The Kaito Files: completion roadmap, trophies and saves
This guide is for Kaito's separate campaign. Yagami's base-game upgrades, TownGo completion, School Stories and Amon encounter are different tasks. The Detective Essentials relationship trophies and School Stories Expansion content do not belong on Kaito's checklist.
Completion requirements
For the story, finish the four chapters. For all five DLC trophies, also defeat the four masked warriors, including the optional Blood-Drunk Master. To reach that last fight, you need to learn Kaito’s other skills and buy Letter of Challenge.
For all of the DLC's exploration collectibles, check off 11 memories, 20 cats and 20 scent pickups. Twenty of those cat/scent rewards are Matsugane Family Crests. For all skills, finish all 71 entries, including Letter of Challenge.
There is no Kaito-specific difficulty trophy. Choose any difficulty. Legend is only required by the base game's trophy list.
Recommended order
1. In Chapter 1, finish the opening fights and Primal Focus tutorial. Take the Matsugane crest from the rubbish outside the office and the Bloody Crest from the nearby cat.
2. Buy the inexpensive foundations first: Gifted Brawler Lv. 1, Repel and Perfect Iron Guard once their styles are available. Begin using both styles instead of postponing all the combat conditions.
3. Add Primal Ear+/EX Primal Ear and Primal Nose+/EX Primal Nose. These help with the cat and scent searches. They do not replace the Primal Eye memory hunt.
4. Collect crests while travelling between objectives. Ten and twenty crests unlock Gifted Brawler levels 2 and 3. Spend SP to learn the unlocked levels.
5. In Chapter 2's abandoned Bato office, take A Swordsman's Teachings: Part One from the cabinet. It has a later pawn-shop fallback, but getting the free copy avoids an unnecessary purchase.
6. Continue the story and make later sweeps for memories. They do not all appear at the beginning. If a location is empty, return after story progression rather than assuming the directions are wrong.
7. Equip the Bloody Crest when you are ready to hunt the three roaming masked enemies. Keep healing supplies with you.
8. After the Chapter 4 hotel sequence, stop at the final Kamurocho free-roam warning. Make a separate manual save. Buy Disguise Fundamentals at Ebisu Pawn, finish the remaining skills and purchase Letter of Challenge for 40,000 SP. Keep the Bloody Crest equipped while buying the skill and going to the rooftop.
9. Defeat the Blood-Drunk Master on the Kamuro Theater rooftop. Save again, replenish supplies, then take the final story taxi.
All five DLC trophies
What Goes Around
PlayStation grade: Bronze
Requirement: Finish Chapter 1.
Like Father, Like Son
PlayStation grade: Bronze
Requirement: Finish Chapter 2.
Out for Blood
PlayStation grade: Silver
Requirement: Finish Chapter 3.
Cat & Mouse
PlayStation grade: Silver
Requirement: Finish Chapter 4.
Escaping a Daydream
PlayStation grade: Gold
Requirement: Defeat all masked warriors, including the rooftop boss.
The first four arrive through story progress. Escaping a Daydream is the one to plan around. There is no separate trophy simply for collecting every scent, but several exploration rewards unlock skills needed for the optional boss.
On PlayStation, these five trophies form a separate DLC group. They are not required for Lost Judgment's platinum. Other platforms may combine the base and DLC achievement lists.
Saves and missables
Keep one untouched save before the final taxi to Shirakaba. Going to Ijincho for the Chapter 4 hotel sequence is not that final cutoff: you return to Kamurocho afterward. The game gives the relevant warning during that return.
There is no Premium Adventure cleanup after the ending. Keep the free-roam save in a separate slot so you can return to the optional content after finishing the story.
The Chapter 2 skill book is not permanently lost if you miss its free copy: check Ebisu Pawn later. Individual mission pickups are a different matter, so collect useful equipment and recovery items during the missions rather than expecting to revisit every interior.
Final departure checklist
- All 11 memories examined and their skills purchased.
- All 20 cats found; Iron Liver purchased.
- All 20 Matsugane crests collected; all Gifted Brawler levels purchased.
- All three skill-book requirements satisfied.
- All seven ten-count combat prerequisites completed.
- Three roaming masked enemies defeated.
- All 70 other skills learned; Letter of Challenge purchased.
- Blood-Drunk Master defeated and Escaping a Daydream unlocked.
- Separate free-roam save retained; healing supplies replenished.
The Kaito Files: completion roadmap, trophies and saves
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