Road Map
Overview:
Difficulty: Community Vote: 2/10 (Vote here!)
Time to Platinum: 20-30 hours
Offline trophies: 33 (17 , 10 , 5, 1)
Online trophies: 0
Playthroughs needed: 1 The whole game is one giant playthrough but has 22 endings. Sections can be skipped and each Escape only needs to be done once.
Missable trophies: None
Glitched trophies: None but there is a potential save corruption glitch in the PEC room. See the Escape Guide for details.
Do Cheats disable trophies?: No Cheats
Does Difficulty affect trophies?: Yes, all Escapes must be done on Hard.
Special thanks to unnxandros for helping me out with some puzzle solutions, creating the graphics (including the banner) and testing the escape write ups. This guide wouldn't be finished without his help!
WARNING: Before you start playing, I'd like to point out that it's been reported that there's a glitch in the Pressure Exchange Chamber. This bug can cause the game to crash and possibly corrupt your save file. Thus far I've seen reports that, while this issue is predominantly featured in the 3DS version, the crash can occur on the PS Vita version but shouldn't impact your save file. However, this is not guaranteed and I urge you to back up your save when you get to this room. You can do this using a PS3 system...connect your Vita to backup your save info. Another option is to use the Vita's multiple save slots to your advantage. Whenever you save do so in slots 1 and 2 so you always have a backup.
Introduction:
Welcome to the Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward Road Map and Trophy Guide! For starters this game is a very easy platinum but it's more than that, it's also an amazing game. The puzzles are very clever and the story is incredibly well put together. In my opinion this is one of the best games on the Vita.
The game is very, very story-heavy. Most of your time will be reading lines of text and listening to characters chat. It also features multiple branching story paths, and 22 different endings. Some endings are story locked and require you finish a different path before you can continue. Because of this, the game requires a lot of jumping around from path to path go get different clues.
To help you on your ZE: VLR Platinum, we've put together a few things:
Escape Guide
Full ZE: VLR Flow Chart
Ending Paths Guide
Optimal Ending Path
Before you start please note that the game defaults to Hard difficulty. To get the Platinum, you need to complete each Escape on Hard. The only difference between Hard and Easy is that if you get stumped on Easy, the characters in the room with you will give you hints. On Hard you get no hints. Lucky for you we have included a link to the Escape Guide in the list above.
Step 1: Play through to one ending on your own
Don't worry about endings, story locks or clues, just play through one full path on your own with no guide. This will help you get a hang of the story and how the game works. If you're stuck on an Escape or a certain puzzle, refer to the guides above.
Step 2: Clear all story locks, complete all escapes and obtain all endings
You've cleared your first ending or possibly arrived at a "To Be Continued..." message. Since the real end of this game, is the true ending, I'd consider playing through each character's ending part of the natural progression of the game. If you play through the game on Hard, completing each escape, clearing every story lock and unlocking every ending, you'll get your Platinum.
Remember you have 22 endings to complete, if you follow the Endings Guide you can get a full walkthrough for each one. You can also use the Optimal Ending Path to minimize your jumping around and get the results you're looking for much faster. To jump to different sections of your game, you'll need to access your Flow Chart. This can be done in one of two ways. Either push Down on your D-Pad or tap the Menu option on the bottom left of the screen and click FLOW.
Step 3: Clean Up
If for some reason you missed a trophy for getting all files or completing all escapes on Hard, check the description below. If you're following the Optimal Ending Path then you shouldn't miss anything.
[PS3T Would Like to Thank professorstotch for this Road Map]