the upper trail before the next vein. Defeat the two ambushers, then talk to the ghost. Its next scroll is by the pond in western Funaokayama, accessible through bamboo. The last is upstairs in Toji Temple’s tower in southern Hachijo. Use it, defeat the enemies and Enenra, then speak to the ghost after returning.

Seeking Rare Yokai: Finish that painter quest first. The sequel starts east of Dilapidated Temple in Kiyomizu. Like-Minded Friends covers the full route.

The Value of Perfection: After the first Heian story boss, speak twice to Matsunaga at the Eternal Rift teahouse. In Nishiichi, search the corpse behind boxes beside the bridge at the area's eastern exit. Return its Gorgeous Celadon Tea Bowl. Other bowls do not satisfy this request.

Memories in the Blade: Follow Senji Toyo for all three blades. Hand each one in before searching for the next.

If one will not advance

Finish Searching for a Spy to open The Demon’s Regimen, Fated Land for Ii’s Memento, and Abundant Evil for Headaches and Becoming Champion of the East. For Headaches, forge the requested Ghostly Call tool at the blacksmith after obtaining its recipe and quest material.

After Heian’s conclusion, return for Thoughts Bequeathed and True Samurai of Kamakura, then revisit the latter’s location for Triple Triumph.

In Bakumatsu, complete Beast of the Underworld with Thomas Glover to open Seeking Spirit Stones, then A Present for Whom?. Complete Kiyomizu Defiled and speak to the woman on the way out for Doctor’s Pride. Finish the Glover chain if her sequel is still absent, rest at a shrine, then speak again for Old Medicine, New Problems.

For Well, Well, Well, investigate the marked corpses and strike the stones at the wells. In its Dark Realm, collect the well’s quest item and speak to the ghost to start the final fight.

Confirm the final report and completed Myth entry. Hell Rising’s separate Myth counter does not replace a missing base-game request.

Unlock every named base-game shrine and Bodhisattva Statue. The PS5 tracker’s target is 156. Approach until the marker becomes unlocked, and pray at each checkpoint as you play. Merely seeing its icon from a distance is insufficient.

On the map, use for the Shrine List. Compare missing names against the era you are cleaning. Temporary unnamed side-mission checkpoints do not fill this named list.

Recheck mission maps first

If the open-world counters look complete, replay these areas through Shrine → Battle Scroll:

• The Fall of Edo Castle: Garden and Inner Gate.
• Escape from Hitokoto Slope: Cliff Path, Tokugawa Camp and Border Village.
• Sacred Mountain Defiled: the three Mount Kurama shrines.
• Dark Roots in Antiquity.
• A Sinister End in the Final Battle of Edo, including the checkpoint before Hiruko.

Also enter each story Crucible again if its statues remain dark on the map. They are separate from the ordinary shrine outside its entrance.

There are reports of a 155/156 tracker despite the visible list looking finished. Replay Escape from Hitokoto Slope and activate its checkpoints again before repeating the entire campaign.

External location reference: named shrine list and maps (PowerPyx). Use its names in the same order as your Shrine List to locate a specific missing checkpoint.

Defeat all 13 base-game Masters. These are one-on-one challenges, so arrive without a story follower, Acolyte or online partner. Complete nearby activities to reveal their markers at Exploration Level 4.

A missing duel often means a prerequisite rather than a hidden second arena. Finish Disaster at Lake Hamana for Taigen Sessai, Those Who Live in the Shadows for Fuma Kotaro, Follow the Soldier’s Shadow for Tomoe Gozen, and start The Box’s Guardian for the Hachijo challenge. Interact with the marked red sword or grave when the Master is not standing there.

The last Kyoto Imperial Palace enclosure is behind red crystals. Complete Beast of the Underworld for Thomas Glover in Shichijo, defeat Kasha, then fire the cannon aimed at that barrier. The same cannon unlock helps other collection cleanup.

For the Spirit Vein islands, return after Bakumatsu story progress. The correct spirit is a story reward. Against a difficult Master, use short attacks after their committed sequence, then recover Ki outside their reach. Come back with later equipment if a duel is still overwhelming.

The counter needs thirteen different victories. Repeating an easy Master does not replace a missing one.

External location reference: all Master markers (PowerPyx).

Equip enough matching set pieces to activate every tier of one set bonus. Inspect the green set-bonus name in the item details, then check the full list of piece thresholds. Some sets include a weapon or accessory, so five armour pieces are not always enough.

Meet the equipment's attribute requirements as well as the piece count. Use one style’s equipped loadout for the check. Lock useful matching drops while collecting the rest instead of disassembling them.

If the set is complete and the trophy remains locked, equip the pieces again after meeting their stat requirements and return to gameplay. Update the game before troubleshooting an older save.

Pet all 43 base-game Chijiko. Use each area's Exploration Level 4 map to find the remaining icons, then shoot the airborne creature down and complete the pet interaction.

Scan above and below a marker. A Chijiko can circle a bridge, roof or cliff while its map icon stays near the same point.

Two positions are particularly awkward. In Hamamatsu Castle, reach the fifth floor near Ieyasu, go out through the window, descend the roofs and use the northern fence for a clear shot behind the keep. At Hamamatsu Hill's bridge, watch underneath and shoot when the Chijiko swings out past the edge.

If the icon remains after shooting, check the landing spot for the pet prompt before leaving. If it is not visible at all, change the viewing angle and wait through a flight circuit.

External location reference: Chijiko maps (PowerPyx). Match its region to the incomplete in-game counter. Hell Rising has a separate set.

Use every method of traversing Spirit Veins, rather than every individual vein on the map. Different kinds require different Guardian Spirits.

When a vein says you lack a compatible spirit, continue the main story and return later. Story rewards provide the required traversal spirits. Interact with each newly usable type and let the traversal finish. Clearing the late collectible routes across Warring States, Heian and Bakumatsu naturally brings you through the different methods.

If this remains locked after the story, revisit the vein markers you previously left blocked, especially the island and high-ledge routes in earlier eras. Owning the spirit without using its traversal does not count.

Guide all 92 base-game Kodama home. Reach Exploration Level 4 in each sub-region to reveal the remaining markers, approach the little green figure and interact.

If a marker looks empty, inspect the building's other floors, smash nearby containers and check wells. Strike the rock or bucket on a well's rim to bring its hidden Kodama up. Some base-interior Kodama only appear once every enemy in that base has been defeated.

Mount Kurama contains three Kodama outside the familiar tracked Heian sub-regions. Recheck that story route if the map looks complete but the trophy is short.

For the Shimabara Kodama behind red crystals, finish Thomas Glover's Beast of the Underworld route in Shichijo and defeat Kasha. From Nishin Honganji Temple, go west to the cannon aimed at the barrier and fire it.

A reported missing spawn can clear after travelling to another era and returning or restarting the game. Check the target's quest/base requirement first.

External location reference: Kodama maps (PowerPyx). Use the incomplete sub-region as the starting point.

Pray at all 20 base-game Six Jizo locations.

Find the markers at Exploration Level 4. Some statues accept a simple prayer, some request a donation, and broken ones need their stone head replaced. A one-coin donation is enough for the donation interaction.

At Maisaka, the missing head is on the rock just to the right when facing the statues. At Sagano, defeat the nearby Mimic for the head and carry it back over the roofs. At Awawa no Tsuji, enter the house north of the icon and cut the wall poster to reveal the passage to the statues.

Confirm the prayer and updated counter. Merely repairing the head or passing the statues is not the finished interaction.

External location reference: Six Jizo maps (PowerPyx).

Finish all 16 base-game Scampuss encounters. Pet the cat at its starting point, follow its route and pet it again when it settles. The reward and cleared map marker confirm completion.

Use the Exploration Level 4 icons to choose the next chase. Watch how the particular cat behaves. If rushing after it keeps resetting the route, crouch while standing still with and follow through cover instead. For vertical chases, use the Spirit Vein rather than jumping after it blindly.

The Lake Hamana cat appears after Disaster at Lake Hamana. If a cat is absent, complete the local Myth and revisit. Take any earned furball to the large cat in the Eternal Rift for A Scampuss’s Best Friend.

External location reference: Scampuss maps (PowerPyx).

Capture all 26 base-game enemy bases. Raise Exploration Level, mark the red-skull base icons and clear the full garrison. Looting the large chest does not replace the capture condition.

If a base is absent or empty without being completed, check the local Myths before hunting a nonexistent last soldier. Ii’s Memento opens the relevant Hamamatsu Hill base. Follow the Soldier’s Shadow and Shadows on the Capital account for Funaokayama’s two. One Shirakawa base belongs to Seeking Spirit Stones.

For the latter, complete Beast of the Underworld with Thomas Glover first, then follow his Myth. Return after each quest hand-in and inspect the regional counter.

External location reference: enemy-base maps (PowerPyx).

Purify all 23 base-game Lesser Crucibles. At Exploration Level 4, use the red arena markers to find unfinished ones.

Restock before entering, clear the waves, then finish the red obstruction interaction. If the arena still counts as unfinished, inspect that final object rather than leaving immediately after the last kill.

Prioritise ranged enemies and avoid standing between several attackers. Summoning Seals and Ninjutsu help separate a wave. A failed attempt can be retried from the nearby shrine.

External location reference: Lesser Crucible maps (PowerPyx).

Complete all ten Hell Rising Myths and finish their final reports. Check Main Menu → Progress after a hand-in. Main missions and optional Battle Scroll challenges are separate entries.

Savior’s Light ingredients

Make the Myth active before travelling. The quest pickups do not require fishing or ordinary shopping.

• Hamamatsu Eel: in Warring States, leave Horie Castle: Main Keep towards the river through the stone-wall gap. Search the boat beside the rocks.
• Incense: in Heian, start at Filthy Flooded Street. Go behind the damaged timber house beside the ice and crawl through the low opening into the cave.
• Foreign Fruit Wine: in Bakumatsu, start at Shimabara Pleasure District: South Gate. Search the corpse by the wooden-wall corner and round tub.

Return all three to Mitsukuni, brew the medicine and complete the fight and closing dialogue.

If a late Myth has not appeared, advance Carnage, clear the area's base and revisit the quest giver. If a quest stalls on an older installation, update, reload and recheck the active objective before replaying the whole expansion.

External location reference: Hell Rising Myth start pins (MapMaster). Filter to Myth and match the missing name from Progress.

Win the four Hell Rising Master duels. Arrive alone, without an Acolyte, story follower or online partner.

Use Exploration Level 4 to reveal the regional Master icons and track each clear. If a red sword gives no usable challenge, first remove your companion and check the Myth requirement.

Defeat each Master once. Random smithing-text drops are unnecessary. For hard fights, return after obtaining stronger gear, keep Ki available for defence and punish a completed attack sequence rather than trading into it.

External location reference: Hell Rising Master pins (MapMaster).

Guide Hell Rising’s Kodama home and finish its Chijiko and Scampuss interactions. Use the DLC era’s own counters, not the base-game collection totals.

Raise each sub-region to Exploration Level 4, then complete the creature markers. Shoot and pet Chijiko. For Scampusses, pet, follow and pet again at the reward stop. A starting pet is not necessarily a completed chase.

Open the late paths first

Finish Savior of Keian before the final sweep. Kanda’s training-ground access and a backyard Kodama depend on Way of the Yagyu progress. Ueno’s late Chijiko is beyond the Jakotsu-baba route in Waterside Temptation.

Check wells for their strikeable rim stone or bucket. Clear an enemy base completely before looking for the Kodama beside its reward chest. In Ueno, one Kodama is down the southwestern cliffside well, and the other is on the pagoda’s second roof, reached from the northeastern house.

For Scampusses, check north of Wisteria Shrine Hall and inside the Ninja Training Grounds cave in Kanda. In Hongo/Yushima, check the Korakuen Shrine approach and the broken house on the upper route. Pet the cat near Jubei as well, but do not mistake an ordinary pet interaction for a completed collectible chase.

If the trophy remains short, inspect the in-game counter and incomplete regional categories. Revisit the quest-gated cat routes before repeating every Kodama stop.

External interactive map: Hell Rising creature locations (MapMaster). Filter Kodama, Chijiko and Scampuss individually to match an unfinished category.

Learn every available Martial Art in both the Samurai Hoko & Shield and Ninja Hoko & Shield trees. The trophy’s two-part progress represents the two styles, not merely two individual moves.

1. Open Acquire Martial Arts/Ninjutsu and inspect both weapon categories.
2. Learn the ordinary nodes and their stance or branch prerequisites with Samurai and Ninja points.
3. Obtain missing Martial Arts Guides from the DLC Sudama merchants.
4. Equip Crucible versions of both Hoko categories and fill their familiarity bars for the Crucible Art unlocks.
5. Return to the trees and purchase the newly available nodes. Unlocking a node without learning it is unfinished.

Use this merchant checklist:

In Ueno, clear the southern enemy base, then complete the Ueno Lesser Crucible. Both are required to open the route to the merchant on the upper ledge southwest of Shinobazu Lakeside Shrine.

Look for each region’s Sudama icon after exploration has revealed it, and compare its stock against the locked skill’s named requirement before spending Yokai Teardrops.

Samurai’s Locks and Ninja’s Locks provide more points. You can reset and redistribute points, so temporarily committing to the two Hoko trees does not require a new character.

If one style is complete and the other is not, inspect every node in the incomplete tree, including familiarity arts and branch prerequisites. Equipping the weapon or buying all four guides alone is not the finish.

Unlock the Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scroll system through Hell Rising Myth progress. Complete Stagnant Shogunate and speak to Matsudaira Nobutsuna again for the reported initial-scroll handover. Once the system is open, keep the scrolls dropped by enemies.

At a shrine, open Battle Scroll and the Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scroll entries. Choose an owned scroll whose enemy waves you can handle, start it and finish every wave. The completed purification matters, not simply picking up the scroll.

Purify five different scrolls for a straightforward route to the five-clear target. Inspect the trophy counter after each result. If it stays short, look for an owned scroll you have not completed rather than equipping five items or repeatedly editing one scroll’s effects.

If drops have not appeared, finish the remaining Hell Rising Myths and revisit Nobutsuna before farming. Online Picture Scroll Expeditions are an alternative source, but are not required for this route.

Prepare the story NPCs before replaying Mountain Keep in the Storm’s Eye. Finish the Hell Rising Myths, especially Way of the Yagyu, Yagyu Principles, Agony of the Mito Tokugawa and Savior’s Light, then revisit the quest givers for remaining dialogue.

Start Mountain Keep from its beginning through Battle Scroll. Across the run, let three different story companions join: Jubei, the Tokugawa ally and Rodrigo. They assist at different sections, not as three simultaneous followers. Continue with each ally, defeat the final boss and finish the mission result.

Acolytes and online partners do not replace these named NPC appearances. Repeatedly summoning the same helper does not supply three different companions.

Reported companion-state issue: if only Rodrigo appears, recheck the Jubei and Mitsukuni quest completions. Refresh their dialogue and repeat the Tokugawa Myth route before one clean mission replay. A player reported recovering the unlock this way. If they still do not appear on an updated game, preserve the save and record which ally is missing rather than repeatedly running the same incomplete attempt.

Unlock Enlightened One’s Journey by finishing Shogun’s Journey, then select that difficulty on the map. Lower journeys do not provide this cursed-enemy condition.

Find an enemy with the purple Curse effect. Deplete its Ki, close in while it is vulnerable and press for a Grapple on Type A controls. The Curse must be nullified, rather than merely killing a purple-looking enemy.

If it does not trigger, confirm the active journey, find another cursed target and perform a real Ki-break Grapple before finishing it. Do not confuse a ground finishing blow on an ordinary fallen enemy with the vulnerable Grapple state.