Overview:
- Estimated Difficulty: 10/10
- Approximate time to platinum: +100 hours
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Trophy Breakdown: 44 (30
10
3
1
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- Offline: 21 (including platinum)
- Online: 23 *See introduction notes*
- Minimum number of playthroughs required: *See introduction notes*
- Does Difficulty Affect Trophies: YES: A view from above (must be completed on Hard difficulty)
- Glitched Trophies: None
Introduction:
Time Crisis Razing Storm is a port and extension of the arcade shooter of the same name. Whilst the arcade shooter has remained intact from its port to the PS3, also included is a Story Mode which takes place before and after the main arcade game, and a sentry mode which sees you take on the role of a prison guard during a riot.
Trophy wise this is going to be a very long and very exhausting process if you want to undertake the platinum. This trophy list seems daunting at first, but you may find that it’s actually more a question as to when you will unlock the trophies as opposed to if you will unlock them.
Whilst there are 23 trophies which are online, 18 of them are strictly multiplayer related, the other 5 require you to be connected to PSN and as a result the online scoreboards for the game; the problem is that if the scoreboards are ever taken down, or the online service for this game is suspended these 5 trophies cannot be gained even though you never encounter a second player when getting them and you can play the same game mode in single player.
When it comes to difficulty and the number of playthroughs needed, you will need to do multiple playthroughs of every game mode just to actually practice the game and become proficient in being able to actually do it. However many playthroughs you need to do before you get to a stage where you can realistically get your chosen trophy is down to a combination of luck and skill. Practice and patience is key for most of the single player trophies.
You cannot simply pick this game up, do one playthrough and expect trophies to pop up, it doesn’t work that way, you have to truly earn these trophies, you’ll need to do multiple playthroughs just practicing each stage before you even attempt it.
The exception to this is story mode; you can unlock all story mode trophies in one playthrough. However, if you pay close attention to the trophy descriptions, you’ll find that they link with each other, in order to score high, you have no choice but to get lots of headshots and go for ‘perfects’ on each stage.
Before you begin: Razing Storm's online mode is NOT popular, it is also split up into ranked and unranked. Due to this it is very hard to find a game online, it is therefore advisable that you beat the online mode and trophies that require a connection to the online severs as soon as possible.
Also, unless otherwise stated, this guide/map was written assuming you are using both the Playstation Move controller and the Navigation controller.
This road map is written in mind for someone who is attempting the platinum and taking into account the unpopular online mode.
Step 1: Play the story mode, up until the second stage. Attempt to get all the dog tags in the first stage, but do not worry about any other trophies.
Consider this your tutorial for online. The control scheme for the online mode is unlike anything you have likely done before, attempting to play online without first practicing the story mode is asking for trouble, once you beat the first stage you should have the skills to move around online and be in with a chance of actually getting kills and making progress with the online mode.
Step 2: Complete the online mode in full. As mentioned before, the online mode is not popular and it takes a long time. The sooner you get this completed the better.
Utilise the boosting thread, but also add people you meet in the game and say in the add that you would like to play future games with them, chances are the people playing the online mode are also after trophies it’s worth sending them a message just to find out. Once you have a group of regulars together, you can usually request to play specific games which are not popular online.
As for getting trophies, most of these will come in time as you level up. If you’re going for Battle Hardened you’ll definitely unlock all the skill related trophies, the level related trophies and if you’ve not already done so, you should be well on your way to getting 765 and Grim Reaper
Online Battle Mode is slow and boring, try to make it as fun for yourself as you can, having a mic will help with this, just for talking to your friends online and coming up with game ideas to play. For example, playing a Team Deathmatch? Try to get everyone picking Balero Cannons only, or the remote control missile only, everyone takes positions and you just use the missiles to try and kill people. Even if it’s just one odd fun game a night, just something to break up the long haul that is the online.
On average it will take you over 100 hours just to get enough EXP for Battle Hardened Boosting this trophy by using the advice in the boosting tutorial thread can cut this down to just over 70 hours.
If you have unlocked Battle Hardened, 765 and Grim Reaper but still need your 10 kill streak or 2 kills with one grenade, boost it.
Also... if it needs to be said, make sure you are playing RANKING MODE.
IMPORTANT NOTE!: DO NOT DELETE YOUR SAVE FILE! Whilst the leader boards display your rank and EXP, the data is held on your local save file, if you delete your save file and then attempt to play online again, the game will NOT download your stats/data, it will remain on the leader boards until you work your way back to that point and exceed it. Deleting your save file means you lose ALL your online progress, meaning you have no choice but to start again from scratch.
Step 3: Beat Arcade mode and all its trophies. Arcade mode is the last mode which demands some kind of online connectivity.
To tackle this, simply pick ranking mode, and attempt to beat it. So long as you beat the ‘emergency mission’ and go on to complete the game you’ll unlock Arcade Master. After this, you’re going to be replaying Arcade Mode a lot of times; this is just to practice the game so you get to the stage where you can make a serious attempt to beat your target trophies.
I would advise that you attempt to get No Rest for the Wicked before the others. This will get you in the mindset for building up high combos/continuous hits which are required for standing a chance at beating the other trophies.
Whenever you attempt a trophy, dedicate your playthrough to getting that one trophy. NEVER change your mind halfway through a playthrough, e.g. you go for Unstoppable, fail it and then think ‘I’ll go for Rack ‘em Up now!’ Don’t. Stop the game and re-start. You will find when going for these trophies, you need to aim to do them all at the same time. Getting Speedster almost demands that you never die/get hit, which also links with the requirements for Unstoppable and a combination of the requirements for those two are needed just to stand a chance at Rack ‘em Up.
It’s not quick, it’s not easy and it is going to frustrate you. Don’t forget you can pick missions to practice on. It’s advisable that you spend time practicing the sniping mission as it’s impossible to get Rack ‘em up’ and Speedster if you fail the sniping section.
And for all online trophies, the emergency mission MUST be completed. See this post for a list of all Arcade Mode Dog Tags.
Step 4: Return to Story mode. Now that you have beaten the online battle mode and arcade mode, you don’t need to worry about being connected online.
If you want to, you can put the difficulty on hard and beat it in one playthrough, there is very little difference in the difficulty between normal and hard, however, you may find getting Elevator Boy much harder than had you done it on normal difficulty. Story Mode is quite a simple if not long process, there are only one or two segments which might present you with a problem, otherwise it’s a very simple experience.
For the Dog Tags, please use the information in the guide in order to find them.
The one trophy which may cause you problems is White Noise. There is no guide for this, the radios/TVs are found on the first two stages, you can walk up to every TV/Radio playing the speech, nothing is hidden out of sight. You will hear the speech before you see the device that's playing it. Once you hear it, it’s best to search every area in the first stage as there are a lot. For the second stage you can relax a little more, the only time you have to go out of your way to search is after you escape the sewers in the prison stage. There are no TV’s in the sewer section of the prison, so you can just head for the exit on this part.
Once you destroy a radio/TV, it will never return to the stage, even if you restart it on a different difficulty level, the only time the radio/TV’s return is if you delete your save file/game data.
Also, something you should be aware of, the Balero Cannon in story mode is one of the best weapons in the game, do not be put off by its performance in the online mode if you were not that great with it. In the story mode, it’s one of the best weapons you can find.
Step 5: Sentry Mode. This by far is the hardest section of the game. If there is any part which will stop you from getting platinum, this is it.
To take this on, you need to approach it similar to how you did with the Arcade Mode, practice entire playthroughs on each individual stage until you learn how the enemies behave and can almost get a headshot on every enemy in the game. This will come naturally over time, your muscle memory will know where to aim the controller without you even realising that you’re doing it. You just have to practice and practice a lot.
Rookie, Veteran and Head Guard trophies can be done by selecting the individual stages and just playing them, however all other sentry mode trophies must be gained by selecting ‘all stages mode.’ As with the arcade mode, once you are competent in every stage, and by competent we’re talking about having unlocked all the ‘guard’ trophies and able to get over, close or just under the trophy requirements for those trophies whenever you select that stage.
Only then should you attempt ‘all stage mode.’ As before, decide on what trophy you intend to get, then go for it, never change your mind mid run. For the harder trophies in this mode such as Consistency Counts you will need to more or less combine what you were doing for Eagle Eye & Perfect Guard.