The Ultra Rare Cleanup 2023 [CLOSED]

[Cruscah]

 

 

Nidhogg is a very unique sword-fighting game, the graphics, the gameplay and the soundtrack are as simple as things can be, but are all very good. The hardest trophy in the game is HOGGLIKE, that asks you to beat the singleplayer campaign without dying. Well... at least that's what you're supposed to do, luckily there's a known method for this trophy to make things easier, if you die you can let the opponent win the match and keep trying after. This method can be quite frustrating because, to lose the match, the AI needs to get to the end of your side of the map and it feels like they don't want to win at all, a 30 minute game can take 4 hours doing this.

 

Nidhogg 2 is a great evolution from the first game, there are more weapons, the graphics are awesome, the AI is better. Unfortunately, Hogglike is unobtainable there, Floriiss even did the entire thing without using the method from the first game in two different versions and nothing popped at the end. With Hogglike out of the way, beating the game in under 20 minutes becomes the hardest trophy, which I got it in my first try since I was very used to the controls from playing the first game.

 

 

MX vs ATV Legends is a great evolution from All Out on pretty much all the aspects, the difference between the entries on the series are wild. My only complaints would be the lack of a map on open world areas (it was a pain to find the collectibles) and the landing (they are trying to make it more realistic, but it's literally impossible to land some jumps without falling). Not sure why this is an UR, I've played worse racing games for a longer time that are less rarer.

 

 

Hunter's Arena is a battle royale with some MMORPG aspects build into it and, like most MP games released with PS+, it's now a ghost town. There are no bots in the game, this means that you need at least 12 consoles to at least start a match, this was a long boost with the boys. Nothing is hard and the biggest grind is leveling up two thousand times, you can only gain 20 levels in a match, so... yeah, at least 100 matches are necessary.

 

Spoiler

• Dead Cells (4.36% / 0.34%) 100%
• Hunter's Arena: Legends (1.89%) 100%
• MotoGP 10/11 (0.67%) 100%
• MX vs ATV Legends (3.03%) 100%
• Nidhogg (0.39%) 100%
• Nidhogg 2 (0.00%) 89%

 

Currently working on a few games with URs, I'll give another update once I finish the PS4 stack of DRG as my 175th platinum.

[AvengedEvil]

Tier 3 Game 1: Bus Simulator 21 (PS5)

 

My rarest platinum trophy to this date. 😁 The gameplay was relaxing and enjoyable. I only had to grind for an hour or so for the missing kilometers. Also, all trophies unlocked when they should. I read some trophies glitched for some people.

[Shrooba]

Finally got to finishing Call of Duty: Ghosts! 😎


A friend and I enjoy the CoD series, and after being done with BO3 for some time, we decided to set our sights on another in the series. Given that BO3's DLC took us through a dive into some of the older zombies maps, I pitched in that we should do 2013's CoD! 😅
One thing I'll always give Activision props for is that they respect the legacy of their older CoD games. I think even World at War all the way back from 2008 still has it's servers running, and Ghosts is no different!

Trophy-wise, you've got the standard campaign stuff to start off with. Veteran playthrough etc etc. ALTHOUGH, I must admit, the final missions are quite painful on veteran! During the final act of the game, you've essentially got to snipe enemies from afar with a pistol... on a moving train that shakes the camera... and against veteran enemies who WILL shoot you with turret-like accuracy. Yeeaaaah, needless to say, it was, as aforementioned, quite painful near the end! 😅 You've especially got a mission where you've gotta carry your loyal dog companion during the rage of battle, but if you drop him for 2 seconds to fight the enemies, your entire team will shout down your ears "GRAB RILEY! GO GRAB RILEY!!!" Yes, my AI teammates, I would love to grab Riley and push forward, but if we leave even one enemy alive, then I will be sent to the shadow realm.

Apart from that, all the DLC and the other bit of the base trophy list revolves around a new mode differing from the standard zombies mode: Extinction! Unlike zombies which is more round-based and a test of how long you can stay alive, extinction offers a more objective-based survival mode where you deal with the cryptids, an alien race. The general gameplay loop is that you've got 'hives' in every area (generators in the final DLC), and you use a drill to excavate it with a timer. You're tasked with defending the drill until it completes while fending off a horde of aliens. Through each hive, you're tasked with 1 challenge, and the completion of the challenge and the hive itself grant you up to 2 skill points which you can dedicate towards upgrading your class, ammo, armour, and other things like sentry guns, or an IMS.
After doing all the hives, there's actually a definitive ending, similar to choosing to extract in Cold War's zombies mode.
The base game and third DLC sees you run to the beginning of the map and escape via a helicopter extraction.
The first and second DLCs end via a boss fight.
The final DLC sees you launch a massive... uh, I think nuke? Treat it as a Michael Bay finisher. 😛

In any case, that's it for Ghosts! Interesting game. The campaign isn't the greatest, but I did really enjoy the base game's first extinction map, Point of Contact. After the wild nature of the DLCs, I have a newfound respect for the simplicity of the base game one! 😅

I still really only planned on finishing Tier 1 this year, but I figure I'll add it to my 2nd tier:

Tier 2:
1. Call of Duty: Ghosts (PS4) - 0.54% - Done
2. Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds - 1.81%
3. Grand Theft Auto IV - 0.48%

Edited August 20, 2023 by Shrooba

[poetic_justice_]

TIER 1

1. Battlefield 2042 (PS5) DONE

2. Empire of Sin (PS4) DONE

3. Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (PS5) DONE

4. Battlefield 2042 (PS4): DONE! Clean Exit was the toughest trophy the second time around. I'm excited I might actually finish Tier 1 this time around!

 

5. Enlisted (PS5): Campaign 16/20. Hours 53/100. Tanks/airplanes: 84/100. Headshots 20 IAR. Flamethrower or Mortar 30 IAR. Points Captured 10 IAR.

 

 

 

Fuel (PS3): No progress as of yet.

[Prometheous101]

Sairento VR (Global Stack)

 

So, an organisation of ninja/samurai people that protect the japanese people have been hacked/corrupted, you and your sensei are the only ones who arent and are trying to defend the citizens of Japan from your fellow comrades that have been corrupted. 

A VR game that allows you to do wall runs, frontflips, back flips, 360 no scope mega kills on your enemies.

With a decent selection of weapons ranging from multiple melee weapons and at least 4 weapons of each type. (Assault Riffles, SMGs ,LMGs,Rocket Launchers and various ninja tools at your disposal)

Relatively short campaign and an online mode which thankfully has no trophies tied to it.

Its an ultra rare I guess cause of a minor grind of l ike 4-5 hours. 

**NOT RECOMMENDED TO VR BEGINNERS** You will experience motion sickness if you havent played through enough VR games to let your brain figure out that its a game and stop giving you motion sickness.

Overall a very cool game, even tho the grind is very unnecesary I still had a blast with it cause of all the parkour you can do in this game.

 

 

TIER 3

 

1. MORTAL BLITZ (ASIAN STACK) - 2.45% - 4 URs
2. SAIRENTO VR (GLOBAL STACK) - 3.69% NEW 2 URs

[Baker]

TIER 1

Fury Unleashed 

Hard Reset Redux 

OlliOlli World +DLC

Super Meat Boy Forever 

Trackmania 

 

 

And that’s a wrap for TIER 1.

 

Normally not a big fan of roguelite games but this was fun. Even if you die you probably made a lot of progression and in the end you’re pretty powerful.

 

One thing that annoyed the hell out of me though was my controller. My left analog stick now has a ridiculous drift to the left and so I had to play this with the D-pad. But even then I often started running to the left for no reason resulting in unnecessary deaths.

 

I can’t even play Trackmania anymore. 😢

 

TIER 2

Back 4 Blood
Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time

Devil May Cry 5 😂

Ikaruga

Weird West

Edited August 21, 2023 by Baker

[Koro249]

Tier 5 completed: 

 

Crysis 3 - Another server shutdown? Don't mind if I do! I haven't heard great things about this game but I figured I'll pick it up before it is forever gone. Multiplayer was boosted really quickly (aside from the usual PS3 issues). The campaign was also quite short, I didn't pay much attention to the story, though against my own expectations I actually quite enjoyed the stealth gameplay with the bow. There was only a slight grind towards the end for maxing out the upgrades. Enjoyment: 5/10, Challenge 3/10, Playtime: 20h

 

DCL: The Game - The official drone racing game that somehow even has its own e-sport with a minimal viewership. Picked it up because it was leaving PS+ extra and was curious about drones. Before starting, I was kind of afraid that the controls might be very difficult and sim-like, but luckily it was possible to play everything with arcade controls. any height adjustments were therefore met automatically and all you had to worry about was steering and braking if necessary. For the most part this worked well, however if you deviated too far from the optimal line that the game used to adjust your altitude (which could happen often in loopings, hairpins, other tight obstacles), some very awkward moments could happen because the game tries to pull you back and you lose control. Your main task throughout this is beating time trials to earn currency so you can ultimately buy all the stuff required for trophies. This was definitely quite fun, the trials were somewhat challenging and maps were exciting and varied. Enjoyment: 7/10, Challenge: 4/10, Playtime: 25h (+100h afk)

 

Override: Mech City Brawl - Some really effortless UR trophies. Game was forgettable. Enjoyment: 5/10 Challenge: 1/10, Playtime: 6h

 

Nidhogg - Is the "Hogglike" trophy cheeseable? Yes. Is it still a PITA? Hell yes. At first it felt like it's all luck and the enemies do whatever they can to annoy you. Some stages took me forever to beat. Didn't help that my game crashed twice while attempting the hogglike trophy. On my third attempt I definitely had found some decent strategies that would work on most maps and got better at precisely performing the jump kick so I cut my time in half and finally made it. Other than that, quite short, odd game. I think it would be fun if you're hanging out with friends. Enjoyment: 4/10, Challenge: 5/10, Playtime: 10h

 

8-bit Armies - I used to play Stronghold (popular medieval RTS series) as a kid and vividly remember having no idea what the hell I was doing. This caused me to always be somewhat afraid of RTS games so I'd just tell myself: "Guess this genre isn't for me". However, when I saw this one would leave extra, I figured it's time to face my fear. And hey, it wasn't too bad. Challenging yes, but some missions had me on the edge of my seat commanding my units and I can see myself enjoying some more RTS in the future.
In this game you have to play through 3 different campaigns (1 of them in CO-OP) and complete specific bonus objectives to earn 3 stars in all levels (usually destroying specific buildings and beating the level within in a specified time frame). Enjoyment: 6/10, Challenge: 6/10, Playtime: 30h

[Lum]

Update time:

 

The King of Fighters XIII (0.98%) 

 

A very well-liked and respectable game in the FGC known for its stylishly designed and bad-ass looking characters, including those who also have their own exclusive fighting game titles (Art of Fighting and Fatal Fury) that they star in, numerous cancel mechanics designed to put the extra hurt on the opponent, especially if used as a finisher. It’s also known for its notoriously hard combo trials and even such negatives like its terrible netcode lol…which I can imagine was a shame back in the day because this game could have been even more popular than it already has been. Compared to other similar 2D fighting games I’ve played in more recent times such as USF4, UMvC3 and Koihime Enbu RRR, the execution of moves in KoFXIII seem to be harder to pull off due to stricter and more complex input movements. For example, pulling off a half-circle motion is easier to input in Koihime than pulling off a half-circle in KoF it seems…and it’s because in Koihime you could get away with missing like a 2 and/or 3 somewhere in the whole 41236 (back, down-back, down, down-forward, forward) motion and the special move could still go off sometimes…in KoF I feel like even though I’ve done the half-circle accurately many times in a character’s trial, the move still wouldn’t go off plenty of times too. In UMvC3, I don’t remember any special moves or supers being this hard to pull off either. While USF4 had some tricky trials that require really fast movement with your thumb for some particular chains, it was nowhere near the the amount, accuracy and complexity that KoFXIII had and required for its own trials, especially from each character’s last few. This is probably going to lose some people, but an example of some hard chains to perform is pulling a 63214 x2 HP(high punch) LP(low punch) coming from a 1(down-back) LP position. You would think that you would need to hold down-back and press LP, then quickly bring your thumb all the way across to the 6(forward) position to start the half-circle back (hcb aka 63214) twice immediately in a matter of a fraction of a second, but how you would actually do it is start the hcb immediately by sliding (or rotating if using stick) with your thumb from 6(forward), 3(down-forward), 2(down) and when you approach 1(down-back) that’s when you press the LP button, then you would finish off the first hcb by moving your thumb to the last position, back(4) then just immediately do another 63214 quickly afterwards followed by the HP and LP at the same time. Doing it this way could give you like a quarter of a second more time to be able to finish off the rest of the input. Also, as a pad player I feel that KoFXIII is more geared towards a stick player and this was kind of evident when there were certain trials that I could have only completed with the analog stick (like the example I just mentioned). Haven’t used a Hori controller (that just came in the mail btw!) yet so I wouldn’t know if and how much it would help me for fighting games, especially since I’ve never experienced using this controller before. If KoFXIII required the player to finish ALL trials, instead of just 200, then this game would solidify its spot at the top as being the hardest fighting game to plat imo, and I’m sure many would agree. While Koihime, no doubt, have some really, like really hard trials due to lots of strict timing requirements, 1-frame links and very long combos, KoFXIII’s trials has strict timing requirements, 1-frame links, very long combos AND extreme execution difficulties…and that last one makes a huge difference between the two.

Tier 2:

1. The King of Fighters XIII (0.98%) 

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Edited August 22, 2023 by Lum

[Joe Dubz]

I just finished a delightful little... Uhhh, roguelite sidescrolling platforming twin stick shooter (?!) called Fury Unleashed (NA stack)! I saw my old pals @Arcesius and @Mori having fun with it; it was included in the Extra tier on PSPlus, so I opted to give it a shot. And boy, I was not disappointed!!

 

It's a nice little game, albeit short (I logged in 29 hours at the time of plat, per my PS5). There are 3 levels to play through, then a 4th final level at the end. There were quite a few misc trophies, such as killing so many enemies in 1 run with either grenades, your melee weapon, or stomping, etc. The game also needs completed on 3 different difficulties. Which honestly wasn't bad at all, thanks to some careful save scumming!

 

What was arguably the hardest trophy in the game, for beating the game with one continuous combo from start to finish, had its difficulty basically trivialized by stashing my save file throughout!! Sure, I coulda spent another 20+ hours trying to git gud and do it the right way... But ain't nobody got time for that!! Game time for me is limited, so I try to make the most of it!

 

This brings us to my first win on Tier 2:

 

Tier 2:

Fury Unleashed (1.09%) 

 

As for what's next, I enjoyed this game so much that I think I'm gonna do the EU stack as well! (and maybe write a trophy guide for it?! 😉)

 

Anyway, thx for reading and keep knocking those URs outta the park gang 💪     Peace ✌️

Edited August 24, 2023 by Joe Dubz

[AvengedEvil]

13 hours ago, Joe Dubz said:

save file manipulation

🤔 You mean backup saves?

[Joe Dubz]

6 hours ago, AvengedEvil said:

🤔 You mean backup saves?

You got it!! You can save and quit at any time, then store your save in the cloud, with the exception of during a boss battle! I was even saving right before the one donation guy, who gives you a random boost... I kept reloading til he gave me damage up which helped immensely! 

 

Happy to share other advice tho if you're giving this a go... Just PM me if you want bud and good luck!! Wasn't too bad overall IMO, maybe a 6/10 with the save scumming. 

 

(I realize in retrospect, my choice of wording sounds fishy 😅 I'm gonna go back and edit that so it just says save scumming, like I should have to begin with!)

Edited August 24, 2023 by Joe Dubz

[AvengedEvil]

3 hours ago, Joe Dubz said:

You got it!! You can save and quit at any time, then store your save in the cloud, with the exception of during a boss battle! I was even saving right before the one donation guy, who gives you a random boost... I kept reloading til he gave me damage up which helped immensely! 

 

Happy to share other advice tho if you're giving this a go... Just PM me if you want bud and good luck!! Wasn't too bad overall IMO, maybe a 6/10 with the save scumming. 

 

(I realize in retrospect, my choice of wording sounds fishy 😅 I'm gonna go back and edit that so it just says save scumming, like I should have to begin with!)

Yeah, wasn't the best choice of words. 😂 But thanks for your reply. Maybe I should give this game a try some time.

[Cruscah]

 

Here's a post from last year's event, when I completed the PS5 version of DRG. There's no cross-progression from PS5 to PS4, meaning that I had to do everything from scratch, and honestly... I'd do it again if there were more stacks. Still the best co-op game that I've ever played. Rock and Stone, Brothers!

 

Spoiler

• Dead Cells (4.37% / 0.34%) 100%
• Deep Rock Galactic (0.64% / 0.45%) 100%
• Hunter's Arena: Legends (1.88%) 100%
• MotoGP 10/11 (0.68%) 100%
• MX vs ATV Legends (3.16%) 100%
• Nidhogg (0.38%) 100%
• Nidhogg 2 (0.00%) 89%

 

My plan was to have more games in this update, but DRG hooked me hard in the past week 😅

Edited August 25, 2023 by Cruscah

[DeepEyes7]

Hi! I'm not too into events so didn't check this one before and wanna join... For my first Tier 1 games can I keep adding games to my first ones as I'm deciding what to play or I need to announce the first five at once? Thanks!

[Copanele]

6 hours ago, DeepEyes7 said:

Hi! I'm not too into events so didn't check this one before and wanna join... For my first Tier 1 games can I keep adding games to my first ones as I'm deciding what to play or I need to announce the first five at once? Thanks!

Heyo! You can add as you complete, or you can say games in advance, you pick 😁 the "announce in advance " is just in case an UR game is in danger of becoming VR (e.g. Street Fighter 6)

I will sign you up as soon as i get to my laptop

[DeepEyes7]

25 minutes ago, Copanele said:

Heyo! You can add as you complete, or you can say games in advance, you pick 😁 the "announce in advance " is just in case an UR game is in danger of becoming VR (e.g. Street Fighter 6)

I will sign you up as soon as i get to my laptop

 

Great, thanks!

 

So I will add the first three games I'm working on:

- Koihime Enbu

- Koihime Enbu Ryo Rai Rai

- Street Fighter 6 (In case tournaments are fixed before the end of 2023)

[Yuber6969]

Finished Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes and Tier 2!

 

In = Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes

Out = The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

 

https://forum.psnprofiles.com/profile/324260-yuber6969/?status=252666&type=status

 

TIER 2

 

 

TIER 3

 

[HaserPL]

On 12/31/2022 at 1:54 AM, HaserPL said:

7. Hitman 69/69 2.02%;

 

Hello there. It's been a while since my last update, but I couldn't really force myself to play anything from my original list. So, I decided to play something else instead, and it turns out that Hitman does have an UR trophy so it's valid for the event lol. Great game, I had a lot of fun with this one, although as I will eventually go after Hitman 2 and Hitman 3's 100% as well, I can't say I am too eager to repeat the challenges and escalations again. They were fun, but some really took me a while to crack. All in all, good game and a really fun "reboot".

 

As for the rest of my list, I bought the NA version of Catherine for PS3 and managed to finish the story and beat all Babel towers in a single day, but I will need to take a break from this game so I doubt I will be able to finish either this stack or Full Body this year. Having to do 5 more playthroughs of this game is just too much at this point for me, I don't want to ruin my love for the game by forcing myself to play it right now. 

I will also disregard any Call of Duty platinums this year, as I want to wait for two of my friends and do zombie trophies with them, instead of doing them solo. For now, I will work on finishing Driveclub's DLC trophies (and the game is an UR plat so one more game finished for me yay). After that, the next 5 platinum trophies will be done in preparation for two milestones, the 250th platinum trophy and the 1000th ultra rare trophy. I decided to finish Binary Domain, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, R.U.S.E, and either I Am Bread or Dead Or Alive 5, depending on which gives me less headache. Time Crisis Razing Storm will be completed as both milestones (hopefully). That's it for me for the foreseeable future, take care folks!

Edited August 26, 2023 by HaserPL

[Thedah]

UR Clean Up 2023 Tier 2 by Thedah

Icon	Game	Platform	Progress	Rarities	Completion
	Lone Survivor	PS4, PS3, Vita	37/37 - 100%	🏆 4.56% / 💯 4.56%	🟩
	真・恋姫夢想～乙女対戦★三国志演義～	PS3	48/48 - 100%	🏆 4.81% / 💯 4.81%	🟩
	Samurai Shodown VI	PS4	12/12 - 100%	🏆 - / 💯 1.44%	🟩
	SoulCalibur V	PS3	51/51 - 100%	🏆 2.69% / 💯 2.69%	🟩
	Exist Archive	PS4, Vita	45/45 - 100%	🏆 3.17% / 💯 3.17%	🟩

🟥 = not started • 🟦 = started • 🟩 = complete

Generated with PSNP+

 

Lone Survivor and Tier 2 done! Not much to say about this game other than it reminded me of Claire. I just played through it once then followed a guide to get the platinum.

[FreshFromThaDeli]

Adding Street Fighter 6 before it's inevitable Tournament problem is fixed so I can claim it as a UR while I can. Will edit in the current list later. 

 

Edit:

 

1. Assassin's Creed III PS3

2. Call of Duty Black Ops III PS4

3. Dark Awake: The King Has No Name

4. Far Cry 2

5. Street Fighter 6

Edited August 30, 2023 by FreshFromThaDeli
Added game list

[OzaXD]

Finished up a few UR games in the past few weeks so it's about time I made a post.

 

#7 Rabi-Ribi

 

Difficulty: 6.5/10

Enjoyment: 5/10

 

Rabi-Ribi is a metroidvania cross platformer featuring bullet-hell inspired bossfights. The game has an emphasis on non-linear pathing with a "global" boss level, even featuring many sequence breaks if the player contains knowledge on certain techniques.

 

The hardest challenge was completing the "0%" item run which obviously... requires you to beat the game without collecting any items including your main melee weapon the "piko hammer".

 

I first discovered this game on a "hidden gem" thread where people were posting about great indies which have gone under the radar. After some research that it was a metroidvania and the fact it was UR it piqued my interest. It's definitively not my kind of artistic style... but I thought I'd give it a chance.

In terms of gameplay the world and boss fights were actually really well executed. The world felt big enough to want to keep exploring although not to overwhelming, and the bullethell twist on bossfights was quite unique and suiting the genre extremely well.

I found the moveset to be quite limited and cookie-cutter even after getting the majority of the unlocks on the 100% playthrough but the enjoyment came from executing the bossfights well via dodging their abilities.

The story on the other hand... I really tried to enjoy it but it was horrific. The main character used to be a rabbit (hence the bunny ears) so she speaks with the intelligence of a rabbit? Which ends up coming across as speaking with a 3 year old. Ontop of the fact the game is quite "fanservice" like made the whole situation really odd and uncomfortable.

 

In terms of trophies the game required three playthroughs, the original 100% playthrough, including all items, map discovery and earning "max" rank on each boss. The 0% item run mentioned earlier and the NG+ 1 hour speedrun.
The 100% playthrough was not in any way difficult at all, you are able to re-battle bosses so going back with a max loadout makes earning MAX rank a meme. The sub 1 hour completion can be completed on a NG+ save file so you keep all the mobility enhancing abilities also making this fairly easy, I think I completed this in ~55 minutes with quite yolo routing and a fair few mistakes. All the difficulty in this list came from the 0% item run.

The 0% run was my favourite but also least favourite part of the run (i'll explain...). The developer did an astounding job of certain sequence breaks in the game as well as changing the map in ways when you're on a 0% run to allow for certain sections to be possible without the use of mobility items. It was really cool to see skips when I'd gained knowledge of certain techniques such as a "reverse wall kick" which you can perform without any itms. I'd often come to these sections in my 100% run (which I did 95% blindly) and be completely clueless on how to reach a certain area and would simply come back with some form of enhanced mobility, although when I reached this area on my 0% run with my newly gained knowledge of the game I was able to use these techniques to bypass the obstacles.

The bad side of the 0% run were how tedious some sections of the game were when traversing between certain areas, there were a lot of close to 1 shots due to your low amount of HP making it seem almost luck based if you could get certain enemy attack patterns etc, in order to get past.

 

Overall it was a fairly enjoyable experience when I stopped trying to bother with the story and focus on the gameplay aspects. I'm looking forward to the developers new game "TEVI" which looks like the combat system has been overhauled and improved for the better.

 

 

 

#8 Wuppo

Difficulty: 7/10
Enjoyment: 6/10

Wuppo is a 2D adventure game with a unique hand-drawn visuals and a large amount of bossfights requiring the player to use precise movement and pattern recognition in order to wittle down their health with your trusty "gumgum gun".

The hardest challenge was completing "Boss run: impossible" requiring the player to complete the boss rush, defeating every boss in the game back to back with only 1 healing item and their starting weapon.

 

I originally completed my first playthrough of the story mode quite awhile ago and DID NOT enjoy the game at all. I know a lot of people on this forum cherish the game but the whole time I was playing through the story it just felt really messy? I'm not to sure how to articulate the feeling I got when playing through the game but there was such a large amount of item bloat which were all 90% completely useless, ontop of almost no guidance if they actually had a specific use so it felt like I was collecting a bunch of junk with no purpose. There were also a few puzzles I encountered which I genuinely had no idea and had to look up the solution for. I'd like to believe I have above average problem solving skills especially in terms of games but I did not click at all with this game. I eventually bruteforced my way through the game and dropped it soon after not bothering with the boss rush at all.

I had my 4500 trophy milestone coming up and I knew I had Wuppo in my backlog so I decided it was time to brush off the dust and give it a second chance, which I'm honestly really glad I did. The core gameplay and bossfights of the game are actually really well designed for the most part, so when I picked the game back up and jumped right into the boss rush I genuinely enjoyed my time with it.
The boss rush impossible wasn't extremely difficult although a few bosses felt quite rng at times, especially due to the random boss order in certain sections you receive. Thankfully a glitch was discovered allowing the player to effectively double their HP as without the glitch while I believe possible, the game would rise to 10/10 difficulty. I believe the PS4 version never got patched the boss rush is set to "hard" difficulty, while the PC is set to "normal" ontop of the fact the PC version starts off with 3 healing items while the PS4 only has a single item, hence why this would be so difficult without the discovered glitch. My Run.

 

 

#9 Splasher
 

Difficulty: 9/10
Enjoyment: 7.5/10

 

Splasher is a 2D platformer created by a former rayman developer. The game features 3 unique elements the player is able to shoot from their ink cannon, water which is used to clear ink or shoot enemies, red ink which allows the player to freeze enemies or stick to and climb walls, and finally yellow ink which allows the player to bounce off walls or bounce back enemies.

 

The hardest challenge required obtaining all platinum time-trials as well as completing the entire game deathless.

 

There's a lot longer and more detailed posts explaining the games intricacies by people who are able to write a lot better than I can as this game has became quite notorious, so i'll keep this one shorter and just go into my personal experience obtaining the platinum medals and the deathless run.
After completing my casual playthrough I started my journey completing the individual level platinum time-trials.

Overall I didn't find these overly difficult as many other users had stated how tight and perfect you needed to be to complete these within the given time, although I found simply mimicing already established lines especially close to record made the majority of these quite manageable and even lenient in many cases. I remember 15 and 21 giving me the most trouble but nothing took longer than 30-1hr in every other case.

Next I decided to attempt the "selfish" speedrun, which requires you to complete the game without rescuing any splashers. Each level contains 7 splashers, which are little collectable people you need to go out of your way to "rescue", with the 7th being the same on every level and requiring you to "free them" by spending 700 gold to open up thier cell at the very end of each stage.

As mentioend prior the selfish speedrun was similar to the individual levels only focusing on pure personal speed and 0 need for collectables. This speed-run really knocked me down a few pegs. I was feeling quite confident after completing all the IL runs with relative ease but quickly found out how inconsistant I was at longer runs. This step was by far the biggest learning curve in the platinum journey as I had to find a balance of speed and safety, as the run was still quite tight although you could afford to make a few minimal mistakes. After a few days of attempts playing on and off I managed to squeak in a clear of 43:38, with the required platinum time of 43:44.

 

Next I decided to attempt the no-death run as I believed this would be a simple transition from the selfish run, due to only needing to complete a run containing no deaths and once again not worry about collectables. In hindsight I do believe this was the right decision but at the time it felt really awful. The general consensus from people who have completing the game is the no-death run is either a fairly manageable victory lap after you've finished all the platinum times or the hardest thing in the game by a longshot with the platinum speedruns being manageable if you choose to do it first or early on.
This run kicked my ass.
The issue with the game as many others have stated is the harder levels are ALL on the last 5-6 levels of the game, while the first 12 or so levels are a snoozefest. When compared to something like SMB or SMBF you can do these difficult levels earlier and leave the easier levels for later when the nerves start to kick in. Unlike splasher where the nerves kick in AND you're doing very difficult and precise levels. The heartbreak of dying on this game knowing I had to spend 30 minutes of trying not to fall asleep was the worst thing... The majority of my deaths wasn't really due to nerves either, I believe some of the SMBF deathless and verlet swing hardcore marathon deathless runs I've completed were MUCH more difficult so I'm fairly numb to these kind of things. It was the simple dread of being bored again knowiong this would take another 30 minutes. To top things off I opted to use analog for this game even though it's a 2D platformer due to the game requiring a lot of diagonals which felt really uncomfortable and caused thumb pain when using the d-pad which wasn't worth it. This lead to A LOT of dropped inputs when I had to quickly shoot bounce-ink at my feet on small platforms which is present in a lot of later levels. However after a 3-4 days of more on and off attempts I managed to get a clear. 

 

Next up was the standard speedrun speedrun, which required the player to collect 80 of the 154 splashers. After the deathless run this felt like a joke. I had died in what felt like every way possible and knew exactly how to navigate through the more dangerous sections of each level, all that I needed to do was some slight routing in pick and choose which splashers to collect. I managed to get a clear time of "49:10" with the platinum requirement being "50:50" on only my third actual attempt.

 

Finally I had the 100% run left. This run required to collect all 7 splashers on every level, which as I stated earlier requires you to earn 700 gold to free the last splasher from their cage. The issue with the 700 gold is theres only around 710-720 available depending on the given stage so you need to kill every enemy and collect every piece of gold "dirt" on the stage. Due to this run being so different to the runs before it, it required the most amount of routing and practice as I had not done anything like it since my casual playthrough. Routing this felt like it took forever especially with how precise a lot of the levels were. While I believe I completing this is only 5 total attempts with a few being reset fairly early it felt like an eternity due to how long this speedrun was. I clocked a time of "72:11" with the platinum requirement being "73:40".

 

The game was great and I enjoyed my time with it and it was nice to attempt a difficult game again after taking a bit of a hiatus from notoriously tough games. Personally I hated the 100% run due to how finicky collecting everything on some levels were and the no-death run as the game doesn't feel like it was designed for it at all, thus effecting my enjoyment a little bit. I loved the individual level time-trials and will likely do a few more runs of my favourite stages to secure some leaderboard positions before I move on from the game.

No idea what i'll attempt next, likely cleanup my percent a bit completing some more casual games before I start anything worth noting.

Thanks for reading.

Tier 2:

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Tier 1:

Spoiler

 

[Yuber6969]

Finished Dark Awake: The King Has No Name! I was gonna self-boost Street Fighter IV, but it turns out one my two discs doesn't work. Gonna do UMVC 3 instead.

 

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Dark Awake: The King Has No Name

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

 

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Street Fighter IV

RWBY: Grimm Eclipse

Edited August 30, 2023 by Yuber6969
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[Abraniell]

Tier 2 is now completed had to also make some swaps from my original tier 2 list as I refuse to deal with the player base on PRBFTG at its current state so maybe I’ll clean that up at some point next year idk. Anyway, here’s how it went down:

 

Tier 2

 

-        Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator at 1.32% rarity

This was my first introduction to the series I originally wanted to play this only because of Faust since I find the character so interesting and it has been my signature avatar for god knows how long. So I wanted to add at least one of this games to my collection. The game was ok nothing too special, the lore on this one is deep af and you can literally spend like 5 hours simply just lying back and watching the story mode in the same way than any anime style animation. The online trophies are the longest step here but if you combine this matches with the badges then the plat will go by flying.

 

-        Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite at 1.17% rarity

Don’t really got much to say about this one I’m not really into all the superhero stuff so for me the story was whatever and really only went for this as I thought it was going to be an easy and quick 100% which it was thankfully. The online is fast if you have someone to boost yourself to rank 10 and the hardest trophy is for completing all missions for 5 characters which is not a big deal compared to other “similar” trophies like the trials in SSFIV or UMVC3 overall will only recommend if you like or don’t mind the super hero universe.

 

-        3on3 Freestyle at 0.70% rarity EU

Ok so this is my personal highlight this year I absolutely LOVED this game from start to finish and it’s been a long long time I believe since ps3 that I had as much fun and was as competitive on a game as on this one. In fact I liked it so much that I had to go out of my way to make the plat my 10k trophy milestone and this has been THE only game I ended up playing for fun way past the 100% so that’s saying a lot! The game is an online 3 vs 3 street basketball game so if you don’t enjoy or watch the sport then probably this is a hard pass for you, but if you do like the sport then stop playing whatever you are and start this right now its free to play after all. Trophy wise the game is a massive grind fest it took me around 2 months of playing every single day for 2-3 hours but I had tons of fun with this, so much that once it was over I was kind of sad, showing up daily to the court and watching you improve, demolish teams and constantly getting those MVP’s is really cool and rewarding. Seriously go and play this!

 

-        Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War at 1.33% rarity

 

This was also another highlight for me this year I was just not expecting something like this at all after so many trash COD’s after Ghosts. This however was a really enjoyable experience the game is really complete on its current state and it’s a love letter to old school COD’s from ps3 which are the games that I’ve had the most fun while growing up and from COD 4 till Ghosts were the only games I played year round back then so it was a nice trip down memory lane. The campaign is absolutely brilliant it has twists like in BO1 and multiple endings like in BO2 and also has what’s imo THE best campaign mission (Desperate measures) since COD’s 4 all ghillied up so just because of that it asks to be played. Multiplayer had some fun times and the fact that they added some all time favorite maps like Hijacked, Raid, Slums or WMD makes the experience way more fun the guns and perks were also great. Zombies however was the cherry on top for me, sure they simplified the formula and made the mode way easier and accessible but maybe that was the change that it needed and even though the trophies only asks you to play one map I found myself playing all other maps just because it was so good. Dead Ops Arcade also makes a come back here and it comes with an option to play in first person which was a really nice addition to the mode they also added checkpoints every 5 rounds with the addition of the solo advance start option so it makes what was once a challenge something trivial. My only complaint with the game and the plat was the Fireteam mode for the squad medals this sucked and COD is not and never will be a franchise that plays good with this kind of modes they just wanted to jump on the battle royale wagon once again and it’s just embarrassing.

 

 

-        CarX Drift Racing Online at 0.98% rarity

Alright so this was a mind numbing grindfest pretty much ever single trophy here feels like a grind of some sorts the game is pretty average and boring as well so this makes the process more dreadful. Even if you like racing games I doubt that something here makes you want to come back and play this for whatever reason. Longest trophy here is reaching Max lvl 30 which the grinding method even though is relatively quick (around 6-7 hours) is really annoying as it requires full attention to have consistent 6k+ runs so its not like you can grind it while watching something else. 

 

That said I’m going to be closing up the year with a very mild list compose of only sub 1% as I’m going to be busy with other things (BFBC1) this last few months of the year so here it is:

 

Tier 3 list

 

-        Flame Over at 0.81% (currently at 97%)

-        Windbound at 0.66% (currently at 0%)

-        REUS at 0.63% (currently at 1%)

-        Smite at 0.68% (currently at 68%)

-        Absolver at 0.65% (currently at 12%)

[Copanele]

May the light of the blonze shine your way - Dark Awake The King Has No Name completed (tier 3 game 2)

 

TIER 1

1. Dead or Alive 5(0.54% rarity) -  
2. Street Fighter 4(0.62% rarity) -  
3. Street Fighter x Tekken(1.45% rarity) -  
4. Chaos Code (PS3)(1.09% rarity) - 
5. Dragon Ball Raging Blast(1.21% rarity) -  

TIER 2

1. Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Black Dahlia DLC - % complete
2. Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition (PS5) -  
3. Overwatch 2 - Lifeweaver DLC- % complete
4. Marvel vs Capcom 3-  
5. Soulstice -  

 

TIER 3

1. Dark Awake: The King has No Name💯
2. Street Fighter 6
3. Diablo 2
4. Hawken- 
5. Ziggurat

 

Despite the funny name and the funnier trophy list, the game is actually pretty fun. A 3v3 fantasy game, you duke it out in order to fight the fabled King that has No Name.

You do need a JP account for this unfortunately, it's not available for us peasants who have kings with names.

[DeepEyes7]

@Copanele Looking at your last list, if I do Skullgirls 2nd and all three current DLC's, it count as 4 games since each DLC pack has one UR trophy?