Important Notice: If you want all achievements, you can play your first playthrough without any guide. You’ll have to do NG+ anyway, so you can enjoy your first run with no spoilers at all.

If you have played a Trails game before, you know how many tiny knick-knacks and minor stuff the games hide for very short time sometimes and that if you want to find all of it within a reasonable amount of playthroughs, you should resort to a guide.
If you’ve never played a Trails game before, stop right here and play Trails from Zero or the Sky trilogy first.

At the time of writing this, I’m playing Azure myself, resorting to some guides. But I feel a little unsatisfied. Mostly because even though most guides don’t spoil any story elements, they spoil certain enemies because you have to scan them for your list. And even though e.g. this checklist is a very great resource for not missing anything, I don’t want to know that I would fight GOTCHA 😉 in Chapter 1, or I’d reach area AGAIN?!? in Chapter 2.

So, I take on the quest to provide you with an even less spoilery but fully comprehensive guide for maximum enjoyment of Trails to Azure.

Sources: I used the PSN Profiles Guide[psnprofiles.com] as well as this completion checklist and complemented it with some own comments and changes.

To reach 100% in Trails to Azure, you need to get almost everything. All treasures, all enemy scans, max bonding with your team and other characters, all books, all quartz, all everything.

This guide won’t feature any story spoilers or stuff you need to do to progress the story. The in-game detective notebook is more than enough for that purpose.

All you’ll get without spoiler tags in this guide are

• The number of 💎 treasure chests and 💀 enemy scans in an area an/or quest
  
• Head ups for 🔍 Bonus DP or missables in a certain area
  
• Recommendations for maxing out 💓bonding points
  
• Sometimes additional information if there are certain conditions for getting some enemy or item

If you see
💀: 8 (+4)
this means an area has 8 normal random encounters and 4 special encounters like events and bosses. I won’t mention extermination requests, as they always feature enemies you should scan.

If you see the same notation for
💎: 3 (+1)
this means there are three chests and one high level monster chest you will likely not be able to claim at this point in time.

This guide does not provide solutions for most quests. It will feature only the relevant answers and decisions necessary to not miss out on DP (with a few exceptions).
I will also not mention any main or side quests if they have no missable encounters or DP. The game is pretty forgiving and telling you “If we go there now, we will not be able to do any other stuff anymore” at almost every important plot point. Nevertheless, you should always do all side quests before continuing with the main story.

You can play the game trying to get the solution yourself, only using it as a “Hey, maybe make sure to save before because you might miss something” reminder. You will get vague hints on where to find stuff in some cases, but you still have to find the exact location yourself.

• Impede enemy arts as much as you can, you’ll need to do this 100 times for an 🏆achievement
  
• Use S-Breaks as much as you can, you’ll need to do this 100 times for an 🏆achievement
  
• In Zero, most guides hold you back from using Combo Crafts due to their influence on 💓Bonding Points, if you wanted all final events in one playthrough. This is no longer a problem, so Combo Craft to the Max!
  
• Most collectibles like recipes are available until pretty much the end of the game, as long as the area is still accessible. You should still try to get them as soon as possible. Newspapers and novels are very limited to get, so get them asap when mentioned in the guide.
  
• You are allowed to miss some Bonus DP! Keep the ones you miss to a minimum though. There are some tough ones in the end you might wanna spend the spares on.

(Altair Lodge)
💀: 7 (+4)
💎: 16
Get all scans except (+2) before the finale, you will never be able to return to this dungeon.

💎: 4
As they are hidden rather well, some additional hints:

• Hidden pathway from West Street Raisins Apartment
  
• Hidden pathway from East Street Long Lao Tavern & Inn
  
• Walk the roofs in Downtown District

Collectibles:

• 1 Book: Crossbell Times #1, (Department Story or Tally’s General Store)
  
• 4 Room Decorations:
  
  • West Street (Tally’s)
    
  • East Street (Cronk’s Crafts)
    
  • Entertainment District (Casino)
    
  • IBC (Buy from Lanfei)

💓Bonding Events:

• Crossbell Cathedral (KeA)
  
• Entertainment District (Arc en Ciel, Rixia)

Other Events:

• Crossbell Cathedral (2x: Sister Marble; Check the graves)
  
• West Street (2x: Ian Grimwood; Oscar in Bakery)
  
• East Street (2x: Bracer Guild Members F1 and F2)
  
• Administrative District (1x: CPD, Fran)
  
• Residential District (1x: Hayworth Family)
  
• IBC (2x: Lanfei; Rizero)
  
• Downtown (4x: Trinity; Ignis; Neinvalli; Guillaume)

Within one of the urgent quests, you will get the Recipe Book. After that, you can collect 4 recipes:

• Mixed Gelato (West Street, Tally’s 2F)
  
• Bellyful Hotpot (Entertainment District, Hotel Millenium, Suite)
  
• Rich Cappucino (Back Alley, Garante Jazz Bar)
  
• Fresh Sandwich (Crossbell Cathedral, Shed at graveyard)

💀: 3 (+1)
💎: 5
Recipe: Light Burger
This area closes off at some point in the future, so get all there is to get now.

After finishing both urgent quests, a hidden quest is available when going to Residential District.

Hidden Quest: The Fast and the Injurious
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer “Lure them into a dead end”, “Administrative District”

💀: 12
💎: 10
One enemy only appears sometimes with Nauseating Tomartian
A Shining Pom appears in the area before the Crossroads Bus Stop.
As in Zero, if you fail to scan it, you need to leave the whole area to get a chance to make it reappear.

Main Quest
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Count carefully the number of passengers on the train. The answer is 52.

💀: 7
💎: 3 (+1)
One enemy only appears sometimes with Roving Sheep or Habanerian.
One enemy is from a monster chest. You won’t be able to beat them now, but you can scan&run. This (+1) treasure chest is marked on your map for your convenience.

🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer “A basic traffic law course”

Collectibles:

• 1 Book (Sunshine Agnès Vol. 1, Receptionist Juan)

💓Bonding Events:

• Administrative District (Fran)
  
• Crossbell Cathedral (Sully)

Other events:

• Crossbell Cathedral (Ries)
  
• Times Department Store (Manager Neston)
  
• East Street (2x: Bracer Guild 2F; Long Lao, Alexei)

Main Quest:
💀: (+1)

🔍Bonus DP Warning for Urgent Quests:

• Blunder My Umbrella: With this name, it’s not that hard to guess East Street
  
• Beta Testers Wanted: Win the game

Within one of the Urgent Quests, you will get your Fishing Rod and Fishing Notebook. I’ll note the one point in time where you can get all the fish, but you can always sidetrack yourself.
However, you should catch a few fish now (any should suffice) for later.

Check your car. You can collect car decorations now; they look similar to recipe books.
Car Decoration:

• Residential District (Hayworth Residence)

Hidden Quest: The Cult Incident
Administrative District, Library
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer the questions correctly (“All of the above”, “He was a high priest”, “500 years ago”)

💀: 11 (+1)
💎: 11
A Shining Pom appears in the area before the Crossroads Bus Stop.

🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Visit Rosenberg Studio

Collectibles:

• 1 Book (given by Miner Logy)
  
• 1 Recipe (Der Ziegel Inn)
  
• 1 Decoration (Bäckerei General Store)
  
• 1 Car Add-On (Mainz Mine B2F)

(Old Mine)
💀: 6 (+1)
💎: 10 (+1)

🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer “It’s unlikely”

🔍Total DP: 59
💀Enemies scanned: 52 (17,0%)
💎Treasure Chests: 59 (20,5%)
You can doublecheck these percentages in your Records menu.

From now on, feed Coppe (your rooftop cat) every day. Any caught fish will suffice, but different fish return different rewards.

Collectibles:

• 2 Books (Buy at Tally’s in West Street; Given from Imelda in Back Alley)
  
• 1 Recipe (Central Square, Times Department Store (well hidden!))
  
• 1 Room Decoration (Entertainment District, Barca Casino)
  
• 1 Car Decoration (Entertainment District, Arc en Ciel)
  
• New Rod (Entertainment District, Barco Casino)
  
• New Pom Pom Enemy (East Street, Bracer Guild, Michel)

💓Bonding Events:

• East Street (Bracer Guild, KeA)
  
• Entertainment District (Arc en Ciel, Ilya)

Other Events:

• West Street (Oscar)
  
• East Street (Fisherman’s Guild)
  
• Administrative District (CPD, Rebecca)
  
• Back Alley (Crimson & Co.)
  
• Downtown District (2x: Ries; Ignis)

You can do all of the following quests and areas in any order you like!

Hidden Quest
Harbor District, Heiyue Building
💓 Bonding Recommendation: Choose Wazy
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Visit every location:

• IBC
  
• Every building on East Street (Bracer Guild, Mors’ House, Long Lao Tavern)
  
  • Talk to KeA twice!
• Downtown District
  
• Every building on Central Square (Genten Orbal Store, SSS Building, Times Department Store (final destination!))
  
  • Examine the Mishy Plushies and buy one

🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Talk to Mayor Bickson

💀: 20
💎: 11 (+1)

A Shining Pom appears in the last area before St. Ursula Hospital
Two different enemies only appear sometimes together with Butterflier

Collectibles:

• 1 Room Decoration (Buy in Le Lectier Inn)
  
• 1 Recipe (Le Lectier Inn 3F)

💓Bonding Event:
After completing the Urgent Quest, talk to Cecile

💎: 2 (+1)

💎: 1
Collectibles:

• 1 Recipe (Second Floor)

🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Talk to Commander Sonya
Optional Event: Talk to Mireille

💀: 10
💎: 11 (+1)
One Enemy only appears together with Egg Snake
A Shining Pom appears at the crossroads near Boathouse

Collectibles:

• 1 Recipe (Shed)
  
• 1 Room Decoration (Buy from Cerdan)

💎: 1

Collectibles:

• 1 Car Decoration (Mess Hall)
  
• 1 Recipe (3rd Floor)

Side Quest: CGF Training Exercise
💀: (+3)
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Win all fights

💀: 6
💎: 6
One enemy appears together with Death Corolla or Deadly Dandelion

Collectibles:

• 1 Room Decoration (Reoir General Store)
  
• 1 Recipe (Ash Tree Inn 1F)
  
• 1 Car Decoration (Ash Tree Inn 2F)

🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Talk to the people by the Ash Tree Inn counter

Once you complete all the above, you can continue with the main quest.
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer “Protect the Imperial Chancellor”

Feed Coppe!

Collectibles:

• 1 Car Decoration (Station Street, Station)

💓Bonding Events:

• West Street (Villa Raisins, Sully)

Other Events:

• East Street (Long Lao Tavern&Inn, Grace)
  
• Downtown District (Ignis)

Main Story
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Speak to Dudley for a minor quest
Minor Quest: Follow the hints beginning in Harbor District to find two familiar faces, then report back to Dudley
When reporting back, answer “To hold a private meeting”

Side Quest: “Bracing for Battle”
💀: (+4)
💓 Bonding Recommendation: Choose Randy
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Win (Good Luck!)

After completing all quests and following the main story, after you receive an invitation, a new hidden quest is available.

Hidden Quest: Riboten Remedy
St. Ursula Medical College

Follow the main quest

Missable: At nighttime, you can find one more book in West Street, Grimwood Law office

💀: 4 (+1)
💎: 7

🔍 Bonus DP Warning:

• Win the game
  
• Answer “A third party”

Feed Coppe!

Collectibles:

• 1 Book (West Street, Tally’s)
  
• 1 Pom Pom Enemy (Administrative District, Fran)

💓Bonding Events:

• Downtown District (Lotus Heights, Rixia)
  
• Administrative District (CPD, Fran)
  
• Administrative District (Library, KeA)

Side Quest: Dollnapped
💀: 1
💎: 2
Get the Car Decoration in IBC F16, it’s the only time you can get there.

Following Hints and solutions for this quest, as they are rather quirky 😉

• You know someone pretty close to the SSS who was assigned the title “famed scrutineer”.
  
• But where is his throne?
  
  • Solution: Check Sergeis Desk in the SSS building
• Only one area in the game would fit “ramshackle road”.
  
• Fittingly, there was a previously closed space in this area.
  
  • Solution: Check the old property near Old Armorica Road (don’t forget the two treasures and one scan here)
• Where might someone stand “with their back” in front of the “Goddess’ shining visage”?
  
• Maybe a holy place of peace and calm?
  
  • Solution: Talk to Archbishop Eralda in Crossbell Cathedral
• Number #4 is a hard one. The “skirt of western ramparts” is a pretty good first hint.
  
• Check Bellguard Gate. There is an area I didn’t think was there in Zero where you should look.
  
  • Solution: Bellguard Gate, near the train tracks
• This final one requires your Highschool Math: What’s 16 minus 21?
  
• Only few buildings in Crossbell City would have such heights and lows at the same time.
  
  • Solution: IBC, B5F Terminal Room

Side Quest: Inspection on the Rails
💓 Bonding Recommendation: Play Rock twice to team up with Noel
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer “The young man”

Collectibles:

• 1 Book in Armorica Village (Ash Tree Inn)

3 optional events:

• Bellguard Gate (Commander Sonyas Room)
  
• St. Ursula Collage (Le Lectier Inn, Aeolia)
  
• St. Ursula Collage (Medical Center, Cecile)

💀: 3
💎: 3
On the way to the Moon temple.
You could have gotten them on Day 1 already, but now you have a reason to go, because there is a

Hidden Quest: Dark Side of the Moon
Mainz Mountain Path, Moon Temple
💀: 5 (+1)
💎: 2

Complete all optional quests and collections, you are warned in-game once that you can’t return.

Collectibles:

• 1 Car Decoration in the lobby.

💀: (+3)

(Orchis Tower – Geofront D Section)
💀: 4 (+3)
💎: 8

🔍Total DP: 144
💀Enemies scanned: 121 (39,7%)
💎Treasure Chests: 113 (38,6%)

Collectibles:

• 1 Recipe (Hotel Delphinia Reception Hall)
  
• 1 Book (Buy in Boutique Colserica)

Collectibles:

• 1 Book (Feed the cat with cat food)

Hint: If you have no cat food, try to make dishes that Lloyd is not good in making them. Save and reload if necessary.

You’ll have some choices up ahead, some featuring DP or Bonding Points. As always, only one solution gives you the DP desired, but all outcomes are funny to watch. If you want to see different outcomes without caring for DP first, create a backup save before each activity.

All bonding points mentioned in this chapter are suggestions to max out all at the end. You don’t have to follow them to the spot, but it might get harder to get all bonding events in the end.

💓 Start with Elie

🔍 Bonus DP Warning: “Just a little”, “Quickly and gently”
💓 Answer “Mishy Castle”

💓 Randy
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: “Set Randy up for a spike”
💓Wazy
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: “Tap the ball over by the sideline”

Find stones at Cliffside on the north side of the beach and talk to Elie

💓In the conversation with Randy, select Noel

After finding KeA:
Optional Event near the port (Rixia)

Hidden Quest: “The Swimsuit Snipping Situation”
Go to the Lakeside Beach Reception
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer “Someone else entirely”
💓 Select Elie as your partner
💀: (+6)

Make sure that you have 10000 mira left in your purse after this section
Collectibles:

• 2 Room Decorations (Rest Area, buy from Shop)
  
• 1 Recipe (Rest Area)

You get 6 events in the park (5 Tickets and 1 Hidden Quest).
💓 Use them on Elie, Tio, Randy, Noel, Wazy and Rixia in whatever constellation you see fit.

Again, if you want to see all events, use backup saves. I found the fortune teller to be most interesting with different characters.

🏆Trophy Warning: In the Horror Coaster, you need to reach a very high score of 4000 points. Use backup saves to practice. You have to play on Normal to get this score. High combos are most important. Other than that: Good luck and have fun! 😊

Hidden Quest: Mee-hee-Hide and Seek
Check the Rest Area after using three tickets

After leaving the park, buy a present for the person accompanying you (that’s what you need the mira for)

Follow the story
💀: (+3)

🔍Total DP: 162
💀Enemies scanned: 130 (42,6%)
💎Treasure Chests: 113 (38,6%)

Feed Coppe!

Collectibles:

• 1 Book: West Street (Tally’s)
  
• 2 Recipes:
  
  • Central Square (Vingt Sept Café Kitchen)
    
  • Administrative District (Library (check the bookshelf near the stairs) )
• 1 Car Decoration: West Street (Tally’s)
  
• 3 Room Decorations:
  
  • Entertainment District (Barca Casino
    
  • Downtown District (Neinvalli Exchange Shop)
    
  • Back Alley (Imelda’s)
• 1 PomPom Enemy: IBC (Lanfei)

💓Bonding Events:

• SSS Building (KeA, in her room)
  
• Entertainment District (Ilya, Arc en Ciel, 2F)

Other Events:

• Central Square (Roberts and Jona)

Hidden Quest: Pierre’s Marital Peril
Talk to Pierre in Administrative District, CPD
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer “Salesman”, “Real estate”

Side Quest: A Taste of Crossbell
You’ll automatically get one recipe while doing this quest.
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: The minimum requirement to solve this quest is 6. Visit a total of 11 stalls and restaurants for the bonus DP. For one, you need to engage the restaurant today, but come back later on Day 3, so don't turn in the quest too soon!
You do need to visit:

• Harbor District, Ramen Stall
  
• Central Square, Vingt-Sept Café
  
• West Street, Morges Bakery
  
• East Street, Long Lao Tavern & Inn
  
• Administrative District, Juice Stall
  
• Entertainment District, Ice Cream Stall
  
• Mainz Mining Village, Der Ziegel Inn
  
• Bellguard Gate, Mess Hall
  
• Armorica Village, Ash Tree Inn
  
• Tangram Gate, Mess Hall
  
• St. Ursual Medical Collage, Le Lectier Inn

Side Quest: The Counterfeit Caper
💓 Select Tio
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Don’t beat up the old, defenseless lady, only the other three

Other Events:

• St. Ursula Medical College (Room 304)
  
• Bellguard Gate (Talk to Mireille twice)

Main Quest
Location 1: (Behind the Boathouse)
💀: (+3)

Location 2: (Ursula Road)
💀: (+1)
💎: 1

After each battle, scour the area for the one thing that stands out

Check the cemetery for one new book. Other than that, just follow the main quest.


Feed Coppe!

Collectibles:

• 1 Car Decoration (only after completing a side quest) (Residential Area)
  
• 1 Room Decoration (only after completing a side quest)
  
• 1 Book (Bellguard Gate, Guardsman Dahlia)
  
• From now, you can purchase all possible Orbal Car Parts and Car Decorations from Genten Orbal Store.
  
• You should also own or have access to all room decorations. Buy the Enigma Covers from Genten if you didn’t until now. Visit each SSS room to unlock small cutscenes and an 🏆achievement.

💓Bonding Events:

• Central Square (Dudley, Times Department Store)
  
• Administrative District (KeA, Library)
  
• St. Ursula Medical College (Cecile, Room 304)

Side Quest: Theme Park Trouble
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer “Have a mee-hee-magical time!”, “Tickle them”, “Stand between them”, “Let’s dance and make a wishy with Mishy!” or face eternal wrath

Side Quest: One Born Every Minnith
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer “That the plan is underway”, “His dislike of sweets”, “Seizing land rights”, “They’re the same person”.

Hidden Quest: Inside Scoop: The Terrorist Attack
Mainz Mining Village, Der Ziegel Inn
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer „Both“, “Contain opposing political faction”, “Out of the question”

Follow the main story.
At some point, you’re going into an investigation.
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer: “Less damage at the front of the locomotive”, “We can’t say for sure yet”

💀: 4 (+1)
💎: 6
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Time Limit on the Boss. You’ll have to end the fight in 10 turns or less. Don’t forget to scan though!
Additional hints: "Ending the fight" means getting the boss to 75% of their health. Deal out all you can (Burst can and will help) and reset if necessary. Enemy turns count into the limit!

No Coppe to feed today!

Collectibles:

• 1 Book: Tangram Gate (Commander Douglas)

💓Bonding Events:

• East Street (Rixia, Long Lao Tavern & Inn)

Other Events:

• Downtown District (Ignis)

Hidden Quest: Sully’s Secret Session
Entertainment District, Arc en Ciel
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Complete the session perfectly. You can retry indefinitely.

Side Quest: Driven to the Brink
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Select “Hit the emergency breaks”, “Trust Noel’s Driving”, “Pull in front and cut them off”

Side Quest: “A Taste of Crossbell”
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: You can now get the final dish in St. Ursulas Le Lectier Inn and report the quest.

💎: 4
💀: 0
(Should’ve already scanned as you have been here before)

If you have followed the guide and the 💓Bonding Recommendations, all SSS Members should have max hearts now. You can check this in the “Records” Menu, Bottom Line.
If you have not, try using Combo Crafts with Lloyd more often.

Follow the main story.
Once you know in which area you should go next, visit two optional locations:

• Administrative District (CPD, Fran) for a 💓Bonding Point
  
• Orchis Tower (Jona) for a Pom Pom Enemy ID

Azure Wetlands
💀: 4 (+1)
💎: 15


Feed Coppe!

Collectibles:

• 1 Book (Tally’s)

Optional Events:

• East Street (Bracer Guild, Michel)
  
• Entertainment District (Arc en Ciel)
  
• Harbor District (CNS, Grace)
  
• Orchis Tower (Outside, Mireille)

Follow the hints you got.
🔍Bonus DP Warning: On the evaluation, answer “Barca Casino”, “Guillaume Factory”, “Neinvalli Exchange” in this order.

After meeting up with your mysterious caller, check back to the SSS Building and talk to KeA for a 💓Bonding Point.

Old Mine Auxiliary Tunnel
💀: 3 (+3)
💎: 8
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Time Limit on the Boss. You’ll have to end the fight in 70 turns or less. Don’t forget to scan though!

🔍Total DP: 259
💀Enemies scanned: 159 (52,1%) (Including high-level monster chests)
💎Treasure Chests: 147 (50,4%) (Excluding high-level monster chests)
* Might differ a little depending on if you scanned and/or defeated the high-level monster chests

🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Check the only two buildings in Harbor District and win the fight
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Time Limit on the Boss Fight (yes, again). Win the fight within 5 minutes. You get partial DP depending how far you’ve depleted their HP.
Additional Tips:

• You can abuse the Speedup-Mode, the timer is not influenced by it.
  
• This is a reminder that you don’t need all DP to reach 1st rank. If you don’t want to stress yourself, don’t. But you’re not allowed to lose the match either, so just let the timer go to zero to proceed.

Detailed strategy:

This one is outright impossible without the right setup. I’ll just copy the suggestion from the PSNProfiles-Guide right here:

• Lloyd should be setup as an evasion tank for the rest of the game
  
  • He should have 100% Evasion at this point
    
  • Setup some of his arts where he should access to Adamantine Guard, Fortuna and Chrono Drive
• Randy will function as a support mage
  
  • His arts should have access to Adamantine Guard, Fortuna and Chrono Drive
• Elie should have the Jupiter Bell equipped and she will only be using Spark Dyne as your main source of damage
  
• Tio may not have the Mercury Bell yet at this point in order to quickly use water arts so your best bet would be to setup fire arts where she has access to Crimson Ray
  
• Tips for the battle:
  
  • Lloyd will use Raging Spin to pull the boss away from the party and drag him to the other end of the battle area
    
  • Elie will only be using Spark Dyne as it is quite a powerful wind art and has a little delay
    
  • Tio should immediately cast her Zero Field to protect the party from Sigmund
    
  • Randy will only function as a support mage where he will be refilling both Elie and Tio's EP
    
  • Randy should also be re-casting Fortuna and Chrono Drive
• When the boss buffs himself up, he will use an S-Craft on his next turn so those Adamantine Guard/Zero Field protection are better to be ready

Feed Coppe!

Collectibles:

• 2 Books:
  
  • West Street (Tally’s)
    
  • Orchis Tower (Roof)
• 2 Recipes:
  
  • Adminstrative District (Civic Center, Conference Room)
    
  • Downtown District (destroyed house in the Southeast)
• 1 Pom Pom Enemy ID (only after a quest) (Downtown District, Abbas)

💓Bonding Events:

• SSS Building (KeA, in her room)
  
• Back Alley (Dudley, Garante Bar)

Other Events:
Many people have new things to say, so this list may be incomplete:

• Central Square (Officer Franz)
  
• West Street (Check your Orbal Car)
  
• West Street (Morges Bakery, Bennet)
  
• East Street (Bracer Guild, Michel)
  
• Harbor District (Guardsman at IBC)
  
• Entertainment District (Arc En Ciel, Balsamo)
  
• Crossbell Police Academy (Juna)

Side Quest: Charity Case
💓Choose any lady still needing BP. If all of them are maxed, just choose anyone.
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer “Declare them under arrest”

Additional Hints:
Now let’s see how well you know your fellow Crossbellans.

• Waitress:
  
  • Check some of the restaurants in the city. No more hints necessary tbh
    
  • Solution: Talk to Shanshan in Long Lao Tavern & Inn
  
  
  
• Artisan:
  
  • There are quite a few people “creating” stuff. Maybe something delicious? Or something useful for your everyday business?
    
  • Solution: Talk to Wendy in Orbal Store Genten
  
  
  
• Maid:
  
  • Only a few people are rich enough to hire themselves a maid.
    
  • One of them might even be in your party.
    
  • Solution: Talk to Joanna in the MacDowell Estate in Residential District
  
  
  
• Church Sister:
  
  • Only one obvious place to find one of those.
    
  • The charity event does feature a buffet as well. Maybe someone would be interested in this?
    
  • Solution: Talk to Ries at Crossbell Cathedral

Side Quest: Rebuilding Downtown Crossbell
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Talk to Tantz and get yourself the Acerbic Tomate Paste from the Juice Stall in Administrative District in addition to all other ingredients
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Find all 10 scrap metals

You’ll get here during a side quest.
💀: 7(+1)
💎: 13
Some enemies will only appear after you finished the quest.

Follow the Main Quest.
After visiting everyone, talk to Dr. Seiland, then check the

Hidden Quest: Delivery Deception
Talk to the two delivery man at Crossbell Airport
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: You must use your car to travel to the final destination.
💀: (+1)

At this point, you are able to get all the fish for your fishing notebook and win the angler duels.
If you have trouble, use the base PSN profiles guide or this one[gamefaqs.gamespot.com] for this part.

If you have not yet beaten all available enemies yet, do so now. You should have six enemies of which one is not available at the moment (for obvious reasons).

After doing all other side activities you want to do, follow your callers demand.

Geofront C Sector
💀: 3 (+1)
💎: 11


Feed Coppe!
Don’t forget to accept the one available side quest from the terminal.

Collectibles:

• If you didn’t buy the Master Quarz from Genten until now, now would be a good time to do so. But they are not missable per se.
  
• 1 Book: East Street (Acacia Apartments)
  
• 1 Recipe: Harbor District (Geofront C Sector, Jona’s Room)

Other Events:

• Administrative District (CPD)
  
• Administrative Discrict (Monitor near Civic Center)
  
• Orchis Tower
  
• Harbor District (Geofront C Sector, Jona)

Follow the main story for a bit.
Before following the demand or your mysterious caller, check out the

Hidden Quest: Inside Scoop: Guy Bannings
Meet Nielsen at the Crossbell Cathedral Graveyard
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Answer “It couldn’t be either of them”, “It’s not very likely”, “A personal acquaintance”
Follow the Main Story further.

Castle of Mirror
💀: 6 (+5)
💎: 8
🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Final Boss of the area. Defeat them.
Another insanely hard one. Remember that you don’t need all DP. It’s perfectly fine to ignore these.
You get fewer DP if you deplete the enemys HP to 75% or 50%.

🔍Total DP: 330 (might differ a bit if you did not beat the bosses)
💀Enemies scanned: 186 (61,0%) (Including high-level monster chests)
💎Treasure Chests: 181 (62,3%) (Excluding high-level monster chests)

💀: (+3)
💎: 5
For some reason, you're not allowed nor willing to return to this area later. So get all these chests and enemy scans before leaving.

You’ll visit a lot of older areas during this chapter. It’s your chance to collect the remaining high level monster chests if you didn’t already.

Make sure to scan enemies in event battles, even though you might have seen them before in other areas.

In regards to achievements, if you’ve not yet finished 100x Impede, 100x S-Craft and 50x Burst Achievements, aim towards that goal within this chapter.

There is an achievement for getting a EXP multiplier of 4.0 or higher on the battle evaluation. You’ll need to focus on this in one fight. You’ll find a lot of video guides out there. Here is my little recommendation:
Fill the rest with e.g.

• Triple Cancel (0,3 each, 9x max) (Look for enemies that cast crafts or arts to get this and don’t attack them until they cast)
  
• Overkill (0,1 each) / Double Kill (0,2) / Triple Kill (0,3) / Vanquisher (0,4) (unreliable)
  
• Natural Remedy (0,05 each, 9x max) (If you happen to find an enemy that causes Sleep, Mute or Paralyze)
  
• Support Kill (0,3 each) (only if you feel very lucky)
  
• Deadly Reprisal (0,1 each) (only if you feel very lucky)

I recommend removing any evasion stats or support attacks that cause damage, because they can end your fight before you built up your bonus.


Each area also has at least one new monster roaming around for you to scan and defeat. You’ll distinct them easily because they won’t run away like all other monsters. These are:

• Gordi Ossa, Elon Ark, Hydra Plant + Plant Arm (Ursula Road)
  
• Blade Fang (Old Armorica Road)
  
• Savage Horn (East Crossbell Highway)
  
• Grand Mole (Mainz Mountain Path)
  
• Cragrasp (West Crossbell Highway)

Some of them are them same as ones you defeat in monster chests before, but have different combat notebook entries!

It’s not exactly easy to describe where to find stuff without revealing the locations you’ll end up in this chapter.
The following collectibles and events are available (in this order):
(Southern Crossbell):

• Crossbell Times (St. Ursula Medical College, Buy at Le Lectier Inn)
  
• 1 New Pom Pom Enemy (Airship, Tio (Defeat her to get the final reward and 🏆achievement))

(Eastern Crossbell):

• Optional Event at Ancient Battlefield after meeting with the resistance (Speak to Lau in the underground area)

(Northern Crossbell):

• 🔍 Bonus DP Warning: At Mainz Mountain Path Tunnel, watch your step and don’t trigger any mines
  
• 1 new book (Mainz Mining Village, Der Ziegel Inn, from Maid Luka)

(Western Crossbell)

• New area (West Crossbell Highway Tracks) with
  💀: 1
  💎: 4
  
• 1 new Recipe (Bellguard Gate, southeast side of the railway tracks)

(Mishelam)

• No missables except the usual 💀 enemy scans (6 in total)

After “The Speech”, visit St. Ursula Medical College for

• 1 new book (Room 302, talk to Farrah)
  
• 1 new 💓 Bonding Event (Cecile, 2nd floor nurse station)

If you still require 💓 Bonding Points with your teammates, now would be the perfect time to increase them by doing the Combo Crafts with Lloyd and them.
Before continuing, make sure to take care of the support requests if you didn’t by now.

(Moon Temple)
💀: 11 (+4)
💎: 10
* Some enemies are already known from your previous visit and are included in this number; they count as scanned and will likely run away from you

(Stargazer Tower)
Finish all optional stuff before completing this area!
💀: 6 (+6)*
💎: 8
* This areas boss has two phases which both require scanning.

Make a backup save before engaging the final boss.
🔍Bonus DP Warning and 🏆Achievement Warning regarding the boss:

For story progress, you only need to defeat the first phase. However, beating it rewards an 🏆achievement and 🔍bonus DP. Reset to your previous save if you get beaten in phase two.
It is almost impossible to beat it without the perfect strategy and hardly considered one of the most difficult challenges in all of Trails. You can always play a NG+ on easy, but even then, it will be no simple task. As recommended tactic, you might want to use the Evasion Tank strategy, the same already recommended above against Sigmund. I used these videos for equipment and orbment setup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyc6NJXnSZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnM6IGRuujI
Maybe you don’t have all possible equipment in these videos, but even with less optimal equipment the strategy still works. Even if it won’t work out the first time, don’t give up! Good Luck! 🍀

Back at your hub, you can attempt the final bonding events of your team. Each rewards an achievement.
You can only do one per save file, but opposite to Zero, you can choose which one to get as long as you have max Bonding Points (which you should have if you have followed this guides recommendation).
Create a backup save, talk to the character you want the final event with.
You’ll automatically proceed the story afterwards. Once you are able to save, save in a different slot and reload your backup to do the other events.
If you want to enjoy the story, do the event you want to “keep” in your file going forward first, enjoy the story and continue with this file later.

💀: 1

There are quite a few events you can find in the city in each of the areas. I won’t list all of them, but you can see how all the events affected the citizens and people you met during your adventure and also get some items. Depending on the characters in your active party, some bonus dialogue can be unlocked.
You can do anything you want in any order; the game will warn you once you get to the point of no return.

🔍 Bonus DP Warning: Do the following events:

• Harbor District: Visit CNS and find Reins
  
  • Hint: Pinwheels
    
  • Solution: Check the pinwheel vendor in East Street, then follow to where Tio located a faint presence (through Long Lao Tavern & Inn)
• Crossbell Cathedral: Talk to Quint on the Graveyard and follow his hints
  
  • Hint: Check the buildings in West Street
    
  • Solution: Talk to Pete in Tally’s Store, then check the door to Grimwood Law Office
• SSS Building: Check KeA’s Room for her 💓Final Bonding Event

💀: 5 (+1)
💎: 9

Missables:

• Don’t forget to check the red door once you found the key (unlocks an S-Craft for Tio)

🔍Total DP: 390 (might differ a bit, but you should’ve gotten the 1st class achievement still at this point)
💀Enemies scanned: 246 (80,6%) (Including high-level monster chests)
💎Treasure Chests: 221 (76,3%) (Excluding one high-level monster chest)


You have the opportunity to go almost everywhere in the state to collect stuff and beat/scan enemies. Also, as usual every NPC will react to the recent events, some gifting you stuff.

Collectables:

• 1 Book: Downtown District (Neinvalli (You can buy all trade stuff inside Crossbell City))
  
• 2 Recipes:
  
  • Downtown District (Neinvalli (Store Room after getting the Book)
    
  • East Street (Long Lao (after getting all other recipes))

Important Events and Collectables:

• Merkabah (2x: Fran, Dudley)
  
• SSS Building (Feed Coppe one final time)
  
• Entertainment District (Sully)
  
• St. Ursula Medical College (3x: Cecile, Ilya, Ilya again) (Bring Rixia with you!)
  
• Zemurian Ore shards:
  All places where important battle took place in the recent main story
  
  • Orchis Tower (Rooftop)
    
  • West Crossbell Highway (Railway Tracks)
    
  • Mainz Mining Village (Joshua)
    
  • Armorica Village (Kevin)
    
  • Mishelam (Castle of Mirrors)
• After getting all recipes:
  
  • Cook all peculiar and supreme dishes for two achievements
    
  • Offer all supreme dishes to the Jizo on East Street
    
  • Turn in all peculiar dishes to Manager Juan at the Police Academy
• After getting all books:
  
  • Give all Sunshiné Agnes to the Fortune Teller in Mishelam Hotel
• After getting all ore:
  
  • Get up to two ultimate weapons at Guillaume’s Factory

Other Events of note:

• Central Square (Wendy)
  
• West Street (2x: Morges Bakery Oscar, Grimwood Law Office Pete)
  
• Entertainment District (Barca Casino, Lechter)
  
• Orchis Tower (36th floor, Dieter)
  
• Crossbell Cathedral, Graveyard (Guy’s Grave)
  
• Bellguard Gate (Commander Sonya)
  
• Crossbell Police Academy (2x: Manager Juan, Juna)

Completionist Remarks:

• Get the final monster chest if you didn’t already!
  
• Don’t forget the final extermination requests!
  
• Check the Quartz list at Orbal Store Genten and make sure you have one of each Quartz in your inventory.
  
• Check the Sepith Exchange Counter at Orchis Tower and see if you can get to 1.000.000 Mira by selling everything. If you upgraded all slots and bought all Quartz you want, you won’t need Sepith anymore. If you don't, you'll get more to sell in the upcoming areas or NG+.
  
• If you have not yet maxed at least one Master Quartz of every type, prepare your team so that you can level them. You need access to all Master Arts for an achievement.

The final area has no missable DP or events. So you just need to focus on scans and treasures, and enjoy the story! 😊


(Holy Precincts)
💀: 6 (+1)
💎: 11

After this area, you can turn in the final Quartz Fragment to Rebecca at CPD for an achievement

(Domain of Vanity)
💀: 4 (+2)
💎: 8

(Domain of Passion)
💀: 3 (+2)
💎: 10

(Holy Precincts, cont.)
💀: 5 (+1)
💎: 7

(Domain of Fate)
💀: 4 (+2)
💎: 8

(Holy Precincts, cont.)
💀: 6 (+1)
💎: 6

(Domain of Penance)
💀: 4 (+2)
💎: 8

After this area, you should have all treasures and unlock an achievement.

(The Farthest End)
💀: (+6)

Minor tip for the finale: Try to keep your burst until the end of the last boss.

Congratulations on beating the game!

You should now have 299/305 or 98% of all 💀enemy scans. If you’re missing more, check your combat notebook to see if you’re missing a tick on an enemy. If you can’t find it still, check the list of enemies in Kiseki Wiki[kiseki.fandom.com].

The final six enemies are available only during NG+.
In NG+, you’ll notice some seals on several points in your journey. They’ll open up in the final chapter, each hiding one strong monster for you to fight. After that, you can get to the final area Scarlet Wetlands to fight a secret boss, granting you two achievements (for beating them and completing the notebook).

• Ursula Road (Beach Cave): Grendel
  
• Old Mine: Lucifuge
  
• Geofront D Sector: Fallen Delacroix
  
• Geofront C Sector: Inferno Domina
  
• Azure Wetlands: Great Satan

Minor tip: Master Arts, Art Reflect and Impede are your best friends in these battles. Good Luck!

Before starting NG+, you can unlock features to take over into your new run. You should have enough points to get all of them, but if you don’t, focus on Status, Equipment, Quartz and Master Quartz or the notebook if you didn’t complete them before.

Other achievements you should focus on during NG+:

• Start your NG+ on Nightmare difficulty.
  
• If you haven’t already,
  
  • burst 50 times,
    
  • impede arts and crafts 100 times and
    
  • use 100 S-Breaks.
• Beat 8 enemies at once. With your new strength very easy on one of the monster chests in early chapters, even on Nightmare.
  
• Beat 16 enemies in one battle. Should be easily possible during the first fight in the Finale.
  
• Win 1000 battles and beat 2000 enemies in total.
  
• Gain access to the strongest attack art of each element at the same time. Check your detective notebook list and configure your Orbment setup so that your team has the strongest attack Art of each type available.
  
• Gain access to each elements Master Art.
  
• Level your main team to level 120. Pretty easy during the finale.
  
• Play for a total of 100 hours. If you haven’t reached this when beating NG+ because you always played in fast forward, keep your game idling for the remaining time.
  
• Get all other achievements like cooking or fishing if you didn’t feel like getting them during your first story run.