Originally posted by Hakimer
Hello. I'm having some trouble with the Legend difficulty save.
I'm playing on us digital version 1.09.
Looking at previous comments I see that others are also having trouble.
Can i ask if this save was previously a lower difficulty, but modded onto Legend?
When I beat the game and it shows stats, it says Legend on the difficulty, but once you press x, it says Legend difficulty unlocked.
Could this be the issue?
Any help would be great. I really don't want to play through the full game again.
(I played through twice before using saves).
Thanks
I saw this issue and saw various theories about it, including it being because of a patch, but had no issues myself (US digital download, and I AM on the latest patch). Here's what I can tell you, although it's been a couple of months maybe so I might be a bit hazy on exact details.
For me, Legend Mode was already unlocked since I played through the game on easy first. Then I started a new "Premium Adventure" save using the clear data from that so I could knock out a real quick trophy that doesn't take much more time than resigning a save (hand in hand). That's a version of new game plus in a way. Whenever you save the game it saves both your in-game save and your profile save so I don't know if it then registered that I had started a new game plus, OR if just beating it normally and unlocking legend difficulty was enough.
Because of the theory about needing to manually make a save file that's Legend Difficulty before the trophy will register, I also started a normal new game plus (not premium adventure) on Legend, and saved. And yes the save in question, since you ask, looks like it was modded to be Legend since the save file doesn't have a star icon next to it and normal legend saves do. For what it's worth, Legend difficulty looked insanely easy with the Goemon dagger and Wargod talisman.
Then I did the save with Legend at the end, finished the game and the trophy popped a few seconds after I got to the stat screen. Again, not sure if it's because I had already beaten the game so the difficulty was unlocked or had separately created a save file on Legend difficulty. I would guess the former since your profile save is separate and the Legend save provided doesn't include a profile save but that's probably where the game knows whether you're allowed to play on Legend.
If you're not playing this yourself from beginning to end before using the legend trophy, you could use the save file to beat it twice, OR you could use the last save in the save set (completionist 100 percent save where you have to do Komaki parry to pop the trophy) because that save is on un-modded Legend difficulty and using that save you could create a new save before beating it on Legend difficulty, if that's the issue. Or you could do both to be safe.
Just a tip for using the Legend save: I don't like the gun mechanic in this game, so I used the item box you start next to grab Goemon dagger (much stronger and cool heat attack, great for boss battles and still great for small fry). Between that and the gear you already have, switch to Dragon form (down on the d-pad if you haven't otherwise played the game), and use the heat action (triangle) anytime you can to 1-hit most enemies, do a crapload of damage to most bosses, and heal yourself a bit in the process since you're in Dragon form. If you run out of heat just dodge a bit (x button) and it should be back up soon enough. Didn't need any medicine, downed last boss in less than a minute aside from annoying in-fight cutscenes, and I'm terrible at fighting games.