Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus Player Becomes First to Achieve Platinum Trophy

No 1 has ever genuinely unlocked the Platinum trophy for Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus connected the PlayStation Vita – until recently.

User Tqvry made PlayStation past erstwhile they became the archetypal idiosyncratic to ever gain the Dynamic Duo Gold Trophy for the Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 larboard past week. Third-party tracker website PSNProfiles has already recorded the achievement, listing Tqvry arsenic the archetypal and lone subordinate ever to gain the Trophy done morganatic means.

Considering Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus launched for the Vita much than 13 years ago, the evident question is: What took truthful long? Dynamic Duo – and by hold the Platinum Trophy – has agelong been considered by die-hard Trophy hunters to beryllium 1 of the astir hard Trophies to achieve. Although notorious for its difficulty, unlocking it asks players to squad up with different subordinate and “successfully implicit each missions connected Turbo difficulty.”

Gold Trophies and high-level Achievements person been known to necessitate players to implicit akin tasks successful the past, truthful for the uninitiated, Dynamic Duo mightiness not look each that bad. Unlike the archetypal PlayStation 3 version, though, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus doesn’t enactment due online co-op. So, alternatively of a real-world subordinate to assistance plow done immoderate already demanding missions, you’re stuck with an AI bot companion who can’t fend for themselves and needs to beryllium perpetually watched over.

It’s…a lot. So much, successful fact, that Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus went without anyone grabbing its Platinum Trophy until Tqvry proved their accomplishment by capturing it connected video March 27, 2026. The 10-hour broadcast covers conscionable 1 mission, which sees Ryu and his not-so-trusty bot sidekick warring 3 bosses simultaneously. Most of the footage shows failed effort aft failed effort until astir the 9:25:00 mark, erstwhile 1 of the enemies unintentionally glitches into the ground.

It’s lucky, to accidental the least, and gives Tqvry the abstraction they request to triumph arsenic the combat turns into a 2v1. A brag bugging retired to the grade they go immobilized astir apt isn’t the benignant of happening galore (if any) players got to payment from successful the 13 years it took for the Trophy to beryllium completed, but Tqvry intelligibly made the astir of it.

"You’re bats**t insane successful the champion way, and legend," 1 idiosyncratic commented connected YouTube. "Super congrats connected the intolerable feat and being the world’s first."

"This is easy 1 of the astir insane achievements I’ve ever seen successful gaming," different said. "It could extremity up being the highest of trophy hunting for years to come. Other legit achievers volition come, but being the archetypal to conquer thing everyone thought was intolerable is legendary. Enjoy it, you’ve earned it!"

Elsewhere successful the satellite of Ninja Gaiden, developer Team Ninja released an updated instrumentality connected a classical enactment crippled with Ninja Gaiden 2 Black aboriginal past year. October past saw the motorboat of Ninja Gaiden 4, a crippled that we gave an 8/10 review.

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