Summary

Ever since 2008, trophy hunters have been earning crushingly difficult trophies.

Be ready to spend literal days on these games.

The difficulty of hunting a platinum trophy varies wildly, from 20-minute shovelware adventures to 100-hour endurance challenges.

Octopath Traveler 2, Final Fantasy 16, Cyberpunk 2077

Whatever it is, these games aren’t a cakewalk.

Most of the trophy list is actually really easy, except for two.

Hopefully, your bill doesn’t go up too high.

A collage of images showcasing Marisa, Zangief, and JP in their Alternate Outfits in Street Fighter 6

The second for playing Ultra Deluxe ten years after you previously played it.

That’s frustrating like no other on Veteran and can be a real time-killer.

Then you have to beat Realistic difficulty, essentially a one-hit death mode.

red dead redemption 2 cowboy riding a horse.

Then you must beat all 16 rounds of the Training Simulator on Realistic, which is beyond savage.

It’s absolutely ridiculous how long and challenging this campaign is.

Explore massive worlds with sharper graphics than ever before.

Key art for Hi-Fi Rush, Halo MCC, and Ninja Gaiden Master Collection.

Yes, second-lowest, as you could’t beat the whole game on the lowest one.

You’re truly a master gamer if you get all the way through this.

Street Fighter 6 belongs in that league because the Dominating Like a Ninja trophy will seriously test your patience.

A needle approaches Isaac Clarke’s eye in Dead Space 2.

For this trophy, you better win ten tournament matches.

Tournaments aren’t a daily occurrence and happen on specific dates, which just elongates the platinum.

Even then, it can fall to luck.

promo image of a battle for Call of Duty Classic.

The one-hit kill Akumu mode is pretty bad, but to be frank, Hi-Fi Rush is even worse.

All of this demands expert-level play, and that second requirement needs to vanish going forward.

This means the start of disc two essentially acts as a checkpoint, a true lifesaver.

Triple-A Games

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Like A Dragon: Ishin!

PlayStation

Yakuza fans rejoiced, but trophy hunters were singing a different tune.

The Yakuza platinums are already on the difficult side, but Ishin has an even worse aspect: tedium.

This process is so tedious that it’s simply bad for your mental health.

This is great, but unfortunately, Call of Duty Classic remains the hardest COD campaign in the series.

Unlike nearly every other instalment, the original COD did not have regenerating health.

That was introduced in COD2.

To boot, on Veteran difficulty, you don’t even get health packs.

You must get through this game with as little damage as possible.

The original PC version had a quick save feature, but not in this 360 and PS3 port.

The challenge here is on a whole other level, even more so than World at War.