Summer 2021 Backlog Challenge

[Hisuiryu]

Week 3 

I managed to make some good progress this week, I finished the story in FFXIII so now I'm working through the post-game & trophy cleanup. I've been working through the missions in order, the first 35 or so are completed with 5* (and mission 55 for the growth egg), I'm working through the Titan's Trials ones at the moment, but it looks like I've hit the point where I need to go grind before continuing, those A class missions at the end are no joke - I'm sure some of them will be immune to Death which will stop me in my tracks ?

 

Everyone has their first role mastered though it'll be a while before they're all maxed, most characters have their primary roles on 5-4-4 but nothing on secondary ones. I think I'm at about 10-15 Chocobo treasures, so hopefully they'll come as I do the rest of the missions in the field. Other than that progress is kind of hard to gauge, I hope I'll have it done by next week but with a whole lot of turtle grinding still to do it's possibly going to be another 2? 

1. Final Fantasy XIII - 27% > 56%
2. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition - 0%
3. Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition - 0%
4. Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition - 0%
5. Octodad (Vita) - 0%
6. Okami - 0%
7. Soul Sacrifice - 10%
8. Tropico 5 - 15%

[Dav9834]

@MidnightDragon

Can we still swap games? 

[MidnightDragon]

1 hour ago, Dav9834 said:

@MidnightDragon

Can we still swap games? 

Up to two games. If it's an unreleased title that gets delay, that's an exception.

[Dav9834]

2 hours ago, MidnightDragon said:

Up to two games. If it's an unreleased title that gets delay, that's an exception.

Sweet thanks! 

Changing Clannad to resident evil 0!

[da_eMTy]

Update 3:

Got 2 more games done in this week. Mekorama was a funny short puzzler with a nice style. Some levels took some time but overall it was an easy game and a enjoyable aswell.

My highlight was Life is Strange 2. Got it in my backlog for some time and heard not so good reviews. So i wasnt hooked like I was playing the first entry. But damn...It was a pleasure and what a ride. sure some elements are clunky and not everything was inventive but I loved it. I love the score of this series and how they tell the story. If u are ok, to play a movie and dont expect a game on which you can change everything, it is really good.

Ive also made some progress on Valhalla and knocked out the dlc, which was really awesome and I got my hands on Road Fury. It is a bit shaky but still fun. Planning to complete this for before the next Update.

 

Color Code:

 

Red = Game not started

Orange = Game is in progress

Blue = a new Game was added

 

Incomplete Games (5/10):

Number | title (trophies at last update | last update % current trophies | current %) - date of completion

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1. Armikrog (0/18 = 0%)
2. Assassin´s Creed Valhalla (12/60 = 15% 24/60 = 30%)
3. Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (5/39 = 7%)
4. Road Fury (0/21 = 0% ➡️ 9/21 = 20%)
5. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (10/50 = 17%)

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Swaps used: 0/2

Swapped games: 

 

 

Color Code:

Black = Finished in another Update

Green = Completed in this Update

 

Games completed (5/10):

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1. Hawken (13/13 = 100%)
2. Secret Ponchos (13/13 = 100%)
3. The Pedestrian (10/10 = 100%)
4. Mekorama (17/17 = 100%)
5. Life is Strange 2 (47/47 = 100%)

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Trophies earned (128/268) +85

 

Keep on updating guys. Its a pleasure to read all the progress updates!

[Cruscah]

Weekly Update #03

1. Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry (PS4) - 0%
2. Battlefield V (PS4) - 0%
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) - 0%
4. Call of Duty: World at War (PS3) - 39% → 100%
5. Crossing Souls (PS4) - 100%
6. Grand Theft Auto V (PS3) - 4%
7. God of War III (PS3) - 4%
8. Haven (PS5) - 56% → 100%
9. Hue (PS4) - 0% → 100%
10. Human Fall Flat (PS4) - 0%
11. Inside (PS4) - 0%
12. Life is Strange (PS3) - 36% → 100%
13. Life is Strange: Before the Storm (PS4) - 0%
14. Little Nightmares (PS4) - 0%
15. Operation: Tango (PS5) - 62%
16. Subnautica (PS5) - 0%
17. The Little Acre (PS4) - 0%
18. Thumper (PS4) - 0%
19. Wreckfest (PS5) - 0%
20. A Hat in Time (PS4) - 0% → 11%

Swaps (1/2)

 

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Call of Duty: World at War (PS3)

Spoiler

YOU WERE KILLED BY A GRENADE. WATCH OUT FOR THE GRENADE DANGER INDICATOR. Definitely the hardest campaign on the series, some of the missions were not developed to play on veteran. Just a fun fact, I got the only trophy that I was missing to get the platinum in 2012 (when I was not a trophy hunter) in my first try.

 

Haven (PS5)

Spoiler

Like I said on my first update, that's a very relaxing game, the gameplay is fluid and the use of the DualSense features makes it even better (nothing crazy like Astro's Playroom, just some simple stuff), the history only started to get interesting in the middle and it's not that big of a deal in my opinion, the soundtrack and the visuals were the most attractive part of the game and did not disapointed.

 

Hue (PS4)

Spoiler

This one was a great surprise, playing it was fun (except when it was necessary another playthrough to get the collectables), the creativity on some puzzles are the star of this game.

 

Life is Strange (PS3)

Spoiler

I think I'm finally ready for Before the Storm, I'm still amazed at how this game looks on PS3 (exactly like the recently announced remaster lol).

 

A Hat in Time (PS4)

Spoiler

I had so much fun playing on PC that I decided to save it for my 50th platinum.

 

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Weekly Update #01

Weekly Update #02

Swap #01 & Addition #01

Edited June 22, 2021 by Cruscah

[dark_moon689]

1st Update:

 

Finished Yakuza Kiwami, the climax battles were a struggle mainly because like when I did Yakuza 5 a few events ago I refuse to learn how to use tiger drop until is time for the climax battles, it took "a few" tries, I really enjoyed the game but damn that car segment is awful, the whole gameplay is not made for it I hated it the first time in easy and it took so many tries on legend, and it took forever to get Idol Majima to spawn which was the dullest part of getting 100% completion.

 

1. (PS4) Yakuza Kiwami 15% - 100%  June 22th

2. (PS3) God of War 0% -

3. (PS3) LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean 0% -

4. (PS4) Infamous Second Son 0% -

5. (PS4) Life is Strange: Before the Storm 0% - 30%

 

Games: 1/5

Swaps: 0/2

[JPHolzer]

Week #3

• Abzû 0% -> 60%
• Control (40%)
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (9%)
• Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack (40%)
• Limbo (23%)

 

This past week I barely played on the Vita, and played other games not on the list for this challenge. Nevertheless, I started and finish my blind playthrough of Abzû. It's an interesting game, but with some abysmal loading times (at least in my 6+ year old base PS4). I will clean up the remaining collectables and should finish up soon.

[DoctorDrPepper]

Update, got three more down. Gonna bounce between the Mass Effect and Walking Dead games for a while.

 

Awesome Pea Collection (Vita) - 100% 

Cosmic Star Heroine (Vita) - 0%

Family Feud - 100% 

It Takes Two (PS5) - 0%

Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition (NA) - 100% 
LEGO Movie: The Video Game (Vita) - 2%

Mass Effect 1 (PS4) - 100% 

Mass Effect 2 (PS4) - 0%

Mass Effect 3 (PS4) - 0%

The Pathless (PS5) - 0% 

Ratchet and Clank : Rift Apart - 100% 

Returnal - 0%

Sackboy: A Big Adventure (PS4) - 35%

Severed - 0%

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (Vita) - 2%

Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS4) - 0%

Steam Tactics (Vita) - 0%

The Shapeshifting Detective - 100% 

Unravel - 7%

The Walking Dead Season 1 (PS3) - 100% 

The Walking Dead Season 2 (PS4) - 0%

The Walking Dead Season 3 - 0%

The Walking Dead The Final Season - 0%

The Witness - 2%

Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution - 22%

[MidnightDragon]

Good time for an update.

 

Afrika-11=>22%

Assassin's Creed Rogue (PS3)-0%

Monster World IV (PS3)-0%

MySims Sky Heroes-9%

Reel Fishing: Road Trip Adventure-0%

Shakedown Hawaii-0%

 

Made some good progress in Afrika the last couple days. Just forgot to say anything about it until tonight.  Knocked out four trophies tonight in particular.

Edited June 24, 2021 by MidnightDragon

[MidnightDragon]

Yet another update.

 

Afrika-22=>30%

Assassin's Creed Rogue (PS3)-0%

Monster World IV (PS3)-0%

MySims Sky Heroes-9%

Reel Fishing: Road Trip Adventure-0%

Shakedown Hawaii-0%

 

Swaps used: 0/2

 

Another good day of trophy progress. Got five done today alone. Hoping to finish by the end of the month. Really don't see any reason why not unless some of the animals are super elusive.

[Savage_Sarabi]

1. Cat Quest 2 

2. A Plague Tale Innocence (7%)

3. Life is Strange  

4. Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney (5% -> )

5. Assassin's Creed 2 Remastered (8%)

6. Sherlock Holmes Crimes and Punishments (0%)

7. Unravel (0%)

8. Life is Strange Before the Storm (0%)

9. Lego Jurassic World (1%)

10. Far Cry 3 (0%)

 

Third game done finally. Probably gonna do some Lego next. 

[Crispy_Oglop]

Update 6 - 

 

I managed to get the Mass Effect 2 platinum which felt great. I had my 1st vaccine dose yesterday which really kicked my ass, so it was a nice positivity boost to help recuperate. I think in my last update I had pretty much done all of the companion and loyalty mission content bar this guy...

Spoiler

...who remains easily in my top 3 favourite Mass Effect franchise characters. He also has one of the most interesting introductions for any of the companions in the game. Where most, if not all of the other companions are introduced via a pre-made Dossier mission, Legion is a surprise. You basically stumble on him and through choice can have him active and engaged with your team and story. He is also missable, similar to Grunt, in that you can simply choose to not wake him up again after the events that occur around how he ends up in your path. The sound design for his voice is really excellent too as is the perspective he brings to the conflict between the Geth and Quarians, which up until that point had only ever been viewed through the opinions and experience of the Quarian race.

 

Where you find him is also really memorable too...

Spoiler

...skulking around inside the corpse of a dead Reaper. It's well worth reading and listening to everything you can get your hands on in here as you get told the story of the now deceased Cerberus scientists who came aboard before to research the ship, only to go slowly mad. This section was great as it leans quite a bit on actual horror, as you walk through what sometimes feels like a haunted house. It also shows how dangerous Reapers are to organic life, with it still managing to destroy minds even though it is dead. As one log says "The god's mind is gone, but it still dreams".

 

I really went all out on trying to see and do literally everything in this playthrough, and even after all this time, I still found some interesting/fun stuff I hadn't noticed properly before. Like this grouchy Asari matriarch bartender who had a Krogan father, which really shows in her dialogue. I spent ages chatting to her and I would have legit resigned from my mission just to work behind the bar with her. 

Spoiler

 

After all that, I took care of the Firewalker missions which are basically the 'better mako' vehicle sections. They are a bit vanilla and very doable, but the scenery is the real star of this content. I'm so glad the photo mode option exists!

Spoiler

 

And finally, the last thing I did was to go and visit the location of the original Normandy crash site. It's a bit of a tradition for me whenever I play ME2. It's the last thing I always visit before heading through the Omega-4 relay. It's quite haunting too which I love and you get to put a monument down somewhere you feel was important/worthy to pay respects to the lost crew. I think they did a great job with the lighting and environment here. It's beautiful, but quite ghostly too.

Spoiler

 

Anyway, that's it for ME2, i'm about 50% through Insanity mode now, so I should have that done this weekend and then it's on to the next game in my list. Now i'm going to go and collapse under a duvet to sleep off this vaccine hangover. 

 

Have a good one all, and catch you in the next update.

1.  Mass Effect 
2. Watch Dogs: Legion - 54% > 91% [Blocked]
3.  Mass Effect 2 
4. Cosmic Top Secret - 0%
5. Mass Effect 3 - 0%
6. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (additional trophy set) - 38% > 42%
7. Subnautica: Below Zero - 0%
8. Outriders - 1%
9. Nier:Replicant - 4% > 7%

[Dr_Mayus]

Got to the final boss in Dokura at 12:30 last night and was too tired to care. I will probably plat it today and if my times are good i might get 4 or so trophies popping at once once i beat him 

[DoctorDrPepper]

I'd like to go ahead and use my two switches right now to take The Pathless and Returnal off my list and replace them with Operation Tango since I have a friend who wants to play that with me this weekend real bad, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle because I found a copy of this rare ass game at a game store for a good price and I want it to be my 700th overall platinum which is coming up for me real soon.

[Chris1-1sirhC]

Update:

 

The Order 1886 

Start - 0%

Current - 0%

 

Broken Sword 5

Start - 0%

Current - 100%

 

Hitman 2

Start - 21%

Current - 28%

 

Hitman 2 Additional Expansion

Start - 2%

Current - 5%

 

Final Fantasy 7 Remake

Start - 18%

Current - 18%

 

Two Point Hospital

Start - 45%

Current - 48%

[Dr_Mayus]

#328-Dokuro

 

I started this game over 7 years ago and quit because the time restraints concerned me. Well in the end the time was very easy to meet...so probably shouldn't have quit.

 

The game is fun for the most part but it is just a long escort quest and could have been about 4 worlds shorter. I just felt it went on a little too long and is a case of "less is more."

 

The game has an interesting look and the puzzles can be clever but can't say it will make any top 10 lists any time soon.

[MidnightDragon]

Update time again!

 

Afrika-33=>37%

Assassin's Creed Rogue (PS3)-0%

Monster World IV (PS3)-0%

MySims Sky Heroes-9%

Reel Fishing: Road Trip Adventure-0%

Shakedown Hawaii-0%

 

Swaps used: 0/2

 

Another good day of trophy progress. So far so good for finishing by Wednesday. That being said, there might be one snag, but trying to be optimistic. The last trophy I got today was frustrating as hell. Damn thing should've been  

 

Also, much to my joy, found the turtle. Hopefully no further hiccups.

Edited June 26, 2021 by MidnightDragon

[ExHaseo]

Was trying to do one plat a week, and it looks like that's not happening anymore lel.

Been working on Ys VIII, and while I've gotten 100%, I have to do a second near 100% playthrough on Nightmare difficulty. I really hate this kind of trophy. I don't look at trophy lists until I've beaten a game, and it's impossible to predict this kind of thing. I'm max level with a bunch of stat boosts and all of the items, so this isn't going to be difficult in the slightest, it's just an annoyance. I'll try to make it through, but if it takes more than a day I'll probably move on to something else for now.

 

Shenmue - 0%

Mass Effect Legendary 2 - 100%

Mass Effect Legendary 3 - 100%

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven - 0%

Ys VIII - 7% -> 95%

Persona 5 Strikers - 11%

South Park: The Fracture But Whole - 20%

Senran Kagura Estival Versus - 25%

A Hat in Time - 100%

Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet - 31%

Dragon Ball Z Kakarot - 38%

[DFuzed]

Update #3 for June 26th:

 

Assassin's Creed Valhalla (PS5) - 62% +10% *

Maneater - 0%

Lego Star Wars (PS3) - 59%

 Phil-a-Pix (Vita) - 100% +15

Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS5) - 0% **

Spiderman (PS5) - 0%

Spiderman Miles Morales (PS5) - 0%

Ladders by Powgi (PS4) - 0%

Ladders by Powgi (PS5) - 0%

Epic Word Search Collection 2 - 65% +23%

 

Swaps 1/2

 

Current plans: 

 

VACATION TIME! Daily limits rule currently suspended!

 

  - Play Assassin's Creed Valhalla, have all but the southwestern areas and part of the dream sequence cleared of all story parts, artifacts, wealth and mysteries. 

   - Use Epic Word Search 2 as my backup game for daily trophies. 

   - Play Maneater this week. 

 

* Not counting DLC in on this. 

 

** Keeping Intergrade as an option later on. But swapping this for Hyperdimension Neptunia U for the Vita.

Edited June 28, 2021 by DFuzed

[karaman1025]

Update #2

 

1) Until Dawn ( 3 of 19 trophies earned %7) --> (19 of 19 trophies earned %100)  

2) Metro 2033 Redux ( 4 of 50 trophies earned %7)

3) Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution ( 7 of 25 trophies earned %26)

4) Horizon Chase Turbo ( 4 of 38 trophies earned %5) -->> Control (14 of 68 trophies earned %14)

5) Little Nightmares ( 5 of 22 trophies earned %10) 

 

1/2 swaps used. 

 

I didn't play much this week so no progress made. But I wanted to swap horizon chase turbo with Control. Hopefully I will get Control done this week. 

[Heather342]

Update 4

 

I spent most of this week jumping between games, I'm very close to my #3000 milestone so having to carefully plan what I do so I don't mess this up ?. My total count is now 2993, I need to get to 2996 and then the last 4 trophies will pop from Persona 5.

 

Challenge wise, I've played more Little Hope. Managed to find all of the witchcraft collectables, all of the pictures and maxed out one of the relationship trophies. I thought I'd managed the 'No Escaping Fate' trophy but it didn't pop at the end of my playthrough. There must be some other condition that I'm missing, so I'll go back and figure that one out on another run. 

 

I've also played some AC Black Flag, completed the first memory sequence to pop that trophy. Been jumping into the stand-alone Freedom Cry game too, up to memory sequence 4 and have been working on the additional misc trophies for that. I'm struggling with the change in combat mechanics for these games, having recently completed the Ezio trilogy my brain seems to be hard wired for those controls and it's tough to break, I die a lot in this game ?. Also doesn't help that Freedom Cry crashes so often either, playing yesterday I got booted out 5 times with blue screen error codes. Good thing it isn't a long game, that would drive me nuts if it happened in the main game so frequently.

 

And finally, I've been running around Velen in The Witcher, generally killing things and playing Gwent. No new trophies here this week.

 

Trophy progress:

Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope - 50 -> 77%

Assassin's Creed Black Flag - 14 -> 15%

Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry - 5 -> 21%

[StilRh]

Hi all, hope you are well. This week I played a good 30 hours as I had some vacation time. I finished Ratchet and Clank (excellent game but poor experience as my playthrough was marred by bugs and crashes), made a 10 hour dent into Rebel Galaxy and feel I've got a good start and momentum to hopefully finish it this time around. More recently I picked up Odyssey, excellent so far. I really Hellenic setting in games and I'm glad they've got the sharp c in Heracles lol. I think my platinum per week streak is going to end (4 for 4) with the longer games I'm playing at the moment unless I play something off list or whizz through Muv Luv (I'd rather read it properly).

 

Spoiler

Aground 28%
Assassins Creed Odyssey 8% > 10%
Catharine: Full Body 10%
Cuphead 5%
Desperados 3 32%
Maquette 100%
Muv Luv 26%
Nier Replicant 20%
Pyre 100%
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart 22% > 100%
Rebel Galaxy 30% > 40%
Slay the spire 19%
Sudden Strike 4 7%
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground 55%
Worldend Syndrome 100%

 

[DoctorDrPepper]

Two more down

 

Awesome Pea Collection (Vita) - 100% 

Cosmic Star Heroine (Vita) - 0%

Family Feud - 100% 

It Takes Two (PS5) - 0%

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle - 0%

Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition (NA) - 100% 
LEGO Movie: The Video Game (Vita) - 2%

Mass Effect 1 (PS4) - 100% 

Mass Effect 2 (PS4) - 0%

Mass Effect 3 (PS4) - 0%

Operation: Tango (PS5) - 100% 

Ratchet and Clank : Rift Apart - 100% 

Sackboy: A Big Adventure (PS4) - 35%

Severed - 0%

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (Vita) - 2%

Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS4) - 0%

Steam Tactics (Vita) - 0%

The Shapeshifting Detective - 100% 

Unravel - 7%

The Walking Dead Season 1 (PS3) - 100% 

The Walking Dead Season 2 (PS4) - 100% ?

The Walking Dead Season 3 - 0%

The Walking Dead The Final Season - 0%

The Witness - 2%

Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution - 22%

[jukejointjesibel]

Update #3:

 

Gravity Rush Remastered (6%)

Saints Row IV Re-Elected (9%) ---> 100%

Lego City Undercover (21%) ---> 100% 

The Wolf Among Us (1%) ---> 100% 

Assassin's Creed Syndicate (5%)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider (38%)

Ratchet and Clank (27%)

 

I'm almost halfway there! Currently debating between Gravity Rush and Syndicate next, but will be taking the last few days of the month to spend time with my girlfriend and catch up on some Netflix, the past week was mentally frustrating (nothing game related, just personal issues).