Welcome to the Resident Evil 2 Remake Trophy Guide! The waiting is finally over. After receiving the remake of the first Resident Evil game in 2002 and wishful thinking of a remake for the beloved 2nd part of the series, our prayers have finally been answered. Just like in the case of the first remake, this game isn’t simply just a remaster but more of a reimagination of the original.
Just as the original PS1 game this remake offers a scenario for both Leon and Claire as well as a second scenario for each of them after finishing the game. To unlock Leon B you will have to finish Claire A and to Unlock Claire B you need to finish Leon A. To see the real ending you will have to play through either character’s B scenario. While the first remake chose to keep the fixed camera angles, REmake 2 chose the 3rd person – over the shoulder perspective familiar from Resident Evil 4. Another feature new to REmake 2 is self-defense items, which made their debut in the first remake. While being grabbed by the enemy you can use those to avoid taking damage and you will have a chance to damage an enemy instead.
In order to unlock the platinum youcan expect6+ playthroughs of the game. Because each of the 4 campaigns (Leon A, Leon B, Claire A, Claire B) has different collectibles you have to play through them all. You can try to get S-Ranks on the 2nd-4th playthrough. Then you need2 more playthroughs on Hardcore. Add another playthrough to cleanup the remaining trophies on easier difficulty, in case some of the trophies are still needed.
Start with Leon’s campaign on Assisted Difficulty and pick up all Collectibles as you play. Follow the Resident Evil 2 Remake Collectible Locations Guide, this all-in-one guide has everything in chronological order. The reason Assisted Difficulty is recommended is that there’s a huge enemy, the “Tyrant”, constantly chasing after you halfway through the game. On Normal he walks much faster. On Assisted he walks very slow, which gives you time to look around for Collectibles and just get to know the game.
If you don’t mind spoilers you could try getting the boss fight-based trophies. WhileGotcha!can be achieved with both Leon and Claire, In the Blink of an Eye can only be achieved with Leon and With Time to Spare only with Claire.
After you finished Leon’s A scenario, go to the main menu and select “New Game” to play Claire’s A Scenario and get her Collectibles. After her playthrough, you can go to the title menu again and choose “New Game [2nd Run]” to play Leon’s B Scenario. Lastly, do Claire’s B Scenario. The B Scenarios have different puzzle solutions so refer to the Resident Evil 2 Remake Puzzle Solutions Guide if you get stuck at any point. Ideally, try to combine this with Step 2 of the Roadmap and attempt S-Ranks on Normal difficulty during your B Scenario playthroughs.
Finding all Collectibles (the Mr. Raccoons in particular) gives you a knife that never breaks, which can be quite helpful in subsequent playthroughs and for Hardcore difficulty. That’s why you should get the Collectibles first to make things easier later on.
Step 2: Getting the S-Ranks (Standard Difficulty) – Unlocks Infinite Ammo Handgun
In order to achieve an S-rank the only thing you will have to look at is your completion time. To get an S-rank you will have to finish the game in thefollowing time on Standard difficulty:
Please note that the S-Rank trophies won’t unlock on easy (Assisted difficulty). It has to beStandard difficulty or above. When you pause the game it stops the timer. If you know your way around the game, these time requirements shouldn’t be a problem. You will unlock an infinite ammo Samurai Edge handgun for reaching your first S-rank which you can use on your second character run as well as for the hardcore runs! This is why you should definitely do S-Ranks before attempting Hardcore cause you get a free infinite ammo handgun to be used on Hardcore. It makes things much easier for you.
Once you know the game well, and unlocked the infinite ammo handgun from getting S-Rank on normal, it will be time to tackle the hardcore difficulty. You will have to finish the game on this difficulty with both characters. CheckHardcore Rookie / Hardcore College Studentfor some life-saving tips on how to tackle this madness.
You must finish the 4th Survivor bonus game mode once. Refer to “Grim Reaper” for a walkthrough.
Obtain all trophies.
Make it to the police station.
Solve the Goddess Statue puzzle.
Escape the police station.
Complete Ada’s segment.
Complete Sherry’s segment.
Escape from the sewers.
Complete Leon’s story.
Complete Claire’s story.
Witness the true ending.
Leon’s A-Scenario unlocks Claire’s B-Scenario and Claire’s A-Scenario unlocks Leon’s B-Scenario.
Combine two items together.
Increase your inventory slots.
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Customize a weapon.
Defeat an enemy with a knife.
and slicing with :r2:.Your knife, however, will get damaged and can break. Don’t worry though, as you will find a lot of them in the game.
Counterattack with a sub-weapon.
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Use Wooden Boards to board up a window.
Destroy a Mr. Raccoon.
Open a portable safe.
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Open a dial safe.
Shoot the grenade you fed to an enemy.
While countering your enemywith and having agrenade / flashgrenade equipped, you will feed it to an enemy. The enemy will stagger for a while with the grenade intheir mouth. Simply shoot it. If you didn’t get it from natural gameplay on your first playthrough, it can quickly be done at the start of the B-Scenario (2nd run) of both Leon / Claire. In the first room you enter is a grenade, only a few seconds after starting the B-Scenario Story.
Kill 3 enemies at once with a sub-weapon.
Throw a frag grenade in a group of 3 or more zombies. Itwill instantly kill them and unlock the trophy.If you didn’t get it from natural gameplay on your first playthrough, it can quickly be done at the start of the B-Scenario (2nd run) of both Leon / Claire. In the firstroomyou enter is a grenade, only a few seconds after starting the B-Scenario Story.
Shoot a zombie dog or a licker out of the air.
This is far more easily done with Zombie Dogs than Lickers. In Leon’s campaign you encounter dogs in the Parking Garage after turning on the power. In Claire’s campaign you encounter them on the way to the Orphanage after exiting the Parking Garage. When you see a zombie dog, keep your weapon aimed in its direction (preferably shotgun or a submachine gun) and wait for it to jump at you. The chance is high you will get it without trying.
Paralyze a licker’s sense of hearing.
Simply throw a flash grenade at a licker.For example, you will encounter a Licker in the corridor leading to the S.T.A.R.S. Office on the 2nd floor of the Police Station (and a flash grenade is inside the S.T.A.R.S. Office so it’s a perfect opportunity to get this early on). Lickers are the enemies that crawl up walls and attack with sharp claws and whip around their long tongues.
Shoot Tyrant’s hat off his head.
After extinguishing the fire on the rooftop of the Police Station (halfway through the story with either Leon /Claire), you will encounter the Tyrant. “Tyrant” (also known as Mr. X) will start chasingyourthroughout the police station. Simply shoot his hat off for the trophy. You can’t kill him, only stagger so don’t waste your time and ammunition.
Defeat Stage 2 G using the crane only once.
This is highly missable! Make sure to save the game after placing all chess-figure plugs in the Sewer’s Monitor Room.
At the end of the sewer section you will encounter G for the second time. First, you will be attacked by him in a burning room. Place yourself next to the “high voltage box” between the metal shutter and theswitchbox and he won’t be able to hit you there.
Once you reach a platform with a container, press thered button in order to send the container away. Damage G with everything you got. There’s no clear health indicator so just blast away all your ammo on him. When you are close to running out of ammo, stagger him and press thered button on the control panel to call the container back. It will hit G and knock him into the abyss. The trophy only unlocks if he’s defeated when calling back the Crane for the first time. If he doesn’t fall, it means you didn’t damage him enough, in which case just quit to main menu and continue or reload the last manual save. Don’t stand in the middle of the platform since the container can hit you as well. If in doubt, bringing G to his knees 5 times should be sufficient damage to make him fall in the first Crane use.
Using the photo hints, find 2 hidden items.
You will first have to find the film roll for this. You can find it on a table in theWorkroomin the sewers. Use the T-Bar Handle to open the Valve in the Lower Waterway (Lower Sewers), which leads to the Workroom Lift. Take the lift up and you’ll find the film roll on a table there. Keep goingthroughtheWorker’s Break Roomand you will be able to backtrack all the way to the Police Station.
Head to theDark Roomto develop the film and you will receive 2 pictures of where to find hidden items. Those places arePress Room (Police Station 1F) andS.T.A.R.S Office (Police Station 2F).
Expand inventory slots to max.
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Use only the EMF Visualizer to complete Ada’s gameplay segment.
This can only be done in Leon’s campaign!
Make a manual save after defeating the crocodile in the sewers with Leon. You will have to finish Ada’s part without using her handgun to get this trophy. You will have to hack some consoles with her Visualizer instead. She will automatically equip it and you can see hackable devices through walls in yellow color. You can hack them by holding 
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Escape the bedroom within 60 seconds during Sherry’s segment.
*Highly Missable*
This can only be done in Claire’s campaign!
Make a manual save before theelectric parts puzzle in Chief Iron’s “Private Collection Room” (just after returning from the Clocktower).
When Sherry’s gameplay sequence starts: Turn right, get the stuffed animal, examine its back to find a block. Place the block in the corner of the room to start a puzzle. Now comes the tricky part! The starting arrangement of the puzzle blocks is randomized for every player. However, what the final arrangement needs to look like will always be the same. Check the image below what it’s supposed to look like in the end:
Now the good news! You can take your time to figure out how to solve your puzzle in the fewest move. The goal is simply to replicate the block positions in the above picture. Write down which starting block you moved where. This will likely take you longer than 60 seconds on first try and thus void the trophy, but there’s a workaround: Quit to the main menu, click Continue. Now you respawn in Sherry’s room and the timer resets to zero but the Puzzle Solution is still the same! When you do the continue “trick” it doesn’t randomize the puzzle so yourprevious solution will still work. Redo it as quickly as possible and as often as possible until you memorized the solution that applies to you. The puzzle rewards you with scissors that can be used to cut a hole in the wall and escape, at which time the trophy is supposed to pop. If no trophy pops it means took more than 60 seconds. So just quit to main menu again and continue, repeat until youcan pull off the puzzle fast enough and earned the trophy.
Defeat Stage 4 G with 4+ minutes left until detonation.
This can only be done in Claire’s story!
4G is the final boss in Claire’s story. You will have 10 minutes to escape and kill the boss. Use your hardest hitting weapons and this shouldn’t be a problem. Claire gets a minigun for this fight which kills the boss quickly.
Defeat Super Tyrant with 5+ minutes left until detonation.
This can only be done in Leon’s story!
Super Tyrant is the final boss in Leon’s Story. You will have 10 minutes to escape and kill the boss. Use your hardest hitting weapons and this shouldn’t be a problem. You will receive a rocket launcher to finish him off after dealing enough damage.
Read all of the files.
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Destroy all Mr. Raccoons.
Open all of the safes and locks in the game.
Complete Leon’s story on “Standard” or “Hardcore” with an S rank.
Complete Claire’s story on “Standard” or “Hardcore” with an S rank.
In order to get S-Rank you must beat the game within the following time frames:
- Leon A / Claire A – 3:30 on Standard, 2:30 on Hardcore
- Leon B / Claire B – 3:00 on Standard, 2:00 on Hardcore
The only factor that determines your rank is how long it took you to beat the story. Nothing else matters (deaths, number of saves are irrelevant for it). You can pause the game to stop the timer if you want to take a break or look at the video walkthrough where to go next.
Warning: If you die, never choose “Continue” as it keeps counting your time and doesn’t reset it to the last checkpoint! Always choose “Quit” and from the Title Menu pick “Continue” or Load Save. This way it will revert the time back to last checkpoint. This can save you lots of time and makes this tremendously easier!
If you followed the Roadmap and got all Collectibles in Leon’s A-Scenario, you still got to play through the remaining 3 campaigns for their collectibles. You can actually try going for the S-Ranks at the same time to cut down on number of playthroughs for the platinum. 3 hours is very lenient, I did it in 2 hours on my first B-Scenarioattempt while looking for Collectibles. Doing it in the A-Scenario gives you even more time and is easier. Keep in mind you must play on Standard difficulty for this! It won’t give the trophy on easy (assisted) difficulty! The video above is a full S-Rank playthrough in which also the trophy “A Small Carbon Footprint” was earned.
Complete Leon’s story on “Hardcore” game mode.
Complete Claire’s story on “Hardcore” game mode.
Hardcoredifficulty will be your hardest task on your way to platinum. On hard difficulty the enemies are a lot tougher, you will be in Danger-Status after one hit and die after a second one and you will need to find Ink Ribbons in order to save your progress.
Some tips on how to tackle the difficulty:
- Get the endless Samurai Edge for S-ranking Standard Difficulty and optionally the Endless Knife which will never breakby finding all Mr. Raccoons. Don’t even botherattempting Hardcore without the infinite Samurai Edge.
- Don’t bother killing many enemies: Shoot them in the head until they stagger and run past them. Don’t waste ammunition and time.
- Use your Ink Ribbons wisely: I don’t mean to not use them often, since you can find enough of them (about 25), but use them after asuccessfultrip for the items you need. Forexamplesave after getting back to the lobby with the club key and then try to open all the doors with the bolt cutter and save again. Try to split the game intosegments. This will help you with my next point.
- Try to S-rank the game on hardcore: What? You will probably ask yourself, but let me finish. After finishing the game with S rank on hardcore you will unlock an Endless Submachine Gun! This will make your second Hardcore Run A LOT easier. Finish a segment and rewind it in your head, maybe you lost some time you could have avoided or got hit in a spot you shouldn’t have?
- The timer scams you!: When you die you will have 3 options – continue, load last save, quit. Always choose to quit, then reload save from title menu. If you choose one of the other options the game will add the time you spent between your last save and the moment you died to your timer. This almost killed my S-rank for me, so beware.
- Last G-fight isn’t that bad: Don’t hesitatespendingyour ammunition on G in the Lab. He takes a lot of hits and deals a lot of damage. You won’t need the ammunition for the last G fight next toyellowcart. It is totally possible to defeat Stage 4 G only with the Minigun you will find there and the endless handgun in time. Use your Minigun only when you can see his eyeballs and shoot at them and finish the rest of the battle with the handgun
Complete the game without using a recovery item.
Clear the game without opening the item box.
Take 14000 steps or fewer in one playthrough.
You can check your steps at the very bottom of the records section while pausing the game. The record for it is called “A Small Carbon Footprint”, just like the trophy title. Perform a speedrun of the game and only focus on things you need. Simply said: avoid steps you don’t need to take. The above video walkthrough shows how to obtain the trophy.
The B-scenarios are shorter but it is totally doable in the A-scenario as well. It’s best to pair this with the Frugalist trophy. After unlocking the Infinite Ammo Handgun (from S-Ranking Standard Difficulty) your best option would be to speedrun a B Scenario with infinite ammo.
Complete “The 4th Survivor” extra mode.
This one will test your patience, skill in the game and your luck. In 4thsurvivoryou play as Hunk and have to make your way through the sewers all the way back to the main entrance of the Police Station while obviously having to takethe longway each time since your usual fastest way is somehow blocked.
You start with 4 weapons, some ammoanda few healing items as well as some defensive items and gun powder. In the video above you will see how I managed to finish it, but let me explain why I did some actions which might not be obvious at first:
- I used my gun powder to craft ShotgunShells,since Shotty has the best spread and you don’t have to aim very precisely. It helps since you want to move forward all the time, especially while being chased by Mr. X.
- I unequipped my defensive items early in order to keep them for later, the last part outside of RPD is basically pure madness. I died there once trying to get past the zombie festival there because a plant zombie grabbed me which ends in aninsta-kill. I kept my grenades for that part only.
- I used my red-blue mixture at a weird point it seems but I did it for a reason. Red-Blue gives you a temporary defense boost and immunity against poison. I used it for the area I knew I wouldn’t bother withenemies since I need the ammo later as well as for protection from those big enemies in the sewers. Theywillgrab you but you can simply ignore it since you won’t get poisoned.
- By no means was my run perfect, but it should help yougettinga clearer view on how to tackle this madness.
