Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Trophy Guide & Roadmap

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 1 of the Yakuza Kiwami 3 story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 2 of the Yakuza Kiwami 3 story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 3 of the Yakuza Kiwami 3 story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 4 of the Yakuza Kiwami 3 story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 5 of the Yakuza Kiwami 3 story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 6 of the Yakuza Kiwami 3 story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 7 of the Yakuza Kiwami 3 story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 8 of the Yakuza Kiwami 3 story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 9 of the Yakuza Kiwami 3 story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 10 of the Yakuza Kiwami 3 story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 11 of the Yakuza Kiwami 3 story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 12 of the Yakuza Kiwami 3 story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 1 of the Dark Ties story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 2 of the Dark Ties story.

This trophy awarded for completing Chapter 3 of the Dark Ties story.

Abilities for Kiryu are purchased with cash and Training Points. Stat upgrades are always bought with cash, with the amount increasing with each tier of upgrade. Special Abilities upgrades are initially purchased with Cash, then after the first 4 levels are purchased with Training Points. Training Points are earned from the Training List, which functions like a traditional Completion List from earlier games. Both the Stat upgrades and Special Abilities count toward these trophies, so you need to obtain a cumulative 60 out of the total possible 92.

Purchasing all Special Abilities requires a total of 28,650 Training Points to unlock them all, but as these trophies also count the Stat upgrades toward them you don’t go out of your way to complete Training List objectives unless you decide to on your own. You’ll earn enough Training Points from the objectives related to side activities (Bad Boy Dragon and Morning Glory) to obtain every Special Ability if you wish without going out of your way.

Training Rank is an extra ranking that is unlocked after completing the Bad Boy Dragon introduction in the story. As you accumulate more Training Points, Riya-san will offer to teach you additional secret techniques if you pass a promotion exam at the Chura Bar in Ryukyu. The exams don’t require anything special to complete, just beat the required group of enemies once you reach the required total of Training Points. The main thing to note is that you can’t use any items during these fights, so be careful of your health on the final two exams.

This trophy is awarded once you complete the Okinawa portion of the Bad Boy Dragon side story. The Okinawa portion involves setting up the Haisai Girls, and recruiting the other Okinawa gangs before a final battle against the Tokyo Night Terrors in the area.

Infamy Rank is effectively an overall combined rank of the levels of all characters in the Haisai Girls gain. As you level the characters, purchase Squad upgrades or buy Baddy Weapons this will add Infamy and increase the overall Infamy Rank. This doesn’t have a specific effect on fights, but you generally want to have a higher total score than what is displayed beside the enemy strength in the fight selection menu, as having a higher score gives you a boost at the start of the fight.

While working through the story and completing all fights you should get nearly to 10 without going out of your way. If you’ve completed everything and purchased all possible upgrades and still haven’t reached Infamy Rank 10, the best way to increase rank is by holding as Rally as outlined in  Lotta New Faces.

• Bike: 6,000 / 30,000 / 90,000 yen
• Baddie Uniform: 6,000 / 30,000 / 90,000 yen

There are a total of 79 possible gang members to recruit, once you’ve recruited a total of 50 you will then need to call a Rally. You first unlock Meetings near the end of the Okinawa portion of the Bad Boy Dragon story, but these only include the main members of your squads. Rallies are unlocked once you complete the overall story, and include all members you currently have recruited even if they aren’t in your squad.

To call a Rally you need a Rally Ticket which you can obtain through the completion of specific missions or purchase in the Haisai Points Shop. Once you have one, speak with Dokuzawa and ask to hold a Rally, which will provide an XP bonus to all your currently recruited gang members.

There are a total of 9 tournaments, and you are required to complete all of them to face a member of the Amon clan. You will earn this trophy after beating the first 5.

Jo Amon:

This first is Jo Amon, who is available from Substory #31. As a requirement you must: complete all 30 other substories, defeat all 36 Reapers, and complete all 9 Coliseum matches. Once you have done this you will receive a phone message in Premium Adventure to take a taxi to face Jo Amon. This fight doesn’t have a lot to worry about. It will be very long as Jo has a ton of health, but you can fill your inventory with as many different types of healing items as you can carry, so you should never be hurting for health. You should spend most of the time during this fight in Ryukyu style, as there are a couple points during the fight where Jo will move away from you and shoot a gun at you, and you want to block to parry the bullets back. Performing the combo to inflict bleed will also do more damage, so try to always have this active on Jo during the fight.

Amon Riders:

The second Amon is the Amon Riders, who are fought in Bad Boy Dragon with the Haisai Girls. To face them you must finish the main story and complete all the optional Turf War and Total Annihilation battles at least once. Getting the extra rewards isn’t required, only a victory in each. After this you will prompted to fight the Amon Riders, who are fought in a Turf War like most of the storyline-related fights.

This fight is overall the toughest thing in the game, even on Beginner you will need to actively be watching out for the other squads during the fight. Make sure to set up your phone with accessories to help in Bad Boy Dragon (Anokane Antenna and Akko-san Lock Screen which you get along with recruiting Akko-san). During the fight pay attention to what teams are being attacked by the extra enemy groups and try to get over to them quickly, especially if one of the leaders gets knocked down. Once you’re in the final battle focus on the normal enemies first instead of the bosses, so that your team members start focusing on the bosses quicker.

If you’re struggling during this fight make sure you’ve given any gold or below squad members Buttons to increase their level cap up to 50, as well as having every at level 40 or higher. If you need to power level the characters you can do one short Annihilation match to refresh every member in the base, then say hello to everyone to collect Haisai Points and purchase Meeting/Rally tickets. You can also leave this until after you have completed the Dark Ties story and come back to it, as you receive another 4 max rarity characters for completing the Dark Ties story the next time you load the Kiwami 3 story.

Dragon Champloo is the first request dish you need to cook to advance the story. It requires reaching a Daddy Rank of 2 by completing other objectives around the orphanage, as well as acquiring a list of ingredients. It only requires basic ingredients which can be obtained from the Level 1 garden plots, or by fishing with the lowest level bait. Once you have all the required ingredients and reached at least Daddy Rank 2, speak with Haruka in the kitchen to make Dragon Champloo.

Note for this and all future requests, if you have a bunch of extra money on Kiryu from completing things like Bad Boy Dragon you can purchase the cooking ingredients from Public Market in Ryukyu instead of needing to obtain them through the farm or minigames.

When trying to raise the relationship rank with each kid you should make sure to complete the main Morning Glory story first, as you get large boosts for each kid after each cooking request. After that you can keep raising their rank by completing the minigames involving each individual kid. You’ll get a larger boost for the first time you do each minigame with the kid so this is the fastest way to increase each of their ranks, but for example if you really liked playing the sewing minigame instead of doing homework help you can boost rank that way by making the items over and over. You can also create the optional food items in the kitchen, then give these to the kids to raise bond rank instead of playing the minigames.

Note that even though the trophies refer to these as substories they aren’t listed in the Substories section of the Tasks menu, they are listed under the Morning Glory section.

To experience the LaLaLa Mobile commercial you need to obtain some extra cosmetic items for your phone, as well as increase your number of LaLaLa Mobile friends. Cosmetics can be obtained from various stores, with a large number available at the specific LaLaLa Mobile locations. After a point you will receive a message saying you can participate in the LaLaLa Mobile Commercial, and can go to either of the LaLaLa Mobiles locations and ask to experience the commercial to receive the trophy.

After this you can use the Downtown Raffle Tickets obtained by spending money in Ryukyu to spin the prize wheel and earn various items. You have the option to spin using 1 or 10 at once, you only need to spin using a total of 100 tickets cumulatively to earn this trophy. There is also a prize wheel that becomes available in Kamurocho once you return there, though note that the tickets are separate between the two locations. As you progress through the game you should make sure to be using your spins, as the wheel in Ryukyu gives rewards helpful for Morning Glory Orphanage, whereas the one in Kamurocho gives rewards helpful for Bad Boy Dragon.

In Kiwami 3 all substories automatically get marked on the map with a speech bubble icon as soon as they become available. There are a total of 31, and you are required to complete the first 30 along with all Reapers and Coliseum to face Jo Amon.

You can see how many different minigames you have played under the Training List > Entertainment section with the “Play X types of minigames” challenges. You can also view the list showing which minigames you have played, and you will earn this trophy at the same time as you complete the “Play 10 types of minigames” challenge.

First, Substory #17 Leave It All to Akko-san! In Okinawa! becomes available mid Chapter 4 before Kiryu goes back to Kamurocho. Complete the substory responding however you like, then once you are in Kamurocho you can complete Substory #18 Leave It All to Akko-san! In Tokyo!. This becomes available in Chapter 6 after the Haisai Girls have moved to Kamurocho and you can recruit other gang members around the city. Meet Akko-san for a meal, then sing karaoke with her, and finally beat up some goons to complete the substory and recuit her to the gang.

Like Kiryu, Mine’s abilities are divided into Stat upgrades and Special Ability upgrades. Unlike Kiryu though all of Mine’s abilities are purchased with Cash, but for quite a bit more. The easiest way to earn cash with Mine is progressing his story and then completing Kanda Damage Control side objectives or Survival Hell matches, which are required for the other Dark Ties trophies. Mine has a total of 61 possible ability upgrades to obtain, and once you have obtained 40 you will earn this trophy.

You can track the number of times these actions have been performed in Kanda Damage Control under Damage Control Challenge > Battle with the two challenges for “Land a hit from a special action 20/50 times”, and the trophy will unlock at the same time you complete the 50 hit challenge.

This trophy is awarded for raising karma to “Kinda Trashy” level in Kanda Damage Control, which is rank 3.

Kanda Damage Control functions like a combination of the side activities and the Training List in the Kiwami 3 portion of the story with Kiryu. After it is unlocked in Chapter 2, you will have a bunch of activities around the city such as fighting enemies, giving people items, or completing normal Completion list type tasks.

To raise karma rank you can complete extra Kanda Damage Control completion tasks if you want, or leave them and largely focus on the fighting around town along with the Hell’s Arena fights which are under the Good Deeds section, and which you are required to clear all of Survival Hell anyway for  To Hell and Back.

Note some Good Deeds are only available at night, so if you’ve completed all the ones visible on the map but still have some incomplete in the Good Deeds menu try changing the time of day at the Nishikiyama Family Office (once this is available in Chapter 3 or Premium Adventure). You must also start the Good Deeds by first accepting them at the office, but you can start all of them at the same time as soon as they are available, they don’t need to be done one at a time.

Survival Hell is the main side activity available in Dark Ties, unlocked during Chapter 2 of the story. These are sets of dungeons with multiple stages, with each stage of the dungeon having different rewards that can be obtained as you progress. If you are defeated during a run you will lose all current rewards you’ve obtained, making this mode sort of a roguelite but without random elements to it.

Progressing through the Survival dungeons is fairly simple. You progress through the stages by ringing a gong to progress, and being able to pick up items that boost things like Mine’s damage as you go. On the first playthrough of each stage do a full run through the area and pick up every possible reward chest. You won’t be able to get all rewards in one run as there are more than possible in each dungeon, but doing one full run should give you enough upgrades.

Once you reach the 4th and 5th dungeons you will want to be mindful of the remaining time. Once the timer hits 0 you don’t immediately lose, but start being hit with unavoidable damage that will slowly drain your health, so in this case it’s better to just exit early if you can’t make it to the gong to progress to the next stage in time. If you get to the exit door to the final boss then the timer goes away, so you can be closer if you are on the 4th stage of a dungeon.

For the 5th dungeon especially you are better off just exiting in between each stage the first time through, as this is the largest floor with the most items and you don’t want to go through multiple stages and accidentally get knocked out.

The boss in the 5th stage is a combination of all prior final bosses from the other dungeons, but it shouldn’t be too much trouble once you reach it. Just be aware of your health as there are only the two health boxes at the back of the arena, and you can’t heal yourself once those are gone outside of having equipped Survival Weapons to heal yourself.

You can see how many different minigames you have played under the Kanda Damage Control Challenge > Entertainment section with the “Play X types of minigames” challenges. You can also view the list showing which minigames you have played, and you will earn this trophy at the same time as you complete the “Play 5 types of minigames” challenge.