Summary
With almost four dozen trophies in the trophy and achievement list forPersona 3 Reload, paired with its colossal runtime asking you to commit more than 100 hours to seeing it through, it’s a feat in and of itself to reach the end of a game this heavy and long. However, to finish out your trophy list, you’ll need to make some progress through a NG+ run, too.
With the Compendium impossible to complete until you’ve finished the game, how difficult it is to spend time with all your social links in a single run of the game, and how much time you spend in Tartarus grinding completely left to you, you’ll need to balance everything carefully in order to 100 percent Persona 3 Reload.
7Eagle Eye
Acquire Every Twilight Fragment In Town
New to Persona 3 Reload are Twilight Fragments, a curious little item you’ll spot lying in various locations around Iwatodai and Port Island. When you see them in the real world, they’ll appear as small, flickering blue items on the ground. Critical to opening the Twilight Fragment chests you’ll find around Tartarus, each of which contain some pretty sweet loot, you’ll want to collect plenty of these.
And though finding them around town isn’t the only way to get more Twilight Fragments in Persona 3 Reload (you may also chat with Elizabeth each time you improve a social link’s ranking to receive them faithfully), this trophy/achievement requires that you locate each of the Twilight Fragments around town. Good thing the rewards in Tartarus are so good, right?
6Glimpse Of The Depths
Once you hit the Yabbashah block of Tartarus, the third block, over the summer in Persona 3 Reload, you’ll be exposed to a wealth of new combat mechanics now that you have a firmer grasp on how to play P3R. One of these are the Monad Doors that begin appearing as you ascend the tower, each featuring a Shadow much tougher than those on the floor around it.
But after beating each Shadow within the Monad Doors, you’ll receive a few prizes, not least of which will be a blueprint for a weapon at Mayoido Antiques. To complete this achievement, you’ll need to do this ten separate times, made difficult because the appearance of these doors can be pretty sporadic.
Deal 999 Damage In A Single Attack
It’s pivotal to grind it out a little in Tartarus for sake of gaining EXP for your teammates so you may level up, earn better stats, and learn even more impressive moves with everyone’s Personas, but to score the trophy for scoring 999 damage to an enemy in a single attack is going to take some boosting and buffing even toward the end of the game.
The trickiest part of this is that the attack cannot be an All-Out Attack – that’d be too easy. Instead, one of your teammates needs to deal this 999 damage on their own. This is possible when using Theurgy skills at high levels toward the end of the game, but even so, it’ll take quite a while to achieve.
4Reaper Reaped
Defeat The Reaper
Although the majority of the enemies swap out between Persona games, Persona 3 was the first to introduce the now-infamous Reaper into the mix. Should you and your party linger on the same floor of Tartarus for a bit too long, you’ll come face-to-face with this powerful Shadow, who will almost certainly one-shot you all until later in the game, since he’s Level 99 himself.
You can avoid even letting The Reaper spawn by being quick in your Tartarus expeditions, never loitering for too long on the same floor until you feel like your party is ready to handle a fight against a Shadow that strong. However, if you want to 100 percent Persona 3 Reload, you’ll need to not only summon and challenge him, but defeat him to earn this achievement.
3A Legacy Of Friendships
Max Out All Social Links
With almost two dozen unique social links in Persona 3 Reload, you’ve got your work cut out for you if you’re attempting to connect with everyone in town. To unlock this trophy, you’ll need to not only meet every single one of the social links in P3R, but you’ll need to spend enough time with them making the right dialogue choices to boost their relationship to Rank Ten (Max) before the end of the game.
This is easiest achieved on a New Game Plus run of Persona 3 Reload, since the items your friends give you at the end of their social link can help them remember the bonds you shared the first time around. Inprevious versions of Persona 3, maxing every social link was the ticket to fusing Orpheus Telos, a super powerful version of Orpheus, and we’re hoping that’s still true.
2From Shadows Into Light
Watched The Good Ending
Any achievement tied to reaching the end of a game is going to be quite an endeavor, but with two different endings in Persona 3 Reload and dozens of hours of gameplay standing between your arrival in Iwatodai and the day of the ending in question, it’s a pretty impressive feat to hang around for a JRPG this famously long.
The Persona series has never been about short games, with the majority of its titles clocking in at triple-digit hours required to complete, and P3R is no different. To see the good ending, you’ll need to choose to extend the story by another month and tackle an entirely new section of Tartarus before facing off against an incarnation of death itself and winning – no pressure, right?
1A Most Remarkable Guest
Acquire All Trophies
With almost four dozen trophies in the trophy and achievement list for Persona 3 Reload, paired with its colossal runtime asking you to commit more than 100 hours to seeing it through, it’s a feat in and of itself to reach the end of a game this heavy and long. However, in order to finish out your trophy list, you’ll need to make some progress through a NG+ run, too.
