Well I said I’m my review of GT7 that I’d leave it a few months and write a follow up review. However why get myself to do it when you’ve got someone who’s put in the miles and went for the 100%. The Part 2 review of the every updating GT7.
When I finished the main campaign I was fully prepared to fail at this venture, but after a LOT of hours I’ve managed it.
So first off I finished the licences to a bronze standard, and after finding these fairly difficult, it led to my previous doubt of achieving that desired platinum, I went through the ‘story’ and grabbed a few of my favourite cars and was prepared to leave it at that.
Little did I know I was actually addicted to this game, it’s far from perfect and many things could be added to make it a 10/10 stunner, but I was enjoying it. So I threw caution to the wind and began my golden hunt and after a few weeks of hard work, I managed to nab all but the last few golds. Some of these last ones took an awful long time, but nothing compared to the final S10 challenge. A full lap around the Spa circuit, in wet conditions with a dry line, using a Porsche 917 Le Man car with dry slick tyres. A 2 min 26 second lap to achieve that, no word of a lie, took 4 hours of straight driving to achieve. I remember being on chat with the Big Tasty (this sites owner) and getting more and more angry as this went on, but the elation when I completed it was only comparable to some NSFW occasions no one wants to hear me talk about, and understandably so.
With the golds smashed in record time, I moved onto grinding out money, using some of the tomahawk exploits and found myself with a colossal amount of cash dollar. This is essential as one of the trophies was for collecting 3 unique cars that cost a ridiculous amount each. This was the trophy that required the most patience. The system for legendary cars works by rotating the stock of 10 odd cars every 4 to 5 days, and with a large amount of legendary cars, this means checking the store every couple of days to see if one of those three has been added. I’ve got the 9 million credit Ferrari 330 within a few days, and the 4 1/2 million Ford mark IV around a week later. The elusive Jaguar XJ 13 however, took around two months to appear in the shop, and this meant I was putting in Gran Turismo, checking it every two days and taking it back out again.
In this time, however, I was grinding out another trophy. In-depth mastery is a trophy that requires 50 sport races to be completed. This doesn’t sound horrendous, but when every race takes about 20 minutes to restart, it can take an awful amount of time. The only saving grace to this as I was moving house at the time, and this meant that during each loading between races, I can do some packing. This keeps the wife from flying into a rage, and means that I do some trophy progress along the way.
There are a few trophies on the trophy list that sound pretty bad, but in all honesty they are okay. They’re going the distance trophies are added together with other racers online, so the trophy for 13 thousand kilometres raced, means you only have to do around 500 online. Complete 100 time trials is easy there’s a track in which you can finish a lap in eight seconds with the tomahawk.
So finally, the day came where I put the game on and the Jaguar XJ 13 was in store, and an unfathomable amount of credits later, that sweet, sweet platinum trophy popped. I’d actually recommend trying to platinum this game. The amount of satisfaction when you get the platinum, after all the work with the Golden licenses is worth it.
I don’t really know how to rate a platinum trophy, they’re all very satisfying to look at. I suppose I could give it a rating out of 10 for difficulty, and for me, it was around an 8/10. A highly Tasty game. The difficulty, of course it’s all placed on the licenses, and if you’re good at stuff, unlike me, this will probably be a lot easier for you. Nonetheless I enjoyed this platinum, as much as I do every platinum.
Stay tasty friends.
Reviewed by MoonHead
Released March 4th, Sony Playstaion 5
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