OVERVIEW:
TROPHY DIFFICULTY: 6/10
ESTIMATED TIME TO PLATINUM: 15-25 hours (highly depending on skill)
TOTAL TROPHIES: 27
OFFLINE: 27
ONLINE: 0

TROPHY BREAKDOWN: 12/8/6/1

INTRODUCTION:

Hello and welcome to my very first trophy guide.

I hope that it will come in handy for some of the trophies in Tony Hawk: RIDE, the first game to ever use the Skateboard controller. This game can be fun at some points and frustrating at others, however I will try my best to explain how to get the platinum trophy in this game.

ROAD MAP:

You can platinum this game within a single playthrough, however I suggest doing at least two. Either you choose to play through the game on Casual first to get the hang of it and learn how the game mechanics work and collect most of the easy trophies on the way, or you can start the game right on Hardcore and try to unlock Tokyo as fast as possible. Difficulty trophies stack, so if you decide to start on Hardcore you can unlock Don't Be Nervous, Game Show Awaits, and It's Show Time at the same time.

STEP 1: Completing the tutorial

The tutorial will most probably be the first thing you will do when you start your career. This won't be a problem and will show you the basics of the game. You will unlock the trophy Ready to Roll at the end of this step.

STEP 2: Choosing the difficulty

Now, after you've finished the tutorial you can choose to play the game on CASUAL or on HARDCORE; I don't suggest a CONFIDENT playthrough however, as it is pretty useless. If you want to platinum the game as soon as possible, I'd suggest you start on HARDCORE, but you'll probably have a few problems at the start. Just try to finish every city and unlock the next as fast as possible by doing the challenges that are the easiest for you. You probably won't have any problems reaching Tokyo on CASUAL, but reaching Tokyo on HARDCORE can take around 10 hours.

If you choose to play on HARDCORE first, you will not have to do another full playthrough, and you will unlock Don't Be Nervous, Game Show Awaits and It's Show Time by the end of your playthrough, as well as other random trophies you might unlocked while playing through the career.

However, if you want to get to know the game first by playing on CASUAL, then you will only have unlocked Don't Be Nervous and other random trophies that you collected on the go. You should now do another playthrough, this time on HARDCORE. If you're done with this step, move over to the next step.

STEP 3: Cleaning up the remaining campaign trophies

In this step, you will unlock a majority of the trophies. Below the career mode option you can choose the freeplay mode where you can choose any challenge that you have unlocked and replay it on CASUAL difficulty. Do the trophies in any order you want, however keep Successful Matador for the end as it is the hardest trophy in the game and the reason why I rated it a 6/10 and not a 4/10. As soon as you have finished this hard trophy, I can easily say that you have nothing more to be afraid of; the platinum will be yours.

STEP 4: Getting the remaining two trophies for party mode

This step will take about 2-3 hours, the only trophies you will work on here are Spelling Bee and Last One - I Promise. Just follow my instructions in the trophy guide on how to unlock these trophies and you will be the proud owner of the TONY HAWK: RIDE PLATINUM TROPHY.

GENERAL TIPS:

PLAYING WITH YOUR HANDS:

If you ever find yourself in the situation where some level is too hard for you, or you just can't get some trophies with your feet, feel free to sit next to your board and position your hands on the board. Now you should be able to do far more precise movements than when standing on the board. If you're trying to do some kind of speedrun through the game or just want to get the platinum as fast as possible, then I highly recommend playing the game from beginning to the end with your hands, as this will shorten the amount of tries you'll need to beat every challenge of the career/to gain certain trophies.

TRICK SPAMMING:

Trick Spamming in Ride is a great way to get a lot of points and to earn some of the trophies. Trick Spamming, as I call it, can be done in all of the non-Halfpipe Levels. All you need to do is perform a manual, and while you hold this manual you do one Fliptrick after another. You can get immense multipliers and sums of points for using this method and it is relatively easy to do. Trick Spamming is even easier to do with your hands.

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Tony Hawk: Ride Trophy Guide

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27 trophies ( 12  2  )

  • Unlock all of the other trophies

  • Complete the Training Test challenge in Street Training

    This will probably the first trophy that you will unlock in the game. Just finish the tutorial and this trophy will be yours.

  • Unlock Tokyo in Casual

    See It's Show Time

  • Unlock Tokyo in Confident

    See It's Show Time

  • Unlock Tokyo in Hardcore

    You will unlock this trophy along with the trophies for CASUAL and CONFIDENT as soon as you unlock Tokyo on your HARDCORE playthrough in the career mode. You will need a lot of patience to make your way through the career on this difficulty, you might swear a lot or want to throw your controller against a wall, but in the end it isn't too hard.

    TIP: If you can't do a certain challenge with your feet, play with your hands. This helps for sure.

  • Venice Beach, Trick Session: Score 10,000 Points in one combo

    This trophy is done in the level Venice Beach, Trick Session. All you need to do to reach this amount of points is to spam flip tricks while building up a high multiplier by Manual between the tricks.

  • LA River, Speed Session: Complete in under 1'30 without jumping

    I suggest doing this trophy on Confident difficulty, try to hit as many speed pads as possible and concentrate on getting to the end. However, do not ollie or nollie at all, or else you won't be awarded with this trophy.

  • Lower Wacker Drive, Speed Session: Complete in under 1'00 with 200 ft of Manuals

    For this trophy you need to finish the Lower Wacker Drive Speed Session in under 1'00 minute, which isn't hard at all. Just make sure you manual most of the time to reach the requirements. If you keep your manual for about half of the level you can even unlock Stride's Long Lasting Manual.

  • Loop Plaza, Challenge Session: Activate Signature moment during Challenge #3

    Easy trophy, just spam flip trick with manuals between them until you signature meter is filled, then fire of the signature moment by covering the back sensor of the board.

  • Central Park, Speed Session: Collect 60 seconds worth of time bubbles

    This trophy may be called speedster, however you will need to be slow and you will need to go back a lot to collect the time bubbles. I suggest you try this trophy on either Hardcore or Confident, as you can't choose your own line on Casual.

  • Barcelona, Challenge Session: Complete all challenges without bailing

    This is the hardest trophy in the game. It always gives me a lot of headaches and as soon as this trophy is done, you will probably have no more problems achieving the platinum. You need to beat all 5 challenges without bailing once; as soon as you bail you have to quit the challenge and restart it from the menu. I really recommend that you do this on Casual, as I'd say it's nearly impossible to be done on Hardcore.

    The hardest challenges in my opinion are number 2 and 5. Practice all of them until you can do them pretty well, then try to start with the challenge that is the hardest for you.

    If you are close to bailing, but haven't bailed yet, you can quickly pause the game and reselect the challenge. So the bail does not count and you dont have to do everything all over.

    Do all the 5 challenges in any order you want and you will unlock this bitch of a trophy.

    TIP: If you can't do a certain challenge with your feet, play with your hands. This helps for sure, to be honest I used my hands for this trophy as well.

  • Toledo, Trick Session: Score 20,000 Total Points in the camera spots

    If you keep up a high multiplier by spamming the fliptrick/manual combination all the time you won't have a problem scoring 20.000 on the spots that are marked with the camera symbol.

  • Frankfurt Terminal, Speed Session: Complete in under 1:45 without collecting any time bubbles

    I suggest you try this trophy either on Hardcore or on Confident, because on Casual there are time bubbles that you cannot avoid. Just use a line that has not many green time bubbles on the way. You won't have a problem keeping within the time limit.

  • Venice Beach Half-Pipe: Score 10,000 Points worth of Grabs

    Keep spamming one grab after each other and you will get this trophy with ease. Nothing hard here, you will probably get this on your first try, even if you play on Hardcore.

  • Boom Boom Huck Jam: Fire off the Signature Moment within 20 seconds of session start

    As soon as the challenge starts, try to fill your Signature Meter (in the lower right corner, when it's full cover the back sensor of your board to fire off the signature moment) by throwing off one grab trick after each other. It's not very hard and if you keep doing a good variatons of tricks you can do it in around 15-18 seconds.

  • Central Park Half-Pipe: Perform 10 Inverts

    Inverts are performed by covering the front sensor of your board, just before you reach the end of the Half Pipe. Try not to cover the back sensor of the board when the signature meter is filled, this will stop you from being able to do Inverts for a while. Make sure you do 10 INVERTS, any other variatons of inverts don't count forward for that trophy.

  • Barcelona Half-Pipe: Perform 5 Spine Transfers

    Easy trophy, as soon you reach the end of the middle Half Pipe, transfer by leaning forward, your skater will transfer to the other side of the Pipe. Repeat four more times and the trophy will be yours.

  • Quiksilver 80s Vert: Fire off the Signature Moment using only Stalls

    Not really hard, just keep leaning forward when going near the Edge of the Half Pipe. As soon as the signature meter is filled, fire it off by covering the back sensor of your board.

  • Quiksilver 80s Vert: Channel the Gap 5 Times in one session

    This is a little harder than the other trophy in this level; you need to Gap the channel, the small path were you came from. Just do any fliptrick or ollie over the channel 5 times and this trophy will be yours.

  • Boom X2 Vertical U-Ramp Go: Complete without bailing

    This trophy is a little hard to get, however it's a joke on Casual. Just keep moving forward by Spine Transferring down the Half Pipes, if you bail just restart the level. You will beat this level eventually.

  • Vans Downtown Showdown: Complete level successfully

    You will unlock this trophy upon playing through the career, this trophy can't be missed.

  • Back to the Banks: Complete level successfully

    You will unlock this trophy upon playing through the career, this trophy can't be missed.

  • Party Mode, éS Game of SKATE: Over 15 letters given out in one game

    This is a easy gold trophy, however it can take about an hour to get. Go to the party mode and start an éS Game of SKATE with 8 players on Casual and then start giving out letters. You need to do the trick that is displayed on the bottom of the screen and after you have landed it with the first guy, you need to fail with the second. This will give him a letter, first S, then K... until the word SKATE is spelled. Sometimes I encountered a problem where letters don't register, but don't panic, just play on until 15 letters are given out, then you will unlock this trophy.

  • Do one continuous Manual of 400 feet

    See Manual Mover

  • Half-Pipe: Do 5 different Grab Tricks in one session

    You will probably unlock this trophy the first time you enter a Half Pipe. Just keep spamming a variation of tricks by covering the front and side sensors of you board while going into the air.

 

Secret trophies

  • Boom X2 TH Go Show: Get to the end without Bailing

    So, for this trophy you have to beat the very last level in the game without bailing. It's actually not too hard if you know when you have to jump. Don't forget to jump after the third ROCK/PAPER/SCISSORS door. Don't forget to jump on that ramp on the street. On the rails where you have to transfer don't forget to lean to the left or the right before you jump. After that point, it shouldn't be too hard to reach the end. Just keep one the middle path, on Casual you won't have any problems.

  • Party Mode, Challenge Session: Rematch 10 times

    This trophy requires quite a bit of time, but in my opinion with these settings it can be done pretty fast:

    2 Players
    Difficulty: Hardcore
    Level: Barcelona - Challenges

    Now just bail, bail, and bail, and when you're finally played 11 matches (=10 rematches) the trophy will pop. I think you have to do this trophy in one sitting.

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