well i just finished the heroic side of the game and finished everything apart from the blast shards i need 38 more Any tips from any one to help me find them? It's such a pain, as this is the first game im aiming at to get platinum.

lol! yeah it's a pain in the ass. Mine is 338 blast shards. Need 12 more shards in order to get that trophy); sometimes for me the shards itself appear randomly in the game. At the moment I saw there was no shard at the location I search, then when i resume tmr and went to that place again, there's a shard. I could be wrg though about it appears randomly. But the best thing to do is search the whole place. Keep on walking while pressing L3. Sometimes, you will be lucky to find one;P

Well I've started on this trophy and have quite a bit to go (still in the 200s . . . maybe 290-something).

But take it one place at a time and use the map showing all the shard locations (unless you want to do it without the map. Then just keep a good memory of where you've been). Then use the mini map to check each place. Not too too hard. Much easier than any of the Spiderman game Token searches!!!

hmm i've just started an evil playthrough so once i finish that i'll print the sheet and go looking for the shards, i'll give the hunting a rest for now.

*revives*

Arrgghhhh, ONE....LAST....SHARD DAMMIT!

I've got all the shards, save one, and it is elusive >_<

I've searched the entire map fairly carefully, I was originally having trouble finding two, but one I just happened across.

BTW: Anybody having trouble should search around the edges of each island, doing the 'search' thing (L3) every half of the minimap crossed or so. I found about 23 of my missing shards on the edges of each island.

EDIT: Dang, it was the lone shard on the far upper right of Neon, one of 3 shards that won't normally appear on the map unless you get close...All that wasted time when a quick search on Neo would have told me about it....

This message was edited by tallteen86 on Aug 19 2009.

What i did was when i was nearing the end of the game, i kept clicking L3 wherever i went (my finger got real sore XD ), then when i had done everything else, i did a coastal search of each island followed by a train track search. So i'd follow the sea and click L3 every second all the way around, as shards are normally near the edges as you barely go there in the main game. Luckily, by the time i had done the train track search on the historic district i had all 350, so i didn't have to do....something else