Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 4 (Average Score) found HERE
- Offline trophies: 19 (17, 2)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 11 - 15 Hours (Average Score) found HERE
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
- Number of missable trophies: 2 (Perfect Dry Run & Running With Water)
- Glitched trophies: 0
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: N/A
- Do trophies stack?: N/A
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: N/A however infinite Protoplasm can be obtained (see roadmap)
INTRODUCTION
Outside of those two, every other trophy is unmissable as you can revisit all the areas needed for those trophies. So as long as you obtain the two easily missable trophies, you can play the game at your own pace and clear up later.
Vessel is a 2D physic platformer/puzzle game created by Strange Loop Games and is centered around the manipulation of various fluids. It was originally released on 1st March 2012 for Windows and has been ported to Linux and recently the PS3.
Gameplay is 80% puzzles and 20% platforming in my opinion. The game gradually introduces you to new liquids and seeds via journal entries that make up a story.
The liquids, when combined with seeds (seeds are the equivalent of computer programs) form Fluros, which perform the tasks the seeds dictate. There are 6 fluids and 5 seeds to get to grips with.
The puzzles in the game start off very easy and get quite complex towards the end of the game, but they are all very logical in the way they are set up.
Overall I'd highly recommend this to fans of puzzle games.
Step 1:
Play through the game completing all possible puzzles, picking up all Protoplasms and making sure to obtain the 2 missable trophies. The missable trophies are at the beginning of the game, from the point where you are locked out of the workshop to the point where you return to it. It is recommended to obtain Water Recycling as early as possible as it becomes much more awkward to do later in the game.
Step 2:
Clearing up any machines not fixed, Protoplasms missed or trophies not obtained can easily be obtained now. Even if you complete the game, your last checkpoint will be before the final puzzle. When you enter the 3 area's (Factory, Orchard, Mines) you can skip to any puzzle you have encountered in the past and redo them over again (or press start and reset the puzzle)
Of special note is the ability to shoot infinite Protoplasm, even if you don't have any, meaning you can buy all of the upgrades straight away (They have no effect on the game as such, just give you spraying options and larger tank capacities) To do so, select your bottom tank using from there start shooting the liquid and then press and hold the squirter will switch to a never ending supply or Protoplasm.
[PST would like to thank Dark_Overlord for this roadmap]