- Estimated trophy difficulty: 2/10 Personal Estimate (Platinum Difficulty Rating Thread)
- Offline: 45 (30 11 3 , 1 )
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to : 10-15 hours (Estimated Time to Platinum Thread
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 2+
- Number of missable trophies: All Levels can be replayed in Free Play mode, however pay close attention to Techno Prisoners.
- Glitched trophies: None known
- Does difficulty affect trophies? There are no difficulty select options
- Do cheat codes disable trophies? No, Red Bricks can (and should) be used once earned without impacting the trophies
- Special Notes: This game is Vita only and does not share a trophy list with the PS3/PS4 version, it is currently available on both retail card and digitally on the PSN Store. This game has no online or ad-hoc trophies.
- DLC/Season Pass: The DLC and Pass that has been announced for the console versions is not compatible with the Vita version. At present, there has been no DLC announced for this version.
LEGO Batman 3 is the 9th LEGO game to be released on the Vita. This game is again different from previous LEGO Vita games, and is somewhat more similar to the console versions. The levels themselves remain short, divided into 3 linked Levels within 15 distinct Chapters. The recent 10 Challenge format has been replaced with a new 5 Gold Brick system. There are no longer Multi-Challenges, and no time based Challenges. Every Level has a Gold Brick for completion, for reaching a specific Stud total, and for finding and collecting a Joker Card (which also unlocks a Character). The other 2 Bricks are for Combat Challenges, Red Bricks and Joker/Batman/Luthor destructible items.
There are two moderately sized Hubs i.e the Batcave and the Watchtower, these serve as central access points and all Character and Red Brick transactions are performed from the Hubs. There are a number of activities to complete within the Hubs, including Gold Brick Builds and Character Tokens to collect.
It should also be noted that permadeath has been removed. Unlike the last couple of games, dying no longer requires a Level restart. Even falling off a ledge, you will respawn. Overall the Platinum is pretty straightforward, and is worth at least a rental. If you enjoyed the previous Vita LEGO games, you should feel right at home here, and with a few new features and the hub inclusion, some of the previous short comings have been addressed.
Step 0 - Techno Prisoners Preparation
A missable Trophy in a LEGO game?! Not really, but I strongly recommend you familiarize yourself with the requirements for Techno Prisoners . There are a lot of Terminals in this game and while very easy to complete, the game does not track which you have maximized and most can be successfully cleared without an optimal solution. If you complete any without fully filling in the grid, you will miss this Trophy, and may have to replay the entire game, Level by Level, until the Trophy pops.
It has been confirmed that the Hub Terminals do NOT count for this trophy.
Step 1 - Complete the Game
This will be the longest step. Here you will need to complete all the Levels and begin your exploration of the two main Hubs. It's probably best to focus on the basic Gold Brick Challenges for completing the Levels. As with previous LEGO games, do not go out of your way to collect Joker Cards or Red Bricks, as many of them will be 'locked' - while they may be in plain sight, you will often need a specific character action to access the location. I would suggest going slowly through the Levels on this run. Try to kill everyone and destroy everything.
This will probably net you most of the Stud targets, and all of the Combat Challenges. It is likely that you will complete about 50% of the total Challenges during this playthrough, and hopefully have enough Studs to purchase some of the necessary Red Bricks and Characters for your Free Play run. There is a single Trophy for each Chapter in the game, so you should have at least 15 by the end of this step.
Trophies Earned in this Step - 15
To catch a Croc
It wasn't the speech
Zero-G-whiz!
Bouncy futon thingy
An unlikely alliance
Brawn over Brainiac
Eurover Reacting
Arkham, I saw, I conquered
Heart Breaker
Saint Walkers Saviour
Nok, Nok
Butcher Beater
Greedy Guts
Rock, Paper, Sinestro
Ice, Ice, Batman
Step 2 - Free Play Preparation
Once you have completed all of the levels once, I would recommend going back and obtaining the stud multiplier Red Bricks (4x, 6x, 8x and 10x), as well as the Invincibility Brick. These are going to be mandatory for getting 100%, and you will eventually need a lot of studs to be able to buy everything and bank 100,000,000.
Stud Multiplier Red Brick Levels (credit to themindisacity for the descriptions):
- 4x - The Batrocket Hangar - Left of starting point there are breakable blue objects. Build them into a Blue Lantern build spot.
- 6x - Ace Chemicals - In the tub at the top of the stage after you mix the chemicals
- 8x - Ysmault - After raising the ship to cross the lava, blow up the rock and put the skull on the skeleton in the nearby cave
- 10x - Atrocitus Attack - On the far right of the stage. Use Superman to melt the ice surrounding the brick.
You will also need to work towards unlocking the necessary Characters to be able to access everything. Most will be unlocked automatically, but a few will need to be purchased, specifically the other Lanterns. With the Stud multiplier Red Bricks, you should have the necessary funds very quickly.
Necessary Characters:
- Silver objects - Bomb suit Batman (unlocked in story)
- Gold objects - Superman (unlocked in story)
- Treadmill - Flash (unlocked in story)
- Sphere stations - Sphere Suit Robin, Green Lantern (unlocked in story)
- Mind control - Martian Manhunter (unlocked in story), Poison Ivy (Joker Card from The Indigo Power Battery)
- Underwater - Killer Croc (unlocked in story) or Batman Dive Suit (unlocked in Batcave freeplay)
- Ice - Superman (unlocked in story)
- Fire - Arctic Suit Batman (unlocked in story) or Mr Freeze (Joker Card from Wayne Tower)
- Grundy Dig spots - Solomon Grundy (unlocked in story)
- Dirt piles - Alfred (unlocked in story), Larfreeze (unlocked in story but must purchase)
- Green handles - Any big character will work (Mech Suit Lex, Solomon Grundy, Killer Croc)
- Floor grates - Martian Manhunter (unlocked in story), Ambush Bug (Joker Card from Superman in Space), Doctor Fate (Joker Card from Brainiac Battle)
- Lantern plates - There are 5 different coloured plates; Green (Green Lantern, unlocked in story), Orange (Larfleeze, unlocked in story but must purchase), Blue (Saint Walker, unlocked in story but must purchase), Purple (Indigo-1, unlocked in story but must purchase) and Pink (Star Sapphire, unlocked in story but must purchase)
Remember that once collected (unlocked) in Levels, Characters and Red Bricks must be purchased before they can be used. There is a terminal in both the Batcave and the Watchtower where all transactions must be completed.
Step 3 - Complete all Levels to 100%
Your goal here will be to replay all levels and unlock all of the Gold Bricks. Most of these are quite straightforward, but may take a few replays. Make sure you keep your Stud Multiplier and Invincibility Bricks on. Note that you can swap to any unlocked Character by pressing to bring up the Character Wheel. Tap the centre icon to scroll through the menu of all available Characters at any time, even mid-level.
Please refer to themindisacity's Collectables Guide if you are having troubles locating any Red Brick or Joker Card locations.
Trophies Earned in this Step - 11
Card work
Gold 100
Larfleeced Special
No Joke
Lex do this!
Batvandel
Red all over
Caped Crusader
Galactic Attack
Techno Prisoners
Gold Rush
Step 4 - Hub Completion and Clean Up
Your last step to will require you to fully explore both Hubs, collecting any remaining Character Tokens, and a final replay of a few Levels for specific Trophies, if not already earned.
Trophies Earned in this Step - 19
Suitably Impressed
Batbuilding
Microver
Power Rings
Batcaveman
Watchtower Wanderer
Everyone is awesome
Hinteresting
DC-peasy
Counter crazy
Ner-ner na ner-ner
And stay down
Nostalgia Trip
Okaara Run
Metagamer
Aq-where-ium?
Crocaught in the act
You Gotham all
Platinum
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