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Star Ocean: The Second Story R Trophy Guide & Roadmap
Author: Foggy
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Published: November 02, 2023
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Welcome to one of the best PS1 JRPG's - Star Ocean 2! I loved this game back then, and i certanly love it now. This remake is more than a remaster, it's packed with HD textures and re-designed combat, menu, you name it! There is a lot of the same stuff from the previous game, but the naming and some items are to be found diferently than you maybe remember. I will try and help you with the trophies.
Step 1 - Play as either Claude or with Rena. Complete the game while doing all events and PA's
At the start you can choose either Claude or Rena. My first playthrough was with Claude. What that means? That means that you play as Claude and follow his storyline, which is a bit different from Rene's. It's still combined with overlaping events and such, but the difference are the Private Actions you can witness, and characters you can recruit during your playthrough.
Do NOT spend your SP before you unlock "Determination" IC/Special Skill. It happens a bit into the story, but to too late. Make sure to do all Guild Missions and Challenge Missions (in your menu under Missions) as you progress - these unlock more skills and give great items, equipment, money, you name it! Usually after a certain story event you unlock more Guild Missions. They are all easy, just read when you need, and do that. Do not spend SP, save it so you have enough when you need to level up some IC/Speciality.
There is a trophy for getting 15 different endings and all Voice Collections. Do not fear, it's not so time-consuming. All Voice collections for a certain characters gets unlocked simply by finishing the game while having that party member. If you have all 8 party members at the end, you will unlock the most of the needed Voice Collections. Aim to have different characters with Claude and Rene to unlock them all after 2 playthroughs.
My party with Claude was: Rena, Celine, Opera, Welch, Ernest, Bowman, Leon.
My party with Rena was: Claude, Ashton, Precis, Welch, Dias, Noel, Chisato.
Star Ocean: The Second Story R - Characters Recruitment
After a certain events at the beginning of the game, you will unlock Private Actions mode. By pressing square button when inside a town, you enter the solo-mode. If there is an event, there will be a green "PA" label icon on the map. If you press the up d-pad button to fast travel, you will see if there is an icon at some location. That is how you can check if you can do an event at some moment in the story. You need to watch 20 PA's for a trophy, which is not that hard. Answering with positive answers raises the Relationship Points and Friendshop Points with certain party membmers (depends who is involved in PA). Raising bonds unlocks different endings with that chacter. I did all PA's I could before defeating the final boss. After loading the clear save game data you can do more in both worlds, which can alter the points and unlock different endings if you defeat the final boss again.
Pickpocketing lowers the bond levels! Have that in mind. You can lower the levels by stealing when you're not in the PA mode, but same goes when you are (it lowers them). If you want to mess with the ending, this is one of the ways to do it. There are also books you can use/read to fix the levels on certain points. Also by simply doing events during the story with certain combination of party will raise the points.
There is a great weapon for Claude - but you need to witness the timed event in Lacuer City on the west side of the town (inside the hause there) to get it. It gets available after battling Dias during the arena story events. You will get Deadly Edge, which is weak at that point, but later on you can craft (using Customization IC at level 10) Blade of Minos using Deadly Edge + Mithril, and then Aeterna using Blade of Minos + Mithril.
Step 2 - After defeating the final boss you can continue to mop up what you miss (and return to Expel or Nede)
There is a NG+ after beating the final boss, or you can load the clear save game data (which you can create after beating the game) to continue just before the final boss. This is the moment when Maze of Tribulations is unlocked (the hardest dungeon in the game).
Star Ocean: The Second Story R - Maze of Tribulations Optional Dungeon
You can visit the Fun City after you loaded up the clear game data, and go into the arena. Go through the north doors to reach the audience area. On the north side you can find a grandpa NPC "Strange Geezer) that can take you back to the first planet where you started the game. You will be in Arlia and a NPC will approach you to tell you about the Maze.
There will for sure be a lot of preparing for the dungeon and the end-game events like arena challenges and such. You can mop up the most of the trophies at this point. The most time-consuming one is to max out all IC/Special Skills, and Combat Skills. That will require some grinding, but you need to grind for the last optional dungeon anyway, so you will probably deal with both at the same time.
Step 3 - Start a NG+ from the main menu and play as Rena (if your first run was with Claude)
Gather party members you didn't in your first playthough and beat the game. This should unlock the rest of the Voice Collections and Endings if you still miss some. At this point you can mop up whatever you may miss at this point.
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Star Ocean The Second Story R PS5 Full YouTube Playlist
Star Ocean: The Second Story R - Characters Recruitment
Star Ocean: The Second Story R - Devil's Aria and Music Guide
Star Ocean: The Second Story R - Easy Leveling Up
Star Ocean: The Second Story R - Fishing
Star Ocean: The Second Story R - Maze of Tribulations Optional Dungeon
Star Ocean: The Second Story R - Pickpocketing
Star Ocean: The Second Story R - Private Actions
Star Ocean: The Second Story R - Ultimate Challenges
Star Ocean: The Second Story R - Unique Spots
Collect all other trophies to unlock Platinum
Automatic story-related trophy when you start and play as Claude
Automatic story-related trophy when you start and play as Rena.
Automatic story-related trophy
Automatic story-related trophy when you play as Claude.
Automatic story-related trophy when you play as Rena.
Automatic story-related trophy
Automatic story-related trophy.
Automatic story-related trophy
Automatic story-related trophy
Automatic story-related trophy
Automatic story-related trophy
Automatic story-related trophy for beating the game with Claude.
Automatic story-related trophy for beating the game with Rena.
Maze of Tribulations is unlocked after you beat the game with either Claude or Rene. If you load your clear save game slot, you will be back before fighting the last boss. You can now visit the Fun City and go into the arena, then through the north doors to reach the audience area. On the north side you can find a grandpa NPC "Strange Geezer) that can take you back to the first planet where you started the game. You will be in Arlia and a NPC will approach you to tell you about the Maze.
Exit the city and fly towards the southwestern corner of the map where you can find an unique spot and a pyramid-type of dungeon which is the Maze of Tribulations. Good luck, do not think about entering this if you're under level 100 - even that is low. You need to reach the bottom floor and defeat the boss there.
To create the Devil's Aria song, you will need the last of the 2 intruments and then use the Music Specialty with a character on a certain level using "Compose" option. Playing the instrument unlocks the song, which you then need to use to summon the enemies using "Perform" Music option.
This will probably be your last challenge. After you do Maze of Tribulations optional dungeon and kill the The Devil's Aria song optional boss, this is the only thing remaining when it comes to single boss challenges in post-game.
This is highly missable! If you never watched PA with Philia in Kurik (before Kurik gets destroyed), you will not be able to trigger this, thus missing the trophy. Make sure to watch that PA, and the other PA with Philia will be available in post-game (after loaded the clear-save game data). Enter Centropolis of Nede and watch the other PA with Philia, which will unlock the last boss' final phase.
Defeat the final boss once more to unlock this trophy.
Recruit Celine as part of your playthrough with either Claude or Rene. Details can be found under the next topic:
Recruit Ashton as part of your playthrough with either Claude or Rene. Details can be found under the next topic:
Recruit Welch as part of your playthrough with either Claude or Rene. Details can be found under the next topic:
Recruit Precis as part of your playthrough with either Claude or Rene. Details can be found under the next topic:
Recruit Bowman as part of your playthrough with either Claude or Rene. Details can be found under the next topic:
Recruit Opera as part of your playthrough with either Claude or Rene. Details can be found under the next topic:
Recruit Ernest as part of your playthrough with either Claude or Rene. Details can be found under the next topic:
Recruit Celine as part of your playthrough with Rene (he can only be recruited during Rena's playthrough). Details can be found under the next topic:
Recruit Celine as part of your playthrough with Claude (he can only be recruited during Claude's playthrough). Details can be found under the next topic:
Recruit Noel as part of your playthrough with either Claude or Rene. Details can be found under the next topic:
Recruit Chisato as part of your playthrough with either Claude or Rene. Details can be found under the next topic:
Recruit at least 6 more party members alongside with Rena or Claude (depending which playthrough you're playing). Full party is when you have 8 members, so don't ditch party members, have them join you to fill your rooster.
Have 2 people learn Scouting Specialty and have it at lv.4, while you have one of them (or another party member) learn Train at lv.1. That unlocks Bodyguard. Now, go inside the IC/Specialty Skills and locate Bodyguard, turn it on.
When you approach enemies there is a chance that your party member will block that enemy from rushing into you. When that happens, initiate the fight and you will enter the fight with advantage - similiar like rushing into enemy from behind. That is it!
Note - When you overlevel and the enemies are green on the field, when using Bodyguard there is change that your party members will kill enemies without going into the fight. This is a good, easy, and fast way to level up simply by running around and getting rid of enemies this way.
In battles, when your party member/s dies there is a chance that you or one of other members enters the Rage mode. You will notice the smoke around you when that happens. Entering this mode for 10 times is easy - and for sure you will unlock this trophy by simply playing the game.
Assault actions are a new thing in this remake version of the game. Basically, on your journey you will recruit party members and find special items that unlocks assault actions. You can map the actions under the Formation in the inventory menu, and assign certain character to D-pad. In fight, press the d-pad to summon assault action. Do this 20 times. Easy one.
After Krosse City you will unlock a bunch of battle skills, IC and Specialties. Specialties are basically grouped IC (for example, for Pickpocketing you need Courage and Poker Face IC, so you need to invest in these 2, or you can switch the category by pressing square when in IC Improving menu to switch directly to level up Pickpocketing which then levels up the mentioned IC as well).
By simply improving one, the trophy unlocks.
After Krosse City you will unlock a bunch of battle skills, IC and Specialties. Specialties are basically grouped IC (for example, for Pickpocketing you need Courage and Poker Face IC, so you need to invest in these 2, or you can switch the category by pressing square when in IC Improving menu to switch directly to level up Pickpocketing which then levels up the mentioned IC as well).
You can for example use Compounding to craft weapons, and thus unlock this trophy. If you work on the Missions, for sure you will get this one along the way.
Learn "Bunny Call" super specialty. You need to have 2 people learn Familiar and have it at lv.4, while you have one of them (or another party member) learn Scouting at lv.1. Once you have these the skill will be learned automatically. By having a lower level of this super supecialy, the easier it gets to fail calling bunny.
Go to your IC/Specialty, super specialty tab, Call Bunny and call the bunny. You need to fail 10 times, which will unlock this trophy. If you succeed, just cancel riding the bunny and he will go away. Repeat until you unlock the trophy.
You need to reach Harley (east side of Kross contined, directly east from Krosse City). On the east side of this port is Reel, who exchange prizes for number of fish you catch, or simply by trading them for other rewards. The reward for catching 15 different fish is Masterwork Rod, which also unlocks the trophy.
Details about fishing can be found under the next topic:
To steal/pickpocket you need to use a character that has Nimble Fingers talent + you need either Thief's or Magician's Gloves, alongside with Pickpocketing Speciality at the high level (preferably at level 10, to have the best chances). Forget about stealing without Nimble Fingers talent.
Note that pickpocketing lowers the Friendship Points between your party members.
All of the details for pickpocketing can be found under the next topic:
Super specialties are a bit different from regular specialties.
For super specialties you need to have a certain amount of people learn certain regular ICs and/or regular specialties, and also reach a certain lv with them.
For example, for "Bunny Call" super specialty you need to have 2 people learn Familiar and have it at lv.4, while you have one of them (or another party member) learn Scouting at lv.1. Once you have these the skill will be learned automatically.
There are 17 Combat Skills in the game. Most of them are automatically unlocked as you progress through the story, but some of them are highly optional.
Optional Combat Skills:
- Secret Manual "Change" - Unlocks Backstab
- Secret Manual "Break" - Unlocks Breaker
- Secret Manual "Weight" - Unlocks Heavy Hitter
- Secret Manual "Preserve" - Unlocks Accumulation Aid
- Secret Manual "Pierce" - Unlocks Surpass Damage Limit
- Secret Manual "Augment" - Unlocks Overload
On top of that you can get 11 IC/Specialties, and they unlock automatically as you progress through the story. For this trophy you need to max out all of them, but it doens't have to be on 1 character. You can level up all combat skills to level 10 with Claude, and then IC/Specialties across different characters. It's only important that you max out a skill, it doesn't matter on which character.
Check out the level up and easy exp topic for more details about level farming (which will be more than enough when you reach level 255 to max out everything will all characters):
Challenge Missions are stored under Missions in your inventory. There are 4 categories, each explaining what you need to do to complete these challenges. Then you can redeem the challenge for a reward. Completing 10 is really easy, you will complete more than 100 in no time!
This one requires you to watch and participate in 20 PA's (Private Actions). They gets unlocked early in the story. You need to press square to enter the private action mode, and then approach "PA" green icons in towns to trigger a PA. You can do 20 PA's easily, there are so much more. They depend on your party members and some are timed, so make sure do do them as you progress (press up on d-pad to check if some town has the PA icon - if yes, go there and do it so you don't miss out on it).
More details can be found here:
Unique Spots are a new thing in this remake version of Star Ocean 2. The first spot is in Aria Village - a bit further into the story check the yellow point of interest in the southwestern part of the town aquare. The full list of unique spots can be found under the next topic:
One of the Fun City competitions is the Cooking Master. Enter the Cooking arena and send your Lv10 Cooking IC character to do the cooking. You need to win 8 times (I did 8 wins in a row - 7 are needed for Legend Mission if you go for that). 8th challenger was Yarma for me, and the rewards are Ingredients of Yarma, which can be used to cook the Demon Steak.
The idea behind this challenge is to well, cook! When you start, get to the middle and take 80 ingredients from the desk. Then go to your cooking desk southeast and start preparing up to 10 groceries. The yellow ones grants more points, but the best way is to use 10 and try to get the Perfect score. To get the perfect score, after you pick your ingredients - let the first circle pass, then you need to press X in the rythm when the circle is about to dissapear. The more you hit, the more bonus you will get.
Yarma is the strongest opponent, but I did it easily.
0:00 - Enter the Cooking Competition
0:14 - Challenger #1 & Tips
3:27 - Challenger #2
6:27 - Challenger #3
9:55 - Challenger #4
13:10 - Challenger #5
16:15 - Challenger #6, Pressure KO Win
18:13 - Puffy Challenger #7, Pressure KO Win
20:35 - Yarma Challenger #8 (Five-Star Chef trophy, Ingredients of Yarma)
Bunny Races are present in Fun City, in planet of Nede much later in the game. You need to have the flying ship to reach it. When you do, fly there (you will end up there for story puproses, but you can enter it sooner) and enter the middle, north doors. Buy 8 tickets from the big bunny and now you can predict!
The bunny with the highest Speed and Stamina is most likely to win, followed by the second with the highest stats. There are neat bunny shoes to be won here, but it's really hard to get them, the ods are low. The only time I got them was when all of the bunnies were similiar with the stats, so I had the luck. If you see 2 bunnies with both stats high, choose these (if these are 1st and 4th bunny, 1-4 is the combination you choose to win). You need to win 5 times, which can take like half an hour, but it's really not that hard.
Pretty self explanatory - simply by walking in the game you will unlock 2 trophies. All of them should come naturally without even worrying about them.
Pretty self explanatory - simply by walking in the game you will unlock 2 trophies. All of them should come naturally without even worrying about them.
Voice Collection gets unlocked after you beat the game for the first time. Depending of which characters as party members you recruit, you unlock these Voices. So, it's rather simple - have 8 party members for your first playthrough, then different ones in your second. That will unlock all of the Voice Collections.
List of Voice Collection
- Claude C. Kenny
- Rena Lanford
- Celine Jules
- Bowman Jeane
- Dias Flac
- Precis F. Neumann
- Ashton Anchors
- Leon D.S Gehste
- Opera Vectra
- Ernest Raviede
- Noel Chandler
- Chisato Madison
- Welch Vineyard
- Haniel
- Michael
- Lucifer
- Gabriel
When you complete the game for the first time, you will unlock couple of endings depening of your points between characters. There are 99 endings, and for sure you will unlock 6 after defeating the final boss and making a clear-save game data.
Now, you can load that save data and continue playing (you will be returned just before the final boss). There is a tricky to mess up with Friendship/Relationship points if you've been skipping PA's which are raising or lowering that for your party members.
Use Publication Super Specialty to create 2 books using each party member. One of them will set Friendship Level with that character to 16, one to 28. If you want to change the ending, let me explain on one example how that works. Let's say I have max points with Claude towards Rena (check under Status to see the levels). If I want an ending with Celine, I need to set my Friendship with Rena to 16 (give Rena's book to Claude), and use Celine's book that sets Friendship level to 28. I need to do the same with Celine to lower all of her levels towards other members than Claude to lower than 28, and only set towards Claude to 28. Towards whichever party member you have the highest hearts, if that character has the same for you, that will trigger their ending.
There are a lot of endings, you can also trigger solo endings, which happens if your party members doesn't show hearts towards other party members under Status screen. You will unlock 15 endings very fast, just defeat the final boss and keep saving and reloading that save while you set your affinity as your prefer.
0:00 - Complete the game and save
0:47 - Publification method explained
1:28 - Using books to set Friendship levels
Defeat Gabrielle, her sister by performing the Lv10 The Devil's Aria, and Gabriel (last boss) after unlocking his delimiter (participate in 2 PA's with Philia - 1 in Kurik before it gets destroyed, and 1 in The Centropolis of Nede in the post-game. Then you can defeat stronger Gabriel as the final game boss at the top of Phynal).
When you did the events above, you will return the last Lv200 arena Group Challenge. Win it to unlock the trophy.
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