See "Way of the Samurai"

See "Way of the Samurai"

Consult the Ending Guide (Spoilers) thread for confirmed paths for obtaining the game's Endings.

See "Samurai Master"

See "Samurai Master"

Clear the game on the applicable difficulty level. Trophies pertaining to clearing the game on a certain difficulty level do not stack. Purchasing items that raise your maximum HP (Buddhist Beads, Talismans and Ancient Amulets) is strongly advised, particularly to complete the game's higher difficulty levels. Additionally, by purchasing Match Scrolls from the weapons merchant in Posting Station and maxing out your "Matched Skills" list, many of your enemies attacks will be blocked automatically so long as the Auto-Parry option is set to its default "ON" setting. Those still having trouble with the higher difficulty levels are advised to choose Endings involving minimal combat. Consult the Ending Guide (Spoilers) thread for confirmed paths for obtaining the game's Endings.

The Dojimas of Takatane Village and Omiki Town will allow you to create your own weapons so long as you possess a blade, guard, grip and pommel. These items are available for purchase from the game's various merchants, and can also be found on any number of the bodies you will undoubtedly leave in your wake.

See "Ninja Stance Mastery"

See "Ninja Stance Mastery"

See "Ninja Stance Mastery"

See "Ninja Stance Mastery"

See "Ninja Stance Mastery"

Purchase Bare Hands Stance scrolls from the weapons merchant at Posting Station; all scrolls pertaining to stance mastery are available from this merchant after Day 5. Each of these items allows your character to master a single skill; continue purchasing and using these scrolls until the trophy unlocks.

See "Ninja Stance Mastery"

You will have to collect all of the game's 102 weapons to be able to unlock the Stance Mastery trophies. Consult the Weapons List / Locations thread for a complete list of the game's weapons and the locations of some of the rarer ones. Each weapon in the game possesses unique skills, and while you can master these skills by using each weapon in combat, the slightly less time-consuming option is to purchase Basic, Advance and Special scrolls from the weapons merchant at Posting Station and use these items with the sword you want them applied to equipped. All scrolls pertaining to stance mastery are available from this merchant after Day 5. Consult the weapon's Skill List to check your progress; when all skills for a weapon have been mastered, a dialog box will appear in the upper right hand corner of the screen indicating so.

Purchase Dual Sword Stance scrolls from the weapons merchant at Posting Station; all scrolls pertaining to stance mastery are available from this merchant after Day 5. Each of these items allows your character to master a single skill; continue purchasing and using these scrolls until the trophy unlocks.

Purchase Ninja Dual Sword Stance scrolls from the weapons merchant at Posting Station; all scrolls pertaining to stance mastery are available from this merchant after Day 5. Each of these items allows your character to master a single skill; continue purchasing and using these scrolls until the trophy unlocks.

When your opponent's weapon's durability is reduced to 0, it will break. This will undoubtedly happen several times on your way to getting this game's Platinum Trophy.

Your weapon's non-lethal mode can be toggled with the Select button.

Note that this trophy will not trigger until the playthrough in which you reached the 10 hour mark is over (i.e. you cleared the game, were killed or chose Leave Amana from the World Map).

Speak with one of the Dojimas in Takatane Village or Omiki Town and choose Upgrade Weapon.

This trophy will be unlocked a few thousand times over while working towards the Platinum Trophy.

See "Weapon Specialist"

This trophy will be unlocked while working towards the Stance Mastery trophies.

See "Power of 100"

Successful parries occasionally trigger "Glimpse of Death" mode, in which successfully hitting the designated face button on your PS3 controller results in an Instant Kill (HIT SATSU). Successfully performing an Instant Kill will put you into the state of Chain Kill (REN SATSU), in which simply being approached by enemies triggers the "Glimpse of Death". Killing 100 enemies in a single chain unlocks the "Power of 100" trophy.

• The first designated button will always be the X button.
• The button image's motion corresponds to its location on the controller, e.g. when the X button is displayed, the image moves in a downward direction.
• Pausing the game immediately upon entering "Glimpse of Death" mode gives you more than enough time to see which button has been designated to continue your Chain Kill; unpause the game while spamming the indicated button to continue your chain.
• The hardest part of this trophy is finding the 100 enemies in the first place. Your best opportunity would be found in undertaking an elimination job for any of the job brokers, which are given after killing a member of the job broker's faction. Some of the climactic battles found within the game's storyline also feature unlimited spawning enemies.

See "Legendary Samurai"

See "Legendary Samurai"

See "Master of Skills"

See "Master of Skills"

This trophy will be unlocked while working towards the Stance Mastery trophies.

This trophy will be unlocked while working towards the Stance Mastery trophies.

See "Job Seeker"

Cumulative. This trophy will be unlocked while working towards the Platinum Trophy.

Consult the Partner Recruitment Guide thread for information on obtaining partners. You only need to obtain one, but as many of the characters carry very rare swords, you will likely need to obtain at least most of them while working towards the Stance Mastery trophies.

Sword Safes can be purchased for 2000 Yen from the weapons merchant at Posting Station.

Story-related. This trophy will be unlocked while working towards "Way of the Samurai".

The Dojo is the multi-storied building at Guard Gate. You will have to defeat two other teachers at the Dojo before gaining access to Sensei. The easiest way to obtain this title is undoubtedly by playing on Instant Kill mode, where you'll be able to get a shot in before they even knew what hit them. Defeating Sensei with a Blunt Attack encourages her to give you a Golden Egg... kill her afterwards anyway to get your hands on her Bokuto.

See "Title Master"

Consult the Title List / Requirements thread for information on obtaining titles.

Kill an enemy with a broken weapon. Best done on Instant Kill difficulty.

Defeat an enemy with Blunt Attack with a broken weapon. Best done on Instant Kill difficulty.

See "Legendary Samurai"

See "Legendary Samurai"

Upon beginning a new game, allow one of the thugs harassing Chidori outside of Munechika's farm in Takatane Village to hit you at least once. Eat a radish, and choose "Leave Amana" from the World Map to obtain the Vegetarian title, and a surprisingly substantial number of Samurai Points. Repeat this process until reaching 10000 Samurai Points to obtain the "Samurai Leader", "Samurai Hero" and "Legendary Samurai" trophies, as well as the "Head Collector" and "Outfit Collector" trophies.