Jean's Trophy Fantasy

[Jeanolt]

WELCOMEE!

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This is my tiny space on the whole worldwide web to talk about videogames. I'll be clear: I'm really bad at trophy hunting. But I love to talk about things that I like, and spent my time with.

 

I'm Jean, young, spiritual, true to myself, bad in shooters, use the word "love" and "man" a lot, I defend people online whenever it comes to LGBT matters (I'm non-binary). Looking to travel through the world in a few years and in the meantime, spending time in one of my favourite hobbies.

 

As I don't earn that many platinums since I play for fun, I will talk retrospectively about those that I earned before this checklist, and also games I loved, completed, but haven't got the platinum (or played in another platform, without trophies).

 

You can see that the name it's a game of words with the legendary JRPG saga, Super Mario Bros. Like the game themselves, expect an update from me every two years (minimum).

 

I will update the Entries with the links to see the reviews.

 

 

Entries:

TF: Tekken 7 

TFII: Lake 

TFIII: Life is Strange: True Colors 

TFIV: Spider-Man, Miles Morales and Unpacking

Edited April 29 by Jeanolt

[Jeanolt]

Trophy Fantasy

 Tekken 7

 

Classic Jin, could talk all day about this.

 

Ok, it's been a bit harder than expected lol. I loved Tekken 5 & Dark Resurrection playing as a kid, but not knowing of online modes or how to play, it was hard to tell if I was an actual master on the game, or just really bad. Turns out it was the latter. I learned a lot about fightings during this weeks, even got out and tried Virtua Fighter 5 (bad), came back to SFV (good), and I'm still thinking of beginning Tag Tournament 2. A youtuber I used to watch was obsessed with Tekken and watching his "tutorials" gave me a deep understanding of what a fighting actually is.

 

It's hard to tell but, after the surface, Tekken and any other game of the genre is just a game of Chess, a turn-based game with the aggregated of a lot of speed in the decision-making. Your decisions are made before your opponent moves, so you have to calculate practically everything in a matter of seconds. It takes a lot of skill and I enjoyed the discovery. Mainly played with Lee Chaolan, Jin, Dragunov, and Kazuya. Lucky Chloe really saved me in an practice trophy.

 

About the trophies, yeah, not bad at all. One of them was a unnecesary grind (50k damage in practice) and was basically doing the same combo over and over until it popped. Thankfully I did use practice to get some other trophies before, and in the online lobbies. The casual match trophy drove me mad for some reason, but later I discovered that most players can't read a high-low-high, and thus it was a matter of spamming those certain moves against them. Ping did its part though, playing against someone from Arabia made the game look like it was from Atari, and that coming from someone that won Rocket League Tournaments in Oceania servers at night.

 

 

A Klonoa cameo

 

THE PEEKEE BLINEEDUUHZ

 

 

The story was awful, that's hard to miss. Everything about it was bad, Akuma was extremely op, don't even get me started with playing half of the game with the worst character, the old man, the can't find hairstyler, the one who yells at clouds, Heihachi. I was done in the chapter 5 but had to keep going because I make my money worth yes sir!

The offline modes were poor. You can plat the game in Treasure mode, without touching anything else if you're lucky.

 

The gameplay, in the end, saves it all. It's great, fun, fast, every character is extremely different. In fact, it's what I was waiting. I'll keep playing ranked for a while, and I hope Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 can give more life to the genre. I'll be waiting for it.

Edited April 27, 2023 by Jeanoltt

[KenjiCBZ]

Well done for the Platinum

I play the game competitively and I main Eddy, I recently reached the Emperor rank online. Sometimes I also play Lee and Jin for fun, too. It's true, the offline content is extremely poor, but the great gameplay saves it. I hope you'll decide to stick with it and learn more and more of it: if you ever want to spar a bit with me, let me know.

[Jeanolt]

9 hours ago, KenjiCBZ said:

Well done for the Platinum

I play the game competitively and I main Eddy, I recently reached the Emperor rank online. Sometimes I also play Lee and Jin for fun, too. It's true, the offline content is extremely poor, but the great gameplay saves it. I hope you'll decide to stick with it and learn more and more of it: if you ever want to spar a bit with me, let me know.

Thanks! Although I feel you can win against me with Asuka and eyes closed?. Emperor is really good, I only rank in Rocket League so I love the feeling of "playing against good people" and knowing you can battle them. I'd probably rank in more games if it weren't for trophies/time.

 

Eddy always gave me a lot of problems, I assume your dms history isn't really nice hahahah.

 

What's a good tekken I'm missing and you'd recommend me? Doesn't matter if it has trophies or not.

Edited April 26, 2023 by Jeanoltt

[KenjiCBZ]

Oh they are all good, maybe only Tekken 1 didn't age well, but my favourites are Tekken Dark Resurrection on the Psp and Tekken 5 on the Ps2, check them out.

[zulqarmessi]

Sweet, a trophy checklist ?

Best of luck Jean ?

[Jeanolt]

Trophy Fantasy II

 Lake

I love that she looks like out of Jet Set Radio

 

I'm back!! Didn't earn any platinum in this time but I sincerely forgot to write a long long essay for my favourite games. I'll promise I'll continue writing about them. Today is a platinum!

 

For those that don't know, Lake takes place in the life of a busy worker in a completely generic office work, in the 80s. His parents go on holiday so she takes the job of his father as the mailman(woman). What she discovers is not only her beautiful hometown surrounded by a lake, but also an incredible thing she never thought she was lacking: what life is about. The job, as boring as it seems, reconnect her with the world around, shows her the endless possibilities of life, how time went by (20 years after she left) and lives of people changed, how time waits for no one.

 

The story is a classical slice of life, with little things happening here and there, but some characters you definitely fall in love with. You, as Meredith need to realize in an introspective travel, what are you looking for in life, while her world is changing in just a day. You can decide wether you engage with some characters or not, what you do on the evenings, I missed some more decision-making actually affecting other aspects of the game, although it does just fine.

 

While driving the van, the player should be able to realize, what am I doing in life? Am I doing what I want? Or I'm being led by another force, wether is parents, irrealistic goals put by society, societal pressures, absolutely everything.

 

These thoughts are obviously subjective, they come from my perspective, but in a time of thousands of games as a service, and people complaining about the meaning of the games, wether there's "something to do", battle passes, missions, endgame, anything to be engaged. Can't we just enjoy the ride? Can't we just sit back and enjoy what's going on in front of your eyes? What's leading us to an accelerated lifestyle if there's no pressure?. The peaceful aspect of the game, music, characters, optional "side-quests", everything seems to tell you to take it easy.

 

Despite all of this, I would have liked other endings. Most of them have a very weird final, and it feels like it's never closed. Only one of the endings got it right.

 

 

I'd go as far as to say that the game was inspired by Life is Strange. Yes, maaybe it's one of my favourites games, but I'm not comparing Lake to PES 2012. Lake is the only game I've seen in my life released after LiS that tries to recreate that feeling. And for moments, it does really well. It doesn't help to hide it that every song sounds like Obstacles and Something Good by Alt-J.

 

It's a pleasant experience, not gonna lie. Maybe because I grow into these kind of games. I would love to have in my trophy lists multiple hard, fighting games or JRPGS of multiple hours, but I just love a fun experience more than other aspects of videogames. Life is Strange changed my way of seeing many aspects of life, appreciating different things I never thought about before, seeing the world in retrospective while actually being there, making me a better person. I love that Lake is trying to recreate that feeling.

 

 

 

Now talking about gameplay, the mechanics can be a bit simple, the animations well, very few. It shows the studio wasn't able to handle the open world very well and it suffered in its performance, wether is bugs, traffic jams out of knowhere, constant popping while driving, crashes (I got three or four), fps decaying in the middle of the road, etc. One of the reasons I believe this happened is because of the automatic "fast travel", it takes up to 3 seconds to load, and I feel the whole map is constantly loaded to be able to do it. I remember the devs of Horizon Zero Dawn talking about how the game proccesed the world, and the map dissapeared if Aloy wasn't looking directly at it. Everything behind you wasn't there, until you looked back. In Lake, they weren't able to do it for some reason and it ended up with this problems. I heard the PS5 runs it very well.

 

Despite this flaws, the position in the not-super scientific ranking is...... RECOMMENDED. (Sorry I haven't created a ranking yet).

 

Pros 

- Story 

- Soundtrack

- Characters

- Forced Woke Leftist Movie Lover lol (I love her)

 

Cons

- Bad perfomance on PS4.

- Endings could be better.

- Most decisions have little to no weight in the story.

 

Note: Part of this text was written by me originally on the Mental Health III Thread

Edited June 27, 2023 by Jeanoltt

[Jeanolt]

Trophy Fantasy III

 Life is Strange: True Colors

 

 

It's been a long time since I had to take a step back to cry in a videogame, and I needed it. I don't know, LiS means so much to me that this felt like a love letter to one of my favourites games.

 

Because it changed me, I'll probably post about it at some point, but the experience of many people may be similar to mine. I played it when I was 16. Your mind is growing, you are growing. Then you realize you can be what you see on tv, you start to work on your dreams, on your relationships, on everything that defines you.

 

I'm closer to Steph's age now. She was present in the LiS prequel; Before the Storm. While not being the most important character of a (probably) what some people would call a forgetable game, it's part of the main core of the franchise, and her presence here means the world. It means that I share my view of the world with her. It means that the girl that gave Chloe the Blade Runner DVD years ago could have been me. It means that some part of what I lost thanks to my mental health problems hasn't been lost, that there's always hope to see a better end.

 

 

 

Riley is a beautiful character. She reminded me of me, in the last year, taking care of my own grandmothers.

 

Enough for the sad part. I saw someone say that the trophy checklist section is not anymore about trophies. Well why would I talk about it? It's a 66% platinum!! ?

 

The game improve in many gameplay aspects. It's faster, it has more interactions, choices have actually more weight, compared to what some reviews said, and the graphics and lip-sync are amazing. Some minigames are pretty nice although I would have liked to see more of the town, which for budget reasons, was scarce.

 

The story is what you always get. A perfect slice of life with a mystery, really well craft characters, side stories with heart and like it's a tradition in the saga, a partly-horrible last chapter. What's going on? Neither them or I know, what it seems to be the rule, that after 4 chapters of quiet walking, in the fifth you play a pool match against Zeus.

 

I'd have prefer the game to have a different development of the end, without having some random decision throughout the game (that you decide upon your own morality) being important on something that you have no idea it's going to happen. At least, after all of that, the last 20 minutes of the game (the actual ending) are comforting if you did what you wished to do.

 

This is not an argument against the game, of course. Some of the hardest choices of the entire franchise are seen, and some others are heartbraking.

 

Alex is, up there, with Max and Pepsiman as some of the characters I love controlling the most. She's extra nice and her reactions are mostly understandable. What a lot of people critiziced of the prior games, the "cringe" dialogues, is no where to be seen here.

 

STEPH

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My hand is hurting so that's it. I' already bought the DLC so next I'll probably talk about it. It will be a long time until my next platinum.

I hope you enjoy life, which during your own sunny days, is truly beautiful.

 

Pros

- Everything new it tries, works perfectly.

- Haven feels alive despite is size, and most of the characters have completely different personalities and interests.

- Steph.

- You can romance Steph.

 

Cons

- The ending isn't the most brillant moment, but it does justice after all.

- There's an ending with a low chance of appearing (playing blindfolded with a guitar hero controller) which is terrible.

- Some bugs on Alex's hair and lighting.

Edited July 19, 2023 by Jeanoltt