Burly Men At Sea Trophy Guide *SPOILERS*

[YemmytheFerret]

EHEM, spoilers people.  

Burly Men At Sea is a interesting narrative driven game based on old folklore brought to life by Brian&Brian.  The soothing music and colorful characters will make this multi-playthrough platinum a breeze.  I am going to list all of the different paths you must take in order to obtain the platinum trophy, some you will have to repeat up to 4 times but the game is fast paced and goes by quickly.  Note that only Three things can happen before the Creature at the end shows up EX) Whale, Rock dude, Storm, Creature

 

Playthrough (PT) 1: Start your journey by pressing X on your boat, it will proceed to sail right and get eaten - Unlocks Great Barnacled one (Bronze)

You have three choices here, stay, get barrels, or no barrels.  Choose stay first, to do this just talk to the blue figures again and wait for the screen to go black - Unlocks the Path of Waiting (Bronze)

Once you have exited the whale you will come to an island, journey up and click on the odd looking mountain, the mountain guy will go get flowers, walk back to your boat and he will stop you and give you flowers, click on the flowers - unlocks QUITE GOOD AT FLOWERS (Silver)

You will sail off into a storm and mermaids will start singing, press\hold L2 to sink the boat - Unlocks She's a gonner

Now you will meet the ending creature, meeting her the first time will unlock ...bearded Travelers (Gold)

After everytime you see the creature you will be transported to an island with animals, hold L2 until you get to a red house with a door.  Enter the door to start a new quest line (or playthrough).

The cool thing about the game is that you can buy each adventure\quest line in  book form by entering the codes on the books at their website, i wouldn't buy one but it is a nice thought.

So now you will start to see a lot of "DO EVERYTHING THE SAME," this means to follow the last playthrough to the letter until there is a change, if you don't do this you may end up re-doing the same quest line\adventure which will get you NOTHING, YOU LOSE!

 

Anyways, to start a new playthrough simply press on your boat again (it will be safely docked, just walk past the boy with the flute)

 

PT 2: DO EVERYTHING THE SAME except for when you get to the mermaids HOLD R2 to continue your journey right, unlocks Womanfolk in the water (Silver)

 

PT3: DO EVERYTHING THE SAME up to the rock dude, when he goes to get the flowers go to your boat once again but this time when he sets down the 'flowers' click on your boat.  Unlocks QUITE GOOD AT THROWING (Silver)

you will now be on a branch and a monster will come up underneath you to try and eat you, hold L2 to unlock Foilded by the Tree (silver)

you will meet the end creature once again and unlock Well Met... (Gold)

 

PT4: DO EVERYTHING THE SAME except HOLD R2 at the Monster from beneath to unlock Poor Beastie (Silver), ending creature appears

 

PT5: Time to change it up, get eaten by the whale but this time go all the way to the left to get the barrels, put them on and exit through center door, pull uvula to exit - Unlocks Wooden Trousers (Bronze)

you will find yourself in a race with the Grim Reaper, hold X on the Grim Reaper to Win the race and unlock The long way (Silver) note that the next part has had a few things added because when I did it myself I wasn't paying close attention to what I was doing, it has been updated with correct notes

After a while you will be sucked into a vortex, hold L2 while burly men are at the top until vortex disappears - Unlocks Out of the Deepening Darkness (Silver)

End creature will appear

 

PT6: DO EVERYTHING THE SAME except at the vortex hold R2 until it is skinny (this makes this scene  go faster) and then hold L2 to widen it before it gets too skinny, have the men sucked into the depths DO NOT DO THIS WHILE THE MEN ARE AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN, Unlocks Into the Deepening Darkness (Silver)

 

PT7: DO EVERTHING THE SAME up to the grim reaper, now hold X on the lead Burly man to lose the race - Unlocks Complimentary Trip to the afterlife (Silver)

he will take you to a cave where a blue light will appear, go all the way to the right until there are two doors, press L2 to choose the Left door - Unlocks Getting your beards wet (Silver)

Creature shows up

 

PT8: DO EVERYTHING THE SAME until the Flame lights up the two passage ways, press R2 to go down the right door - Unlocks The Back Door (Silver)

Creature shows up

 

PT9: These last few playthroughs are a bit more involved which is why i saved them for last.  So, enter the whale and leave through center door without barrels Unlocks Fountain of the Faithless (Bronze)  you will come across a green island that turns out to be a giant jellyfish, let it get frustrated by pressing x on a tentacle when he grabs a burly man , he will then capture all the men and take you down to the depths - Unlocks Vengeance Satisfied (Silver)  Now some seals who turn you into seals, do not stay together (hold R2 until spell is broken) unlocks In need of assistance (Silver)

Creature at end shows up

 

PT10:  DO EVERYTHING THE SAME except stick together while turned into seals (hold R2 for a bit then let go, hold R2 for a bit and let go) if done correctly the men should reach a small rock island - Unlocks Nice Day (Silver)

Creature arrives

 

PT11: DO EVERYTHING THE SAME until the jellyfish battle, this time when it tries to grab a burly man and misses hold X on the tentacle, a man will come over and grab it.  Repeat for other tentacle - unlocks A bargain to make (Silver)

Now you will be transported to a waterfall, open the waterfall with L2 and speak to the old man.  Once the waterfalls close again hold L2 to open them up again - unlocks Thus is thy fate sealed (Silver) Creature will show up

 

PT12: DO EVERYTHING THE SAME except this time after you talk to the old man the 1st time click on the RAFT to leave - Unlocks Begone! (Silver) 

Once last trophy unlocks you will also unlock Ye've done it (Platinum)

Creature will show up with Different dialogue

Old man will also have different dialogue

 

END GAME

 

There you go guys, it took me about 2 hours without a guide so it really wasn't that bad, it just took some time to figure out the Jellyfish fight. 

Hope this guide is useful

 

-Muskratateer- 

Edited September 21, 2017 by Muskratateer

[Kittens Are Awesome]

Stop using photobucket.

[theindieboy]

I can't seem to do the jelly fish fight as playing on vita does not seem to work anyone else having this issue? Is it when the tenticle grabs someone or is it when it misses also? might be that i have been having some trouble with my touch screen (often like there is an input when there are not) not sure.

[YemmytheFerret]

7 hours ago, Phil said:

Stop using photobucket.

This is literally my first post with a photo so saying ,"stop using Photobucket" as if I use it a lot is annoying.  

2 hours ago, theindieboy said:

I can't seem to do the jelly fish fight as playing on vita does not seem to work anyone else having this issue? Is it when the tenticle grabs someone or is it when it misses also? might be that i have been having some trouble with my touch screen (often like there is an input when there are not) not sure.

When the jellyfish misses you 'hold' the tentacle down

[theindieboy]

42 minutes ago, Muskratateer said:

When the jellyfish misses you 'hold' the tentacle down

 

Thanks did the trick also have to hold X for a bit, thanks for the text guide working my way through it all now.

 

 

[YemmytheFerret]

34 minutes ago, theindieboy said:

 

Thanks did the trick also have to hold X for a bit, thanks for the text guide working my way through it all now.

 

 

No problem

 

I have updated the parts with the jellyfish and the vortex to make them more clear 

Edited September 20, 2017 by Muskratateer

[ABnegativ]

Thanks for this! I haven't completed all of them yet. Time to give it a go!

[Narniak]

Good guide, thanks!  

For the vortex part, hold L2 to make it shrink for the men to float, R2 to make it widen to sink them.

For the jellyfish battle, to "frustrate it" you click X on the tentacle after it captures one of the men. 

 

IMPORTANT NOTE:

PT4 - This story path glitched out for me twice and crashed the game.  The first time was after the beast spit out the "flower", the game suddenly wouldn't except any inputs and I had to restart.  Luckily the "Poor Beastie" trophy had already just popped.  The second time I tried the game got stuck in an infinite loop glitch while the beast was chomping on the "flower" while I held R2.  Again, all inputs were locked out and game was unplayable.  HOWEVER, I did get the platinum without ever finishing this storyline, which I believe means you don't have to have each book appear on the shelf (I assumed you did).  I got the Plat with only 11/12 books.  Cutting out the rather lengthy end sequence would save a huge chunk of time, probably 30-45 minutes.  Judging by good old LucasDiasC's fastest 100% time thus far, he obviously figured this out.

 

[YemmytheFerret]

8 hours ago, Narniak said:

Good guide, thanks!  

For the vortex part, hold L2 to make it shrink for the men to float, R2 to make it widen to sink them.

For the jellyfish battle, to "frustrate it" you click X on the tentacle after it captures one of the men. 

 

IMPORTANT NOTE:

PT4 - This story path glitched out for me twice and crashed the game.  The first time was after the beast spit out the "flower", the game suddenly wouldn't except any inputs and I had to restart.  Luckily the "Poor Beastie" trophy had already just popped.  The second time I tried the game got stuck in an infinite loop glitch while the beast was chomping on the "flower" while I held R2.  Again, all inputs were locked out and game was unplayable.  HOWEVER, I did get the platinum without ever finishing this storyline, which I believe means you don't have to have each book appear on the shelf (I assumed you did).  I got the Plat with only 11/12 books.  Cutting out the rather lengthy end sequence would save a huge chunk of time, probably 30-45 minutes.  Judging by good old LucasDiasC's fastest 100% time thus far, he obviously figured this out.

 

I'll update the post with the better information, thanks.

Yeah you technically don't have to finish the game each time, there is an option to go back to the dock in the main menus I believe

[ABnegativ]

Followed the guide, got the plat! Great guide, thank you!

[hwieming72]

Thank You.

You make a great guide.

Edited July 9, 2018 by hwieming72

[Roster60]

Great guide. I am definitely going to use it when the game comes out next week on Plus.

[Firmamento]

Game downloaded. Time for another easy platinum.