The Ultra Rare Cleanup 2021

[Thedah]

Super Street Fighter IV done! This was my 3rd time doing this game. Once on the XBOX360 back in the day in 2010 where I did From C to Shining C legit without boosting and swore I would never do it without boosting again. Once on PS3 last year and now on the PS4 and I've gotten so efficient at it. Did it 2 days and 7 hours with the help of self boosting.

 

[Vergil]

3 hours ago, Thedah said:

Super Street Fighter IV done! This was my 3rd time doing this game. Once on the XBOX360 back in the day in 2010 where I did From C to Shining C legit without boosting and swore I would never do it without boosting again. Once on PS3 last year and now on the PS4 and I've gotten so efficient at it. Did it 2 days and 7 hours with the help of self boosting.

 

Dude how in the world you managed to do it so fast? I understand you have lots of knowledge for it. 2days :0

[Thedah]

16 minutes ago, Vergil said:

Dude how in the world you managed to do it so fast? I understand you have lots of knowledge for it. 2days :0

 

All I did for the past 2 days was sleep then woke up and played SSF4 lol. Having only 16 days left on PS Now and 3 more games to complete on it also motivated me to complete this one quickly. After completing this, I got 14 days to grind out Battle Worlds Kronos (each mission takes at least 4-5 hours to complete and I have 7 left so I'm just gonna do one a day to avoid burnout) and Torment: Tides of Numenera.

 

As soon as the session ended the other day for All For One I started self boosting for From C to shining C. After I did 30 Arcade Fight Request matches I switched my 2nd account to do Arcade Fight Request matches by turboing the X button to automatically create games that I could join and also to spam LK. This was so that I could dash into the LK to get super/ultra meter to do the 30 ultra/10 super finishes for the online title. After I got the online titles for those I switched the X button to No Function so that my 2nd account wouldn't hit me and grinded out the rest of the online titles. Once the online titles were completed it was just a matter of me watching YouTube on the side while mindlessly beating up my 2nd account for 700 matches lol.

 

Trials were really easy since I've actually done it 4 times now. I did the trials once on the PC as well just for fun. I know all the tricks/timing for them so it took me only 7-8 hours to complete them all. The hardest trial for me now is actually Gen's Trial 24 where you have to complete the H Gekiro. I still have no idea how to time it and just have to luck out on it lol

 

Arcade mode was the same deal, watched YouTube on the side while grinding it out. Then once that was done, I just had to grind out the 365 sunny background finishes in VS mode with 2nd player having 0% handicap and turboing X binded to HP so that I can dash into it to build ultra/super meter.

 

Total game time was 39 hours to plat the game.

Edited April 14, 2021 by Thedah

[Vergil]

3 minutes ago, Thedah said:

 

All I did for the past 2 days was sleep then woke up and played SSF4 lol. Having only 16 days left on PS Now and 3 more games to complete on it also motivated me to complete this one quickly. After completing this, I got 14 days to grind out Battle Worlds Kronos (each mission takes at least 4-5 hours to complete and I have 7 left so I'm just gonna do one a day to avoid burnout) and Torment: Tides of Numenera.

 

As soon as the session ended the other day for All For One I started self boosting for From C to shining C. After I did 30 Arcade Fight Request matches I switched my 2nd account to do Arcade Fight Request matches by turboing the X button to automatically create games that I could join and also to spam LK. This was so that I could dash into the LK to get super/ultra meter to do the 30 ultra/10 super finishes for the online title. After I got the online titles for those I switched the X button to No Function so that my 2nd account wouldn't hit me and grinded out the rest of the online titles. Once the online titles were completed it was just a matter of me watching YouTube on the side while mindlessly beating up my 2nd account for 700 matches lol.

 

Trials were really easy since I've actually done it 4 times now. I did the trials once on the PC as well just for fun. I know all the tricks/timing for them so it took me only 7-8 hours to complete them all. The hardest trial for me now is actually Gen's Trial 24 where you have to complete the H Gekiro. I still have no idea how to time it and just have to luck out on it lol

 

Arcade mode was the same deal, watched YouTube on the side while grinding it out. Then once that was done, I just had to grind out the 365 sunny background finishes in VS mode with 2nd player having 0% handicap and turboing X binded to HP so that I can dash into it to build ultra/super meter.

 

Total game time was 39 hours to plat the game.

Some high level stuff lol. I self boosted everything just sitting there and finding 2nd account

[Thedah]

3 minutes ago, Vergil said:

Some high level stuff lol. I self boosted everything just sitting there and finding 2nd account

Thunderlord, the person who has the #1 time is a beast. Have no idea how they did it in 1 day and 21 hours lol.

[Hisuiryu]

13 hours ago, postofficebuddy said:

Ok I’d like to request a switch of N++ with the Vita version of BBCSE. 

Man, I've been thinking about going back to finish that (I was actually playing it last week) but I really can't be bothered to find people to boost the online with... It's a shame I didn't see your post about it until now!

 

 

 

 

[CriesOfFurya]

I'd like to switch out Switch Galaxy Ultra for Dante's Inferno as I already started the latter one with a friend.

 

Dante's Inferno (0.82%) - 0/55

Edited April 14, 2021 by CriesOfFurya

[Berendsapje]

And that's Nascar Heat 3 done! 

And hoo boy this game is odd to say the least. While I don't really have to learn the tracks for the most part; they still managed to find a way for some races to be easy, and some others to be hard. Most of this stems from the challenges. One challenge has you go from last to first in 10 laps, and it took me an hour and a challenge rating of 101. Next challenge was the same, albeit different track and this time I was in first with like 5 laps to go with a challenge rating of 92. Not helping matters was the game constantly crashing, or the cars having brakes which made road courses laughably easy, as no one told the AI that their cars could actually stop now. Maybe I'll add Nascar Heat 4 to tier 2, but probably not.

 

Other than that, I'm almost done with F1 2012 career mode, even though it took me 29 straight wins to get promoted to first driver. After that it's online and then I'm done with tier 1. 

 

1. Fuel (Rarest obtainable trophy: 2.71%) 95% (All other trophies are online) (Sort of )

2. F1 2012 (2.78%) 88%

3. F1 2011 (3.18%) 100% 

4. Project Cars 2 (4.29%) 100% 

5. Nascar Heat 3 (4.12%) 100% 

[zajac9999]

Toukiden Kiwami - 100%

Pixel Junk Nom Nom Galaxy - 82%

Aqua Kitty Milk Mine Defender DX - 100%

Shiness The Lightning Kingdom -0%

Knytt Underground - 0%

 

I've finished the first 2 games on tier 3 - Toukiden Kiwami and Aqua Kitty Milk Mine Defender DX. I love the Toukiden series its a lot of fun but damn its a grind. I actually wanted to put this into an earlier tier, to motivate myself to finish it off, but didn't want to hinder my progress overall. Really glad to get it done now, I'll start Toukiden 2 at some stage, but that one isn't UR for whatever reason. I assume its a fair bit shorter. 

 

Aqua Kitty was a surprisingly fun game, the endless mode was a little tricky, but very doable with a bit of practice. I'd recommend this as a fun 100% with a couple of UR trophies and some difficulty. It's reasonably quick as well and could probably be done in 10-15 hours I'd guess. 

 

In other news, one of the trophies in Nom Nom Galaxy has glitched on me, actually two had but deleting my game data got one to pop. Hopefully I can get the other one to pop also, otherwise I'll either need to play through the game again, or swap it out. 

Edited April 15, 2021 by zajac9999

[Arcesius]

After playing through Final Fantasy 7 Remake, I finally made some progress again in my second Tier: Rise & Shine completed! 

 

 

It was a pretty fun game, but way shorter than I anticipated! In fact, I just got second fastest achiever (there are only 24 achievers, but whatever ?) and could have easily gotten the fastest time, had I known that it would be this short... 

 

Anyways, this is a game in a cartoonish aesthetics, but reminds me a lot of games like Metal Slug (and while equally brutal, maybe with less chaos...). A nice 2D-shooter with LOADS of references to classig games such as Mario, Duck Hunt, Pacman and the like. And it is a game that doesn't take itself seriously at all, and the dialogue had me smiling quite often ?

 

Probably a bit overpriced at 15€ given that the game can be beaten in 40 minutes (and the 100% takes 3-4 hours), but I got it for like 2€ so can't really complain.. 

Edited April 15, 2021 by Arcesius

[Copanele]

Another one slain for Tier 3  

1. Braid (2.44%  , 89% completed)
2. Yakuza 0 - 4%,  achieved
3. Slain Back From Hell - 3.72%,  achieved
4. Fu'un Super Combo (3.4%  ,0%completed)
5. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 (3.85%  , 0% completed)

I was worried without reason about this game simply because it's a platformer. Ended up being another awesome experience with a killer soundtrack to boot. Basically destroy the hordes of skeletons, specters and witches, defeat the boss and don't forget to headbang at the end for extra metal! Honestly this game kinda reminded me of Death Gambit (fun times @Arcesius - you might like this game also  )

 

So far the games in Tier 3 have been mad fun. Hope the other ones hold out as better. I know for sure Braid won't but eh, can't have them all.

[Koro249]

 

 

Tier 2 Update

 

Hello guys, I'm back. I completed 3 new games from my 2nd tier since I last posted on here, putting me just 1 game short of reaching tier 3. And what a beast of a game it is... 

 

 

Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide: 

Because @Mori and @Arcesius, who I did this game with already posted this before me, I really have nothing to add to what they said. Check out what they said about the game if you didn't already and you will know my opinion . 

 

Only thing I wanna mention is that I kinda wish I played this one before V2 to be able to really enjoy the massive improvements that were made by the developers. This way around I kept comparing the two and really gave V1 a harder time than it might have deserved as a standalone. 
On the other hand, seeing these awesome improvements makes me really hyped for Fatsharks upcoming game, "Darktide" and I hope it comes to PS sooner, rather than later.

 

 

Shadow Warrior: 

In anticipation of playing Shadow Warrior 2 with @Mori we both decided to get the first one and play it before to see how the series developed. Good choice I would say - I enjoyed the game a lot. Very simple, fast paced demon slaying that required quick decision making and movement. No overcomplicated systems and straight forward, arcadey levels - just straight fun. The closest I would compare this game to is probably DOOM (2016) but with a Katana for extra coolness points. The game was even pretty funny at times and I enjoyed that the (relatively irrelevant) story mostly was told while progressing through the levels, not slowing down the gameplay.

The worst part were probably the weird combos you needed to do for specific moves. For intance healing - which you need to do a lot in heroic difficulty - required you to either swipe right on the touchpad or tap your left stick to the right twice before hitting L1 which was pretty uncomfortable and resulted in me sometimes doing the inputs 4 times before finally getting the heal off. this can be very frustrating, especially when you are one hit from dying and have 20 demons on your butt.

The bosses were also really bad, just big bullet sponges with buggy hitboxes and a move pool of 3 different attacks, that could take up to 30 minutes to defeat.

 

Still, the game really shines in the normal levels with just regular demons.

Heroic Difficulty - the part that really makes this game ultra rare - was... manageable. When you die in a level (some would take up to 60 minutes), you no longer restart at the latest checkpoint but instead have do redo the entire level. With enemies being a lot tankier, able to deal huge damage and the worst waves usually showing up at the very end of the level, you can probably imagine this can be annoying at times. Luckily you basically have unlimited heals (if you can pull them off ) and there was one particularly OP weapon to carry you through this playthrough (Charge shot crossbow FTW), making most of it a test of your patience, rather than pure skill. 

I still have to mention there was one particularly difficult fight at the very end of the game (courtyard fight, chapter 16) which alone probably took me about 8 hours to beat. In this fight, the game throws everything at you at once and really wants to test your skills. If felt damn good when I finally managed to beat it!

 

 

And finally - Shadow Warrior 2: 

Played this one with Mori, as mentioned earlier and I must say, I was pretty disappointed. When looking at critics they treat it mostly the same as the first one quality wise, but i kinda don't get it.

First, it should be important to know that they completely switched the approach with this game, making it a hub world based looter shooter with free roam areas, main and side missions, probably after seeing the huge success of Borderlands and the likes. 

The gameplay is still good, very fast and exciting movement, some cool skills to use and a good feeling to the guns, but everything else... was kinda off.

 

The looting system was stupid - you had only a couple of weapons but would get upgrades for them in different rarities (white-blue-yellow-orange), dropped by enemies. Now the funny thing is, blue items would have 2 stat increases for your weapons, while yellow and orange where the same, usually a little better number wise but for some reason they also had a 3rd stat DECREASE, that would often be insanely bad (like -20% weapon damage), meaning you would mostly be best off just using your blue upgrades. Also, like every enemy would drop one of those, resulting in you having 60 new upgrades to manage after every successful mission. Just too much for my taste. 

This time around the game tried too hard to be funny which resulted in many awkward and annoying jokes. Examples would be Lo Wang (the protagonist) just straight up insulting people for no reason or this annoying girl that accompanies you through your story constantly screaming at you for what a dick you are. 

There are more things that I disliked about this game like randomly generated enemy groups or the fact that trophies only pop for the host, but I think this will be enough to give you an idea and i guess some of these issues I had come down to personal preference.  

I just personally hope that SW3 will go back to the roots as I thought the 1st one was a lot more exciting.

 

 

So... Nuclear Throne is next. I really enjoyed the game when I first started it so I'm really looking forward to getting back into it and starting to attempt some of the harder trophies.

Although I've been kinda distracted with some other games and still trying to clean my profile up a bit in general. 

There are also some huge releases on the horizon that I will probably have to prioritize like RE8, Returnal and NieR Replicant, but I will get there eventually.

 

Edited April 15, 2021 by Koro249

[postofficebuddy]

BBCSE and tier 1 complete. Very satisfying to finally have both done. 
 

Tier 1 

1. Super Meat Boy (PS4/Vita, 0.22%) - 100% 

2. Blazblue Chronophantasma Extend (PS4/PS3, 1.99%) - 100% 

3. Metrico (Vita, 3.60%) - 100% 

4. Blazblue Central Fiction (PS4/PS3, 3.61%) - 100%

5. BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend (Vita, 1.09%) - 100% 

 

The vita version is harder than you might think since you can’t rely on a second controller for the character specific combo trophies. I knocked most of those out years ago thankfully. Here’s my tier 2. 
 

Tier 2 

1. Downwell (PS4/Vita, 2.01%) - 97% 

2. Skullgirls Encore (PS3, 2.01%) - 52% 

3. Super Street Fighter 4 (PS3, 0.24%) - 74% 

4. Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!! (PS3, 1.55%) - 75% 

5. Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (PS3, 0.57%) - 54% 

 

BTW, would the PS3 version of BBCSE be allowed? I think I would be able to pop the plat just by transferring my save from the Vita version at this point. If not I could do it legit since I don’t have a lot left to do in that version anyway. Also would Goat Simulator qualify? The game doesn’t have any ultra rares but the 100% is only at 1.88%. 

[Evil_Joker88]

3 hours ago, postofficebuddy said:

BTW, would the PS3 version of BBCSE be allowed? I think I would be able to pop the plat just by transferring my save from the Vita version at this point. If not I could do it legit since I don’t have a lot left to do in that version anyway. Also would Goat Simulator qualify? The game doesn’t have any ultra rares but the 100% is only at 1.88%. 

 

General Rule #1 says a game with a like Goat Sim must have at least one UR trophy. The less than 5% general completion is not enough.

 

Event Structure Rule #12 says stacking without auto popping is allowed. Auto stacking is too easy

Edited April 16, 2021 by Evil_Joker88

[postofficebuddy]

Thanks @Evil_Joker88. I should have read the op a bit more thoroughly. I’ll just do BBCSE legit when I get to tier 3. The stuff I have left should only take a couple days anyway. Also got my first update for tier 2 already, Downwell complete. A challenging but enjoyable roguelike shooter. 
 

Tier 2 

1. Downwell (PS4/Vita, 2.01%) - 100%

2. Skullgirls Encore (PS3, 2.01%) - 52% 

3. Super Street Fighter 4 (PS3, 0.24%) - 74% 

4. Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!! (PS3, 1.55%) - 75% 

5. Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (PS3, 0.57%) - 54% 

 

I have next to no experience with these so someone really good at this genre may want to try their hand at this one. 

[S_y_n_e_IR_g_Y]

Third Game done:

 

 

- fun and solid little Game and for the difficulty its maybe just a 4/10, i think i will put the PS4 stack in my next Tier. Feels good, to finally clean up these old PS Plus Games

 

Tier 2:

1. In Space we Brawl EU / (0,49%) - 100%

2. In Space we Brawl US / (0,63%) - 100%

3. Hawken / (0,63%) - 10%

4. Time Crisis 4 Arcade Version / (1,56%) - 0%

5. Aaru's Awakening PS3 / (4,06%) - 100%

[kalimullin]

 

Finished my Tier 1.

Here is my difficulty rating (where 1 = Downwell (challenging but easy and fun) and 10 - Life is strange (painfully hard to complete)):

Surge Deluxe - 8/10 (the grind is horrible)

Bound - 2/10 (the speedrun is fun)

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD - 5/10

Stealth Inc - 7/10 (game becomes boring after a few hours)

Unravel Two - 5/10

 

Here is my Tier 2 aka Rockstar cleanup

Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3)

Grand Theft Auto V (PS3)

Red Dead Redemption (PS3)

Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4)

Super Meat Boy (PS4/vita)

[LuckySlime]

Hey I'm Hella late to this I hope I am able to still be able to participate here is my tier 1 list.

 

Tier 1: 

 

1. Badland (0.04%, 92% completed)

2. Yakuza 0 (4.00%, 37% completed)

3. Yakuza Kiwami (3.05%, 25% completed)

4. Yakuza 3 PS3 version (3.17%, 0% completed)

5. Yakuza Dead Souls (4.92%, 0% completed)

[ChxpointCharlie]

First update from me. I've completed four Tier 1 games.

 

LocoRoco 2 Remastered:

 

I decided to do this one along with Patapon 2 in honour of the recent news of the scaling back of productions at Japan Studio and the subsequent departures of many legendary and talented veteran developers that followed. I also wanted to add it because I was always a fan of the uniqueness of this series and the ingenuity of the gameplay; utilising the PSP's shoulder buttons to tilt the world. Plus it seemed like the perfect antidote to 2021 - I mean, it's virtually impossible to be depressed when you heard those Loco's sing, right!? I defy anyone not to at least smile.

 

Trophy-wise, the only thing to pose a problem (providing you have successfully navigated the myriad glitches) was perhaps the randomness of some of the sticker/stamp drops - they're somewhat dependent on R'N'G. And considering it's quite a niche title there is very little in the way of guides, even for a 13yr old game! So there are very few specific details online on where to find each song etc. Which means you could be replaying the same level over and over in the hopes of the one collectible you need appearing and a reliance on guesswork to work out where they're likely to be.

 

I've included a video below of my run of BuiBui Fort 3, which is undoubtedly the most difficult stage of either of the 2 Remasters in this series, which I hope gives a general idea of the challenge. Here's hoping we see more of these types of unique and original games of which Japan Studio was renowned for, and it's not the last of its kind!

 

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0LqAmPl-cU

 

Hyper Light Drifter:

 

This game left a huge impression on me ever since I first played it in 2016 after the co-op patch. I'm glad to finally have it on my list and it's great seeing the huge amount of adoration it's received in this thread! I loved absolutely every moment of this one.

 

Killzone: Shadow Fall:

 

I had never intended to do this entry in the series originally, but this event spurred me to take another look at it, and I'm glad I did because the MP was surprisingly fun with friends, particularly the co-op! I always regarded it as a serviceable shooter and a decent showcase of the PS4's early technical capabilities, and not much more. But it still stands up today, a full generation later. Playing it with hindsight to how much of that tech would later progress and go on to feature in the world of Horizon: Zero Dawn was also interesting from the point of view of a fan.

 

Batman: Arkham Origins:

 

Again, this is another one I had never originally intended to really ever play, but I'm so glad I gave it a chance! It stands up strong alongside the other Arkham games and does a lot of things to push itself forward in its own right. I particularly liked the more grounded feel of Gotham. And its inhabitants have some of the most fully realised character designs I've seen. I preferred the focus on less "powered" characters too so to me it has an overall more realistic appeal. And again, just like KZ, a surprisingly solid multiplayer component which I didn't expect to enjoy so much! 

 

Tier 1:

• LocoRoco 2 Remastered (3.37%) 
• Batman: Arkham Origins (1.93% UR, 1.04%) 
• Killzone: Shadow Fall (1.69% UR, 0.28%)
• Hyper Light Drifter (3.34% UR, 1.9%) 
• Yakuza 0 (3.94% UR) - 85% 

 

 

[grimydawg___]

Got MLB 16 done!  I think I'm doing the Disgaea games next.  I only got 57 UR platinum trophies.  I suck

[Vergil]

18 minutes ago, grimydawg___ said:

.  I suck

I hate to say it but yes you do

Edited April 16, 2021 by Vergil

[Danny_Johansen]

Red faction guerilla 100%. Had an absolute blast playing through this.

 

Tier 1.5

1. Battle Fantasia - 12%
2. Red Faction: Guerrilla - 100%
3. Time Crisis: Razing Storm - 80%
4. 初音ミク -Project DIVA- ドリーミーシアター 2nd - 100%
5. 初音ミク -Project DIVA- ドリーミーシアター extend - 100%

Edited April 16, 2021 by Danny_Johansen

[Wdjat Prinny Doods]

Finished off Exist Archive

 

1. Blazblue: Continuum Shift (1.79%)- 100% 
2. Ys: Origins (2.60%)- 55%
3. Steamworld Heist (1.45%)- 1%
4. Exist Archive (3.15%)- 100%
5. Dreams (2.33%)- 5%

[Evil_Joker88]

Finished off my 2nd game for this event playing over 2 months many hours of WWZ, it's finally done. Good game if you play it through once or twice and even the pvp wasn't bad that was mostly due to me playing alongside one or even two friends who shot the others down much faster than i did   I never tire of killing zombies   but the game is too grindy to be good at the end. Why does it have to be all lv 5 weapon upgrades and all classes perks unlocked?

 

I have high hopes to complete the next game faster because i played once through The Last Guardian in the last week, got only a few trophies yet but i read the trophy guide after finishing the game and see the next trophies are easy to get if you know what you have to do.

 

Furthermore i am almost done with my first playthrough of Quantum Theory and i got almost all collectibles alongside.

 

Quantum Theory 1.14%. Personal Progress: 15/51 (30%) --> 22/51 (41%)

Yu-Gi-Oh Millennium Duels 3.77%. Personal Progress: 11/12 (71%)

Rocket League 0.82%. Personal Progress: 100%

The Last Guardian. 3.29%. Personal Progress: 0% --> 5/24 (16%)

World War Z 3.90%. Personal Progress: 34/36 (90%) -->

Edited April 17, 2021 by Evil_Joker88

[zajac9999]

Toukiden Kiwami - 100%

Pixel Junk Nom Nom Galaxy - 100%

Aqua Kitty Milk Mine Defender DX - 100%

Shiness The Lightning Kingdom -0%

Knytt Underground - 42%

 

Managed to get the glitched stuff to work for me so I was able to finish up my 3rd game for this Tier - Nom Nom Galaxy. 

 

I'm currently playing Knytt Underground when commuting to and from work mostly, occasionally on breaks etc too so I'll hopefully finish that sometime next week, I guess. Not sure if I'll start Shiness immediately or do something random from my backlog first. Either way I guess it's time to start thinking about Tier 4 games since I always find it difficult to choose. 

 

I'm ready @xZoneHunter