Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Platinum Trophy Is Not Worth Sacrificing Your Sanity For

"As much as I've enjoyed FF7 Rebirth, its Platinum requirement was insane and downright frustrating, something I wish not to see repeated," says Hanzala from eXputer.

[CrimsonWing69]

I’m glad the platinum is difficult to get. Makes it all the more worthwhile to unlock it. Separates the skilled from the scrubs.

[fsfsxii]

touch grass and get a job.

[andy85]

Is everything OK at home? 😂

[CrimsonWing69]

Lol.

Literally, all I said is it’s great to have platinum that has meaning being behind unlocking it due to its challenge and shows a level of skill over scrubs who can’t get it.

I’m guessing this chud must be one of those struggling with it and it hurt his feelings.

I’m sowwy.

[AdonisIsBeast]

Agreed. RPG’s should require some effort so long as the journey to the platinum is fun. Even those with careers can chip away at it over time. Enough with these easy platinums that take away the “achievement” aspect of it

[DarkZane]

Except it's not hard, it's just long and tedious, which is why it's not worth it. It's ok if you don't have a life, but 99% of the world have a job and a family to take care of.

[CrimsonWing69]

Ummm… go check out the comments on forums for the VR missions and hard mode. It’s hard, that’s a lot of people’s hang-up on it. If it was tedious there’s be less complaining about the difficulty. I mean, if you stream, please show us the tips and tactics that make it so easy.

[Lexreborn2]

Only thing I think in the trophy list that will be hard to do will be the s rank piano. Everything else seems mostly doable on the first run. I have been taking my time and exploring everything the game enables to me before completing a chapter so I’m sure the hard mode run after if I choose to do it will be all I have to worry about.

Knowing me I won’t do it though lol

[KwietStorm_BLM]

I thought you only needed an A rank. Or is that one of Johnny's stupid collectibles?

[Lexreborn2]

My bad I read the trophy wrong

[andy85]

Only A rank thankfully. The minigames are the easy part. Most have tricks to do them. The combat sims seem like hell.

[I_am_Batman]

The only thing that I didn't like so far were the advanced 6 person bouts at the musclehead collosseum. The battles are fun to figure out at first, but 5 out of the 8 challenges feature the exact same enemies in every possible configuration so it gets a bit repetitive. I've still got the hardest VR challenges ahead of me, but I'm currently taking a break and waiting for the patch to fix the bugged side quest. I'm definitely intending to platinum it and so far I haven't encountered any serious roadblock yet.

[franwex]

I already know I won’t get it due to the piano one. I’m simply not good with anything related to rhythm or music. I can time button presses, but moving the joy stick? Nah.

I think I maaay get all Johnny’s side quests BS ones. Everything else seems pretty do able once you get strong enough and max out characters and materia.

[andy85]

Best tip I can give is to speed it up. Speed 3 is easier to time the movements. Zooming in helps too if your display can do that. Or actually cheat and get someone else to control one analog stick as well as you then it should be simple

[RpgSama]

I'll use the someone else doing the other stick tip, I am NOT good at rhythm games neither, that is a PERFECT solution, will tell my wife for an assist, thank you!

[Chard]

Is it that much worse than in Remake? I haven't played Rebirth yet, but I did Platinum Remake (including Intergrade) and was both very difficult (Weiss, Bahamut), annoying (smashing crates), and very tedious (had to re-do ch9 way too many times). I don't think I have it in me to go through something like that again.

[NautilusXIII]

Much worse. 2(maybe 3 for some people) chadley vr missions in particular are more challenging than everything you did in remake.

[kythlyn]

After 170 hours, with 87/88 at Johnny's, I failed the skill check for the last few combat simulator fights, and never got the platinum, mainly because I was bored out of my mind from replaying the fights. They need to add checkpoints to the Brutal and Legendary endurance gauntlets. Repeating the earlier rounds is worse than any runback in any souls game ever, and that includes Zallen and Lud from Dark Souls II. The lack of checkpoints doesn't make the game harder; it just makes it more tedious and unnecessarily time consuming. (If you're about to argue with me, you're probably gatekeeping.)

[CrimsonWing69]

I don’t know about gatekeeping, but how is it not harder without checkpoints? It’s doable, people are doing it as evidenced by YouTube and platinum percentage. It’s difficult and harder without the checkpoints, no way around it.

[kythlyn]

If you can clear the first three battles without much effort, then die almost instantly on the fourth battle, replaying the first three battles is not making the game harder, it's just making it more annoying and time consuming. Not sure why that's hard to grasp. The rest of the game has checkpoints during multiphase battles, including the boss of the game. Why not here?

[jambola]

Just finished the game
the idea of failing that final bosses 40 times and sitting through unskippable minute long cutscenes, makes me feel sick
I dont't even think I'll try
everything else I plan to do anyway