Beast of Reincarnation Trophy Guide & Roadmap

Both Emma’s and Koo’s Skill Trees are divided into 2 sections: the roots and the tree itself.

For  Blademaster (Emma) and  Floral Profusion (Koo), you will only need to get all the skills in the tree section and get all the upgrades for each of them. At level 100 you will have enough Skill Points to unlock all skills for either Emma or Koo and most of the other character’s skills.

An easy trick is to save the game, get one of the trophies, reload the savefile and get the other trophy afterward.

For  Giant Tree Budburst (Emma) and  Giant Tree in Bloom (Koo), you will instead need to get all the skills in the root section of the skill tree and also the base level of every skill in the tree section. Once again save and reload to pop both trophies, thus you don’t need to grind more levels for skill points.

1. Mechblade (Standard) – Starting Weapon
2. Purifier Blade – Starting Weapon
3. First Moon – Giant Tree Zone – while progressing with the story path to obtain the cable car tickets, you will find a Golem next to a cable car which will tell you that a Nushi took something from him and ate it. After defeating the Nushi, head back to the golem and do not peak inside the thing you got from the Nushi and the sword will be your reward.
4. Cirrus Sword – Ogouchi Buffer Zone – At Nushi’s Lair: Gate Approach campsite, can be picked up after speaking with the Gatekeeper Golem during story events.
5. Mechblade (Light) – Ogouchi Buffer Zone – Directly above the Ruined Tower Area campsite on the top floor of the Ruined Tower, in the tent behind where the Elite Golem was located.
6. Mechblade (Heavy) – Ancient Civilization Zone – South of Reservoir Interior campsite, through the room where Lacerta is fought for the first time, on the other side of the hole in the ground that the characters comment on during the story, directly in front of the Lore Painting.
7. Thunderwave Sword – Ancient Civilization Zone – Automatically received after defeating the Elite Golem while obtaining the Lightning Stone during story progression.
8. Purity – Ancient Civilization Zone – South of Raging River campsite, purchasable from Ancient Golem vendor.
9. Bell Sword – The Great Wall Terraces – South of Mountain Plaza: Forefront campsite, purchase from Wandering Merchant vendor.
10. Hunter’s Sword – The Great Wall Terraces – Directly beside Great Forest Entrance campsite, interact with the Storyteller Golem and choose to listen to their story, then pick up the sword beside them.
11. Sunrise Sword – Pilgrim’s Zone – North of Scorched Grassland campsite in the middle of the path.
12. Resonance Sword – Matsukawa Zone – Northwest of Cave Entrance campsite, in the room where you are required to fight the three Malefect to progress, in front of the Lore Painting.
13. Hazebringer – Matsukawa Zone – South of Upper Matsukawa Colony (Front), go through the door on the central pillar and then take the elevator down to the lower area. After taking the elevator down to the lower level it is sticking out of a Malefact body in the second room.
14. Shark Cutter – Fuji Frontier Zone – Directly beside Bridge Control Room: Approach campsite, stuck in the ground in front of a painted wall.
15. Fall Thunder – Giant Tree Zone – Automatically obtained after defeating Elite Golem when obtaining the Giant Tree Key.
16. Winterwake – Crater Zone – purchasable from the Merchant next to the Nushi’s Lair Entrance campsite.
17. Spring Storm – Crater Zone – from the Lake Base: Outer Wall campsite follow the story path and you will find it at a dead golem on your left, sitting on some crates.
18. Silverlight – Inukami River Zone – Once you reach the Ruined Plaza campsite (an open area with many small pillars), you can find the sword in the middle of the plaza.
19. Black Blossom – Mount Hiei Zone – Awarded for defeating Nue and Shidou.
20. Camelia – The Capital / Cleanse Walker – After defeating Kunai and Kirin in the Capital, Kunai will leave the sword to you in the cleanse walker, together with a document.
21. Kanzashi – Reward for beating the game.

1. Lore Painting #1 – Ogouchi Buffer Zone –  Northeast of Cliff-Facing Tower campsite, go across the lower area and grapple up on the far side where there is a cave directly in front, interact with the back wall
2. Lore Painting #2 – Ancient Civilization Zone – South of Reservoir Interior campsite, through the room where Lacerta is fought for the first time, on the other side of the hole in the ground that the characters comment on during the story.
3. Lore Painting #3 – The Great Wall Terraces – South of Mountain Overlook campsite, shoot the explosive container through the metal grate wall near the Keeper Golem to break the wall beside the Campsite. Enter the room to find the Lore Painting.
4. Lore Painting #4 – Pilgrim’s Zone – Northeast of Trail Area campsite, follow the path around the stone structure to where there is a cave to the east where this Lore Painting is located along with some other items.
5. Lore Painting #5 – Matsukawa Zone – Northwest of Cave Entrance campsite, in the room where you are required to fight the three Malefacts to progress, behind where the Resonance Sword was located.
6. Lore Painting #6 – Fuji Frontier Zone – West of Bridge Control Room: Approach, after the Nue encounter continue west, and before the path turns north there is a tall wooden platform you can grapple up to reach a cave behind the statue. At the end of the cave is the Lore Painting
7. Lore Painting #7 – Giant Tree Zone – From the Cableway Line 2 Peak A campsite head east into the building nearby to find it.
8. Lore Painting #8 – Crater Zone – From the Crater Rear campsite head east into the crater and turn immediately around to find a tunnel that will lead to this Lore Painting.
9. Lore Painting #9 – Inukami River Zone – Enter the ruins next to the Ruined Plaza campsite and follow the path inside. After defeating an Elite enemy you can use the grapple in the room to reach another path that leads to the final Lore Painting.

There are close to 30 per playthrough, but not enough to get the trophy in a single playthrough, You can talk to the same ones again in New Game+ and it counts toward the 30 total. For example, if you talked to 20 on the first playthrough and then talk to the first 10 again in NG+ you will get the trophy.

» Beast of Reincarnation Collectible Guide (coming soon)

If you don’t plan to actively use this ability and only need to do it for the trophy, you can manually save your game at the bed in the Cleanse Walker, then reset either Emma or Koo’s attributes, then return to the title screen and load your manual save to undo the reset.

The trophy will unlock naturally as long as you equip Koo with any ability that use recources.

This trophy unlocks automatically while progressing through the first region of the game, when you are called back to the Cleanse Walker to speak with Kagura.

This trophy is awarded automatically during the second flashback story sequence, at the end of the cutscene before fighting the malefact boss. You can use the Entangle ability before this point, but the trophy unlocks specifically from this point in the story when it occurs.

This trophy is awarded automatically after the prologue of the game, once you gain access to the first open world area.

Every boss fight in the game follows a similar pattern in combat. The enemy will attack you with moves you are required to parry, unless the attack has a red glow in which case you have to dodge it.

Koo’s moves are always an indicator of which element the boss is weak to, since it will say “weak” next to Koo’s attacks if the boss is weak to a specific element. Later in the game, as well as in New Game+, all bosses can be defeated very quickly with a specific combo, explained below:

If you want to defeat the bosses very quickly use the following setup: (not available immediately from starting the game, but can be abused in late game and for the entire New Game+ playthrough)

• Equip the following stones with Emma: Entanglement Stone 3, Double-Edged Sword 3, Entangled Combo 3 and 2, and whatever you like for the last 2 slots (Final Infusion and Entangled Conquest are good).
• Level up skills Kiku and Kiku Finisher for Emma for maximum damage
• As soon the fight starts use Higanbana Roots (use Resonance Mod on it) with Koo to keep the enemy in place.
• With Emma use following combo:  and enjoy the show.

The second input starts Kiku which does ridiculous damage and the third one performs Kiku Finisher. The stone and mod setup will let you start a fight with more than enough Entanglement Gauge to perform the combo at the start of each fight. Afterward, just perform some parries to repeat the process.