I was having fun in NG+ so I decided I might as well check the trophy list and see if I wanted to go for completionism. All I really had left were the records, so I went for it. (For the record, I think video games would be better off without trophies.)
When I reached the point where you get one of two records depending on particular choices, I received neither. I looked it up and learned that I had sped through the game a little too fast and skipped some prerequisites. So much for that, I thought.
But then I decided to pull down my cloud save from when I went for all the endings and try it again. I figured I could get there pretty quickly while also being careful to meet the requirements. And I did, but despite making the opposite choice I received a duplicate of the record I already had.
After some more research, I learned that a recent patch had modified the game so you can get all of the non-golden records in the same run. In doing so they also made the requirement for the one I was missing exactly the opposite of what it had been. Hence the duplicate.
This time, I’d uploaded a new cloud save when I was about halfway there, but I’d been confident enough that I was getting it right that I didn’t do it closer to the key point in the game.
I should have left it at that, but this morning I once again pulled down my cloud save, reached that point for the fourth time, and got the last record.
Was it worth it? Is there meaning in the universe? At least now I have the Lies of P platinum trophy that I can include in my resume next time I find myself looking for a job.