Overview:
Estimated trophy difficulty: (Platinum Difficulty Thread) 5/10 (personal estimate)
Offline: 49 (38 7 3 1)
Online: 0
Approximate amount of time to platinum: ~100 hrs
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Missable trophies: Yes, ????????? (Teacher of Battle), ????????? (Celestial of Battle), ????????????? (Sunshine of Battle), ???????? (Kind Shell Suppressor)
Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No
Japanese knowledge required: Intermediate-Advanced
Roadmap:
This site (fully in Japanese) is a great resource for TOX2 information. It has a walkthrough, maps, guides to character episodes and friendship choices and other misc info.
Don't speak enough Japanese to understand the menus and gameplay system? No problem, AppleKratue's FAQ has you covered: CLICKY
Step 1:
You just want to aim for beating the game first. As you unlock quests and see the gigant monsters become available, make sure you kill 18 of them within 2 minutes each during the storyline (use easy difficulty if needed). Send the Cat Dispatch (you can choose an area to send cats out to at fixed intervals, and they come back with random items from a short list in each area) out to any area with ??? items at every chance you get. Starting from Chapter 13 make sure you don't use Rudgar's transformation too often and try to get to the bad ending route as quickly as possible. At chapter 15 choose to take the bad ending route, then continue from that save. In Chapter 16 you'll have a choice of doing the normal or true ending route. The true ending route has some bonus dialogue depending on your friendship levels with your teammates, it's up to you if you wish to do it later. Either way earn one ending, save then continue from that save to earn the other.
Once you clear the game, you'll have:
????? (World Destroyer)
????? (Victor)
??????? (Blood-stained brothers) (with bad ending)
???????? (Kind Shell Suppressor) (with bad ending, if you used Rudgar's transformation less than 50 times from chapter 13)
??????? (Bested the Adjudicator) (with true ending)
?????????? (Fate Repeater) (with normal ending)
(steps 2-6 are concurrent)
Step 2:
Find at least 1 cat in every area so that you can use Cat Dispatch, and work on the secret dungeon. Also focus on getting strong enough to handle all the gigant monsters.
When you fill in every area with Cat Dispatch (including all cats), you get:
?????? (We are as cats)
When you kill at least 50 of the 52 gigant monsters, you get:
??????? (Gigant Exterminator)
After (or during, depending on your diligence) the secret dungeon and if you've earned most of the Cat Dispatch items, you'll definitely have:
????????? (Monster Doctor)
????????? (Item Crazy)
?????? (Hero Monster Vanquisher)
Step 3:
Work on grinding out everyone's native skill uses and their support skill uses:
????????????? (Which Rudgar transformation level was that?)
???????? (Living Legend of Focus Dodging)
??????? (Maxwell)
?????? (Charged for 3 years)
??????? (Tipo Bunshin no Jutsu)
??????????? (Fortissississississimo)
?????????????? (Staff Extension Indignation)
????????????? (Requiem of a Treasonous Gaius)
???????? (Reavyorulter)
?????? (Mimic General)
????????? (Who needs Raise Dead?)
???????? (Bind Queen)
??? (Breaker)
?????? (Master of Absorption)
???????? (Imprevious Spell Master)
???????? (The worst donburi shop)
????? (Physical Instructor)
???? (Limousine)
Step 4:
Now work on maxing your friendship with everyone using Poker to earn ???????S (Friend Link S) items.
This gets you:
?????? (Gambler)
?????????? (Shining Friend Jude)
??????? (Echoes of Milla)
???????????? (Living and Breathing Alvin)
???????? (Forever with Elize)
????? (Rowen Army)
???????????? (Always with Leia!)
???????????? (Conquering with Gaius)
????????? (Muzee Muzee Muzee)
??????? (Everyone's Friend)
Step 5:
Work on finishing up the battle challenges. See my battle challenge guide here.
This will get you:
????????? (Teacher of Battle)
????????? (Celestial of Battle)
????????????? (Sunshine of Battle)
Step 6:
Mop up everything else. You will certainly be strong enough to handle the EX Tag Arena, so use that or other farming means to reach level 200. If you challenge the EX Tag Arena again after clearing the secret dungeon (and prerequisite quests), you can earn the Arena ending and ??????? (A life of passing the buck) . If you've taken out most of the gigant monsters, you'll probably have returned enough money for that alternate ending and ??????? (A clean body) . Grind out link artes uses and the combo trophy if you don't already have it. Congrats on your new Platinum!
[PS3T Would Like to Thank Akari for this Road Map]