Just rolled credits on Onimusha: Way of the Sword and eyeing the Platinum? You're in good company — r/Onimusha is filling up with "Platinum Trophy Achieved!" posts less than a month after the September 4, 2026 launch. The good news: it's a fair, well-designed trophy list with zero missable and zero glitched trophies. The catch is a New Game+ run on the brutal Carnage difficulty, a full collectible sweep, and one nasty gold trophy that makes you fight every boss on every difficulty. This guide breaks down all 52 trophies, the exact 100% checklist, and the completion-reward trap that's tripping people up — verified against PowerPyx, onimushastrats, Insider Gaming and Maxroll as of September 26, 2026.
Quick answer: Onimusha: Way of the Sword has 52 trophies (1 Platinum, 2 Gold, 9 Silver, 40 Bronze); the Platinum is called "Peerless." It takes a minimum of 2 playthroughs (one clear to unlock Carnage, then a Carnage New Game+ run), roughly 60–70 hours, and PowerPyx rates it ~6.5/10 difficulty. Nothing is missable — you can return to a pre-final-mission save via "Continue" — but you must complete the game on Carnage, clear all 18 Chance Encounters and all 8 Mysteries of Kyoto, grab every collectible, and clear the Boss Rematch mode for the hardest trophy, "Glutton for Punishment" (a Carnage clear cross-credits the lower difficulties, so you don't fight each boss three times).
How many trophies does Onimusha: Way of the Sword have?
The trophy list is 52 trophies total, broken down as 1 Platinum, 2 Gold, 9 Silver, and 40 Bronze — a count PowerPyx, onimushastrats and Insider Gaming all agree on. The Platinum itself is "Peerless" ("Earn all trophies"), a fitting name for a game whose hero shows up in Kyoto to prove he's unmatched in the way of the sword.
Two numbers make this a friendlier Platinum than the game's reputation suggests:
- Missable trophies: 0. After the credits you can select Continue from the main menu, which drops you back before the final mission (the point of no return) so you can mop up anything you skipped. PowerPyx confirms the zero-missable count.
- Glitched/buggy trophies: 0. Both PowerPyx and onimushastrats report no known trophy-blocking bugs as of the Patch 1.0 launch build.
Even so, keep a manual save before the final mission. There is a point of no return, and a clean backup save is cheap insurance against a corrupted cloud file eating your run.
PowerPyx's headline figures for planning your run:
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Total trophies | 52 (1P / 2G / 9S / 40B) | PowerPyx |
| Platinum name | "Peerless" | PowerPyx |
| Difficulty rating | ~6.5 / 10 | PowerPyx |
| Time to Platinum | 60–70 hours | PowerPyx / onimushastrats |
| Minimum playthroughs | 2 | PowerPyx |
| Missable trophies | 0 | PowerPyx |
| Glitched trophies | 0 | PowerPyx |
Do you need to beat Carnage for the Platinum?
Yes. Carnage is the game's hardest difficulty, and it is not available from the start — it unlocks only after one full clear, as a New Game+ mode. The trophy tied to it is "True Onimusha" (Gold): "Complete the game on difficulty level 'Carnage.'" Because it's a required trophy for "Peerless," a Carnage run is mandatory.
A few things to know before you commit, straight from the launch difficulty rules Capcom shipped:
- Carnage is effectively one-hit-kill — enemy grabs and heavy attacks can delete you instantly. As one platinum-earner put it on r/Onimusha: "Bosses — do not have to be a no-hit run. But you need to memorize all of their moves. Grabs do an insane amount of damage."
- Once you select Carnage on a save, you cannot lower or switch difficulty on that save. Story and Action can be swapped freely at a Spirit Mirror via "Change Difficulty Level"; Carnage is locked in. (Full breakdown in our Onimusha difficulty settings guide.)
- Don't hoard. The same player's advice: "No need to hoard your consumables, use them… Open world/rifts — use your Oni Armaments and Awakening freely." Save a stock for the endgame bosses, but Carnage is not the run to play stingy.
Because Carnage only exists in New Game+, you're looking at two playthroughs minimum: a first clear (on Story or Action) to unlock it, then the Carnage run itself.
Does Carnage count for the lower difficulties? Trophies vs cosmetics
Here's the part that trips people up, because it works two different ways depending on whether you're chasing a trophy or a costume.
For trophies — good news, Carnage counts for everything below it. The Boss Rematch trophy asks you to beat every opponent "on all difficulty levels," but per PowerPyx, "completing a Boss on the hardest difficulty available will complete all difficulties below it as well." So beating a rematch on Carnage credits Story and Action automatically — you do not have to fight each boss three separate times for the trophy. That's a huge time saver and it means "just do it on Carnage" genuinely works for the Platinum.
For completion-reward cosmetics — bad news, those are earned per difficulty. This is where "do everything on Carnage" backfires. The unlockable outfits and haori tied to game/side-content completion are not cross-credited by a Carnage clear. Maxroll documents separate, numbered reward tracks, where the Carnage versions are distinct "…2" variants (a base Warlord's Armor for the Story/Action track, an upgraded Warlord's Armor 2 for the Carnage one). An r/Onimusha player found this out the hard way:
"I did [side missions] but I didn't do all of them because I planned to just do it all on Carnage which I did to obtain my Platinum trophy. Strange they didn't let the higher difficulty apply to the lower one."
The community fix: to backfill the lower-difficulty cosmetic rewards, you have to New Game+ your Carnage save and play through again on Action, completing every side quest.
Bottom line: the Platinum is fully achievable on the two-playthrough route — the trophies cross-credit down from Carnage. Only the completionist wardrobe requires clears on more than one difficulty. If you don't care about the extra outfits, ignore the cosmetic split entirely.
One confirmed Carnage reward worth chasing: the Bishamon Sword, unlocked by beating the final boss, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, on Carnage. It's a series-legendary weapon and, per players, makes cleanup runs trivial.
What are the hardest trophies in Onimusha: Way of the Sword?
Two Gold trophies carry the weight of this Platinum:
- "True Onimusha" (Gold) — Complete the game on Carnage. The time sink, not the skill wall, once you know the bosses.
- "Glutton for Punishment" (Gold) — Beat every Boss Rematch opponent on all difficulty levels. Boss Rematch lives in the Practice Grounds you unlock during "The Oni's Apprentice" — ring the bell in Emma's Hall, talk to Takamura, and pick a boss and difficulty. Crucially, per PowerPyx, "completing a Boss on the hardest difficulty available will complete all difficulties below it," so a clean Carnage sweep clears this in one pass. It's still usually the last trophy standing, but you're not fighting everything three times. Our full boss guide covers the order and how to beat each one. Budget serious time here; it's the trophy most likely to be the last one standing between you and Peerless.
Everything else is either a story-progress Bronze or a collectible/upgrade Silver — no execution-heavy "no-hit boss" or "S-rank every chapter" trophy exists in the base list as of Patch 1.0.
The full 100% collectible checklist
For 100%, PowerPyx counts roughly 275 collectibles across the game. Several map directly to trophies, and the "hard" counts are consistent across sources. Here's the checklist to work through:
| Collectible / task | Count | Trophy | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mysteries of Kyoto | 8 | Demystified | Silver |
| Chance Encounters (side missions) | 18 | No Job Too Small | Silver |
| Lion Dogs | 36 | For the Love of Dog | Silver |
| Oni Armaments (special weapons) | 7 | Oni Armory | Silver |
| Genma Notes | 23 | Genma-ologist | Bronze |
| Hozuki Pouches | 9 | Medical Marvel | — |
A few nuances the guides flag that you should verify against your own save rather than take as settled:
- Charms — sources disagree on whether the charm trophy ("Charmed Life") wants you to collect the charms or max-enhance all of them, and on the exact count (15 vs 21). Treat it as "get and upgrade every charm you find" and confirm against the in-game charm list.
- Upgrade collectibles — Power Stones, Oni Stones, Fine Silk Cloths and Tamahagane feed the enhancement system, and the trophies tied to them ("Well-Rounded," "Dressed to Kill") are described differently across guides (raw collection vs. maxing gear/skills). Again: max everything and you'll trip both interpretations. See our souls and upgrades guide for how each resource works.
- New Game+ carry-over — one guide warns that some collectible progress may not carry into NG+. It's unconfirmed against a second source, so the safe play is to finish your collectible sweep on your first clear rather than banking on it transferring to the Carnage run.
Are all side quests required for the Platinum?
Effectively, yes. The 18 Chance Encounters ("No Job Too Small") and the 8 Mysteries of Kyoto ("Demystified") are both trophies, so completing all of the game's side content is a hard requirement for Peerless. The 18 Chance Encounters break down into archery trials, hidden-treasure jobs and story requests, per PowerPyx's locations guide. Don't skip them thinking they're optional filler — they're on the critical path.
The most efficient Platinum roadmap
Putting it together, here's the lowest-friction route to Peerless:
- Playthrough 1 — Action difficulty (or Story if you want an easier ride). Play up to the point of no return (the final mission, "The Clash at Rendaino") and be thorough before you trigger it: clear all 18 Chance Encounters, all 8 Mysteries of Kyoto, and sweep every collectible (Lion Dogs, Genma Notes, Oni Armaments, Hozuki Pouches, upgrade mats). PowerPyx recommends grabbing the Oni Vision: Treasures / Treasures 2 / Search Range skills early to make the sweep painless. Grab and upgrade charms as you go, and don't burn Revival Mirrors — they carry to NG+.
- Finish the game to unlock New Game+ and Carnage.
- Start New Game+ and select Carnage. Remember it's locked in. Push through for "True Onimusha," finishing any collectible cleanup you left behind.
- Beat Yoshitsune on Carnage for the Bishamon Sword, then do the Boss Rematch mode on Carnage — that one pass cross-credits the lower difficulties and finishes "Glutton for Punishment." Peerless pops.
- If you're a completionist chasing the full outfit set, do a final Action or Story pass to backfill any lower-difficulty completion cosmetics Carnage didn't credit.
Total: ~60–70 hours across two-plus playthroughs, ~6.5/10 difficulty. The skill ceiling lives entirely in Carnage's boss fights, and the KB truth here matters — Capcom's director has stressed this is a character-action game, not a Soulslike, so the answer is pattern memorization and clean Issen parries, not endless attrition.
FAQ
How many trophies are in Onimusha: Way of the Sword? There are 52 trophies total — 1 Platinum, 2 Gold, 9 Silver and 40 Bronze — per PowerPyx and onimushastrats. The Platinum is called "Peerless" and requires earning every other trophy.
Is the Onimusha: Way of the Sword Platinum hard? PowerPyx rates it about 6.5/10 and estimates 60–70 hours. There are zero missable and zero glitched trophies, so the difficulty is mostly the time investment plus surviving the endgame on Carnage. The two toughest trophies are "True Onimusha" (beat Carnage) and "Glutton for Punishment" (clear every Boss Rematch — a Carnage clear cross-credits the lower difficulties, so you fight each boss once).
Do I have to beat Carnage difficulty for the Platinum? Yes. "True Onimusha" (Gold) requires completing the game on Carnage, and Carnage only unlocks in New Game+ after one full clear — so a Carnage run is mandatory and you'll need at least two playthroughs. Once selected, Carnage cannot be lowered on that save.
Does beating a boss on Carnage count for the lower difficulties? For the Boss Rematch trophy, yes — PowerPyx confirms that "completing a Boss on the hardest difficulty available will complete all difficulties below it," so a Carnage clear credits Story and Action automatically. For completion-reward cosmetics (outfits and haori tied to finishing side content), it's the opposite — those are earned per difficulty, which is why separate "…2" Carnage reward variants exist. So the Platinum works on a Carnage run, but the full cosmetic wardrobe can require clears on more than one difficulty.
Are all side quests required for 100%? Yes. Completing all 18 Chance Encounters ("No Job Too Small") and all 8 Mysteries of Kyoto ("Demystified") are both trophies needed for the Platinum, so all side content is on the critical path.
How long does it take to Platinum Onimusha: Way of the Sword? Roughly 60–70 hours according to PowerPyx and onimushastrats, spread across a minimum of two playthroughs (a first clear to unlock Carnage, then the Carnage run, plus collectible and Boss Rematch cleanup).
| *Verified against PowerPyx, onimushastrats, Insider Gaming and Maxroll as of September 26, 2026. Trophy names and counts reflect the Patch 1.0 launch list; where guides disagree (charm counts, exact reward-credit behavior), we've flagged it — confirm against your own save. Onimusha: Way of the Sword released September 4, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X | S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC.* |
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