Trophies and achievements are a great way to make old games exciting again

I just spend dozens of hours playing a 20-year-old video game I haven’t laid eyes on in quite some time, all because I wanted to earn the game’s coveted Platinum Trophy.

The PlayStation 4 port of Final Fantasy VII had me trying to defeat Ruby Weapon and acquire one of the game’s most powerful summons for rare gold PlayStation Trophies. These are challenges I completely ignored when I first played Square Enix’s beloved title. All I wanted to do was finish the story. But this new incentive of earning every single one of FFVII’s Trophies let me experience an older game in a new way.