Welcome to the comprehensive guide for unlocking all achievements in Rise of the Ronin. This guide is designed to help players navigate through the game’s 51 achievements efficiently, ensuring no achievement is missed and providing detailed instructions on how to unlock each one.
1. Introduction
“Rise of the Ronin” offers a rich experience with 51 achievements to unlock, each tied to different aspects of the game, from story progression to open-world exploration and miscellaneous tasks. The game is designed to be completionist-friendly, with no achievements being missable. Most achievements can be unlocked through replaying missions via the “Linghun Record” or by making different choices. The platinum trophy, “Rise of the Ronin,” is awarded upon completing all other achievements, which typically takes around 50 hours.
2. Story-Related Achievements
These achievements are tied to the main storyline and are mostly unlocked automatically as you progress through the game. However, some require specific actions:
- Important Memories: Complete Murayama Toga’s karma mission and take a photo of her at the end.
- Dark Ship’s Shadow: Complete Chapter 1.
- Meeting with Katsura Kogoro: Talk to Katsura Kogoro by the Sumida River.
- Bushi in Front of the Emperor: Discover the true identity of the mysterious samurai during the imperial duel.
- Bird and Boat: Unite the Ronin group with the Choshu faction.
- Night of Two Cities: Complete Chapter 2.
- Satcho Alliance: Persuade the target character.
- Battle of Toba-Fushimi: End the Battle of Toba-Fushimi.
- Fate of the Hidden Blade: Decide the fate of your partner.
3. Miscellaneous Achievements
These achievements require specific actions or conditions to be met:
- First Karma Bond: Automatically unlocked during the story.
- Gift Exchange: Give a gift to an ally for the first time. Gifts can be purchased from merchants, found in chests, or earned as mission rewards.
- Romantic Bond: Form a romantic relationship with an ally by maxing out karma and affection levels.
- Fateful Encounter: Reach Karma Level 4 with an ally.
- Full Preparation: Upgrade your armor, main weapon, and secondary weapon.
- Inheritance of Power: Perform a karma inheritance at a blacksmith.
- Resonance: Equip four or more items with the same set bonus.
- Change of Mood: Change the layout of your longhouse.
- Time Traveler: Replay a mission using the Linghun Record.
- Expose the Cheater: Catch cheaters five times in the gambling game “Odd or Even.”
- Lone Ronin: Complete a mission without any allies.
- Sword of Life: Complete a mission without killing anyone, using only wooden swords or fists.
- Crying Blue Oni: Defeat the Blue Oni on the Black Ship.
- Survive the Night: Complete any mission on “Night” difficulty.
- Ronin Leap: Glide from the stage at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto.
4. Miscellaneous Achievements – Allies
These achievements require keeping specific allies alive by completing their karma missions:
- If Life Could Achieve Greatness: Keep Takasugi Shinsaku alive by choosing the Shogunate route and completing his four karma missions.
- The Black Cat That Will Never Return: Keep Okita Souji alive by choosing the Shogunate route and completing his two karma missions.
- Dawn Swordsman: Keep Sakamoto Ryoma alive by meeting three conditions before the “Nearaya Incident”: Level up both Narazaki Jiro and Narazaki Ryu to Karma Level 3, achieve Karma Level 6 with the Ronin faction, and complete all four of Sakamoto Ryoma’s karma missions.
5. Open World Achievements
These achievements are tied to exploring the open world and completing various activities:
- Familiar Land: Reach Karma Level 3 with any region.
- Master Collector: Achieve 100% collection rate in any region.
- Mastery of All Styles: Earn the highest rank (Ji Den) at a dojo.
- Yabusame Master: Earn the highest rank (Ji Den) in Yabusame.
- Sky Glider: Earn the highest rank (Ji Den) in gliding.
- Cannon Master: Earn the highest rank (Ji Den) in cannon training.
- Karmic Bonds: Complete 50 random events in the open world.
- Traveler of Many Lands: Dominate all photo spots in the open world.
- Cat Lover: Collect all 100 cats in the open world.
6. Collection and Statistic Achievements
These achievements are related to in-game statistics and collections:
- Master of Styles: Max out three different combat styles.
- Master of Skills: Max out any one of the four skill trees (Bravery, Wisdom, Skills, Charm).
- Engineer: Perform 15 technical developments with Iwazuka Iga.
- Shadow Assassin: Perform 100 stealth assassinations.
- Just Lawman: Defeat 50 wanted criminals.
- Wealthy Ronin: Accumulate 150,000 coins.
- Level 55: Reach level 55.
- Heartfelt Ronin: Complete all karma missions.
- Versatile Ronin: Use all types of weapons to defeat enemies.
- Master of All Trades: Have all 32 allies participate in missions.