[EVENT] PSNP Kaleidoscope Challenge! 2023 [ENDED]

[NerdRage04]

@Taruta13 @Azemya - I plan of playing Persona Golden on my Vita soon! If you want to play at the same time Taruta let me know. As for FFXIV, I have been playing that game since Heavansward and have since moved to PC. If you ever need help in the game let me know. I also just looked at the PS5 list and yikes way harder than the PS4 list. 3000 fates? Are you kidding me?

 

@Taruta13 - Good luck with Lego Dimensions. I have a good chunk of the DLC stuff but not all of it. Still need to play through it all. You should check on Amazon/eBay for just the blue puck bases, they are pretty affordable that way.

 

@Pray_4_the_End - Hey Brother, how did you enjoy Ghostwire? I started it forever ago

[Acszr]

Could I get signed up for this event please.

 

Already have one game done:

 

 

Also, what colour would these fall under? I'm not sure. 

    

Edited March 8, 2023 by Sgznq

[Wurstmann69]

Hey y'all!

I will join you in your quest for colorful trophies!

 

This is my 2023 progress so far, I hope all of these count:

 

[NerdRage04]

 

On 2/28/2023 at 2:56 AM, DrBloodmoney said:

 Congrats to @Xylobe for being the first Rainbow Elite in the event! 

 

 

 

 

 

Your name has been added to the glorious list (of 1!), and all that remains is to determine...

...shall you be resting on that throne...

...or aiming for Prestige Status, by going around the rainbow once again? 

 

 

 

After all... when it comes to Badge time at the end of the year, there must be something for those who can say:

 

 

I totally missed that someone already got the rainbow! Super cool, congrats @Xylobe

 

If it isn't too much trouble @DrBloodmoney can you put a link to each person's completed rainbow card/post on the main post? It will be super fun to compare everyone's games at the end of the year and see what games dominated what colors and other cool things we can compare. 

[Breakingthegreen]

Hello again friends, I've not posted here for... *checks* 3 weeks... which seems like a fairly healthy game life balance, but what mostly delayed me was losing my wallet after buying a light up squirrel. No buying new games for a while... fortunately, my brother has PS Plus Premium and The Quarry (PS4) was put on the service last month. I had actually already bought the PS5 version (which I haven't platted due to my mess of save files.) The game didn't release with Cross-buy, but now I could now I could complete the game with full knowledge of what I needed to do.

The Quarry is in for Red and is my 10th completion.

 

 

Review Time.

I love me some interactive media, and SuperMassive Games release their first game which ended being the 2015 game Until Dawn; (what do you mean it's their eleventh game they've helped developed.) SM Games have a particular formula when it comes to their IE major releases which is in full form with the Quarry, there's a reason why this game is considered to be the spiritual successor to Until Dawn, and it is pretty fantastic. I had convinced myself that Dark Pictures had scratched the itch that UD had created, but when the Quarry released I knew that it was better than the Dark Pictures I'd been satisfying myself with, (don't get me wrong, I still really like that series, especially Little Hope.)

Since SM has moved away from being a second party developer, they did to some degree lose gameplay gimmick experimentation, which is a bit of a shame, the Don't Move sections were always incredibly tense because of this creativity, the Don't Breath are much easier and can't replicate the same feeling. The QTEs themselves have also been altered now activated by flicking an analogue stick instead of the face buttons, it's reminiscent of Beyond: Two Souls which action scenes having a predictable input if you can see the flow in the scenes. This streamlining in gameplay, does cause much more emphasis on your choices, even in those that seem to be purely self preservation scenes.

The story is schlocky horror, which I don't really watch, mostly because personally I never really take joy character deaths, so I love being the one to help save them. As such I didn't realise the older members of all-star cast were mostly from horror movies, but I did recognise: Ariel Winter from Modern Family, Justice Smith from Detective Pikachu, and Brenda Song from Zack and Cody as well as Amphibia. You can probably tell I'm in Gen Z by that tbh.

 

 

Edited March 8, 2023 by breakingthegreen

[Beyondthegrave07]

1 hour ago, Sgznq said:

Also, what colour would these fall under? I'm not sure. 

    

From top to bottom imo:

 

Grey or red

Grey, brown, or yellow

White or Red

Pink I think works really well, but you could get away with several colors probably.

 

Most games have 2 usable colors, some have 3+. I'd say just use your best judgment on it. @DrBloodmoney has been pretty generous on some submissions so I wouldn't overthink it. 

[DrBloodmoney]

1 minute ago, Beyondthegrave07 said:

From top to bottom imo:

 

Grey or red

Grey, brown, or yellow

White or Red

Pink I think works really well, but you could get away with several colors probably.

 

Most games have 2 usable colors, some have 3+. I'd say just use your best judgment on it. @DrBloodmoney has been pretty generous on some submissions so I wouldn't overthink it. 

 

Red's a bit of a reach for Homefront, and yellow is a stretch for that second one.... but with you on all the rest!

[zizimonster]

Where should I put this in the list of colo(u)rs?

 

 

I've already got black. ?

[Taruta13]

9 hours ago, NerdRage04 said:

@Taruta13 @Azemya - I plan of playing Persona Golden on my Vita soon! If you want to play at the same time Taruta let me know. As for FFXIV, I have been playing that game since Heavensward and have since moved to PC. If you ever need help in the game let me know. I also just looked at the PS5 list and yikes way harder than the PS4 list. 3000 fates? Are you kidding me?

 

I don't know how we could sync up but thanks for the offer. I plan on having Persona 4 Golden tackled after my vacation in Florida at the minimum.

 

Also, the PS5 trophies for FFXIV are tied to in-game achievements which is why they are ludicrous. Wait until you get to the one requiring you to harvest and mine 8000 times.

 

9 hours ago, NerdRage04 said:

@Taruta13 - Good luck with Lego Dimensions. I have a good chunk of the DLC stuff but not all of it. Still need to play through it all. You should check on Amazon/eBay for just the blue puck bases, they are pretty affordable that way.

Thanks for the advice. I'll look into it after the 24th when I get back from Florida. I need to save some money for souvenirs from Universal for my two little nieces... and Monster Hunter Rise for them to watch since I showed my younger one the trailer and she was all fish-eyed with glee.

Edited March 9, 2023 by Taruta13

[DJ__Beatroot]

Finally have a couple of updates:

 

Tan: The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.  Nice game, but wish it was a bit longer.  Because it looks like this game will be leaving this month I got off my butt and gave it a play.

 

Pink: The Artful Escape.  Recommended by some great people here on the forums. Didn't know what to expect but enjoyed it so much I went and replayed it on the PS5.

 

Deep Purple: Goosebumps: The Game  Reminded me of Day of the Tentacle.  Fun game!  Just jumped in and ran all over the place laughing, having a good time!  Which means I ended up playing 5 times, but the game wasn't very long so no problem.

 

[PotrikBerger]

Game number 10 achieved for challenge - Hogwarts Legacy (PS5)

 

Green - Need for Speed Unbound

Brown - Forspoken

Pink - Chicory: A Colourful Tale

White - Cricket 22

Tan - Weird West

Red - Inscryption 

Black - Dark Souls: Remastered

Light Blue - Hogwarts Legacy

Deep Purple - Football Manager 2023

Grey - PGA Tour 2k23

[Pray_4_the_End]

7 hours ago, Beyondthegrave07 said:

Others make me feel like I'm playing games in slow motion. Haha.

For real though, and to think there's some people that have already finished an entire full card after only a couple of months?! Savages lol O_o

[Pray_4_the_End]

@NerdRage04 It was awesome! I enjoyed it more than I thought I would going into it at first. The only downside is the collectibles, there's a metric fuck ton of them in GW and it can get pretty exhaustive trying to find them all after a while. That was part of the reason I had to take a bit of a sabbatical from consoles all together before coming back to it. I'd highly recommend it though if you're not bothered by the collect-athon. 

[TheEvilPenguin07]

Update 1:

Finished Anthem for orange and InnerSpace for light blue.

 

Personally I had a great time with Anthem. The platinum took about 70 hours, but it felt a lot shorter than that. Going in to it, I was worried it would involve a lot of late game grinding, but that turned out to be true only for the collectibles. Getting to level 30 and leaching loyalty 3 with the 3 fractions was not nearly as bad as some made it out to be. The best (and in my opinion most enjoyable) way to get the xp you need, is to join existing sessions using quick play. Playing with other people makes the missions easier and more fun. It also shortens mission times, which means levelling up with others is easily thrice as fast as doing it solo. Many hands make light work after all. You also get loyalty points for each faction depending on the mission, which is a considerably easier way to 'grind' than what the guide suggested.

          Whoever added randomly spawning collectables to the game is my least favourite person on the dev team though. Like, why? Why make collecting collectables that much more tedious and entirely luck based? I just want to talk. Thankfully a few exploits have been found to make the process a lot quicker, but the whole thing made me scream on occasion.

 

InnerSpace is an interesting little puzzle game, but it has a few flaws. The biggest one being that most new game mechanics aren't explained at all, and aren't introduced in such a way that you could stumble into them by accident and figure it out yourself. Secondly, even though you can ask the archaeologist what you should do next, their answer doesn't actually help. They simply repeat your global objective, but make no mention of what you might need to do to achieve that. I wanted to do a blind playthrough first, but I got stuck at one point and had to use a guide to progress to the next bit. Without the guide it could easily have taken several hours to figure it out otherwise. 

          The world of InnerSpace is quite interesting and I enjoyed discovering the lore as the story progressed. The game is also very beautiful, I really liked the colour design specifically. The varied, sleek futuristic designs of the airframes were really cool, and the colour options were gorgeous. In general I'm a fan of flying mechanics in games, and InnerSpace did a pretty good job of it.

 

 

Completed colours:

Mahjong for tan

Anthem for orange

Puzzletronics: Digital Infinite for purple

InnerSpace for light blue

Lawn Mowing Simulator for green

Donut County for light green

I Am Dead for grey

[Taruta13]

1 hour ago, TheEvilPenguin07 said:

Whoever added randomly spawning collectables to the game is my least favourite person on the dev team though. Like, why? Why make collecting collectables that much more tedious and entirely luck based? I just want to talk.

 

That was one of the many nails in the coffin of Anthem. (Yes, I saw it die on the gaming sites. The devs deserve some therapy after that sh**storm. It's nice you enjoyed it, tho.)

[Azemya]

 

Now 4/16 Games are done. This time for black.

I got P4 Dancing even faster done than P3D. Well i skipped most of the story cause i was more interested in the dancing part 

But i will just rewatch the story. I know it plays like half a year later after the Events of P4 Golden.

I will soon start with Persona 5.

I wonder if i can put it in the grey color field 

[DrBloodmoney]

12 hours ago, zizimonster said:

Where should I put this in the list of colo(u)rs?

 

 

I've already got black. ?

 

Could work for Grey maybe.... or pocket it for a second rainbow's black!

[Hurricane_Tanya]

 

3 more games on the board for me, and they’re all kind of puzzle games.

 

Yellow is The Pedestrian. This is a nice, short game with really fun puzzles to solve. It’s pretty simple, both in aesthetics and in puzzle design, but it’s still satisfying to work out the mechanics, and the last puzzle is really great. 
 

 

For Purple I have The Last Day of June. This is more of a story game than the other 2, but it has some very, very simple puzzles to do with rewinding time to change how events in the game play out. The characters don’t really talk, they just kind of mumble, but the voice acting at the end of the game is really quite emotional. The music is fantastic too.

 

Final game is The Turing Test for grey (I thought the space suit fit, if not let me know). This game is kind of The Swapper’s story with Portal-ish puzzles. It was alright, I enjoyed the voice acting, particularly T.O.M, however, I just enjoyed The Swapper much more
 

 

[Biscoito18]

Updating my list with "The Quarry" as red and "Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons" as white. If I complete a game that better represents the color, I'll change it.

 

 

 

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

The Quarry

Axiom Verge 2

Graveyard Keeper

Ape Escape

Chicken Police

The Callisto Protocol

 

[tankman_bilal28]

Added two more games to my list Horizon Forbidden West for light blue and Tekken 7 for red.

 

 

 

 

List:

 

White: Final Fantasy IX

 

Light Blue: Horizon Forbidden West

 

Yellow: Yakuza LAD
 

Red: Tekken 7

Light Green: FIFA 22

Black: Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order

 

 

Also I need help deciding does Yakuza LAD fits yellow more or orange? At first I was sure it is Yellow now after looking at it more idk it starting to look orange to me.

Edited March 11, 2023 by tankman_bilal28

[Sylvanticore]

Howdy all!

 

I got another game completed and this time for the RED section with Metal Hellsinger!

 

 

[Hitman_Spinksy1]

 

Now done with green and it was actually a fun game with a really deep story 

[Fenrirfeather]

19 hours ago, tankman_bilal28 said:

Also I need help deciding does Yakuza LAD fits yellow more or orange? At first I was sure it is Yellow now after looking at it more idk it starting to look orange to me.

I’d think you’re good either way, I can see it working just fine for a darker yellow or for a light shade of orange. 
 

[DoctorDrPepper]

5 more games to add, putting me at nine total. Hogwarts Legacy for white, Horizon Call of the Mountain for light blue, Job Simulator for light green, Elden Ring for Black, and Forspoken for Deep Purple. I do wanna add that shrunk down like this Forspoken doesnt look purple but if you look at the image on the game page its very purple. Fitting with the game as her base magic is called "purple magic."

 

[damcrac5]

  

 

I'm going to throw this in Tan.  Below the name seems tan, above seems orange and yellow.  I do plan on Giving the Stray PS4 plat stack for orange, and eventually, Plague Tale Requiem for Tan, but I'll throw this one in there for now.  I've always considered playing it, but got to it after hearing that it would be leaving PS+ extra this month.  Pretty relaxing little walking-sim puzzler.  Nothing overly complex and easy to clean up via a guide.  

 

On to The Last of Us Part 1 for White.  Then maybe, just maybe, I'll get back to finishing Uncharted 4 for Blue.  A King's Tale Final Fantasy XV is very tempting middle game as well.  No plat, but would be a decent deep purple?  What do you think?  Between that and Fe, I think I'll have the purples covered.