Sekiro 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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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is one of the most popular games released by From Software within their iconic Soulsborne genre of games. Set during a fictionalized Sengoku period in Japan, it puts players in control of a fierce warrior trying to stop their homeland in Japan from being conquered by force trying to unite the entire country into one entity. Along the way, players have to master the Shinobi combat arts, slay fierce monsters, and earn plenty of trophies for their struggles, but it is far from easy.

Key Info Up Front

Genre: Soulsborne

Difficulty: 8/10

Number of playthroughs required: 2

Time to complete: Approximately 62 hours

Number of trophies: 34

Sekiro Walkthrough

Before we get into each of the individual trophies, you’ll be picking up during this playthrough. We must take a more comprehensive look at the journey to the platinum trophy. This is especially important for Sekiro, as doing so can cut out two playthroughs and a lot of time that would otherwise be spent searching.

Step One: Learning

When you first start the game, it will likely take you some time to get used to the game’s parrying mechanics and flow of combat. Make sure to take your time as you go through the game and try to come to grips with what the game wants from you as much as possible, as this will make the bosses later on in the game much more manageable. There is also no set linear path through the game, but you’ll want to play up until you can face the Corrupted  Monk and Guardian Ape bosses. As you play through the game, make sure you experiment with the different skills and equipment you find along the way to define your playstyle and know what is all available to you. However, I would recommend investing in the Mikiri Counter upgrades and getting all of the prosthetics. Once you reach the Corrupted Monk and Guardian Ape, you’ll want to go to the Ashina Castle locations and make sure you have it thoroughly looted. Only then should you kill the bosses and interact with their associated items. Otherwise, you’ll permanently miss out on some items until your next playthrough.

Trophies in this step:

• Revered Blade
• Shinobi Prosthetic
• Memorial mob
• Resurrection
• Gyoubu Masataka Oniwa
• The Phantom Lady Butterfly
• Genichiro Ashina
• Guardian Ape
• Folding Screen Monkeys

Step Two: The First Three Endings

Once you’ve killed the Guardian Ape and Corrupted Monk, return to Ashina Castle, as it will be entirely different now, complete with new items and monsters. Go to the top of the tower to find your mentor Owl and pick the dialogue options “Break the Iron Code, stay loyal to Kuro.” This will allow you to get three of the game’s four endings out of the way on this playthrough using saves. Once that is done, you’ll want to start gathering resources and preparing for the endings, so make sure you stay away from Fountainhead Palace for now.

Check the trophies Purification and Dragon’s Homecoming below to see the detailed preparations you need to make before going into the Fountainhead Palace. Finally, just before you go ahead, make sure that you have all of the Prosthetics and Prayer Beads in Ashina Castle up to this point, as it will change once again after you kill the Divine Dragon in Fountainhead Palace. You’ll also want to ensure you have gotten Malconten’s Ring from Sichimen, which will only spawn after you kill the Guardian Ape with the Mortal Blade.

Now that you’re prepared go to Fountainhead Palace, kill the Divine Dragon there, and start exploring the new Ashina Castle and Ashina Outskirts, including the optional boss in Ashina Outskirts. During this section of the game, you’ll also want to ensure you’ve collected all six Lapis Lazuli, as they will make your second playthrough much more manageable. Then, go to the final boss through the Secret Passage and save immediately after you defeat him, and create a backup of your save either in online storage or on a USB. Then, approach Kuro and select one of the choices you are given, watch the ending, and then re-download your backed-up save and use that you pick the other two options as well. Once that’s done, you’ll be ready to head to the Dilapidated Temple Idol and start your New Game+ run.

Trophies in this step:

• Ashina Traveler
• All Prosthetic Tools
• All Ninjutsu Techniques
• Peak Physical Strength
• Ultimate Healing Gourd
• Immortal Severance
• Purification
• Dragon’s homecoming
• Sword Saint, Isshin Ashina
• Master of the Arts
• Lazuline Upgrade
• Guardian Ape Immortality Severed
• Great Shinobi – Owl
• Father Surpassed
• Corrupted Monk
• Gracious Gift of Tears
• Demon of Hatred
• Great Serpent
• Great Colored Carp

Step Three: New Game

Make sure that you keep Kuro’s Charm during the start of this playthrough to prevent you from taking damage even when you block enemy attacks. When you reach Owl at the top of the tower in Ashina Castle, make sure to back up your save as you did at the end of your first playthrough. Then, pick the dialogue option “Obey the Iron Code, forsake Kuro.” Then, play through the game until you defeat the new bosses it unlocked and get the fourth ending.

Once you’ve gotten the last ending, reload that backed up save and choose “Break the Iron Code, stay loyal to Kuro” again so that you can get the previous four Lapis Lazuli you need for upgrading your prosthetic tools. You can buy two of these from the Fountainhead Noble Pot and then feed the bait he gives you to the Great Carp, making the Pot reward you with another one when you return to him. Finally, you have to kill the Schichimen Warrior beneath the waterfall in the area to get the fourth and final one. Once you get your prosthetics upgraded, the only thing you may have left to do is grind for experience to unlock all skills fully.

Trophies in this step:

• Man Without Equal
• Master of the Prosthetic
• Height of Technique
• Shura
• Isshin Ashina

Sekiro Trophies

Man Without Equal

Rarity: Gold

Description: This trophy is for killing every boss in the game.

Tips: You have to beat both required and optional bosses for this trophy, which is only possible in your second playthrough. The list of bosses as are necessary for this trophy is below:

• Corrupted Monk
• Demon of Hatred
• Divine Dragon
• Emma, the Gentle Blade (Shura ending only)
• Folding Screen Monkeys
• Genichiro Ashina
• Great Shinobi Owl
• Guardian Ape
• Gyoubu Masataka Oniwa
• Headless Ape
• Isshin Ashina (Shura ending only)
• Lady butterfly
• Owl
• Sword Saint, Isshin Ashina
• True Corrupted Monk

Ashina Traveler

Rarity: Gold

Description: This trophy is for visiting every area of the game.

Tips: All of the areas you have to visit are listed below:

• Abandoned Dungeon
• Ashina Castle
• Ashina Depths
• Ashina Outskirts
• Ashina Reservoir
• Fountainhead Palace
• Senpou Temple, Mt. Kongo
• Sunken Valley

Master of the Prosthetic

Rarity: Gold

Description: This trophy is for fully upgrading every prosthetic.

Tips: There are ten Prosthetics you have to upgrade for this trophy. You may have to grind for some of the materials, but as long as you don’t sell any during your playthroughs, you will get a lot of them just by playing naturally. The prosthetics and resources needed for their upgrades are below.

Height of Technique

Rarity: Gold

Description: This trophy is for unlocking every skill in the game.

Tips: Before you can start farming for the experience, too, buy all of the skills, you have to unlock the specific skill line’s esoteric texts. The locations of these texts are below:

• Prosthetic Esoteric Text – Given by the Sculptor in the Dilapidated Temple after you get three Prosthetic Tools.
• Ashina Esoteric Text – Given by the Tengu by the small temple in Ashina Outskirts by the gates. You have first to help him kill three giant rats to get it.
• Senpou Esoteric Text – From the Senpout Temple, Mt. Kongo Main Hall idol, go west and through the cave to your right. Follow the path until you get to the statues of the high priests and keep moving with your grapple hook to reach the shrine with the text inside of a Buddha statue.
• Mushin Esoteric Text – This text is given to you by the Tengu in Ashina Castle after you have gotten the final skill in any of the art trees.

All Prosthetic Tools

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for getting all ten prosthetic tools in the game.

Tips: The locations to find each prosthetic are below:

• Shuriken Wheel – Found on a dead body in the hole in the wall, you can grapple in front of the idol in Ashina Outskirts.
• Flame Barrel – Inside of the bonfire found in the Hirata Estate.
• Shinobi Axe of the Monkey – In a small shrine within the courtyard of the Hirata Estate.
• Robert’s Firecrackers – Purchased from the Crow’s Memorial Mob in the Ashina Outskirts.
• Gyoubu’s Broken Horn – Inside of the house inside the Ashina Reservoir.
• Mist Raven’s Feather – In the small temple at the top of the climbable wall in the Hirate Estate.
• Iron Fortress – Purchased from Blackhat Badger in Ashina Castle.
• Sabimaru – Found in a chest in a room to the right of the lower area in Ashina Castle.
• Large Fan – Found in the Buddha Statue after you kill the Long-Arm Centipded Giraffe in the Sunken Valley.
• Slender Finger – Gained by killing the Guardian Ape in the Sunken Valley.

All Ninjutsu Techniques

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for unlocking all three Ninjutsu techniques.

Tips: How to find the three techniques is below:

• Bloodsmoke Ninjutsu – Rewarded to you for killing Genichiro Ashina in Ashina Castle.
• Puppeteer Ninjutsu – Reward for killing the four Folding Screen monkeys in Senpou Temple.
• Bestowal Ninjutsu – Rewarded for entirely killing the Guardian Ape (see Guardian Ape Immortality Severed trophy below).

Peak Physical Strength

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for fully upgrading your Vitality and Posture.

Tips: To do this, you have to find all 40 prayer beads scattered throughout the game. To help you find them, there is an excellent guide on the Sekiro Wiki.

Ultimate Healing Gourd

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for fully upgrading your Healing Gourd

Tips: To upgrade your Gourd, you have to find all nine Gourd Seeds, which each gives you another use of the Gourd. Their locations are below:

• Found by killing General Naomori Kawarada in Ashina Outskirts.
• Found by killing Chained Ogre in the Ashina Outskirts.
• Bought from the Battlefield Memorial Mob in Ashina Outskirts.
• In a chest within the room with the idol in Ashina Castle after you follow the purple smoke signals.
• Bought from Fujioka the Info Broker in the Dilapidated Temple after defeating Genichiro.
• In front of an immortal high priest praying in a room within Senpou Temple, Mt. Kongo.
• On the right side of a small hut a the top of a climbable wall in the Sunken Valley.
• On an orange tree in the village within Ashina Depths.
• In a chest in the building in front of the Idol in Fountainhead Palace.

Immortal Severance

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for getting the Immortal Severance ending.

Tips: This ending is achieved by following these steps:

• Choose “Break the Iron Code, stay loyal to Kuro” when talking to Owl.
• Give the Divine Dragon’s Tears to Kuro at the end of the game.

Purification

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for getting the Purification ending.

Tips: This ending is achieved by following these steps:

• Choose “Break the Iron Code, stay loyal to Kuro” when talking to Owl.
• Defeat Owl and exhaust all dialogue options with Kuro and Emma before resting at the idol.
• Stay behind the incense burner and eavesdrop on Kuro and Emma talking.
• Rest and speak to Emma, who will move upstairs. Agree that Kuro needs to live.
• Rest and talk to Emma again.
• Go to the Old Grave Idol in Ashina Castle and talk to Emma there.
• Go to the Dilapidated Temple, go to the back wall with the hole, and eavesdrop on Emma again.
• Talk with Emma and ask her what she is hiding, and she will give you the Father’s Bell Charm.
• Take the charm to the Kind Faced Buddha statue and pray with it there, taking you to another version of Hirata Estate.
• Go to the Hidden Temple where you fought Lady Butterfly and Owl to get the Aromatic Flower.
• At the end of the game, give Kuro both the Divine Dragon’s Tears and the Aromatic Flower.

Dragon’s Homecoming

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for getting the Return ending.

Tips: This ending is achieved by following these steps before killing the Divine Dragon:

• Choose “Break the Iron Code, stay loyal to Kuro” when talking to Owl.
• Go to the Inner Sanctum at Senpou Temple and talk to the Divine Child to get Rice.
• Eat the rice and request more from the Divine until she gets ill.
• She will ask you for Persimmon, which you can buy from the Shugendo Memorial Mob in Senpou Temple.
• Give her the Persimmon to receive the Rice for Kuro.
• Travel to Kuro’s room and give him the rice to receive Sweet Rice Ball and eat it in front of him.
• Go back to the Divine Child and tell her what happened.
• Get the Holy Chapter: Infested item by going to the bottom of the pound in the Temple Grounds within Senpou Temple with the Mibu Breathing technique.
• Give it to the Divine Child and rest.
• Run across the blue beam in the Inner Sanctum and talk to the Divine Child in the Illusory Hall.
• She will ask you to get the Holy Chapter: Dragon’s Return item from a high priest in the main Hall.
• Bring it back to the Divine Child, and she will ask you to get her two serpent fruits.
• The first, called the Dried Serpent Viscera, is found by backstabbing the monkey in the Bodhisatta Valley with the Puppeteer Ninjutsu Technique to attract the serpent so you can use your grapple hook to the cliff above. The fruit is on a shrine in the temple up there.
• The second fruit is the Fresh Serpent Viscera. This one is found by going to Senpou Temple, Mt. Kongo, and dropping down by where Kotaro can be until you find a rat. Backstab it and use the Puppeteer Ninjutsu to make it use the crank nearby. Then, go to the main path and into the temple’s upper floors, where people pray next to an infested priest. Climb the tree there, get to the Sunken Valley Cavern idol, and continue until you find a wooden beam with the Great Serpent below. Jump on top of it and execute it to get the fruit.
• Take the fruits back to the Divine Child and then rest before eavesdropping on the doors to listen to her eating them.
• Reset the area and talk to her to get the Frozen Tears.
• Give Kuro the Divine Dragon’s Tears and the Frozen Tears at the end of the game.

Shura

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for getting the Shura ending.

Tips: To get this ending, you must select “Obey the Iron Code, forsake Kuro” when talking to Owl in the tower.

Sword Saint, Isshin Ashina

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for killing the story boss Sword Saint Isshin Ashina.

Master of the Arts

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for unlocking the final skill of any skill tree.

Lazuline Upgrade

Rarity: Silver

Description: This trophy is for using Lapis Lazuli to upgrade a prosthetic fully.

Revered Blade

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for getting Kusabimaru during the prologue.

Shinobi Prosthetic

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for getting your first prosthetic during the prologue.

Memorial Mob

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for finding one of the Memorial Mob vendors in the game.

Resurrection

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for using Resurrection for the first time.

Gyoubu Masataka Oniwa

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the required boss Gyoubu Masataka Oniwa.

The Phantom Lady Butterfly

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the required boss Lady Butterfly.

Genichiro Ashina

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the required boss Genichiro Ashina.

Guardian Ape

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the required boss Guardian Ape.

Guardian Ape Immortality Severed

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the Guardian Ape again in Ashina Depths after getting the Mortal Blade in Senpou Temple.

Folding Screen Monkeys

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the required boss Folding Screen Monkeys.

Great Shinobi – Owl

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the Great Shinobi – Owl boss in the Lotus of the Palace.

Father Surpassed

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the optional Great Shinobi – Owl boss in Hirata Estate.

Tips: This boss will only appear while you are going for the Purification ending, which will require you to kill him to get it to unlock. See the Purification trophy above.

Corrupted Monk

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the required Corrupted Monk boss.

Gracious Gift of Tears

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the required boss Divine Dragon.

Isshin Ashina

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the required boss Isshin Ashina.

Demon of Hatred

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the optional boss Demon of Hatred.

Tips: This boss is found after you stay loyal to Kuro. To find him, backtrack through the Ashina Outskirts until you reach the beginning of the game and interact with the burning idol in front of the gates. This will teleport you to a historic battle where you can face the Demon of Hatred.

Great Serpent

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the optional boss, The Great Serpent.

Tips: This trophy is obtained while going for the Return ending. See the Return trophy above.

Great Coloured Carp

Rarity: Bronze

Description: This trophy is for killing the optional boss Great Colored Carp.

Tips: To kill this boss follow these steps:

• Decided to stay loyal to Kuro when talking to Owl in the castle tower.
• Go to Hinata Estate and talk to the pot Noble Harunaga by the waterfall on the area’s right side.
• Purchase items with at least seven Treasure Carp Scales to get the Truly Precious Bait item.
• Go to the Feeding Grounds and use the Truly Precious Bait to feed the fish in the lake there.
• This poisons the Great Carp and kills it.
• Travel to the Sunken Valley to find its massive corpse by where you first fought the Guardian Ape and take the item there to get the Great White Whisker.
• Go back to the Pot Noble and talk to them to complete the process.
• You can also give the Great White Whisker to the Noble Caretaker in the Feeding Grounds to free him from his duties.

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