- Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10 (Platinum Difficulty Rating)
- Offline trophies: 31 (12, 14, 4, 1)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 10-20 hours (Estimated Time to Platinum)
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
- Number of missable trophies: 20
- Glitched trophies: 0
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: No
- Do trophies stack?: No
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: N/A
The Dwarves is a simplistic RPG adventure game set in the world of Girdlegard. This is a different world from Tolkien or Dungeons & Dragons. I say simplistic because there really isn't much "level up" customization to be done and the maximum level is only 10. It is single player only.
This game is a good candidate for a future PS Plus monthly free game slot as it only takes around 10-20 hours to complete. You can quickly skip any visual or textual cut scene, even on a first playthrough, and someone who didn't care about any story and went straight for trophies might hit the 10 hour mark providing they play on Easy and hardly ever fail a step. The more realistic range is 16-20 hours. There was only one spot that gave me some trouble, mainly because I wasn't sure what to do at first, and that's the only reason I gave it a difficulty rating of 3.
While there are three difficulty settings (Easy, Medium, and Hard), none of the trophies are affected by the game difficulty so by all means play on Easy if you want. Additionally, if you happen to fail a battle and reach a game over screen there is a Restart option that you can use without any sort of adverse trophy affects.
There is no ability to grind for experience or replay previous areas. As such, there are quite a few missable trophies in this game and thus I strongly recommend that you are liberal with your game saves while you play. All missable trophies will be highlighted in red in the road map.
Before you start, you definitely want to download the latest update patch for the game. So far patch 1.01 has been released and it fixes quite a few performance issues.
Normally I don't provide an exact order for trophies on the road to platinum, but for this game I do strongly recommend that you follow the order below as it definitely looks to be the most efficient use of your time.
Start a new game and as soon as you can control your character, open the Settings menu and change the difficulty to Easy. It does make a notable difference.
Single Playthrough
Play through the game on Easy
Proceed through the main story while grabbing these missable trophies along the way:
Victory and Defeat
Hairy Situation
A warm bed
Making Friends
Lifesaver
Orcslayer
Light into Darkness
Skilled Bargain
Bargain like a Boss
Justice
Ambush
Immediately after the last trophy I recommend focusing on the following trophy as it really can only be earned in 3 locations. This is the first (and easiest) location for this trophy:
Not a scratch
Warning: Make sure that you obtain all missable trophies listed above before you enter into Ogre's Death fortress as that is a point of no return for this map layout.
Ogre's Death fortress
Silvertongue
Wayfarer
This is your second chance (of three) to unlock the Not a scratch trophy if you have not already done so.
Sympathetic
Righteous
A Feast like no other
The greatest Battle - As part of this trophy this is your third and last chance to unlock the Not a scratch trophy if you have not already done so.
Warning: Make sure that you obtain all missable trophies listed above before you unlock East Ironhald as that is a point of no return for this map layout.
East Ironhald
Liberator
What needs to be done
A single Life
Footsore
Warning: Make sure that you obtain all missable trophies listed above before you unlock Legendary Halls as that is a point of no return for the entire game.
Legendary Halls
Keenfire
Old Enemies
Demon
You should have earned these trophies before the end of the game:
As good as it gets
Oink, oink
If you have not unlocked all trophies by this point, unfortunately there is no way you can perform clean-up other than reloading old game saves or starting a new game. There is also no NewGame+.
Once all individual trophies are out of the way, the King of the Dwarves trophy will be yours.
[PST Would Like To Thank scharn73 for this Roadmap]