Board 8 > Platinum #85 - Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness

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https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/5280-psycho-pass-mandatory-happiness/Articuno2001
https://www.truetrophies.com/game/PsychoPass-Mandatory-Happiness/trophies?gamerid=5963&showall=1

Going into this VN I had no knowledge of Psycho-Pass at all, no idea what the story was about or any of the characters. Now though, I'm actually interested in watching the anime sometime later.

The story in this follows two original characters, Nadeshiko Kugatachi, an Inspector who has amnesia about her past, and Takuma Tsurugi, an Enforcer who is looking for his lost girlfriend and became an Enforcer as his Hue darkened. While the story does have some interesting parts, a lot of the content in all routes with both characters is the same, so to get to the route-exclusive scenes and endings there's a lot of skipping through already read text to get to new content (and both characters have the same similar events, but you can't skip if you've only done the other character's route!) Thankfully, the guide I followed put the last exclusive scene at the very end, which cuts out a good portion of events that unfold the same way and adds a whole new twist to the story.

The platinum makes you find all the exclusive scenes and true endings, as well as all CGs, so it's a fairly standard VN trophy list. However, to unlock concept art and voice files, you need to play 2048 to accumulate points which are spent on these items. There's a stage bonus that helps with the grind, but it's still close to a million points total needed to unlock everything. I did it gradually over the course of the game so at the end I only needed around 50k.

Dunno what's next, besides Persona 5 and this I wasn't playing much else. Maybe it's time to start cleaning up some of the older games on my trophy list and beat some of them.
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