Overview
Estimated trophy difficulty: 7.0/10
Offline: 14 (1 , 1 , 13 )
Online: 1(1 )
Downloadable Content: 6 (2 , 4 )
Approximate amount of time to 100%: 20+ hours
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Number of missable trophies: 0
Glitched trophies: None
Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats
Remember Marble Madness? Mercury Hg is very much like that, but instead of controlling a marble, you are a blob of mercury. You have to guide your blob through 60 levels (120 if you have the DLC), 20 bonus levels, and 10 challenges in order to earn all of the trophies. As you can expect, the levels range in difficulty from simple to difficult. However, the only difficult part that you’ll find in this game are the challenges. Everything else should be relatively painless once you learn how to play. Coincidentally, that is where I recommend that you begin.
Tutorials – Chemistry 101
With any game, but most especially PSN games, the first place you want to start is with the tutorials. There are nine total and they will teach you various aspects of the game that you will encounter over the levels. They won’t show everything because who wants to ruin the surprise, but by the end of them, you should be comfortable enough with the mechanics to tackle the rest of the game. Also at the end of the tutorials, you will receive Revealium for completing all nine. If you want to switch on your own soundtrack and SIXAXIS controls for two more quick trophies (Musicium and Sixaxium) they will unlock in the tutorials. Once you’re finished here, it’s time to move on to the bulk of the game, Discovery Mode.
Trophies Earned:
Revealium
Musicium
Sixaxium
Discovery Mode – The Periodic Table
Those of you that are familiar with chemistry will recognize the in game map instantly. Those of you that are not, meet the Periodic Table of the Elements. Fortunately, you won’t have to know much more than element names since they are also level names. Since not everyone knows chemistry super well, there is a copy of the Periodic Table at the end of the road map. Most of the info you don’t need to worry about, just the names and numbers of the elements.
With 60 levels (120 if you have the DLC), the question is where to begin. The game is designed with progression in mind. There are five groups that you will have unlock. To unlock them, you have to reach targets in the levels. Each level has four targets (atoms), and yes, for Awesomium, you will have to reach all four targets in each level. That’s something for a couple of paragraphs from now though. There are five groups in all. You will need 100 atoms (at least 25 levels fully complete) to unlock all of the groups. Once all groups are unlocked, you are free to jump around wherever you want.
Start with Hydrogen and complete it getting all four atoms to get Targeteium. Once you’re done with the level, download a ghost and play it again for Spookium. After that, it’s just a matter of completing enough levels to unlock second, third, fourth, and fifth groups for Bielementium, Trielementium, Quadelementium, and Pentelementium. You’ll need 100 atoms in all and the DLC levels do count towards that total.
Once you have all of the levels unlocked, you can jump around and complete the levels to unlock all of the bonus levels and the challenges to get Bonusium and Unlockium. The lists of levels you’ll need to complete are in their respective trophy descriptions. For the bonus levels, you will need to at least collect each of the bonus pickups in the levels. Since those are one of the targets though and if you’re going for Awesomium, you’ll need them anyway.
After everything is unlocked, finish off the remaining levels to get Awesomium. You will need all 240 atoms from the 60 original levels (DLC levels will not count towards this). Again, each level has four targets, one for completing the level, one for having 100% of the mercury blob at the end, one for getting all of the bonus pickups, and one for completing the level under a certain amount of time. The good news is that you don’t have to do all four in one attempt. You can do four attempts if you like and focus on one target at a time, if you like. The most efficient way that I found was to get the time out of the way first, and then go back for 100% and the bonus pickups. By the time you have all of the atoms, you will also have Discoverium.
Trophies Earned:
Targetenium
Spookium
Bielementium
Trielementium
Quadelementium
Pentelementium
Bonusium
Unlockium
Awesomium
Discoverium
Bonus Levels – Anti-Mercury
You can do this at any time after you start unlocking all of the bonus levels. I saved it until after Discovery Mode though. The bonus levels are simple as they are the same levels that you have already done, but instead of completing four targets to complete a level, you have to collect vials of mercury to become a full blob again. Lucky for you, there is no time limit in this mode, so you take your sweet time and make sure not to make any mistakes. If you lose even a little bit of mercury, you will lose the level. Take it slow and easy, and you’ll get Bolevium in no time.
Trophy Earned:
Bolevium
Challenge Mode – Can’t Spell Challenge Without “Hell”
Here is the only difficult trophy that you’ll find in the game. What makes it difficult is that each challenge is a series of levels in which you have to complete very specific requirements. Not only do you have to complete specific requirements, but each level also has two or three stages (difficulties) to them. The stages get progressively more difficult and the requirements get that much tougher. The best thing to say is practice and keep trying. You will get Challengium eventually. Remember, these are the same levels that you finished to unlock the challenges. They just have more requirements to them than the targets.
Trophy Earned:
Challengium
Clean Up
You should have all of the base trophies by now, but if you don’t, head back to Discovery Mode and finish up that you’ve missed.
Enjoy the game. It’s one of more unique puzzle games you’ll find on PSN.
DLC Note: The DLC trophies can be done at any time after you purchase them from the PSN Store. Completing the DLC levels do contribute to the total number of atoms needed to unlock the base groups.
Controls (I would recommend switching to control scheme B as the zoom function is mapped to and .):
Move level:
Rotate camera:
Attract mercury:
[PST Would Like to Thank olsen77 for this Roadmap]