NieR Replicant (2021) Trophy Guide & Roadmap

While this is located in the trophy list between the other initial playthrough story trophies, it isn’t actually earned until after you complete Ending B and are playing through Part Two for the third time.

Right at the start of the game is the first one where you are fighting the waves of shades outside of the building and are being given the combat tutorial. You want to only use melee the entire time, don’t use the magic powers you gain over time. If you don’t drop combo at all you can reach around a combo of 150.

Another location you can do this is during the string of boss fights at the end of the game. When fighting armored Goose (the boar shade) it will continually regain health while standing still and releasing poison gas and you can’t actually defeat it. Just continually attack it here instead of going through the exit doors until you reach 100 combo.  Using a spear instead of a sword can get you combo much faster here, because the spear has much more individual hits in it’s light attack combo string.

This trophy is awarded when you obtain all of the sealed verses in Part One of the story.

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Nier Replicant has a total of 71 side quests in it, spread out between the two parts of the story. Each part has 31 that are specific to them, then the 9 Fisherman’s Gambit quests that carry to Part Two. All other Part One quests are marked as “uncompletable” if you don’t finish them before progressing to Part Two of the story, and there are a couple of Part Two quests that require finishing quests in Part One, and you can’t do them if you didn’t do the Part One quests.

You can ignore all side quests in Part One if you want, none of the rewards are particularly major and the quests in Part Two that require quests from Part One only give gold as a reward.

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If you do need to grind money, the fastest way is running through door 3 of the Recycled Vessel, where you get 50,000 gold each time you complete it.

Unlike the original game, there are now more novel segments that also occur on your next playthrough after Ending B. You will earn this after the second Devola and Popola boss fight on that third playthrough.

This trophy is awarded the first time you complete the story (defeating the Shadowlord in Part Two).

This trophy is awarded the second time you complete the story on your second “playthrough”. You do not need to do anything specific for this ending, it happens automatically the second time.

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Once you have all the weapons and reach the end of the story after completing Ending B, you defeat the Shadowlord like before then have a new boss to defeat after. After this new boss fight you are then presented with a choice, either ending that character’s life or sacrificing your own. For Ending C you pick the first option, ending the other character’s life. After the credits you are placed back in the story just after unpetrifying Kaine like prior endings.

For both Endings C and D, you first need to obtain all weapons in the game. Upgrading them doesn’t matter, just having all 33 in your possession:

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For Ending D you do the same thing as Ending C, except after the new boss fight you choose the second option, to sacrifice yourself. Doing so gets a new ending, but also deletes all save files you have for the game, and doesn’t allow you to start a new save with the same character name (the individual slots are wiped, but the overall save still keeps track of you making the Ending D choice).

To get back your deleted Ending D save, play through Ending E. If you were using multiple save slots and want to keep those for some reason you should still back up your save before doing Ending D, as it only gives back the one you complete Ending D on.

Once on the path to Ending E, you will get all-new story content. At the end of the playthrough, you will be given a Yes or No choice. You need to choose Yes to complete the ending, if you choose No you are returned to the main menu and must reload your last save to continue playing.

After choosing Yes you will be given back your save that you completed Ending D off of, which means that the game no longer requires you to do everything before Ending D if you don’t want to use save backups.

As far as is currently understood the way the clock on the game saves is set up on PS4/PS5 is that it’s based on the internal system clock, not the visible changeable clock like on PS3. Changing the time zone on the PS4/PS5 does affect the clock though, so you can still do some save manipulation and use this to force flowers to crossbreed. Doing this you can force your way to white moonflower over 4 days real-time, instead of the 8+ it would take without manipulation.

Cultivating the White Moonflower requires going through 4 cycles of growing other Moonflowers. The way they are grown is:

Red + Gold = Peach
Blue + Gold = Indigo
Red + Indigo = Pink
Peach + Pink =White

Once you have successfully crossbreed a White Moonflower, harvest the flower itself to earn this trophy.

Much more in-depth flower growing info can be found here:

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Fishing is done by going up to water (or the sand river in the desert) and pressing , then selecting your bait. Different bait catches different fish, with some bait catching certain types more often or being basically required. With your hook in the water, you see a bobber, which is what you use to tell when you have a hook or when to pull to hook a fish. You pull back on the left stick to hook the fish, then while reeling in the fish you now see a large bar on the bottom of the screen. Hold the stick in the opposite direction of where the fish is pulling (if the fish is pulling to the left you move the stick to the bottom right) while adjusting with the fish to deplete the bar on the bottom. To catch the fish you either let the bar deplete, or for larger fish you’ll notice when it gets near the bottom it turns a darker blue, and you can hit to reel in the fish.

Bait can be bought from a few stores, notably the Tackle Shop in Seafront.  You can buy more than one Lure, but you don’t need to because you can’t lose your main lure, so you only ever need 1.

Fish are listed with name, bait used, location, and other important info. They go from easiest to hardest which follows along with the Fisherman’s Gambit quests that when completed allow you to catch the harder fish and catch easier ones faster.

Fish List:

Shaman Fish
Bait: Lure
Location: Seafront Beach (this is the beach leading to the lighthouse, not the one beside the Fishman)
Other info: You are given a bit of a tutorial in Part One of the story about fishing, but with not great instructions and it is possible to fail the tutorial and you are just given the Shaman Fish, which doesn’t count as catching it.

Sardine
Bait: Lugworm
Location: Seafront Beach
Other info: Catching 10 required for The Fisherman’s Gambit (Part 1)

Carp
Bait: Earthworm
Location: Nier’s Village
Other info: These are mainly used to catch Giant Catfish

Blowfish
Bait: Lugworm
Location: Seafront Pier (this is anywhere along the south side of Seafront, from the beach all the way down to the boat docks)
Other info: Catching 7 required for The Fisherman’s Gambit, Part 2

Rainbow Trout
Bait: Lure
Location: Northern Plains
Other info: Catching 7 required for The Fisherman’s Gambit, Part 3

Bream
Bait: Lure
Location: Seafront Pier
Other info: Catching 5 required for The Fisherman’s Gambit, Part 4

Black Bass
Bait: Lure
Location: Nier’s Village
Other info: Catching 5 required for The Fisherman’s Gambit, Part 5

Shark
Bait: Sardine
Location: Seafront Pier

Sandfish
Bait: Lure
Location: Desert (for all but the Rhizodont you can fish in the desert just by the boat dock on the south side of the area)
Other info: Catching 3 required for The Fisherman’s Gambit, Part 6

Giant Catfish
Bait: Carp
Location: Eastern Road
Other info: These are the only fish you specifically want Carp to use as bait. They can be caught with just lures or earthworms, but Carp makes them basically guaranteed. When using Carp you pull back on the stick after the first bobber pull (not waiting for it to be fully submerged).

Royal Fish
Bait: Earthworm
Location: Eastern Road
Other info: Catching 3 required for The Fisherman’s Gambit, Part 7

Blue Marlin
Bait: Sardine
Location: Seafront Pier
Other info: Catching 3 required for The Fisherman’s Gambit, Part 8.

Hyneria
Bait: Sardine
Location: Desert
Other info: Catching 1 required for The Fisherman’s Final Gambit

Dunkleosteus
Bait: Sardine
Location: Seafront Pier
Other info: These take a long while to reel in, if you get something that seems to take way too long to reel in while trying to get Blue Marlin, this is what you’ll have actually hooked

Rhizodont
Bait: Sardine
Location: North Desert (or South Desert)
Other info: The Rhizodont can be caught in either of the desert fishing spots, but might have a higher chance of being caught in the northern spot.

Even though there are 33 “normal” weapons, there is an extra secret weapon you obtain after completing Ending E, as well as the 4 extra weapons from the free “4 YoRHa” DLC that includes costumes and weapons from NieR Automata. These 5 all count towards this trophy, so you can use this to your advantage to avoid farming some of the worse materials.

You can find the list of all required materials and locations to find them here:

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Sheep are located in the Northern Plains area during Part One, you will go past them many times during your travels. Killing them gives mutton, which can be sold (or turned in for a repeatable side quest for a better reward). You need to earn this trophy in Part One of the game, because even though this version includes the NPC in Part Two that allows you to kill sheep that doesn’t seem to count towards the trophy like it did on the PS3 version.

While earning his trophy you can just make an effort to kill all sheep in the area each time you go through the Northern Plains and can easily reach the 100 required without extra trips. You can also speed this up by using the Order in the pause menu to call over all animals, which calls the Sheep in the area over to you.

If you miss the first time you play through Part One, you can do it when you play through the first section of Part One again for Ending E.

This trophy requires you to complete the story (new game to Ending A) within 15 hours on the in-game timer. Even though it is an RPG, Nier Replicant isn’t a particularly long game. Skipping all cutscenes and ignoring all side quests during a playthrough you can easily finish it in 5 – 6 hours, with the world record time for the original being around 3 hours.

Depending on your prior experience with the game and how much you care about the extra content, you can also easily do this trophy on your first playthrough. Since side quests in Part One aren’t required for anything specifically trophy-related you could skip them all if you wanted, and still complete 30 for “Go-To Guy” in Part Two on your next times through the story. Watching all cutscenes like this would take around 10 hours as long as you aren’t wasting a lot of time wandering around.

Depending on your game knowledge you could also still complete all side quests in Part One of the story, then rush to Ending A in Part Two skipping everything, and be done under 15 hours. I wouldn’t recommend this for brand new players though because you’d waste time not knowing exactly what to do to progress the story.

If you leave this to the end of the game you can use the save you started for Ending E if you didn’t save over it, as long as you still get to Ending A on that save before the 15 hour mark.

Gretel is the statue/suit or armor boss you fight when you return to the Lost Shrine for the first time in Part Two of the story. The boss fight starts out with you being attacked by a number of waves or weak shades, while Gretel holds up a shield between waves of shooting fireballs at you. For this part you should wait on the other side of the patch of sunlight on the ground and just keep shooting the weak shades as they run towards you (ones that run through the sunlight will also be damaged or killed). You can’t really speed this part up, you just need to wait for the waves of weak shades to finish before Gretel starts attacking normally.

Once the waves or shades are done, Gretel stops putting the shield up and starts attacking you normally with their spear and occasionally waves of fireballs. Keep shooting the boss and attack with melee to drop their health, until a point they start spinning around the arena. You can’t really melee the boss here anymore, so just keep shooting it with magic until you take out the rest of its health.

At around half health the boss will enclose itself in the ribbons and start shooting a laser at you. Emil says he’ll distract it, and you need to then run around the bridges and take the ladders to the top of the area to the highest bridge to get around behind the boss. On that top bridge you will have to shoot the eye for a bit to make the boss move again.

At about a quarter health remaining the boss will move over to the platform near the entrance to the area. You can get down to it quickly by jumping off the bridge you’re on to the lower one (double jump or dash before you land to avoid damage). On this final platform it works about the same as before, just shoot the boss’s eye to deplete the rest of its health.

At the start of the fight, you are on the deck of the beached ship, with the main part of the boss that you can damage being the two large faces to the sides of the area. You want to continually shoot these nonstop and melee them when you can. After destroying one of the arms it will spawn a number of tentacles out of the deck of the ship that you need to destroy to continue. After they are dealt with, focus on damaging the other arm until you deplete the boss’s life bar.

After you have depleted the boss’s life bar the first time you will be knocked down onto the beach, and now the boss fight is slightly different from prior runs through it. After a bit, there will be damage points on the two arms the boss uses to slam on the ground. Deplete the life on them, then attack the face of the boss when prompted. This knocks the boss over, and you then have to run up on top of it to the back so you can attack the head. Deplete it’s life bar here and you will win the fight in a different way and are able to complete it in under the required time.

Midway through the fight the Shadowlord will start flying around throwing large column or magic at you. Just keep shooting at him and try to get close enough to melee him in the air.

Right near the end of the fight, you will lose the ability to use magic and the Shadowlord will be on the opposite side of the area with a damage circle on him. You will need to sprint down to the side of the area he is on and hit him with melee 3 times to finish the fight. The quickest way down is running down either the left or right side of the room, dodging through the lines of orbs it fires at you, dodging behind it at the end, and hitting him. For the first two hits you will be flung back down the room and need to run up to him again.

The fight has two parts to it, the first part she is in a shield with two tethers to the side, while large volleys of orbs are shot at you. You can’t do anything during this part, only avoid the orbs until the dialogue part finishes.

The second part of the fight occurs after the dialogue and Kaine is basically just trying to melee you. She will attack multiple times, with occasionally the final attack also blasting out a wave or orbs. In this part you no longer have Weiss, so you just need to do your best to melee her. All of her melee attacks can be parried, and when countered this does a lot of damage.