Persona 5 Royal Trophy Guide

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Arron is a featured team writer and lifelong gamer. Ever since he started playing games on his old SNES, he's been hooked. Once the Xbox 360 was released he quickly found himself hunting down achievements and trophies as fast as he could. There are plenty of games that he has only played for the achievements or trophies, but he also plays a little bit of everything, with a particular love for deep RPGs and skillful shooters. Currently, he is working to 100% both Pillars of Eternity games while he waits for the biggest upcoming releases and some standout indies.

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The Persona series is one of the biggest JRPG franchises in the games industry. It boasts a dedicated fanbase that is willing to sink more than one hundred hours in just one playthrough as they navigate its turn-based combat system on top of juggling the school lives of its characters. While the game’s runtime may intimidate some players away, Persona 5 Royale isn’t a challenging game, and getting its platinum trophy is much easier than one might assume.

Key Info Up Front

Genre: JRPG

Difficulty: 3/10

Number of Playthroughs Required: 1

Estimated Time to Complete: Approximately 115 hours

Number of Trophies: 54

Persona 5 Royal Walkthrough

You’ll be getting throughout your playthrough before we cover the extensive list of specific trophies. We need to look at the overall journey. This is important for numerous reasons. Firstly, it will let you know what to expect from the game. Secondly, it will make sure your playthrough is as efficient as possible to avoid any extra grinding, and finally, it will make sure you don’t miss any of the various missable trophies in the game.

Step One: The Beginning

The first thing to know about Persona 5 Royal if you’re new to the series is how its structuring works. The game’s story is played over three school semesters and requires you to balance going into dungeons to defeat monsters with your homework and social life. This means that you only have a limited amount of time and choices to make as you play, requiring you to be smart with them to make it through in the end.

If you do miss any of the trophies, however, a new game+ mode carries over most of your progress, which is handy to wrap up any missed trophies.

Since your free time options in the first hours of the game are limited, you should use the time to work on improving your five social stats. You’ll need to get all of them maxed out by the end of your playthrough for the Pure Perfection trophy, so you’ll want to take advantage of the time you have immediately to get as much of it out of the way as possible before you have other interactions that interest you.

Trophies in this Step

• Castle of Lust: Seized
• Spirit of Rebellion
• Phantom Thieves: Assemble!
• Tokyo Tourist
• I am Thou…
• Tactical Teamwork
• Let’s Blow It Up
• You’d Better Hang On!
• Technician
• A Deadly Debut
• Leblanc Buffer
• Punch That Clock!
• Batter Up!
• Easy Money

Step Two: The Museum

Once you finish the tutorial dungeon, known as a palace, you’ll unlock the Museum Palace and the Mementos area. Mementos is a procedurally generated dungeon that you should do a floor of after each story Palace. This will both work to help keep your party leveled enough to keep moving through the story while also cutting down on some grinding later on in your playthrough. At this point, you should also play through the Chariot Confidant line, a side narrative focused on one of the game’s characters.

You’ll also meet the character Takuto Maruki, and you’ll want to start their Confidant line while still progressing your social skills. Around this time in the game, you’ll also unlock moves called executions, powerful combo moves that can be done by mixing your Personas. The system requires you to fuse different Personas, and you should play around with it as you progress through the game.

Trophies in this Step

• Museum of Vanity: Repossessed
• True Confidence
• Talent Thief
• The Purpose of a Thief
• Jose’s Favorite Customer
• The Phantom Philatelist
• The Deviated Cognition
• Efficient Executioner
• Intensive Training

Step Three: The Middle

During the middle stage of the game, you’ll tackle three new Palaces at the Bank, Pyramid, and Spaceport. This part of the game settles comfortably into the game’s loop, so by now, you’ll likely be more than familiar with it. During this time, you should make your way through as many of the Confidant stories as you can, but you should mainly focus on Takuto Maruki’s.

You’ll also unlock the new locations of Akihabara and Kichijoji, so make sure to go to them a few times once you do to do the side activities there to get the associated trophies. Thankfully, you just have to do the activities. You don’t have to do particularly well at most of them or get 100% in anything for the trophies.

Trophies in this Step

• Bank of Gluttony: Cleaned Out
• Pyramid of Wrath: Plundered
• Spaceport of Greed: obliterated
• It’s Showtime!
• The Search for Power
• Success Built on Sacrifice
• Accident-Prone
• A Grand Experiment
• Going Against the Crane
• Trash Into Treasure
• Dartslinger
• A Hustler’s Journey
• A Night in Kichijoji
• A Serene Experience
• Angler’s Debut
• Master of Akihabara

Step Four: The Casino and the Cruiser

The Casino Palace is the final Palace before the game splinters into different paths to the ending. It is paramount that you finish Maruki’s Confidant line to get it to rank nine before you get past 11/17. Around this time, you should also have your social skills leveled up enough to get a few other trophies, such as upgrading your gun.

You’ll also want to make sure that you finish the Confidant line of any female character other than Strength or Judgement to enter a relationship with them for the trophy My Closest Partner.

Once you’re done with the Casino Palace, the game speeds up. It starts focusing on the game’s main story and will give you less and less time to make decisions and spend time with characters. You should also check the trophy The Path Chosen below to make sure that you get the true ending to unlock the third semester. Around this time, you should also max out your social skills, and you should be able to enter the bottom floor of the Mementos on 12/24 to finish it.

If you haven’t been working on Memento floors up to this point, you’ll have to run through all 60 floors, which can be quite a slog. Then, you can finish the Cruiser Palace, and if you followed the path to get the true ending correctly, you’ll move on to the third semester.

Trophies in this Step

• Casino of Jealousy: Bankrupted
• My Closest Partner
• Professional Modification
• Cruiser of Pride: Capsized
• The Thorough Trickster
• A Most Studios Disguise
• Pure Perfection

Step Five: The End

Once the third semester begins after Christmas, you’ll have one more Palace to undertake. You’ll also be able to evolve the Persona of a party member and should get upgraded enough to tackle the end-game boss known as the Reaper. Then, you’ll get the game’s true ending along with the last trophy and your platinum.

Trophies in this Step

• Take Back the Future
• The Path Chosen
• Awakening the Phantom Thieves
• Unsurpassed Rebel

Persona 5 Royal Trophies

Castle of Lust: Seized

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This is a story-related trophy you will unlock naturally.

Museum of Vanity: Repossessed

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This is a story-related trophy you will unlock naturally.

Bank of Gluttony: Cleaned Out

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This is a story-related trophy you will unlock naturally.

Pyramid of Wrath: Plundered

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This is a story-related trophy you will unlock naturally.

Spaceport of Greed: Obliterated

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This is a story-related trophy you will unlock naturally.

Casino of Jealousy: Bankrupted

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This is a story-related trophy you will unlock naturally.

Cruiser of Pride: Capsized

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This is a story-related trophy you will unlock naturally.

The Thorough Trickster

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This is a story-related trophy you will unlock naturally as long as you follow the true ending.

Take Back the Future

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This is a story-related trophy you will unlock naturally.

The Path Chosen

Rarity: Gold

Description: This trophy is for finishing the game.

Tips: To get the true ending of Persona 5 Royal and see all of its content and be able to get all of its trophies, follow these steps below:

• Before 11/17: Get the Confidant rank with the Councillor up to rank nine.
• 11/19: Pick the first or second option to the second question you’re asked to avoid taking the deal.
• 12/14: Pick the first option to avoid taking the deal when you get the thought bubble.
• 1/9: Avoid taking the deal and reach the treasure in the new Laboratory Palace.
• 2/2: Pick the first option to the third question you are asked that night to avoid taking the deal during Akechi’s third Persona conversation. In the next scene, pick the first option for all dialogue options.
• Defeat the final boss.

Spirit of Rebellion

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This is a story-related trophy you will unlock naturally.

Phantom Thieves: Assemble!

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This is a story-related trophy you will unlock naturally.

One Step at a Time

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for completing a request in the Mementos.

A Most Studios Disguise

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for getting first place in the exams at your school.

Tips: There are four exams throughout the school year spread out between May, July, October, and December. For the exams, you’ll have to have a Knowledge rank of five and get all of its questions right. Thankfully, you only have to get the top score on one of the exams, so you will likely get your Knowledge rank high enough for the October or December exam.

You’ll also have to wait a few days to get the results before the trophy pops, so don’t worry if you don’t get it right away. The answers for the October and December exams are below.

October Exam

• 10/17
  • 32 Surfaces
  • It Used to be one color.
  • Black and white picture.
• 10/18
  • Charles-Henri Sanson
  • It’s a hereditary profession.
• 10/19
  • Slave labor.
  • Three bees in all of Europe.
• 10/20
  • Determined by your Knowledge stat.

December Exam

• 12/20
  • D.
  • Over one billion yen.
  • Having his head displayed.
  • Public performance.
• 12/21
  • Hearts.
  • Attend.
• 12/22
  • Japan.
  • Dreadnought.
• 12/23
  • Determined by your Knowledge stat.

Pure Perfection

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for fully leveling up your five social stats.

Tips: Each of the five stats has numerous activities that raise them, so you can approach this however you wish. However, you should work on this throughout your playthrough and dedicate all of your free time not spent with Confidants or in dungeons to doing so. You should also know that if you plan to read books to raise any skills that there is a book called Speed Reader that you must get at the Shujin Library after 7/1 as it doubles the rate that you read books.

Tokyo Tourist

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for hanging out with anyone at a location.

Tips: You will unlock various hangout spots as you play through the game. To hang out with someone there, talk to a Confidant when you don’t have enough points to level up your rank with them, and the option to hang out to get points with them will be available.

My Closest Partner

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for entering a romantic relationship.

Tips: You can romance nearly all of the female confidants in the game once you get a high enough rank with them. Some of them have additional requirements, but throughout your playthrough, you should get most of them to a high enough rank to romance them, meaning you’ll have plenty of opportunities to get this trophy. The confidants you can romance are listed below.

• Makoto Niijima
• Haru Okumura
• Ann Takamaki
• Futaba Sakura
• Chihaya Mifune
• Tae Takemi
• Sadayo Kawakami
• Ichicko Ohya
• Hifumi Togo
• Kasumi Yoshizawa

True Confidence

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for getting a Confidant to rank ten.

Tips: You should do this multiple times throughout your playthrough, and as long as you get the true ending, it is entirely unmissable.

Awakening the Phantom Thieves

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for evolving the Persona of one of your squad members.

Tips: Your squad members’ Personas cannot be changed, but they will evolve to an Ultimate Persona once you get their Confidant rank up to ten.

I am Thou…

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for getting a new Persona by negotiating with someone.

Tips: You can unlock new Personas by negotiating with the Shadows you’ll come across during combat. To do so, you have to first to down it by hitting it with an element it is weak against, a critical hit, or technical ability. Once that is done, you’ll enter a Hold Up, which you can select to enter negotiation from.

When you enter a negotiation with the Shadow, you’ll get to make two responses in a dialogue with them. The first is used to gauge their personality, and the second is the one you need to get right to be successful. Each Shadow has a different personality that determines what tone will be successful with them, which are detailed below.

Tactical Teamwork

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for doing a Baton Pass.

Tips: A Baton Pass is a combat move that triggers after downing an enemy with a critical hit or hitting them with their weakness. This will allow you to pass the subsequent turnover to a different character to react better and take advantage of the changed shape of the battlefield. This is an important battle mechanic that you will want to familiarize yourself with.

Let’s Blow It Up

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for using a Disaster Shadow explosion to kill an enemy.

Tips: Disaster Shadows are enemies that will randomly appear in other combats. They have higher stats than their regular counterparts, but they explode to damage the other enemies in the encounter when they are killed. This trophy is best earned by tweaking all of the other enemies in the combat and then killing the Disaster Shadow so that its final explosion kills at least on of the other enemies in the encounter.

You’d Better Hang On!

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for using the new grappling hook traversal mechanic.

Technician

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for triggering the new Technical combat mechanic.

Tips: To trigger a Technical, you have to inflict an enemy with an ailment like Burn before hitting it with a triggering element. Each ailment has one trigger damage type unless you read the book Knowing the Heart, which adds a second trigger type to a handful of them, which are all listed below:

• Brainwash: Physical, Bless (Knowing the Heart)
• Burn: Nuclear, Wind
• Confuse: Physical, Gun, and Wind (Knowing the Heart)
• Despair: Physical, Curse (Knowing the Heart)
• Dizzy: Any
• Fear: Physical, Ice (Knowing the Heart)
• Freeze: Nuclear, Physical
• Forget: Electric (Knowing the Heart)
• Rage: Physical, Fire (Knowing the Heart)
• Shock: Nuclear, Physical
• Sleep: Any

Talent Thief

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for getting a Skill Accessory from the ruler of a Palace.

Tips: To get the Skill Accessory from the ruler of a Palace, you have first to collect the three skull-shaped collectibles called Will Seeds in the Palace and then refine them to use them. To refine them, you have to take them to Jose, who you meet during the Mementos tutorial on 5/7. The Will Seeds are easy enough to find if you explore the Palaces thoroughly.

The Purpose of a Thief

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for getting a Treasure Demon.

Tips: Treasure Demons are unique Personas that can be recruited but can’t be used in battle. Instead, these Personas give extra treasure when you get them to join you and provide better bonuses when fused with other Personas.

It’s Showtime!

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for doing your first Showtime attack.

Tips: These moves are randomly triggered during your playthrough and happen frequently enough that you’ll get this trophy without giving it any extra attention.

Jose’s Favorite Customer

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for trading flowers with Jose in Mementos for anything.

Tips: You’ll collect flowers as you go through the Mementos, so you’ll be able to buy something from Jose easily by the time you are done with the area.

The Phantom Philatelist

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for trading stamps to Jose to get a cognitive change line.

Tips: See The Search for Power below.

The Search for Power

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for trading in stamps to Jose to change the cognition of Mementos.

Tips: You can collect stamps from Stamp Machines that are randomly spawned around the floors of Mementos. There is at least one on every floor except for the Path of Iweleth, and it glows yellow to help you find them. Once you get at least 30, you can get the one to increase the number of items drops you get, as it is the cheapest and will unlock this trophy.

The Deviated Cognition

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for finding your first Mementos deviation.

Tips: Mementos deviations are random, but they should happen at least five times throughout your playthrough, so naturally, you will get this one.

Unsurpassed Rebel

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for beating the Reaper boss.

Tips: The Reaper will appear if you stay still in the Mementos for too long. You should wait to attempt this until near the end of your playthrough to attempt as it is an extremely difficult fight as the Reaper can access attacks for every element. However, if you have a hard time defeating him, feel free to drop the difficulty down lower to get through it.

A Deadly Debut

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for doing your first Guillotine execution.

Tips: A Guillotine execution is a term used for mixing two different Personas. You won’t get this trophy for the tutorial fusion, but do one more once you have two Personas, and you’ll get this trophy out of the way.

Efficient Executioner

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for doing your first Group Guillotine execution.

Tips: To do this, you have to first get Strength’s Confidant rank up to one. Then, perform an Advanced Fusion in the Velvet Room by talking to Igor and use the specified Personas to complete one.

Intensive Training

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for using Incense on a Persona.

Tips: To use Incense on a Persona, you must first put it into Lockdown in the Velvet Room to strengthen it. You can then use Incense to change how it is strengthened in particular.

Success Built on Sacrifice

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for doing your first Gallows execution.

Tips: A Gallows execution requires you to sacrifice a Persona you don’t plan on using to increase the experience of another Persona.

Accident-Prone

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for doing an execution during a Fusion Alarm.

Tips: Fusion Alarms are triggered in the Velvet Room once you capture enough shadows by surprise and do well during battles. Once triggered, immediately go to the Velvet Room and perform an execution to make it even more powerful than it would normally be.

A Grand Experiment

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for doing your first Electric Chair execution.

Tips: This type of execution requires you to turn a Persona you don’t intend to use into a consumable item.

Leblanc Buffer

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for doing the Clean-Up activity at the Leblanc.

Punch That Clock!

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for getting a part-time job as an activity.

Batter Up!

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for doing the batting cages activity in Yongenjaya.

Getting the Vapors

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for passing out at the bathhouse.

Tips: The bathhouse is across the street from the Leblanc. You can stay there longer than usual during rainy days with a 50% chance of passing out. This trophy will unlock once you pass out for the first time.

Easy Money

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for winning the lottery.

Tips: You can get lottery tickets from the underground train stations in Shibuya. Then, wait seven in-game days and check to see if you won. The chances of winning the first time you buy a ticket are very high, so it shouldn’t take more than one try.

Going Against the Crane

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for getting a prize from the crane game in the arcade in Akihabara.

Trash Into Treasure

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for selling your old clothing a the Furugi no Neuchi store in Kichijoji.

Darslinger

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for playing a game of darts at the Penguin Sniper in Kichijoji.

A Hustler’s Journey

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for playing a game of billiards at the Penguin Sniper in Kichijoji.

A Night in Kichijoji

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for going to the jazz club in Kichijoji.

A Serene Experience

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for going to the temple in Kichijoji.

Professional Modification

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for customizing a gun.

Tips: To customize a gun, you have to get your Confidant rank with Munehisa Iwai to rank one and get your Guts skill to rank four before going to the gun shop in Shibuya.

Angler’s Debut

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for fishing at the pond.

Master of Akihabara

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for ordering from the special menu at the Maid Cafe in Akihabara.

Tips: The special menu at the Maid Cafe after spending 20,000 Yen while hanging out there.

Conclusion

Persona 5 Royale is a massive game with great characters, fun combat, and an engaging story to keep you entertained. Getting its platinum trophy does require a significant amount of time, but its trophies are well balanced not to restrict how players interact with the game throughout their playthrough. So, any trophy hunters that want a great JRPG to experience and get a fun platinum trophy have to look no farther than the acclaimed Persona series.

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