Platinum Difficulty Rating

[funkyweed]

Collected Trophy Difficulty Rating: 7.72

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Voting Guidelines

1. Do not vote unless you have played the game.
2. Do not vote until you have dedicated a substantial amount of time towards the game.
3. Do not vote based solely on the descriptions from the trophy list.
4. A time consuming game does not necessarily mean a difficult game so vote accordingly.
   Examples;
   • Warhawk is time consuming and difficult.
   • Resistance 2 is time consuming, but not difficult.
5. Vote with honesty and integrity.

[prphairball]

Voted 5, most of the mini games are hard and frustrating just to finish them, let alone ace them. I believe there's only one missable trophy though(All Swords). One of them involves doing specific events after each dungeon and missing them means having to do a full playthrough aside from Spelunker mode.

[Chaosflare]

Normally, you'd wanna consider this a 6 or 7, but I'm gonna put this as an 8 or 9 in my book. It's not the hardest game ever, but it does require some insight if you wish to platinum it in the least possible amount of time, and there are some aspects that would require patience.

[EWRFan]

I voted an 8. I really believe this is going to be reallly hard. I have been playing the game, reading boards and stuff online and this is some of the things that make it an 8:

1) It will require 2-3 playthroughts. That is a ton of time!
2) You need to ace some of the mini-games in order to go after the All-Swords trophy. I spent the best part of yesterday's afternoon replaying them over and over and I did not even come close to acing them. They are hard!
3) Most side quests have a specific time limit, such as "do it before clearing up Desert Temple" and such. Unless you are using a guide (I was not) chances are you will miss a bunch of them. By experience I can tell that some of them are really boring and require a lot of back tracking or plenty of money to waste on wings.
4) Certain life shards are a matter of luck. Some of them require you to drop money down a well until you get them, but it might take thousands of G (or constantly loading a save file to try again) to get those.
5) Killing every boss without getting hit is a pain in the butt. I have tried some of them over a dozen times to get it.
6) Finishing the game without dying? Are you kidding? Prepare to load your file everytime you are about to die if you are going for this. Trust me, the game might seem easy with an uber gigantic sword, but lose half an apple and it gets hard quick!


Do I love the game? Absolutely. I am a huge Zelda fan and I have to say that the game holds up as a good "Zelda-style" romp. But some of these trophies are hard, require a lot of grind, are time consuming, difficult and frustrating. For every easy trophy there is one that is pretty hard.

[HAGARAN]

Because of the minigames I would rate this 9.5

[FiftyQuid]

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[SidooRabbit]

This game is not that hard imo. There are only two really difficult mini-games and I'm really relieved they didn't put a lot of dash circuits out. So far, the difficulty is looking more like an 8 for me. I have yet to try out Spelunker mode but I doubt it will be excrutiatingly difficult like the dash circuit was.

[starcrunch061]

This is a great example of why you DON'T vote games based on "skill". The skill required to get this trophy is much greater than, say, the skill needed to get the "Star Ocean" or "White Knight" trophy, but all in all, this is pretty easy.

I'm voting it a 6.

[BeardedBushMan]

Beating the game on Splunker mode is going to take some time... and I HATE the dashing mini game. Grrr!

[MutableNando]

I'm voting a 6. I just got the plat, and aside from the dark tower on Spelunker mode, this wasn't too difficult. I didn't think the dash races were as hard as they were boring to conquer. The thrill of seeing a new record time was dulled by long repetition to earn it. Plenty of grinding for bricks and gold throw more repetition into the mix. I'm glad I got those out of the way on the first playthrough.

I liked the balance of from and spelunker modes. They were frustrating at times, but required more strategy in terms of moving through the temples. Thank god for freeze magic!