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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Director Apologizes For Its Brutal Platinum Trophy

They've already promised Part 3's will be easier to unlock.

www.thegamer.com

There is one other thing actually, which I can say was a mistake on my part, something that I've already apologized for, and I definitely will not do again, which is how difficult I made it to get the Platinum Trophy... Rest assured I have learned from that and in future I will not be making Platinum Trophies that difficult.

For those of you who didn't play Rebirth, acquiring the Trophy was a massive time sink, that required at least two playthroughs, and completing all Normal and Hard Mode challenges of the minigames. The biggest filter was the Chadley Brutal and Legendary VR Missions. These consisted of many different 5-10 round gauntlets of battles against tough enemies and bosses. The latter half of these challenges consisted of overtuned bosses that could easily end you in seconds if you're not careful. Many of these gauntlets take between 20 to sometimes up to 60 minutes to complete. If you die, you start over and lose all that time you spent. If you were stuck on a certain round of one of these gauntlet challenges, you were basically timegated out of gittin gud or changing strategy, because you had to spend a lot of time fighting back up to the enemy you're struggling with. This led to many players either noping out, or relying on cheese methods to complete it.

Not sure if Hamaguchi was going through a divorce at the time, but I'm glad he's acknowledging they went too far.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

It's been my experience that most FF titles have ridiculously stupid trophy requirements. I just ignore them and enjoy the games.

 

[Fahdis]

It's been my experience that most FF titles have ridiculously stupid trophy requirements. I just ignore them and enjoy the games.

 

[Brigandier]

It is a hard plat, I'm shit with everyone besides cloud on the hard battle content.

The solo rounds with Aerith and Barrett especially are tough.

 

[Zelduh]

Trophies are stupid and shouldn't be a thing. I'm glad Nintendo doesn't bother with that nonsense. I don't understand why people obsess over them or get upset about "trophy requirements" as if trophies are required or part of the game at all, they're not. They're completely pointless

 

[Sharius]

Trophies are stupid and shouldn't be a thing. I'm glad Nintendo doesn't bother with that nonsense. I don't understand why people obsess over them or get upset about "trophy requirements" as if trophies are required or part of the game at all, they're not. They're completely pointless

playing game itself is pointless, what's your point? people who enjoy it, enjoy it, like how RPG player like to watch their damage number getting bigger and bigger

 

[Topher]

Trophies are stupid and shouldn't be a thing. I'm glad Nintendo doesn't bother with that nonsense. I don't understand why people obsess over them or get upset about "trophy requirements" as if trophies are required or part of the game at all, they're not. They're completely pointless

Then ignore them. I enjoy trophy hunting. Agree it is nothing to get upset about though. Some folks like difficult trophies. But like you said, they are not required so no harm either way.

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

I liked doing the crazy challenges so I could play rebirth more

well...most of em

I love fighting crazy bosses in VR but I hate cactuar crush lol

 

[Jesb]

Who gives a fuck.

 

[CyberCali]

Duplicate thread. Original can be found here - https://www.neogaf.com/threads/fina...d-difficulty-for-them-moving-forward.1677623/.