Fall 2022 Backlog Challenge

[StilRh]

Hey guys. Super pumped to join you once again. This challenge I'm being ambitious as usual but the majority of the games are smaller, shorter indie/AA experiences that I like to think I could get through in under a week should I get 25-30 hours leisure time a week. I've not added a 33% >= 50% game yet... nothing on my list jumped out except a few 100 hour+ games that I'd likely not play, but that slot is being kept should I change my mind in the future. I am absolutely going to add new titles as they come out  Good luck everyone.

Spoiler

Call of Cthulhu 0%

Children of Morta 23%

Cold steel 3 0%

Crosscode 12%

Crown Trick 28%

I was a teenage exocolonist 0%

Indivisible 0%

Little Noah: Scion of paradise 14%

Monster Sanctuary 0%

Northgard 33%

Observer redux 0%

Roguebook 9%

Shovel knight: Pocket dungeon 28%

Wildfire 8%

 

Platinum/100% 0/14

Swaps 0/3

 

[gruffiiti]

5 hours ago, StilRh said:

Children of Morta 23%

Fantastic game. Hope you are enjoying that one.

[MidnightDragon]

OK, here’s my list.

 

Chrono Cross-2%

Dragon Quest Builders 2

Hoard-4%

Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Stray

TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection

 

Swaps used-0/3

[Rias Gremory]

 

Update #1

 

1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. My 900th Platinum Milestone and 100% Completion. Very Rare: 7.40%. 
2. My Hero One's Justice 2. 0% (Already Started).
3. Team Sonic Racing 950th platinum milestone, 8th Ultra Rare and Trophy 20,000th. (Already Started) 31%
4. SENRAN KAGURA Burst Re:Newal. 0% (Haven't started yet).
5. Senran KAGURA PEACH BEACH SPLASH. 0% (Haven't started yet).

Description: Alright. I have finally completed everything I needed on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Everything went superb. Story mode was excellent and I've enjoyed the choices that made a huge and vast change to the open world. DLC's both are done and started off on those to do the most grunt work to get the better hang of it on Death March Difficulty. All done and time for me to move on to my next objective.

 

Highly and strongly recommend for this game!

Edited September 2, 2022 by Ciri Riannon
Just started My Hero One's Justice 2.

[Taruta13]

MidnightDragon, I am glad your list has Dragon Quest Builders 2. This game is awesome and I am still playing it after I got the platinum, building my dream Buildertopia. It's a fun game, just be careful of a few things: There is text that you cannot mash through and takes forever to advance, you run into it starting at the beginning. If you need any help whatsoever on that game, PM me!

 

CIri, I might try putting up screenshots of my platinums, but sometimes they end on black screens.

 

Anyways, I just cleared LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7 so I can get into Trials of Mana now. I'm not starting yet until I make Trials of Mana my 40th platinum, then I will knock out Celeste and Bonds of Skies. I need to go to be soon so that and catching Pokemon for my Living Dex project(two months and two weeks to Scarlet/Violet!) will try to stop me, but I promise I will get progress soon.

Edited September 2, 2022 by Taruta13

[KazaneHime]

Glad there isn't a time limit for signing up yet. Life continues to be crazy, so I'm just not getting a break to put this together.

 

1. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 7%
2. Stray - 11%
3. Wytchwood - 0%
4. Chicory: A Colorful Tale - 0%
5. My Time at Portia - 4%

(0/5)

 

I think this should be a good list to start, especially with Sekiro going to be a big commitment.

[RhiZZ-76]

Just back from holiday and hoping I'm not too late to join in this challenge

 

My list will be as follows:

Stray 13%

Wytchwood 6%

Bugsnax 2%

Maneater 0%

The Artful Escape 0%

[Taruta13]

On 8/1/2022 at 10:33 AM, MidnightDragon said:

After the event begins, you can make up to three swaps.

Gonna have to burn up one of my swaps. I'm swapping Disgaea 5 for Trials of Mana because I wanted to do that game and I just started it. Also, then I can get it done and get into Legend of Mana for the Gaming by Numbers event(that is the only game I have left to complete for that event).

[MidnightDragon]

13 hours ago, Taruta13 said:

MidnightDragon, I am glad your list has Dragon Quest Builders 2. This game is awesome and I am still playing it after I got the platinum, building my dream Buildertopia. It's a fun game, just be careful of a few things: There is text that you cannot mash through and takes forever to advance, you run into it starting at the beginning. If you need any help whatsoever on that game, PM me!

I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!

 

55 minutes ago, Taruta13 said:

Gonna have to burn up one of my swaps. I'm swapping Disgaea 5 for Trials of Mana because I wanted to do that game and I just started it. Also, then I can get it done and get into Legend of Mana for the Gaming by Numbers event(that is the only game I have left to complete for that event).

Also, you can repost your list and note you used 1/3 swaps. That's what I do, but totally optional. You do what works for you.

 

6 hours ago, RhiZZ-76 said:

Just back from holiday and hoping I'm not too late to join in this challenge

 

My list will be as follows:

Stray 13%

Wytchwood 6%

Bugsnax 2%

Maneater 0%

The Artful Escape 0%

 

6 hours ago, KazaneHime said:

Glad there isn't a time limit for signing up yet. Life continues to be crazy, so I'm just not getting a break to put this together.

 

1. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 7%
2. Stray - 11%
3. Wytchwood - 0%
4. Chicory: A Colorful Tale - 0%
5. My Time at Portia - 4%

(0/5)

 

I think this should be a good list to start, especially with Sekiro going to be a big commitment.

Added. And the future time limit will be reasonable.

[Taruta13]

Okay, here's the new list:

1. Disgaea 5 => Trials of Mana
2. Celeste
3. Dark Cloud
4. Bonds of Skies
5. Scribblenauts: Mega Pack

1/3 Swaps used.

[DatZoolander]

First Update:

 

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - 0%

Inside - 0%

Oxenfree - 12%

The Bunker -

Yesterday Origins - 0% Here They Lie - 10% Late Shift - 0%   0/3 Swaps Used

Edited September 2, 2022 by DatZoolander

[Taruta13]

Almost entered Trials of Mana... then I was reminded that I can't do the trophy for beating the post-game boss to get the New Game+, but do I have to do the post-game dungeon again to play a third New Game+? Anyone know?

Edited September 2, 2022 by Taruta13

[ConAir]

11 hours ago, Taruta13 said:

Okay, here's the new list:

1. Disgaea 5 => Trials of Mana
2. Celeste
3. Dark Cloud
4. Bonds of Skies
5. Scribblenauts: Mega Pack

1/3 Swaps used.

I wondered why you just didn't add Trials of Mana to your list. Your list can contain more than 5. On the other hand. Disgaea games may take a lot of your time. 

 

I haven't played Trials of Mana, so I don't know the answer to your question.

[TalesofGaming]

Update 1:

 

1. Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars - 27% -> 100%  9/3/22

2. A Plague Tale: Requiem - 0% -> Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden - 0%

3. LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 5-7 - 0% -> Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden - 0%

4. Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch - 2%

5. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 0%

 

Swaps (2/3)

A Plague Tale: Requiem -> Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden

LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 5-7 -> Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden

 

I REALLY enjoyed Voice of Cards, so much so that I want to continue the series right away, especially since the third game is coming out in a couple weeks.

Edited September 3, 2022 by TalesofGaming

[Taruta13]

16 hours ago, ConAir said:

I wondered why you just didn't add Trials of Mana to your list. Your list can contain more than 5. On the other hand. Disgaea games may take a lot of your time.

 

Yeah, though someone did get all the trophies in under 5 hours, I don't think I could handle that sort of stress. I do plan on platinuming 4, 5 and 6 because Fuka is my favorite character and I never missed a Disgaea story, even if it is weird.

 

Don't worry about the question. I'm far away from my first completed run, I just got to the part with the big bad guys(Chapter 5) so I'm still a long ways to the final bosses. Just got my first class change with Riesz. (First run is running Charlotte main with the other girls as backup. Riesz is now a Starlancer as the Seraph summon is really useful against most enemies as it negates their magic spells.)

16 hours ago, ConAir said:

• Trials of Mana (0% => 20%)
• Celeste
• Dark Cloud
• Bonds of Skies
• Scribblenauts: Mega Pack

 

Edited September 4, 2022 by Taruta13

[Vulpine9Tails]

1) Bright Infinite Memory - 0% ->

2) Sackboy: A Big Adventure - 30%

3) Greedfall - 32% -> 39%

4) Judgment - 44%

5) Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series - 15%

6) Destroy All Humans! 2 - 16%

7) Pac-man Repac - 0%

8) Two Point Campus - 0%

9) The Quarry - 4%

10) Tales of Arise - 5%

11) Sword and Fairy - 0%

 

First game done woot woot. I ended up doing an extra playthrough because I didn't realize that the hell difficulty doesn't unlock if you beat the game on easy. So I did a whole new run through on Revenge because I still had to do pretty much all of the weapon kills. The final boss was quite painful, but after dying a million times on Revenge I actually didn't find the Hell difficulty that bad (and for that difficulty I just did the last checkpoint as that still unlocked the trophy). I am very impressed with the game considering it was made by one guy. Really means those one button jumping games have no excuse imo. I didn't even have any glitches other than a trophy that took a bit longer to unlock than it should have, but I also had one that unlocked too early so it balanced out lol.

 

Still working on Greedfall as well and thoroughly enjoying playing through that while I take a break from Judgment, and now I can pick another game to work on at the same time.

Edited September 4, 2022 by Vulpine9Tails

[Heather342]

Update 1

 

Hi everyone, super excited to get stuck into a brand new season of the backlog challenge ?. We're a few days in, and I've made a start on The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. I played through the original Ace Attorney trilogy a few years ago, and I loved the game then. So far in this new game there have been quite a few gameplay tweaks and and upgraded animations which have improved the experience over the original. I quite like the addition of the jury in this version, and how their opinions also have influence on the scales of justice during the trials. So far I've only completed the first 3 cases out of 10, but the story is ramping up pace now, so looking forward to seeing what happens next. Also as a side note, Herlock Sholmes is officially my new favourite character in the series ?

 

Looking forward to reading everyone's updates! Have a good week all.

 

Trophy progress:

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles - 0 -> 20%

 

Pending games:

Doki Doki Literature Club - 0%

Detroit Become Human - 0%

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - 0%

Red Dead Redemption 2 - 32%

[Taruta13]

14 hours ago, Taruta13 said:

• Trials of Mana (20% => 41%)
• Celeste
• Dark Cloud
• Bonds of Skies
• Scribblenauts: Mega Pack

I'll try to see if I can knock out everything by Dark Cloud(which I am saving for my 50th platinum) for the next set of games I'm planning.

 

Just finished my first final boss in Trials of Mana and was reading a walkthrough and saw this:

 

Quote

Ultimate Magician: Become a master magician.

 

Yep, that's a trophy. So it's a non-issue. Even if you could skip Anise for New Game+, you still have to do the post-game story for every character to get all of their Class 4 changes because there is a trophy for each of them.

 

So I'll probably just save the Anise Hard mode trophy for my final run with Duran/Kevin/Charolette. My favorite character will be Level 99 after clearing Anise the first run and with the chain ability we will get(triple EXP from enemies), we'll easily speed-run through the remaining two runs.

[Taruta13]

Got to 68% in Trials of Mana. Will give the final screenshot when the platinum pops. I just need to do a speedrun of the other two stories and kill a black rabite.

[MidnightDragon]

Time for my first update!

 

Chrono Cross-2%

Dragon Quest Builders 2

Hoard-4%

Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Stray

TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection-0=>15%

 

Swaps used-0/3

 

Finished TMNT NES and Arcade and TMNT II: The Arcade Game. The first one still is the worst TMNT I've ever played. Enjoyed it when I was younger, not so much now. The damn dam level can still go fuck itself. TMNT Arcade was a fun trip down memory lane. I can't remember for sure if I played TMNT II on NES, but I enjoyed it. It's fun, but I still prefer the arcade version. I won't use god mode or stage select to speed things up. If people want to do that, that's fine. I just choose not to. However, I'm not above rewinding and turning on extra lives.  Just for reference, the NES version of TMNT and the fighting games don't have stage select. 

Edited September 5, 2022 by MidnightDragon

[The_Head_Crusher]

Update #1

 

Skyrim VR ---> 2  0  0  0   = 2/76 2% ---> 12 (+10)  0  0   0   = 12/76 12%

Guardians of the Galaxy ---> 0  0  0  0  = 0/59 0%

Minecraft Story Mode Season 2 ---> 0  0  0  0   = 0/31 0%

The Walking Dead Season 1 (PS4) ---> 0  0  0  0  = 0/49 0%

Call of Cthulhu ---> 0  0  0  0  = 0/50 100%

 

Swaps 0/3

 

Total Progress

10 (+10)  0  0  0   = 10/263 2.08% (+2.08%)

 

I am Starting with Skyrim Vr as it will be the one that will probably take the longest to complete.  Made it to level 15 while putzing around Whiterun and Falkreath and making it just passed meeting the Greybeards in the main story arch.  I built Lakeside Manor and am now working on the interior decor, though I think I am going to make my way to Riften next to focus on the thieves guild missions before advancing too far down the main story.

 

 

On 9/4/2022 at 8:07 PM, MidnightDragon said:

I can't remember for sure if I played TMNT II on NES, but I enjoyed it. It's fun, but I still prefer the arcade version. 

 

TMNT II on the NEs was my go-to game as a kid.  I remember the skateboard level being my favorite from the game and we would use the level select code to repetitively play this level as a kid.

Edited September 7, 2022 by The_Head_Crusher

[J-HOOOPPPEE]

Update 1:
God of war (2018) - 31%
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart - 7% > 42%
MediEvil - 24%
Spyro 3: Year of the dragon - 24%
Uncharted 4: A Thiefs end - 25% > 31%

Swaps used: 0/3

 

Uncharted 4:

currently working on my crushing playthrough and will be getting all the collectables at the same time.

Ratchet and Clank:

when I play games for the first time I always do a blind playthrough, still doing this for ratchet and clank but naturally earning a lot of trophies on the way.

Edited September 5, 2022 by J-HOOOPPPEE

[reaperveteran86]

Update 1

- Left Alive 0%

-  Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight 7% ->17%

- Ys Origin 0% -> 31%

- Kill la Kill IF 0%

-Shantae and the Seven Sirens 0%

- Siren 42%

- Wild Arms 0%

- The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters 0%

-Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation Code Fairy 14%

- Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection 0%

 

I finished my first playthrough of Ys Origin on normal with Yunica (hack and slash fighting style) and started my second with Hugo (shoot em up fighting style) and loving it so far but some of the bosses were no joke on normal (especially the last boss) so that I`m not looking forward to all the trophies that have to do with nightmare difficulty.

Aside from that, I finished all Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight songs on easy and get a few of the miscellaneous trophies out of the way.

6 hours ago, MidnightDragon said:

I played Fall of the Foot Clan once when I was younger, but I found it too hard at the time, so didn't get very far.

The first two GB games were my childhood. Played through Fall of the Foot Clan multiple times but never get too far in Back from the Sewers which I found really difficult.

[MidnightDragon]

8 minutes ago, reaperveteran86 said:

The first two GB games were my childhood. Played through Fall of the Foot Clan multiple times but never get too far in Back from the Sewers which I found really difficult.

I had written that line thinking I was gonna play it after TMNT II, but didn’t and forgot to erase it. It will be my first game next time. 

Edited September 5, 2022 by MidnightDragon

[Fanatixa1]

Hi everyone, 

 

Here's my first update. I've been playing a bit of everything but mostly I've focused on Two Point Campus. So far I really like it but I do think Two Point Hospital was more engaging and challenging. I miss the challenge so far, but maybe that will come later. I played a bit of Bugsnax and I'm not too sure about it. It's pretty weird.. But I'll keep at it. 

 

Ps4:

Escapist the walking dead - 48%

Two Point Campus - 13% --> 37%

Yakuza: Like a Dragon - 17%

Cult of the lamb - 0%

Bugsnax - 0% --> 5%

Moving Out - 3% --> 6%

 

Vita:

Rayman Origins - 21% --> 25%

Block-a-pix - 8% --> 16%

 

Swaps 0/3