[EVENT] PSNP Kaleidoscope Challenge 2024!

[serrated-banner9]

Happy new year @DrBloodmoney from a fellow british bloke.

Anyways i just finished my orange game as Spyro 3 which will make me the first person to post a completion here.

Would have done the plat sooner but waited until New year's because of the plat name "party like it's 2024" so blame @KenjiCBZ  

Sorry for the rushed post, just want to post this before going to bed, might clean this up in the morning

Completed games:

Orange: Spyro 3

[lady-reze]

Happy new year everyone! I wasn't able to complete my rainbow last year due to being super busy towards the last half of 2023. ;c 

I'm going to try again this year! I look forward to seeing what everybody plays this year ^^ 

[Myu]

Happy New Year!

I'd like to sign up, I really like the concept!

[ProfSeajay7]

My first card for the year. I posted this in two wrong threads.

 

EDIT: PLZ IGNORE. I've learned never to predict what my plans are.

Edited February 26 by ProfSeajay7

[PraiseTheFluppi]

Since I finished last year's card, I might as well join again and see if I'll manage to get a 2024 rainbow! 😁

[xLetsP1ayGod]

 

NOTE: I will only update the actual photo once I finish the full list, editing it is a huge hassle. I will post and update the lists below frequently!

 

❌White: Owlboy

Yellow: Chants of Sennaar

Tan: Teardown

Orange: Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013

Red: Cult of the Lamb

❌Pink: Melatonin

Maroon: Horror Tales: The Wine

❌Purple: 

Deep Purple: Severed Steel

Blue: Fashion Police Squad

Light Blue: Lego 2K Drive

Green: The Witness

Light Green: We Love Katamari

Brown: Brotato

Grey: Pavlov

Black: Cannibal Abduction

 

List 2:

 

❌White: 

Yellow: Helldivers 2

❌Tan: 

❌Orange: FF7: Rebirth

❌Red: 

❌Pink: 

❌Maroon:

❌Purple: 

❌Deep Purple: Spongebob: Cosmic Shake

❌Blue: 

Light Blue: PoP: The Lost Crown

❌Green: 

❌Light Green: 

Brown: Dredge

❌Grey: 

❌Black: 

 

 

Edited April 20 by xLetsP1ayGod
Updated some games, made a note, posted start of second list

[graphic_violins8]

First one down with Gris for Light Blue!

[Giulian_Steel]

Sign me up again, please 😄

[Biscoito18]

Here we go again! Sign me up, please. Maybe I'll reach Prestige 4 this year 🤩.

[Flitterbloom]

Thanks again for the 2023's iteration DrBloodmoney. Let's try to complete one (2 would be great!) this year too, sign me in!

[ProfSeajay7]

 

Progess:

Red: Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily (PS5, 1/2/2023)

 

Got the first slot on my card. Decided to get the Artifex Mundi game out of the way first and the main character in the PS5 game image is wearing a red coat so it fits the color. Some of these games won't platinumed until the summer(namely Donut County and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart) but I'll work on the other games and try to get some more slots filled on my card.

[jh7459]

Sign me up, this one looks fun!

[damcrac5]

Completely missed updating my list before the end of last year, but I'm excited to give this another go this year!  Let's do this, good luck everyone. Thanks for hosting again, OP!

[Kirenoxs]

Hello everyone! happy new year to all 🥳

 

I got my first color: Orange

 

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

 

[DizzyDavidson]

I guess I should update with my first entry. 

It is a kind of a cheap one since I did almost all of it last year but I was holding back the plat for Jan 1st.

It's Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon for Orange.

 

 

The plat doesn't require 100% completion I believe but I did it anyway. Well 117% to be exact. The only thing I didn't do was the challenges or whatever they're called. These Spyro games are quite fun, collecting everything is very satisfying. I missed out on the originals on the PS1 back in the day (I do have the PS1 Classics from PS+ on my PS3 but never played them), but these remasters are excellent.

 

Next: I will be playing this month's PS+ games, Evil West and Nobody Saves the World and slot them in somewhere.

[lady-reze]

For orange, I played A Short Hike.

 

This was going to be my orange game for last year, but I never got to it. Very easy platinum although the fishing trophy took me a while because of RNG kicking my ass. The game itself was cute, it reminded me of Night in the Woods which is another game I adore. ^^ 

 

[plimaz-]

Coming back for another year! This was a very fun challenge and I hope to actually finish it this time

Starting off strong with Crash! I had been meaning to play the trilogy for a while now, and it was a very fun platinum. Some of the relics were annoying but still fun
I'm putting it on Brown for now, but might change it to Blue or Yellow later 

Brown: Crash Bandicoot

 

 

Spoiler

White - 
Yellow - 
Tan - 
Orange - 
Red - 
Pink - 
Maroon - 
Purple - 
Deep Purple - 
Blue - 
Light Blue - 
Green - 
Light Green - 
Brown - Crash Bandicoot
Grey - 
Black - 

[Kirenoxs]

finished two more colors

Pink: Ms. Pac-Man

Grey: Toem

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DrBloodmoney]

That should be everyone who's currently signed up added to the Big Sexy Participants list - if you've been missed, just let me know, and I'll fix!

 

 

Also, might as well take this opportunity to....

 

 

...add my own first entry for this year! 😎

 

 

First 3 boxes down!

 

 

 

Tintin was a BIG disappointment I'm afraid - the game is nice looking, and actually captures the spirit of one of the earliest, very good Tintin adventures very well in the story (by, in fairness, sticking almost word-for-word to the book), and has a great art style...

 

... but the gameplay swings between okay, but too-easy and too-infrequent puzzles, over-long and over-abundant, fiddly QTE chases, and really some of the most absurdly archaic (and often broken) insta-fail stealth, of the type most developers learned people had no time for back on the PS1!

 

All that might have been marginally forgivable, but the game is also just about as broken as I've EVER seen a (relatively) big release be - trophies are a glitch-fest, but even setting that niche element aside, the game is riddled with fail-to-appear QTE prompts, missing assets, floating objects, mis-matched lip-synch, NPC pathing issues, geometry glitches, objectives failing to register...

...and that was AFTER a couple of major patches. Fuck knows what it was like on launch day! 🥶

 

It shows an almost absurd level of under-polish, that even I - a pretty forgiving gamer, and nostalgia-driven Tintin fan - couldn't stomach...

...so I can only imagine how the average non-Tintin fan would rip this one apart!

 

 

A Short Hike, on the other hand, is a great little game - a short, easy-breezy, feel-good affair, that feels like going on a nice holiday, and put me in mind of a short of combination of TOEM, The Touryst, Chicory, and Proteus!

It's simple and sweet, but funny and charming, doesn't wear out it's welcome, and has some surprisingly satisfying flying/climbing controls!

 

 

Carto is an unusual combo of Lite Adventure game and geometric puzzler, where the player can shift sections of a map around, to shuffle the real world around them - and discover more of it, with a view to solving puzzles as they move from biome to biome as Carto - the young, ostensibly mute but very endearing and lovable young girl, looking for a way to reunite with her cartographer Grandmother after falling from her airship. (You heard me.)

 

It's "cosy gaming" of the highest order, and worked perfectly for me - both as a puzzle game, and as a game I can play during this holiday period, where I try to stick to games that aren to all blood and gore, since I'm playing during the day, and my kid might be around!

 

 

All three are basically a lock for their colour choices, so no justification required, I don't think!

 

Edited January 3 by DrBloodmoney

[woggly4]

18 minutes ago, DrBloodmoney said:

A Short Hike [...] is a great little game - a short, easy-breezy, feel-good affair, that feels like going on a nice holiday [...] It's simple and sweet, but funny and charming, doesn't wear out it's welcome, and has some surprisingly satisfying flying/climbing controls!

 

This is a pretty good description. This game surprised me how good it was. I never knew how to describe the experience but your mini-review is spot-on!

 

 

19 minutes ago, DrBloodmoney said:

Carto is an unusual combo of Lite Adventure game and geometric puzzler, where the player can shift sections of a map around, to shuffle the real world around them - and discover more of it, with a view to solving puzzles as they move from biome to biome as Carto - the young, ostensibly mute but very endearing and lovable young girl, looking for a way to refine with her cartographer Grandmother.

 

It's "cosy gaming" of the highest order, and worked perfectly for me - both as a puzzle game, and as a game I can play during this holiday period, where I try to stick to games that aren to all blood and gore, since I'm playing during the day, and my kid might be around!

 

That sounds interesting, will put it on my watchlist! Reading your last paragraph it could be that you would also like inked. It was one of my 2023's Kaleidoscope games and you left an interested comment, but probably forgot because of all the other games that are out there to be played. So if you don't have a game for Purple in mind, this could be it. 😉

[DrBloodmoney]

7 minutes ago, woggly4 said:

 

That sounds interesting, will put it on my watchlist! Reading your last paragraph it could be that you would also like inked. It was one of my 2023's Kaleidoscope games and you left an interested comment, but probably forgot because of all the other games that are out there to be played. So if you don't have a game for Purple in mind, this could be it. 😉

Cheers - I did pick up Inked then, and it’s in the to-play pile! 👍

[BeesTrophies]

Fine pull my leg....I'm in again. Fingers crossed I get more than 7 this year (curse these games with black and white art!!)

 

Speaking of black....my first entry to get it out of the way I guess LOL 

 

Black --- The Callisto Protocol ✔️

 

Spoiler

 

[Beyondthegrave07]

Alright! No joking around this year. The Rainbow-colored kiddie gloves are coming off this year! No last second saves

 

First game, done! Give me Omno for light blue!

 

 

The game is kind of a Journey-like where you play as a Pillsbury doeboy-ish looking character who is traveling across the land to find enlightment. The game is pretty much sectioned off into 10 areas where you collect orbs of light (at least 3) to make your way to the next one while getting power-ups along the way.

 

There's no fighting, no violence in this game which is honestly kind of refreshing in a sense. You kind of get to just soak in the world and the peaceful ambience as you play. There are some sections that are relatively rough to get through (especially on my potato wifi connection while streaming), but overall it's really easy.

 

I wouldn't call it a must-play, but it is a nice game to play in between others to unwind from something super intense (like Elden Ring). And, if you have PS+ extra, you better jump on it before it leaves the service in the next couple of weeks while it's still available.

[Duke_Ryle]

 

Two games done so far.

 

The first one is The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories.  The game is a queer-horror puzzle platformer where the protagonist uses self-harm/mutilation as a means of navigating the world.  It was made by White Owls Inc, the studio run by SWERY of Deadly Premonition fame (or infamy depending on your perspective).

 

I'm a big fan of SWERY if you can tell by my pfp.  I love his playful mixing of the surreal with the mundane.  He's got big ideas and swings for the fences; sometimes he hits a homer and sometimes he strikes out.  This time he hit it out of the park.  The protagonist's story is told primarily through their text history, which is slow-dripped to the player as they progress through the story, and the self-harm mechanic used throughout the game becomes much more haunting as you are given the character's history.  The twist at the end could have felt exploitative, but somehow didn't and almost moved me to tears.  I am not going to say too much because I don't want to spoil it.  

 

I am not a member of the LGBTQ community, so after I finished the game I decided to seek out reviews by LGBTQ players/game reviewers to make sure I wasn't missing anything phobic or problematic.  The reviewers in general were very positive about the game and many described being emotionally moved at its conclusion.  

 

The negative are that this is a SWERY game and if anybody needs to spend time polishing their games it's SWERY.  He's a sloppy storyteller and has a very "FUCK IT, SEND IT IN" b-movie kind of attitude, as if he can't be bothered by the details.  This game is buggy, like all SWERY games.  I had a bug where I couldn't progress, an infinite loading screen and a trophy glitch at midnight on New Years Day when I tried to pop the last trophy and spent 20 minutes trying to find a way to fix it.  There are 7 forum topics on the game page and 4 of them are about glitches.   This game also has some of the WORST voice acting I've ever heard.  

 

Despite its problems it is one of my favorite games in the last year or so.  I'm using this as my grey game due to the fog that covers most of the image.  The game leaves PS plus on January 16th so jump on it if you are interested.

 

 

Second game is Undertale for black.  I'm not going to spend too much time on this one as Undertale has been talked to death.  I saved this for my milestone 75th platinum trophy because I figured I would like it, as it is heavily influenced by one of my favorite games of all time Earthbound/Mother 2.  Thankfully, I love this game.  The Earthbound style humor really resonates with me and I find myself experimenting in this game to see what hidden jokes I can find.  Like, what would happen if I dropped an "Abandoned Quiche" for instance.  This kind of humor in a game is either something you love or something that grates on you endlessly.  The only downside for me is the trophy hunting experience is anticlimactic.  You can complete the trophy list before completing the game.  I am looking forward to my true pacifist second playthrough even without trophies.  

 

 

Edited January 7 by Duke_Ryle
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[BrickwallBill]

A potential list for my card this year:
 

Spoiler

 

White: AC Liberation

Yellow: Hardspace Shipbreaker

Tan: Voice of Cards #2 (aka not Isle Dragon Roars)

Orange: Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Red: Megaman Zero/ZX Collection

Pink: Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance

Maroon: Marvel's GotG

Purple: ???

Deep Purple: Life is Strange: True Colors

Blue: Gungrave GORE

Light Blue: Crosscode

Green: Gravity Rush Remastered

Light Green: Islanders

Brown: The Outer Worlds

Grey: Assault Gunners

Black: Stray

 

 

Looking for any suggestions for Purple (or Deep Purple and I can move Life is Strange)

 

...and looking at it again, I should probably switch Crosscode and Gungrave