Metal Gear Solid 3: Platinum Eater

Trophy 1: I Can Totally See You

Official Description: Achieve a camouflage index of +90%
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 3rd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1684

I was just messing around with the camouflage system and happened to crouch in some grass wearing the Woodland/Leaf combo for 90% concealment. I’ll take the accidental accomplishment!

Trophy 2: Beekeeper

Official Description: Use bees to harass an enemy
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 3rd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1685

A cutscene implied dropping bees on an unsuspecting guard was a thing that should be done (Snake’s sly smile said so), so I did it! The buzzing and screaming guard sounds resulted in this shiny trophy.

Trophy 3: Young Gun

Official Description: Submit Ocelot
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 3rd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1686

So I guess this young punk is the older and wiser Ocelot I know from Metal Gear Solid 2? The guy with an arm from another Snake that takes control of him sometimes, right?? Seems to be the case, eh.

In a fancy cutscene, Snake pwns Ocelot’s unit and knocks him out after offering some advice and taunting.

Trophy 4: Pain Relief

Official Description: Defeat The Pain
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 3rd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1687

Over-the-top and incredibly weird bad guys are Kojima’s thing, right? This is only the 2nd game by him I’ve played so I have to say yes to that question.

Anyway, Snake fights Ocelot again in a duel that is rudely interrupted by The Pain’s man-eating wasp swarm. Snake escapes to a cave and eventually confronts The Pain in a boss fight. This disfigured weirdo has wasp armor, wasp grenades, and wasp swarms you need to avoid by diving underwater.

Trophy 5: Snake Eater

Official Description: Eat a snake of any type
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 3rd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1688

As the name of the game implies, eating snakes (and other creatures) is indeed a gross thing you do! I’m playing on Very Easy so the stamina meter wasn’t something I had to worry about.

I just ate some stuff to clear out inventory space and was ‘treated’ to a lovely little video of Snake actually eating a snake… ew.

Trophy 6: Serenity Now

Official Description: Call one Healing Radio frequency
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1689

Serenity now, insanity later. Yep. I’m old and that was a Seinfeld reference.

At this point I decided to restart my playthrough and follow a guide for a ‘perfect run’. This means I’ll get all the trophies in one go. My backlog is long and I have a million other games to get to. I ain’t got no time for bumbling around and missing collectibles in this game, dammit.

Anyway, there are secret Healing Radio channels you can tune into to hear cool musics. The first one I listened to was Don’t Be Afraid on channel 149.53.

Trophy 7: Tune-In Tokyo

Official Description: Call every Healing Radio frequency
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1690

Listening to all of the Healing Radio musics gave me this trophy! They sounded cool even if I have no idea what the point of them is.

Trophy 8: Mostly Dead

Official Description: Use the Fake Death pill
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1691

That’s quite the convincing fake death! The Game Over screen even plays when you use it. Luckily I was still able to use the Revival Pill to resurrect double-o Snake.

Trophy 9: Can I Keep It?

Official Description: Capture any animal alive
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1692

I shot an adorable little froggo with the EZ Gun (the unlimited tranquilizer gun you get for playing on Very Easy mode) and picked him up for this one. I may or may not have made Snake eat the little fella later to clear inventory space… sorry.

Trophy 10: Prince Charming

Official Description: Shoot a Kerotan for the first time
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1693

There are a bunch of these weird frog figures hidden all over the game. The first one is in the starter area in the trees on a hill. You have to shoot them and they make a croaking sound for some reason. I dunno. I’ve learned to not ask questions and just roll with it when playing Metal Gear Solid games.

These little fellas are hidden pretty well! I doubt I would have found or shot one if I wasn’t following a guide.

Trophy 11: Mama Said

Official Description: CQC Slam a guard and knock him out
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1694

Oof! Getting slammed to the ground looks like it hurts.

Trophy 12: Everything Is in Season

Official Description: Collect every type of fruit
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1695

The apple doesn’t get shot far from the tree… or something like that!

Trophy 13: Close Shave

Official Description: CQC Slit an enemy’s throat
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1696

I was actually trying to interrogate the dude for another trophy when I acidentally knifed him. Oops! I still needed this trophy too so all good.

This is also a ‘perfect playthrough’ where I can’t actually kill anyone so I reloaded my save file to reset my kill count to zero.

Trophy 14: Problem Solved, Series Over

Official Description: Create the Ocelot Time Paradox
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1697

It is pretty cool they added this Easter egg if you decide to kill Ocelot after Snake KOs him in a cutscene. And yes, this counted as a kill (even though it triggered a mission failed screen) so I needed to reload again.

Trophy 15: Ralph Called

Official Description: Make Snake throw up
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1698

I spun Snake around in the Cure menu for about a minute, and this made him hurl. Ew! Sorry, dude. More proof I’ll do terrible things for trophies.

Trophy 16: Them’s Good Eatin’

Official Description: Collect every type of frog
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1699

Poor froggos. The last one I collected was Frog C who was swimmin’ ’round near some gators.

Trophy 17: Like He Just Doesn’t Care

Official Description: CQC Hold up an enemy
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1700

Holding up is a bit tricky in Metal Gear Solid 3, but I got one guard freaked out enough to cough up his goods.

Trophy 18: Tell Me Where the Bomb Is

Official Description: CQC Interrogate an enemy
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1701

Speak! Where is my trophy for doing this?? Good guard.

Trophy 19: Just Because

Official Description: Blow up a munitions shed with TNT
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1702

Even if there wasn’t a trophy for blowing up a random shed I probably still would’ve. Why not?

Trophy 20: Tall Tale

Official Description: Collect every type of fish
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1703

This trophy was as easy as shooting fish in a river.

Trophy 21: The Early End

Official Description: Kill The End before the boss battle
Type: Silver
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1704

You actually have the opportunity to kill a boss before his boss fight! That’s awesome.

It took a few tries since I also suck at sniping, but I managed to take out The End before a guard wheeled him away.

Trophy 22: The End

Official Description: Defeat The End
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1705

Two trophies for one action! Yay. For some reason, The End exploded after I killed him early and I laughed when a part of his wheelchair randomly hit Snake.

And of course, since this is a zero kill playthrough and I need other trophy stuff from The Real End boss battle, I reloaded and let him leave the area peacefully. Besides, it’s probably a crime against gaming to rob a Metal Gear Solid boss of their overly dramatic and nonsensical story performance!

Trophy 23: Snake Bit

Official Description: Poison a guard
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1706

The title of this trophy implies using a snake, but a poisonous spider works just as well! I snuck up on a poor guy and let the arachnid fly to poison him (after he chased me around for a few seconds).

And yup, that was a kill so needed to reload.

Trophy 24: If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It

Official Description: Defeat The Fear
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1707

The Fear is a spider guy who leaps around the trees and shoots poison darts. Lovely… It wasn’t to hard to drain his stamina with my trusty EZ Gun.

Trophy 25: Believe It or Not

Official Description: Catch a Tsuchinoko (mythical serpent)
Type: Silver
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1708

The area where you fight The Fear is a good spot to catch this elusive snake thing! I set some mousetraps, left the area, and came back several times before I caught it in a trap.

Tsuchinoko needed to stay alive in my inventory until the end of a game to unlock the Infinity face paint for another trophy. That also meant I had to recapture the slithery fella near a waterfall after Snake loses all his stuffs later.

Trophy 26: Just What the Doctor Ordered

Official Description: Collect every type of medicinal plant
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1709

It was hard to find so I needed the Thermal Goggles to see it, but Disinfect was my last medical plant acquired for this.

Trophy 27: Fungus Among Us

Official Description: Collect every type of mushroom
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1710

Sundermount Passage in Act 2 was my 10th generic cave area visit. Nothing exciting to see here.

Trophy 28: You Snooze, You Lose

Official Description: Sneak up on The End and hold him up
Type: Silver
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1711

With the power of reloading, me killing The End early totally didn’t happen.

This was an interesting boss fight, to say the least. It’s a game of patience and trying not to get Snake’s ass sniped by the old guy. I managed to sneak up on him and hold him up 3 times at once to also get the Moss uniform for another trophy. My biggest concern was The End running out of stamina before I got to him.

Trophy 29: A Good Man is Hard to Find

Official Description: Achieve a camouflage index of 100%
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1712

I can barely see Snake in this screenshot! I used the Moss/Woodland camo combo in an area near where I held up The End.

Trophy 30: A Bird in the Hand…

Official Description: Collect every type of bird
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1713

Sorry, birdos! I need shiny trophies.

Trophy 31: Houston, We HAD a Problem

Official Description: Defeat The Fury
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1714

Don’t ask me what this weird pyro-astronaut guy’s deal is because I have no idea. He torched my ass a few times before I was able to drain his stamina for the win! Doing that no kill run thing, as I keep mentioning.

Trophy 32: River of Pain

Official Description: Defeat The Sorrow
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1715

Next crazy boss fight: a dead guy! Snake has some trippy spirit river dreams after getting his eye shot and almost drowning in a real river. Poor guy!

My haunted river was pretty empty since I didn’t kill any guards. Just the ghostly versions of past bosses to walk through until Snake dropped dead and I used a Revival Pill for the win.

Trophy 33: Don’t Touch the Sides

Official Description: Use a knife to remove a bullet
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1716

Got this one during the fist fight with Volgin. Getting hit with a lightning bullet some jerk threw at you must hurt.

Trophy 34: Grounded

Official Description: Defeat Volgin in a fist fight
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1717

This fight was a bit of a pain due to the time limit and the fact I had to stamina deplete him. His shield was so annoying! I managed to get him down in time, eventually. CQC throw and EZ Gun FTW!

Trophy 35: Shagadelic

Official Description: Defeat Shagohod
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1718

Volgin survives the explosion meant to take out the Shagohod by driving it. He chases Snake and Eva (who are on a motorcycle) through the base before the final showdown with him. It took a bit of effort since I had to stamina deplete him yet again while being run over by a nuclear tank a lot.

Volgin gets fried by lightning in a cutscene to end him for good. Epic!

Trophy 36: It Ain’t Easy Being Green

Official Description: Find all 64 Kerotans
Type: Gold
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1719

This was definitely the biggest pain in the ass trophy. Each motorcycle chase area had 1 Kerotan hidden in it you needed to snipe while on the move. If you miss it, there’s no going back and you have to reload. It took many reloads because of my horrible sniping skills. Gr!

The very last Kerotan is on a tree during the final boss battle with… Boss.

Trophy 37: Charmer

Official Description: Collect every type of snake
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1720

The last 3 snake types are crawling around some logs during the final Boss fight. Definitely needed the thermal goggles to see them against all the white flowers.

I also thought it was neat they were called Solidus, Liquid and Solid. Gee, where have I heard those snake names before? 🤔

Trophy 38: The Patriot

Official Description: Defeat The Boss
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1721

Playing hide and seek with The Boss (who of course had to expose her chest before the fight) in the flowers was kind of an anti-climatic end fight, in my opinion.

Trophy 39: Snake Eyes

Official Description: See all of the first-person views that are not indicated by the R1 button icon
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1722

The last secret R1 prompt was Snake (now known as Big Boss) saluting at Boss’ grave. It was all watery giving the indication he was holding back tears. D’aww!

Trophy 40: The Cat’s Out of the Bag

Official Description: Catch a glimpse of Ocelot, who’s seen behind the president when he tries to shake Snake’s hand
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1723

I reloaded before the credits ended because stupid me forgot to do something during a cutscene. I did the secret R1 while shaking the President’s hand, but I forgot to pan over to the window to see young Ocelot. Oops!

Trophy 41: Like a Boss

Official Description: Finish the game on any difficulty
Type: Gold
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1724

Glad I was playing on Very Easy! I can definitely see this game offering oodles of challenge on higher settings.

Trophy 42: PEACE WALKER

Official Description: Finish game without killing anyone
Type: Gold
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1725

No one except the bosses had to die! Side note, Peace Walker is another Metal Gear Solid game on PS3 I need to play. I likely won’t platinum that one when I get to it. There’s ‘S Rank’ mission shizz that will probably drive me crazy.

Trophy 43: King of the Jungle

Official Description: Obtain title of MARKHOR
Type: Gold
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1726

You get this by collecting all the flora and fauna in one playthrough. Everything from squirrels to vampire bats. Fun fact: Markhor is a Persian word that means snake-eater. Shout-out to the thermal goggle for helping a ton!

Trophy 44: Only Skin Deep

Official Description: Find every type of face paint
Type: Silver
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1727

The Infinity face paint for holding on to Tsuchinoko was the last one I needed. It seemed to give me infinite ammo when worn. Cool!

Trophy 45: Fashionista

Official Description: Find every type of camouflage
Type: Silver
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1728

Snake’s snazzy tux looks like it was my last camo unlock! What it lacks in protective ability, it more than makes up for with style. 😎

Trophy 46: Snake Eaten

Official Description: Collect all trophies
Type: Platinum
Earned on: October 24th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1729

Shiny platinum!!