Overview:
- Estimated Platinum Difficulty: 3/10 (Platinum Difficulty Rating)
- Offline: 51 [1 | 3 | 5 | 42 ]
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to : 15-20 (Estimated Time to Platinum)
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 3+
- Number of missable trophies: None, New Game+ with Chapter Select
- Glitched trophies: None
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: Yes, Finish the game on Don difficulty
Introduction:
The Darkness II is an awesome, yet short game. Trophy-wise, the list is very solid and straightforward. Most of it is either single player or Vendettas mode related. Although this is considered an offline platinum title. All Vendettas trophies can be done either alone or cooperatively online. This means you can play Vendettas as a co-op campaign, or take on the Hit List. Keep in mind that certain Hit List is only available online, while others can be played offline. It's completely optional and every trophy in this game can be obtained without ever going online.
Walkthrough:
Step 1: New Game Thug Difficulty
Although, there's a trophy for completing the game on Don Difficulty, there's no need to play it from the start; you will need to play this game twice anyways. Begin a New Game on Thug difficulty instead. You'll receive more Essence towards upgrading all of Jackie's Darkness Powers, which will make your New Game+ Don difficulty playthrough even easier. Not to mention that this game is very, very short. It'll take you about an average of about 5-7 hours to beat the story. Just simply enjoy the story and play the game as you normally would. You'll unlock every story related trophy as you progress. There's really no need to worry about grinding out the kill or combat related trophies. Almost all of them will unlock naturally for you without even trying for them. As you play through the game you'll unlock more Darkness Powers, which will help you clean up the remaining combat related trophies you didn't unlock the 1st time through.
There are a small few trophies that you should be aware of though. These aren't considered missable, as anything you do happen to miss can be clean up in New Game+ after you completed the game on any difficulty. They are "One Man Army", "The Bird is the Word", "That's Why I'm the Boss", "Romantic", and "Carnie Kid".
The last thing you should keep in mind is the Relics. There is a total of 29 relics and they are collectible "Darkness" items scattered across the chapters. I suggest using our Relic Locations Guide to help you collect them all. Also, if you have the Limited Edition of the game, you’ll have access to a free DLC code. This special DLC will grant you access to a new Darkness Power on Jackie's Talent Tree called, Relic Hunter. Relic Hunter helps you locate Relics much easier if you're close to their locations, provided you have access to "The Darkness". Keep in mind though that some levels, you won't have access to the "The Darkness", so this ability won't work. Still, you can see how many Relics are on a certain level by pressing the button. The DLC will also grant you an extra 20% more Essence for every heart you eat.
Step 2: New Game+ Don Difficulty and Clean Up
After you've beaten the game for the first time, you'll unlock New Game+ which allows you to start any chapter while retaining all the Relics, Talents, and Essence from your last playthrough. However, your current save game will be deleted. This step will be both your New Game+ Don difficulty and clean up playthrough. You should be very familiar with the game now and should know what to expect. Of course, it may be boring going through the same story again, but you can skip the boring dialogue as well as some of the cut-scenes by simply pressing the button. This can speed things up for you.
Keep in mind to finish anything that you still haven't unlock or missed. Collect any Relics that you missed and complete all combat related trophies during this playthrough. Lastly, Jackie will have all his Darkness powers in the Talent Tress fully max out by the end of the game. At the end of this step, you'll have all campaign related trophies. For tips on completing Don Difficulty, please refer to its trophy description.
Step 3: Vendettas Thug Difficulty
This is the 3rd phase towards your platinum, so at the main menu screen go into "Vendettas". Vendettas are basically side missions of the main story, but with its own plot. You can play Vendettas alone or cooperatively online as one of four characters:
- Inugami
- Shoshanna
- Jimmy Wilson
- JP Dumond
Each character has their own specialized Darkness weapon and tactics. It doesn't matter which character you select to complete the Vendetta Campaign. After you've made a decision on the character you'll be playing as. Be sure to change the difficulty setting to Thug by pressing the button. You'll unlock most of the Vendetta trophies just by playing through the Vendetta Campaign. Keep in mind to attempt to fully upgrade the character that you're using. You might not fully acquire all the Talents for that one character the first time through, but you'll purchase most of their Talents naturally.
Step 4: Vendettas - Hit List Thug Difficulty
This is the final step towards your platinum. As mentioned above in Step 3, Vendettas are side missions from the main story with its own plot. They can be played alone or cooperatively online as one of four characters. However, there are certain Hit Lists that are only available online, while the others are offline. This time you'll want to go into "Vendettas" at the main menu screen and select "Hit List", which are standalone missions. While playing, be sure to use the other three characters that you haven't used yet and to finish acquiring all the talents for the one character that you first used.
Below is a complete list of the Hit Lists Missions you need to complete:
- Enter The Gauntlet
- All Clear
- Time To Take Out The Thrash
- We Interrupt this Program
- Storming
- Snatch And grab
Completing "Enter the Gauntlet" and "We Interrupt This Program" Hit List exclusive missions will reward you with their individual boss related trophy. Once you've finished your 6th and final Hit List mission you'll unlock the "You've Made My Hit List" trophy, which should be your last trophy for your platinum if you've been following our guide.
Acknowledgements:
Powerpyx - Trophy Videos
Wozamil - Trophy Videos
[PST Would Like To Thank Blaze Naruto Shippuden and BreadSkin for this Roadmap]