Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10 (Platinum Difficulty Thread)
- Offline trophies: 35 (17, 13, 4, 1)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 35-50 Hours (Estimated Time to Plat Thread)
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1 (2 highly recommended for NG+ bonuses)
- Number of missable trophies: 4 (Ascension Ending, Revival Ending, Treasure Master, and Quiz King)
- Glitched trophies: 0
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: N/A
- Do trophies stack?: Yes, English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: N/A
- Additional peripherals required?: No
Introduction: Megadimension Neptunia VII not only marks the eighth-generation debut of the Neptunia series, but is also the next true main game in the series after a three-year hiatus filled with remakes and spinoffs all on the Vita and generally by other developers. The time spent away from the series shows, with a largely revamped gameplay system and several quality-of-life improvements such as fully-skippable cutscenes (no more having to wait for the cutscenes to run through on NG+!) and improvements to the scout system from Victory, not to mention better graphics than previous entries in the series.
As far as the platinum, while there isn’t quite as much aimless grinding this time around with only one character required to have maxed lily ranks and the credit grinds being largely trivial, there is also a lot more involvement thanks to hidden treasure challenges as well as some RNG madness with the figures and especially the cards, so it evens out in the end to being just as annoying as previous entries in the series if not more so because in addition, the game is also more difficult to go through, though not terribly so.
Step 1: Ascension Ending: Start by playing the game naturally, just make sure to get the Ascension ending as the requirements for it are very simple and the bad ending does not grant you any trophy at all. During the run, you should try to beat the Hyperdimension Neplunker so you can have some fun breaking boxes. You should also make sure to aim for the Millionaire trophy as soon as the game lets you.
If you want to optimize your trophy route, you should try to do a few things before you finish your run. First, you should aim for 100 formation skills for Coordination Expert early on because they aren't very good in end game. Second, before you finish this playthrough, if you got the 250 million credits for Millionaire, you should invest in Public Relations in Ruins of the Heart, Planeptune, Leanbox, and Lowee to trigger their Quiz! Millionep events to get 32 Chocolate eggs and 62 CPU Chips that can turn into all the Figurines needed for Figure Collector and hopefully some of the Rares and Super Rares needed for Card Master. It's best to go for at least one Super Rare each time you max out your chips so you have at least two out of the way in your first playthrough alone, but if you want to do them all at once, you can wait.
Trophies Earned in This Step
Neptune Activated
Zero Dimension Master
Hyper Dimension Master
Ascension Ending
Slice Through!
Investor
Owner
Mayor
Trader
Got Rare Item!
Got Super Rare Item!
Figure Collector
Millionaire
Battle Veteran
Ultimate Evolution
Pinch Coordination
Surround Coordination
Coordination Expert
Quiz King
Step 2: Revival Ending: Now that you have an already-leveled party and various NG+ bonuses, you should have no problem meeting the conditions for the Revival Ending. You can work on other miscellaneous trophies during this, though if you want the ending quickly, you can just go through the game as quickly as you can while meeting the requirements and you can possibly beat the game in as little as 2-4 hours depending on how much you skip cutscenes. That said, you should try to send scouts to dungeons whenever possible to start working on unlocking challenges for Treasure Hunter as it involves scouts and will take place in the background for the most part.
Trophies Earned in This Step
Revival Ending
Step 3: Post-Game Cleanup: Now that you're in postgame, you can clean up any trophies you have left. However, your main focus will probably be Treasure Hunter because almost every other post game trophy can done while doing Treasure Hunter or can be helped along by Treasure Hunter. Just make sure to effectively use your scouts since dungeons take time to scout and some dungeons take a lot longer than others. For more details, see the description for each individual trophy.
Trophies Earned in This Step
Lovey-Dovey
Harem
Godly Game Creator
Sucky Game Creator
Figure Collector (if not gotten yet)
Card Master
Treasure Hunter
Scavenger Novice
Scavenger Master
Item Meister
Battle Master
Hit Combo
Maximum Firepower
Coordination Expert (if not grinded out beforehand)
Parts Remover
Max Level Attained
Megadimension Master
[PST would like to thank blissfulyoshi for this roadmap]