God of War Ragnarok may be a narrative-focused journey about fatherhood, morality, and destiny, but it’s also sporting an abundance of side objectives in its nine realms, most of which you’ll need to take care of if you wish to earn the game’s coveted Platinum trophy. You could even consider the game to be a Metroidvania-lite, so to speak, due to its reliance on having you revisit locations after earning new skills or items. In other words, you’ll be doing plenty of backtracking to get it all done. Here’s what to expect.
Here’s what you’ll be tasked with doing to snag the Platinum Trophy for God of War Ragnarok.
The bulk of the trophy list for God of War Ragnarok will revolve around you earning 100% completion in each realm, which can be an extremely time-consuming affair. This will include partaking in optional objectives, finding lore, opening chests, and collecting unique items–and many of these won’t be available until hitting certain milestones in the main story. This means you’ll be returning to locations you’ve already visited multiple times throughout your journey, both for story and collection purposes. That being said, it’s still a good idea to find and unlock as much as you can during your initial passes through areas to cut down on how much backtracking and extra legwork you have to do later in the game.
Certain trophies also require you to complete specific tasks, like fighting hidden bosses, finishing side-quests for the game’s various NPCs, crafting and upgrading pieces of gear, or obtaining hilts and relics that are used in combat to perform unique attacks. You’ll need to find all of the health and rage upgrades in the Nornir chests scattered across the realms, too, but you’ll have received all of the upgrades without opening every chest, so you can technically skip a few of them. It’s recommended to still open them for the extra materials they can grant you, though.
You’ll need to find two Muspelheim Seed Halves to gain access to the combat challenges found in the realm of Muspelheim. You can anticipate spending a handful of hours here working through these feats, though you’ll be handsomely rewarded with upgrade materials that can be used to improve your gear–so it’s worth doing as many of them as you can as soon as you feel confident enough to do so. You’ll also need to craft the Dragon Scaled armor and complete smaller tasks such as Draugr Holes and Berserker Souls.
Here’s every trophy in God of War Ragnarok.
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