Need help with Ketsui trophy (PS4)

[DjDizzy]

I’m playing M2’s port of Ketsui Deathtiny on PS4, it’s a top tier port and is in its own class IMO. Anyway I’m trying to get the Bonds Of Grand Mastery trophy but I’m stuck. I can’t get Bond Fragments to populate in Bonds of Growth. I have 68k points in that mode (2 background characters unlocked) and I need 100k (all 4 unlocked). It shows all gold trophies and it never populates with new Bond Fragments. Does anyone have this trophy and can help? This is the last trophy I need for the platinum but I’m not sure what to do. It’d be my first platinum trophy for a game.

Does anyone know how to get new Bond Fragments to show up? I’ve cleared both loops in Arcade Mode countless times but no dice.

[Sengoku Strider]

It's been a while, but IIRC it's based on where you died. So dying on later stages grants more points than earlier ones. I think restarting from a saved checkpoint didn't count too, to stop people from cheesing it.

[DjDizzy]

Ah ok thank you. I’d been using saves lately, I’ll definitely stop doing that.

[DjDizzy]

That was definitely it, it was because I was playing off saves at later levels to focus on getting better at stage 5. I just cleared Arcade Mode from the start and after the credits rolled it said “Saving Bonds of Growth data”.

For everytime you clear the game it will put your first 3 deaths into Bonds of Growth. Man, I can’t thank you enough.