There really isn't much about this list that makes it difficult, despite it's predecessor offering one of the toughest trophy lists in the entire Playstation 3 catalogue.
There's a heavy emphasis on the game's main story, with a large selection of progression based trophies awarded upon completing certain missions right up until the "What a Trip" trophy, awarded for attending the final ceremony, and thus, completing the game.
There are no difficulty influenced trophies, meaning you can play through the entire game at whatever ease you like, though the tougher difficulty levels will provide a steeper challenge for those looking to toughen up the list a little bit.
The "Fully Inked" trophy, awarded for earning every tattoo by learning all the skills, more or less goes hand in hand with the main story, and it's a simple process of levelling up your character in order to earn more skills points and purchase tattoos that will give you additional skills. You will still need to delve into a fair amount of the side activities, mostly due to the fact the amount of experience points you need to unlock every tattoo isn't achievable purely through the main story arc, but also because some of the skills need to be unlocked by beating certain side activities and collectibles.
On the subject of collectibles, the list does also contain it's fair share of those, though most of them only require up to 50% of the overall total for the player to trigger a trophy, so they're actually quite relaxed.
The "Archaeology 101" trophy, awarded for gathering a total of 60 relics, is exactly half of the 120 scattered across the map, as is the same requirements for the "Jungle Journal" trophy, awarded for unlocking 50 entries in the survival guide and the "Full Bars" trophy, awarded for activating 9 of the 18 radio towers (though you can argue you do still need all 18 anyway, due to the fact they uncover important map markers such as relics, outposts and main story missions).
It's incredibly generous, given the fact that the majority of trophy lists will require you to collect everything before any form of trophy is awarded, and makes the list even easier than what it could have been. Even the other collectible based trophies awarded for obtaining all Letters of the Lost and all Memory Cards are the collectibles of a lesser quantity, and you do always have the option of purchasing sectioned maps within any store that will pinpoint the exact location of everything in the game, negating the need for any sort of physical walkthrough guide.
The "Island Liberator" trophy, awarded for liberating all outposts, is undoubtedly the most difficult trophy pertaining to the games various side activities. There are a total of 34 outposts to liberate, and each one becomes progressively harder to take over as you go through them all, which is due to each outpost progressively hosting tougher and more frequently appearing enemies. It can be difficult to eliminate every enemy without dying a few times and having to restart, and it's definitely the stand out trophy in the list regarding difficulty and aspects of the game that are genuinely challenging.
Everything other trophy in the Single player side of the list just requests that you dabble in various other side activities, or experiment with a range of weapons with an attached kill requirement, amongst other similarly easy tasks. There is still definitely a trade off though, with the quick an easy trophies being levelled off with more time consuming ones, so there is nice mixture here.
The list does also cater to the games co-op mode, with a small, but equally frustrating, handful of trophies, with each of them being awarded for beating the 6 co-op missions in the game.
The most important thing to note about the co-op trophies is that they're horribly glitched, and don't seem to unlock under public co-op matches under any circumstances. This means you're forced into playing through all 6 missions through local split-screen co-op, and tackling missions that are designed for 2-4 players all on your own becomes difficult for all the wrong reasons. It's still doable, but you need extreme patience and will to put yourself through alot of trial and error as you bundle through to the end of each mission and knock off every trophy upon completing them all.
The co-op portion of the list actually turns out to be one of the more difficult parts of this game. If the trophies actually unlocked properly under normal circumstances, then they would be an absolute breeze, given the fact you'd have the support from other players, and just like the single player part of the list, these too are not difficulty influenced, so you can play through them at whatever ease you like. Unfortunately, the trophies suffer from poor game design, which never was even attempted to be fixed, and are made 5 times more difficult as a consequence.
Overall, this isn't at all a difficult list to get through. You can play through the Single player at whatever difficulty you wish, and simply playing through the main story will be enough to earn most of the trophies on offer. Some of the side activities will require a larger time investment, but with seriously lenient thresholds on certain activities and collectibles, the completion time is drastically cut as a result.
The main story will still take about 20-25 hours alone though, and all of the additional side activities and other trophies on top will push the game into 40-50 hour territory, which isn't exactly a short time investment. The co-op trophies are good enough for another 5 hours at the very least, thanks to the awful trophy implementation of that part of the list, taking the overall completion time into anywhere between 50-60 hours.
However, with minimal challenge presented by the game, it mostly falls down to the time investment required (though the co-op mode does contribute to the rating aswell), and if you're willing to plug around 50 hours into the game, it's an easy enough Platinum to grab, despite the frustrations of certain modes.
Notable Trophies -
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| What a Trip - Attend the final ceremony Fully Inked - Earn every tattoo by learning all the skills Island Liberator - Liberate All Outposts |
Island Liberator
Liberate All Outposts
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