7 Ultra Rare Achievements We'll Never Obtain 

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The rope jumping in FF9 is beyond ridiculously hard. Whoever made that one in the dev team, you are an evil one.

The FF9 card one got me with their wording. I was so excited to get my 100 only to find out there was no way I was really going to get it by that point.

Final fantasy is one of those games I'll play over and over again but getting the platinum kinda ruined the reason why I love replaying them

The real tough one on FF9 was getting all 100 cards, each with a unique format of arrows

The jump rope one was impossible for me. After several hours of trying my wrist was killing me and I was worried about carpal tunnel.

There's a lot of achievements I won't get, because I'm lazy.

As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I knew Contrived Finish would be on here. It's the only VIII achievement I don't have.

"And by considerable we're talking 30+ hours of doing the same thing over and over..." Has FFXIV rotted my brain so much that 30h grind doesn't sound that bad?

Hey FFU, I’d love to hear a history of FF Music, from the first inspiration game to have a full orchestral score (I attach this to FF games as my first) to which game in FF had it first, to number of songs per game etc.

Every time I see FF13 on the list of hardest achievements to get, I smile. I'm one of the few who has that platinum.

Proud platinum holder for the 13 Trilogy. Currently going for 100% on all 3 again on Xbox

10:16 thats why u learn CARD first! so u turn weakend enemies into cards so u wont get XP! Also kill your members while siefer or edea is in your team so others wont get XP! u can be at ultimicia's caste at around Lv11-14 or even lower with that trick!

ah, so they meant to name it "7 achievements we don't want to try and get."

Aaaaah, finally, external validation for my FF8 Contrived Finish years ago. sweet sweet serotonin~

It's a testament to FFU they could take a topic I couldn't possibly care less about and make such a beautiful, interesting video out of it. ^__^

There's an achievement for XIII that I think is even rarer than L'cie Paragon, called Treasure Hunter. On steam it's sitting around 1.6% of players who have it iirc. I personally love XIII, but even I have to admit that one was mind-numbing to obtain.

I'll never get the jump rope king trophy in ff9.

About L'Cie Paragon, the hardest mission to 5 star's are actually the easiest. If you decide to do them after finishing the story, they become really hard to 5 star. The reason is because the target time is based on your character developpment (both Crystarium and Equipments).

I have managed 4 of these. The other 3 I have not had a chance to do due to not owning the games. The ones I have managed are: L'Cie Paragon, It's all in the Cards III, Contrived Finish and Tonberry's Treasure. I enjoyed FFX-2 Last Mission way more than I thought I would.

The rest challenge in FF13 is trying to get the achievement involing to nab every weapon and accessories. You need a check list just to be sure every weapon is level 2, picking one weapon for each party member their ultimate weapon. Then making sure you have at least one of every accessories just so the robot companion will offer you that achievement.

Jump rope in IX is arguably more notorious than the card trophy, though I imagine people never get to it seeing they'll likely never beat the jump rope on console.

I'm not devaluing the difficulty of the Final Fantasy XV entry, but there are rarer trophies in the DLCs. In Episode Ignis, I've earned the "Master of the Elements" troophy, only 0.3% of players earned it.

I’ve actually got the Last Mission tonberry trophy. I had to use a guide though. I don’t see how anyone could figure that one out by themselves.

5 out of 7, I'm feeling good right about now. I would argue that in 13, the treasure hunter (obtain all weapons and accessories) was much harder- or at least much more tedious. At least the cieth trophy features interesting combat mastery. The treasure hunter just had you killing adamantortises for hours. On ff9, I still challenge someone to do the jump rope game without using a computer emulator. Bloodlust alone added probably 7 hours of just mindless kill grinding. Tetra master is at least a little fun

Played every FF since the first, and 15 is the only platinum I took the time to get

My least favorite achievement in all of final fantasy was the Lucky Coin in FF13-2 😫😫😫

Thankyou for making me feel special as I have The FF13 Plat. And really enjoyed doing it :)

Was actually surprised that my footage from 8 years ago was used here (for Tonberry Treasure). Thanks, and great job with the video!

Maybe the Last one of FF13 on the PS3: Defeated the Last Boss in a Certain Time. That was for the most a struggle I heared. I got it somehow :D

I did Return of the Founder King on Steam and it was pretty hard.You had to do almost everything right so in order to make it kind of easier for you was to have multiple saves and save often at different slots everytime you were confident you were doing good:)

The jump rope in FF9 is sadistically hard. I can do jump rope better irl than on that awesome game. I tend to ignore that challenge as not mandatory for 100% completion and just do everything else even the other mini games to.

with regards to Lcie Paragon the gold watch you obtain from the last cieth mission helps tremendously. i already have this one lol

I've played FF9 on every console it's been released on and I have done EVERYTHING. Except for that bloody jump rope mini game. 20+ years and I've never bested it, it'll haunt me till the day I die!

I'm not a completionist, so I'm fining missing achievements, I must have like 3 games completed at all

I'm one of those 1.6% that beat 8 without leveling Squall up. Forced 'normal monster' encounters are easy to avoid because you can just KO Squall and then revive him after said encounter. Don't know why it isn't a higher percentage as it really isn't that difficult to figure out...

I’ve actually gotten 100% FF8 and FF13. I’m on the grind of the pixel remasters currently. 100% the first one as I read it had no missables anywhere so I blind ran it and picked up everything I missed. I started FF2 but the weird levelling really threw me, still playing it but not really enjoying it. FF3 hasn’t been touched. FFIV has been touched but I 100% it back when I had the 3D remake so don’t care to 100% it this time. FFV is my favourite 2D FF so I’ve been following a guide and combing everything, I even mastered two jobs (knight and monk) before heading out to walse. FFVI is amazing but I had the original steam version and didn’t realise I had to wait for shadow, didn’t and obviosuly lost him forever and I have had no motivation to go back through it. FF7 has all achievements apart from the Gil one, and before you say master all the all’s. I stupidly sold all copies bare one to make the grinding process easier to know what I had and hadn’t mastered. FFIX has way too much in for me to care about combing. FFX I’ve 100% but I wouldn’t say it was anywhere near as hard as FF13 or FF8. FFXII is my absolute favourite and I’ve 100% it multiple times. FFXIII-2 is another favourite which I have got everything apart from one fragment because I am not lucky on those damn coding bikes so gave up. FF-LR has so much time management that following a guide is so hard but playing without one means I miss so much content and it hurts my brain to leave it behind. FFXV was an amazing game blind because I just explored and explored and explored. I missed so much but I didn’t care. I did some side quests but I was content being able to defeat a few of the super bosses and calling it a day after receiving the black hood from Piteos. All in all, I agree that the 2 mainline original versions you’ve mentioned were the hardest to 100%

Whenever people talk about the trophies from XIII I’m always surprised no one brings up Treasure Hunter. Just trying it is confusing do to the weapon tiers. And money is so minuscule in XIII that the GRIND takes forever. I used the Vanille Uses Death on Admatortoise Until It Dies then Make Her Utilmate Weapon Then Dismantle It Many Times Because It Breaks Down Into MUCH More Then It Cost to Make It strategy from the official strategy guide. It was between 5 to 15 hours of real time doing that method...

I think one that is not hard but very tedious is in Final Fantasy III 3D Remake on Steam. "Jack of all Trades" - "Attain level 99 with all jobs for all characters", 28 job classes for all 4 characters (If I have remebered that correctly). Tedious in the sense that you had to go into a fight and guard at least 4 - 5 times with everyone to get 1 job level. On Steam only 2.1% of players have earned this achievement, including myself (tooting my own horn) :)

Keep questing, love the channel😉

The hardest achievement I've gotten was the ethereal executioner in star ocean the last hope. But the hardest achievement I haven't gotten and never will is the 7 day survivor in dead Rising. You have to unlock infinity mode. It takes approximately 12 to 14 hours with no saving, so you HAVE to do it in one sitting. Your health constantly drains, health items are finite, and bosses appear randomly throughout the mall. I got 5 1/2 hours and died with no health items being found. Oh and food items go bad in your inventory. I dare someone to find a harder achievement.

Never thought their were achievements in FF series that was hard or can never be finished that was quite interesting. I know you can get some by grinding but that would take a lot of time.

I love that im seeing ff8 as the thumbnails to alot of FF related videos. Ff8 needs all teh love.

I just defeated Jules at Pull Ups, and finally 100% completely FFVII Remake. Jesus! and I thought that challenge was impossible. I had like four runs with no mistakes, and he still beat me by like one point each time. Thankfully In my winning/final run, he messed up two times in the second round, giving me a shot to surpass him by two points. Yeah you need some luck with this challenge! Also I thought the Fort Condor fight with Chadley on Hard Mode was impossible too, until I found out, you can literally CHEESE this game by constantly spamming Guard Dogs and Slug Rays lol

War of the Lions had a somewhat unique story, but I loved obtaining all of the unique characters and min/max faith and bravery

I was planning on 100% for all the Pixel Remasters and managed it for the first three. Standouts being the Bestiary in all three games (especially Warmech in I) leveling one magic spell and weapon skill to 16 in II, and leveling a Job to 99 in III. Then I saw the achievement list for FFIV had Rydia's secret summons and having to farm the Flan Princesses. My plans went right out the window after that lol.

The standard version of FF6 had an achievement for obtaining all of Gau's rages. Perhaps about half of the rages are missable, and there are quite a few "exactly one chance" to unlock, and even a couple which have a random chance element where even if you play perfectly, it might not unlock, and you have to reload a save. It's at 2.2% for that game, and is a requirement for the "all achievements in a single playthrough" which is 1.5% of players. All together, it took me 3 end-to-end back-to-back playthroughs to correctly find all the missables and unlock everything in a single run.

10:46 EXP isn't forced by random encounters, however this was also the first game in the series that granted experience for participation in a fight, not only for being on your feet at the end of it. However, yeah, just knock Squall out and never wake him up so he can't participate in any way, I guess.

i would love to see your take on FF14's in game achievements list, not counting ones you can not obtain anymore of course. That game has some real ball breakers.

FFX-2 HD Remaster was bundled with FFX HD, so there’s probably a lot of people who have purchased the game but not played much - or at all. For the Tonberry Treasure 0,6% essentially means that 0,6% of those who bought FFX did this X-2 achievement - they’re actually on the same achievement list on Steam. Defeating the boss of Chapter 1 in X-2 is a ’rarer’ achievement (9,7%) than beating FFX (17,8%) - beating chapter 2 of X-2 (6,3%) is ’rarer’ than dodging 200 Lightning (8,8%) in a row in FFX. TL;DR: Tonberry Treasure is rare but not due to difficulty and doesn’t deserve to be #1.

Still play FFTactics yearly around Christmas time. What a Gem of the PS1 Era.

I wish you looked at the PlayStation and Xbox achievement percentages as I think that shows a better population for the achievement and trophy hunters.

3 out of 7, only played the PS versions of FF trophy lists so not all applied for me but that Tonberry Treasure trophy was one of the worst I've ever encountered. At least with other games having brutal challenges, they are just battles taken to extreme, but the wholly different gameplay and cryptic nature of the secrets made Last Mission brutal to get through for the X-2 Platinum. Either way, great as always Darryl!

As a FF8 lover. Beating it with a level 1 Squall isn't hard. It's extremely time consuming.

I gotta be honest, I've 100% everything in Final Fantasy XV. All the updates and DLCs. Yes, that includes Ardyn's Episode. The Return of the Founder King trophy was tough, but I personally wouldn't say it was that difficult. I think the hardest trophy for me was the freaking A New Protagonist trophy in Episode Ignis where you have a "friendly" match with Noctis. Holy S**t! If anyone knows that trophy achievement, it's a freaking nightmare! It took me an entire month or 2 to finally get it. I stayed up on a Sunday night until it was 5am lol I worked my ass off for that trophy. Why did I work so hard for it, even though I already platinumed the game? Because I personally really loved Final Fantasy XV! I love the game so much, it deserves to be at 100% on my trophy list. Yeah, it's not a perfect game. Hell, it's not even my favorite Final Fantasy game. But I still enjoyed it.

I was feeling very confident with my Final Fantasy expertise but I haven't done a single one of these, guess I still have a long way to go

I haven't done any of these...but then again, I've never been concerned with getting achievements in games.

I have "It's all in the cards III"! I didn't even realise how difficult it was, I guess I just love tetra master

Did a challenge run where I got contrived finish and the acheivement for levelling a charcter to 100. Took me a long time and due to forced fights, I was about 10xp shy of levelling and therefore missing out and failing.

Proud achiever of 2 trophies on this list! (Have the plats for 13 and 9... as well as 7, 7R, 8, 13-2, 15, Type-0, and Stranger of Paradise... but those weren't a big deal)

The FF achievements I lament the most are the FFXI level 75 achievements.... because I played before Wings of the Goddess, it would be trivial to get them now, but I feel the moment has passed.

I managed to get 5* on every Cie'th stone on the Xbox version. It was extremely difficult on the final one.

Oooh I wanna get the pc port of 9 just to do that card one. I love having a CARD button, you get unique dialogs and stuff.

I've done a no leveling game in ff8. It was on PS1.

I did the jump rope from the original FF9. But replaying the remaster I couldn't for the life of me do it again.

I usually don't care about achievements because not only I am an old school gamer, but because some of these games of today, specially fighting games have some hard achievements only obtainable in online modes. But I dare to say that defeating Proto-Babil on FFIV for NDS (have to play PC version yet) was one of the greatest things I loved to do on a Final Fantasy game! I only took 2 years since, at that time, I found playing a second play through kind of boring, thanks to that augments thing and strategy for the fight involving them, but ending that almost 1 hour fight (as I remember), was really cool! Someday I plan to play the PC version. And I'll try this again for sure! About FFXV "Return of the Founder King", I thought it would be hard, but it wasn't hard at all. There are some tutoriais on what to do, like using "safety helmet" for example. I have an unlisted vídeo on my other chanel where I am getting this achievement. The worst part is having to play this entire DLC on easy mode again for some 1 hour and a half at risk of failure. I saved the game only in the lab to take a breath and then before entering the castle... But I remember I got this achievement on a first, or second try. Here's the link (nevermind the title, it was a raw title I gave to it after recording and was lazy to rename it, and I disabled the pop-up notification for the achievement while on game too): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qWPYl6gBaDQ.html Now, about those rare, boring and stupid, online achievements on games, talk about games from another franchise for example, like "win a streak of 10 ranked fights" on Mortal Kombat XL... I had won already 80 fights on ranked, I was already tired of the game, and it was hard, why would I bother with an 10 streak win sequence and having to backup save files to erase it and copy then again after each time I lose a fight? NO WAY! I may not be good enough to win 10 times in a row, but even if I was, it was boring to even think om trying! 😅

While not hard, one tedious achievement I found was in FF15: Pocket Edition, namely the final achievement anyone would get which involved unlocking all 65 ability nodes. While I don't know if any exploits have been found, upon release of the game it had taken me roughly 30 hours to finish the achievement set, with this final one taking roughly 18 additional hours of grinding the final stage again and again.

Ooo I got the L’Cie Paragon trophy back on PS3! Ah the not so fond memories

If achievements actually mattered and gave you something useful, I bet way more people would unlock them.

I actually obtained the ardyn dlc trophy for ffxv on ps4. You basically have to not get hit and destroy everything you can before going into the final boss of the dlc. It took me about 4-5 replays of the dlc to get the trophy.

Chocobo 0:0:0 race, 1000 jump rope, and 200 dodged lightning. Last one was until I finally got it Nov 18th 2023. I think tonberry's treasure was easy as I got it one my first run to the top.

Hardest achievement I ever had in FF didn’t have a trophy for it at the time. Getting Excalibur 2 on PAL without FMV skips, not ps2 double disc speed or any other glitches. Hardest thing I’ve ever done and all I have to show for it is a photograph 😂

All these achievements are much rarer than the stated percentage because this is Steam we're talking about. About 1% of players SAM their achievements on Steam. You can see this when games just come out and certain achievements are literally impossible because they take hundreds of hours (or the achievement is even bugged and impossible). Won't stop about 1% of the audience from having it in 24 hours after a game comes out.

I have the platinums on every FF main non-mmo game except 9. That jump rope can go to hellllllllllll. I did it as a kid and I refuse to do it again 😂

I have the Final Fantasy XIII and X-2 ones. I didn't realize they were that rare

I have beat FF8 so many times over the last 20+ years. I never level anyone up past lvl 10 until the very end when I just do it just for perfectionism.

Not surprised at number 7 considering only 19 people ever played it

protobabel is a great one, worth doing, ffIV is such a great game!

Out of these I've just gotten the Tonberry treasure in FFX-2 which I platinumed, and XIII which I platinumed twice.

I have knocked out the trophies on 7 and 8 but never 9.

So glad that there's more FFT visibility.

L'Cie Paragon was a royal pain. That last mission was the reason why only 14k have done it. Like me.

The hardest part about the ff13 trophy mentioned is running back and forth to the mission to retry after failing lmao that was the most difficult part

The contrived finish one is probably the sensible way to play FF8 anyway. Even keeping all chars at starting levels is easy enough in my opinion.

contrived finish explanation had some errors in it. you can dodge all exp. forced fights can be carded, except the human soldiers (esthar, seed, etc) but they can be stoned. you can go through the entire game without anyone levelling up aside from the temp characters like seifer and edea.

Oh wow i didnt realize the L'Cie Paragon achievement was so low for completed glad i got it when i did i don't think i could do it again haha.

These games are just more fun without achievements. Just enjoyed the minigames in VII-X for what they are. In XIII I considered it complete when I did all the Cie’th Stones at any rating and could kill all the larger monsters on Pulse. Currently enjoying XIII-2 and will get all the fragments then consider it completed.

13 is the only one i've completed 100%. So much fun getting there! Also, the original version of ff8 on pc doesn't have achievments.

I only platinum ff13. Loved the wallpaper unlocks.

I love how y'all used footage from BlueAnkylo he got me into the solo runs hardcore

I got the the Platinum trophy for the seeing every Concurrence in FF12 that is supposedly so hard to get but I actually did by accident without even realizing it was an achievement.

I did the no level up ff8 challenge. Turns out its not a challenge when all the bosses are low level, low hp and not having some of their attack, while we use junction and cards to make magic making you over powered even against normal or high level bosses

personally would say the X-2 tonberry chamber one is more due to ppl not liking the gamemode at all, i actually have the achievment and di it in my first and only run to the very top, its mainly just RNG to get the secret room items, the rooms you can save scum and the fight aint thaaaat tuff, considering there is a fairly easy way to be litterally immune to damage (as long as its dealt from in front of you that is)

I'm actually surprised that the achievement for ff8 is so rare since it's not really all that hard to do if you know the mechanics of the game and how to cheese your way through. You can get OP before you even reach dollet without leveling up once with squall, just gotta farm some fish for 6 ap each with quistis till quetzacotl learns card mod, then play some triad and convert the rare cards into really powerful items and spells, that way you can probably one shot all of the bosses till disk 3 (even unoptimized mind you since there are chances to get douple, triple, flare and ultima right after you can move around wih the garden) then optimal atk junction onto zell, rinoa or irvine throughout the story, get yourself cactuar with kamikaze to deal massive damage beyond 9999 on optimal hp junction for your main character to one shot 99% of the bosses for the last portion of the game. Then hope that one of the seifer battles drop hero for the final fight with ultimecia and that one of the aliens on the ragnarok drop an aura stone, ideally you want to give both to irvine to cheese the final battle with his ammo and you don't whipe on her.

I have been through all of the grind and pain to get all FF trophies and in spin offs. Even on games without platinums. It was a few year journey. Lol

My last achieve in FF was the FFXII thropy by killing Yiazmath. It felt so good🔥🙏

I have played FFs only with PS (1,2,3) The hardest achievement I have got in FF series was to get all ultimate weapons in FFX (ps3). Particularly Tidus 0:0:0 chocobo race was super hard. FF13 platinum trophy (ps3) was easy to get when compared FFX platinum trophy, just time consuming. Nope never got Vivi's rope jump achie in FF9. It seems totally impossible for me.

The hardest achievement in all of FF history is convincing them to put Final Fantasy Tactics or War of the Lions on Steam or a current-gen system. It's so difficult, no one's been able to achieve it yet.

Proto-Babil is to this day one of the hardest super bosses I have beaten and that was mostly luck. That bitch is just not fair.

I've done the final fantasy 8 achievement......on ps1 that is. I've also done 100% save files on 7 and 10 in Steam but those aren't too difficult compared to the achievements this video mentioned.