Excessive Force is a Bronze trophy in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy that unlocks when you break free from a Corrupted’s grab with a Focus attack instead of the normal struggle prompt.
Key The catch is that Excessive Force runs against your instincts. Every other time a Corrupted grabs you, you hammer the break-free prompt to wriggle loose — here you have to ignore that prompt entirely and answer the grab with a Focus attack. Set it up on purpose and it takes one clean grab; try it on reflex and you will cancel your own attempt.
What the Excessive Force trophy needs
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Type | Bronze |
| Requirement | Break free from a Corrupted’s grab with a Focus attack |
| Enemy | Corrupted — the armored “Puppet” enemies |
Corrupted are the heavily armored enemies you meet through the main story, known in-game as Puppets. The normal way to deal with one is to knock off its helmet and aim a sphere’s laser beam at the blue tentacles underneath — but for this trophy that is exactly what you must not do, because a dead Corrupted can’t grab you.
How to Unlock Excessive Force in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
Find an intact Corrupted
Find an intact Corrupted | PowerPyx/YouTubePick a Corrupted in any combat encounter and leave its helmet on — don’t strip it or expose the tentacles, or you lose the grab.
Fully charge the Focus bar
Fully charge the Focus bar | PowerPyx/YouTubeAttack and parry the Corrupted to fill the yellow Focus bar at the bottom of the HUD until it is completely full.
Let the Corrupted grab you
Let the Corrupted grab you | PowerPyx/YouTubeStay in close and allow the grab to land; the standard break-free prompt appears on screen.
Trigger a Focus attack, not break-free
Ignore the break-free button and press your platform’s mapped Focus input while you are still held.
Watch for the Focus break
Watch for the Focus break | PowerPyx/YouTubeAmicia answers with a Focus attack and shatters the grab — Excessive Force pops the moment the attack resolves.
Don’t touch the break-free button — the only input that counts is a Focus attack while the Corrupted still has hold of you. Mashing struggle cancels the grab and the trophy won’t register.
Setting up a stress-free attempt
You only get the grab if the Corrupted is still whole, so resist the habit of stripping its helmet or lasering the tentacles — the second you start killing it the usual way, the window is gone. Line up an intact one, fill your Focus, and simply wait for it to reach for you.
Other Focus and combat trophies to grab in the same run
| Trophy | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Inherited Brutality | Kill 4 enemies simultaneously with a Focus attack |
| Untouchable | Parry 6 attacks in a row |
| No Holds Barred | Stun 20 enemies with throwables |
If you are already wrestling Corrupted for this one, a few other combat trophies live in the same fights and are worth chasing now rather than replaying encounters later. Two of them lean on the exact Focus system you’re learning here, while the third just wants you racking up stuns with throwables as you go.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can you miss Excessive Force, or get another shot at it later?
It isn’t a one-time story pickup, so there’s no single moment you can lock yourself out of. Corrupted show up across more than one combat encounter, which means you get repeated attempts, and the game is built as a run of chapters you can head back to — the same as the earlier entries — so a botched grab is never gone for good.
Does the Focus bar have to be fully charged, or will any Focus attack do?
It has to be full. The Focus attack only fires from a completely charged Focus bar, so a half-filled meter leaves you stuck in the normal struggle and nothing registers — top it off before you let the grab land. Since this is a brand-new prequel, treat the full-charge detail as the safe way to play it while the finer Focus timing settles.
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