Resident Evil Requiem Platinum Guide — The Easiest RE Platinum Route

Why This Platinum Is So Approachable

PowerPyx flagged the Requiem platinum as one of the easiest in the whole Resident Evil series, and after running it I agree. The trophy that scares people, the Insanity clear, turns out to be the gentlest part once you understand the unlocks. There is no online component, no missable nightmare, and the restrictive runs are short. If you can finish one Resident Evil game, you can platinum this one.

The route is three runs. Each has a clear job. Done in order, they feed into each other so you are never wasting effort. Total time lands somewhere around 16 to 22 hours depending on how fast you read maps.

Step 1: Casual Run With Full Collection (10-15 Hours)

Your first run is the long one, and it is the only run where you slow down and look around.

Play on Casual. Take your time. Grab every collectible you can: the Mr. Raccoon Bobbleheads, the documents, anything the trophy list cares about. This run is where the bulk of your collectible and story trophies fall, and it is the most relaxed pass you will make through the game.

A few things to keep in mind while you do it:

• Destroy Mr. Raccoon Bobbleheads as you find them. All 25 of them unlock Advanced Tuning Tier 3, and clearing them on this slow run means you never have to backtrack for them.
• Start chipping at cumulative trophies. Some trophies stack across your whole save, like Bloodlust, which wants you to collect 5,000 blood total. These accumulate, and because they accumulate, you can read an old save and grind them if you fall short later. Just be aware they are ticking up.
• Finishing this run unlocks Insanity difficulty. Beating Casual is the only gate. There is no Hardcore tier to grind through first.

Do not rush this run. The whole strategy depends on you walking out of it with collectibles done and Insanity unlocked.

Step 2: Restricted Casual Speed Clear (3-4 Hours)

This is the run that looks scary on paper and is fine in practice. You stack three restrictions into a single Casual run and clear three trophies at once.

The three conditions:

• Speed Demon — finish in under 4 hours. This is very doable; a clean run lands around 3 hours. Because Speed Demon needs the run finished fast, you take the Release Elpis ending, which is the quicker path and the canonical good ending. This ending triggers the final boss, Victor Gideon.
• No Healing — do not use any herbs or injectors the entire run.
• Minimalist — playing as Grace, do not use the Blood Collector at all.

Before you start this run, buy Koketsu from the Bonus menu for 5,000 CP. Koketsu is Grace’s unbreakable knife, and with the Blood Collector off the table under Minimalist, an infinite knife is what keeps Grace functional. This 5,000 CP purchase is the one prep step that makes Step 2 comfortable instead of stressful.

Play it like a speedrun. Skip fights you can skip, run past enemies, take the efficient route, and head straight for Release Elpis. No herbs, no injectors, no Blood Collector. Three trophies, one run, three or four hours.

Step 3: Insanity Clear (~3 Hours)

Here is the secret that makes this platinum easy. The Insanity run is the shortest and least stressful of the three, because by now you have the tools to flatten it.

Set yourself up first:

• Leon: equip the Infinite RPG. One shot kills any enemy, bosses included. You pull it from a Supply Box.
• Grace: equip Infinite Requiem. Her infinite weapon does the same heavy lifting on her sections.
• Use the Infinite Ribbon if you have it. Clearing any run under 4 hours unlocks it, and on Insanity it gives you unlimited manual saves, which removes the only real source of frustration on the hardest mode.

With infinite weapons equipped, the actual difficulty of an Insanity run drops to roughly 3 or 4 out of 10. The enemies have more health and hit harder, but it does not matter much when Leon deletes everything with the RPG and Grace carries an infinite weapon of her own.

One optional shortcut: you can take the Destroy Elpis ending on this run, which skips straight past the final boss fight. It is the bad ending where Leon dies, but for a trophy clear nobody cares, and it shaves time off your run. If you would rather see Victor Gideon fall, take Release Elpis again; with the Infinite RPG he is a single trigger pull anyway.

Mopping Up Cumulative Trophies

After your three runs, check your cumulative trophies. The accumulating ones, like Bloodlust at 5,000 blood collected, may not be done. The good news is these stack across your save and you can reload an earlier save to grind whatever is short. Find a spot with easy blood, collect, reload, repeat until the trophy pops.

The Full Route at a Glance

1. Casual + full collection (10-15h): all 25 Bobbleheads, all collectibles, unlocks Insanity. Start grinding cumulative trophies.
2. Restricted Casual speed clear (3-4h): Speed Demon + No Healing + Minimalist in one run. Buy Koketsu (5,000 CP) first. Take Release Elpis.
3. Insanity clear (~3h): Infinite RPG on Leon, Infinite Requiem on Grace, Infinite Ribbon for saves. Optionally Destroy Elpis to skip the boss.
4. Cleanup: grind any cumulative trophies via save reloads.

That is the whole platinum. Three short-to-medium runs, one cheap prep purchase, and a final difficulty that the unlocks turn into a formality.