- Estimated trophy difficulty: Trophy Difficulty Rating (7-8/10 personal estimate)
- Offline: 13 (9 , 3, 1)
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 8-12 hours.
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 complete playthrough of the story + replay last chapter once, 1 play each of the 2 arcade modes, and completion of 24 challenges.
- Number of missable trophies: None.
- Glitched trophies: None known at this time.
- Does difficulty affect trophies? No, the story mode can be played on any difficulty, and there are no difficulty options for either the challenges or the arcade mode.
- Do cheat codes disable trophies? No cheat codes known.
- Special Notes: This is available in the PSN store for $3.99, and is for the VITA only. There are no online or ad-hoc trophies.
This game is a variation of Fruit Ninja, where you slash hordes of zombie ninjas. The game is played entirely with the touch screen. You swipe your finger across the screen to slash, jump and dash, and tap or hold the screen to move/run. Overall the controls work decently, although the precision is lacking at times, and can make it more frustrating especially when you are fighting large waves.
Be warned that this is not a quick and easy 100%. While the bulk of the trophies come from the rather short and easy story mode, the challenges are quite demanding, and will take a number of attempts to master. As this game is essentially a one trick pony, it can become repetitive.
Step 1: Complete the 7 Chapters of the Story Mode
I would suggest playing through the story from start to finish, completing the 7 chapters. This will earn you all 5 boss kill trophies, the story complete trophy, and one ending trophy. The chapters, on average, range from 15-30 minutes to complete, so you should be able to finish the story in 2 hours.
Completing story mode will also unlock the first 19 Challenges, as well as the arcade mode (after finishing chapter 4), and the Samurai character (after completing the story).
You do have one very important decision to make during this step - upgrade your health and stamina first to make your playthrough easier, or focus on upgrading your Ninjutsu skills to unlock the remaining 5 Challenges. You will not gain enough experience in one playthrough to upgrade everything. I would recommend at least partially upgrading your health and stamina, as you can grind experience fairly quickly in Step 3.
Trophies earned in this step - 7
Bamboo Ranger
High Noon
Monkey Spider
Minefield
Spooky Keeper
Way of the Ninja OR Way of the Samurai
Shadow Warrior
Step 2: Replay the Final Chapter to Complete Alternate Ending
Once you have defeated the final boss, you have an interactive cut scene. There is a white slash outline on the screen. If you trace it with your finger you kill the boss earning Way of the Ninja. If you do not trace it, the cut scene will end and you earn Way of the Samurai. You will gain one of these trophies in Step 1, depending upon which action you chose. Your goal here is simply to earn the other. This chapter should only take about 5-10 minutes to complete.
Trophies earned in this step - 1
Way of the Ninja OR Way of the Samurai
Step 3: Arcade Mode
Once you have completed Chapter 4 in the Story Mode, the 2 Arcade Modes will be unlocked. They are very simple - one is a defend game where you fight waves of incoming enemies for as long as you can survive, the other is an attack game where you fight wave after wave of enemy, killing as many as you can. Play one game of each and the trophy is yours.
If you do this after completing a full playthrough of the game, you can swap characters from the Ninja to the Samurai, earning No Remorse at the same time.
Important note - if you did not fully upgrade your ninjutsu during Step 1, I would suggest replaying Gatekeeper to grind out the necessary experience, and add towards your 5000 kills. You should be able to get 100-150 kills and 3-4 experience levels in about 5 minutes.
Trophies earned in this step - 1
Grilled Bear
Step 4: Challenges
This will be the most time consuming step. As you play through the Story Mode, 19 challenges will be unlocked. The remaining 5 require you to fully upgrade all 5 ninjutsu skills. You do not gain any experience playing Challenges, so if you have not unlocked the ninjutsu challenges, you will need to grind experience from either Story or Arcade mode before you can complete this step.
These can be quite demanding, requiring you to get specific combo levels, kill certain numbers or types of enemies, survive for a specific amount of time etc. Many of these challenges will require multiple attempts. Unfortunately health and stamina upgrades from the story do not carry over, and for the most part you will not have access to your Ninjutsu power up attacks. There are 2 trophies to earn here, one for getting at least 1 star on all 24 challenges, and another for 3 stars on all 24. Expect to spend upwards of 5 hours on this.
If you do this after completing a full playthrough of the game, you can swap characters from the Ninja to the Samurai, earning No Remorse at the same time.
Trophies earned in this step - 2
1st Chamber
36th Chamber
Step 5: Clean Up and 5000 Kills
After finishing Steps 1-4, you potentially have 2 trophies left. At some point you need to play either an Arcade Mode or Challenge with the alternate Samurai character obtained by completing Story Mode. You may have done this in either Step 3 or 4.
You also need to accumulate 5000 total kills. All kills in Story Mode, Arcade and Challenge count towards this. You will likely have between 1500-2000 kills after completing Story Mode. Depending upon how many replays you need for the Challenges, and how much experience farming you needed in Step 3, this may come during Step 4. If not, I would suggest playing the Gatekeeper Arcade Mode to grind kills. You can get 100-150 each game fairly easily.
Trophies earned in this step - 2
No Remorse
The Cleaner
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