[EVENT] PSNP Kaleidoscope Challenge 2024!

[BrickwallBill]

On 3/5/2024 at 2:29 PM, Beyondthegrave07 said:

I plan to do 16 cards to really assert my dominance over the colors

I know this is a joke, but I thought about this for a bit. That's 256 games/dlc to platinum/100%, which comes out to 21-1/3 games a month. So you've either got to be shoveling a LOT of shovelware, or you'd have to do some serious prep (starting now) to maybe have a chance at doing it in a couple years down the line. Or just be the luckiest player ever in games like Cities Skylines and Stellaris that have a bunch of DLC and get every random event you need when you need it. To sum it up, i dont think it's likely to be doable anytime soon 😅

[Doodlebawp]

Wow! Square Enix loves the Kaleidoscope Challenge so much they tried to include every color in Rebirth's cover art 😜

 

What color are we thinking for this one? 

 

 

What about FF7 Remake's DLC? I've seen people use it for orange by my heart says pink. Thoughts? 

 

Edited March 7 by Doodlebawp

[Xylobe]

20 minutes ago, Doodlebawp said:

Wow! Square Enix loves the Kaleidoscope Challenge so much they tried to include every color in Rebirth's cover art 😜

 

What color are we thinking for this one? 

 

 

I'm planning on using Rebirth for orange (assuming the minigames don't kill me), and I can't really see putting it anywhere else. I didn't even notice the green and blue at the sides until a few days after release! I'm not really sure where I'd put Intermission, but I think you could justify pink.

[Beyondthegrave07]

24 minutes ago, BrickwallBill said:

I know this is a joke, but I thought about this for a bit. That's 256 games/dlc to platinum/100%, which comes out to 21-1/3 games a month. So you've either got to be shoveling a LOT of shovelware, or you'd have to do some serious prep (starting now) to maybe have a chance at doing it in a couple years down the line. Or just be the luckiest player ever in games like Cities Skylines and Stellaris that have a bunch of DLC and get every random event you need when you need it. To sum it up, i dont think it's likely to be doable anytime soon 😅

Yeah, it's a joke... I think the only way it's doable is by playing a ton of short DLC like the Messenger or maybe some DBD DLC if you wanted to stay away shovelware. There's also plenty of games that could be done in 2 hours that are legit plats/100%s. But yeah, finding it for every color alone would take hours. 😂

[ProfSeajay7]

I know I have to finish my first card. I will do that, but I just popped a bunch of platinums(due to me being sick and home-ridden for the time being) and decided, what the hell, let's start card #2!

 

 

The Cards:

1. Light Blue: Intrepid Izzy (PS5)
2. White: Jack N' Jill DX (PS Vita)
3. Pink: Final Fantasy II
4. Light Green: Final Fantasy III

I had been planning to pop the Final Fantasys later but since I was popping off another platinum, I decided to just clear out my save data on my PS4 Pro.

[WDB_Chaotic]

 

Second update 

 

Added Bouncy bullets (ps4) to Light green. quick game i had on my backlog so i thought why not

Also played wee 2k battlegrounds and added to black. not the best game and was tempted to finish it by buying a turbo controller but decided against it and did it the natural way, which im glad i did.

 

 

 

 

[RustyBacon13]

22 hours ago, jh7459 said:

Need to throw a question out to the crowd. Just finished Ultros and I'm not sure what color to slot this into. It's all over the place but I feel like it might be brown or tan?

 

lol green really pops out for me 😆

[JungleCat20]

It looks like a game that you really couldn’t go wrong with for any color. A colorful image, though.🙂

[Sylvanticore]

Hey all, back again.

 

 

Few changes have happened, first I moved Sleeping Dogs into Brown, Dredge was there originally but moved it out since it was just dlc I did.

 

Next I completed Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdrive and placed it in Red for the imagine behind the title and the red in the title, I could have played it easy and put it in WHITE but will maybe change my mind later.

 

So the next 2 games I am going to play was 1 i've been meaning to finish, and one that after the news I feel like I need to do out of Respect for the man.

 

 

 

Think we all know where Dragonball is going, Boltgun I don't have a clue, maybe I'll just throw it in white or maybe Maroon for all the monsters. Don't know.. maybe no where on the board!

 

Need help with that one. Will do my next update after both games are completed.

[Beyondthegrave07]

I am back again with my 7th game! 8th game hopefully this weekend!

 

I'm putting Life is Strange: True Colors down for Purple. I first tried seeing what it looked like under pink, but I think it fits much better under purple. Starting to feel like this rainbow is coming together a bit. 😌

 

 

 

Overall, I really enjoyed LiS true colors. The pacing felt a bit rushed overall, but I enjoyed it, and at least it didn't overstay its welcome. THe choices in the game were genuinely tough which is what makes these games so interesting to play. I felt like the choices in the original LiS were pretty easy choices up until the end. This one, I felt like it was pretty tough to choose all the way through as a lot of different dilemmas are thrown at you.

 

Though, I was getting really frustrated last night as the game kept crashing during the final scene which apparently, lowering the resolution fixes in case anyone else gives it a try. I think I would of thought more highly of the game overall if this bug crashing at the end and wasting an hour of my playtime. The ending chapter was by far my favorite... I just wish there was a bit more of a buildup but again, that comes back to the fact that the pacing for the game felt a bit too fast. I think I would still prefer Max's rewind power over the ability to read and manipulate emotions and see memories of others, but it was a pretty cool power overall.

 

I'd recommend the game but with caution. I don't think it's a game for everyone and if you didn't like the original LiS, you probably won't like this one. Also, be prepared for a few crashes along the way. Mainly, the one at the very end of the game.

 

Now that I have a few games under my belt, I'll go ahead and rank my games based on my enjoyability. S ranks are all time great games, A are amazing games that I would highly recommend. B are games I enjoyed but aren't for everyone, C are games I found pretty average or meh, and D are games I did not enjoy at all and definitely would not recommend.

 

S Rank: None yet!

A Rank: Kingdom of Paradise (Key to Heaven), Sea of Stars

B Rank: I am Setsuna, Life is Strange: True Colors, Medievil Resurrection

C Rank: Omno, Resistance Retribution

D Rank: None yet!

 

 

[jh7459]

On 3/7/2024 at 2:29 AM, DrBloodmoney said:

 

I'd accept for Maroon 👍

 

I'll take it! Wasn't sure what to use for maroon yet so this is good.

[Biscoito18]

1st Card Completed! 🌈

 

Updating my card with "Pumpkin Jack" for orange and "Lost Words: Beyond the Page" for green. Both fun and easy indie platformers. The last boss of "Pumpkin Jack" take some tries to master and some minigames are a bit annoying but nothing really hard. And I found "Lost Words" very repetitive and boring despite the touching story. 

 

The best ones:  Evil West/TEKKEN 8/ Marsupilami: Hoobadventure;

The worst ones: Albedo: Eyes From Outer Space/Interaction Isn't Explicit/ Spirit of the North;

 

I'm still obsessed with the Tomb Raider remasters so the second card will take a while as I intend to put as much TR into it as possible.😎

 

 

 

Interaction Isn't Explicit

Marsupilami: Hoobadventure

Call of the Sea

Pumpkin Jack

Evil West

inFamous: First Light

Metal: Hellsinger

Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala

The Hidden World (Marsupilami: Hoobadventure DLC)

TEKKEN 8

Spirit of the North

Lost Words: Beyond the Page

Donut County

Albedo: Eyes From Outer Space

Noir Chronicles: City of Crimes

Deliver Us The Moon

Edited March 8 by Biscoito18

[Beyondthegrave07]

I said I was going to get my 8th game this weekend and I did! It also just so happens to be #200!

 

Put down Elden Ring for black.

 

 

This was one of those game I had super high expectations for. I heard everyone praising the shit out of this game in news outlets, on Discord servers, rl friends, and of course, on PSNP. The expectations were so high I didn't think it was possible to beat. My expectations was get ready for crazy open world journey were you can do what you want in whatever order, that everywhere you go, you'll discover something new, and that the gameplay is more enjoyable than Bloodborne.... And somehow, SOMEWAY, it killed my expectations. This was everything I wanted and more. I always wanted to be a mage in a game like this and using magic and found flinging rocks fun, shooting a huge kamehameha wave at a boss satisfying, and manifesting a sword to be a total joy. I realized quickly how different all the weapons were, their unique skills, and how differently you could play this game. I am convinced I could play this game 10 different times, choose a different weapon and build and have a TOTAL different experience with it each time. The idea of that is just amazing, and I could definitely see myself coming back to try this game again... maybe for some DLC. There were a few technical hiccups in the game, especially when enemies fought each other (and even more so when it was near the fire giant area). Luckily, it didn't sour my experience in the slightest and still had an absolute blast with this!

 

S Rank: Elden Ring

A Rank: Kingdom of Paradise (Key to Heaven), Sea of Stars

B Rank: I am Setsuna, Life is Strange: True Colors, Medievil Resurrection

C Rank: Omno, Resistance Retribution

D Rank: None yet!

 

 

[Dezorak]

finally posting an update as i actually completed one for my proper list (most are on final stretches but life, palwold,valentines and helldivers are to good lol) so here they are my shameful rainbow update and my proper one....

 

all you need to know is the shameful ones got a few cheap giggles on stream (im in love with your dead grandma is a masterpiece i suggest anyone trys  ) but tormented souls (my tan on the proper) was actually quite fun.  only completed it as it was bought for me to play as i dislike horror and this does get the odd jumpscare but overall i would call it old resi evil and silent hill in design.  worth checking out if you like those sort of games.

 

 

[Reapover]

Greetings hoomans. I have a few more colors I've added to my board: Firewatch for yellow, A Short Hike for orange, Stories Untold for maroon, A Light in the Darkness for brown, and The Callisto Protocol for black. All of these were fun in their own way (except a Light in the Darkness, it does break your heart a lil), but I do think I enjoyed Stories Untold the most considering it's horror themed it did scratch an itch in my brain.

 

Also, if A Light in the Darkness does not work for brown, just let me know 🫡.

 

 

Spoiler

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Firewatch 100%

We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip 

A Short Hike

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Stories Untold 100%

Hatoful Boyfriend 100%

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Carto 

Meet Your Maker 

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A Light in the Darkness 100%

Death's Door 

The Callisto Protocol

 

[hyousai]

Okay, here's my opening salvo. I've already got 10 and we're not even done with March! I've got a couple future targets planned out: Armored Core 6 for Maroon and Ziggurat for Brown. I also may overwrite Ghost of Tsushima with a different game later, as it was technically an auto-pop and feels a little against the spirit of the thing.

 

Edited March 12 by hyousai

[ProfSeajay7]

Just one added game to the second card, which is Final Fantasy VI for Red.

 

[Beyondthegrave07]

This one is tough. I already have black and gray... it's been a few days and still can't decide if green is okay. Thoughts?

 

 

I plan to play the whole series anyways so green/light green is getting checked off eventually. 

[ProfSeajay7]

I know I've been showing my second card, but...

 

I've finally finished the first card!

 

 

Final List

1. Red: Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily (PS5)
2. Pink: Eventide 2
3. Light Blue: Ape Escape (PS4)
4. Deep Purple: LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7 (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 (PS4)
12. Maroon: Wild ARMs (PS4)
13. Brown: LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7 (PS4)
14. Light Green: Donut County
15. Yellow: Cat Quest
16. Green: Dragon Quest Builders

My last game was #99, Dragon Quest Builders. After a couple of months, I finally got this game done. Only died once in Chapter 4 when those stupid wolves knocked me off the mountain. I hate that part. Also, I had to redo the final battle because I forgot to upgrade my base to max level so I missed that challenge. Only oopsie, considering how I actually got 100% the challenges done for Chapter 2.

 

Anyways, I've already posted my second card, so here it is again:

 

 

1. Light Blue: Intrepid Izzy (PS5)
2. White: Jack N' Jill DX (Vita)
3. Pink: Final Fantasy II
4. Light Green: Final Fantasy III
5. Red: Final Fantasy VI

Gonna take a bit of a break as I have to work on Platinum #100. Also, this was supposed to be started on April so I have way too much time on my hands.

[woggly4]

10 hours ago, Beyondthegrave07 said:

This one is tough. I already have black and gray... it's been a few days and still can't decide if green is okay. Thoughts?

 

 

I plan to play the whole series anyways so green/light green is getting checked off eventually. 

 

imho, black and grey would work but because he's looking towards the logo, which guides the eye towards green, green is more fitting here. black might be more dominant color-wise but green is more dominant eye-wise, if that makes sense. depending on your other games down the line it could also be light green, I'd say.

[Biscoito18]

11 hours ago, Beyondthegrave07 said:

This one is tough. I already have black and gray... it's been a few days and still can't decide if green is okay. Thoughts?

 

 

I plan to play the whole series anyways so green/light green is getting checked off eventually. 

 

I had the same dilemma last year when I played the ps1 trilogy. I ended up putting the third game as green, the second as blue and discarding this one since it had already filled in black and gray.

[Beyondthegrave07]

5 minutes ago, Biscoito18 said:

 

I had the same dilemma last year when I played the ps1 trilogy. I ended up putting the third game as green, the second as blue and discarding this one since it had already filled in black and gray.

Yeah, I mean, my thoughts were that I'm going to get through the trilogy anyways and as you, said Syphon Filter 3 is perfect for green.

 

I'll just hold off for now.

[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

Pink = Haven (PS5)

 

Time for another little addition to my card with a pink.... It's not actually got a black background, the image is only pink, so it more than qualifies, but yeah, I did worry about that spot for a little bit actually.

 

So, now that I'm just editing them onto the card they at least look neater.... but now they look like a big colourful sneeze of pixels.... oh well, it is what it is... I'm not going to think too much about that ....

 

Anyway - it's probably better to just talk a little about the game that I'm adding.

 

Haven is an interesting one, it's a very relaxing and cathartic game, nothing about it is particularly challenging or anything, but it is very enjoyable to play. It's one of those games that has co-op, but maybe shouldn't have it, because from what I've been led to believe the other player really doesn't have much involvement in the process at all.

Gameplay wise it has a nice little turn based combat system that has a neat little feature that I really liked seeing - pacification - it's nice that the game has you pacifying the Source's creatures, instead of just killing them outright, it adds to the harmonious and peaceful existence that the two protagonists have come to know as their lives up to this point.

 

I think where Haven well and truly shines, is in the overall writing in the game. Writing a couple specifically, and one that have very natural chemistry, is not the easiest of things to do... There's a certain degree of authenticity that must be maintained at all times, and I think Haven strikes that balance incredibly well throughout the course of it. There's sad moments, a lot of flirty moments, some deep and nuanced moments, but at all times the dialogue, the situations, and the way they play out feels authentic for the characters that they are. They're rather relatable and real feeling people - in a very unreal (to us anyway) setting, yet there never feels like any kind of dissonance from that, and I think that's a great touch. 

 

It was also nice in a few spots, to notice a few things both Kay and Yu do that my partner and I also tend to do when we're together, for example just like them, we can be having a pretty deep discussion, which will just get sidetracked into some silly goofiness, only to align back on to what we were previously discussing, there's plenty more moments like that we've both noticed whilst playing this, as she decided to play it around about the same time that I did, she's just a couple of hours behind me at this point.

 

I guess I've rambled enough about this one, if you want to play it, honestly you ought to give it a shot... I did play it whilst it was still on  PS+ Extra, and it's still on there for another 5 days, but I'd have been perfectly happy to pay for it, as I found it very relaxing, very enjoyable, and a really interesting experience.

 

I have no idea what the next entry is going to be on here, but I'm sure I'll figure something out.... Catch you all in the next one

Edited March 14 by rjkclarke

[Redblaziken8]

 

White: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Tan: It Takes Two

Orange: Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Pink: Haven

Blue: Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus 

Light Blue: Beyond Two Souls

Brown: LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars

Light Green: Borderlands 3 - Guns, Love and Tentacles

Grey: Sleeping Dogs

Black: Borderlands 3 - Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck

 

Making a long overdue update, got brown, light blue, grey and pink filled in since my last update, so a pretty good amount of gaming!

 

Light Blue: Beyond Two Souls - Had fun with this one on the first playthrough and it was nice to revisit it 6 years later since I'd forgotten most of the game to be honest after so long. I won't miss hearing Elliot Page crying constantly through most of the chapters though, it's like shit after shit for Jodie in this game 😅also won't miss hearing "I miss them so much" from the Green Goblin Willem Dafoe. Clean up on this one was a bit roooobish, because hardly any of the dialogue is different. Anyways, cool to get a 6 year 6 month plat to add to the collection.

 

Brown: LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars - been on a massive Star Wars binge the past year, kicking off with me and the other half @rjkclarke watching the OG trilogy together since I hadn't seem them since I was a kid, kicked off a big love of Star Wars and I've been watching loads of it since. We blasted through all of Ahsoka, S4 of Rebels and this game last week whilst we were both ill in bed together. Had a great time with this one and looking forward to my next couch co-op with Rob.

 

Grey: Sleeping Dogs - Took me ages to finally play this one and absolutely loved it. The story is done so well, Wei Shen is great and so many of the side characters are really memorable. Can't believe it took me so long to get to it! DLC was a bit of a disappointment though, but with a main game that good it doesn't bother me too much.

 

Pink: Haven - Me and @rjkclarke were going to play this co-op together, but it didn't look like a game that suited to co-op, even though you know, you play as a couple. It's great, and I've been really enjoying coming back from uni to play this. Super relaxing, the couple have great chemistry and it's really natural. I really echo what @rjkclarke mentioned in his most recent update, especially the one about us having quite a few similarities with the couple, well and everything else, he just writes better than I do 🤣. I'm glad I gave this one a go before it leaves Extra, and it's often pretty difficult to find a pink game for the event so that's a nice cherry on top. This game is great, play it if you get the chance. The bad ending is so depressing though.

 

Planning on adding Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater for green soon, just want to make it plat 125. Played it all for the first time last week and absolutely loved it!

 

 

 

 

[Yen-Pop]

 

Had a little bit of a juggle to accommodate Powerwash Simulator now that the platinum is no longer bugged, but I completed Cult of the Lamb: Sins of the Flesh DLC for Grey! It was so great to have an excuse to go back to Cult of the Lamb especially since I played the absolute hell out of it this summer, and the haha funny sex update actually ended up a totally worth it addition. I loved being able to add babies to the cult and there is something just so sinister and amazing about some of the more spoilery things you can get away with. There may end up being more juggling happening especially since I forgot that DLCs can be used as long as their picture is different, and I got some DLCs to knock for sure.  

 

Spoiler

White:

Yellow:

Tan:

Orange: LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Red: Maneater

Pink:

Maroon: 

Purple:

Deep Purple: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake

Blue: Powerwash Simulator

Light Blue: Roki

Green: We Love Katamari Reroll+ Royal Reverie 

Light Green: Maneater: Truth Quest DLC

Brown: The Wild at Heart

Grey: Cult of the Lamb: Sins of the Flesh DLC

Black