Final Fantasy IX's PS4 Platinum Trophy Is Damn Near Impossible

What???? Insanity!

i already did all that in the OG PS1 release so i think i can do it

UNLESS there is a Trophy for getting Excalibur 2 because that was LITERALLY the only thing i could never do on FFIX, OH PLEASE don't have a trophy for that

@FullbringIchigo such trophy exists. Lol

@Feena OH C**P

but maybe with the modifiers i could do it, turning off encounters and such

Is it 1000 times overall, or in total over time? That changes the difficulty of the trophy depending?

Nothing is impossible, just very, very difficult.

That's what I told myself when I was getting the plat for the Crash Trilogy.

This isn't fun, the plat trophy is useless to me if it isn't fun to get it.

I was playing this on my Vita and was thinking what trophies would be on PS4. I knew the skipping would be one but holy moly not that much!

You trophy people crack me up.

@johncalmc well I'm out. Not doing that again!

@Deadlyblack Sorry i stopped playing because of the trophies. Yes those time trials almost made me break my controller.

@rjejr The sad thing im one of them and i find myself sad sometimes. Trophies sometimes make me hate a game.

Challenge accepted.

@Flaming_Kaiser I don't blame you. Crash 1's time trials were infuriating, but 2 and 3's were easy.

Those trophys are ridiculous.I like getting platinums but I don't go out my way to get ridiculously hard ones or needless time consuming one's.
I love this game so much I won't be playing it again for the trophys just for the fact I'm enjoying playing it.Playing the brilliant Witcher 3 at the moment and haven't even checked to see what trophys there are as the game is so damn good

@Flaming_Kaiser I like when funny named trophies pop-up, if you punch a cow and it says 'Eradicator of mad cow disease", but I never know or care what trophies are in a game. I do occasionally look down my trophy list just for kicks, I usually max out a finished game around 60%, but I've finished story lines and been around 15%. I did get 1 plat on Jak and Daxter just b/c I wanted 1, I was at 99% for years and it's my all time favorite game so I figured why not, but that's about my extent of interest with them. My 2 sons play more than I do and I've never even heard them mention them. Though probably growing up w/ DS, 3DS, Wii and Wii U has them trained to ignore them.

@Wazeddie22 I'm with you on this one. If I see a trophy that seems challenging but not idiotic, I'll probably go for it. Or as @rjejr mentioned, playing through a game completely and only seeing 15% of trophies completed, I'm like "meh" forget it. But I have a couple platinum trophies. My bucket list platinum is Bloodborne. I'm so close, just need the chalice dungeon ones. But I find I have such a backlog of games to play, I don't spend a lot of time on the trophies.

Just in case you thought too much of yourself after 200 lightning dodges.

This is right at the start of the game, so you can give it a few goes and if all else fails start a new game and learn the patterns.

But even on ps1 this was very hard to get over 150, the speed changes every so often which is a complete nightmare.

Square need to take a look at these lists, they do affect potential purchases. FF15s was a great platinum, they should stick to that template.

@themcnoisy Who is deciding whether or not to purchase a game based on the difficulty of the trophies, besides youtubers that have trophy hunter channels? That's all of what, 20 people maybe?

@RedMageLanakyn you would be surprised! A lot of people gets trapped into the checklist mentality when presented with a list of seemingly arbitrary tasks.

When I read the headline, I was convinced the requirement would be to defeat ozma. Tough, but doable for completionists. But this? Well played Square Enix. A nigh on impossible challenge.

@Feena Right, I get that, but I can't imagine a lot of people are actively looking up trophies before purchasing a game and having it be a deciding factor. They've always been an afterthought to me, like a bonus set of things to do.

@adf86 Lol what?

I heard that FF V might be getting a remake on Vita/PS4 next year. Hope that's true! :3

@starhops Yes,that's the other reason for me too,I forgot to mention it.Have such a huge backlog,messing about with ridiculously hard trophies is just a waste of time when instead of getting all stressed and frustrated over a trophy I could be enjoying another game.
Good luck with Bloodborne,not played it but hearing how painfully difficult the game is getting the plat on that one would be an achievement

@Reanfan7 I hope that's true but personally I want FFVI next.Kefka,greatest FF villain

@RedMageLanakyn I gave up ff13-2 as I couldnt snag the gambling machine rng achievement (i was on xbox at the time). I threw the game on 2-3 times and was drawn to that trophy every time. I ended up giving up the whole game.

I never bought ff13-3.

After ruining half a day on the lightning trophy ff10 hd, again which I failed to achieve. This 1000 jump skipping rope trophy would really really do my head in as its the same bag. But I would try it if I had the game. So thats my dilemma.

But as mentioned the ff15 trophy list was easily one of my favourites, we need more of them. Super crazy hard trophies are fine, if they are fair. But pressing x continually after the first say 100 times is laborious so why include them?

@themcnoisy I agree that it's a dumb trophy, i guess I just wanted to understand a little bit better what drives someone to go after trophies like that, which you explained well. I guess I've just never obsessed with them to the point of having one turn me off to the game completely, or prevent me from buying a sequel. Different strokes. I could see how it could be frustrating.

F*** that! Most i'm doing is beating Ozma. Sometimes these trophies are disrespectful.

Very ****** move. I will buy this game nonetheless, but I'm not gonna pay more than 5€ for a game with so hard to obtain trophies.

Lol, trophies.

It makes me smile, to think there are ps4 gamers getting frustrated right now trying to hit 1000 skips with a little black mage

This just sounds tedious, I prefer trophies that get you to try new things in the game or play it in an interesting way, but so many are just busywork instead

@Deadlyblack Maybe i should start with 2 and 3 and leave 1 for a while.

@rjejr The Dynasty Warriors / Samurai Warriors are easy but take ages. Warriors Orochi 3 after 2 years playing off and on i still dont have it....... Easy Platinum trophies are the Farcry ones.

Pffft, screw that. It'll take me long enough to finish the game as it is, never mind spending hours and hours on that bloody skipping mini game.

@FullbringIchigo

The Excalibur one will be easy though. Just enable battle Assist, 9999 damage or disable battles all together really and then increase the game's speed. using the speed "cheat" will not affect the in game timer so really, a lot of the challenge is not even there.

@ikki5 honestly those sound like they were put there JUST for the reason of getting Excalibur 2

probably because they knew there was no way to get it without cheating

@starhops Same here with Bloodborne. I keep going back to take on another level of the Chalice dungeons but haven't been bothered to actually sit for days and just crack the whole thing.

@FullbringIchigo Well, they had similar stuff in Final Fantasy VII and even Final Fantasy XII ZA even has a speed up function so I doubt it was just for the Excalibur 2. Regardless the reasons though, I am glad they added that because the battles can be horrible slow and it is the reason why i never got to finishing this game which I am hoping to do now with these features in the game. I'm also going to try and go for the platinum though... I will probably do a second run for the Excalibur 2.

@ikki5 yeah i'll be waiting until my second play through before i use them

@Flaming_Kaiser The way I play almost every game is follow the story until the end. Even if it's just a stupid story like save Peach from Bowser, again. When I beat the final boss then I'm done. Very few games hold my interest after that. The original Xenoblade Chronicles is the only 1 I can really think of. I do like ot do optional stuff along the way, FF7 was half sid echaracters and missions I think, but once i beat the final boss thats it. Actually over the past 5 years or so half the time I dont' even beat the final boss, I figure getting to it is close enough, just watch the rest on Youtube if I want. X-2 started me down that dark road. That was such a bad horrible game I think I skipped 80% of it. Also gave up on the FF13 boss. Actually waaaaay back on the Gamecube I gave up on the Luig's Mansion boss. And the boss in Dark Cloud 2 on PS2. I don't do repetition well. Starfox 64 I got a Game Over screen around level 4, never touched it again. Always forward.

@rjejr Yeah some games dont deserve my time. Dynasty Warriors / Samurai Warriors games i somehow like them a lot. Only the trophylist is a crime. I want to get in my backlog but time is hard to find when you get older. FF7 i did beat that game i loved it. The same goes for FF8 i missed 1 card the Seifer one and i missed the UFO encounters i got 300 hours in that game i hope we get a remaster from that one and the secret ending after the credits awsome. Final Fantasy 9 was also fantastic finished that 1 to if you did not play get it. 😁
Still dissapointing that we did not get a physical release.

@Flaming_Kaiser "but time is hard to find when you get older"

That's one thing I know all to well. I've reached the age where I'm starting to think about all the games I won't get to play in my lifetime. Movies to watch. Books to read. Too depressing.

I played and finished FF9 when it came out, like I did all the single player main games starting w/ FF7 thru FF15. I'm pretty sure I'll skip FF16 though even if it is single player, they've just so lost the plot. Fortunately after a tepid PS3 JRPG release schedule PS4 and Switch have me covered.

@Flaming_Kaiser Go for it.

Well getting to 1000 in the jump rope game was already a challenge in the original that completionists must face since it did award you the (pointless) King of Jump Rope key item, so it's not as if anything really changed for those who want to waste their time to 100% their game.

I think I managed to get to 200 in the PAL copy that I had as a kid, but in the North American copy I've only gotten up to 100.

Rest of those challenges honestly sound like nothing special, it's just a matter of grinding and patience.

@RedMageLanakyn

For me, it's about having a high completion rate. My current trophy completion rate across all games is around 70% and im always trying to improve it. So if i know playing a game that i'll never get certain trophies of will lower my percentage, I'll opt to skip the game.

However, I recently made a separate PSN account in which I play games for fun and don't care about the trophies. So that way I no longer miss out on fun experiences.

I would love to see a psychological study on people's obsession with trophies. It baffles me that people would skip a great game because the trophies are dull to get, I'm definitely in the camp of you play games to have fun, not to check off none essential goals a developer has set. At the end of the day trophies/achievements mean nothing and if you don't want to do them then don't.