Platinum Difficulty Rating - 5/10
In seemingly traditional fashion, the Assassin's Creed 3 list contains a host of progression based trophies, mainly awarded for completing each sequence throughout the main story arc.
The "The Sum of Truth" trophy, the solitary Gold in this whole list, awarded for completing sequence 12, signifies the culmination of the main story, by which point you will have unlocked 16 trophies through natural progression, which is roughly a third of the entire trophy list.
The theme of progression is actually heavily emphasised throughout, and beyond just the main story arc, with a host of extra trophies tied into completing activities that contribute to 100% game completion.
The "Completionist" trophy, awarded for completing ALL progress tracker grid entries, requires you to achieve a total of 17070 points in the DNA tracker, a total which is accumulated through fulfilling a large range of criteria, spanning across a host of activities the game has to offer, and at times, it can actually feel like a bit of a grind. Collectibles, Naval missions, Club challenges, Homestead missions and Main story sequences are all accounted for, amongst a variety of other things, and with a personal 100% Single Player completion time tracked at just under 56 hours, the wealth of content that contributes to the Platinum trophy is evidently deep.
Most of these activities are actually awarded with individual trophies along the way, so for the majority of the game, you don't even need to worry about the rest of the list for as long as you're striving towards achieving 100% in the DNA tracker, which should be your only real focus.
There aren't any great difficulty spikes contained within any of the missions or activities, though some of the additional objectives for certain Privateer and Naval contracts are the more difficult highlights, and certain aspects of Club challenges, Assassin training and Hunting do get a bit repetitive and feel way too drawn out, and it does turn out to be one of the longer Single Player offerings available in the Assassin's Creed series by some distance.
The "Perfectionist" trophy, awarded for completing 100% of all main missions constraints, requires you to fulfil every secondary objective attached to a main story mission, and even though most of them are just a standard box ticking exercise, there are some slightly more challenging objectives on offer that may require numerous retries of certain missions to complete in full.
It is easier just to make sure you go through each mission fulfilling the criteria as you go along, rather than waiting to clean up everything at the end, to prevent needless replay value, and even though you might need to come back to certain tougher missions at the end of the game, those are few and far between, and you should look to complete the secondary objectives as soon as possible because of how long the Single Player game is without any added extras such as mission replays.
Those two trophies are pretty much the solitary focus of the Single Player portion of the list. As previously mentioned, the amount of progression based trophies towards the "Completionist" trophy, account for a huge portion of the game, with only a small handful of trophies that you will need to go out of your way for.
The "An Extraordinary Man" trophy, awarded for Completing the Encyclopaedia of the Common Man, is the only other real trophy of note, and requires you to record a host of activities from various occupations around the Homestead. There are 9 workers in total, and once their first mission is completed, they can be scanned working various chores on the plains of the Homestead, and the Encyclopaedia needs to be filled with 3 activities from each worker, totalling 27 in all.
The activity patterns seem to be completely random, and when you get down to the last few log entries needed, it turns into a bit of a waiting game, especially given how unpredictable each worker can be. The best thing to do is to start scanning workers as soon as you find them on the Homestead and hope you catch them performing activities you need sooner rather than later. If you leave it too late, the whole thing can turn into a drag and it will add unnecessary time onto the completion estimate.
The Multiplayer portion of the game also gets a bit of attention, as always, but the demand of these trophies isn't even a fraction of those of the Single Player ones.
The "Abstergo Entertainment" trophy, awarded for Reaching level 20 in the multiplayer mode, is a standard levelling fare, and should take no longer than 5-6 hours. Partial levelling, as opposed to reaching the highest rank possible, has been a common theme in recent Assassin's Creed games, and this is no exception, with the maximum level being 50, and thus, making this levelling task incredibly easy.
Despite this, the 5-6 hours reaching rank 20 will take should still be enough time for you to be able to unlock the remaining 4 Multiplayer trophies along the way with minimal effort, emphasising how easy this part of the game actually is.
In terms of overall difficulty, the only real challenge to overcome in this list is the hefty time-sink that comes tied to the game's Single Player component, which can easily clock in at anywhere from 50-60 hours. Some of the main sequence missions, and particularly a small selection of the Naval/Privateer missions, pack some genuinely difficult parts when trying to achieve 100% memory synchronisation, but practically everything else in this list is all about time, and despite odd sections providing some tedious repetition, the only barrier to completion is the long time-frame attached to achieving 100% in the DNA tracker.
The non-progression based trophies are just as easy as the progression based ones, with the possible exception of the "An Extraordinary Man" trophy, and the small spread of Multiplayer trophies merely require a brief visit. It's a longer game that most previous titles in the series, but for the most part, follows the same trend, and generally, the same level of Platinum difficulty at the same time.
Notable Trophies -
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| Completionist - Complete ALL progress tracker grid entries Perfectionist - Complete 100% of all main mission constraints An Extraordinary Man - Complete the Encyclopaedia of the Common Man |
Completionist
Complete ALL progress tracker grid entries
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