Yakuza: Dead Souls: early memos, postgame modes, and cleanup

Yakuza: Dead Souls: early memos, postgame modes, and cleanup “Nothing is missable” needs a little qualification in Dead Souls. The trophies and regular substories can be cleaned up, but some optional tutorial conversations disappear from their original streets as the quarantine expands. The blue-arrow NPC memos are worth collecting early if you care about that record. Each of those conversations also gives a small experience reward. I'd make a sweep during Akiyama's Chapter 3 rather than rely on finding the same person after a later part has changed the city. EARLY NPC MEMOS • Substories: the man east of Mach Bowl on Theater Alley. Get this in Akiyama's Chapter 3 before moving to Chapter 4. • Item Slots: the man in front of Mach Bowl. Same early window. • Email: the man on Shichifuku Street behind Millennium Tower. Collect before Majima's Chapter 4 changes that area. • Action Icon: the man beside the Children's Park restroom. Collect before Majima's Chapter 4. • MEB: speak to the man in the back of MEB on Shichifuku Street. Collect before Majima's Chapter 4. • First-Person View Mode: the man south of Jewel on Shichifuku Street. Collect before Majima's Chapter 4. • The Effects of Alcohol: the tipsy man north of Bantam on Millennium Tower East Street. Collect before Ryuji's Chapter 4. • Valuables: the woman beside Kotobuki Drugs on Taihei Boulevard East. Collect before Ryuji's Chapter 4. • Taxis: listen to the couple in front of Pronto on Nakamichi Street. • About Naomi's Palace: listen to the men south of Smile Burger on Nakamichi Street. • The check-mark explanation: speak to the woman west of the Millennium Tower basement entrance after exploring it for Hasegawa. • Equipment: speak to Kamiyama in the truck again after your introduction. Other memos come from doing the relevant activity: starting a shop-liberation encounter, recruiting and discussing a partner at Gary's, entering a chase, speaking to the soldier near an emplaced weapon, or beginning Kine's underground assignment. Don't spend hours hunting every tutorial entry as though they're all loose items hidden on the map. THE QUARANTINE CAN HIDE A JOB WITHOUT DELETING IT For a substory, first check Missions → Substories. A missing marker can mean the prerequisite isn't done, the character is wrong, the district's current state is wrong, or an accompanying partner is blocking a solo scene. A follow-up call may require you to leave the quarantine and walk around the safe area. Some shops can be liberated by interacting with their CLOSED entrance and winning the nearby fight. An entrance that is explicitly blocked by the story is different. You can't solve every inaccessible doorway by killing more random zombies outside it. Helpful Links: Memo locations and availability: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps3/998171-yakuza-dead-souls/faqs/79387/memos Premium Adventure and Premium New Game: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps3/998171-yakuza-dead-souls/faqs/79387/premium-adventure-and-premium-new-game FOUR POSTGAME OPTIONS TO KEEP STRAIGHT Premium Adventure continues your clear-data progress. Your base is the Prosthesis Shop. Reequip from your item storage before heading out, and change protagonists there when you need another character's content. Free Adventure is the peaceful city with the quarantine removed. Use it for ordinary shopping, minigames, and taking Haruka around as Kiryu. You can select the time of day for activities that need it. Premium Last Adventure restores the infected-city state for your chosen character. Speak to Asagi when you need remaining substories, hostesses, Subterranea, or Hasegawa. This is the setting to check when Cafe Alps seems to have lost the person who handles your directives. Scenario Battles, accessed through the gunsmith, replay earlier action sections. Better results award experience, and replaying can help with missing combat actions. Finish the replay and save so the result is kept. Naomi's Palace adds the House of Extras through Bob A: Endless Subterranea, Extreme Chase Challenge, and Kamurocho Survival Gauntlet. Bob B handles completion rewards. The Bob you recruit as the final partner is at Gary's Boot Camp. Same familiar face, different purpose and location. BEFORE STARTING PREMIUM NEW GAME Use the laptop in the Prosthesis Shop to make updated clear data after your cleanup. Otherwise the new run can begin from an older clear file that doesn't include the gear or levels you just earned. Keep the Premium Adventure save as well. Premium New Game restarts story-linked progress such as substories, hostess events, Spec-Ops, and Subterranea assignments. It is not a substitute for a permanent cleanup save. Your carried equipment and levels are the reason to use it for Extra Hard; the fresh story is why you shouldn't overwrite your only completed side-content file. My final check would be: all 60 substories, all intended underground work, the Amon reward collected, all 14 partners available for the trophy, the required minigame trophies, the difficulty clears, and the 50-floor Endless result. If you're going beyond platinum, check the actual completion categories separately for recipes, full menus, Heat Snipes, partner levels, and minigame targets. That keeps the remaining work concrete. You can see whether you're missing one event, one reward pickup, or an entire category instead of treating the whole game as unfinished because a single number hasn't reached 100%.