The House of the Dead 4 Trophy Guide

While rail shooters are simple games, some of the trophies are quite complex. Various items can only be found at one exact point and if you weren’t paying attention, you might miss them. This guide will tell you how to do almost everything, so it should allow you to fully enjoy The House of the Dead 4.

Bronze

ESCAPE

Clear CHAPTER 1 on any difficulty.

See “HOPE” for more information.

LOST

Clear CHAPTER 2 on any difficulty.

See “HOPE” for more information.

EMPTINESS

Clear CHAPTER 3 on any difficulty.

See “HOPE” for more information.

DESPAIR

Clear CHAPTER 4 on any difficulty.

See “HOPE” for more information.

REUNION

Clear CHAPTER 5 on any difficulty.

See “HOPE” for more information.

HOPE

Clear CHAPTER 6 on any difficulty.

Since difficulty and conditions don’t matter, you’re free to play on “Very Easy” with 9 lives and 9 credits. This means you can get hit at least 81 times and if you still can’t finish the game under these conditions, you can just restart on the level you failed on.

EAT THIS!!!

During CHAPTER 1 Boss encounter, throw a grenade and damage JUSTICE.

Justice is the large undead who has his tongue sticking out and is the first boss in both 4 and Special. To do this trophy, you must throw a grenade that hits him. I believe you can honestly throw a grenade however you please and hurt him. If this isn’t working for you, follow the video below. It is of Special, which doesn’t work for this trophy, but is exactly the same save the part where he grabs you.

CUT THE WIRE

During CHAPTER 2, cut the wire and let the enemies fall.

In the middle of chapter 2, you should see a very short cutscene. After this you will fight some undead, which you can freely kill. After this scene, you will enter an empty room, but shortly after this a platform will come down. This is the wire you have to cut. You can take your time, but at least one undead needs to be on it. If you’re having problems doing this trophy, please check out the video below.

BONUS EXPLORER

Find a secret room.

Contrary to what you might think, many of these rooms have insane conditions. This can range from doing something within 2 – 4 seconds or doing something weird like throwing a grenade at a certain point. While there are a lot of them (roughly 10), I found the easiest on chapter 2.

After you get past the gate, you will see a red hallway. Throw some grenades there and it should cause you to notice the hole in the wall. Since this is rather confusing, check out the video below. Please note that if you’re having problems, then try throwing grenades a little earlier than in my video.

GET THE BUS

Shoot and destroy the BUS.

Around the middle of chapter 4, you will head outside. Once you’re out, there will be an army of undead waiting for you. After this fight, you will fight another swarm of undead, but you should see two green boxes in the background. One of these has a bus in it, which takes a LOT of bullets to break. As long as there is one undead on screen, you can constantly shoot at it, but it will slowly move forward. You have roughly 5 seconds to get it, so make the most of it.

If you’re having problems with this, then check out the video below. If you’re still having problems with it, there is also one when the truck comes at you in Special, though I don’t know if it will unlock the trophy.

WHO’s NEXT?

See the bad ending of HOD 4 SP.

See “ANOTHERS PANDORA’S BOX” for more information.

FIGHT BEGINS

See the good ending of HOD 4 SP.

See “ANOTHERS PANDORA’S BOX” for more information.

ANOTHER PANDORA’S BOX

See the true ending of HOD 4 SP.

Similar to the standard game, no one is really sure what gives you the true ending over the normal ending. Thankfully it’s a lot simpler than the other game though. You get the bad ending for not blowing up the box and you get the true / good ending for blowing it up. To blow up the box, simply charge and throw a grenade at him. It will instantly blow it up winning the fight. You can check the video below for what that looks like.

Silver

TOP AGENT

Get RANK 2 or above in Final Result.

Contrary to what you might think, this is actually not that hard to do, especially in Special. The first thing you need to do is aim for the head and ignore proper aim. The more headshots you get, the better your score and rating will be. To make up for poor aim, open fire on bosses in noncritical spots. This is far simpler than it sounds. Additionally, once you make it to the final level, the big robot dudes have their critical spot on this black plate on their chest.

Gold

PANDORA’S BOX

See all 4 endings of THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 4.

There are 4 endings in The House of the Dead 4, but the requirements are very vague. The following are a general idea of whats required, though experiences varry.

  1. Goldman with his back turned talking.
  2. Goldman Undead.
  3. Agent G.
  4. Mysterious Man

I left the endings vague so you can enjoy them a little bit, but this is the basic breakdown. 1 and 2 require a score of rank 3 or lower and 3 and 4 require rank 2 or better. You can get the first two endings by playing poorly on the last level and really good on it. The other two the requirements are not really known, but just try to play as perfectly as possible.

If you’re having problems with ranks, check out the “TOP AGENT” trophy.