Shrek Forever After - Platinum Trophy Tips

My 10th platinum, Shrek Forever After, was good fun. At least better than all the other movie tie-in games that I rented to get easy platinums. The game has lush environment, controls respond fairly well and it is easy to switch to any character or drop in/out a second player. The battles are way too easy even with no upgrades and the puzzles are mostly straight forward. But the game was fun to play, especially with the donkey rambling non-stop.

Resources

• PS3Trophies Guide - This is sufficient to cover most of what you need, including a link to the chest locations (given below)
• Treasure Locations - This is definitely a handy guide, but is not quite complete since it does not cover many secret items
• Docks Level Chest Guide - Very good resource for the docks level
• Swamp Level Secret Item - There was one very tricky secret item in Swamp level that I missed twice, and this thread cleared it up for me
• Walkthrough of Dragon's Keep Level - Not really needed, but in case you miss some treasures/dronkeys or don't know how to proceed. The treasure guide isn't complete even for this level.
• Video Walkthrough - This walkthrough appears complete, but the player is sooooo slow that you'd want to play the game without looking at it (which is what I did). You can get past an entire level in the time this guy figures out one puzzle.
• Catacombs Treasure Puzzle - Refer to my tips in the next section

Tips

Do the entire game without bothering much about the treasures as you have to do them again anyway. Buy the money upgrades first to get more coin drops. If you see a "stack of coins" during your battles / crate breaking and you pick it up, any crate you break or any enemy you kill will drop gold coins instead of silver for a short period. Keep this in mind when you play. Remember that during your second playthrough, once you get all collectibles, the game will save and the trophy will pop. You can go back to Ogre Camp after that without finishing it.

Catacombs Puzzle

The only place I found a bit tricky is the puzzle in Catacombs that gives you 4 blue chests, 1 tie and 1 wanted poster. You will figure it out eventually if you work backwards, but in case you are in a hurry, I've taken screenshots of the final positions with my phone. Albeit terrible quality, they should help you finish it fast.

To get to this area, you need to be in that big room where you are asked to rescue many ogres by solving puzzles. You start out by lighting a lantern with Fiona and running down, where you see the 3 mice that give you tips. Run past them, use Fiona upgrade to burn the logs and run downstairs and light all lanterns you see. On your left side there should be two dials and on the right side one map and a waterfall. If you stand between the two dials, the camera shows you the entire area to help you solve the puzzle on that side. One dial will reorient 3 poles, and the other dial turns the other three. There is a 'wanted poster' inside that checkered gate at the bottom. To open the gate, you need to turn another dial that is right at the bottom of the screen (when you are looking at the overall view). To reach this dial, there is a place you can raft to, but this place is not visible on the screen when you get that overall view.

Your first goal should be to light up the small lanterns near the chests by rafting to them. They will enable a few more rafting points, giving you more options to get to your destination. Get the blue chests on this side first, then turn the last dial to open the gate to the poster. Lower the water level and run to it.

I don't remember in great detail to give you step by step guidance on this, but here are some screenshots to help out:

• After you light up the two lanterns in the top-middle of this screen, you get more rafting points. If you turn the dials to position the poles this way, you can raft to the left most corner of the screen, giving you access to a blue chest.

• After you get the blue chests on the left side, you need to get to the last dial (see bottom-right corner of the screenshot). This dial opens the gate with the wanted poster (see top-right corner of the previous screenshot to locate the gate). The following screenshot shows the position of the poles that will raft you to the last dial.

• The following pole positions will raft you to another blue chest on the left side (you get off right above the gate with the wanted poster).

• Once you get everything from the left side, you move to the right side with waterfalls and a map. You get a bow tie and a blue chest (or two) on this side. Getting the bow tie is just a matter of turning a couple of dials that are easily accessible, and then rafting to it. To get the very last chest, you need to form a bridge with the boxes. One of the boxes is in a different corner and you need to move it all the way. See screenshot below.

Hope that helped. The fun is in figuring it out yourself and this is not difficult, but the tips are for those who are in a hurry to platinum.