Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 4/10 (Platinum Difficulty Thread)
- Offline trophies: 40 (21, 15, 3, 1)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 10-25 hours, skill dependent (Estimated Time to Platinum)
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1 + Free Dance
- Number of missable trophies: None
- Glitched trophies: None
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: Yes, some songs need to be done on Hard
- Do trophies stack?: Yes
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No known cheats
Introduction:
Welcome to Persona 4: Dancing All Night trophy guide. This is a rhythm game in the Persona series, this particular game is based on Persona 4 and is considered to be a sequel to it. This game isn't that tough to platinum in my opinion. Other than having to clear some songs on hard difficulty, you can do almost everything else on easy mode. Since there's a ton of cutscenes to watch, the story mode takes about 12 hours to complete if you don't fast forward through any of them. This adds up to the estimated time to platinum, and is also why the platinum can take from 10 to 25 hours.
The songs have an outer ring where you have to hit three buttons on each side. The left side has , , and buttons, while the right side has , , and buttons. You have to press the button when a note approaches it. Notes in this game are identified by their shape and color. Yellow star notes require you to hit a button once they reach the outer ring. Purple "U" notes require you to hit two different buttons on separate sides on the outer ring. Green "H" notes require you to hold down the button until the other end of the note. As for blue/fever rings, you need to "scratch" the screen or tilt either analog sticks in any direction.
Walkthrough:
Step 1: Beat the Story Mode.
First thing you can do is to finish the story mode. Clear all 7 chapters, then after the credits finish rolling, go back to story mode and view two more cutscenes in chapter 8. While you are doing this mode, you will most likely trigger at least one Bond Fever.
You should have enough P$ from the story mode to unlock Margaret, so go to the shop and choose the Items (first choice) tab. Buy the last item on the list, the Spiral Brooch, for P$10,000. Leave the shop to get a cutscene, after that Margaret will become playable.
After this step, you should have the following trophies:
Working Together
The Festival Begins
Closing Night
A Night to Remember
Tidy Up Your Toys
Standing Room Only
Bearwell!
The Empress Dethroned
Bond Dancers, Go!
Time to Party Harder
Step 2: Some Free Dance fun.
In this step, you should focus on the Free Dance trophies, there are quite a few trophies you can get in this mode. But before you start on any of them, you should have at least P$50,000 from beating the story mode. Go into the shop and buy one costume and one accessory for Yu. From the Items tab, buy the only book available for sale, which costs P$2,680. You should also buy at least one costume for all characters, pick the cheapest costume for every character to afford getting one new costume for each.
Enter Free Dance mode and choose "specialist" on easy difficulty. Wear both the costume and the accessory you bought earlier for Yu. Once the song starts, hit one or two notes then ignore the rest to fail and end the song early. Return to the main menu and choose Collection, then Score and hit on the "specialist" song (easy). Hit again on the results screen to watch your replay of the failed song.
After failing the "specialist" song, do it again on the same difficulty. Make sure to set the note speed to [ 1 ], you can do this by choosing Custom, then the second choice. On the same Free Dance Settings menu, you can see the book you bought from the shop displayed on the top-right corner, turn it on with before you start the song. Clear the song normally this time.
Do a different song on easy difficulty again with the note speed set to [ 7 ], without using books. After you finish the song, go to the shop's item tab and buy the five new books you just unlocked.
Clear another song on easy difficulty while using the first and third listed books on the Play Custom settings window. The third book makes the notes super slow, so it shouldn't be too tough to clear. This will unlock another book, buy the new book from the items shop to unlock the last book, you should buy that too.
If you have "Your Affection (Daisuke Asakura Remix)" song unlocked, which you should if you cleared the first two songs on the Free Dance list, clear it on normal with Auto partner (Rise).
On to the toughest challenge for this , you need to get the rank "King Crazy" on any song/difficulty. To do this, you need to hit Perfect on most notes (varies between songs, but I think it's around 90%) in a song and not miss a single note. Good notes will affect your score and prevent you from getting this rank, so try not to get them. I find this easiest on "Your Affection" (easy) with note speed set to [ 7 ]. You might have to practice quite a bit for this trophy, test some note speeds until you find the right speed for you.
Now pick "specialist" or "Your Affection" on hard mode and try to get Perfect on more than half of the total notes. You can use power up items to make this easier. After this, clear two more songs on hard difficulty to unlock two items (you can use power up items).
If you follow this step to the letter, you should have the following trophies:
Appearance Matters
That Familiar Rush
Empty Seats
Hit the Dance Floor
Love Connections
Born Entertainer
What's a "Miss"?
Perfectionist
New Personal Best
Fashion Police
The Final Touch
Star Dancer
Dream Team
Step 3: Finish Free Dance, pair up partners.
Clear all the Free Dance songs, there are 27 total songs. You only need to clear each song once on any difficulty. Try to always have a partner with you and to hit all fever rings to get 30 Bond Fevers. As you're doing this, change the main dancer costume on every new song you unlock, it has to be a non-default costume. Do this once for each character. If a character doesn't have any costumes besides the default one, buy the cheapest costume from the shop.
While you are going through the Free Dance songs, you should finish the following songs in the listed conditions to get all the pairing trophies:
- "Pursuing My True Self (Shinichi Osawa Remix)" on any difficulty with Yosuke as the partner.
- "Your Affection (Daisuke Asakura Remix)" on any difficulty with Nanako as the partner.
- "Now I Know (Yuu Miyake Remix)" on hard difficulty with Auto partner.
- "Signs Of Love" on normal difficulty with Auto partner.
- "Heartbeat, Heartbreak" on easy difficulty with Auto partner.
- "Your Affection" on easy difficulty with Auto partner.
- "Time To Make History" on easy difficulty with Auto partner.
- "Shadow World (ATLUS Kozuka Remix)" on any difficulty.
- "Like a dream come true" on hard difficulty with Auto partner.
- "Pursuing My True Self (ATLUS Kozuka Remix)" on easy difficulty with Auto partner.
- "Maze Of Life" on easy difficulty with Auto partner.
- "Maze Of Life" on any difficulty with Rise as the partner.
- "Snowflakes (Narasaki Remix)" on any difficulty with Chie as the partner.
- "Heaven (Norihiko Hibino Remix)" on any difficulty with Kanji as the partner.
- "Shadow World" on any difficulty with Nanako as the partner.
- "Time To Make History (Akira Yamaoka Remix)" on normal difficulty with Auto partner.
- "Signs Of Love (TK Remix)" on hard difficulty with Auto partner.
- "Junes Theme (Vocal Version)" on any difficulty.
- "Dance!" on normal difficulty with Auto partner.
- "Best Friends" on any difficulty with Naoto as the partner.
- "Heartbeat, Heartbreak (Towa Tei Remix)" on any difficulty.
- "Backside Of The TV (Lotus Juice Remix)" on normal difficulty with Auto partner.
- "Best Friends (Banvox Remix)" on any difficulty with Yukiko as the partner.
You can use any power up items to help with the hard mode songs from above. Once you clear the last Free Dance song, go to story mode and view all four cutscenes in the "Special" chapter.
You should have all items unlocked by now, so head over to the item shop and buy all items available for sale. Next, go to Collection from the main menu and choose Database for a trophy.
After going through the above list, you should have:
To Greater Heights
Hooked on Shopping
I Am Thou, Thou Art I
The Party Never Ends
Costume Coordinator
Inseparable
Nanako Forever!
Senpai, You're So Cool!
Red and Green
The Junes Special
Beauty and the Beast
Historian
Step 4: Grinding/Cleanup.
All that is left to do is grind for P$ to buy all costumes and accessories for all characters. Along the way, you will get a trophy for spending P$500,000 on the shop.
You need to spend P$1,241,640 to buy everything the shop has to offer. This amount may seem impossible to accumulate, but from the above steps (1 to 3) you should have at least half or close to half of this amount.
A good way to farm P$ is to pick an easy song on a high difficulty and turn on some books to increase the P$ gain. "Your Affection" on normal with +310% P$ gives you around P$24,000+ if you clear it with Brilliant rank. Hard mode of the same song and settings gives you P$54,200 if you get Brilliant rank.
Another method is to pick a song/difficulty you're comfortable with, then turn on the last book that hides all the notes of the song but increases P$ gain by 800%, and finish the song while watching a video of it to see the notes.
If you have any other trophies you missed, try to do them now. You should get the after this step.
You should have the following trophies after buying everything from the shop:
Best Dressed
Closet Full of Dreams
Lapidary
Regular Customer
Dancing All Night
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