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Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10 (personal estimate for single player or co-op) (Platinum Difficulty Poll)
- Offline trophies: 24 (7
, 9
, 7
, 1
)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to Platinum: 5hrs (multi-tasking or co-op dependent) (Estimated Time to Platinum)
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 3 or 4 (dependent on co-op)
- Number of missable trophies: All of them to a degree
- Glitched trophies: None
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: No
- Additional peripherals needed: Yes, a second controller for Local Co-Op
The game requires at least one playthrough in local co-op but is easy enough to accomplish alone with a second controller. Playing the game with a friend can be quite rewarding and fun but nothing in 39 Days to Mars is restricted to cooperative play and all trophies can be achieved by a single player with two controllers (for the Co-Op run) or one (for single player).
Walkthrough:
This guide will focus on the quickest way a single player can achieve the platinum but all trophies (save for Nemo



Step 1: Play through your initial single player run in one sitting, failing at every task you can, lose to the boss and crash on Mars
There is a slight learning curve at the onset concerning the controls when playing the game your first time in single player so I suggest allowing yourself to fail at every task you come up against initially and then trying your best to figure out how each task works to progress through the game. This can be done by simply hitting





If you have done all this in one sitting by yourself, you should, at the minimum, receive the following trophies:
Snag

Il Terribile Pescecane

Schiaparelli

Drawing Board

Nemo

Indefatigable

Step 2: Play through the game getting every task completed correctly the first time, defeat the final boss and land on Mars safely
If you are playing with a co-op partner, this task may also be done in co-op to knock out the Aronnax

Complete the map puzzle, the hat chest and the Volatile Heliscopic Password Generator, ignore the hydrant and board the ship. When tasked to make tea or a scone, make sure to make it to the specifications. When completing the randomly ordered eight tasks on the ship, try your best to get everything done correctly and in under the time if that is a factor. When collecting the baby krakens, try to clean up all the ink splatter and droplets before finishing.
Defeat the kraken without getting overtaken completely and try to use the small craft's awkward controls to land safely on Mars without completely crashing. There is room for error on most tasks. Just take your time, when available and work through the game attempting to never fail any of the tasks.
If you manage to accomplish a decent run without any failures, you should receive the following trophies:
Newcastle

Switchboard

Duct Tape

Squid-Ink-B-Gon™

Architeuthis

Sojourner

Plain Sailing

Step 3: Play through the game quiting out or failing every task possible to quickly finish the game in under 30 minutes
This step also works well if you have an adept partner to speedrun the game in under 30 minutes but I found a little practice can mean a 30 minute speedrun is easily obtained by a single player and one controller. The game is set up to automatically activate the next randomly generated task on the ship of you fail the previous task three times in a row (four times for the Gardening and Morse Code tasks) and saves you from needing to make a new cup of tea or scone in between each task. Some tasks can not be failed or quit and the Kraken fight can be a bit of a time suck at the end so don't worry too much if your first attempt doesn't work out. It's just another 30 minutes until you get it in the next run!
When you succeed on completing the game in under thirty minutes, you will receive the following trophies:
Flying Cloud

Cutty Sark

Step 4: Clean-up in Co-Op
After getting Drawing Board









By the time you get all other clean-up completed, you will receive the following trophies:
Aronnax

Morning Tea

Afternoon Tea

[H]

Squid-Ink-B-Gon™


Skeleton Key

Edgeworth-Kuiper

Darwin

Karman Line
