[EVENT] PSNP Kaleidoscope Challenge! 2023

[Beyondthegrave07 12,796]

Game #8 - Tales of Arise

 

 

Moved it under orange and Yakuza LAD to Yellow.

 

I was really surprised originally that the rarity of this was 38% compared to all of the other games in the series until I played it...

 

The game is just so fun and addicting. There's also no missables so I'm sure that contributes to it, but the trophies do force you to do everything in the game so it is quite the grind towards the end. However, the combat is so fun, the story is a bit dark and gritty, and the graphics and UI are really pleasing to the eye which makes up for any grind imo.

 

The side missions are also really worth your time for extra money and SP so it makes a lot of sense that people did these as they went along.

 

Anyways, I'm going to start up P4G and Danganropa V3 next. P4G will be a dupe (I'll probably switch it with Yakuza LAD tbh to make it more rainbowy) and I guess Danganropa V3 could go just about anywhere since it's a rainbow? I'll just use my gut on which one is most prominent and decide from there. Won't be finishing it anytime soon so I guess it's not really an issue atm.

 

I may also sneak in A Monster's Expedition for green or light green during the summer season, but let's just take it one step at a time.

Edited Saturday at 08:33 PM by Beyondthegrave07

[Redblaziken8 816]

Deep Purple: Last Day of June

 

This is a game I don't think I'd really recommend per say, it has a good message, but it's a bit too in your face with it and it could be a lot better if it was more subtle I believe. It's a game that's sort of like Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice I think, it's a game that has a darker story to tell and I believe it's more about trying to tell that story than actually having too much fun with the game. I'm glad I played this though, and it did have a nice soundtrack and a pretty unique art design, so even though it's really depressing, I'm glad it's on my list.

 

Yellow: Borderlands 2

 

Finally got this 100% after having played about half an hour of it prior nearly 4 years ago now. Went back to this one and did the whole thing couch co-op with @rjkclarke. The 100% took us about 95 hours to complete, which isn't too bad considering we started it in February. This game is just super fun. The humour is great and my kind of humour, the gameplay is fun... playing as Salvador is super satisfying and that ability to Gunzerk just never gets old. Dual wielding two shot guns, or a Moxxi weapon and the Lady Fist weapon and getting some massive damage output is super fun. I think we both choose our characters well what with me being the short one who goes to the gym, and Rob picking Krieg, the muscular but skinny and tall one 😂.

We finished it off today with cleaning up the rest of the raid bosses, ending on the Terramorphous boss fight which was super fun and nice to get done on the first time. The Tiny Tina DLC was the best part of the DLC by far, and I'm excited to get round to playing Tiny Tina Wonderlands with him too, as well as the rest of the Borderlands games. Most of the DLC was pretty good as well, really enjoyable experience overall.

 

Just a few more games left to go, I'm probably going to be playing Enslaved Odyssey to the West, Evoland, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and Flipping Death or GTA Vice City for my pink, we'll see! Looking forward to getting some more games completed and then moving on to a second rainbow 😁. Nice to see all your updates, see you in the next one!

Edited Saturday at 07:34 PM by Redblaziken8

[Taruta13 2,264]

Finally got another update!

 

 

For TAN, I platinumed Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered. Representing the fairy world is Ho-Oh, the legendary rainbow Phoenix. I think it's fitting considering that this was the first legendary Pokemon Ash Ketchum saw when his story began, at the end of episode one of the anime. His story has ended in Japan(and I like the new anime concept of the two young trainers with Paldea starters) but Ash Ketchum and Pikachu remind me a lot of Oliver and Drippy in this classic LEVEL-5 title. Unfortunately, Ash's mom did not die in episode one of the Pokemon anime.

 

Ni No Kuni is a really grindy game and several parts like the required gambling(since no dupe glitch in this version) and getting lucky with the rare steals for rare items for alchemy were annoying. Only lost Solosseum S Rank once because I was foolish and didn't conserve Oliver's MP, but all in the end, managed to struggle through that since learning I could just cast Cloudburst and nix the stupid golden familiars. Fun RPG but not really conducive for trophies. I just tacked the sequel for KYC2023 and hoo boy, that's a pain and a half especially with the DLC... and I will have to platinum that game as well as leaving things off the record for good never sits with me.

 

That brings my second card to halfway done, so I will probably not update for another month or so. Most of the games here will be RPGs so they will take a while to complete. Just hope to get something good done in the next six months.

 

Current list:

 

Light Blue: Asdivine Cross

Orange: Disgaea 4 Complete+

Purple: Asdivine Saga

Deep Purple: Ambition Record

Pink: Final Fantasy II

Light Green: Final Fantasy III

Black: The Last Campfire

Tan: Ni No Kuni Wrath of the White Witch Remastered

Edited Sunday at 01:34 PM by Taruta13

[Platinum_Vice 2,107]

Entry 5 ticked off: Elden Ring. I walked away with an interesting experience but the genre doesn't capture me as much as it does for the ravenous hordes.

 

 

[Copanele 19,196]

Gods be praised, I finally have an entry for the event ...after this much time... Yellow - Hades

 

 

All I need is Deep Purple and all the shades of Green...is that a sign that i should touch grass or something?

[Xylobe 2,117]

 

Two new colors for me this month: Metal: Hellsinger for red and Afterimage for maroon!

 

The elevator pitch for Metal: Hellsinger is Doom but a rhythm game, and as a Seasoned Veteran™ of the FPS genre, I can say that it definitively delivers, probably (the "seasoned veteran" part was stolen valor; my only other FPS plat is Resistance: Burning Skies). I was a bit worried about difficulty, with it being a genre I'm so inexperienced with, but I'm a little more familiar with rhythm games and found those mechanics to be a helpful crutch. The music is obviously the game's biggest selling point, and it's... fine? When every 5-6 minute track is chopped up and looped over the course of a 15-20 minute stage and three 3-5 minute challenge stages, they end up wearing out their welcome. The best tracks are probably Stygia and This Devastation, but nothing that's making it into my regular rotation (for a bit of context, the only bands that I'm at all familiar with whose singers are featured are System of a Down and Jinjer). I'm generally of the perspective that metal is a tremendously dorky genre, so I tend to prefer the power metal school of leaning into it with pomp and bombast (see acts like Avantasia and Fellowship). The more self-serious style of other subgenres, like those in this game, comes across to me as, ironically, really goofy.

 

Now, as an actual-no-for-real-this-time veteran of metroidvanias, I can confirm that Afterimage is a pretty good one! I've seen other fans of the genre claim it's the best since Hollow Knight, and while I definitely wouldn't go that far, I'd rank it second behind Axiom Verge 2 of the six I've played this year. Gorgeous art and an overwhelmingly large map to get lost exploring are huge plus sides, but the combat never really clicked for me, and that resulted in a pretty awful difficulty curve. Early and late game were both super easy, while the hardest bosses by far seemed to come back to back to back in the midgame (I died a few dozen times to the boss in Heart of Veins, and then never again for the last ~10 hours of my playthrough). An even bigger issue is the game's writing: combine a Souls-inspired desire to hide important lore in item descriptions, a heavy reliance on what I lovingly call "bullshit anime words" (e.g. what the hell is an "arteefax"???), and the fact that the voice actors seem to have been the only native English speakers who ever laid eyes on the script... it's tough to follow. If anyone decides to check it out - which I do recommend to genre fans! - I'd also recommend just mashing through dialogue to save yourself the headache.

[DrBloodmoney 26,652]

Completing my first Rainbow, with Metal: Hellsinger!

 

 

 

 

Finally got a Maroon... that was not as easy to find as one might think! Thought it would be FFVI, but I'm taking my sweet time with that one, so Metal: Hellsinger will do in the mean time!

 

A cool concept for a game - DOOM as a Rhythm game - and has some good aspects (the music and the visual design are cool, and it moves really well)... but it's let down quite a bit by a very poorly implemented lag configuration tool, some truly appalling hit-boxing (some of the worst I've ever encountered!) and a bit of a lack of variety in environments, enemies, and boss design.

 

 

 

 

Well, first rainbow complete - and on to the next one to get that Prestige!

I've already got a few games done that were doublers, so will be throwing them onto a new card, and seeing where I end up... but that's for a future post! 😉

 

 

[ShinigamiSensei- 4,369]

New update: 3 more games added and 3 more to go to complete my first rainbow!

-ONINAKI for Pink

-LOST SPHEAR for green

-I AM SETSUNA for Light Green

 

 

I'm getting close to the rainbow!

Keep up the good work guys!

 

[InfinateEternity 318]

Hi, all! Congrats on all of the amazing progress and rainbow completions! It's been a long (almost) 4 months since I've updated. But, I've finally, finally, gotten my 5th game done. My updated checklist is in the spoiler at the bottom of this post.

 

Kaleidoscope Progress: 5/16

 

Deep Purple (at least relative to my Purple choice!)

Knockout City

 

Where to begin with this one? Honestly, when this game was first distributed as a free game for PS Plus users back in November 2021, I did what I usually tend to do, and added the game to my library, intending to get to it "someday." That "someday" eventually came in February, when the developers announced the game was getting shutdown on June 6th. With 4 months to get the game done, I figured I'd give it a shot. And, to be fair, this game was quite a journey and ended up being a bit of a milestone for me, personally, on many levels. According to my profile's trophy log, it's the first Ultra-Rare Platinum I've gotten in almost 18 months, and I know it's the first 100% cooperative, online game I've actually finished the plat for, IIRC. (Seriously, thank you to all my crew mates and everyone who I played, and boosted, parts of this game with. You know who you are, and I appreciate it more than you know!)

 

The gameplay was a fast, fun mix of team dodgeball and beat 'em up elements, and was relatively simple to learn (though admittedly a bit hard for me to master, lol). The most common mode had you team up with two other people to compete in 3v3 matches where the first team to get 10 KOs twice, would win. And, the developers played around with that, and expanded it to modes that were 4v4, and had special modifiers and balls you used, among other things.

 

But, while Knockout City was great for what it was...the journey to the platinum was grindy and there was always a risk of at least one of your trophies being buggy and taking longer than expected to unlock. I experienced it with the daily and crew contract trophies myself, and know of others who had it happen with KO assists, for example. I'm grateful my final trophy (the 1000 KO assists) unlocked when expected. But, the buggy trophies added extra unnecessary stress to this game, especially when combined with some of the RNG madness that was also included in the trophy list. And, to be honest, I found myself worried, wondering if I'd be kicking myself for not playing this between April 2nd and May 25th / 26th due to a combination of burnout and getting distracted with other games. But, I lucked out, and can be glad that I did get it done.

 

Also, I know I've been wordy. But, this final warning needs to be said just in case:

 

Please note that if you are at all interested in getting this platinum before its server closure, you had to already have had the daily contract, crew contract, and season contract trophies completed before the end of the game's final season, which recently ended. Those contacts have since been removed from the game for its final event, which is currently ongoing. (Developer's Post - DangerSpice).

 

If you're starting the game from scratch, the game's platinum is now unobtainable.

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 06:00 PM by InfinateEternity
Clarified that the developer's post I'm refering to is DangerSpice's post in the linked thread and corrected some dates.

[Biscoito18 840]

Updating my card with "Thymesia" for green. It was not an easy one but it sure was fun. Now I'm 15/16 and only need light green to finish my first rainbow. 🙂

 

 

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

The Pedestrian

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

The Quarry

Axiom Verge 2

Ape Academy 2

Last Day of June

Graveyard Keeper

Astro's Playroom

Ape Escape

Thymesia

Save Room

Chicken Police

The Callisto Protocol

 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by Biscoito18

[Yuber6969 5,279]

Finished Phantom Breaker: Omnia for my light blue game!

 

[DrBloodmoney 26,652]

Starting up my Second card, with some doublers completed during my first trip over the rainbow to get things moving!

 

The Quarry, for Tan

Season: A Letter to the Future for Orange

Two Point Campus: School Spirits DLC for Deep Purple

A Monster's Expedition Through Puzzling Exhibitions for Green

This War of Mine: Final Cut for Grey

The Last of Us Part II: Grounded Mode DLC for Black

 

 

 

6 out of 16 already done, just out of pure disorganised colour play! 😂

 

 

 

Completed Cards:

 

Rainbow 1:

 

[GT__Jedi 4,484]

For my Red Entry: Valiant Hearts - The Great War.  Nice game set during WW1, where you play the role of 4 characters: Frenchman Emile, his German son-in-law Karl, American soldier Freddie, and Belgian nurse Anna.  And of course the best non-human character in the game: your canine companion.  The artwork in the game was superb, the story followed the events of WW1 where I probably learned more about the War than anything that was taught in school.  Excellent game and I highly recommend it.  Most difficult part was Healing Hero trophy, as the QTEs could be hit or miss and the timing seemed to have a mind of its' own.  I felt that trophy should of been a platinum in itself!

 

 

[Yen-Pop 501]

 

Nine down, seven to go! I used LEGO Movie: The Videogame for Maroon, which I know is kinda half 'n half with blue (I have a feeling this conversation was brought up before but I couldn't find it in the thread, so maybe I'm just crazy/incorrect) so if it should be moved/fits another color better as previously decided (or not in case I just made that conversation up) please let me know! Honestly I just was really craving a mindless collect-a-thon romp that I could play in between job searching, and this fit perfectly. Definitely not my favorite Lego game - Lord knows I've played a ton of 'em at this point - but it was cute and fun and most importantly totally mindless enjoyment.  

 

Spoiler

 

White: Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Yellow: Yaga: Roots of Evil

Tan: Twelve Minutes

Orange: Stray

Red: 

Pink: Paper Beasts

Maroon: LEGO Movie: The Videogame

Purple: Afterparty

Deep Purple: Doctor Who: The Edge of Time

Blue: Untitled Goose Game

Light Blue: Horizon: Forbidden West

Green:

Light Green: 

Brown: Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Grey: Chicken Police

Black: Going Under

 

 

[BeesTrophies 239]

Spoiler

Officially completed 7 games. A couple I've been working on all have black backgrounds so I'm really happy I got to add another one finally