Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

Such a good game! Dare I say it might of even dethroned Sonic 06 as the best 3D Sonic game!

@colonelkilgore that is crazy good! It took me months of work to get a few platinums, and you popped 10, including some massive games, in a day! Good feeling?

@Bentleyma Congratulations mate. Difficult?

Congrats @Bentleyma, this is another one (like Gotham Knights) that was never on my radar but following all the positive word-of-mouth I’m now looking to pick it up.

@MB81 cheers buddy. It was nice as I’d become quite accustomed to popping plats on the reg… and when I got to #99 a couple of months back, I went completely cold turkey 😅. So it was good to start popping them again. As a lot of peeps on here also know, I take a strange satisfaction from planning and preparation (I had my route-to-#100 scheduled from #30… although that schedule did have numerous re-writes along the way if I’m honest), so I took a bit more pleasure from executing the plan more than anything else I guess.

@colonelkilgore Woah it’s raining platinums over your way. I’m not sure congrats covers it but your dedication is impressive. I feel like the PS stars program should be rewarding you more than just bumping up your level, like somewhere a physical platinum trophy is being engraved with your name 😀

@Bentleyma Congrats on that sonic platinum as well. Seems like it’s the best sonic game for many a year.

@render cue a Hannibal Smith “I love it when the plan comes together” gif 😁. Cheers buddy… and what makes it worse on the PlayStation Stars front is that it resets on 1st Jan 2024 😡

#36 - Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Vita)

A pretty decent game actually, despite stretching out one movie until it’s paper-thin. Really great at turning a PS4 game into a Vita game too, by splitting the exact same levels into three bite-size chunks.

@render @colonelkilgore Thanks guys. I highly recommend it. I wasn’t expecting to get into it as much I did.

@The_Moose It was actually fairly easy. I think the game is fun enough that it makes you want to do everything it has to offer.

Congrats @nessisonett, I’m actually gonna start my first Lego game once I’ve squared Sekiro away (if I can square Sekiro away 😅). I’m gonna start my Lego adventure with Lego Lord of the Rings on PS3, I’ve heard it’s a good one.

@colonelkilgore The one I don’t have on PlayStation! I played Fellowship on the Wii back when it came out, and then went to play it at the weekend and my younger brother had completed the rest of the game without me knowing. Never did go back to it but it was a great game otherwise!

Lol 🤣, I knew I could count on you @RogerRoger. And my first action at court will be to dub thee, @SirRogerOfGifLand… arise! 😉

I moved it here as per your edit 😉.

Yeah I noticed that (no boss-related trophies) when playing the Souls trilogy myself. I was actually quite surprised to see that the PSN profiles platinum difficulty for Dark Souls: Remastered is an 8/10, where as Demons Souls: Remastered and Bloodborne are 7/10’s. From memory, Dark Souls 2 & 3 have lists a lot more akin to Dark Souls and are also quite a bit more grindy than the others.

@colonelkilgore How about Elden Ring and Sekiro? Do they follow more the ‘boss-trophy/BB and DeS trophy’ formula or the ‘grindy multiple playthrough/go out of your way to level up things and do things that you wouldn’t otherwise’ formula?

@Th3solution I’m not gonna lie mate, I do enjoy a grind… unless it’s completely obscene like Wolfenstein: Youngblood or The Division 2. I’m more than happy to stick a podcast on and grind away at a repetitive task for a few hours in the knowledge that I’m working towards one goal or another. I find that I can’t listen to a podcast and game unless it’s something repetitive that I don’t need to put all of my attention into.

Hey dude, my apology @Th3solution, I just re-read your post from yesterday and I answered a completely different question 😅 (I do tend to scan rather than read Push Square posts while at work - my bad).

So to your actual question, the Sekiro and Elden Ring trophy lists are a bit more like Demons Souls and Bloodborne ones… but they both (particularly Elden Ring) require some very specific actions to get certain required endings (a bit like Bloodborne actually).

In regards to grinds… from memory I didn’t have to grind anything in Elden Ring but I did have to farm some materials in Sekiro.

@Th3solution The Elden Ring plat takes a bit of online save tinkering to get the three endings (unless you fancy NG++ of course) but isn’t too bad.

Some bosses are quite well hidden and there are ones for collecting legendary gear with one bit being missable.

If you’re a completionist, you’ll get most of them naturally.

@colonelkilgore Ok, thanks! Sorry to interrupt your work day, but I can totally relate.

I save scummed BB to see all the endings and has collected all the umbilical cords. Out of curiosity, I actually looked and I only lack 4 trophies for the BB platinum. Acquiring all weapons and tools, getting a rare blood gem, and apparently a boss that I missed (I suspect maybe it’s the final boss in those supplemental dungeons — I forget what they’re called. I didn’t spend any time with them).

Maybe if I ever do a replay then I’ll try to do all that but it seems a large time investment to get all that.

Demon’s Souls I’m a bit further away. I need almost all the “kill this boss in this specific way” trophies, there’s about 4-5 of them, and the whole Makoto storyline that apparently I just completely missed, and the online trophies and obtaining all miracles, spells, rings. It’s just too much to even begin. I loved the game, but I’m not sure I have it in me to do it all.

Perhaps Elden Ring will be the easiest to add to my platinum collection. I’m not going to lose sleep over it, but I would like to have the satisfaction of getting maybe one of them. 🫤

@Thrillho Sorry... looks like we simul-posted. But yeah — Elden Ring might be the one for me to hope for.

@Th3solution nah totally my bad mate… and anything to pull my attention away from the laptop honestly 😅.

So yeah there is a trophy for a boss fight at the end (well I say the end loosely) of the Chalice Dungeons. It can take a bit of time to get to her… and there are some damn hard bosses along the way down there (I actually found the Chalice Dungeon Amygdala to be the hardest boss in the whole game) but having said that it was the first plat I ever popped and I enjoyed the whole experience so much that I started to consider going for platinums much more after it.

Elden Ring does ‘seem’ to be the most attainable. I got it in 72 hours which is way under the others (with the exception of Demons Souls) and it has the lowest difficulty rating on PSN profiles too - 6-7/10. Yeah could be a good idea to get yourself through the From Soft back-catalogue by hook-or-by-crook and then put all you’ve learned into getting the platinum on the opus!

@Th3solution No worries. It’s the only From platinum I have (out of DS1, DS3, BB, ER).