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The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap

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The Plucky Squire Trophy Roadmap

  • Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10
  • Approximate amount of time to platinum: 8-10 hours
  • Offline Trophies: 21 (1trophy, 8trophy, 5trophy, 7trophy)
  • Online Trophies: 0
  • Number of missable trophies: 3 – trophy Saviour of the Glitchbirds (must find all in one playthrough), trophy Art Collector (merchant that sells Scrolls glitches in Chapter Select), Powerful Jot (merchant that sells Skill Upgrades glitches in Chapter Select)
  • Glitched trophies: 0 – all trophies are obtainable, but see Bug Warning below Step 1 (basically avoid Chapter Replay as a lot of things are broken there. Get everything during one playthrough.)
  • Does difficulty affect trophies?: Yes, need to finish the game on Adventure Mode which is the highest difficulty
  • Minimum Playthroughs: 1
  • PS4/PS5 Crossbuy, Autopop, Save Transfer: No, game doesn’t have a PS4 version
  • Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Yes, there is still Chapter Select, but it is very buggy and should be avoided (see Bug Warning below Step 1)
  • Supports Manual Saves?: No, only Autosave – it’s recommended to back up save to PS+ cloud at the start of each chapter, if you missed something you can copy back the save and replay from there
  • Release Date: September 17, 2024

Introduction

Welcome to the The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide! Plucky Squire is a puzzle/adventure game about the titular Plucky Squire and his friends having to deal with the fact, that they are actually in a book. A cute, short game that has the main protagonist deal with a villain, by manipulating his own world, or in this case the book world. The game is about 8 to 10 hours long and takes place on book pages which you either navigate in 2D or manipulate from the outside in 3D. The trophies are nothing difficult and everything can be done in a single playthrough, but you must grab all collectibles in one playthrough as the Glitchbirds don’t count in Chapter Select, and the merchant that sells Art Scrolls & Skill Upgrades glitches out in Chapter Select.

Step 1: 100% Completion Playthrough on Adventure Mode

Simply follow The Plucky Squire Collectible Guide and you’ll get all collectibles and trophies along the way (it also includes all trophies in chronological order). There are two types of collectibles: 10 Glitchbirds & 50 Art Scrolls.

Also pick up every single “Bulb” you see and hit everything for money, since you need almost all Bulbs to buy all Scrolls and Skill Upgrades in a single run. Bulbs are this game’s form of currency which you spend at the merchant named Martina.

Bug Warnings:

At the time of writing, there are several bugs (might be patched in the future):

  • Collected Glitchbirds DON’T save in Chapter Replay, the first Glitchbird you collect in Replay will raise your trophy progression by 1 for this trophy, but the Bird will respawn, no matter if you finish the level afterward or not! So if you only missed one Bird, you might get the final one by replaying the chapter, but if you missed 2 or more, you will have to play the entire game again.
  • Your companions glitch out on Chapter Replay, they become invisible and it causes problems with some cutscenes and dialogues. Most of the time you can still progress, but it might also block progression in some cases. Chapter 7 is confirmed to glitch out completely in Chapter Replay, so if you missed anything there and plan to get it in Chapter Replay, you will need to redo the whole game.
  • Scrolls can be obtained via Chapter Replay except in Chapter 7 due to progression bug (see above). You do not need to finish the level after picking up a previously missed Scroll for it to save.
  • The merchant Martina also glitches out completely in Chapter Select, so everything that has to do with her is also missable (Scrolls and Skill Upgrades bought from her).
  • Hit every enemy, bush, tree and everything else that drops bulbs so you can buy all the scrolls and skills from Martina in a single run, the amount needed is pretty high, you need almost 100% of all bulbs!

While the glitches might get patched in the future, it is better to be safe than sorry, so in general:

  1. Follow The Plucky Squire Collectible Guide if you want to avoid a second run – it’s a good idea to back up your save to PS+ cloud at the start of each chapter, if you missed a collectible you can copy back your save and replay from there.
  2. Keep hitting everything for bulbs!
  3. Avoid Chapter Replay.

The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide

The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Get all trophies
Get all trophies		 Platinum
Earn all other trophies in The Plucky Squire to unlock Platinum!
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Story Complete
Complete the Story Mode.		 Bronze
Finish all 10 Chapters, finishing the game on Adventure Mode will unlock both the trophies for Story and Adventure Mode.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Adventure Complete
Complete the Adventure Mode.		 Bronze
Finish all 10 Chapters, finishing the game on Adventure Mode will unlock both the trophies for Story and Adventure Mode.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Saviour of the Glitchbirds
Rescue all Glitchbirds.		 Gold
MISSABLE: All Glitchbirds must be found in one playthrough (they don’t count via chapter select).

There are a total of 10 Glitchbirds you need to collect. One per chapter, except chapter 9 which has 2.

» The Plucky Squire Collectible Guide (Glitchbirds & Art Scrolls)
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Art Collector
Find all Art Scrolls.		 Gold
Missable Warning: In Chapter Replay, the merchant Martina glitches and you can no longer buy Scrolls from her, making this trophy missable.

There are 50 Art Scrolls in the game. Some of them can be purchased from the vendor Martina, all the remaining ones can be found in the first 9 chapters of the game. Every Martina has a unique scroll, so make sure to always buy them from her, as they don’t carry over to the next Martina shop.

» The Plucky Squire Collectible Guide (Glitchbirds & Art Scrolls)
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Powerful Jot
Fully upgrade Jot’s abilities.		 Gold
Missable Warning: In Chapter Replay, the merchant Martina glitches and you can no longer buy Skill Upgrades from her, making this trophy missable.

Buy all the skills and their upgrades from Martina throughout the game. Unlike the scrolls she sells, the skills still appear in her next shops later in the game, so don’t worry about buying them immediately. You should, however, pick up every single bulb you see and hit everything for money, since you need almost all of them to buy everything in a single run.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Powerful Puncher
Defeat the Honey Badger in a boxing match.		 Bronze
Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. This is the first trophy you will earn in the game.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Metal Warrior
Defeat the Mega Eagle.		 Bronze
Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Mighty Witch
Defeat the Mage.		 Bronze
Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap WRETCHED RODENT!!!
SIMPLY INFURIATING		 Gold
Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Triumphant Squire
Defeat the nefarious sorceror Humgrump.		 Gold
Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Huge Frog
Rearrange a sentence to make the little frog huge.		 Silver
CHAPTER 4

In chapter 4 you will come across a puzzle that has a big bug blocking the path. You will have to take the word HUGE and bring it to the frog where you replace the word TINY with it.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Huge Bridge
Rearrange a sentence to make the bridge huge.		 Silver
CHAPTER 4

In chapter 4 you will come to an area with sleeping frogs, where you play with DAYTIME and NIGHT words to change the time of the day. For story progression you’re supposed to make the BROKEN bridge SOLID, but instead go back a few pages and grab the word HUGE from and bring it to the bridge to make it HUGE.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Bust Buster
Rearrange a sentence to blow up Humgrump’s bust.		 Silver
CHAPTER 9

In chapter 9 you will come across a puzzle with crates. On the right side of the room you will find Humgrump’s bust which is made out of DIAMOND. During this puzzle you will obtain the word BROKEN, which you can place at the bust as replacement for the word DIAMOND. Once you do that, the bust will be cracked and you can break it with your sword.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Cheese Mushrooms
Rearrange a sentence to make some cheese mushrooms.		 Silver
CHAPTER 6

In chapter 6 rat puzzle, grab the word CHEESE from the cave on the left (necessary for story progression), replace the word GLOWING in front of the mushrooms in the same cave.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Cheese Pillar
Rearrange a sentence to make a cheese pillar.		 Silver
CHAPTER 6

In chapter 6 once you reach a puzzle with a big dude blocking the path while listening to some music. Get back to the page with the rat puzzle and grab the word CHEESE to place it in front of one of the 2 speakers.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap The Joy Of Art
Find an Art Scroll.		 Bronze
» The Plucky Squire Collectible Guide (Glitchbirds & Art Scrolls)
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Cute Little Glitchbird
Find a Glitchbird.		 Bronze
» The Plucky Squire Collectible Guide (Glitchbirds & Art Scrolls)
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Perfect Fish Grab
Catch Floatio on your first try.		 Gold
CHAPTER 4

In chapter 4 you will automatically come across this fish. Picking it up will trigger a minigame. You will see your hand on the screen and will have to press a button while the fish flies by to grab it. If you mess it up, simply quit the game and try again. A checkpoint was just 30 sec earlier when you entered the room.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Optimistic Explorer
Try jumping off the desk. Worth a go.		 Gold
Can be done whenever you are in the 3D plain on the table. Simply go south and jump off the table.
The Plucky Squire Trophy Guide & Roadmap Star Walker
Retrieve the scroll from the top of the star projector.		 Gold
CHAPTER 6

During Chapter 5 you will have to find 3 pieces in the 3D plain on the table while using a jetpack. The final piece in the middle is in a star projector. Once you get to the projector do not go inside of it yet. Instead, use the jetpack to fly to the top to find a scroll. You will get it automatically while going for all the scrolls in the game.

 Special Thanks / Credits 

Mektige, Hinsusta = help with collectibles

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  1. Thank you so much for having the guide ready for release! So happy to get home from work and be able to enjoy this little gem 🙂

    One question, how many bulbs do you need exactly for all the upgrades? I’ve noticed that if you go back to previous pages and strike the trees again, you can get bulbs again from some trees that previously already dropped them.

    Anyway, thanks again for you great work! Every game I play I always have your guides to help me through!

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    • Oh! I didnt know that, great find! I’m at chapter 5 atm, will surely find a nice forest and do some farm to be more comfortable, I’m finding myself hitting EVERYTHING and always buying scrolls and only if with a lot more bulbs, upgrades….

    • There’s an amazing farming spot at Chapter 6!!

      When you reach the area where you have to give some cheese to a monster rat, hit every bush and tree here, there’s a lot of bushes on the bottom right corner, then let the monster rat kill you. You’ll keep the bulbs and the bushes will respawn!! Rinse and Repeat !

  3. Thank you for the trophy guide. I am usually not interested in 2D games, but since this game is a combination of 2D/3D, as well as launching on PS Plus Extra/Premium, makes me somewhat interested in The Plucky Squire. Unfortunate that there’s bugs that cause glitched trophies when using Chapter Select, but if I were to play this, I would try to do everything to earn the Platinum trophy in a single playthrough regardless.

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  5. Nice job on this guide! I was just curious if you all have any plans to make an Enotria: The Last Song Trophy Guide and Roadmap? I noticed it was on the list for upcoming guides but it’s not there anymore. I almost always use your guides to platinum souls and soulslike games. No worries if you’re not making a guide though, I’d just like to know. Thank You!

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  6. Looks like they reduced the Art Scroll cost to 10 bulbs for release, so the bulb economy shouldn’t be as strict. Hopefully they fixed the bugs too!

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  8. I already catch the fish, but wasn at the first time and Im now on chapter 5, can i go back to catch it again ir do i meet to start a new game?

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    • You can do it via chapter select but the quit/load checkpoint trick won’t work because quitting chapter select will return you to the main menu

  11. The Bird Trophy is bugged. I took them all. But it only counted six. It stopped a while at four and the last two counted again. Yeah. No second playtrough for this.

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  12. I’m pretty sure you can use accessibility settings and make this a 1/10 difficulty. I have 1HK and invincibility active and am still unlocking all story achievements, getting progression towards Adventure Mode correctly, and all collectible tracking appears correct too. This is on Xbox. Don’t believe it will invalidate any other achievements if its not blocking the Adventure difficulty achievement from tracking.

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    • Can confirm. Have the 1000G using accessibility setting, meaning you can 1HK all non boss enemies and be immune to damage. If you wish to grind coins just turn off invincibility for a bit.

    • I had to do this fight twice for it to register. I clocked it immediately, re-loaded an auto save and it popped. So I think it’s buggy.

  14. Okay, so I might be nitpicking, but it maybe would be good to change the wording of the guide. It says multiple times in the guide to not pick quote “chapter select”. Which I assumed is like classic chapter select, since the game is chapter based. But you actually mean the automatic savefiles that are made after making progress or entering new page.

    I was so adamant to get everything on one playthrough, expected said chapter select to become avalaible after the game ends

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  15. Hi guys, I saw that there are tricks that can be reached in the options, like invincibility etc… I wanted to know if they disable the trophies… Thanks!

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  16. Finished the game but Powerful Jot is only at 91%, keeping me from the platinum. I hope there’s a way in the future to obtain this without having to replay the game. I collected all the bulbs I saw and it still wasn’t enough apparently.

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  18. It’s worth noting using “Save History” is the same as using “Chapter Select” and affects the Glitchbird trophy – They aren’t counted properly.

    So now I’m waiting for a patch which will hopefully come soon…

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    • yeah I was stuck in a tree surrounded by fire so I had to use Save History and now I am missing 3 birds….

    • Thanks for this, I just did the same thing. I got soft locked by using invincible to roll past the blades without having the stop stamp. I reloaded a quick save from before I got the glitchbird so I thought I had to get it again. I thought it was weird when it didn’t say anything after grabbing it. Then I got the next one and it said I just picked up the second one. I’m not gonna start over, I’ll just wait with you.

  19. My Adventure Complete trophy is stuck at 80% for some reason. I beat the game in “adventure” but it unlocked only the Story Complete trophy. I tried replay the Chapter 9 in “adventure mode” from chapter replay but it didn’t unlock. Is there any way to fix this that doesn’t involve replaying the whole game?

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  20. Dont know why, but got powerful jot at chapter 7.
    I fully upgraded sword, sword throw and curcle attack, when I bought the jump attack, the trophy poped.
    I didnt farm but hit everything.

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  21. Just an fyi the glitch bird trophy is glitched. I experienced a bug during the mine cart section and had to reload an earlier save. Now the game is not reporting when I pick up new glitchbirds

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  22. Thanks to WickedMatrix says for the kind reply of the cheats that do not disable the trophies…

    I wanted to ask another question, why this game from 1 to 10 as difficulty, is it given a 3 out of 10? It does not seem to me a game that has anything difficult apparently from the trophy list, maybe there are some levels or fights too difficult somewhere in the game?? If someone can kindly explain to me why it is a 3 out of 10 and not a 2 out of 10, I would be very grateful, because this game intrigues me a lot… Thanks to all guys…

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  23. In my progress for the platinum trophy, the adventure mode is 80%. In Chapter 9, out of frustration with the puzzle with the balls, I switched from adventure to story mode. Can I replay this chapter in Adventure mode and still get the Trophy, or do I really have to replay the entire game in Adventure mode?

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  25. If you skip a mini game does it invalidate the trophy? Trying to beat the Humpgrunp in the Tetris battle after jump mega bird and am so tempted to skip it but don’t want to lose the trophy.

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    • You can use chapter select to beat it again. That happened to me, so verified on my own.

    • I jumped over all of them, so the trophy is only for the last part of the boss with humgrump

      (so it is after the three first faces)

  26. Achieved platinum with a patch. Everything counted correctly, followed the guide, but missed like 10 bulbs to get full improvements in a shop. That was the only trophy left to me. As expected shop doesn’t spawn in chapter replay, so I had to revert my save from cloud, from chapter 7, then found some page with some enemies and bushes, kill them all expect one, die, repeat, and after about 1 hours I got a required 360 bulbs to buy 3 upgrades that I had left at my save from chapter 7.

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  27. A couple of tips I didn’t see listed, since getting bulbs is the main blocker for two of the trophies.

    There are tons of hittable objects in 3D world, not only the cardboard bushes and trees but regular looking trees and other things when in the house. If an object has a white border, it can be hit for bulbs. Look everywhere, behind things, and in the corners for extra bulbs whenever in 3D.

    Don’t buy the sword throw badge, you can get it for free if you wait another chapter or two. Martina will sell it for 0 by chapter 3 (I think), because you have to have it to progress the story at a certain point. This saves you another 20 or so bulbs.

    When hitting everything available and killing every enemy, without any farming, I had 80 spare bulbs at the final store and had purchased everything up to that point.

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  28. New PC patch (10/8) includes the below fix. Hopefully it will also be on the next console patch.

    “Fixed the shopkeeper not appearing when using the Chapter Replay feature even when she has something to sell.”

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