Overview:
- Estimated 100% difficulty: 5/10 (Platinum Difficulty Rating)
- Trophy Breakdown: 56 ( 49/ 4/ 2/ 1)
- Approximate amount of time to : 80+ Hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 3 Playthroughs (Proud / Final Mix / Beginner) if you have the PS3 version but 1, though 2 are recommended, if you have the PS4 release.
- Number of missable trophies: None
- Glitched trophies: None
- Do trophies stack: Yes, the PS3 and PS4 versions stack and the difficulty trophies in the PS4 version but not in the PS3 release
- Does difficulty affect any trophies: 3 ( Proud Player, Final Mix Master, Novice Player)
- Do cheat codes disable trophies: None
- Additional accessories required: None
Introduction:
Welcome to Kingdom Hearts Final Mix in HD, a long awaited HD collection many Kingdom Hearts fans have been waiting to finally release. While it may not be Kingdom Hearts 3, it's good to hold us over with all its past games in multiple HD collections with the first one including KH1, Re:COM and a movie for 358/2 Days!
Trophy-wise, the game basically asks you to do 100% completion which isn't at all hard. There are 3 difficulty trophies, however they do not stack, so you're already looking at 3 playthroughs right there. There are special "tasks" one must perform throughout the game such as beating it under 15 hours, not changing equipment and not using a continue, all of which are very doable. If there's anything to worry about when completing this game it will be the final grind when you have to synthesis every item and collect all the gummi ship blueprints.
Useful Resource
Dive to the Heart: Raising Sora
Before going through the procedures to obtaining all the trophies, this is an important matter which must be laid out beforehand. Anyone familiar with Kingdom Hearts remembers the Dive to the Heart sequence as well as how the choices at the beginning affected Sora throughout the game. For those who don't know we shall bring you up to speed right now.
Sora's Statistics
At the beginning of the game you are asked to choose a specific weapon and drop a weapon. Depending on which weapon you pick up and drop will determine Sora's stats and the weapon you pick up will determine the abilities he learns and at what levels, as shown in the Final Mix PDF above.
Between the three the Shield is easily the best one as it grants you defensive abilities early and the infamous Leaf Bracer ability exclusive to the final mix version of the game which will make each of your playthroughs much easier in the later parts of the game.
Pace Sora Levels Up
After you choose and drop a weapon you will be redirected to another sequence, this time at Destiny Islands in front of Tidus, Wakka and Sophie whom will each ask you a question to determine the pace in which Sora will level up throughout the game. During your Proud and Final Mix playthroughs select all the 1st answers to level up faster and on your 100% playthrough where you'll be grinding to max out Sora's level, pick at the 3rd answers - you can refer to Level Master for more information.
Walkthrough:
Step 1: Speed Run 3 Playthroughs if you have the PS3 version or 1 if you have the PS4 release
The difficulty trophies do not stack in the PS3 version so you will be looking at 3 separate playthroughs - one on each difficulty but they do stack in the PS4 version so start on Proud and you will get all of the difficulty trophies at the end of it. For this step you mainly want to speed through each difficulty with no concern for trophies at this time. Between these playthroughs you are also looking at 3 miscellaneous tasks, which are as follow:
Speedster (Complete the game in under 15 hours)
Unchanging Armor (Never change starting equipment)
Undefeated (Never use a continue)
Getting all three of these will be very easy on Final Mix Beginner with no need to worry about them. Completing some of these tasks are indeed possible on the higher difficulties, such as beating the game under 15 hours and never using a continue, however leave never changing your equipment to your Beginner Playthrough as you are given a lot of extras as a handicap in Beginner which will make up for not changing equipment.
Play on Proud or Normal first (depending on how comfortable you are with Kingdom Hearts already) and then do the other one after. Save Beginner for last as it helps condition yourself to boss fights by playing on a harder difficulty and then switching to an easier one (one that you'll be spending most of your time in no less for 100%).
Once you're done with the difficulty trophies make sure you have your Beginner save file ready for reload as it will be the start of your long grind.
Step 2: Optional Bosses/Worlds and Completing Jiminy's Journal
Now that you finished the game now you want to beginner you journey to 100% the game in general so you will be reloading your beginner save file and starting that here. If you're coming from your Beginner Playthrough where you could not change your equipment because of Unchanging Armor then go ahead and make adjustments now. While making those adjustments go ahead and equip any EXP accessories you have. This will help make your progression towards Level Master much faster, if you start to have trouble against certain optional bosses go ahead and switch them out for other accessories for that fight if you need to. In the game you were able to skip certain worlds, if you did that go ahead and clear them now. If not go ahead and proceed to Olympus Coliseum where you'll complete the Coliseum related trophies as well as sealing the keyhole that you couldn't previously and unlock the following trophies:
Novice Hero
Artisan Hero
Hero of the Coliseum
Coliseum Champion
Supreme Soloist
Time Attacker
If you're leveled up enough, you can take on the optional bosses after the Hades Cup, however it may be best to leave Sephiroth for later once you have leveled up more to make the battle easier than it needs to be. Now that you've completed that, you should have leveled up considerably from playing the Hades Cup 3 times so now its time to take on the other optional bosses and earn the respective trophies for each of them (saving Sephiroth for last):
He Who Doesn't Exist
The Cloaked Shadow
The Sandy Blade
The Frosty Giant
One-Winged Angel
Finally you'll be going on a journey to complete Jiminy's Journal, which includes: Trinity Marks, Dalmatians, 100 Acre Woods and finding rare heartless exclusive to Final Mix. For the rare heartless you can check under Professor for information or simply refer to this GameFAQs Kingdom Hearts Final Mix Heartless Guide. After you have finished this up you should have unlocked the following trophies:
Pooh's Friend
Record Keeper (This as well as the other trophies related to Jiminy's Journal)
Step 3: Synthesis and Gummi Ship Missions
This will be the longest and most difficult part about obtaining your platinum. Synthesizing items will take you a couple hours of journeying and finding the heartless who drop the materials you need, and repeating this process for each new synthesis that unlocks until you have completed them all. After you have completed all of your syntheses, you should have unlocked the following trophies:
Synthesis Master (as well as the trophies before it for individual synthesis)
Blade Master
Magic Magician
Master Defender
Finally you have the daunting task of collecting all of the gummi ship blueprints which a majority of can only be obtained by completing all of the gummi ship missions. A lot of these missions cannot be completed with the default gummi ship or even remade gummi ships from blueprints you already have, so you must learn how to make your own gummi ship and use it for the missions. After you have completed this you should have gotten the remaining trophies you need for your platinum (if Sora still isn't maxed out at level 100 do so now):
Gummi Ship Collector (and the individual mission trophies before it)
Customizer
Flying Ace
Level Master
KINGDOM HEARTS Master
[PST Would Like to Thank Setsuna For This Roadmap]