Gallery: [Special Illustrations Only] (Repost, Mint Condition Trophy)

[AihaLoveleaf]

This post will probably look confusing to most people strolling by, and I may come back to this later to fit in a better explanation or to fill in the blanks myself as I get closer to the platinum on this game, but for now I wanted to get this post up while I still have the information copied.

 

The trophy Mint Condition requires that every picture in Gallery Mode be unlocked. Most guides still online will tell you something like

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• Clear Arcade mode with every character
• Go through multiple paths in each character's Story mode
• Unlock every other offline trophy
• Get 20% and 50% of Challenge mode cleared (2 gallery pictures unlock at each checkpoint)
• Answer of all Teach Me Miss Litchi's questions in TIPS 2

From playstationtrophies.org

 

Which is fine as a general overview, but it may be helpful for some to see a more specific list, particularly for the "special CG" images as they are not so straightforward.

 

There's not a lot online for this in 2021. Even pages I've found in Japanese have a lot of gaps (if someone finds a complete list in Japanese though please let me know). Anybody looking online in 2021 for tips specific to this version of the game, rather than Extend, will mostly be reading threads that are 10 years old or more. On the topic of Mint Condition you'll sometimes see the following thread linked as containing specifics on how to get the Special CG images

https://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/blazbluecontinuumshift/show_msgs.php?pid=988981&topic_id=m-1-56900727

Only problem is this link is long since offline, and if you try to navigate manually to the Continuum Shift forum on Gamespot it seems all the posts and threads are gone, other than one guy from several years ago trying to find friends to play online with.

 

Luckily, the above link is still available via the Wayback Machine. There are two versions, one from 2011 and one from 2014. Both seem to have exactly the same text. The post was made to Gamespot by user karlodood on October 26, 2010. Below will be an exact text quote of the two posts made in the thread.

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[Currently incomplete]For trying to get the [Mint Condition] trophy. This is only the SPECIAL ILLUSTRATIONS since the other illustrations are self-explanatory. It's incomplete so if you know the other ones feel free to post them and ill check. Or tell me if there is a mistake.

* character specific trophy with astral finish
** 100% story (could be less but I went straight for the 100%)
*** around 10% they just appeared

1. Hazama **
2. TIPS2 #1
3. Challenge 20%
4. Tager **
5. Arakune **
6. Tsubaki **
7. Ragna **
8. Jin **
9. Tutorial
10. TIPS2 #3
11. Litchi **
12. Bang *
13. Auto
14. Taokaka **
15. Challenge 50%
16. Lambda-11 **
17. Auto
18. Auto
19. Auto
20. TIPS2 #2
21. Arakune *
22. Noel **
23. Auto
24. Carl * (also my "all astral" trophy)
25. Haku-men *
26. Auto
27.
28. Ragna *
29. Arakune *
30. Arakune *
31. Auto
32. Bang **
33. Rachel **
34. Carl **
35.
36.
37.
38. Jin *
39. TIPS2 #4
40. Hazama (arcade) (also in hell mode, might not be relevant to it)
41.
42. Noel *
43. Cleared Score Attack
44. Taokaka *
45. Use Mu-12
46. Auto
47. Challenge 20%
48. Challenge 50%
49. TIPS2 #5
50. Legion Easy
51. Rachel *
52. Lambda-11 *
53. Challenge Mode ***
54. Challenge Mode ***
55. Challenge 20%
56. Start Story
57. Start Story
58. Ragna **
59. Noel **
60. Tager **

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27. Beat Unlimited Hazama in Arcade
35. Escape 5 throws
36. Guard Crush
37. Kill opponent after gold burst
41. Escape 5 throws

That should be all of the Special Illustrations. The rest are finish arcade and story mode with the corresponding characters.

 

Posting this here for myself, as well as anybody interested whether now or in the future. It's possible the two Wayback Machine backups could become lost in time, so this may end up helpful to those playing this game years from now, and for those that might get stressed wondering what was actually in that link.

[Honor_Hand]

Outstanding find here, Aiha. Awesome investigatory work right there with the Wayback Machine.

 

I still haven't done this myself. And I'll possibly need to re-do a bunch of the requirements again seeing that I lost my previous save that I had in the game, but it sure is handy to have all the requirements to unlock the full CG gallery outlined here.

 

Thanks for posting this here!

[Yuber6969]

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Edited July 22, 2021 by yuber1234
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