PS5
Each crystal helps twice: it advances Fairytale and gives you more room before the curse strips your secondary options. Explore where you see purple particles, track crystals by stage and use the natural traps while crossing the four regions.
PS5 list for the Retold remake, 23 base trophies. Its crystal route differs from the original.
- Online play: The entire base list is offline single-player.
- Crystals: Retold has four Mokosh crystals per stage, 80 total.
- Difficulty: The PS5 list specifies no difficulty tier.
Preserve energy on detours
The energy bar falls even while you stand still. Break objects and open chests along the route for health gems, then explore detours without fighting every enemy. When the curse takes the second arm, secondary weapons and items become unavailable: recover energy before setting up an elemental objective.
- Do not pass a checkpoint while purple particles remain behind you.
Track four crystals in each stage
Near a crystal, watch for purple dust and check for a side passage, a breakable wall or a breakable floor. Keep one line per stage: a region's full set awards Tough, Resilient, Fortified or Unbreakable. If a detour is already behind a checkpoint, replay that stage instead of losing track of the set.
- Complete Governor's Fief, Eldenwood, Icebound Peaks and Shadowcrest.
Take the opportunities tied to a specific enemy
Against a Goat enemy, turn its own weapon back on it for Returned to sender. If an enemy carries a barrel on its back, detonate it before it drops the barrel. Use bees on a target where the scenery allows it; for Backstab, go around a shield carrier without breaking its shield.
- Note the stages with bees and barrel carriers so you can revisit them.
Separate ice, poison, fire and environment kills
For Time lock, wait for four targets to cluster and freeze them at the same time. This is separate from Ice age, which needs thirty frozen-enemy kills. When you find a fire or poison bomb, let its effect finish a target for the relevant counter. Use hazards for separate environmental kills and track ranged kills on their own.
- If a kill objective stalls, check what actually finished each target.
Check all four regions before the Servant
Escaping the battering ram, logs and flooding cave forms part of the route. Finish the trial of Veles and the regional boss fights as well. Before completing the last fight, verify that all four regional crystal trophies have unlocked: Fairytale checks that you finish the game with the entire crystal collection.
- After the Servant of Chernobog, check Fairytale as well as Spellbreaker.
Trophies to watch
Fairytale
Finish the game with all crystals in your possession.
Finish the story after verifying all four regional crystal trophies.
Unbreakable
Collect all the crystals in the Shadowcrest.
In the last region, verify the four crystals in each stage before the finale.
Returned to sender
Kill Goat enemy by throwing weapon back at him.
Wait until you can throw the Goat's weapon back; a regular kill does not count.
Time lock
Freeze 4 enemies at once.
Group four enemies within one effect radius and apply the freeze once.
Wasn't me
Kill 30 enemies using the environment.
Lead enemies into the environmental hazard rather than finishing them with the sword.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use a guide for the original Castle of Heart?
Not for the totals: Retold uses four crystals per stage and changes parts of combat and progression.
Can I just collect the crystals after the ending?
Fairytale requires finishing with the collection complete. Recover anything missing, then finish again if it has not unlocked.
Is there an online trophy?
No. The game and trophies covered here are single-player.
Sources
- PlayStation Store – Retold su PS5
- TrueTrophies – lista PS5
- 7Levels – panoramica ufficiale
- Kokon Game Record – cristalli e checkpoint di Retold
Trophy lists
Buying the game
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