I got my platinum today. I am felling super accomplished. Some of those mini games and combat challenges were no joke. It was a 10/10 amazing game and I have no regrets about spending 162 hours to get the platinum. It is my most rare platinum to date.

I think this is actually perfect for games: An easy challenge for the normal game, and a heavy challenge for platinum

Finished 86/88 of Johhny's treasures, beat all the Chadley's combat trials, and 4 chapters on hard mode. Already did Rufus on hard mode (so I could finish the Shinra Middle Manager quest and get all the manuscripts before doing all of hard mode). I've honestly loved every bit of it. Some of the mini-games or bosses can be infuriating or ridiculous, but it's manageable. It's easily my game of the year and is in my top 5 games of all time. But I understand it can be overwhelming for some, and there's SO MANY minigames. Really enjoying just blitzing the story on hard mode.

My personal opinion don't changed, game of the year, but i have to admit, the platinum is the FUCKING HELL. VR ones was the most brutal shit i ever did in my life. The minigames you can do with some pratice, but the VR............jesus christ.

Hope you enjoy the video champs. A super long video that I struggled to put together without it being like 3 hours long haha.

Nice job man! Currently working on my platinum run. After platinuming games for a while I started to separate my feelings from a platinum run versus the base game, because afterall a platinum is entirely optional. When I finish the standard game ill review my thoughts, feelings and overall rating for the game. After that I try not to let any frustrations from the platinum objectives detract from how i feel of what the game required from me as mandatory. Not saying that its not valid that your feelings for the game overall changed after completing the platinum, but just for me personally I've realized most platinums will always have some optional bullshit that will inevitably sour the experience in some way if ya know what I mean haha. Anyway, really enjoying this game so far, definitely not looking forward to that boss rush though.

I platinumed the game twice…I had accidentally overwritten my old save that I platinumed, so I did it again and this time, I completed the play log

IMO the road to platinum on any games should feel fun and accomplished, and takes around 60 hours, with 80 hours as stretch, but not this one, FF7 Rebirth platinum is frustrating, annoying and borderline stupid, having to replay all those silly mini games over and over again, not to mention the utterly difficult VR challenges for regular player, which is why you see such a low percentage of players achieving Plat, for the record, it took me nearly 200 hours to do it. Oh have i mentioned the unskippable minute long mid fight cutscenes? god those make me pull my hair literally when you're retrying a tough fight and watching the cutscenes for the Gazillionth times.

I can't wait to play this. Great video, like always

420 hours in and I'm still not done. An entire block of neighbors can hear each Brutal and Legendary challenge beaten... This game is the worst in so many ways after you finish it.

watching you frustrated I laughed so hard. it doesnt mean i laugh at you but i know how it becomes painful getting those minigames or brutal challenges in hard mode. i have tired so many times but didnt success yet. i wish i will get platunum one day T T. congratulation 🎉🎉🎉

You're a much more patient man then me. Congratulations on getting it. I finally gave up trying to get the platinum and deleted the game and moved on. I'm gutted as I loved remake and got it for that but I just don't have hour's to sink into the HORRIBLE VR battles. I'll just keep looking at my platinum on elden ring to help my bruised ego heal 😅

Great vid mate, even plat video is 2 hours, its crazy...

I don't play alot of games these days so platinum is a challenge to get the most out of a game. I did the plat and 100% of the play log in 280 hours. Vr definitely took time and most frustration but i was in no rush with it. Accomplished and value in spades. Nice video on your journey.

Oh my god. I can feel you 100% everytime you said “Oh my Fking hell etc”! Literally yelling the same time as you while I going my platinum too. Finally done

My dude, the persistence is real! First off, congratulations on the plat, you certainly earned that 1. Secondly, I dunno how you manage to get angry and keep going until you succeed, I'd of threw the towel in alot earlier and now I feel like my decision to not go for this platinum is kinda justified 😂

Got it after 171hrs and absolutely loved it. You have to do everything, see every part of the world, and play the fun combat sim that you might break your controller from! But despite on how difficult it was I absolutely love the game and was worth the wait. It’s definitely one of the hardest platinums I’ve earned. Playing through on hard mode, while bullshit at times was still super rewarding

Congrats man, seriously. The requirements are just frustrating. So far only 0.4% players are able to platinum this game

I have one trophy left which is hard mode! I have three chapters left!! It only took me 230 hours 😂 but I was determined!! Proud of myself for getting through it!!

I am impressed! I have put in over 340 hours so far... What I have left is 5 chapters on hard, half the six person team challenges in Musclehead Arena, half of Chadley's brutal challenges and all his legendary. Like you, I am determined! I also wanted to use Shinra's middle manager's head for a bowling ball for having to top all my scores to obtain the ultimate party animal title....

My god i got ptsd watching this! I spent 257 hours to get the plat! Those combat challenges forever changed me. Dont get me wrong i loved the game but im so glad its over, and i agree with you dont go for the plat i almost lost my wife over it!

Congratulations on getting your Plantinum Trophy 🏆I’m currently working on mine .

My ps5 stopped turning on and I'm just into upper junon ;_; i am living vicariously through you right now

I’m so impressed! The momemt I got this game I told myself: You’re never getting the platinum trophy, just enjoy the game. But here I am trying so hard to do Chadleys fights, but I just can’t… And the minigames, no way I’m gonna ace all of them! I’m trying a hard mode run, but I know I get stuck soon, probably Dyne, I struggkrd so much with him on normal. I will be a much happier person if I just stop now, when I can enjoy this game for what it was: an amazing, superfun game! Don’t go for the platinum!

1:27:56 aside using elemental + fire on armor so you don't get DMG or even better, get heal, you can also keep tifa/cloud (and others) in the aid during that attack. And there are other defense spells that can be used as well. It's just having a good (no need to be perfect) build for this fight and/or keeping one in the air.

I had a blast 100%-ing my first save. I considered going for the platinum, but god no, I’m not that much of a masochist.

Having completed the platinum a few days ago, one would think I’d be filled with elation. Unfettered excitement. Joy… I feel absolutely empty inside. Over a hundred hours wasted over the most questionable platinum I have ever attained. A pity too: since any positive things I may have to say about the game are immediately obscured by the wall of mini games abd absurd clearly untested challenges set before any would be completionist

My thing is, before trophies were a thing, was the ability to 100% complete a game part of the standard for how good a game is crafted? Trophies are extra curricular in my opinion and shouldn’t have any bearing on the context of how good a game is. Whether or not you have completionist habits is incumbent on how you chose to play the game, but historically that type of gaming was an optional style

Massive grats man! Impressive plat right here!

Respect. I’m 6 trophies away and the hard mode and brutal and damn pirate shooter will probably do me in.

Just got my platinum. I felt your pain! I saved hard mode for my last trophy. Yeah the final gauntlet on hard mode was so annoying having to watch the cut scenes all over again before retrying a battle.

The problem is with gaming is the double standard so many people want a game with ton of hours of gameplay and open world but moan when theres common open world activities then people moan that the game is hard to plat im sorry but isnt the point that its supposed to feel like an achievement i bet if the mingames were made easier people would be going the games bad because its too easy

Yeahh I used to like trophy hunting. But the minigames on normal mode pissed me off. Ain't NO WAY am I gonna even attempt it

23:39 you might've realized later but choco and muggle had the ability to adquire one power for each power up you had on the game (my deck had ifrit, choco and moogle and Dio for that same reason) so basically you could've put cactilion on the top and give a point to down lane + middle lane (making you have 11 while she had 10) and still taking top lane. Basically that would've made you win all those lanes. My deck was so that once i've put both Dio and Choco and Mug my goal would've been to put as many power up cards on the desk as possible and make my Dio end with something like 22 or 25 points worth, It was busted, and beated most enemies deck first try. Even the last game was a walk on park with that one. Man I love that card game.

Comparing this to other FF games, I think FF16 is my personal benchmark for what I like platinum difficulty to be. Crisis Core remake was too easy, being able to be completed in a single playthrough with minimal post main story effort, and Rebirth went a bit too ham with some of the mini game requirements for me to personally enjoy. 16 being 2 playthroughs, with completing all central content on hardest difficulty, and upgrading all skills was a good balance of more challenge than a standard playthrough, but not frustratingly difficult. I get that platinums are supposed to be a reward for putting in the effort to truly complete a game though, so if people prefer the sort of challenge Rebirth asks for, I can respect that.

Can't stop won't stop is glitched for me just wanting on the update for digital version then I've got plat. Love the video dude

I was trying to do the Platinum, but the Chadley brutal challenges and legendarys are making me go insane. I stopped for now and might try again later this year. its too difficult

It's actually fascinating, and a little heartbreaking watching you lose your joy in the game trying to go for platinum. Since I'm not running a KZfaq channel I think I may just not bother and enjoy the game for what it is

Iv made a commitment to platinum this game, and im deeply regretting it😂 but I can’t start playing anything else till I get it, 145 hours in and im still miles away

I platinumed this game last Sunday, and I also had to spend about the same amount of time. Anyone expecting this to be on the FF7 Remake level would be surprised in a very bad way.

You deserve it man. hella was the journey!!

awesome story! enjoyed the ride!

gj man, this platinum is harder than it should be. I was stuck for days on Rulers, beat it with ATB Yuffie spam strat and now sitting on Zacks one.. it's just not fun and soul crushing. I hope they fire people who was sleeping instead of testing these mini games

Great video and congrats on the Plat! I am currently at 56/61 trophies unlocked. I am at 84/88 for collecting Johnny's collectables. I have to beat all 6 Piano songs (not sure if I can do this. I suck at rhythm games), beat the other 3 rounds of Crutches (really not sure I can do this), break the boxes with Cait Sith in Chapter 11, and complete all of Chadley's Vr simulations. I really would love to earn this Plat. I hope I can do it!

Gg man! couldn’t do this, i think I’ll just stick to 100% each area and mission 😅

Congrats on the platinum! :) I honestly hope that Square Enix will look at the completion rate on the VR challenges and balance things out for part 3, because the difficulty for the 10 round Legendary bouts (Bonds of Friendship and To be a Hero) are way overtuned. Not only do you not get to choose the materia you get on Zack and Sephy, but you are only allowed Cloud as the other character. What made Rulers of the Outer Worlds remotely tolerable was the fact you can pick which ever 3 characters you wanted. Also, the difficulty in the Zack and sephy bouts doesn't lie in the enemies, but in the grouping. Like we have to fight 10 rounds back to back, which is insane. And there's so much RNG involved with the enemies too, like will the Ironclad use Graviga to reduce both member's HP to 1? Does Odin stagger on the very left side of the boss room, making it so that you have no time to move to the right side which is the safe side? etc. Most people will fail at Bahamut or Odin (rounds 9 or 10 respectively), but they have to go through 8 to 9 fights again just so they can go back to the one fight they actually struggle with. Like this is tedious, and not fun. I get that they want it to be challenging, but imo, this is not the way to do it. Imo, they could either put a checkpoint system at round 5/10 for the current instance of the challenge, so that if the player fails at any point after round 5, they can restart from the beginning of round 6, unless they exit to save the game or to change the load out, in which case, they have to restart from round 1 again. OR make the challenges 5 rounds: Titan, Phoenix, Kujata, Alexander, finall Bahamut or Odin. Sounds easier than Rulers, but you have to keep in mind that these are scaled higher than the summons in rulers and you only really have one built characters as opposed to 3 built characters. This would make these two challenges way better and just as challenging without it being so tedious and unfun. Just my opinion though. Took way too long for me, just going through hard mode right now. but these challenges definitely made me enjoy the game less during the time while I was trying to complete them. I really hope they make some changes to these in part 3.

I got mine a few days back. A fair few times i thought i might lack the skill required for certain mini games (such as the sit ups or Sephiroth fighting game thing) but each time i rose to the occasion. My biggest annoyance was not noticing that you'd need to redo every side quest to get the hard mode manuscripts, as the party animal quest is only accessible once you've done the other side quests, which effectively meant i had to do a 3rd play through even though i'd already done normal and hard, i'd not reset my 100% quest data from normal when going into hard meaning i skipped over the hard mode quest manuscripts not associated with the main story. The Outer worlds challenge took me many tries but the Zack and Sephiroth stuff i did first try thankfully. Definitely the hardest platinum i went for. Happy i did it all said and done.

So far hard mode has been the easiest part of the platinum (8 chapters in). It's basically just rig up 2 characters with -aga spells linked with magic focus, mp/hp absorb, etc. that the bosses are weak to and they fall over. I'm very curious to see the temple and end boss. The chadley challenges were next level though. I used to do very high level WoW raiding and it reminded me a lot of that.

The low percentage of platinums is also due to a bug that hinders a lot of people like myself from obtaining the platinum. It occured after the last patch and messed up the very last quest "party animal". But yes, it is a challenging trophy. Congrats!

I just platinumed tonight as well. Game time clocked at 133 hours.

I hit the plat at around 200 hours. Most of that time was dedicated to those Brutal/Legendary simulations-like it’s ironic that they make the story’s HARD MODE seem so easy in comparison. 🫡 Note: I was going a little wild watching versus the 20 Tonberrys. My dude. Where were your safety bits??? 😭

Honestly, FF7 Rebirth is still a contender for GOTY for me. I am now in Chapter 10 on hard mode Need only the hard mode trophy + all SP skills trophy which are linked together. My MOST DIFFICULT platinum game is still Red Dead Redemption 2 to reach 100% completion.. but Rebirth is my number 2 most difficult platinum game... Heck Dark souls 3 , Bloodborne etc where much easier than these 2 games. I did all the chadley challenges first before gotterdammerung, then leveled all materia's to max; did the gotterdammerung and now hard mode with all the quests. since I have done the challenges first, hard mode is pretty easy haha

I'm still working on accomplishing Chadley's Brutal Combat Simulation Challenges with ease (from guides I'm watching online to save myself time and trouble) just for that one last item I need for Johnny's collection before I start even the first chapter on Hard Mode. Trust me; I've been SO frustrated with achieving all these trophies these past near 2 months that I'm taking breaks overtime for my own mental health. And I shutter to imagine how much worse Part 3's platinum is gonna get...

I felt the frustration of the hardest trophy that I just got, Virtually Renowned. The combat sims were fucking brutal. Now that I got that done, only 2 more things I got to go. 1: Going Flawless on Loveless for the 88th Item for the Trove. 2: Beating the Game on Hard mode. 161 Hours in so far. 25% of the time were on the Hard mode sims. Yeah this was brutal.

Congratulations! Hopefully FF7 Part 3 (ReUnion) is a lot easier to Platinum than this. I can be more difficult than Remake but it can’t be like this otherwise it means Square Enix hates us. Seriously though, whoever designed these mini games needs to cool it. The Piano Mini Game especially.

This is very hard, but I still haven't dodged 200 lighting in a row yet nor jump rope 400 times

Took me around 220 hours to get the platinum😓. Loved the game but it suffers from a severe lack of balance on hard mode.

Got it done during spring break, and it messed up my sleep schedule lol. For sure the most annoying part was the 3rd chocobo flight course, the rest of the minigames i think arent that bad. The combat tickled the part of my brain that pushed me to finish all the endgame vr battles. Honestly surprised though since i failed to platinum remake when i first played it

glad to see i wasnt the only one that went through shit like this 1:39:22

Nice work mate!

I feel you on Jenova Lifeclinger, for me its the hardest boss on Hard Mode cause you have to use all of your characters and yeah those cutscene you couldnt skip, i feel ya! But Red Dragon i beat it on first try cause i always use Manawall on everybody, all and all, nice Platinum man!

Congratz on the platinum 🎉 I still have all the hardest things in front of me and not looking forward to them. I don't understand why SE are doing their trophies so hard! I miss the FF XV platinum that one I loved (even with that huge turtle😅). I know people like challenges and some are really good at these stuffs but still...Remake challenges were hard. This is indeed brutal. 😢 But even through all of this. For me this still stays as my Top game. It is not platinum but story and design and gameplay what makes my choices for my favorite games. Platinum is like a cherry on top of it for me.

I’m sure people will get offended by this but Rebirth wasn’t worthy of being GOTY for me. Infinite Wealth is still on its throne for my GOTY.

I just finished GOW Ragnarok platinum finally and was about to start this or Dragons Dogma 2 or Rise of the Ronin… you helped me knock this off the list

Dunno the english name for it, but for 1:28:22 I think using Wall would help alot. Because it increases Physical and Magical Resistances by a huge chunk. I just got the "Götterdämmerung" Accessory, so I will start the hard playthrough soon. Only Legendary challenges are needed and Hard playthrough, but I got Götterdämmerung and therefor can Limit Loop the Bosses. I was fearing the Legendary Challenges after the Brutal ones, thank god you told me they are easier. For me I like that the platinum trophy has a challenge and it is far easier to platin this then elden ring for example. Also I heared you do Chadely before the hard playthrough that's why I got the Brutal Challenges down.

The jewels sit up challenge I did it while a little tipsy😂😂 I didn't realize I had done it till the next day.

lol when i saw him doing the pause cheese to beat the brawling mini game

got mine on saturday and what a feeling, didn't rush it or anything so was close to 200 hours. Really enjoyed this game but now i feel empty and idk what to move onto next XD

I’ll platinum this game later in life. I beat it, did all the mini games and I’m satisfied with it. Don’t want to get to hard, or do Chadley challenges because I know for a fact it will fucking ruin me.

I see you used Naz talgic's aga spell spam strategy for brutal challenges, now those are some really good strats imo, I'm going for the last Brutal Challenge, it's still tough but I think I understand how to block Sephiroth's Shadowy Chain, you need to abuse the slow mo when choosing a skill to get the ideal timing for blocking attacks

This is why I'm waiting i bought it on ps5 but ended up not finishing. Ill wait on pc release so i can use cheat engine. The idea of grinding materia all over again doesnt interest me whatsoever. There was some things that werent fun in pt 1. Not doing them again in part 2

Wowzaaa that was some good movie time🍿GG's on getting such a long video done. No doubt it was helluva job! Soooo many mini games tho, and you props left a good bunch out🤣 a lot of those mini games must be easter eggs to other games. I recognized a handful. The fights looked really awesome, although just a few seconds of watching vs hrs and hrs of getting your ass beat...not the same haha. The graphics and score looked and sounded incredible! What a difference of watching you play your first playthrough, and the insanly hard challenges. Sucks hard that going for the plat ruined your experience with the game. Even though going for the platinum is a choice, it's still part of the game. And should not leave you feel like that at the end. Such a shame. Quick side note, did I see it correctly that you were using the PS earbuds? If so, how are they, are they worth the money? Anyways GG's on getting the plat, especially with such a nasty after taste! And getting such a long vid out, great job👏🏾 definitely hard to find the right balance, you are for sure on the right track, keep it up! Looking forward to your next adventure✌🏾🦖

All I need is basically to finish the Chadley Challenges, once I got those down I will get johnny's collection and platinum

Took me 207 hours to get this Platinum Trophy. Worth every second and besides the cactuar minigames in the desert i enjoyed most of it.

I finally got my plat after the patch

I felt your pain 100%.

I got my platinum in 190 hours but i also went through the effort of assessing every single enemy and grinding every materia i own to max stars. it is not the hardest platinum i done but close to being the most time consuming. i would say FF9 remaster is harder to platinum in terms of minigames, that include the 1000 rope jumps and guessing the right trio 9 times in a row. I did not find the cactor crush that bad like you did but i think that minigame is more of a playstyle thing, some peopple struggle while others breeze trough it. What really had me stuck was that 5th piano piece, 3 hours to beat just that song, the rest of the game was not so hard. The red dragon you had hard time with i beat second try, it felt more like i was bullying the dragon on my successful attempt so its more of understanding game mechanics and playstyle than actual difficulty.

1:32 you’re complaining about not being able to heal on 1 Hp while you’re trying to fill both ATB bars. Where’s chakra bro? Why nurf yourself then rage at the developers. I’m guessing you were trying to do it with prayer.

Nice job, glad it was a long form video. I got this plat last week, and man it was fucking tough. The game really exhausts you at every turn, and some of the fights really didn't seem balanced. Regardless, I'm happy I got it, and I'm glad the community is finding more efficient ways of taking on the BS bosses, throwing it back in squares face lol

Bro Optinoob carried me in the legendary and brutals

and yeah final sephiroth having an insta AFTER a fucking stagger check is just bs too. didnt even know it can break through fuckin g limit break too

ha h ah ah haa, I have always loved FF games because there is always the easy/normal way to get your endings and have fun.... AND THEN... You want everything and to become a God? Yeah it is an actual challenge. I remember doing 200 lightning strikes for hours and a certain chocobo race on FFX that took FOREVER!

The plat isn't hard, it's tedious and impossible because the patch glitched the last mini game, now we gotta wait

LoL Red dragon battle barrier materia was key lol

I felt that when you were doing 3D Brawler. That is the worst mini game by far. I want to see the devs complete it without the pause cheese. The Jules sit ups are bad too, but I feel like that's more just getting good. 3D Brawler requires inhuman reflexes. Fair play on plat. This is a huge grind. I have chapter 14 of hard mode and the legendary VR fights left for plat. 170 hours in so far.

I wouldn’t have been able to do 3d brawler without pause Strat either - I searched online and found out about pause Strat on the same figjt against shinra middle manager 😂

43:21 the hitboxes on those rings are fucked 😂

thx for sharing your experience with us. I was trying to do Rulers of the Outer Worlds before I start story on Hard, but maybe I should just start story mode. struggling so much on Gilgamesh. also do you have a tip for that challenge. im using Cloud, Barret and Red

After watching the whole video some mini games genuinely fell un play tested. Mainly the glide course 3 mini game. edit: the move red dragon boss does might of actually been un play tested when the game came out cause they made a update where when the boss does the lava move it doesn’t cover the whole arena so it’s actually avoidable now

My trophys glitched I did the Gilgamesh no trophy, piano all A no trophy coliseum in Goldsaucer all fight no trophy Chadley all materia and no trophy I almost deleted the game...

I did everything except hard mode mini games, (fuck you Jules) and combat brutal and legendary challenges. I just can’t be bothered and would like to keep my sanity at least a little intact

Gg dude 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Got the platinum yesterday, there were at least 4 combat simulator missions that I spent hours trying to beat tho.

Best game ever made PERIOD!

Bonds of friendship is right now my kryptonite. It's the last one i need for the plat

Ah yes the "Masterpiece" "Goty" i too got the platinum and the final chapter on hard mode is harder than the brutal/legendary challenges. Ok maybe not but the tedioum, lack of checkpoint and unfairness and not to mention BUGS, yes the final boss fight can get bugged, the worst bug is the one right before the final sephiroth phase where he is supposed to fell and you can attack the head but it doesn't happen, you can't target even with magic or barret and you get Octaslash over and over until u run out of MP. 166 hours? Took me 168. The game is great if you don't go for the platinum. But I wouldn't call it 10 out 10 either way, they fucked up the story and the world design is just average. THis game makes FF X platinum a walk in the park (Only annoying trophy is dodging 200 lightning in a row) you can cheese all bosses with Zanmato.

Yeah fuck those flying chocobo challenges

Good job my man! Great vid on this AMAZING masterpiece 🍻💯❤️‍🔥 I probably lost +5 years of my life to this platinum lmfao minigames NOT fun

I need to do the combat simlator and am hating them...

Yeah, I think I'm going to pass.