Onimusha: Way of the Sword Trophy List — The Real 52

The list at a glance

Headline numbers from PowerPyx’s roadmap (published a day early, on September 3): 60-70 hours, 6.5/10 difficulty, minimum two playthroughs, zero missable. The no-missables design has a concrete mechanism: finishing the story returns you to a pre-finale checkpoint with the world open, so cleanup is always possible.

The two golds decide your route

True Onimusha — complete the game on Carnage. Carnage is not selectable on a fresh save: it appears only in New Game Plus after one completion, which is what forces the two-playthrough minimum (first run on Action, second on Carnage). Last week a reviewer privately described this trophy to a PSNProfiles forum regular before any list existed — that account called it exactly, including the “not much harder than late-game Action” assessment, since Carnage raises damage and aggression without changing parry timing (difficulty details).

Glutton for Punishment — beat every Boss Rematch opponent on all difficulty levels. The mode’s real name is the Practice Grounds (unlocked during “The Oni’s Apprentice”; ring the bell in the corner of Emma’s Hall). Two mercies: rematch difficulty is picked per-fight independent of your story difficulty, and clearing a boss on the hardest available difficulty auto-completes every tier below it — so the trophy is one Carnage-level clear per boss, not three runs of the whole roster.

NG+ carryover — the conflict, resolved

Back up your save folder before you start Carnage. Two players report that starting New Game Plus from scratch overwrote a save they needed, one a cleared game and one a Carnage run already at the Mount Oe boss, and neither could get it back ⚠ two player accounts, October 8–9. The prompt to watch for is on the missions page.

On September 3 this page flagged a contradiction between early accounts of what New Game Plus keeps. The real answer, now documented:

The forum account had it right; the content-farm summaries claiming weapon upgrades carry over had it wrong. One refinement since this table first ran: we initially listed “outfits” in the reset column, and that was imprecise — the clearer two-source reading (PowerPyx plus Destructoid’s NG+ explainer) is that appearance unlocks carry over, the post-game Panda Costume included, while the upgrade levels on your gear are what reset. Two practical consequences: the blade starts over on Carnage — and Red Souls don’t survive the crossing, so spend them before you start NG+.

The completion checklist: 274–275 collectibles

Two corrections, kept on the record: this page said 273 until September 9, and 274 until September 16. PowerPyx now counts 275 — it revised its Oni Stone line from 54 to 55 in mid-September — and its eleven categories add up to 275. The first error was ours; the second was the source moving. And on September 17 a third voice arrived: the Japanese Gamerch wiki’s own per-stone list still counts 54 Oni Stones, so the total is 274 or 275 depending on which list you trust, and we show both rather than pick. Every category, what gates it, and the state of the interactive maps are on the collectibles page.

• 36 Lion Dogs (For the Love of Dog, silver) · 23 Genma Notes (Genma-ologist, bronze) · 18 Chance Encounters (No Job Too Small, silver) · 8 Mysteries of Kyoto (Demystified, silver) · 7 Oni Armaments (Oni Armory, silver).
• Full-upgrade silvers: Well-Rounded (every skill — needs all 54 Power Stones), Dressed to Kill (equipment), Medical Marvel (Hozuki Pouches), Charmed Life (charms).
• Combat-style bronzes worth planning around rather than grinding late: 50 Issen landings (Brutalist, silver), 50 Chain Issen kills, 50 Blazing State kills, 100 Oni Armament kills, 100 bow headshots, 20 assassinations, a 50-hit Reflex Combo, absorbing 30 souls at once, and a three-kill Break Issen.

The armament-count confusion is now resolved: the game has six Oni Armaments plus the Oni Bow — PowerPyx’s “7 locations” counts the Bow, other guides list six without it. Full breakdown on the weapons page.

Story-progress bronzes name late-game bosses, so we’re not printing that portion of the list here — PowerPyx’s guide has it in full if spoilers don’t bother you.

Scorekeeping on a week of tracking

This page spent four days documenting that no list existed while AI-generated “trophy guides” ranked with invented entries. The receipts, now checkable: the fabricated lists’ signature trophies (“Ultimate Weapon,” “Soul of the Sword,” “Bishamon Sword”) appear nowhere in the real 52; a “39-trophy leak” circulating on September 3 was also wrong. The two details that were true came from a sourced reviewer account, verified above. Capcom held the configuration until launch — the list surfaced with the first console sync, and PowerPyx’s guide landed a day ahead of its own schedule. If you kept your demo save, the Kubi Akari charm is one fewer upgrade material to find.

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