Overview
Estimated trophy difficulty: 5/10 (pending poll results)
Offline: 51 (42 5 3 1)
Online: 0 (0 0 0 0)
Approximate amount of time to platinum: 10-15 hours.
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 2 + clean up via Level Select
Number of missable trophies: 0
Glitched trophies: None.
Do cheats disable trophies? No.
Does difficulty affect trophies? Yes.
Introduction
The Force Unleashed is back, and it’s more fluid than ever! In this game, you play the role of Starkiller…’s clone. Honed to perfection by Darth Vader, the clone proves too much to be like the prototype that he still retains memories and feelings, and the choice to make his own destiny. You will play him throughout the story, and as the story unfolds, you’ll forget that he is a clone, and see him as Starkiller himself.
Walkthrough
The Roadmap in this game might seem long, but it is actually quite easy. There are four steps you should follow. Though steps 3 and 4 can be merged in one step, I'd recommend against that (read further). These steps are:
Step 1: Playthrough on Easy (including Holocrons):
Here you’ll focus on finishing the game and collecting every Holocron. And yes, those include the blue (Force power), red (Health) and yellow (EXP) Holocons (in the first game, only yellow ones counted. Not this time, however). You will knock a lot of the trophies out of your way, and you can look up what trophies to achieve.
As for the Challenges, though they are in a separate section of the game, the challenges unlock in the course of the playthrough, with the final one unlocking after beating the game. (Note: Challenge #1 unlocks after the introductory tutorial in the first level. Apparently, it is shorter and more manageable without your Saber Force Power upgraded. Feel free to undertake that particular challenge at that point, but leave the rest for when you've upgraded enough).
"Easy" should be your first step, because it’ll be easier to get kill-based trophies in the course of the game. Plus, it doesn’t matter what difficulty you finish on; finishing the game on any difficulty will unlock the Unleashed difficulty.
At the very end of the playthrough (no spoilers) there will be a choice to make (out of two). Press to choose the choice that will unlock the Jedi Experimental Armor. (you’ll see for yourself when you get there), in addition to a hidden trophy. However, you will also have to choose the other option for another hidden trophy; but that can be done in the Unleashed playthrough.
Having all the Holocron upgrades, Force Points and having unlocked all the challenges, once you finish the playthrough you should get ready for..
Step 2: The Challenges
Once you complete the game, all Challenges will be accessible from the main menu. There are ten challenges, most of them are easy, but the challenging ones are extremely so.
You will need to get at least a Gold medal in all of them. Lucky for you, however, Gold is the second highest score, after Platinum. Speaking of which, you will only need one “Platinum” score anyhow, but that is very easy. The challenges vary in nature; there is a horde mode, enemy waves, time trials, survival trials and a few others. You will need to use every other skill you have, and the upgrades you have gotten from the first playthrough will help immensely.
For more information and detailed steps on how to do the challenges, check out the "Challenges Walkthrough" appendix here.
Step 3: Clean up via Level Select and Challenges (yes, stats overlap in both!)
Here you’ll pick up anything you missed, and this includes miscellaneous trophies and Holocrons. The first thing you should do is equip the “Wisdom” lightsaber in this step as it will get you extra Force Points so you can upgrade all your Force Powers to max for the Maxed Out trophy (and hopefully have all your forces upgraded before you start the Unleashed playthrough).
It should be noted that kill-based trophies do accumulate, so long as you save your progress. You can repeat a level over and over to get the specific trophies you need. Further, you can also replay the Challenges to unlock other kill-based trophies (yes, the stats do overlap so long as you save/auto-save). I'd recommend replaying Challenge #6 (Domination Trial) for some of the trophies since, if you step out of the green circle and go to one of the three platforms, you'll have infinite spawn of enemies and an unlimited time to execute the actions required for the trophies. If you die, the stats will carry over once you respawn.
Even with Level Select for Unleashed, the clean-up process on Easy via Level Select is essential to obtain any other trophies, as going for the miscellaneous one will be difficult in Unleashed where enemies will be pinning you down left and right. Also, again, to repeat, you will also accumulate and hopefully max out all of your Force Powers before you start your Unleashed playthrough.
Step 4: Unleashed Playthrough (via Level Select)
By this point, having finished the game already and done all the Challenges, you should have a lot of cool lightsabers, Force Points, Force Upgrades and other cool stuff you've amassed over the last three steps (and hopefully have all your Force Powers maxed out!). Be thankful, you are now fully ready for the Unleashed Playthrough!
Before you begin, there are there are two things you need to keep in mind:
- Make sure to have unlocked all other trophies first: This way, you can focus on getting the Unleashed difficulty trophy (and the other two difficulty trophies as well). Going after miscellaneous trophies in this playthrough, especially ones that require time and/or skill, can be extremely frustrating as enemies will pin you down left and right. Otherwise, get them after you finish the Unleashed playthrough. Either way, try not to get them during this playthrough to avoid the hassle.
- This trophy CAN be unlocked via Level Select: In fact, it's better this way as you'll get to keep all your weapons and upgrades. Choose the first level in Level Select, then choose the "Unleashed" difficulty. Continue to play from there on by choosing "Continue" whenever you quit the game (you should note that, if you quit, then then go back to the game, if you look up the level you are at via Level Select, it will say "Difficulty: Easy." Don't worry, though, once you complete the level (i.e. via "Continue" so as not to start from the beginning of the level), the stats will change and reflect the completed difficulty.) At any rate, do NOT start via "New Game," you'll lose all your other progress and the difficulty will be three times worse!
However, even with all the upgrades, "Unleashed" is still a challenging difficulty; you take a lot more damage while your enemies take a lot less. Your healing will be slow and you will die often. Moreover, most of the areas cannot be passed by running by or skipping the enemies; you will have to kill them to move on.
But, on the plus side, the game is extremely generous with the number of checkpoints; even during boss fights, there are checkpoints as well. So when you die, think of it as just replenishing your health. But don't take it for granted; within a small period there could be tons of enemies, so try to stay alive when you are in clustered situations.
IMPORTANT! There are a LOT more things to consider for the Unleashed Playthrough. For detailed tips and tricks, look under the Jedi Grand Master trophy description. Trust me, it'll make the playthrough a lot easier.
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Battle of Endor DLC
Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 4/10 (Personal Estimate)
- Offline trophies: 8 (7, 1)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 1-2 Hours (Personal Estimate)
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
- Number of missable trophies: 4 (One with the Force, Sith Kicker, Holocron Hunter, Yub Yub)
- Glitched trophies: None
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: Yes, you must complete Battle of Endor on Unleashed.
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheat codes
- Additional peripherals required?: No
Introduction
Battle of Endor is the only DLC pack released for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. This is set in an alternate timeline where Luke Skywalker had fallen on Hoth and Leia is now the commander of the Rebel Alliance.
The DLC is very short and fairly easy, provided you have a fully upgraded character from the main game. You must finish the main game first on Unleashed anyway in order to unlock it for the DLC, so you'll have a very powerful character. Note, however, that all of your Force Powers will be reduced to level 2 from 3.
Thanks to Rooster Teeth for the collectible video in the guide.
Walkthrough
Step 1 - Complete Endor on Unleashed without dying, collect holocrons and miscellaneous trophies.
All you have to do is complete the level without dying on Unleashed difficulty whilst keeping an eye on the few miscellaneous trophies in order to them all in a single run. This shouldn't take more than an hour or two.
By the end of this step you will have unlocked:
Returning the Favor
One with the Force
Sith Kicker
Holocron Hunter
Never Tell me the Odds
Victory!
Yub Yub
Don't Let the Wookiee win
Step 2 - Clean-up.
It makes sense to complete all trophies in one playthrough of the level given the exploit to avoid the game registering your deaths, so there shouldn't be any need for a clean-up. However, if you missed a holocron or died without quitting then go for whatever you may be missing now.
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