Overview:
- Estimated Platinum Difficulty: 3/10
- Offline Trophies: 30
- Online Trophies: 0
- Approximate Time to Platinum: 20+ hours
- Minimum Number of Playthroughs: 1, plus 2 additional International League tournaments
- Number of Missable Trophies: 0
- Glitched Trophies: 0
- Do Difficulty Trophies Stack?: No
- Does Difficulty Affect Trophies?: Yes
- Do Cheat Codes Disable Trophies?: no known codes
INTRODUCTION
The sport of pétanque can best be understood as a combination of shot put and curling. Players toss boules (metal balls) toward the jack (a small pink ball), trying to get theirs as close as possible (“Pointer” shot) and/or knock their opponent's away (“Tirer” shot). The full rules can be read here, but you'll pick up the basics within the first hour or so of play anyway.
WALKTHROUGH:
Step 1: Create a team.
See My Very Own Team. Make sure you like the team you make, as you'll be looking at it for the next 20-odd hours. Use this team from this point on.
Step 2: Win International League on Hard Difficulty in Career.
Set the difficulty to Hard in the Options menu, then start playing. Don't worry if you fail the Local League once or twice while getting the hang of the controls, as you'll be grinding out games later anyway. You should earn most (if not all) of the score and shot trophies within the first three hours or so just through normal gameplay. Use the shopping points you earn to upgrade your players' attributes (see The Ultimate Team). Once their stats are maxed out, feel free to switch from 13-point games to 5-point games to speed things up.
(Note: since difficulties do not stack, you could theoretically do steps 2-4 in any order. However, the game's AI is not especially tough even on Hard, and you earn twice as many shopping points as you will on Easy, allowing you to switch to 5-point games much earlier.)
Step 3: Win International League on Medium Difficulty in Career.
Now that you've beaten International League once, that's where you'll stay. You will not need to beat the earlier three again. By now, you should have maxed-out players and all the Shop items, so stick to five-point games.
Step 4: Win International League on Easy Difficulty in Career.
From this point on, you will be playing on Easy. You should stomp all over the AI with little trouble by now. Again, stick to 5-point games.
Step 5: Mop-Up and Grind
If you have missed any of the Shot or Point trophies, grab them now. Otherwise, just keep playing 5-point games in Career mode until you reach 100 victories.
[PS3T Would Like to Thank MegaHentai for this Roadmap]