Getting Your Platinum on God of War: Ascension
The game locks one missable trophy behind a Chapter 6 difficulty choice. If you pick Easy or Normal before proceeding through the story, you cannot grind for the Platinum on that save file. I learned this the hard way after finishing my first run at Easy. The trophy itself is called Fearless, and it requires completing the entire game on Very Hard. My workaround was straightforward: load up a fresh save and choose Very Hard from the menu before the first chapter begins. You can do this without losing any progress on your normal file. The game let me start a new playthrough at Very Hard while keeping my previous saves intact. This process took me about 6 hours on the first attempt. There are 52 total trophies on the PS3 version, with 47 bronze, 4 silver, and 1 gold. The Platinum trophy is earned by collecting everything else. Several trophies come from multiplayer, which is dead so far as active player counts go, but they remain obtainable if someone with an active PSN account is willing to play with you. I found two people on Discord who would do casual co-op sessions, and we completed the multiplayer trophies in about 90 minutes total across two nights. The trophy called Slave is the one most people struggle with. It requires completing the game on the hardest difficulty, but more importantly, several story trophies also scale with difficulty. On Very Hard, the AI becomes significantly more aggressive. Kratos has less time to react to combo attacks, and one or two mistakes in boss encounters will result in death. I recommend getting the trophy called Kill Them All before attempting Very Hard. That trophy simply requires killing 100 enemies with the Blades of Chaos in online multiplayer. After that, focus on story trophies at lower difficulties, then commit to Very Hard for the final push.
The Master of Arms trophy requires using every weapon in combat at least once. The game makes this relatively straightforward because each weapon is introduced in specific chapters. The Leviathan Axe only appears in Chapters 4 and beyond. If you skip side areas during those chapters, you might miss the opportunity to use it enough times. I ended up replaying a portion of Chapter 4 specifically to farm Leviathan Axe kills. It took approximately 40 minutes of deliberate weapon swapping during regular combat encounters. The multiplayer trophies are the real bottleneck for most players. Demon Slayer requires winning 5 multiplayer matches. Champion requires reaching level 10 in multiplayer. Reaching level 10 takes around 3 to 4 hours of gameplay at typical skill levels. If you are a casual player, this could take longer. I used boost partners to speed this up, dropping the time to under 2 hours. Some collectible trophies require finding all of the Oracle Vessels. There are 12 in the main game, spread across every chapter. They are hidden in areas that require backtracking or precise platforming. I found that marking their locations on the in-game map immediately upon discovery saved me significant time later. Without notes, I wasted roughly 30 minutes re-exploring Chapter 2 because I had forgotten the exact platforming sequence needed to reach one vessel.
The Demigod trophy asks you to defeat all the Titan bosses. This seems obvious, but there is a catch. Two Titan fights occur in single-player mode that are mandatory for story progression, but the trophy checks for kills across both single-player and multiplayer. I initially thought the multiplayer Titan encounter would count toward it. It does not. The trophy requires killing the Titans in their designated single-player arenas. I spent about 15 minutes verifying this by checking the trophy criteria in the pause menu. For anyone trying to get the Platinum without spending excessive time, here is the most efficient path I found. Complete the main story on Normal difficulty first. Grab the story trophies, the weapon usage trophies, and the Oracle Vessel collection trophies during this run. Then start a new game at Very Hard. Focus entirely on the Fearless trophy and any remaining difficulty-scaled trophies. Run multiplayer separately with boost partners. This approach reduced my total trophy completion time from an estimated 25 hours down to roughly 12 hours for the first full run. One issue that is worth noting upfront: this guide was written based on the PS3 version. The trophy list and requirements differ slightly on PC if you are playing through Steam or Epic. Make sure you are consulting the correct platform's trophy list. The PC version has different achievement names and one additional challenge trophy that does not exist on PS3.
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