- Estimated trophy difficulty: 2/10
- Offline trophies: 48 (34, 11, 2, 1)
- Online trophies: None
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 10 - 20hrs
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 2 (one for Good Karma & one for Bad Karma)
- Number of missable trophies: 13 (technically all 12 Story trophies, depending on what karma you go with & Unstoppable if you change the difficulty during your Expert playthrough)
- Glitched trophies: None
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: Yes, you have to beat the game on "Expert"
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats.
inFAMOUS Second Son is a PS4 exclusive game in which you play as Delsin Rowe, a young man who gained super powers during an accident. Over the course of the story you will discover 4 different powers. Don't worry if you missed the previous inFAMOUS games. This is not a direct sequel and therefore you will be able to follow the story without a problem, even if you have never heard of inFAMOUS before. This does not tie in at all with the previous games, except for the fact it is the same universe.
The game is super user-friendly and marks all collectibles, side missions and other events on your map. Most things are fairly self-explanatory and you won't need many tips to earn this platinum trophy. There are no missable trophies, except for the karma specific mission trophies. As you will be doing a good and an evil playthrough anyway, chances are you won't miss these, but they are technically missable if you choose the wrong mission. Just remember, blue is good and red is evil. All in all, it's a very quick and very enjoyable game for a platinum trophy.
Step 1 - Play Through the Story on Easy Difficulty
In the beginning you should only focus on the story to unlock new powers and abilities. It does not matter whether you do your good or bad Karma run first. There is no big advantage to either side. Just enjoy the game and do what you like. You can change the difficulty in the Options Menu. To access this menu, pause the game and press . The game defaults to normal difficulty, you can change it to easy if you like to make things go quicker. There isn't that much difference between easy and normal though. The main thing you want to focus on is that you stick to your Karma, so that you can reach its fifth level to unlock the respective trophy. In other words: only do good or bad things. You will want to either do all the good main missions (blue icons when you have a choice), or all the evil main missions (red icons when you have a choice). You should also treat enemies and civilians according to your karma.
If this is your good playthrough, make sure you don't kill any civilians and restrain enemies instead of killing them (Press when given the chance, cannot be done to all enemies). Also, when using the neon power, make sure you shoot them in the leg and not the head. Shooting them in the leg gives you good karma, the head bad karma.
If you choose to do your evil playthrough now, then just do the exact opposite as listed above. Kill civilians, do the evil side missions, make evil choices when given the chance etc. Also during this step, you want to make sure to get 10 kills with the ammo boxes. This trophy is a pain to get post game, so to make your life a lot easier you should try and get the 10 whenever you have chances to shoot ammo boxes. At the end of this step, you will have earned the following, or maybe more trophies:
Sacrifice or Ruthless
Temperance or Malice
Courage or Contempt
Mercy or Revenge
Justice or Dominance
Reconciliation or Rebellion
True Hero or Infamous
Step 2 - 100% Completion and Misc Trophies
InFAMOUS Second Son is a very player friendly game and marks all of the collectibles, events and side missions on the world map for you. Simply put a marker on your map to locate whatever you need. When you scroll over a district on the map, you can also see an overview of how many things are left. You should always start by taking out the D.U.P. mobile command and interference towers. This will reveal all collectibles and side missions in an area and also clear out a lot of the enemies that would otherwise get in your way. Clearing up every district will give you 100% completion, which is needed for a fair few of the trophies. You will also want to clear up any other trophy you may have missed, such as the combat ones, or the other miscellaneous ones. You may also need to reach level 5 in your specific karma choice, if you didn't get that in step 1. At the end of this step you should have the following trophies:
Everybody Out
Spin-off
Everyone's a Critic
Just Say No
Freedom of Speech
What Did You Call Me?
Someone Your Own Size
Walk It Off
Kicking and Screaming
Bweep! Bweep! Bweep!
Shardcore
Nothing To See Here
Blinded
Inside Track
Blown Cover
Big Brother
Coloring Inside the Lines
Prank Call
Hello Operator
Final Showdown
One Down
Home Field Advantage
Clean Sweep
Total CARnage
Drop Everything
Keep It Up
Put That Anywhere
Hat Trick
Double Smoke Stack Attack
Cough Drop
Make Fetch Proud
Excessive Force
Step 3 - Expert Mode on Opposite Karma
WARNING: BEFORE STARTING A NEW GAME, MAKE SURE THE DIFFICULTY IS SET TO EXPERT ON THE OPTIONS MENU. ONCE IT IS, YOU ARE FREE TO START A NEW GAME. IF YOU FORGET TO DO THIS, THEN ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS CHANGE IT AS SOON AS YOU GAIN CONTROL OF DELSIN.
Again, simply play through the story. You do not need to bother with the side stuff, only do the side missions to get your karma up/down for the level 5 trophy you don't already have. The only difference this time is that you always have to choose the Karma option that you didn't choose on your first playthrough. So if you did a good playthrough in step 1, make sure to do an evil playthrough in this step by picking all the red choices/missions. Expert difficulty is not hard at all. Just keep your distance to enemies, upgrade your powers with blast shards and quickly run away when you are badly wounded. For more tips on expert mode, refer to the trophy guide. At the end of this step you should have the following trophies, and your platinum. Congrats!
Sacrifice or Ruthless
Temperance or Malice
Courage or Contempt
Mercy or Revenge
Justice or Dominance
Reconciliation or Rebellion
True Hero or Infamous
Unstoppable
Enjoy Your Powers
[PST Would Like to Thank PowerPyx for this Roadmap]