Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Trophy Guide

At the end of the tutorial-like introduction to the story, you will unavoidably receive this “Embark on the Path” trophy.

Myoko Pass is the first level after the introduction. Successfully defend Yoshiro and purify the Torii Gate in the area to unlock the “Purify Myoko Pass” trophy unavoidably.

After you Purify Myoko Pass, a base camp will be set up there, in the form of a rectangular tent. Once you have control again after the cutscene, head inside the tent to unlock the “Come on in!” trophy.

These camps will be set up in every area you purify, so don’t worry if you miss the first one, just enter any of these tents for the trophy.

The tent is an important place where you can equip and manage upgrades and also save the game.

Gakinyudo is the first boss, who appears in Stage Selection after you Purify Myoko Pass. Defeat him to progress the story and unlock the “Defeat Gakinyudo” trophy automatically.

Kakeashi Grove is the second main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully defending Yoshiro and purifying the Torii Gates there, you’ll unlock the “Purify Kakeashi Grove” trophy.

Kamaitachi is the second boss, who appears in Stage Selection after you Purify Kakeashi Grove. Defeat it to progress the story and unlock the “Defeat Kamaitachi” trophy automatically.

Yuan Cavern is the third main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully defending Yoshiro and purifying the Torii Gates there, you’ll unlock the “Purify Yuan Cavern” trophy.

Mukadejoro is the third boss, who appears in Stage Selection after you Purify Yuan Cavern. Defeat it to progress the story and unlock the “Defeat Mukadejoro” trophy automatically.

Enri Village is the fourth main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully exorcising the Hidarugami that has hold of Yoshiro there, you’ll unlock the “Purify Enri Village” trophy.

Okumiyama Passage is the fifth main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully defending Yoshiro and purifying the Torii Gates there, you’ll unlock the “Purify Okumiyama Passage” trophy.

Tsurube-otoshi is the fourth boss, who appears in Stage Selection after you Purify Okumiyama Passage. Defeat it to progress the story and unlock the “Defeat Tsurube-otoshi” trophy automatically.

Moegi Ridge is the sixth main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully defending Yoshiro and purifying the Torii Gates there, you’ll unlock the “Purify Moegi Ridge” trophy.

You may recognize Batsu as the demon that attacked your village at the start of the game and kicked things off.

It appears once again as the fifth boss in Stage Selection after you Purify Moegi Ridge. Defeat it to progress the story and unlock the “Defeat Batsu” trophy automatically.

Yuminari Lake is the seventh main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully defending Yoshiro until daybreak while crossing the lake by boat, you’ll unlock the “Purify Yuminari Lake” trophy.

Adashino Village is the eighth main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully defending Yoshiro and purifying the Torii Gates there, you’ll unlock the “Purify Adashino Village” trophy.

Muenzuka Burial Grounds is the ninth main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully defending Yoshiro and purifying the Torii Gates there, you’ll unlock the “Purify Muenzuka Burial Grounds” trophy.

Bupposo is the sixth boss, who appears in Stage Selection after you Purify Muenzuka Burial Grounds. Defeat it to progress the story and unlock the “Defeat Bupposo” trophy automatically.

Renge Marsh is the tenth main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully defending Yoshiro and purifying the Torii Gates there, you’ll unlock the “Purify Renge Marsh ” trophy.

Notsugo is the seventh boss, who appears in Stage Selection after you Purify Renge Marsh. Defeat it to progress the story and unlock the “Defeat Notsugo” trophy automatically.

Kamukura Shrine is the eleventh main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully exorcising the defilement that has hold of Yoshiro there, you’ll unlock the “Purify Kamukura Shrine” trophy.

The Great Cherry Tree of Nakahara stage starts off as the twelfth main area you need to purify, but turns instead into the eighth boss, who you defeat by targeting and destroying the tongue-like appendages on the tree. Defeat it and purify the tree to unlock the “Purify the Great Cherry Tree of Nakahara” trophy.

Korai Valley is the thirteenth main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully defending Yoshiro until daybreak while crossing the river by boat, you’ll unlock the “Purify Korai Valley” trophy.

Kiritake Village is the fourteenth main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully defending Yoshiro and purifying the Torii Gates there, you’ll unlock the “Purify Kiritake Village” trophy.

Raikobo is the ninth boss, who appears in Stage Selection after you Purify Kiritake Village. Defeat it to progress the story and unlock the “Defeat Raikobo” trophy automatically.

Narusawa Wind Caves is the fourteenth main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully defending Yoshiro and purifying the Torii Gates there, you’ll unlock the “Purify Narusawa Wind Caves” trophy.

Yamasuso Lodging is the fifteenth main area you’ll need to purify in order to progress the story. Upon successfully defending Yoshiro and purifying the Torii Gates there, you’ll unlock the “Purify Yamasuso Lodging” trophy.

Yatsukahagi is the tenth boss, who appears in Stage Selection after you Purify Yamasuso Lodging. Defeat it to progress the story and unlock the “Defeat Yatsukahagi” trophy automatically.

The Great Shrine Passage is technically the final stage in the game and serves as a brutal Boss-Rush-style trial in which you must descend up the mountain’s central path, defeating several challenging bosses from earlier in the game.

Complete this long stage by defeating all 7 bosses and reaching the top of the mountain to unlock the “Purify the Great Shrine Passage” trophy.

Nanamagari is the final boss, available on the Stage Selection screen after you Purify the Great Shrine Passage. This boss has two phases. In the first phase, you will have many villagers to help you.

I recommend this selection of units:

• 4x Sorceror (once their attack is fully-charged, which takes a while, activate it with and they will deal massive damage to the boss)
• 2x Spearmen
• 2x Ninjas
• 1x Shaman to keep your troops healed
• The remaining units should be Archers, Cannoneers, or Marksmen, whatever your best ranged units are.

Equip gear that increases the Maximum Health of you and your villagers. Make sure that your villagers are always attacking the boss, if they stand near Yoshiro to defend her, they’ll actually get her hit via collateral damage from attacks that are targeting your villagers.

If the boss puts down electric pylons, rush to Yoshiro’s side and destroy the two closest to her so she doesn’t get hit by them. If you stun the boss quickly enough, though, you won’t have to deal with this much.

Once you defeat Nanamagari’s first form, you’ll need to fight him alone without the help of your villagers. If you die during this second phase, you can select “Continue” to return to the second phase of the fight. It will even give you an opportunity to change equipment, which you should take.

Select equipment that increases Soh’s attack power and health. You should also equip Tsuba guards that deal massive damage, especially to the enemy’s stun gauge, as stunning the boss will be the key to dealing the most damage.

This will likely take a fair amount of practice and probably a few attempts. If you find yourself struggling too much, you may want to go and collect Musubi by completing optional objectives in previous stages or fixing up bases and then using that Musubi to upgrade your units/Soh.

Upon starting your New Game Plus playthrough, you’ll immediately receive the “Repeating History” trophy!

When you reach the end of New Game Plus, you will have to fight an extra additional boss that you did not have to face in your first playthrough; Cursed Soh.

Cursed Soh appears on Stage Selection after you beat the game’s final boss again. Defeating Cursed Soh is no walk in the park; they’re insanely quick and have a lot of health.

Here’s how I recommend beating them:

• Equip Talismans that increase Soh’s attack power, as many as you can.
• Equip powerful Tsuba Guards that can deal damage quickly, such as Byakko’s Claws and Genbu’s Might.
• Visit the tent at every camp you’ve acquired to gather crystal offerings, bringing your total as close to 2,000 as you can.
• Before the fight, make as many of your villagers as possible Sorcerers.
• Throughout the fight, do your best to stay alive, this will avoid Cursed Soh going after your Sorcerers or Yoshiro.
• Whenever the Sorcerer’s attack is fully charged, switch to it with and press to activate it.
• Rinse and repeat, using your Tsuba Guards to deal additional damage until the fight is over.

All Emaki Scrolls are earned via story events. The first 10 will be earned in yoru first playthrough, but you’ll need to reach the end of your New Game Plus playthrough to acquire the last two Emaki Scrolls.

After you’ve earned The End and the credits have rolled, go to any of your camps and enter the tent. There, interact with the stack of green scrolls behind Yoshiro and the “Mountain Goddess Folklore” trophy will unlock.

When rebuilding bases, one of the rewards you can get from structures within those bases are sweets. The sweets don’t really do anything, but you can choose to serve them to Yoshiro at the tent between missions. They also offer an interesting insight into historical Japanese confectionary.

By fully rebuilding every base in Kunitsu-Gami, you will naturally unlock the “Sweet Shop” trophy along the way once you have unlocked all 12 Sweets.

Ema plaques are earned in two ways; by defeating bosses and by rebuilding certain structures at your bases.

Ultimately, you cannot earn the “When You Wish Upon an Ema” trophy until you have defeated the final boss of New Game Plus (See The End), and even after that, you must make sure you’ve earned every possible plaque from rebuilding base structures.

Beyond that, there’s nothing much you need to do, and you’ll surely be rebuilding your bases anyway based on our earlier advice, so this trophy should come fairly naturally.

To unlock the “Employment Agency” trophy, you simply need to have assigned every possible unit type at least once throughout the game. You’ll gradually unlock unit types by defeating bosses, but in New Game Plus, you’ll already have every possible unit type.

Additionally, some of the optional objectives require you to use every type of role, and there’s even one in Enri Village that requires you to assign every role at least once within the mission, thus you’ll unavoidably unlock this trophy while working on the optional objectives.

The “Wisdom and Courage” trophy is not quite as challenging as it sounds. You may assume you need to do a full playthrough in just 20 minutes, or that you need to complete the “Great Shrine Passage” stage in under 20 minutes. Neither of those things are true.

In fact, you just need to beat every boss fight in a cumulative total of under 20 minutes. You can replay all bosses to get your time down, too, nothing is final or missable about this trophy.

You will notice that every boss has an optional objective of beating it under a specific time limit. If you in fact achieve this optional objective for all bosses, you will actually unlock the “Wisdom and Courage” trophy. As such, you will unlock it naturally while working on Mountain Watch.

Throughout the game, you will have noticed that every stage has a set of 2-3 optional objectives for you to complete. These become visible after you’ve completed a stage for the first time and you can replay stages to complete them.

You don’t need to try and complete every objective in a single attempt, either, and can replay stages as many times as you need until all objectives have been completed one-at-a-time if necessary.

In New Game Plus, you’ll notice that these objectives are visible from the first time you play a stage, and there are even more objectives to complete.

The list of 2-3 objectives per stage will be expanded to 5 objectives for every stage, and you will need to complete them all to unlock the “Mountain Watch” trophy.

The Musubi you earn from opening black chests, completing optional objectives, and rebuilding base structures can be used to purchase upgrades for your villagers.

To do so, visit the tent at any base camp and then select the “Musubi Upgrades” option. From there, select any Villager Role’s mask to bring up their upgrade screen.

In order to unlock the “A Gathering of Masters” trophy, you must purchase all 6 skills for all 12 Villager Roles, which will require a hefty sum of Musubi.

The Musubi you earn from opening black chests, completing optional objectives, and rebuilding base structures can be used to purchase upgrades for Soh.

To do so, visit the tent at any base camp and then select the “Musubi Upgrades” option. From there, select Soh’s mask at the center to bring up their upgrade screen.

In order to unlock “The True Soh” trophy, you must purchase all 6 skills for Soh, which will require a significant amount of Musubi.

If you would like to avoid having to collect every Musubi in the game (though you’ll still have to complete all Optional Objectives for Mountain Watch), you can actually undo upgrades you’ve made to Villager Roles to reacquire the Musubi you spent on that upgrade. That Musubi can then be used to purchase all of Soh’s skills.

This may speed things up and allow you to avoid opening every Black Chest, but you should probably unlock the A Gathering of Masters trophy first and then, after deciding which units you’ll barely use, reassign those resources to Soh.

Some of the upgrades available for Soh (see The True Soh) will increase the number of Mazo Talismans you can have equipped at once. You’ll need to buy this upgrade three times to increase your Mazo Talisman slots from 2 to 5. These upgrades cost 10, 20, and 30 Musubi respectively.

After purchasing those upgrades, equip Mazo Talismans in all 5 slots and then play any stage. Upon completing the stage, the “A Blessing and a Curse” trophy will unlock!

Some of the upgrades available for Soh (see The True Soh) will increase the number of Tsuba Guards you can have equipped at once. You’ll need to buy this upgrade two times to increase your Tsuba Guard slots from 1 to 3. These upgrades cost 10 and 50 Musubi respectively.

After purchasing those upgrades, equip Tsuba Guards in all 3 slots and then play any stage. Upon completing the stage, the “Multitasker” trophy will unlock!

Kagokaburi is a walking chest enemy which first spawns during the Adashino Village stage.

It will spend the night running away from you and trying to prevent you from killing it, so it can be a bit of a pain and requires you to abandon your post, meaning you’ll need to make sure that Yoshiro is appropriately guarded by Villagers.

Successfully catching and killing a Kagokaburi will unlock the “Rags to Riches” trophy.

To unlock “The Little Giant” trophy, you simply need to have defeated every type of Seethe, including bosses. This will, of course, happen naturally on your way through the story campaign. You will need to have reached the end of your New Game Plus campaign to add Cursed Soh to the list and will also need to make sure you’ve defeated a Kagokaburi (See Rags to Riches), but otherwise the trophy will unlock naturally.

A lot of the larger Seethe in the game will do AoE or explosive attacks, which actually damage the Seethe around them, not just you and your units. To unlock the “Family Dis-Function” trophy, you need to defeat a cumulative total of 100 Seethe by getting them hit by other Seethe attacks.

The easiest way to farm this trophy, if it doesn’t occur naturally (which is likely), is to replay the Okumiyama Passage level, especially on New Game Plus. There, lots of exploding Seethe will spawn, which you can easily use to damage the other Seethe around them.

To unlock “Bit By Bit” you need to spend a cumulative total of 100,000 Crystals. You spend crystals by carving the spirit path or assigning and changing villager roles, and so should naturally be working on this trophy throughout both playthroughs. There’s a very high chance that you’ll unlock this trophy either on your way through New Game Plus, or while mopping up Optional Objectives in New Game Plus.

If not, just replay any stages and assign villagers the most expensive roles until the trophy unlocks.

Every stage in Kunitsu-Gami contains defiled creatures, such as Deer, Boars, Snakes and more. When you hit these animals with your sword or bow enough times, they will become purified, dropping Rations for you to use to keep yourself and your units healed.

These animals only appear during the daytime portions of each stage and will run away if you don’t defeat them quickly.

To unlock the “Return to Nature” trophy, you just need to purify a cumulative total of 200 defiled creatures, which should happen naturally during your New Game Plus playthrough if you’ve taken our advice up to this point about purifying them as much as possible.

In every base, you will find various animals; cows, dogs, deer, boars, snakes, and more. Each of these animals can be interacted with if you approach them and press .

To unlock the “Compassion for Living Things” trophy, you simply need to interact with these animals a cumulative total of 20 times. You can even just interact with the same animal 20 times if you wish.