Estimated Difficulty: 6/10
Estimated Time to Platinum: 10-25 hours, depending on skills
Offline Trophies: 22 (7 , 7 , 7 , 1 )
Online Trophies: 2 (1 , 1 )
Minimum Number of Playthroughs Required: 1
Do Cheats Effect Trophies?: No.
Do Difficulty Effect Trophies?: No difficulty levels.
Missable Trophies: None, as you can earn trophies at anytime.
MotorStorm RC is kinda a "Micro Machines" version of the popular racing series MotorStorm. This is the first game on the series to appear on the PlayStation Vita, but it’s also available on PS3. Buying one version will net you the other for free, and best of all, the lists are stackable, so you can earn two platinums on the same game, if you have a PS3 and a Vita. And if you earn a trophy on PS3, it will also unlock on PSVita, and it also works both ways. Thanks to HC_ja_Niina for pointing this out.
The game is short, but challenging: to make a comparison, the difficulty is just between Apocalypse and Pacific Rift. There are 24 trophies to collect in the game: 8 bronze, 8 silver, 7 gold, and 1 platinum, for a total of 1170 trophy points.
Road Map
Step 1: Online
I advise to do these trophies first (or as soon as you can), because at this time, you can do them alone without much effort with a secondary account. First of all, with your primary account, do the first race and make a dull time. Then, with the secondary account, make a slightly better time, and challenge your primary account by sharing your time on PSN. Then, come back with the primary account, accept the challenge from your secondary account, and make a better time. You’ll obtain Ghost Busted after that, and if you redo the challenge from your secondary account 10 times, you’ll get Wall Brawl. You can do it at the very end, but beating your best times will be tricky.
After completing the tutorial, just start away with your first event. There are four kinds of events: races, hot laps, pursuit, and drift. As long as you progress through a series of events, the RC cars will be faster and faster. There are 64 events on four different locations, each one based from previous MotorStorm games: Monument Valley, Pacific Rift, Arctic Edge, and Apocalypse. You can obtain medals by being on the podium at each event: one medal for bronze, two for silver, and three for gold. Obviously, we’ll try to get three medals in every event.
You’ll obtain The Triple after winning your first event. Also, try to get As Good As New in your very first race, as it will be quite easy. Then, after 8 wins, you’ll obtain Round the Clock. Storm Chaser will follow quickly if you complete an event at each location. Then, Seasoned Racer will be obtained after 16 wins, and Playground Bully after 20 wins (as you need 60 medals to unlock everything in the Playground). Then, you’ll get Eye of the Storm after 32 wins: you will be halfway there. Then, after winning 144 medals (48 wins), new events will unlock, along with a new car class and a trophy: Supercharged. You’ll also surely get Let it Slide during a Drift event, as reaching 2000 points in a single drift is quite mandatory to get all 3 medals.
This car is the fastest in the game, and every event unlocked will be a Hot Lap. Getting 3 medals in “Wiped Out” will award you Wiped Out. Then, after winning your last race, you’ll get Silver Standard and Re-Scaling New Heights.
Now, go quickly in the vehicles menu, to change the livery of one car in each category, to obtain Custom Collection.
You can earn three trophies in the playground. First of all, as everything is unlocked, just ride away to find all 8 vehicles, to get Playful. Then, you’re going to get the two hidden trophies: score 10 goals with footballs (just shoot in the empty cage) and 10 points with basketballs (just go through the hoop from below) to unlock two secret cars, which will give you Rare Reward. Then, go at the second basketball hoop (where there’s a ramp and a gap), and score a point into it to get Swish (if you don’t unlock it right away, go directly at the first hoop and score a point).
Now it’s going to get tricky. In order to get the five remaining gold trophies, you’ll need to have a cumulative time of 40 minutes on all the events. By getting your medals, you’ll probably get some of these: Monument Valley Champion, Pacific Rift Champion, Arctic Edge Champion, and Apocalypse Champion. With some luck, you may have them all after getting all the medals. However, if we add the times for each trophy, we’re at 42 minutes. So you’ll need to shave 2 more minutes across all the events to obtain the final trophy, RC Champion. To do so, just check the leaderboards and see where you can save a huge amount of time, mostly in races and pursuits. Hot laps won’t be really useful as you’d gain at most one second each, where a race can make you gain several precious seconds. You can check your progression anytime in the main menu. And if you kept this for the last, you’ll get the platinum, Lunatics Unite.
[PS3T Would Like to Thank Linkinito for this Road Map]