Ghost of Yotei Trophy Guide & Roadmap

• The Way of the Yari – starts in Ishikari Plain > Modaiwa Island
• The Path of the Yari – automatically starts after the previous tale
• The Yari’s Fury – starts in Ishikari Plain > White Deer Woodlands > Sensei Takahashi’s Dojo

• The Way of the Kusarigama – starts in the north of Teshio Ridge > Owl Mountain
• The Path of the Kusarigama – automatically starts after the previous tale
• The Kusarigama’s Shame – starts in the north of Teshio Ridge > Master Enomoto’s Dojo

• The Path of the Odachi – automatically starts during Main Tale: The Saito Brothers
• The Odachi’s Redemption – after the previous tale go to Tokachi Range > Horosaru Falls > Master Yoshida’s Dojo

• The Storm Blade – starts in Oshima Coast > by approaching the Forgotten Shrine in the south-west corner of Oshima Coast

• The Heart of the Ainu – starts in Nayoro Wilds region > Husko Kotan > talk to huci, she’ll be marked after reaching this region
• The Load We Bear – starts in Nayoro Wilds after the above tale

Ku-e-sh is an archery minigame, found in Yotei Grasslands > Golden Foothills > Ainu Hunting Grounds.

Talk to the little girl there. Then you can hold Touchpad to switch to a flashback from the past where you play as a kid. In the flashback, talk to the men that stand where the girl was, then follow Jubei to start the archery minigame. You must hit all 6 rings in one go. You only have 6 arrows so can’t miss a single shot. If you fail, you can retry this as often as you need in present times by talking to the man again.

3 rings are static and easy to hit. The 4th ring is rolled by the kid in the back right corner, shoot it after it rolled past the log. The 5th ring is being thrown by the kid in the middle, this is the hardest to hit. Aim at the center of the ring when it reaches the highest point of the throw, don’t aim ahead of it. The 6th ring is being rolled by the kid on the left, this one is easier to hit.

If you’ve been playing with aim assist enabled, it can be helpful to turn it off for this under Settings > Aim Assist.

• Takezo the Unrivalled – starts by completing any of the 5 Dueling Trees
• The Five Teachings – automatically starts after the above tale

• The Winter Farms – starts in the north-west of Teshio Ridge at Hana’s Farm.

• The Bomb Maker – starts in Ishikari Plain > Otaru Hills, when approaching the Bomb Maker
• Fight Fire With Fire – starts in Ishikari Plain > Ishikari Fork > Bear Rock, by throwing a Scorch Bomb on the ground

• Old Trails – starts in Yotei Grasslands > Shikotsu Woods > The Old Stables, by approaching the stables

First, you need to unlock the Tanzutsu (Pistol) by completing Sensei Tale: Guns and Consequences in Oshima Coast.

Then, you will need to buy the following 2 skills by praying at Altars of Reflection:

• Revenge > Attacks > Standoff Streak
• Revenge > Attacks > Standoff Unlock: Pistol (shows as “hidden” until you bought the above skill and did Sensei Tale: Guns and Consequences)

This allows you to use the Pistol during standoffs. Now approach a group of enemies that shows the “Standoff” prompt at the bottom of the screen. Press to start the standoff. Hold and release when the first enemy starts his attack. When the second enemy starts his attack press once. On the third enemy press to shoot with the pistol, which unlocks the trophy.

The “Standoff” option won’t always be there. It usually appears when you approach a larger group of enemies, or when only a few enemies are left in a fight. An easy spot to do it is in Ishikari Plain, at the entrance to Ishikari Castle. There’s a group of enemies in front of the castle that will have the Standoff option. If you’ve already conquered the castle, then try it at any other Yotei Six Camp. If you’ve finished all camps already, you can still find random groups of enemies throughout the open world, just ride around Yotei Grasslands and do it against any group of enemies who ride on horses.

First, you need to unlock the Kusarigama (Chain Weapon) by completing Sensei Tale: The Way of the Kusarigama in Teshio Ridge.

Then, you will need to buy the following 2 skills by praying at Altars of Reflection:

• Melee > Kusarigama > Ferocious Whirlwind
• Melee > Kusarigama > Lethal Talons

Now sneak up to any enemy from behind in stealth and you will get a button prompt to do a ranged Kusarigama takedown with + if you have at least 1 Spirit. Do this to unlock the trophy. It can be done from a few meters distance even if the Kusarigama isn’t equipped.

In case this doesn’t unlock, make sure you are playing with default Control Scheme (Settings > Controls > Default).

If you’ve already cleared out the entire map, you can still find enemies at Oshima Coast > Benten Port. Fast travel to the main entrance there and you’ll spawn right behind a group of enemies, can immediately do a stealth kill on them.

First, you will need one of two things to charge/kick enemies:

• Either complete Sensei Tale: The Way of the Yari to unlock the Yari Typhoon Kick. It can then be performed by equipping the Yari (Spear) and holding to do a charged heavy attack.
• Or visit Altars of Reflection to buy the skill Onryo > Survival > Shoulder Charge. This allows you to press while sprinting to knock down enemies.

Now use one of these methods on an enemy near the cliff to knock them down. They must die from the fall, if they survive it doesn’t count. An easy repeatable spot that still works after having conquered all Yotei Six Camps is in Teshio Ridge > Shipwreck Shoal > on the road south of Sarufutsu River. Here a random encounter can spawn where an archer is on a wooden platform at a tree and a bunch of other enemies ambush you. Lure one of them to the cliffs at the eastern edge of the map and knock them down the cliff into the water for an instakill. This spot still works reliably after having cleared out the entire map. If the enemies don’t spawn, just fast travel back and forth between other regions and Soya Port or try camping until they spawn (roughly 35% spawn chance).

First, you need to buy at least one of the following two skills by praying at Altars of Reflection:

• Onryo > Attacks > Disarm Counter – hold and release to hit enemies that are charging up a yellow glowing attack to disarm them.
• Onryo > Attacks > Onryo’s Strike – if you have 3 Spirit you can press + to instantly disarm enemies, however this has a chance to instakill them.

Use either of these to disarm an enemy, then pick up their melee weapon and throw it back at them by pressing . This must kill the enemy to pop the trophy. It helps to damage them a little bit beforehand to make sure they will die from a single weapon throw. If you use Onryo Strike, you’ll need to find a heavily armored samurai as regular unarmed enemies can instantly die from this attack. Therefore, using the “Disarm Counter” skill is generally better for this, you just need to wait for any enemy to do a yellow glowing attack, then hold and release .

If you’ve already cleared out the entire map, you can still find enemies at Oshima Coast > Benten Port. Fast travel to the main entrance there and you’ll spawn right behind a group of enemies. Just wait for one of them to do a yellow glowing attack. You can also still find random groups of enemies throughout the open world after having conquered all Yotei Six Camps.

First, you need to complete at least 2 Wolf Dens to purchase the following Wolf 2 skills:

• Wolf > Summon > Wolf Howl
• Wolf > Summon > Wolf Strike Summon

Each Wolf Den you complete grants 1 Wolf Skill unlock. The “Wolf Strike Summon” grants a chance to spawn the wolf when you hit an enemy with an empty sake jar. This won’t trigger every single time so you may need multiple attempts for it. Find any empty sake jar and throw it at an enemy, with some luck the wolf will appear and kills that enemy, which unlocks the trophy. You can frequently find empty sake jars near enemies at Yotei Six Camps.

If you’ve already cleared out the entire map, you can still find enemies at Oshima Coast > Benten Port. Fast travel to the main entrance and head north-west to the entrance of Iwasaki Framstead, there you find an empty sake jar in front of the stables. Pick it up, walk to the entrance of Benten Port and throw the jar at one of the enemies from behind in stealth.

Alternatively, you can also get it by doing a stealth assassination on two enemies standing close together and your companion takes out the second enemy. This too will happen pretty much automatically during some stealth sections of quests.

Even if you were to fail all opportunities for this during all quests, you can still do it any time with your wolf companion in the open world, therefore it’s not missable. Most of the Wolf Dens feature a standoff where you’re assisted by your wolf. If you were to miss it during all Wolf Dens too, then you can buy the Wolf Skill “Wolf Standoff” (each Wolf Den unlocks one Wolf Skill). Then whenever you do a standoff there’s a chance you’ll be joined by your wolf as a companion, which you can do against random enemy encounters in the open world even after having cleared out the whole map. So if you missed it during the story just complete the Wolf Dens, can make a manual save before each to retry it if needed.

Now you can craft Fire Arrows at your camps. While near your horse hold to make a camp and choose the ammo crafting option in the bottom right.

Find any tall grass in which you can hide while crouched. Lure an enemy to it and shoot a fire arrow at the grass, let the burning grass kill the enemy. It won’t work on short grass, has to be the tall grass that’s used for stealth. This is best done at Yotei Six Camps, they usually have some tall grass nearby.

If you’ve already cleared out the whole map you can still find enemies in the open world and lure them to tall grass. For example, in Yotei Grasslands > Sarubetsu River > Matsumae Crossing (named map marker), ride south along the river. Sometimes there is a rope-trap in the river, riding through the rope triggers a ronin ambush who are hiding in the tall grass along the river.

This requires having upgradable charms. Not all charms can be upgraded. You will automatically get more than 10 upgradable charms when doing all other trophies, so don’t worry about this. It will likely be one of your last trophies. You get upgradable charms from certain Collectibles and trophy-relevant Side Quests. When you scroll over side activities (such as Shrine Climbs), it shows specifically if it gives an upgradable charm. You can also buy some easily upgradable charms from Taro (little boy) who randomly appears at your camps and is randomly encountered at little tents in Tokachi Range.

You can view your charms under Gear > Charms > click the Charms menu > the upgradable charms will show their current level next to their name > when you scroll over them it will show on the right side what challenge you must do to upgrade the charm. A few charms will automatically be upgraded by finding all Collectibles. Then the rest requires doing little combat challenges.

It’s good to combine the upgrade challenges with Yotei Six Camps, but if you already cleared them out you can still find enemies in Oshima Coast at Benten Port, at the Main Entrance. There are also still random enemy encounters throughout other regions. You can even farm these via checkpoint restart. So as long as you have at least one Yotei Six Camp left, could kill a few enemies to do a challenge, restart checkpoint and repeat.

There are 4 upgrades total and they require the following materials:

• Upgrade 1: 20 Metals
• Upgrade 2: 20 Metals + 20 Oni Raider Mask Pieces
• Upgrade 3: 20 Metals + 20 Shinobi Steel
• Upgrade 4: 60 Metals + 15 Gun Parts + 15 Rare Metals

You will find enough of all materials as part of the main story. Each new story region contains new higher grade materials. So simply play through the story and you’ll be able to afford the final upgrade.

Metals come from ore deposits found in all regions. Oni Raider Masks are frequently dropped by enemies from The Oni main tale onward. Shinobi Steel is frequently dropped by enemies in Teshio Ridge region (reached in Main Tale: The Kitsune). Gun Parts are dropped by enemies in Oshima Coast (reached in Main Tale: The Saito Brothers). Rare Metals are from gold ore deposits and sometimes found in loot chests. You will frequently find the rare high grade materials in the purple reward chests at the end of Yotei Six Camps.

For this you must complete Shrine Climb: Mount Yotei Shrine. The entrance is in the west of Yotei Grasslands, to the west of Yotei River. It will get marked on the map when you go near it. You can do this at any point after the Prologue when you reached the open world:

Follow the linear shrine path up to the summit of Mount Yotei. There you must pray at the shrine to get the charm of your mother and father. The trophy unlocks as soon as you pray at the shrine.

• First one unlocked during Main Tale: The Oni (after Sub-Chapter: Belly of the Beast)
• Second unlocked during Main Tale: The Oni (after Sub-Chapter: Wrath of the Oni).
• Fourth unlocked during Main Tale: The Kitsune (after Sub-Chapter: The Way of the Shamisen).
• Fifth unlocked during Main Tale: The Kitsune (Sub-Chapter: The Kitsune’s Fate).
• Third unlocked during Main Tale: The Saito Brothers (Sub-Chapter: The Way of the Odachi).
• Sixth unlocked during Main Tale: The Saito Brothers (Sub-Chapter: Echoes of the Storm (The Saito Brothers).
• Seventh unlocked during Main Tale: The Saito Brothers (after Sub-Chapter: The Reckoning).
• Eighth unlocked after Main Tale: Call of the Hunt.

First, you must do Sensei Tale: The Way of the Yari in Ishikari Plain to unlock the Yari weapon (spear). As part of this tale you automatically spear 4 fish, leaving only 1 more to do for the trophy.

After the tale you must find a fish that jumps out of water. These are in shallow water and will be indicated by a white circle in the water. While the fish jumps out of the water, have the Yari weapon equipped and press to spear it.

For example, you can find fish in Tokachi Range > in the north-west in the water near Amber Respite Shrine entrance. If there are no fish, fast travel away and come back until one spawns, or try sleeping at camp to advance time.

Go to any gambling den at the inns throughout the game and participate in the zeni hajiki minigame until you win a charm. Zeni Hajiki is a coin flicking minigame where you must flick your coin at other coins without it falling off the table. The first match usually rewards you with only money, the second match gives a charm. Each gambling den gives a different charm, but for trophies you only need to win one. When you scroll over the gambling dens in fast travel it will say “Coin & New Charm”.

• Yotei Grasslands: Kuttara Gambling Den – in the south of Yotei Grasslands at Lake Kuttara. Must first do a miniquest for the guy there before you can gamble.
• Tokachi Range: Huranui’s Rest Inn – in the middle of Tokachi Range region along the river
• Teshio Ridge: Red Crane Inn – hub area of this region, visited during story
• Oshima Coast: Benten Port – hub area of this region, visited during story

You can make this minigame easier by going to Settings > Accessibility > Zenji Hajiki Power Display = On. This shows the predicted shot distance which makes it trivial as you can hit all coins in one go.

When you sit at the camp, scroll to the bottom right and interact with the shamisen (the ‘guitar’) and play any song. You can play the default “Atsu’s Song” which you automatically learn in the prologue.