Single Playthrough Plat Guide

[surtech5]

So the 1 or 2 guides that are out there really leave you wanting for info and are filled with inaccuracies. So, here is my guide after just snagging the plat for myself.

 

- General -

Difficulty: 4/10

Time: 20-25 hr

Difficulty Specific: Yes - Must Play on Immortal (third most difficult)

Missable Trophies: Yes!

 

 

- Missable Trophies -

(In order by Chapter)

 

Chapter 4 - Socialite (Bronze)

During your party you will get the optional objective to speak to your coworkers... Just do that.

Literally just open your map to see all the conversation points and make sure to converse with each of them once. If you leave the room, just go back in and talk to them.

You would kinda have to go out of your way to miss this one.

 

Chapter 8 - Backtracker (Bronze)

During the main mission "THE MAGIC EATERS" you will get the objective "Reach the Underwell", during that time you must use a portal to return to the Palathon.

You walk right by one on your journey  - You are even stopped by a fight right next to it - so just use that one.

 

Chapter 11 - Fowl Play (Bronze)

Partway through Chapter 11 you will be treated to a delightful cut-scene of the character's drinking, where at one point, a random bird appears and the characters remark on it. After that cut-scene the bird can be found in the Palathon. It will remin there until you advance too far in the story... I don't know how long that is, so just find it as soon as the cutscene is over.

It is located behind the fast travel portal in the lower section. You just have to walk up to it and look at it.

 

Chapter 12 - (All of the 'talk to X-NPC' trophies)

So technically you won't get this until the epilog, but the missable aspect is during Chapter 12.

 

Basically, during your free time at the Palathon, you can find 6 non-story critical NPCs available to speak to about various topics. Each chapter you progress will add another topic, but you DO NOT have to speak with them each chapter. They will be happy to talk with you about all topics you have accumulated (none of which are missable) at any time UP UNTIL a defining moment in Chapter 12 (See below), after which they will only want to talk about new topics, thus locking you out of the trophy for talking to them on all topics.

 

Selko does NOT count for this trophy and can be safely ignored.

The remaining five each have a trophy attached to them regarding talking to them about all topics:

1. Magister Belming - Petite Bourgeoisie (Bronze)
   1. Found in the center of the lower area accessed by portal; the area where you first arrived.
2. Orphe - Out of Time (Bronze)
   1. Found outside at the front of the central building.
3. Hauser - Witch-Taker (Bronze)
   1. Found In the central building; where you had your party.
4. Silas Mede - Family Business (Bronze)
   1. Found in the library directly adjacent to your own room.
5. Ambassador Damolie - Diplomat (Bronze)
   1. Found outside on the side opposite the war room; same place Selko stands, just on the opposite side of the map).

 

How to avoid missing out:

During chapter 12 you will be asked to put a 'thing' in the vault. Doing this is fine. However, IMMEDIATELY AFTER you will get a call from Devyn where he tells you to come talk to him. DO NOT DO THAT! As soon as you approach him, this will lock you into leaving the Palathon and you will be unable to finish talking to the 5 NPCs you need to

 

TL;DR:

• You must talk to Belming, Orphe, Hauser, Silas, and Damolie about all topics.
  • You unlock one new topic each chapter you progress.
• These topics remain available to talk about until partway through Chapter 12.
  • Make sure you exhaust ALL dialog options with each of the Five NPCs before moving passed this point.
• There are more topics after Chapter 12, but they will be available forever.
  • Even into the epilog.

 

 

- Erroneously Missable -

(Trophies that are NOT missable, but might appear as such)

 

Good Boy (Bronze)

This is for petting the friendly Veki that can be found at the second home base unlocked during Chapter 14. He will remain there forever. He will never leave!

 

Scholar (silver)

This is for collecting 50 collectible pieces of lore.

And though there are missable collectibles (some not even being available in NG+), there are more than enough to easily get 50, even if you missed every single missable one.

So just collect what you see and don't sweat missing out.

 

Treasure Hunter (Silver)

This is for opening every single golden chest in the game.

Now, there totally are missable chests and even chests that may be glitched in your playthrough and be forever inaccessible... But none of them are Golden Chests.

Golden Chests are the ones with the giant red jewel on them. Any other kind of chest is irrelevant to trophy hunting.

Not a single golden chest is missable!

 

 

- General Tips -

 

Maxing Out A Magic Branch

Each of the three magic branches has a trophy tied to unlocking all the skills in it. The core skills will cost you 20 ascension points while the outer skills will cost you 17, but because each branch has two skills that each require five points sunk into the adjacent branch, you're looking at 47 ascension points to fully unlock just one branch. This is no small number, and even after 100% the game AND the free dlc, I was still shy 1 point.

Now, you could go into NG+ to rank up a bit to reach that 47... Or you could just... Not do that...

 

See, as it turns out, the game only tracks if you have unlocked a particular skill ever... As in, you could do half the tree, reset your skill points, and then do the other half.

Heck, I think you could do it with as little as... 28 ascension points.

My math could be wrong, but even then, whatever the minimum number, you will have exceeded it by the time you reach the end of your playthrough. So don't sweat about scooping up every little bit of exp or needlessly grinding.

 

Money, Essence, and Breaking Down Unwanted Gear

At the beginning, you may be lacking for either of the two primary resources... But believe me, this is a temporary struggle. Before long you will be drowning in resources!

I never broke down a single piece of gear out of fear that I might be screwing myself out of some or other and I still had more money than I knew what to do with.

The only remotely rare resource is 'legendary essence' used to upgrade legendary gear, but even that was in good supply by the time I had opened all the chests.

[GothGirlMaxine]

Thanks for this! I plan to play the game someday so hopefully it'll come in handy for anyone planning to play it too! ^^

[mikem192]

Nicely put together. I’ve had my eye on this game for a while but couldn’t find much information. 
 

Any thoughts of doing a guide?! 

[XXIIlII]

Thanks for this.

Will start the game when the fps patch releases.

[Dimitris-Ger]

Thank you for this. I was actually planning to start the game tomorrow and you are right, the other guide out there about the game misses a lot of info.  Great job honestly. 
 

Could you tell us which video walkthrough you followed for the collectibles?

Edited April 12 by Dimitris-Ger

[beinbizeps]

This is a very helpful video guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtbqbkXKhYo

[surtech5]

On 4/10/2024 at 2:15 PM, mikem192 said:

Nicely put together. I’ve had my eye on this game for a while but couldn’t find much information. 
 

Any thoughts of doing a guide?! 

Full Guide? Nah.

It's a PS+ game, so I'm sure there are at least a half dozen people working on one already. Plus, besides what I said above, it's exceptionally straightforward with half the Trophies being story related.

 

What this game really needs is a better collectibles video...

 

On 4/12/2024 at 4:34 PM, Dimitris-Ger said:

Thank you for this. I was actually planning to start the game tomorrow and you are right, the other guide out there about the game misses a lot of info.  Great job honestly. 
 

Could you tell us which video walkthrough you followed for the collectibles?

I used a video Playlist by Backseat Guides here.

 

It's not great tbh. He keep spinning the map around and quite annoyingly only shows the map BEFORE going to the collection point. Funnily enough, the game will show you where the chests are on the map, but only after you've opened it... so if he just opened it before showing it to us, then we would literally have the map marker in the video to show us... seriously annoying.

 

If I was ever going to do a guide for this game, that would be the one... but I'm far too lazy for that, sorry.

[GefeliciteerdHe]

On 4/10/2024 at 8:40 PM, surtech5 said:

Chapter 4 - Socialite (Bronze)

Great guide!
But this should be chapter 5 right?

[surtech5]

7 hours ago, GefeliciteerdHe said:

Great guide!
But this should be chapter 5 right?

Nope, it's chapter 4.

 

The other guide gets the chapters wrong on like... everything. I don't know why.

 

You can check my trophies, then sort by grade to confirm.

[Dimitris-Ger]

13 hours ago, surtech5 said:

Nope, it's chapter 4.

 

The other guide gets the chapters wrong on like... everything. I don't know why.

 

You can check my trophies, then sort by grade to confirm.

This is very confusing because the game has a weird way to track the chapters. I just did that trophy. While I didn't get the trophy for beating Chapter 4,  Chapter 5 started, then I did Socialite and then the trophy for beating Chapter 4 popped up

Edited April 16 by Dimitris-Ger

[Teodor-V99]

The trophies for collecting chest and shroudfanes glitched on me it show 114/120 chests and 25/26 shroudfanes any help guys? 

[Dimitris-Ger]

Just got the platinum thanks to your guide. Everything went smoothly and I didn't encounter any problems. 10/10 game honestly. I loved it and the only issue is the frame drops to 30 fps but it was a very demanding game and I don't know how much better work they could do as the ps5 isn't suitable for Unreal Engine 5. 

Its a shame we won't get a sequel now and they definitely hinted it with the secret ending after collecting all the collectibles

[thom25maxi2]

On 4/16/2024 at 4:10 AM, surtech5 said:

Nope, it's chapter 4.

 

The other guide gets the chapters wrong on like... everything. I don't know why.

 

You can check my trophies, then sort by grade to confirm.

I get why you say that, but in game it is noted as chapter 5 and not chapter 4.

Now why I understand why you say it is chapter 4: Not every chapter has a trophy bound to it. But for chapter 5, named: 'The Immortals', completion you get the trophy: "No more names" with a 4 (IV) as trophy icon. But for chapter 4, named ' Road To The Palathon' you don't get a trophy upon completion.

It is basically just interpretation, if you look at the trophy list and icon's yes it is 'chapter 4' but if you follow the games chapter numbering than it is 'chapter 5'

[JohnnyJoyful]

Just working my way through the game now to get the platinum. Here’s hoping it all goes well

 

thank for the guide.

[dieselmanchild]

You did a really great job with the write up @surtech5. Clear, concise, but detailed enough to make it easy to follow. I really appreciate this. I think this game looks pretty cool but with hearing there was missables and the lack of info, I wasn’t rushing to play it right away. I think I’m definitely gonna have to check this out.

[Sk3ptic03]

Awesome guide, saw there wasn't one and almost turned down going for the plat, thank you!

[sk_lp_him]

Small correction on Fowl Play - the bird is located behind a forge on the lower section of the Palathon, not behind a portal.

[Blue_Streak95]

Thank you so much for this. Missable trophies can be annoying, but you laid it out so nicely.

[b1blazin13]

Above comment 

Edited May 12 by b1blazin13