Overview:
-Estimated trophy difficulty: 5.9/10
-Offline: 34 ( 26 , 7 , 1 )
-Online: 12 ( 9 , 2 , 1 )
-Approximate amount of time to Platinum: 20-30 hours
-Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
-Number of missable trophies: none
-Glitched trophies: none
-Do cheat codes disable trophies? No cheat codes

Introduction:

Welcome to the world of Skate, where style and talent is everything when it comes to proving yourself among your fellow skaters of San Vanelona. Create a skater, master tricks, and beat down the pros to win the title of Skater of the Year. You can then hop online with other skaters to work together in Freeskate, or throw each other down in ranked matches. This is a very well done game that gives you so much to do in the open world of San Vanelona both offline and online, that you should have a very enjoyable time going for the Platinum.

Natural progression through the game will net you most of these trophies, so by the time you finish the career mode, you will have a pretty big amount. As for online, the trophies don’t really pose any challenge, they just might take some time. The hardest trophy in the game ("Online Legend") isn’t even hard at all, it just gets kind of boring having to grind out all the required exp.

The only glitches in this game are not harmful at all, in fact, they are actually helpful! Look out for this on the challenge "Can You Spell GIRL?" For specifics on these glitches, make sure you check Youtube whenever you are having trouble. Also, keep in mind that there is DLC for this game, but there are NO TROPHIES for ANY of the DLC, so just keep that in mind if you’re thinking about buying it.

Step 1: Skating through the Career Mode

You should first start out just going through the Career Mode. You will first complete a tutorial that will teach you the basics and let you practice in the first skate park. I highly recommend you spend time in the skate park practicing tricks, jumps, grinds, and tougher tricks from the trick-book. There is a small learning curve to this game, and mastering harder tricks earlier on will make potentially-tricky challenges and trannys much easier for you. Just keep on doing all of the main challenges, photo shoots, and video sessions and you will eventually unlock both covers for the Thrasher and Skateboard magazines and also get the corresponding trophies. Ignore all of the side-challenges like Own-The-Spots and deathraces for now.

During this time, you will also unlock other miscellaneous trophies without even trying like "Make it Big", "Juggling Chainsaws," and "Skitched Up" among others. Also, remember to Mongo Push for the "Taste The Mongo" secret trophy so you don’t end up missing it. Please refer to the trophy guide to see all of these trophies so you know which ones you want to try and go for during career mode.

Step 2: Time for Locations!

So by now, you will have unlocked both magazine covers and will have completed career mode. Now, it’s time for you to go back to all of the locations you unlocked and complete the corresponding task. These include Spots, Tranny contests, Deathraces, pro challenges, and discovering pool locations. These also include Rob Dydrek and Danny Way challenges. Start out by just doing Tranny contests and Deathraces, since they are on your map and you can easily see where to go to participate in them. For Spot and Pool locations, please refer to the trophy guide to see maps that show where every one of them is. Also, remember for Spots that you just have to Own the spot, you don’t have to Kill the spot.

None of these should really pose a challenge for you. Deathraces are fairly easy and Tranny contests and Pro challenges shouldn’t be too hard by now, especially since you know how to pull off all of the tough tricks. If you followed what I said earlier about practicing early on, then you should breeze right through these challenges. At worst, there will only be a couple of pro challenges that you will find a bit annoying before you get the hang of what to do. After completing all of these, you should have a pretty good amount of trophies and not a lot of stuff left to do on your map. Get ready, you only have a bit more left to do before going online!

Step 3: Hall of Meat, Throwdown Challenges, and Offline Cleanup

For the last step of single-player have to do all Hall of Meat challenges and throwdown all the pros at a game of S.K.A.T.E You should start with the throwdown challenges since they are the more repetitive of the two. Beforehand, make you have all of the pros’ phone numbers. You should have all of them if you did all of the pro challenges in the previous step and also have the "How Do You Like Them Apples?" trophy as well. If for what any reason you don’t have all of their numbers, then go complete their pro challenge and get their number. Once you have all the numbers, go to your phone, select "Throwdown", and select a pro to play a game of Skate with them. I recommend only playing at The Boneyard since I found it to be the easiest place to beat them at. To beat them easily, just always perform triple and quad heelflips and kickflips from 180-540 degrees since the pros just can’t do these tricks with wiping out. Do this 5 times to beat the pro. There are a total of 27 pros to beat, so this could take some time, but just follow the method I was previously talking about and you will eventually get the trophy.

Now it’s time for Hall of Meat! This mode is pretty funny and by now, you have probably already completed a lot of the challenges for it. It still might take you some time to compete all of the challenges for it and get the trophy. It is divided into 4 parts, Points, Body Damage, Style, and Grab Bag. The Grab Bag ones will probably be the most challenging for you, but there is a link in the trophy guide to a guide for all of the challenges, so please use that link if you ever get stuck.
After you complete all Hall of Meat challenges and you get the "Spare Parts" trophy, check your trophy list to see what trophies you have left. Most importantly, make sure you have the "Perfectionist" trophy before doing anything else and if you don’t have it, check the trophy guide to see what you are missing. Other than that, make sure you got all of the miscellaneous trophies (pretty much any trophy that isn’t blue) and if you’re missing one, check the trophy guide to see how to get it.

Step 4: Online Trophy Time

Your final step on the road to the Platinum is the online portion of the game. The online trophies are not too bad, but they do involve some grinding in order to achieve ranks. Start out with easy ones like "The Architect", "The Critic", and "Graphically Extreme". "Skaters Choice" will come over time, so right now, just focus on doing all of the Freeskate activities. There are over 100 of these to do, and they consist of every aspect of skating from accumulation, to jumps, and objective challenges, among others. Get a good boosting partner from the boosting thread and you should easily knock all of these out in a few days. None of them are extremely hard, but there are a few of them that will test your patience. If you want to, you can go in without a boosting partner and still complete a lot of these challenges, since a lot of the people online are fairly good at them. I was able to get this trophy without boosting over the course of about a week, so it all depends on how fast you want to Platinum this game.

The last trophy you will end up going for is "Online Legend". This is the most time consuming trophy in the game, as it requires you to reach the highest rank online. Again, having a boosting partner will really help here, because this trophy will take you some time to get. I suggest you play ranked games of S.K.A.T.E since they tend to give out the most experience, even if you come in last place. This will definitely take up a lot of your time though, and you will have to play through all of the game types to reach lower ranks before going for this final rank. It might get boring after a while, especially if you are not boosting it, so just be prepared for the grind. Make it a goal of yours to maybe just get 200 exp a day, or anything like that. When you finally get this trophy, then your patience will have paid off, and you will have the Palintum!

Conclusion:

So that’s all you need to know about Skate 2. Learning the basics will make Career mode an enjoyable experience, and patience in the online portion will ensure that you will get the Platinum in no time. Just keep practicing and take your time with the challenges, and overall, have fun when you’re playing this game. It will make tricky challenges or boring grind sessions just a little bit easier if you have a good time with it. Good luck to all of you!

[PS3T would like to thank Spikey654 for this Road Map]