Gaming for the Animals 2: The Squeakquel

[Breakingthegreen]

14 hours ago, shadaik said:

Why not give my list, too:

- Wonderbook: Detective Diggs and Walking with Dinosaurs (I have a Wonderbook weekend planned to have all four games done)

 

 

The Book of Spells would probably count too for this event with the rule "Conjuring animals counts" and there's more than one spell in that game that fits the description. And according to the harry potter wiki, meeting animals is a big part of Book of Potions as well.

 

 

I've only got three planned for certain: 

• Stray PS4
• Humanity PS4
• Watch Dogs PS5 (Which I checked, has a bee keeper who summons bees!)

[MissShake]

4 hours ago, pelagia14 said:

Woah - thank you for the reminder that the event does not start on July 1st! I probably would have popped 2-3 platinums for the event this weekend without that message.

 

I'm glad to have helped! Almost there, just gotta wait a bit longer

[shadaik]

9 hours ago, breakingthegreen said:

 

The Book of Spells would probably count too for this event with the rule "Conjuring animals counts" and there's more than one spell in that game that fits the description. And according to the harry potter wiki, meeting animals is a big part of Book of Potions as well.

Already got that platinum nine years ago, I'm doing the other three to complete the set.

[MissShake]

Final countdown, everyone! It's four more hours until it's the 4th for me, and I'll be starting this event with Stray

[MattbluePT]

Let the games begin!

My participation already has a first game to had to the list:

 

1 - Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus

 

My vote goes to the *drum roll* Arctic Fox!

 

[DonLin091]

Here's my first entry

 

Ratched and Clank Rift Apart https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/12996-ratchet-clank-rift-apart/DonLin091

 

And for my vote, I want to keep to my local fauna so I'm going with the spotted jaguar

[reaperveteran86]

First game done.

Maglam Lord

One of the playable characters is the adventuring idol beast girl Julette (the game doesn`t specified it ,but I would say, she could be a tanuki/racoon dog girl).

I vote for the hedgehog.

[MattbluePT]

Well, for a few minutes we couldn't have three Ratchet & Clank games in a row!?

Here's my second participation in the event, another vote for the Arctic fox.

 

#2 - Ratchet: Deadlocked

[Psy-Tychist]

I was going to use FoxyLand as my first game, but it doesn't reach the requirements.

 

So I will try and get Gryphon Knight Epic as my first Platinum for this event. Sokocat Combo and Captain Cat should follow shortly after.

[MidnightMoonss]

What are badges? Also I’ll join if I need to say it to do the event lol

[DonLin091]

Entry 2 

 

Abzu https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/5147-abzû/DonLin091

 

And for my vote I'll go again with the spotted jaguar

[MissShake]

33 minutes ago, DonLin091 said:

Entry 2 

 

Abzu https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/5147-abzû/DonLin091

 

And for my vote I'll go again with the spotted jaguar

 

Hi there! Unfortunately Abzu is too short to count for this event, it's elaborated on in rule number three if you have questions

 

43 minutes ago, MidnightMoonss said:

What are badges? Also I’ll join if I need to say it to do the event lol

 

Badges are little images you can put in your signature. They're basically little trophies you get for participating in events!

[DonLin091]

34 minutes ago, MissShake said:

 

Hi there! Unfortunately Abzu is too short to count for this event, it's elaborated on in rule number three if you have questions

 

 

Badges are little images you can put in your signature. They're basically little trophies you get for participating in events!

Oh... Ok then... Guess I'll work on another game tomorrow

[Breakingthegreen]

Okay the first game for me is completed, and it's the most tenuous and basically allowed only on a technicality, what fun, it's Watch Dogs Legion (PS5) which is only permit-able due to the playable bee keeper who can summon bees to attack their enemies.

 

 

I know that a lot of people dislike this game, but I for one utterly adore it, the play as everyone mechanic makes your game feel very individual to you, especially when the game has a minor hiccough and generated a woman with a very high pitched voice, but had the male npc model with a beard, which I interpreted as trans woman with odd priorities. There's all sorts of fun things like that which can get generated, you hire construction worked for their drone but by chance you can run into their cousin who now likes dedsec and happens to be hypnotist. There's a lot of moving parts, which reminds me of Shadow of Doubts if it has less depth and an actual story.

 

What did make this game special to me was the fact that I had played the PS4 version in late 2020, in the worst of the pandemic. While I was playing, I realised that I had been to an area of the game before, the riverside by the London theatre where my step mother got distracted by booksale under the bridge where we all watched Moonlight. I had got very nostagic especially since I still haven't been to London since 2018.

 

Voting time Red Panda's are the cutest they have no close relatives on the evolutionary tree, so do really wanna keep these guys safe. But unlike last year, I'll vote differently for each game I do.

 

[James Tiger]

I will join, why not?

 

Here's my first entry to this event:

It had Rocket Raccoon, so it should be valid for this event.

 

Edit: Forgot to choose my animal, I will go for tiger. 

Edited July 5, 2023 by James Tiger

[ABE_915]

This event sounds awesome! I would also like to join if I am still able to.

 

Just finished up Stray (NA) version yesterday:

This was my 2nd time doing this game and I quite enjoyed it doing it again. 

 

I think I'll also put my vote for the Red Panda.

[DonLin091]

Let's try this again:

Entry 2 Endling (Ps5) https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/19208-endling/DonLin091

 

spotted jaguar

Edited July 5, 2023 by DonLin091

[MissShake]

I've completed my first game for the event by finishing Stray! My vote is going towards the arctic fox as well~

 

[nashoyo68]

Game # 1 Complete Endling: Extinction is Forever

Fastest Completion: 1 Hour 18 Minutes

50th Fastest: 5 hours 11 minutes

This game is great, highly recommend it to anyone who has access to it. My first vote this year goes towards the Red Panda.

[Dezorak]

just asking as slowly grinding it would diablo 4 work cos of the druids companions?  just working out the ins and outs of what animals count

[MissShake]

Just now, Dezorak said:

just asking as slowly grinding it would diablo 4 work cos of the druids companions?  just working out the ins and outs of what animals count

 

Do you mind sending an example? I don't play Diablo so I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to

 

[reaperveteran86]

Second game finished.

Wukong

In this Crash Bandicoot clone you play as Wukong the monkey king.

My second vote goes (again) to the hedgehog.

[Breakingthegreen]

Hello again friends, like so many folks on this site, I've been playing Stray (PS4) (EU) because it's leaving PS Plus and it's fantastic, I completed the PS5 for this event last year and and I had saved the PS4 version for the squeakquel.

 

 

 

I don't wanna repeat my review from last year, instead I'll base what I say around OP's checklist where she gave a much more in depth review, No hate intended, I just saw some points that were made where we'd disagree on whether it'd be a positive or a negative..

 

The body of the criticism is that the game is at it's best when Stray is a cat game and the more generic when you're robot companion comes along. While to some degree I agree with the factualness of these statements, I would argue that the robot society is what makes the game interesting. When you're playing as a voiceless animal, the setting becomes the interesting aspect, while I've not played Endling yet, the same looks true of that game with a world based of the terribleness of humans on the animal world. In contrast, I've played Spirit of North who's world was so tediously dull and in turn made the game boring too.

 

I for one love the story because there are two interpretations I see that I find equally hilarious: The cat is smart and has become genuinely invested in the politics of this robot world, or the cat is unfazed and is unable to comprehend even B-12 and has only becomes a freedom fighter by pure coincidence and misunderstanding. I also love B-12 as a character, and the fact that he says that the cat is his best friend.

 

One part that was mentioned was the lack of a scratch button, I argue that the addition of a basic attack would trick people into thinking that defending yourself was always an option and just leave players calling the game unfair when running from danger is the intended method, an attack would also rid the game of the far more interesting lure and trap puzzles.

 

All in all, I still love the game which has only gotten better after playing worse animal games that explains the reason for some of the story choices.

 

 

I promised that I'd cool it with the red panda votes this time so I wanna give this vote for the Vaquita, also known as the sea cow. it's estimated that there's only double digits of them surviving in the wild. and they are frankly adorable, check this pic out and for scale, they are about half the size of an adult human.:

 

  

 

Edited July 7, 2023 by breakingthegreen
typo

[Cassylvania]

I just played as the most adorable creature in all the world (Rain World, that is!). It's a, uh...slugcat. Just ignore the murder of innocent batflies.

 

 

In honor of their sacrifice... A vote for VAMPIRE BAT. (Sorry, Team Panda... I almost wiped out their species in this game. It's only fair.)

Edited July 7, 2023 by Cassylvania

[Dezorak]

18 hours ago, MissShake said:

 

Do you mind sending an example? I don't play Diablo so I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to

 

sure no problem and its a new mechanic from what i remember anyway.  but to give a tldr its the fact that druids can unlock abilities to have either ravens, wolves or werewolves to follow them and attack.  (they can also shapeshift into a bear lol).  all of them are optional and you can also complete the game without using a single one