Persona 5 Trophy Guide and Platinum Walkthrough

This guide is for the original Persona 5 trophy list released worldwide in 2017. Persona 5 Royal is a separate game with different trophies, altered systems, and an additional third semester. Trophy progress and save data do not transfer between the two lists.

The original list is more demanding. It requires every Confidant, every book, every video game, all Mementos requests, a complete Persona Compendium, 250 Futaba navigation lines, and two New Game Plus objectives. Royal removes several of these completion checks and can usually be finished in one run.

The Persona 5 Royal trophy route therefore uses different milestones and trophy names. The Phenomenal Phantom Thief belongs to Royal, while this page works toward Legendary Phantom Thief.

Persona 5 has 36 missable trophies because the base game offers no post-story free roam. Almost every optional objective must be finished before the late-December cutoff. The safest route is a proven 100 percent calendar schedule rather than an improvised first playthrough.

Compared with Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Persona 5 gives you far less freedom to leave side content for post-game cleanup. A missed message, book, request, or Confidant rank can affect several trophies at once.

Calendar Priorities

I would treat Great Phantom Thieves Convene as the backbone of the run. Bring a matching Arcana Persona to every optional Confidant meeting, choose the highest-value dialogue answers, and avoid spending a time slot on a meeting that cannot rank up. Fortune's Affinity Reading can add relationship points without passing time, while Temperance can return an evening after selected Palace or Mementos visits.

Finish Palaces quickly, but do not wait until the displayed deadline. Some Palaces need extra days for the calling card and story response. Group Mementos requests together so one trip clears several targets.

For Mask of an Honor Student, answer every exam question correctly and raise Knowledge early. Max Knowledge is the reliable target for the later exams. True Talent then follows naturally if the schedule balances books, jobs, baths, the diner, plant care, movies, and other social-stat activities.

Requests, Books, and Hangout Spots

A Perfect Job requires all 26 requests. Read Mishima's messages as they arrive because the phone stores a limited number of older messages. Several requests come from optional Confidants. Three targets require two shifts at the convenience store, flower shop, and Crossroads bar before their identities are revealed.

Bookworm requires 34 completed books. Return school library books promptly so the next one can be borrowed. Three books are Mementos request rewards, which means a missed request can block Bookworm as well as A Perfect Job. Speed Reader reduces the time cost once it becomes available.

My Backyard also overlaps with books and Confidants. Some locations open through the story, while others require invitations or travel books. A schedule that completes every book and Confidant normally unlocks all 25 locations before the final month.

Save Discipline

Use the 16 save slots as a calendar safety net. Keep one rolling save for each in-game week, one before every Palace deadline, one before exams, and one before the late-game ending choices. Keep a separate file before starting New Game Plus.

A manual checklist is useful for drinks, books, games, infiltration tools, requests, and hangout spots. The game does not provide a complete trophy tracker for these sets, so relying on inventory alone can hide an item that was received rather than personally crafted.

No trophy requires a specific difficulty. You may lower the setting for bosses, the Reaper, or the twins without losing trophy eligibility.

Normal is the best starting setting for the Platinum route. Enemies survive long enough to produce varied Futaba lines, and allies are more likely to enter the low-HP state needed for Competent Negotiator. Easy and Safe can make both situations less natural because the party becomes overpowered quickly.

Safe difficulty cannot be changed after selection during that playthrough. Choose it only when you are certain you will not need to raise the difficulty for a hostage setup or broader combat-line variety. Its 3/10 rating still makes this one of the longest routes in the PlayStation Trophies wiki.

New Game Plus is mandatory for Beyond Rehabilitation, One Who Rebels Against a God, and Mask Collector. It is not a full second run when the first playthrough is properly scheduled.

The Compendium carries over, but the Personas currently in Joker's stock do not. Register the final versions of Satanael's six components before ending the first run. Equipment makes the early story easier, while maxed social stats remove most activity gates.

Advance to the first Mementos access and then to Strength Rank 1 around 5/18. Create Satanael once Group Guillotine opens, which also completes the Compendium when every other entry is registered. The twins can be challenged after Mementos becomes available, so all remaining trophies can be completed within the same short run.

Craftworker is the list's main glitch-prone trophy. The trophy checks whether Joker personally created every infiltration tool, not whether each tool has appeared in the inventory.

Use this procedure:

1. Wait until 7/25, when the complete crafting selection becomes available.
2. Make a written checklist of every tool shown at the work desk.
3. Craft at least one of each tool as Joker.
4. Do not count tools made by Kawakami.
5. Do not count free tools received from Morgana, requests, or other sources.
6. Keep a save before crafting the final entries.

Tools made by Joker during class count. If the trophy does not unlock, manually craft the common tools again, especially Goho-M, since the game gives free copies that can make it look completed. Repeating one of each tool is safer than trusting the current inventory total.

The original Persona 5 has four separately tracked trophy lists for the English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean releases. Each version can award its own Legendary Phantom Thief Platinum on the same account.

These are full regional stacks, not autopops. You must complete the entire 100-hour route again in each version, and save data does not move between incompatible regional releases. Language and store-region requirements make this practical only for dedicated stackers.