Bingo Bonanza 2024

[Copanele]

Final entry done with Source of Madness being my pick for a horror game and thus completing the challenge  .

 

 

With Minigames in it - Uncharted 4 A Thief's End - you can play Crash Bandicoot as a minigame.

Last Game You Acquired - Lies of P - one of the rare instances when I instantly play a game that I buy

Strategy, Simulation or Management - 60 Seconds! Reatomized - You have to manage your family in a bunker after a nuclear attack

Based on a Non-Gaming IP - Fist of the North Star Ken's Rage - based on the manga Fist of the North Star

With a # or Punctuation in the title - Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match

 

Retro Re-release(Originally w/o Trophies - Breakers Collection - originally launched in 1998 on the NeoGeo

Non-Violent - Frogger Returns - you just have to hop towards your goal. No violence involved

Frightening/Horror[NEW] - Source of Madness - Lovecraftian horror + it has the Horror tag

Underplayed(Owned by <1000 Players) - Jet Car Stunts - at the moment of posting it has 661 game owners

That You Started but Didn't Finish - Wet - started this game, took a break because it was crap and then finished it after I was done with better games. Painful.

 

With an Isometric View - Dandy Ace - Izometric roguelike

That You Can Beat in One Sitting - Fight! - You don't even have to play Arcade Mode if you wish, the entire list can be done in one sitting

Player's Choice - Nioh Remastered - a fantastic experience the second time around
Anthropomorphized Animals - Donut County - Mina is the only human in the game, the rest of the characters are anthropomorphized animals

Ultra Rare Platinum - HI-FI Rush - 3.64% rarity at the time of posting

 

You Think You Will Dislike - Jump Force - I expected this game to be hot garbage. I was right

Metroidvania or Rogue-like - Prince of Persia Lost Crown

Released the Year You Joined PSNP - Soulcalibur VI - released in 2018

Redeemed from PS Plus - Brawlout - part of PS+ Extra catalogue

In-Game Weather Effects - Elden Ring - There's rain that impacts your lightning and fire spells and a blizzard that hinders your vision

 

By an Independent Developer - Sifu - developed and published by Sloclap studio

Has Snacks - Ender of Fire - in the game, once you are under 50% the enemies drop snacks (vegetables, fruits, chocolate) that recover your health

Sci-Fi or Fantasy Themes - Quake - it has BOTH Sci-Fi AND Fantasy Themes

In a Series New to You - Skautfould Shrouded in Sanity - This is a part 1 of a 5 games series, only part 1 and 2 are available on PS. It's the first time I play this series

Reboot or spiritual successor - Tomb Raider: Legend - Reboot of the series mentioned here

 

 

Now I will try my luck with a second Bingo card generated here...

https://bingobaker.com/#6653457b6e2de191

 

 

I have a question though, I completed stories for games in 2024 that are not featured on my first Bingo card.

Could they be used for the second Bingo card instead? Not really clear to me if there's a rule for that.

 

[CecieAngel]

I managed to finish two more games on the weekend.

https://imgur.com/Dd7ObEg

 

B1 - Free to play: AdVenture Capitalist

I1 - Recommended by a PSNP Member: Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight

N1 - Retro Re-release (originally w/o trophies) - Day of the Tentacle (originally released in 1993)

B2 - Arcade, Rhythm, or Puzzle: Pistol Whip

I5 Developed in a forgein country - A Way Out (developed by Hazelight Studios, a studio from sweden, which is foreign as I live in germany)

[DrBloodmoney]

One more entry down!

 

 

 

 

Box: "Player's Choice"

Game: "Harold Halibut"

 

A stop-motion narrative Adventure Game, painstakingly built out of real models, and scanned into a game, Harold Halibut is a slow-paced, but surprisingly long and involving tale of a disconnected and down-trodden handyman in a society long-stranded aboard a crashed spacecraft at the bottom of an alien ocean, who ends up finding his place in the universe, when he makes first contact with an alien race.

 

The game looks incredible - it's basically a 15-hour Wes Anderson film, and feels in a lot of ways like it belongs in the same universe as Isle of Dogs - the stop motion and physical aspects make for one of the best looking games I think I've ever seen!

 

The story is slow, and quite low-key and gentle, but gets surprisingly involving and quite moving at times, and it's rounded out with some really unusual and interesting music, and does some really cool stuff with the sci-fi elements in the latter half. 

 

 

This one didn't really fit any of the boxes I had left...

...but that's exactly why I keep the "Player's Choice" box free, so there it goes!

[Treilio]

 

B1 - That takes "forever" to beat - Lost Judgment

I think my save file showed around 120 hours of playtime when including the DLC. Glad to be finally be done with it, it really felt like it was taking me forever to finish it.

 

B2 - With player choices or multiple endings - The Walking Dead: Michonne

I wasn't sure if I was gonna play this at first, because it doesn't follow the same story as the rest of Telltale's The Walking Dead games, but it was on sale for cheap so I finally bought it. I actually enjoyed it pretty well and would rank it higher than The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.

 

N2 - Ultra rare platinum - Dreams

Currently the platinum sits at 1.73%. Not really hard to get platinum, just time consuming really. Getting to level 30 can take a while and there are lots of trophies focused on create mode. The story mode is pretty short and can be finished in one sitting.

 

Spoiler

B1 - That takes "forever" to beat - Treilio's Lost Judgment Trophies

B2 - With player choices or multiple endings - Treilio's The Walking Dead: Michonne Trophies

B3 - Spawned an expanded universe - Treilio's Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2 Trophies

B4 - Play as an antihero or bad guy - Treilio's Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack Trophies

B5 - Has no platinum trophy - Treilio's Blast Factor Trophies

I2 - One word title - Treilio's Stacking Trophies

I4 - Historical fiction or mythology - Treilio's Ghostwire: Tokyo Trophies

I5 - By an independent developer - Treilio's Omno Trophies

N2 - Ultra rare platinum - Treilio's Dreams Trophies

N4 - Aliens or robots - Treilio's ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron Trophies

G1 - Based on a non-gaming IP - Treilio's The Simpsons Arcade Game Trophies

G2 - That you meant to play last year - Treilio's Guacamelee! Trophies

G3 - Arcade, rhythm, or puzzle - Treilio's Frogger: Hyper Arcade Trophies

G5 - With online features - Treilio's Foamstars Trophies

O1 - Originally released in 2024 - Treilio's Tekken 8 Trophies

O2 - Metroidvania or rogue-like - Treilio's Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition Trophies

O3 - Free to play - Treilio's The Light in the Darkness Trophies

O5 - Side-scrolling or bullet hell - Treilio's Streets of Rage 2 Trophies

 

[stuthesheep]

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A few more entries to update the card, including my first line. 

 

First off is O4 and Spawned an Expanded Universe, marked off with Mass Effect. I wasn't entirely sure what to do for this one, so looked at last year's thread for inspiration and Mass Effect was given as an example, so that was good enough for me. Probably well overdue playing it anyway I suppose! Anyway, the Mass Effect universe has its own Wikipedia page, suffice to say there's a lot of comics, novels and animated movies - even an amusement park ride apparently. Enjoyed the game (and I didn't even have to queue for it!)

 

Next one follows on nicely from that, I3 and non-human sidekick is marked off with Mass Effect 2. Probably the only grumble I had about ME2 (apart from the Collector ship platform section on Insanity of course) was the excessively large number of squadmates you could pick from to go out on missions, among them several weird and wonderful aliens (and a robot) to choose from, all with varyingly interesting back stories. 

 

You probably don't need to be an asari matriarch to work out what the next game is, I'm using Mass Effect 3, to mark off I1, the Player Choice/Multiple Endings. For the record, I thought all the endings were fine and I don't really understand what all the fuss was about - I was actually quite disappointed about my lack of disappointment over the whole thing. although I seem to be in the minority there. I think people just complain for the sake of complaining sometimes and should really touch grass once in a while. Maybe I'm getting too old to be worked up about little unimportant things.

 

 

Spoiler

I1 (Choices/Endings) - Mass Effect 3 16/5

N1 (Retro) - Secret of Mana 8/2

G1 (Dislike) - Forspoken 16/4

O1 (Player Operated Vehicles) - FAR: Changing Tides 14/2

B2 (Anthropomorphised Animals) - Sonic Forces 28/2

I2 (Historical) - A Plague Tale: Requiem 23/1

I3 (Non-Human Sidekick) - Mass Effect 3 7/5

N2 (Same Letter) - South Park: The Stick of Truth 12/3

O2 (PSN Year) - South Park: The Fractured But Whole (2017) 19/3

B3 (One Sitting) - Lake 27/1

G3 (New Series) - A Plague Tale: Innocence 15/1

O3 (Sci-Fi) - Scars Above 5/3

B4 (Last Game) - Marvel's Spider-Man 2 1/4

I4 (Recommended) - Omno 4/1

O4 (Expanded Universe) - Mass Effect 25/4

I5 (No Humans) - Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion 25/1

G5 (Exclusive) - Concrete Genie 7/3 

 

[ProfSeajay7]

56 minutes ago, stuthesheep said:

I was actually quite disappointed about my lack of disappointment over the whole thing

Nah, don't worry about it. The fact you were disappointed that you weren't disappointed by the endings is a good thing. I know the majority of the community complained about the endings but whining isn't going to make the devs change the game when it's already released unless you are willing to watch for a patch. 😛

[Biscoito18]

On 5/26/2024 at 11:23 AM, Copanele said:

I have a question though, I completed stories for games in 2024 that are not featured on my first Bingo card.

Could they be used for the second Bingo card instead? Not really clear to me if there's a rule for that.

I guess that's okay since every main campaign/story completed in 2024 are valid for the challenge. I'm also doing a second card and I intend to use some games that I have already completed this year.

Edited May 28 by Biscoito18

[Copanele]

5 hours ago, Biscoito18 said:

I guess that's okay since every main campaign/story completed in 2024 are valid for the challenge. I'm also doing a second card and I intend to use some games that I have already completed this year.

Many thanks for the info, I checked some previous challenges too and it seems alright I hope  

 

Well then, guess I will fill the second card quite a bit!

 

First Card:

Spoiler

 

With Minigames in it - Uncharted 4 A Thief's End - you can play Crash Bandicoot as a minigame.

Last Game You Acquired - Lies of P - one of the rare instances when I instantly play a game that I buy

Strategy, Simulation or Management - 60 Seconds! Reatomized - You have to manage your family in a bunker after a nuclear attack

Based on a Non-Gaming IP - Fist of the North Star Ken's Rage - based on the manga Fist of the North Star

With a # or Punctuation in the title - Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match

 

Retro Re-release(Originally w/o Trophies - Breakers Collection - originally launched in 1998 on the NeoGeo

Non-Violent - Frogger Returns - you just have to hop towards your goal. No violence involved

Frightening/Horror - Source of Madness - Lovecraftian horror + it has the Horror tag

Underplayed(Owned by <1000 Players) - Jet Car Stunts - at the moment of posting it has 661 game owners

That You Started but Didn't Finish - Wet - started this game, took a break because it was crap and then finished it after I was done with better games. Painful.

 

With an Isometric View - Dandy Ace - Izometric roguelike

That You Can Beat in One Sitting - Fight! - You don't even have to play Arcade Mode if you wish, the entire list can be done in one sitting

Player's Choice - Nioh Remastered - a fantastic experience the second time around
Anthropomorphized Animals - Donut County - Mina is the only human in the game, the rest of the characters are anthropomorphized animals

Ultra Rare Platinum - HI-FI Rush - 3.64% rarity at the time of posting

 

You Think You Will Dislike - Jump Force - I expected this game to be hot garbage. I was right

Metroidvania or Rogue-like - Prince of Persia Lost Crown

Released the Year You Joined PSNP - Soulcalibur VI - released in 2018

Redeemed from PS Plus - Brawlout - part of PS+ Extra catalogue

In-Game Weather Effects - Elden Ring - There's rain that impacts your lightning and fire spells and a blizzard that hinders your vision

 

By an Independent Developer - Sifu - developed and published by Sloclap studio

Has Snacks - Ender of Fire - in the game, once you are under 50% the enemies drop snacks (vegetables, fruits, chocolate) that recover your health

Sci-Fi or Fantasy Themes - Quake - it has BOTH Sci-Fi AND Fantasy Themes

In a Series New to You - Skautfould Shrouded in Sanity - This is a part 1 of a 5 games series, only part 1 and 2 are available on PS. It's the first time I play this series

Reboot or spiritual successor - Tomb Raider: Legend - Reboot of the series mentioned here

 

 

 

Second Card

 

 

Historical Fiction or Mythology - 

Developed in a Foreign Country - Abyss Odyssey - developed in Chile

In a Series New to You - 

Recommended by a PSNP Member - 

Oldest in your Backlog -

 

With Minigames in it - The Legend of Korra - It has Naga Running Sequences (autorunner) and Pro Bending minigame

Aliens or Robots - Astro's Playroom - Astro is a robot

Metroidvania or Rogue-like - Xeodrifter - Metroidvania

Racing or Sports - KartRider: Drift - Kart racing

With Online Features - Tekken 8

 

That Gives You the Feels -

Has snacks - Viking Squad - destroyed barrels drop pieces of meat and snacks that will heal you

Player's Choice -

Non-human sidekick -

That Takes "Forever" to Beat -

 

Ultra Rare Platinum -

By an Independent Developer - 911 Operator - Developed by Jutsu Games

Released the Year You Joined PSNP -

Non-Violent -

One Word Title - Wet

 

Adventure -

Award-Winning -

Sci-Fi or Fantasy Themes -

Cult Favorite - Soulcalibur II HD Online  - The most beloved Soulcalibur, has a dedicated fanbase.

That You Started but Didn't Finish -

 

 

Will be honest .. .this looks like my first card...RNG really hates me it seems. At least I don't have any horror games to complete.

If there are any issues with this second card, let me know  

[KazaneHime]

Bingo #1!

Spoiler

B1  - HYPE!: Strange Horticulture
B2 - Ultra Rare Platinum: Animal Shelter Simulator (1st in North America!)
B3 - Has snacks: Hokko Life
B4 - With Mystery or Detective Themes: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy

B5 - Non-human sidekick: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
 

I1 - With Player Choices or Multiple Endings: Call of the Sea
I2 - Oldest in your Backlog:
I3 - That You've Been Meaning to Get to: Final Fantasy VII Remake
I4 - Open World, Sandbox, or Free Play: Tchia

I5 - With a # or Punctuation in the Title: Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

 

N1 - Starts With the First Letter of Your PSNID (K):
N2 - Award-Winning: Metal: Hellsinger (2022 Golden Joysticks Best Audio)
N3 - Player's Choice: 
N4 - Crafting Mechanics:

N5 - For Another PSNP Event:
 

G1 - Sci-Fi or Fantasy Themes: Final Fantasy
G2 - Free to play:
G3 - That Gives You the Feels: Sea of Stars
G4 - By an Independent Developer: Evoland

G5 - DLC Pack or Standalone DLC:

 

O1 - Arcade, Rhythm, or Puzzle: A Little to the Left
O2 - Strategy, Simulation, or Management: Two Point Hospital
O3 - Metroidvania or Rogue-like:
O4 - Banned/Censored in a Country: Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion (Censorship info)

O5 - Has no platinum trophy: Never Alone

 

I'm also planning on doing these games, but not sure where they could fit into my remaining spots (until I use my Player's Choice/for another event)

• Immortals Fenyx Rising
• Season: A letter to the future
• The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails
• Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth

Edited May 28 by KazaneHime

[ProfSeajay7]

37 minutes ago, KazaneHime said:

I'm also planning on doing these games, but not sure where they could fit into my remaining spots (until I use my Player's Choice/for another event)

• Immortals Fenyx Rising
• Season: A letter to the future
• The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails
• Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth

I want to go and stretch in saying that Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth has a 'sort' of a crafting system with the device you get early on, don't remember its name. You collect items around the world and put them in the device and you get something.

[GT__Jedi]

Tunic (Metroidvania or Rogue-like)

 

Oh, boy.  Let's talk about this game.

 

I was pretty excited when I saw it would be offered as part of the PS Plus Catalogue.  Counted the hours until I could download it and immediately jumped into the fun.  This game reminded me why I started my video game journey.  Great levels, you can adjust the options to suit your playstyle, and the many secret areas kept you guessing what was around the next corner.  I could not put this game down - found I would wake up in the middle of the night and sneak a bit of time roaming the levels trying to find another enemy, secret or new area.  I did quit and restart the game as I couldn't figure out how to use the teleport and thought I had missed something, but that is another story...

 

So, I got a Game Over, which surprised me, and when I checked my trophy list I saw I was missing quite a few trophies.  Also, I was permanently in night-mode, and was unable to sleep in my house to change it to day-mode because I was missing one Hero Shrine to get my stats back.

 

Because this game does not really show you where you are on a map, I was lost.  I was frustrated.  I was doomed.  It is now time to use a guide.

 

If I may give anyone playing this game a word of advice, save your progress to the cloud so you can reload if you lose all of your mana, coins or anything else.  Two trophies that were a nightmare:

 

Regal Weasel: Trying to freeze this sucker and then teleport up to the chest was one of the most frustrating trophies I've ever had the pain to earn.

 

Your Body is Restored: Trying to figure out which Hero Shrine I was missing and then trying to randomly get to to each area with the corruption at the teleport hub was a pita.

 

So, who saved me and my sanity? 

 

@Optinooby  Thank you, thank you, thank you for a Guide that enabled me to finish this game and my dignity.  10 Stars for this one!

 

[Biscoito18]

Here's my second card for the year. Looks easy enough and I like that are just a few repeated categories. 

 

Spoiler

 

B-1 Adventure:

B-2 Reboot or Spiritual Successor: 

B-3 Free to Play: 

B-4 Platform Exclusive: 

B-5 That gives you the feels: 

 

I-1 Non-Violent: 

I-2 Released the year you joined PSNP (2019): 

I-3 Strategy, Simulation or Management: Ravenous Devils

I-4 Developed in a Foreign Country: Martha is Dead

I-5 With Online Features: 

 

N-1 With an Isometric View: TOEM

N-2 Metroidvania or Rogue-like: 

N-3 Player's Choice:

N-4 Non-Human Sidekick: 

N-5 Aliens or Robots: 

 

G-1 Sci-Fi or Fantasy Themes: 

G-2 Frightening or Horror: 

G-3 Featuring a Romance or Romance options: House of Ashes

G-4 In-game Weather Effects: 

G-5 For another PSNP Event: 

 

O-1 Arcade, Rhythm or Puzzle: 

O-2 Starts with the First Letter of your PSN ID (B): 

O-3 Underplayed (owned by <1000 players): 

O-4 With Gorgeous Vistas: 

O-5 Favorite Genre: 

 

Updating my card with:

 

- Ravenous Devils for I-3 Strategy, Simulation or Management: It is a simulation/business game based on the story of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I love this game and this year was my second time getting the plat;

 

- Martha is Dead for I-4 Developed in a Foreign Country: This game was developed by the amazing LKA, a studio based in Florence, Italy. I really enjoy the atmosphere of their games and how they're not afraid to push boundaries;

 

- TOEM for N-1 With an Isometric View: I think this is the best cozy indie game I've played. A lot of charisma, simple graphic style that pleases the eyes, good jokes, cute characters and creative solutions. It's a complete package! The only bad thing about TOEM is that it ends;

 

- The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes for G-3 Featuring a Romance or Romance options: Rachel can choose between giving her marriage a second chance, moving on with her lover, or neither. It's amazing how they managed to fit a romantic drama in the middle of so much carnage. "House of Ashes" is my favorite of the anthology so far;

[Sylvanticore]

Greetings all

 

Got another square completed, I was having a slow month trophy hunting so got something done rather quickly so with that I have B2 completed with Ape Escape! I had debated putting it in Platform Exclusive or New to the Series but decided on filling out the Minigames square, collecting coins through out the levels unlock 3 different minigames you can play in another room!

 

 

I plan on doing the "That Takes Forever to Beat" square next month with Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga cause that takes a very long time!

 

B2: Ape Escape

B3: Unpacking

 

N4: Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

 

G1: Gas Station Simulator

G2: Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

G3: Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdrive

G4: DragonBall Z Kakarot

 

[JayDeLosDioses]

End of the month update and it’s a big one!

 

Most importantly, I finished Red Dead Redemption 2, marking my Open World square on the bingo board, filling out my red color in the kaleidoscope challenge and checking off the month of may in the backlog challenge.

And what a game it is!

I first started playing RDR2 when it was released but got bored midway through chapter 3. The slower pace already had me on the edge and then the game send me fishing with Dutch and Micah… and that was too much for me.

Coming back was a great experience, and I gotta admit, the game gets much more exciting during chapter 4 onward. Great story, great open world, not so memorable songs compared to RDR1 imo. Nothing beats Far Away when first riding into Mexico.

The online was okay, there was  a double exp event for the collector job items, so I bit the bullet and paid 10 bucks to buy gold bars and start collecting early.

My biggest issues with the game are the cores and missing map markers. The cores are just too much management in my opinion, especially during online. You get used to it sure, but I still don’t like it.

And for the hunting requests and exotic flower collections I would have liked some area markers on my map, it’s hard enough to get a perfect bird carcass, it just gets annoying by also having to find the spawn areas first. Same with the flowers, having never even seen some of the flowers needed you can’t even look that up in game, I’m really glad I used a map for it.

Overall I would rate the game 8.5 / 10 - great for playing, a bit annoying for completing.

 

I can also mark the bingo square Contains Holiday Theme by finishing Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus? - it’s one of those adventure puzzle games published by Artifex Mundi / Big Fish Games.

They’re fun and I enjoy them from time to time, but once you played one of them you kinda played them all. Yes, they have different themes and stories but they mostly use the same puzzles. Same with this one, at least the holiday theme allowed me to mark a square!

 

Then I went ahead and finished a game with no humans in it, the second best souls-like game after Lies of P … I finished Another Crab’s Treasure!

I had planned to kinda cheese the system a bit and just play a lego game for this one after failing to get it marked with Hotwheels 2, but then I stumbled upon this gem on twitch. It’s such a fun game and the bosses are really fun and rewarding to fight. And I gotta say, having a checkpoint right before each boss fight is amazing, that’s what I want! More fighting, less running back. And finding the path is also the biggest weakness of the game, it’s not always clear where the game wants you to go next and it doesn’t help that you can’t move the map at all. And all the ocean themed puns on top of that, I loved it.

 

[Yuber6969]

Finished Muv-Luv for the "Releasing your Inner Weeb" category!

 

 

Spoiler

Cooperative Game - Hunting Simulator (there's a co-op mode)

 

That You Meant to Play Last Year - Windjammers

 

Recommended by a PSNP Member - Stick Fight (Copanele)

 

With a Female Protagonist - Miracle Girls Festival

 

Has no humans - Them's Fightin' Herds

 

Released the Year You Joined PSNP - Xeno Crisis (the Vita stack released the year I joined, which was 2020)

 

Contains Holiday Themes - VA-11 Hall-A (there's a Christmas party scene)

 

For Another PSNP Event - White Day: A Labyrinth Named School (A-Z Platinum Challenge + UR Cleanup)

 

Non-violent - Virtua Tennis 4

 

Originally Released in 2024 - Persona 3 Reload

 

With Online Features - Dungeon Defenders

 

Play as an Antihero or Bad Guy - Tekken 8 (The protagonist is an antihero, and you can play as several bad guys)

 

Side-Scrolling, Bullet Hell - Xeodrifter (2D Metroidvania)

 

DLC Pack or Standalone DLC - Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Marie DLC

 

Has no platinum trophy - Ace of Seafood

 

Retro Re-release (Originally w/o Trophies) - The Legend of Dragoon

 

That Takes "Forever" to Beat - KartRider: Drift (200 races + long matchmaking times)

 

Releasing your Inner Weeb - Muv-Luv

 

[hyousai]

First update on my second bingo card after finishing my first blackout. Some good progress so far.

 

B1. New Series
B2. Favorite Genre 
B3. Scifi/Fantasy
B4. For PSN Event 
B5. Sidescroller/Bullet Hell

I1. One Word Title 
I2.  Nonhuman Sidekick 
I3. Started but not Finished- Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (Started this a couple year ago but stopped when I reached Rock Bottom. Since it's leaving PS+ I decided to come back and finish the job. The rolling ball puzzle and the Kelp Vines slide can go die, but other than that it was pretty enjoyable.)
I4.  Crafting 
I5. DLC Pack/Standalone DLC 

N1. Meaning to get around to
N2. Meant to get to last year

N3. Player’s Choice
N4. Last Purchased Game - Another Crab's Treasure - (Crab Souls here is a very fun little Soulslike. I have thalassophobia, though, so the deep-sea sections were pretty stressful. Definitely a strong contender for my GotY.
N5. Adventure

G1. Award-Winning
G2. Recommended -TOEM (This was on my list of games to try for a while, but I got distracted until @Biscoito18 suggested it in the thread. Charming little game with a non-stressful platinum.)
G3. Takes Forever 
G4. Metroidvania/Roguelike 
G5. Player Choice/Multiple Endings

O1. Snacks
O2. Be the Antihero/Bad Guy
O3. One Sitting – Panzer Dragoon Remake (Well, I’ve done it now. I’m committed to going for this plat. This game is infamous for being beatable in under an hour, while having one trophy that requires 100 hours of play. Pray for me. If I ever meet the one responsible for this trophy, I will give them SUCH A PINCH.)
O4. No Humans
O5. Released in Birth Month 
 

[Biscoito18]

11 minutes ago, hyousai said:

G2. Recommended -TOEM (This was on my list of games to try for a while, but I got distracted until @Biscoito18 suggested it in the thread. Charming little game with a non-stressful platinum.)
 

I'm glad you liked it! 🙂

[ProfSeajay7]

Welp, finally got another BINGO as I found a thread on this site listing all of the available free-to-play games.

 

 

B4: Free-to-Play => Puzzle Journey

 

This was the only game with a platinum that wasn't multiplayer or have DLC or was not the season for it(aka Halloween Puzzle). I eventually figured out how to do the expert mode, realizing that pausing the game paused the timer, which was the only reason I was able to clear expert mode since it's 64 square with 32 pairs, and I'm not that great at memory games. Still not too bad.

On 4/7/2024 at 10:47 AM, ProfSeajay7 said:

Column B:

1. B1: That You've Been Meaning to Get To => DIsgaea 5
2. B2: Developed in a Foreign Country => Nexomon (PS4)
3. B4: With An Isometric View => TOEM
4. B5: With A Female Protagonist => Eventide 2

Column I:

1. I1: With In-Game Weather Effects => Dragon Quest Builders 2
2. I3: Oldest Title in Your Backlog => Cat Quest
3. I4: Free-to-Play => Puzzle Journey

Column N:

1. N1: Crafting Mechanics => Dragon Quest Builders
2. N2: With Gorgeous Vistas => Final Fantasy VI
3. N3: Nexomon (PS5)
4. N4: That You Can Complete in One Sitting => Ape Escape (PS4)
5. N5: With a # or Punctuation in the Name => 36 Fragments of Midnight

Column G:

1. I1: Sci-Fi or Fantasy Themes => Final Fantasy IV
2. I3: That "Everyone" But You Have Played => Astro's Playroom
3. I4: Released in your Birth Month => Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus (PS5) (released in December)
4. I5: Aliens or Robots => LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (PS4)

Column O:

1. O3: With Mystery or Detective Themes => Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus (PS4)
2. O4: Spawned an Expansive Universe => Final Fantasy VII
3. O5: Adventure => Adventures of Mana

 

[zaxonzaxon]

 

G4 Platform Exclusive: The Last Guardian

I had this one pegged for a couple other boxes, but after looking through all the games I might play over the next year.... this was literally the only one that is a true platform exclusive. Practically everything these days is either multi-gen, cross-platform, or has a PC port.

 

I4 You Think You Will Dislike -- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

Why: This is a spiritual successor to the old Suikoden games, which I was a big fan of back in the PS1/2 days. I was worried I'd dislike it because I've long since outgrown JRPGs, and the pre-release trailers and such showcased a lot of dated gameplay and dumb/annoying-looking characters.

Verdict: I'm an idiot. The game was awesome and I loved it. It's been nearly 20 years since the last Suikoden and I guess I forgot just how much I adored those games, because this was a total blast. 

 

B4 Developed in a Foreign Country: PowerWash Simulator

I'm in America, and the developer is a UK studio. Been meaning to play this for ages, and I can finally now say that it lives up to the hype. If you've ever been entranced by a power washing animated gif, this is like the crack cocaine video game version of that.

 

Archive:

Spoiler

B3: Contains Holiday Themes -- Yakuza Kiwami (Christmas Trees and Christmas Music)

I3: DLC Pack or Standalone DLC -- Steep Xtreme Pack

N1: Award Winning -- Rollerdrome (2023 BAFTA for Best British Game)

N5: Retro Re-release -- Quake II (25th Anniversary remaster)

G1: Banned/Censored -- Wolfenstein 3D (Banned in Germany due to Nazi imagery)

G5: Underplayed -- Farm Knight Adventures (No one has played it cus it sucks)

O1: That "Everyone" But You Has Played -- Final Fantasy 7 Remake

O3: Gorgeous Vistas -- Riders Republic (It's practically nothing but gorgeous vistas)

O4: Frightening/Horror -- The Forest (Creepy cannibals and dark, dark caves.)

 

Edited May 31 by zaxonzaxon

[Beyondthegrave07]

May Update:

 

 

 

I'm just going to include the game I did today as well (June 1st). Seems silly to hold off adding it to the update. Especially since it's pretty fresh. Anyways, 3 new games to add since my last update. The Gardens Between is a great little puzzler game that can definitely be done in one sitting. I highly recommend trying this one if you have PS+ Extra. Yes, it is an easy platinum, but this is one of those examples of why you shouldn't skip out on a game just because it's easy. I had such a blast playing this casually on a Sunday afternoon/evening and thought it was really clever.

 

Legend of Dragoon is my game that "everyone has played" except me. Especially as someone who grew up in the late 90s and early 00s, I feel like I'm the only millennial gamer who probably missed out on this in 2000 and avoid playing it when it came out to PS premium due to all the reported bugs. However, those bugs definitely got squished and this was an absolute joy to play... even for a game that is roughly 24 years old. The story for this was also wicked good. If you never played it, definitely give it a go. It has some stupid JRPG tropes in there, but what 20-year old game doesn't? XD

 

Lastly, the game I finished early today. Atelier Ayesha. These games just keep growing and growing on me. I'm not a big fan of the fanservice-y stuff, but that's easily ignorable for a game that has a BOPPING soundtrack and a cool RPG system revolving around creating items and copying skills from one item to the next through alchemy. I did not consult a guide for this game and had to redo a few things at the end (adding an additional 10 hours of gameplay or so), but I wasn't even mad about it. This game was an absolute joy to play and definitely fits the B1 category of letting out my inner weeb... I mean, have you seen the name of the platinum for this game under my most recent platinum (全トロフィー取得)? If you are a little late... hint, hint. It's similar to my #150th plat and 175th platinum.

 

What's next, I'm not sure.... I'm getting down to the oddly specific types of games... Guess I better start looking for games that start with a "B", lol.

 

B3 - Sea of Stars (Jan)

N1 - Omno (Jan)

N2 - I am Setsuna (Jan)

G3 - Medievil Resurrection (Feb)

O4 - Resistance Retribution (Feb)

O3 - Rally Cross (Feb)

O2 - Kingdom of Paradise (Feb)

G1 - Life is Strange: True Colors (Mar)

I3 - Elden Ring (Mar)

N3 - Syphon Filter (Mar) BINGO!

N4 - No Heroes Allowed! (Mar)

O5 - Tinykin (Mar)

N5 - Star Ocean First Departure R (Apr) BINGO #2

G5 - Echoshift (Apr)

B4 - The Gardens Between (May)

G4 - The Legend of Dragoon (May)

B1 - Atelier Ayesha (Jun)

 

Edited June 14 by Beyondthegrave07

[plimaz-]

Two more squares this past month!

Animal Well is going on the Originally Released in 2024 box! Oh my god this game was so well made, didn't expect to like it that much
 

Tinykin gets the Non-human sidekick space. Short and sweet platformer! I'm counting the tinykins as your sidekicks for this one lol

Spoiler

B1 - Retro Re-release (Originally w/o Trophies):
B2 - That You've Been Meaning to Get to: Sea of Stars
B3 - Aliens or Robots:
B4 - Originally Released in 2024: Animal Well

B5 - That Gives You the Feels: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
 

I1 - That "Everyone" But You Has Played:
I2 - Adventure: The Messenger
I3 - With Player Choices or Multiple Endings:
I4 - Last Game You Acquired: 

I5 - In a Series New to You: 

 

N1 - Released in your birth month:
N2 - Non-human sidekick: Tinykin
N3 - Player's Choice: 
N4 - Crafting Mechanics:

N5 - Banned/Censored in a Country:
 

G1 - With Player Operated Vehicles:
G2 - That Takes "Forever" to Beat:
G3 - Ultra Rare Platinum:
G4 - That You Started but Didn't Finish: Strider

G5 - You Think You Will Dislike:

 

O1 - Developed in a Foreign Country: Toem
O2 - Play as an Antihero or Bad Guy:
O3 - Starts With the First Letter of Your PSNID: Persona 3 Reload 
O4 - With Gorgeous Vistas:

O5 - Non-Violent: PHOGS!

[Yuber6969]

Finished Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West for the Last Game You Acquired category.

 

 

Spoiler

Cooperative Game - Hunting Simulator (there's a co-op mode)

 

That You Meant to Play Last Year - Windjammers

 

Recommended by a PSNP Member - Stick Fight (Copanele)

 

With a Female Protagonist - Miracle Girls Festival

 

Has no humans - Them's Fightin' Herds

 

Released the Year You Joined PSNP - Xeno Crisis (the Vita stack released the year I joined, which was 2020)

 

Contains Holiday Themes - VA-11 Hall-A (there's a Christmas party scene)

 

For Another PSNP Event - White Day: A Labyrinth Named School (A-Z Platinum Challenge + UR Cleanup)

 

Non-violent - Virtua Tennis 4

 

Originally Released in 2024 - Persona 3 Reload

 

With Online Features - Dungeon Defenders

 

Play as an Antihero or Bad Guy - Tekken 8 (The protagonist is an antihero, and you can play as several bad guys)

 

Side-Scrolling, Bullet Hell - Xeodrifter (2D Metroidvania)

 

DLC Pack or Standalone DLC - Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Marie DLC

 

Has no platinum trophy - Ace of Seafood

 

Retro Re-release (Originally w/o Trophies) - The Legend of Dragoon

 

That Takes "Forever" to Beat - KartRider: Drift (200 races + long matchmaking times)

 

Releasing your Inner Weeb - Muv-Luv

 

Last Game You Acquired - Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West

 

Edited June 2 by Yuber6969

[Xhortastic]

After a bit of a hiatus I'm back with another completion for my bingo board.

• G5: Jet Moto 2 (PS5) for 'Racing or Sports'

I did the first Jet Moto in December when I had some time off, and yesterday was the last day of another two weeks off so it felt a bit like a trend. They're both pretty easy games, with the rewind features and the cheat codes. But they are a good bit of fun.

 

I used to say that I didn't really like racing games, but then I checked and it turned out that I had finished or played quite a bit more than I thought. And though you still won't catch me saying that racing is my favourite genre, it is one I play whenever I want to game but also strongly need to watch or listen to something in the background.

 

All in all, glad to be back on the board with this title and hopefully I've caught the bug again and manage to at least get a bingo line before the year is over. Should be doable right?

 

 

Spoiler

• B1: God of War (PS4) for 'Award-Winning'
• B3: This Bed We Made (PS5) for 'Last Game You Acquired'

 

[Baker]

Game 18: Contains Holiday Themes

 

Dave The Diver

 

You can decorate your sushi restaurant with some Christmas stuff.

 

Fun game. There was much more to do than I expected.

 

One thing that annoyed the hell out of me though:

 

I played this game through Ps Plus Extra. I knew it expired today so I went on a marathon session yesterday to platinum this game as I don’t want to renew. There is a RNG trophy for finding and killing a fish with the Mjolnir. Yesterday I’ve spend 10 hours looking for this stupid thing. To no avail. At 4.30 am I had enough.
 

But I still had some time today. I found it pretty fast. Time for some quick clean up. Just the tamagotchi minigame left. It goes pretty fast. 4/5 done. Almost got the 5th one and the platinum. Aaaannd… you guessed it… The game shut down. Ps Plus Extra is expired. I’m literally 5 minutes away from completing the game.

 

Thank you RNG. As always.

 

Ah well. Unto the next game.

Edited June 3 by Baker

[DrBloodmoney]

One more entry down!

 

 

 

 

Box: "In a Series New to You"

Game: "Punch Club"

 

A Rocky-and-80s-movie-themed combination management sim, life sim and Lite adventure game, where the player controls a character fighting his way up the chain from lowly puncher in a dead-end job... to either champion of the world, or kingpin of the underworld.

 

It's a resource and time management sim for the most part, where plate spinning between training, working, living, eating, sleeping, fighting has to be measured against a ticking clock, and where body-building is constantly fighting the decay of apathy and entropy, as you struggle to make enough time and money to keep on top of constantly draining measures of fitness, while unlocking different special skills and fighting techniques...

...but the game also throws in a lot of adventure-game style quest lines, mostly involving absurd parodies of movies and TV staples - from Rocky, to Robocop, to Terminator, to Streets of Fire... to even things like Shawshank Redemption, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter... and even Jay and Silent Bob.

 

A simple enough idea, but it's done with a lot of humour and heart - it plays quite well, and has a surprising amount of depth in the quest lines - I was finding whole new story paths and new elements Weill into the 3rd and fourth playthroughs.

 

 

It's shockingly difficult for me to find a new game I want to play that IS part of a series, but that I haven't played any of yet...

...so thank goodness this one was sitting in the backlog so long that there is already a sequel out there, making it fit this category!

Edited June 4 by DrBloodmoney