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INTRODUCTION |=========== ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| |¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O Welcome to my Trophies FAQ for Cross Edge, which is a crossover RPG for the Playstation 3 that includes characters from many different universes. The characters are included from Ar Tonelico, Disgaea, Darkstalkers, Mana Khemia 2, Atelier Marie and the Soul series of games. First and foremost, this is not a game where you will get the platinum trophy just like that. It will take a lot of time, especially with the trophies requiring all weapons and items. Note that in order to get everything done, you will need to go after the True Ending (Truth End, as it's known to some). This is a very precise and meticulous process, so it will be detailed in The Dood trophy description. .------------------------------------NOTE--------------------------------------. | | | Everything in the game can be done on any difficulty, but there is something | | special about Hard mode. On Hard mode, you get exclusive access to a special | | area in the post-game (known as 5-3 to those who play the game), which is | | accessed by getting the True Ending. You can fight very high leveled (and | | tough) bosses that drop special synthesis ingredients that either are hard | | to come by or are one-of-a-kind. | | | '------------------------------------NOTE--------------------------------------' O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O ____________| |___________ ============| II. TROPHIES |=========== ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| |¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O There are a total of 24 trophies in the game: 5 bronze, 11 silver, 7 gold and 1 platinum trophy, of course. The trophies will be listed in alphabetical order, for easier reference. .--------------------. ( CROSSOVER CONQUEST ) '--------------------' TYPE -- Platinum This is the obligatory platinum trophy that all retail games have, which is acquired by getting all bronze, silver and gold trophies. This is, I repeat, not a quick platinum and will require a lot of grinding, especially for the item and weapon trophies. .---------------. ( THE AGGRESSOR ) '---------------' TYPE -- Silver You need to execute a 400-hit combo in order to get this trophy. You will definitely not be getting this until late in the game, most likely in the post-game. A Thousand Deaths or Fanatic Rave are probably your best bets when trying to go for this trophy, as both of them contribute A LOT of hits to the combo meter. Note that this must be done in one battle for it to count. One example uses York, Felicia and Lazarus. Note that you will most likely need to perform this set of combos twice to reach the 400 hits, so you would need 32 AP with York, 104 AP with Felicia and 112 AP with Lazarus. You will need the following skills and the order you would use them would be: York -- Quick Shot Felicia -- Delta Kick, Romping Kitty Lazarus -- Critical Combo, Acceleration Quick Shot --> Delta Kick (Trick Vanish) --> Quick Shot --> Delta Kick (Sneaky Steps) --> Delta Kick --> Romping Kitty (Deadly Dance) --> Romping Kitty --> Critical Combo (Rave Accelerator) --> Critical Combo --> Acceleration (A Thousand Deaths) Once you get all of the necessary skills for the characters, head back to the first area of Zeine and get in a fight with one of the weak enemies there. Then, you can unleash the combo above and should get the necessary hits for the trophy. You need to finish the battle for the trophy to ring up. .------------. ( THE BADASS ) '------------' TYPE -- Bronze You need to exceed 10,000 points of damage in a single combo in a fight, which shouldn't be hard to achieve later in the game, especially when going for some of the titles and later trophies. .------------------. ( THE BATTLE READY ) '------------------' TYPE -- Gold This is one of the easier collection trophies, this one requiring all of the armors in the game. You'll get a majority of the armors from the souls and as rewards from titles, but there are some that will require synthesis. There is a total of 89 pieces of armor in the game and you can always check your in-game Item Encyclopedia to keep track of which ones you have and don't have. Note that all you need is to have it registered in the Item Encyclopedia and are not required to have all of them in your inventory at the same time. .-----------. ( THE BULLY ) '-----------' TYPE -- Bronze You need to defeat 100 enemy units to get this trophy. An enemy unit is classified as a single enemy in a battle, so this should come not too far into the game, as long as you fight every battle. Note that the enemy unit won't count if you run from the battle, so make sure you finish the battle to make it count. .----------. ( THE DOOD ) '----------' TYPE -- Gold This is one of the more annoying trophies in the game, as you need to earn the True Ending to get it. To get the True Ending, you have to trigger certain events and follow a specific path during the game's main story. If you miss any of the following events, you will fail and won't get this trophy. -- During any battle with Demitri and Lilith, do not touch Demitri and just kill Lilith -- During any battle with Augustine, simply kill his minions and don't try to touch him -- During any battle with Troy and Anesha, make sure to only go after Anesha and not to touch Troy 1) After you get Felicia in the first area of Wilkiet, head south and then east from the first save point. Trigger the search when the land ends for the "Gasping Fish Beneath the Ice" event. This is the first Hot Springs event. 2) After finding the second save point in the first area of Brosste, go east and search in the forest for the "Comedic Tragedy of 'F'" event. 3) Again from the second save point in the first area of Brosste, journey past the southern forest and search between the two towns to find the "Scarlet Noella" event. 4) When you fight Lazarus in the "Twin Canumares" event in the first area of Brosste, you are required to actually reduce his HP to zero before 5 turns pass (battle will end if 5 turns pass). 5) Once you enter the second area of Wilkiet, head back to the Spies' Quickness save point in the first area of Wilkiet. Go to the other side of the mountain to the west and search just outside the forest there for the "Ancient Volcanic Water" event. 6) In the second area of Wilkiet, you'll fight both Demitri and Lilith. In this battle, you only want to defeat Lilith (try to avoid touching Demitri if you can, for insurance). 7) In the second area of Wilkiet, search southwest in the area after passing through the forest in the middle and going down the left side for the "Thorough Purging" event. 8) In the second area of Wilkiet, you need to search on the last island southeast from the dungeon you came in from. This is the "Neverending Fantasy" event, and it should be done before the fight with Augustine. Also note that you shouldn't touch Augustine during that fight, so make sure not to attack him. To be on the safe side, with every fight with Augustine, do not touch him and just kill his minions. 9) In the second area of Zeine, you get into a fight with Troy and Anesha. During that fight, you should only defeat Anesha and not touch Troy at all. This should be the case with all battles with these two. 10) After the battle with Troy/Anesha, in the second area of Zeine, go to the northwest edge and search for the "Dale Wenso" event next to the snowy mountains. 11) After you fight Troy in the second area of Zeine, head back to Ferryman's Hideout in the first area of Wilkiet. Once there, search just south of the save point for the "Forest of the Ice Butterfly" event just at the northern tip of the forest. 12) In the third area of Zeine, there is a big piece of land jutting out in the northeast corner. Search there for the "Gi LaMensa" event. 13) Once you reach the third area of Wilkiet, head back to the Manor at Len Mountains in the first area of Zeine. Head south and stick to the mountains, and you should find the "Niu Spa" event as you search along the way. 14) After you fight Reicher, go north past the tablet that just disappeared and then search just south of the forest for the "Disappointed Inquiry" event. 15) You will fight Troy the second time. After that, go southwest and search southwest of the little town that is almost surrounded by the forest for the "Sheritun de Mollet Guinea" event. 16) After the one-on-one fight between Troy and York, you'll be thrown into another battle with Augustine and some minions. As usual, do not touch Augustine and just kill the minions. The battle should end when all his minions are dead. 17) In the third area of Brosste, after viewing the "Dhali's False Report" event, search in the forest by Bel Canto's exit for the "Overwhelming Enea's Square" event. You have to fight 9 bees in this battle, with York and Marie being required. 18) As you progress through the third area of Brosste, you'll unlock the area in the southeast. Once you do, search on the north side of the central town to uncover the "Nikran Fire Spot" event. 19) As soon as you enter the dungeon leading to the next area in the third area of Brosste (Fett Road), exit it and go back to a save point. Move to the Nefteg's Tower save point in the ****** area of *******, then search in the forest to the east for the "Rofia Spring" event. 20) When you first get to the first area of Pragma, you're going to need to get to a save point (you can fight Jedah first) and head back to the Traveler's Distance save point in the third area of Wilkiet. Search at the west end of the forest to the west for the "Wailing Evergreen" event. Once you view the above event, move to the Hideout of the Moon save point in the second area of Wilkiet. 21) In the first area of Pragma, you will fight both Demitri and Lilith. Only concentrate on one of them (if you can Overkill one, then do so to Demitri since he has the better item) and after the battle, both Demitri and Lilith will join you. 22) When you first get to the second area of Pragma, head to the northeast corner from where you exit and search for the "Jill Elino Flash" event. 23) After you view the story event with Judas, Jedah and everyone, head into the grassy area north of you. There's a secret path behind the buildings here that leads to the lone area slightly to the northeast. Once you get to that area mentioned, search for the "Rend Boundary" event. 24) When you go past where the first tablet is, continue going southeast to the circle area where you must go around some kind of wall and start heading northwest. Once at the circle, search at around 12 o'clock or so to find the "Noin Split" event. 25) This part is very important. During the jailbreak segment with Ayatane, Miko and Troy, you will engage in three fights. During the final battle with Judas and Jedah, neither Ayatane nor Troy can die at all (if they die and are revived, you're screwed). To be on the safe side, make sure not to let either of them die in any of the three battles. Also, during that final of the three battles, try not to attack and concentrate on staying alive. The prison break event is in the second area of Pragma, one of the two story events close to the last tablet. When you get Troy, Ayatane and Miko back, Mimi and Cece will also join. -----NOTE After the jailbreak story event, you will be able to tell if you're on the True Ending path or not. Go to any save point and check to see if Titles 31-50 and 72-80 are available, then congratulations. If not, then something went wrong somewhere. 26) Once you get access to the dungeon in the third area of Pragma, do not go in right away. Instead, search directly west of the entrance, close to the grass square to find the "Forsaken Echt" event. Once you enter the dungeon in the third area of Pragma, Vivi should join your party if you're on the True Ending path. 27) Once you enter the dungeon from the last event, head back out and behind the tower. There should be an unseen path that leads to the area to the north. Search in the northeast corner for the "Respell Bath" event. -----NOTE You should get the trophy after you beat the last boss in the first area of Ida if you've done everything right. You don't need the next event, but you should get it anyways so you can get all the costumes, which are a requirement for another trophy. 28) Once you've beaten the game and load up your data, search where you start to get an event where Raizen and Lazarus rejoin. After that, head east to the lava river, but don't cross the bridge. Search to the north to find the last hot springs event, "Spring of Overflowing Sea." .--------------. ( THE ENTITLED ) '--------------' TYPE -- Bronze All you have to do for this trophy is unlock any title in the Database section of a save point. You won't get access to the Database section right away, but it isn't that far from the beginning of the game. .-----------------. ( THE FASHIONISTA ) '-----------------' TYPE -- Gold You have to have every single accessory registered in the Item Encyclopedia for you to get this trophy. You do find a large number of accessories if you hunt down every soul you can find, but there are some that require synthesis. There are 43 accessories in the game. .-------------. ( THE GAMBLER ) '-------------' TYPE -- Silver You need to reach 300 BASE Luck with any character. These aren't as bad as you think, as long as you don't spend any of them. Basically, hoard the PP until you have at least 2,000 and then spend them all on one character until you get the trophy to pop up. You can reload your game afterwards, so you don't waste the points. Prinny or Misha will require the least amount of PP for this. .------------------. ( THE GOD OF DEATH ) '------------------' TYPE -- Silver You need to defeat 3,000 enemy units to get this trophy. There isn't much to say here, but to not run away from many battles and that it'll probably require a lot of grinding. .------------------. ( THE GRAVE ROBBER ) '------------------' TYPE -- Gold You need to find 150 items using Search in the game. As long as you try and get every Soul, then you should get this towards the end of the story. Each item you find in a Soul counts as one towards this (not counting more than one of the same item). Here are some maps to help in your search, but note that you will need a higher Search Level to get all of the souls: http://www20.atwiki.jp/xege?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=81&file=1-1.jpg http://www20.atwiki.jp/xege?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=82&file=2-1.jpg http://www20.atwiki.jp/xege?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=84&file=3-1.jpg http://www20.atwiki.jp/xege?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=83&file=2-2.jpg http://www20.atwiki.jp/xege?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=88&file=1-2.jpg http://www20.atwiki.jp/xege?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=89&file=1-3.jpg http://www20.atwiki.jp/xege?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=90&file=2-3.jpg http://www20.atwiki.jp/xege?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=91&file=3_2.jpg http://www20.atwiki.jp/xege?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=92&file=3_3.jpg http://www20.atwiki.jp/xege?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=111&file=4_1.jpg http://www20.atwiki.jp/xege?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=112&file=4-2.jpg http://www20.atwiki.jp/xege?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=115&file=4-3.jpg http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b161/Corkadile/lq51.jpg .----------------. ( THE GUN RUNNER ) '----------------' TYPE -- Gold This is the one of the two difficult collection trophies, with this one centering around weapons. There are a total of 287 weapons in the game, and a good portion need to be synthesized. You will need to be on the True Ending path, because many of the drops needed are from the post-game areas. .----------------. ( THE HIGHLANDER ) '----------------' TYPE -- Silver You need to survive a total of 900 battles in order to get this trophy. You must finish the fight for it to count, as running away will negate that battle. This will most likely take some grinding to achieve, unless you don't run away from a lot of battles during the game. .----------------. ( THE HIKIKOMORI ) '----------------' TYPE -- Gold This is definitely the hardest and most time-consuming trophy in the game, as it involves plenty of other trophies. You must fulfill the requirement for every single title in the Database. You need to be on the True Ending path, as there are plenty of titles that involve the post-game. 1-8 -- Killing enemy units (caps at 3,000) 9-15 -- Surviving battles (caps at 900) 16-22 -- Dealing damage in one combo in a battle (caps at 1,000,000) 23-28 -- Getting certain number of hits in one combo (caps at 400) 29 -- All normal Branch Combos 30 -- All EX-Branch Combos 31-50 -- Killing optional bosses in post-game 51-80 -- Killing a certain number of specific enemies 81-92 -- Having certain number of specific drops from enemies in inventory 93-98 -- Having certain number of specific healing items in inventory 99 -- Have every weapon registered in encyclopedia 100 -- Have every armor registered in encyclopedia 101 -- Have every accessory registered in encyclopedia 102 -- Have every item registered in encyclopedia 103-107 -- Finding certain number of items using Search 108-112 -- Exceeding certain amount of gold (not cumulative) 113-117 -- Perform certain number of syntheses (caps at 500) 118-122 -- Perform certain number of upgrades (caps at 500) 123 -- Obtain all other titles .-------------. ( THE JUGGLER ) '-------------' TYPE -- Bronze You need to get at least a 50-hit combo in a battle to get this trophy. This shouldn't be too much trouble, especially with York and Felicia in your party, as they combo pretty well together. .------------. ( THE JUICER ) '------------' TYPE -- Silver You need to reach 300 BASE STR with any character. These aren't as bad as you think, as long as you don't spend any of them. Basically, hoard the PP until you have at least 2,000 and then spend them all on one character until you get the trophy to pop up. You can reload your game afterwards, so you don't waste the points. Zelos would be ideal here, as he would require the least PP. .-----------------. ( THE KNOW-IT-ALL ) '-----------------' TYPE -- Silver You need to reach 300 BASE INT with any character. These aren't as bad as you think, as long as you don't spend any of them. Basically, hoard the PP until you have at least 2,000 and then spend them all on one character until you get the trophy to pop up. You can reload your game afterwards, so you don't waste the points. Shurelia or Vivi would be ideal for this, as they would require the least PP. .-----------------. ( THE MEAT SHIELD ) '-----------------' TYPE -- Silver You need to reach 300 BASE VIT with any character. These aren't as bad as you think, as long as you don't spend any of them. Basically, hoard the PP until you have at least 2,000 and then spend them all on one character until you get the trophy to pop up. You can reload your game afterwards, so you don't waste the points. Raizen would be ideal for this, as he would require the least PP. .------------. ( THE NEWBIE ) '------------' TYPE -- Bronze You need to survive 35 battles in order to get this trophy. You need to actually finish the battle and not run away, as running away will not count that battle. .-------------. ( THE PACKRAT ) '-------------' TYPE -- Gold This is definitely the toughest of the collection trophies, as there are a total of 663 items for you to register in the encyclopedia. 1-17 -- Healing items 18-29 -- Stat enhancements 30 -- Serum Powder 31-45 -- Items that can be gotten from a lot of enemies 46-59 -- Items that can be synthesized 60-264 -- Unique items dropped by enemies 265-469 -- Items gotten by converting weapons, armors & accessories 470-521 -- Unique items from titles 522-589 -- Synth Recipes (chests in dungeons, Item store, TP Store, titles) 590-600 -- Arcane Books (Item Shop, TP Store, titles) 601-630 -- Arcane Tomes (gotten from non-story events) 631-663 -- Secret Albums (all from titles) .------------. ( THE PATRON ) '------------' TYPE -- Silver You need to unlock all of the art in the Gallery section. To get all of these, you need to unlock all of the costumes for the females (don't need to equip), as well as get all of the Secret Albums (all of which are gotten from specific titles). .---------------. ( THE SKYWALKER ) '---------------' TYPE -- Silver You need to reach 300 BASE AGI with any character. These aren't as bad as you think, as long as you don't spend any of them. Basically, hoard the PP until you have at least 2,000 and then spend them all on one character until you get the trophy to pop up. You can reload your game afterwards, so you don't waste the points. Lazarus would be ideal for this, as he would require the least PP. .-------------. ( THE STALKER ) '-------------' TYPE -- Silver You need to unlock all of the character profiles (look under Profiles) to unlock this trophy, which are unlocked as the characters join your party. You do not need every single character to join your party, as you would need to get to the post-game to get some of the characters to join. Rather, you will fill up those missing spots once you beat the main story. When you reload the save in the post-game, simply access the Profiles section and the trophy should pop up. .-----------------. ( THE WORLD CHAMP ) '-----------------' TYPE -- Silver You need to exceed 1,000,000 damage in a combo in a single battle. If you follow the strategy for The Agressor trophy and have enough ATK on your three characters, then you should also get this trophy after the battle ends. O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O ____________| |___________ ============| III. UPDATES |=========== ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| |¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O 9/18/09 -- Guide finished and submitted to GameFAQs O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O ____________| |___________ ============| IV. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS |=========== ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| |¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O Q) When was Cross Edge released? A) It was released in the US on May 25, 2009 and published by Nippon Ichi America. Q) How come I don't have the titles needed to unlock the True Ending path? A) You did something wrong, plain and simple. You can check to see if you have the titles unlocked as soon as you gain control of York after the prison break sequence is finished. Q) Who is the best team to use? A) That is your opinion on who to use. The best team is one that combos well. One of my favorites, right now, is Lazarus, Felicia, York and Vivi. They are able to go up to A Thousand Deaths, plus a few low-tier magical combos, too. O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O ____________| |___________ ============| V. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |=========== ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| |¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O CJayC for creating GameFAQs and SBAllen for his hard work in maintaining it now Gust, Namco Bandai, Nippon Ichi, Capcom and Compile Heart for making this game happen The people who created the FAQs on GameFAQs for their awesome work in creating some awesome guides for this game