If you dig a few years back in the post archives, you’ll come across a post where I describe completing the Assassin’s Creed II platinum trophy something like seven years after finishing the game.

This was done with a mixture of shame – for taking so long to do it, when it’s one of my favorite games of all time – and pride, for gritting my teeth and relearning how to play an older AC game when they hadn’t quite gotten the formula figured out yet.

Today’s achievement is far heavier on the shame part.  There may be some pride?  Let’s talk about Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters, a PS3 movie tie-in game whose only real redeeming value is that it’s better than the film that inspired it.

The basic “completed the game” trophy is sitting at a pretty healthy 31.7%, so it looks like about one in four people who played this thing felt like grinding out the platinum.  That’s a pretty healthy ratio, probably helped out quite a bit because it’s not a particularly difficult game to 100%.  You need to finish it on hard mode and do some collectible gathering, but the majority of the trophies just come through the course of playing the game… assuming you switch up the powers you use occasionally, of course, since there are an awful lot of bronze trophies similar to “kill 10 mooks with the baseball bat”.

The only one that might be a hassle, all things considered, is the requirement to play at least one level of the game in co-op.  I actually did this in 2021 because I was about to sell my older PS3 and was not going to have a second controller after doing this.

So technically it’s only been three years since I played this.  But if we set that one aside, well…

I finished the game originally on March 31, 2012.   I then booted it briefly in November of 2021 to get the aforementioned co-op trophy.  Yesterday and today, I ground my way through the “Emerald Knight” difficulty, followed a guide to get the last handful of collectibles, and got a shiny virtual cup for my trouble.

So.  12 years.  5 months.  Seven days.  I don’t think I’ll be breaking this record any time soon.

Side note, it’s wild booting up my PS3 and seeing all of the games that I must have bought on deep sales and never actually played.  I’m going to assume, for my own sanity, that the majority of them were PS+ redemptions.