Overview:
Estimated trophy difficulty: N/A
Offline: 10 (3,6,1)
Online: N/A
Approximate time to 100%: 3-6 hours
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 3+
Glitched trophies: None
Missable trophies: None
Do cheat codes disable trophies? N/A
Introduction:
Welcome to the Time Crisis 4 Arcade Version trophy guide. This game is bundled with Time Crisis: Razing Storm. Time Crisis 4 is a light gun shooter that has a simple cover-and-shoot mechanic. There's a bit of variety where the game throws "mini-missions" which are essentially a specific scenario that last between 30-40 seconds. These scenarios usually consist of protecting your territory or escaping "Terror Bites" (you'll find out what those are when you play the game ). The trophies are very straight forward and shouldn't take too long to get 100%. You don't have to play through Ranking Mode for any of the trophies.
Some tips for playing the game: The enemy soldier that are in "red" suits are much more likely to get a clean shot at you as opposed to the normal "grey" soldiers and ammo-filled "yellow" soldiers. You'll notice that the game gives you a split second heads up that an enemy is about to hit you direct when the bullet, axe or grenade are highlighted in "red". Don't forget this because this is difference between life and death...in the game of course, I'm pretty sure this stuff wouldn't be highlighted in "red" in real life . The "grey" soldiers can occasionally get a shot at you (depending on difficulty) but as long as you shoot everyone that pops up on the screen, you should be fine. The "yellow" soldiers are great, they can rarely hit you and when you shoot them, you get ammo for one of your sub-weapons (machine gun, shotgun and grenade). Every enemy can be shot up to 3 times after killing them (kind of like a juggle in a sense). You keep your combo meter up this way, get more points and shooting the "yellow" soldiers 3 times will net you 3 pieces of ammo as opposed to one.
In terms of a weapon breakdown, your 4 weapons are the handgun, machine gun, shotgun and grenade. The handgun has infinite ammo but has 9 bullets per clip before you have to take cover to reload. The machine gun can carry up to 300 bullets and there's no reloading for this gun. Shotgun can carry up to 30 shells and is an excellent way to take care of stronger enemies up close, no reloading. The grenade has a capacity of 5 but it essentially obliterates anything that stands in your way, highly recommended for boss battles or to get out of a tight situation, no reloading.
Walkthrough:
Step 1: First Playthrough
You can choose to play either Free-Play or Ranking Mode for your first playthrough. I personally found Ranking Mode to be the easiest way to complete the game the first time through since you get 9 continues to go through the game as opposed to 3 continues in Free-Play. However, if you choose Free-Play mode, you earn an extra continue each time you do game over. When you complete the game, you automatically unlock 9 Health bars and Unlimited Continues. There's really no difference between the Giorgio and Evan except for different perspectives you'll see the action in.
Step 2: Clean Up
After completing the game once, follow the trophies tips I left below and you'll be able to get all the trophies in no time.
[PST Would Like To Thank Glacier928 for this Roadmap]