Stellar Blade Trophy Guide & Roadmap

April 25, 2024 by ObsiEez 133 Comments

Stellar Blade Trophy Roadmap

Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10 on Story Mode – 5/10 on Normal Mode
Approximate amount of time to platinum: 40-50 Hours
Offline Trophies: 43 (1, 3, 12, 27)
Online Trophies: 0
Number of missable trophies: Technically all the trophies are missable, except automatic story-related ones. There are 2 Points of No Return that will gradually lock you out of content and trophies. The first one is after finishing the area “Abyss Levoire” and locks you out of all side quests and all the collectibles in Xion City. The second one is after finishing the area “Spire 4” just before heading to the final area of the game, once you go there you cannot leave. Because of this, it’s recommended to do everything before each point of no return or make a PS+ Cloud Save so you can redownload it to clean up afterward. You can start a New Game+ file after beating the game to clean up anything you missed, everything will transfer.
Glitched trophies: 0
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, you can complete the platinum on Easy difficulty (‘Story Mode’)
Hardest Trophy: Cost of Lost Memories
Minimum Playthroughs: 2 Playthroughs (Or 3 playthroughs if you end up dying to the final boss on both playthroughs, without having a PS+ Cloud Save)
PS4/PS5 Autopop & Save Transfer: No, the game doesn’t have a PS4 version
PS4/PS5 Crossbuy: No, the game doesn’t have a PS4 version
Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: No, there’s no free-roam or mission replay after the story. You’ll be stuck in the last area once you enter it.
Supports Manual Saves?: No Manual Saves, only 1 Autosave
Release Date: April 26, 2024

Introduction

Welcome to the Stellar Blade Trophy Guide! The platinum requires 2 playthroughs because 2 of the endings cannot be earned on the same playthrough as both of them are linked to Lily’s progress bar that sometimes appears when picking up collectibles and when finishing certain side quests/main missions:

One of them requires you to 100% complete Lily’s progress bar, and the other requires it to NOT be at 100%. These cancel out each other, you can only do one per playthrough. Thankfully, you can finish the other ending you don’t get in New Game+. It’s highly recommended to go for the “Making New Memories” path on your first playthrough as that’s the ending that requires you to 100% Lily’s progress bar, so you’ll be able to enjoy all side content the game has to offer. Then clean up the “Cost of Lost Memories” ending in New Game+. While you don’t lose any of the Data Bank entries, Lily’s progress bar will reset to 0% in New Game+ and all collectibles will respawn in the world.

Step 1: Play Until Finishing the area “Abyss Levoire”

After you finish the area called “Abyss Levoire“, you’ll be at the first Point of No Return. Progressing past this point will lock you out of a lot of content, so you’ll want to make sure you’ve completed everything before talking to Adam to progress to the next area. It’s best you follow the Stellar Blade Collectible Guide along the way which includes everything you need for trophies.

At minimum you should have the following completed before the first Point of No Return:

Side Quests – You’ll want to finish all the side quests as there are a lot of trophies and collectibles linked to them. You’ll still be able to do requests that you accept from the bulletin board, except for Requests taking place in Xion (they become missable).
Xion Collectibles – Make sure you’ve got all the collectibles located in Xion as you’ll lose access to the city section of Xion. You’ll only be able to explore the Safehouse and the path leading to the Wasteland.

Once you’ve completed all the side quests and at least collected everything in Xion, you’re safe to progress to the next area.

Step 2: Play Until Finishing the area “Spire 4”

After you finish the area called “Spire 4“, you’ll be at the second Point of No Return. Progressing past this point will lock you out of every area in the game, so you’ll want to make sure everything is done before you talk to Lily to progress to the last area.

Bulletin Board Requests – Finish all the requests as a good number of them are linked to trophies and collectibles.
Collectibles – You’ll want to make sure you’ve got all the collectible related trophies other than Naytiba Researcher, which should be at 63/67, and Meticulous Explorer, which should be at 87/89. You will get the last of the Camps and Naytiba Data in the final area of the game, with 3 of the Naytiba Data being locked behind the Return to the Colony ending. You should have every other collectible trophy before moving on to the final area.
All combat-related trophies – Make sure you have every single combat-related trophy before going into the last area as there will be no enemies other than the bosses you need to fight.

Once everything is finished, it’s highly recommended to make a PS+ Cloud Save to get both endings here as if you die on either of the final bosses, you won’t be able to reload your save before the final choice of the game to get the opposite ending. If you beat the boss first try however, you can reload your save and make the other choice without using a PS+ Cloud Save. Once you’re ready, you can talk to Lily to head to the last area of the game. After getting either Making New Memories, or Return to the Colony, reload your save or download your PS+ Cloud Save and pick the opposite choice.

Step 3: New Game+ Playthrough and Clean Up

You can now start a New Game+ file and rush through the game to unlock gold: Cost of Lost Memories ending, as well as Return to the Colony if you didn’t get it during your first playthrough. You’ll want to avoid picking up any collectibles and avoid doing any side quests to make sure the Lily progress bar stays below 100%. If you went straight to Spire 4 and skipped Eidos 9, then you know you’re on the correct path.

Useful Tips, Tricks and Guides: