10 Video Game Trophies That Made You Do RIDICULOUS Things

10. Hail To The King - Final Fantasy IX

Final Fantasy IX's "Hail to the King" trophy is legendary for breaking even the franchise's most doggedly determined fans, because it requires you to demonstrate a practically superhuman mastery of the RPG's infamous jump-rope mini-game.

Near the beginning of the game in Alexandria, you're able to approach a group of girls and play jump-rope with them, where a counter will keep track of how many jumps you successfully land without screwing up the timing.

Hail to the King brutally requires players to tap X in rhythm one thousand times without making a mistake - a ludicrously tall order given that the timing of the jumps speeds up the further along you get.

Though a perfect run theoretically takes only around eight minutes, the mind-meltingly precise timing required for that sustained period makes this damn-near impossible the "correct" way.

And so, many players have resorted to a cheeky workaround - loading up Remote Play on their PC and using a script to auto-complete the rope-jump for them.

But even this method isn't foolproof, as it's heavily dependent on the quality of your Internet connection.

It's a whole lotta faff, basically, and though less than 2% of players have collected the trophy, it's fair to assume that the overwhelming majority of them employed outside help to get it.