[EVENT] PSNP Kaleidoscope Challenge 2024!

[damcrac5]

#5 - Light Blue - Crisis Core Final Fantasy Reunion.

 

Got this one for Christmas along with Jedi Survivor.  Wasn't sure when they'd make it up the priority list but glad they did.  Crisis Core got some momentum with Rebirth coming up since I knew it had a section of the game that would be connected to Crisis Core.  And it absolutely did.  Having played the first hour of the Rebirth Demo, it was like reliving parts of Crisis Core but with even more story and character development. Crisis Core felt good.  Similar to FF7 Remake combat but on a PSP sized map.  I enjoyed running quick missions, which allowed me to make progress on the platinum in shorter play periods, and the grind for gil/SP/DMW took me about 8 hours total.  36 Hours of play to complete and an easy recommendation for Final Fantasy 7/7 Remake fans.

 

Next up? I don't know.  I'm going to chip away at Persona 5 Royal some more, then consider doing the Intermission DLC for FF7 Remake or dive into FF4 Pixel Remaster.  Maybe Plague Tale Requiem?  Its a real shame a game like Red Dead Redemption 1 for PS4 is black and white or else it'd likely jump up in the priority list!

Not a bad start.  1.5 months in and 5 titles down.

 

 

 

[ProfSeajay7]

 

 

Finally got a new game on the list. I do have a Maroon planned but I'm feeling ill so I need to slow down. I'm also doing an alphabet challenge again so I have some games I need to focus on. I will have five games left to do in March anyways.

 

Anywhat, Orange is now marked as Oceanhorn, which is an okay game. Only thing I hate about it is the catching all fish trophies as two are notoriously evil to catch. 🐟

1. Red: Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily (PS5)
2. Pink: Eventide 2: Sorcerer's Mirror
3. Light Blue: Ape Escape (PS4)
4. Deep Purple: LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (PS Vita)
5. Grey: TOEM
6. Blue: LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (PS4)
7. Tan: Adventures of Mana
8. Purple: Final Fantasy IV
9. White: Chicory: A Colorful Tale (PS4)
10. Black: Starlight Shores (PS4)
11. Orange: Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas (PS4)

[PraiseTheFluppi]

My first update for this year!

I'm on a mission to finish a few games I started some years ago, and I still have a bunch more in my backlog I want to complete, so I might as well put them in this rainbow!
So far, I have:

Ratchet: Deadlocked - orange
DmC Devil May Cry (PS4) - red
Goat Simulator - blue
SudoCats - light blue
ARK Park - green
Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire - brown(?)

I'm not too sure about Pillars of Eternity 2 yet, it doesn't really fit brown, but grey and black don't look fitting either 🤔 Maybe I'll switch it out with something else later 👌

[ScottyDaHotty2]

I'm on a roll! Final Fantasy I done!

 

[ProfSeajay7]

 

Same as the last card, but I've added a new slot, Wild ARMs for Maroon. I promise I will try to avoid stacks for my next card.

 

I remember playing and completing this in my college years and didn't know about the dupe glitch, but now it's made it far easier to complete. Really great classic RPG if you are bored waiting for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

 

This will probably be my last game for the month as I am working on another challenge and also have obligations to other events, but I will definitely be back in March with more updates to finish out this quarter of the year. (Yes, I have three more cards to come this year. )

1. Red: Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily (PS5)
2. Pink: Eventide 2: Sorcerer's Mirror
3. Light Blue: Ape Escape (PS4)
4. Deep Purple: LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (PS Vita)
5. Grey: TOEM
6. Blue: LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (PS4)
7. Tan: Adventures of Mana
8. Purple: Final Fantasy IV
9. White: Chicory: A Colorful Tale (PS4)
10. Black: Starlight Shores (PS4)
11. Orange: Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas (PS4)
12. Maroon: Wild ARMs (PS4)

Edited February 18 by ProfSeajay7

[JayDeLosDioses]

Double completion! 

 

First off, I'm finally done with Final Fantasy Mode in FF16, which wasnt fun for me, but that's fine, it's done now and I'm putting it in my black spot. Already wrote my opinions in the bingo thread about the game  

 

And for my blue game I'm using HotWheels Unleashed 2, it was planned as a double for the bingo square "has no humans" but they added an actual story into it. It's just told in a comic book, but it has humans, so I'm not marking that.

The game itself is fine, fun to drive but a bit to short imo. Could have used more races, I was done with everything in 2 days sadly. 

And the story that ruined my bingo square is cringe at best

 

[Reapover]

Hi hi! I have yet decided to join another challenge that I will probably forget to update  This is my progress so far! with my last color completed being Carto which I finished earlier today, the story was cute, puzzles weren't too hard (I say this after the first RNG puzzle took me like 20 minutes of scratching my head to figure it out), and it was cool to see all the early character designs at the end. I added Death's Door as my gray entry because I think it fits pretty well, but if it doesn't that's okay I can just try to find a new game for that color!

 

 

Spoiler

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We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip 

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Hatoful Boyfriend 100%

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Carto 

Meet Your Maker 

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Death's Door 

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[videogmr101]

 

First update of the year for me.

White (which is the one I'm not super sure about color wise) is Zombi. A mediocre zombie apocalypse game that was originally a Wii U launch title and it shows. 

Orange is LaD Ishin, a really fun game minus the extra 30+ hours grinding for materials to craft all the weapons and armor.

Light Blue is Persona 5 Strikers, a game I wanted to play to turn my brain off in between Ishin and Infinite Wealth

Finally, Grey is Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 1 (a mouthful). A fun PS3 rpg that doesn't take itself too seriously

[BeesTrophies]

Adding red to the books. 

 

White --- ????

Yellow --- DC Justice League: Cosmic Chaos ✔️

Tan --- Twelve Minutes ✔️

Orange --- Venba ✔️

Red --- Brotato ✔️

Pink --- ????

Maroon --- ????

Purple --- ???

Deep Purple --- ????

Blue --- ????

Light Blue ---- ????

Green  --- ????

Light Green --- ????

Brown --- Dredge ✔️

Grey ---- ????

Black --- The Callisto Protocol ✔️

CARD

Spoiler

 

[Googlitch]

First update: Far Cry 5 as white. Hopefully the title and all the clouds are enough.

 

[BlackSquirrell1]

Just came out of hibernation and noticed this great event is back!  Sign me up and I'll see what I can do with the color wheel!

[Limitedsphere]

 

 

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: I got my Pink entry down with a great spin-off game from the Borderlands franchise. The main game is great fun with generally funny writing, dialogue and voice acting. The side content not so much. The game leans a bit to heavily into the procedurally generated if you ask me - but overall it's a fun enough experience. The DLC's on the other hand are some of the worst conjured up across the Borderverse. Every package is a half baked level you have to complete four times with increasing difficulty - it's just tiresome. 

[DizzyDavidson]

Adding F1 Manager 22 for Black.

 

 

I had a ton of fun with this game. It's a little bit on the easy side (there's no difficulty select other than going with a lower tier team) if you know what you're doing. I can't say I did all the time because the game doesn't really explain the finer details but I tried my best and definitely learned as I went along. People might find this game a bit boring as there's not much action but let me tell you, when you win a race by being prepared and having the right strategy even if your car is not the best is something else. Especially if you have to keep a close eye on the race. I hope I get to play the '23 game soon.

 

I'm not sure what's next for me. Rollerdrome I'm not in the mood for right now and currently playing Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction which has no trophies/trophy card to use.

[ScottyDaHotty2]

Final Fantasy II fits Pink better so Unpacking got moved to Tan.  I thought The Gardens Between could work for Maroon with the coat.

 

Edited February 21 by ScottyDaHotty2

[rjkclarke]

 

 

 

White = Thomas Was Alone

Tan = Return To Monkey Island

Orange = Twisted Metal 2

Green = Borderlands 3: Guns, Love, and Tentacles DLC

Brown = GreedFall

Black = Grand Theft Auto IV

Red = Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

 

Time for another update I think, this time to add a Red and a Black to either side.... Which yes, sees one side look way more naked than the other side

 

I had a pretty great time  with Miles Morales honestly, I'm not super into Triple A gaming these days, I'm not saying they're bad or anything, I just usually find myself gravitating towards smaller things these days that aren't tied down to huge franchises.

Saying that though, I do think this is a really strong game, full of great characters, and some great story moments.... and two awful villains .... but aside from that, it's a very enjoyable time, and it won't set you back more than about twenty hours, so if like me, you've somehow avoided this, try it out, as you might very much might enjoy it!

 

Grand Theft Auto IV on the other hand.... I've always had a soft spot for this game, despite it being ugly as sin.... Which quite honestly I think actually adds to the experience, as this game has a really seedy dark undertone to it, and the grimy disgusting washed out aesthetic of Liberty City really adds to that.

Obviously this one can be a bit of a behemoth as far as the trophy hunting experience goes, and it probably comes with way more tediousness than a lot of people would necessarily want to experience, but I'd still say it's worth considering playing, even in 2024...

 

I mostly had a great time with it, and it's pretty interesting seeing how a lot of games templates for open world activities seem to have been lifted from some of the ones in this game... But erm.... I don't know.... Pigeons man... those can get in a plastic bucket, paddle themselves with their wings to a uninhabited small island, and all 200 of them can stay there....

 

And now that I've made my usual odd analogy, that's probably the best time to leave

 

So I'll catch you in the next one, which I have no idea what it'll be 🤣.... Maybe I'll make one side even more, or less naked.... Because well......

 

_______ <---- insert filling slots comment here... 🤓

 

 

Edited February 22 by rjkclarke

[Sylvanticore]

Hey All!

 

Finally finished another game and I was pondering where to place it, for the time being I've placed it in Orange, the game being Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, reason being is the lighting all around the main character Wei Shen, the other option was White which originally had ChooChoo Charles in but I have moved that to Black as Charles' spider legs and the back of his train take a lot of the picture up compaired to anything else.

 

 

 

I might move Sleeping Dogs if told I should move it but for now it will go there and my board now looks like this!

 

 

 

 

Edited February 24 by Sylvanticore

[ProfSeajay7]

I'm glad to see I'm one of the only two people as a Rainbow Warrior. 🥰 Makes me feel special.

 

As such I decided to reveal the last four games I plan on doing for my first card. (Yes, I am going to do four cards during the year, it'll challenge me to pay attention to the games and not just the trophies.

 

I was thinking about a sub-challenge to this where, instead of the game images, the rainbow would be the images of the platinum trophies. There are some really cool colored icons of platinum trophy icons out there that are ignored and this sub-challenge would bring them to light:

 

 

I mean, come on, a lot of love and work was put into some of these trophy icons. (It'd be platinum trophy icons only as it would be easy to just slap together a bunch of pictures if we allowed all trophy icons. )

 

Anyways, my plans for the final four games I plan on hitting down come March to complete the card are as follows, represented by their Platinum Trophy icons.

 

Dragon Quest Builders [Green]

I started this on the Vita hoping it'd be a permanent in my Vita library but I might delete it and restart on the PS4 as playing this game on the Vita while on the go is not very fun, especially during the night-time segments as it gets REAL dark.

Donut County (Light Green)

Was part of my Platinum Rain Day challenge but decided to drop it as the game image was the right color and I was lazy. (I only have to pop one trophy to get the platinum and it's just an easy AFK.)

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Brown)

Another game that was destined to be in my Platinum Rain Day, but it and Years 1-4 will get their trophies popped come March and pushed into the hidden library forever.

Legend of Mana (Yellow)

This was a new game added to PS+ Extra's freelist so I downloaded it and Secret of Mana. Secret of Mana, spoilers, will be the Green on my second card but I feel like this game deserves some recognition since Visions of Mana is coming in the future. (At last, we can finally ignore Virginia and its two required playthroughs for an alphabet challenge! )

 

Donut County and LEGO Harry Potter will be added as soon as my check comes on the 1st of March and the other two will be the ones to dominate March. I'll also be hitting up other games and starting them to add to my second card, which I will reveal once I finish the first one.

Edited February 26 by ProfSeajay7

[ProfSeajay7]

Color suggestions. I plan on platinuming this game for my next card as I am almost done with the longest time sink, the levequests. I will probably take time out of my trophy hunting to knock out stuff during the Free Trial so the less time I have to spend before getting the platinum, the better. (I'm doing all the trophy requirements on Free Trial so I can just pop everything at once. The only big ones are the Seeker of Truth, which I can get a carry for, and the 1000 crafts which cost more than I expected, but I plan on buying a story skip in the cash shop and using the free money it gives to buy the cheap stuff for 8000 crafts. Everything else is easy to grind except maybe the FATEs.)

[Fanatixa1]

Hi everyone, 

 

I've completed Like a Dragon Gaiden for white. I think it could also work for grey, but will put it on white for now. I really enjoyed this game, it was not too long and the story was interesting. I'll be starting Infinite Wealth now  

 

[Sylvanticore]

9 hours ago, Fanatixa1 said:

Hi everyone, 

 

I've completed Like a Dragon Gaiden for white. I think it could also work for grey, but will put it on white for now. I really enjoyed this game, it was not too long and the story was interesting. I'll be starting Infinite Wealth now  

 

 

Hey I was just wondering something, Farm, Pets and Luxury are all DLC for House Flipper aren't they? Does that count for the event? if so that is awesome but I just wanted to make sure in case! In no way trying to point things out just wondered

[cstanci]

I think this is update #5? That sounds good. Let's go with 5. 

 

Finished Tacoma - and it was fine. Going into WHITE. The story was not nearly as interesting as I thought it would be BUT I did love the mechanics. The fast forward/reverse mechanic trying to get people in the right spots to get more information from them was interesting. 

 

Still...wish it would have been longer. 

 

Still working on Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy for MAROON (some trophies are being annoying - looking at you, Groot Canal.)

 

Also started Tales of Zestiria but that's just because I am a huge "Tales Of..." fan!

 

Anyway! Here's the updated card:

 

[Hurricane_Tanya]

1 hour ago, Sylvanticore said:

 

Hey I was just wondering something, Farm, Pets and Luxury are all DLC for House Flipper aren't they? Does that count for the event? if so that is awesome but I just wanted to make sure in case! In no way trying to point things out just wondered

If the dlc has a different image to the base game you can use it. I think it was figured out that completing Cities Skylines could fill up a card on its own

[Sylvanticore]

33 minutes ago, Hurricane_Tanya said:

If the dlc has a different image to the base game you can use it. I think it was figured out that completing Cities Skylines could fill up a card on its own

 

Thank you very much for the explaination I now know for the rest of the event

[damcrac5]

Speaking of DLC images...

 

#6 - Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intermission DLC.

 

A bit tougher than the original game personally.  Pride and Joy took a bit to get through the first wave consistently to be in a good enough position to survive wave 2 and 3.  Either way, FF7 Intergrade is now at 100%.  Just in time for Rebirth.  Which I won't play at release despite having it pre-ordered.  (I say that now!)  Focus will be to chip away at P5R some more.  Currently 23 hours in, and looking to push closer to 40 before I switch it up again.  I am tempted to jump into Rebirth so I can figure out how they are going to handle the special moment, hopefully before I see/read any spoilers.  

 

Either way, progress is being made.  Gaming is being had, and I'm having a blast.  Look forward to seeing more completions from the event!

 

 

[BrickwallBill]

17 hours ago, Hurricane_Tanya said:

I think it was figured out that completing Cities Skylines could fill up a card on its own

 

Cities Skylines and Stellaris are both pretty close to being able to do a full card on their own. Hats off to anyone who actually does that, because that amount of restarting games to try and get certain events or factions to spawn is way too tedious for me personally.