Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

There's a total of 117 badges to collect, nine in each mission. Due to the fact that some of these badges conflict with each other, you will have to play through each mission twice.

Every mission has a badge for completing it on hardcore difficulty, but all other badges can be collected on normal difficulty. (Note: You cannot earn badges on beginner difficulty!)

Aside from hardcore difficulty, you will also need to speedrun each mission. This is actually not as difficult as it sounds, but it requires you to be familiar with each mission and the game/controls.

The biggest nuisance about the speedruns is that if you fail and need to reload, you should quit out to the main menu before doing so. The reason for this is that the time keeps ticking. (e.g.: You've spent 3 minutes in a mission and save your game. You then continue for 30 seconds, but mess up and need to reload your last save. If you reload without quitting back to the main menu, the timer will be at 3 minutes and 30 seconds! By going back to the main menu before reloading however, the game's timer will be back to 3 minutes.)

For those who dislike speedruns, I do have good news though. There is an exploit which allows you to fool the in-game timer and earn these badges without any stress. Details on how to perform this exploit can be found below. (Please note that I've done all speedruns myself, and thus never tried this exploit.)
 

Quote by LD2013:

1. Start a mission.
2. Create a manual save data at beginning of the mission. (The timer should be at 1 or 2 seconds.)
3. Play the mission until you almost reach the time limit. (i.e.: If the time limit is 15 minutes, just play the mission until you reach 14m30s or so, but do not reach 15 minutes.)
4. Save (auto or manual) before reaching the time limit (such as 14m30s).
5. Restart the mission.
6. Load the first manual save data (1-2 seconds).
7. Load the latest save data (auto/manual save). The timer should now be at 1 or 2 seconds again.

Repeat step 3 to 7 if necessary.

The rest of the badges are earned by performing a variety of tasks. Some of these can be very insignificant, while others will restrict you in some way (i.e.: no kills) or require you to finish the mission using different methods.

General Tips:

• Badges cannot be earned on Beginner difficulty!
• Once you've unlocked a badge the game will remember this, regardless of whether or not you quit or reload afterwards.
• To check the status of a badge during a mission press , then or until you reach the tab "Badges". Some badges won't unlock before finishing the mission, however a badge will immediately be crossed out should you fail mid-game.
• Hiding a knocked out enemy in a wooden well or barrel will remove them from the game without killing them. This can be useful for the no kill badges. Other spots can either kill them (throwing them off cliffs) or give them the opportunity to wake up after a while (hiding them in houses).

Speedrun Tips:

• You will want to quit to the main menu before reloading a previous save if you mess up during your speedrun.
• Generally speaking you want to leave bodies where they are to win time, but occasionally you might have to move one. Hold during a melee kill to immediately pick up the body.
• When moving characters across a wire, like during mission 11, you can have one character push the other one(s). This is useful since you can't move multiple characters on the PS4 version without the use of shadow mode.

Check the forum guide here: https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/shadow-tactics-blades-of-the-shogun/325900-shadow-tactics-blades-shogun-road-map-trophy-guide.html for a complete overview and guide to all mission badges in the game.

Note that my speedrun videos of mission 10 through 13 are the recordings of when I first attempted these missions. Due to this they might be a bit sloppy here and there. If I feel it's necessary I'll update these videos, that being said I would most likely follow the same strategy even on hardcore difficulty.