The Final Fantasy XV Platinum Trophy Road Trip

Trophy 36: Survival Expert

Official Description: Reached maximum survival level.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: August 21st, 2021
Overall Earned: #1615

Getting Gladio’s Survival skill to max is one hell of a walking commitment. You really have to walk every-freaking-where and it gets quite tedious after a while.

The walking on foot was seriously ruining my enjoyment of the game (I wanted to enjoy chocobo and car travel) so I decided to cheese it. I put elastic bands on my controller so Noctis ran around in circles, then I went to bed and left him overnight.

Shockingly, that still wasn’t enough for the trophy but I managed to get the last little bit naturally.

Trophy 37: Weaving a Tapestry

Official Description: Completed 80 sidequests.
Type: Silver
Earned on: August 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1616

I did several hours of sidequests and hunts before powering through the remainder of the story (which ended up being way over 80). Sidequest #80 was ‘The Professor’s ProtΓ©gΓ© – Myrlwood Firefly’ for Sonia the superb professor lady. This involved going into the Myrlwood dungeon at night to capture the glowy little fellas (I had already gotten the Royal Arm there a while ago at this point).

Also, I needed to help Ignis get back his specs from a chocobo in the dungeon on an unrelated side-side tangent. So much fun stuff to do!

Trophy 38: Angling Expert

Official Description: Reached maximum fishing level.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: August 29th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1617

I went on a nice fishing spree in the lovely waters of Galdin Quay to snag this trophy. The fishing minigame is quite fun and relaxing (if you don’t have a monster fish on your line, that is).

Trophy 39: Divine Intervention

Official Description: Summoned one of the Six for the first time.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 6th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1618

I had a hard time figuring out how the hell summoning works in this game. Basically, after you recruit each god you can summon them, but not whenever you want. You have to meet certain battle requirements and press and hold L2 when the prompt appears.

I finally caught a chance to summon in the Castlemark dungeon on my first failure to solve the labyrinth maze. Luckily the lost wind goddess who joined me from the Final Fantasy XIV crossover quest crushed my enemies with her tornado thingy!

Trophy 40: Seaworthy

Official Description: Completed Chapter 8.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 6th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1619

It was at last time to blitz through the rest of the main story! I love getting jacked on side content and one-shotting the story bosses in open world games. 😁

Cid and Cindy fix Regis’ boat and the dudes sail off to Altissia to meet Lunafreya and hopefully get to the sea goddess before the Nifs kill the deity. There was lots of talk about trusting your friends and the power of friendship and all that. Classic Final Fantasy!

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