Game:

Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 (2022)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 5:43:16

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A platinum trophy playthrough of Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 on the PS4. Unlike similar games, this one has a major random component in its trophy list in the form of image pulses, which are random equippable powerups you can get for clearing a stage if you manage to get certain collectibles within the stage. Most of the playthrough will be spent farming these. Thankfully, you're guaranteed at least a new image pulse whenever you clear a stage and you qualify for a drop.

In addition, there's also trophies for clearing all main stages in Demanding (Hard) Mode and 3 stages in Merciless (Very Hard) Mode, as well as getting at least an S rank in them. The game also has S+ and S++ ranks, and you're also required to get 10 and 3 of them, respectively. All of these will seem hard at first, but will get a lot easier once you get the appropriate image pulses.

Start off by beating the game and collecting every image chip (diamond collectible) in each stage to maximize the image pulse drops and unlock the harder difficulties, then focus on getting the Djinn passive image pulse from Sunrise Palace 2 on Very Hard Mode. This image pulse will trivialize everything in the game when you max out its level. It does require 500000 currency to do so, meaning you'll want to focus on clearing the easier stages first to build up more image pulses and currency until you max it out.

Keep making sure to get every image chip for each stage to get more currency and image pulses. The more you do this, the less stage revisits you'll need to do. Other image pulses to look out for should include healing and increased damage effects. Hard and Very Hard mode also include image pulses exclusive to those difficulties, but you can get all image pulse trophies by sticking to just Normal and Hard mode.

0:00 - Start Normal playthrough
1:20:10 - Image pulse farming
3:45:27 - Azure Striker rank
3:50:23 - More image pulse/S rank farming