Resident Evil 4 Remake: Separate Ways DLC Trophy Guide & Roadmap

The El Gigante fight takes place at the end of chapter 3. As Ada you can grapple across rooftops to safely avoid the boss attacks while dealing damage to it. Make sure to keep moving as eventually the buildings will get progressively destroyed. After dealing enough damage the plagas will appear from its back, keep shooting it until you get a prompt to perform a knife attack, after 2 or 3 cycles of this the boss will be defeated.

Pesanata is fought in chapter 5 and has 2 phases. The first phase is simple, just keep shooting him with powerful weapons such as the shotgun and crossbow and performing the melee attack prompts when they show up. Eventually, you will enter a second phase which is the ‘real’ part of the fight. The boss will burrow under the ground to attack you, lunge at you, and even summon Novistadors to attack you. When it erupts from the ground and stands upright, you can shoot yellow vulnerable points for extra damage. You will get melee attack prompts as well to deal extra damage.

Saddler is the final boss you fight in Separate Ways. His attacks consist of lunging at you, grabs and other attacks using his tendrils. Try to keep your distance and use your blast crossbow on him and use the pillars in the room for cover from his attacks, you will also get a melee prompt to stab his eye to deal significant damage.

• Enemies are faster, stronger, more durable and very aggressive
• There is no autosave, you can only save at typewriters and at the end of chapters
• You can only perfect parry with L1, regulary parrying is not possible

It is highly recommended to complete this first on New Game+ in under 4 hours to unlock the Chicago Sweeper as it will make the S+ rank significantly easier. See  Ada the “S+”py. Doing this on New Game+ without the use of an infinite rocket launcher is very possible and not too difficult due to how short the story is and having upgraded weapons and health. You can do an extra playthrough on assisted to afford the infinite rocket launcher to make this even easier, but this of course will extend your playtime with the extra run.

You can make this a little easier by finishing all merchant requests to unlock the elite knife, this is an infinite durability knife that requires no upgrades, and you can also save money to buy a rocket launcher at least for Saddler, and for the 2nd phase of Pesanta, or the double Garrador fight if you can afford it, but it’s not completely necessary.

Note: Completing Professional difficulty will also unlock the trophies for Standard and Hardcore.

This is the hardest trophy in Separate Ways. To get an S+ rank on Professional you need to finish the game in less than 2 hours and 30 minutes and in 10 saves or fewer on NEW GAME (not New Game+). You CAN’T achieve an S+ rank on New Game+.

Fortunately it can be made much easier by completing professional mode in under 4 hours on New Game+. This unlocks the Chicago Sweeper, which when upgraded with an exclusive ticket upgrade grants infinite ammo. You can use that and the elite knife (if you completed all 7 merchant requests), they are in storage at typewriters. For merchant requests see Separate Ways Collectible Guide.

You can approach this two ways: You can complete the first 4 merchant requests and buy an exclusive ticket for 25 spinels in chapter 4, or you can buy an exclusive ticket DLC from the PlayStation Store, in which case you can acquire the exclusive upgrade as early as chapter 2, when you first encounter the merchant. It’s worth noting that any exclusive ticket DLC that you may have bought for use in the main game also carries over to Separate Ways, and you can sell them for 80,000 each for upgrades or more rocket launchers. This makes the S+ rank much easier. Although it’s still highly recommended upgrading the damage of the Chicago Sweeper and saving up to buy a rocket launcher for Saddler at the very least.

Important note: If you die make sure to quit to the main menu, DO NOT press continue or load game from here, doing so will add all previous progress against your time! So on the game over screen = quit to main menu > load game > load your latest save. This resets the time to what it was at the last save.

Recommended Save Locations (only allowed to do 10 saves total for S+):

1 – End of Chapter 1
2 – Before Black Robe at end of Chapter 2
3 – Before El Gigante at end of Chapter 3
4 – Before Knight Room in Chapter 4
5 – End of Chapter 4
6 – Before Garrador Room in Chapter 5
7 – Before U3 fight in Chapter 5
8 – End of Chapter 5
9 – After the Gondola Ride in Chapter 6
10 – Before the timed section in Chapter 7