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So I am taking a look through my backlog and have numerous games I could play for each digit. These are the options I'm looking at-- trying to keep to some shorter games seeing as how I don't have a lot of time these days. Italicized game is the one I'm leaning towards, but we'll see. 0 The Little Acre The Gardens Between AER Iris Fall Ghost Giant 1 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Goodbye Deponia The Tower of Beatrice The Last Campfire Soma 2 Armikrog Punchline Creaks Concrete Genie 3 Distraint (Vita) Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent Demetrios Lumini 4 Detective Gallo Inside Mom Hid My Game Figment Master Reboot 5 Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds One Eyed Kutkh Icey King's Quest Flipping Death 6 Distraint (PS4) The Girl and the Robot Unmechanical (PS4) Flower (Vita) 7 Escape Plan (Vita) Coffee Talk Asemblance Stick it to the Man Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice 8 Solo Teslagrad Beyond Eyes Murdered: Soul Suspect Rime 9 Truberbrook Eventide Sayonara Wild Hearts Yesterday Origins

I never went away, but my time on this site and video games in general has been drastically reduced due to starting grad school back in August.

Gaming By Numbers Is everyone super excited for a fourth round of Gaming By Numbers?! I know I am! Updates: May 10 - Google Sheets document has been created here. The Basics 1) You will be playing up to 10 different games for this event, with one unique instance of the numbers 0-9 as the last digit in the game's URL. 2) Badges will be filled in with colors corresponding to each number. You will have a fully-colored badge if you complete all 10 digits! 2) Here is an example list that would earn a full badge: Final Fantasy VII Remake is 0 as its URL ID is 10660: https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/10660-final-fantasy-vii-remake Returnal is 1 as its URL ID is 12751: https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/12751-returnal Tales of Xillia (NA) is 2 as its URL ID is 2062: https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/2062-tales-of-xillia Marvel's Spider-Man is 3 as its URL ID is 8143: https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/8143-marvels-spider-man Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is 4 as its URL ID is 8864: https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/8864-sekiro-shadows-die-twice Kingdom Hearts III is 5 as its URL ID is 8675: https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/8675-kingdom-hearts-iii Ratchet & Clank (PS4) is 6 as its URL ID is 4536: https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/4536-ratchet-clank Tales of Xillia (EU) is 7 as its URL ID is 2077: https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/2077-tales-of-xillia Heavy Rain (PS4) is 8 as its URL ID is 4398: https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/4398-heavy-rain Heavy Rain (PS3) is 9 as its URL ID is 249: https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/249-heavy-rain Resources Save yourself some time with looking up your games' digits by looking at the Popular Games spreadsheet. This sheet contains the most popular 100 games for each system (PS5 PS4 PS3 Vita) based on PSNP's "Popular This Week" ranking (compiled June 18, 2019, June 14, 2020, and May 6 2021). Feel free to check out the 2018 Tableau Dashboard, 2019 Tableau Dashboard, and 2020 Google Sheets to see all of the data for the last three events! Note: I have done my best to provide accurate information for all the games/data listed in the linked documents, but it is each participant's individual responsibility to ensure accuracy for the games they complete, including-- but not limited to-- accuracy of the represented digit, validation that servers are still online/completion is obtainable, correct listing of completed games, etc. Rewards You will get an event badge, designed by @Spacey Dweeb, within a few weeks of the event ending so long as you complete at least 5 numbers. The event badges will be semi-unique as it will get "colored in" based on the games you complete, like a Color-By-Numbers activity! I will post the "blank" badge here as well as a color panel once we've finalized the badge design. Spacey has shown me a rough draft and it looks super awesome! Important Dates Sign-up Ends: Midnight, June 15, 2021 Event Starts: 12:00:01 AM, June 1, 2021 Event Ends: Midnight, August 31, 2021 --Timezone is MST --If you sign up after the event start date (but before the sign-up cutoff), I'll count any games completed during the event time frame even if they were completed before you signed up Rules 1) As you could probably tell from the examples, you are allowed to stack games! Different trophy lists have different IDs for different regions, different systems, or even physical versus digital releases! 2) Your game will count so long as you get 100% of the base game between the event start and end dates. If your game has a platinum, this means getting the platinum is necessary, but you do not need to complete any associated DLC. Similarly, for a game that has no platinum, you will only need to complete the base game trophies (example: Little Nightmares has several DLC packs-- only the 13 base game trophies need to be completed). 3) If you got 100% for the base game before the event started, that game cannot be used for the event even if you still have DLC to complete. However, you can use games that you have made progress in before the event started (i.e.-- you do not need to start games from 0% completion). 4) The game's URL ID has to match the number category for it to count for that category. No exceptions! Make sure you are clicking on the correct region/system/version link before playing your game! 5) You do not have to complete your games in any specific order. Game Updates You don't need to submit a list beforehand, or even at all! I will be updating everyone who has signed up for the event in a Google Sheets spreadsheet and Tableau Dashboard on a weekly-ish basis by looking at what games are completed on their profile. However, it's always fun to see what everyone intends to play, so feel free to discuss your gaming plans and progress! Results will be put into a Google Sheets document. @Jens will be assisting with updates this time around! Note: As I am updating these games based on what I see on profiles rather than what people post in the forum, whichever game I see first (usually your first completed game) will be recorded in the spreadsheet. Any requests to list a different game in the spreadsheet will be refused unless it's due to error on my part-- such as listing a game you didn't actually complete, etc; this makes my life easier as this event tend to get quite a lot of people signing up. Happy Gaming!

Platinum #136 - Heavy Rain (PS4) 10.90% Rarity Difficulty - 3.5/10, Time Spent - ~30 Hours , Enjoyment 8/10 Heavy Rain is the story of Ethan Mars, a father whose son has been kidnapped by a serial killer known as the Origami Killer. The killer has laid out several dangerous and gruesome tasks for Ethan to complete in order to reveal the location of where his son is being held. The gameplay of Heavy Rain is QTE-based. Everything is just walking around the areas the game puts you in and interacting with the objects and scenery. You'll go through some more complex scenes-- like fighting or driving-- but it is all interacted with through QTEs. The game allows you to pick different levels of difficulty for the QTEs. I played the game on the easiest difficulty and still thought the QTEs were relatively challenging. The plot of this game is EXCELLENT. It is what makes the game worth playing. You won't be getting much out of the graphics, music, or gameplay, but you will get a ton out of the story. It's really hard to elaborate more without spoiling things, but the story is just amazing. There were some things I didn't like about the game. One trophy, Kamikaze, required me to replay a QTE sequence for 2-hours straight because you have to execute it perfectly; in a game that is otherwise very easy, this trophy seemed rather out of place. The other thing that bothered me was the controls for walking; you had to hold down the R2 button while navigating with the left stick; I wish it would have just let you walk with the left stick instead of making you also hold down a button. Some of the QTEs were hard to do as well.... there was one time where I was holding down one of the triggers, the O button and the Square, and then it also made me press the triangle... I literally had to do that with my tongue. One scene I didn't care for was a sex scene where you had to QTE your way through it... it just felt gross to do that. Lastly, I understand the game is set in Boston but the accent for saying "Origami" got on my nerves really quick. Despite my couple complaints, I would highly recommend playing this game.

Just finished up my game for Badge #1: Heavy Rain I could probably write an entire essay on the various aspects of mental health in this game because so many of the characters have clear mental illness, but I'll try to keep it short. Everything is in the spoilers because I don't want to risk revealing too much. Ethan Mars Scott Shelby Norman Jayden Madison Paige Shaun Mars Mr. Sheppard Nathaniel Susan Bowles Overall, I think this game paints a fairly realistic picture of what it's like to live with a mental illness (except for the Origami Killer... most people don't end up becoming serial killers due to their trauma). A lot of the characters are functioning adults who are able to "hide" their ailments and carry on with life despite them. Even Ethan is able to carry out some unimaginably difficult tasks despite his depression. ---------------- EDIT! I also just finished my game for my bonus badge: Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1. This fits because you are traveling in a party. You have 2 members at the beginning and 16 party members at the end (all of which you have to level up to Level 100... wowzas).