ObsiEez's Trophy Checklist & Reviews

[ObsiEez]

About Me

My name is ObsiEez & I'm a guide writer whose done work on both PSNProfiles & PowerPyx. I've been gaming since I was 5 years old and it is probably one of my biggest passions along with writing. Informative pieces such as guides is currently what I do for writing, but I dabble in fictional pieces as well, though they never usually see the light of day. I'll be posting platinum updates here as well as reviews for the games I finish. I may also go back to review some of the older games I've already completed before starting this thread.

 

If you ever want to get in contact with me, the best way is to either leave a comment here on this thread, or shoot me a message on discord (Username is ObsiEez, Nickname is Onion Bro). Feel free to reach out if you got questions for me about gaming, trophies, or guides!

 

Currently Working On/Planned

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 -Eternights - Main game I'm playing right now. Also working on a Trophy Guide/100% Walkthrough for it

 - Gravity Rush PS VITA - Playing on the side

 - Honkai: Star Rail - Always grinding on the side

 

Favorite/Least Favorite Platinum of 2024:

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Favorite:

 

Stellar Blade

9/10

Least Favorite:

 

Alone in the Dark

3/10

 

 

2016 - 21 Platinum's

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2017 - 51 Platinum's

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2018 - 43 Platinum's

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2019 - 49 Platinum's

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2020 - 54 Platinum's

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2021 - 43 Platinum's

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2022 - 48 Platinum's

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2023 - 50 Platinum's

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2024 - 11 Platinum's

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All 100% Titles - 30 100%'s

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Statistics

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PS3 Platinum's: 43

PS4 Platinum's: 230

PS Vita Platinum's: 31

PSVR Platinum's: 19
PS5 Platinum's: 46

Total Platinum's: 367

Average Completion: 85.39%

Average Trophy Rarity: 39.55%

Ultra Rare Trophy Count: 261

 

Guides

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PSNProfiles:

 

Just In Time Incorporated Trophy Guide - My first guide!

Agents of Mayhem Trophy Guide

My Time at Portia Trophy Guide

L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files Trophy Guide

Dead Rising 4 Trophy Guide

Dead Rising 4 Trials Guide - Guide of the Year 2020 Exceptional Gameplay Guide Nominee!

The Surge 2 Trophy Guide

The Surge 2 The Kraken Expansion DLC Trophy Guide

Moonlighter Trophy Guide- Guide of the Year 2020 Niche Guide Nominee!

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Trophy Guide

Persona 5 Strikers Trophy Guide - Guide of the Year 2021 Exceptional Trophy Guide 3rd Place Winner!

Dead Rising 4 Super Ultra Mini Gold DLC Trophy Guide

Dead Rising 4 Frank Rising DLC Trophy Guide

Dead Rising 4 Capcom Heroes DLC Trophy Guide

Nexomon Trophy Guide - Guide of the Year 2021 Exceptional Use of Formatting 3rd Place Winner!

Rune Factory Oceans Trophy Guide - Guide of the Year 2021 Retro Enthusiast Nominee!

Rune Factory 4 Special Trophy Guide - My proudest guide!

Rune Factory 4 Special All Shipped Items Guide - Guide of the Year 2022 Exceptional Gameplay Guide Nominee!

Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel Trophy Guide - Guide of the Year 2022 Exceptional Trophy Guide Nominee!

Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel Platinum Walkthrough

Syphon Filter Full Game Walkthrough

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Trophy Guide - Only did formatting & spell checking

The Callisto Protocol Trophy Guide

Persona 3 Portable Trophy Guide

Persona 3 Portable Ultimate 100% Walkthrough - Guide of the Year 2023 Exceptional Gameplay Guide 2nd Place Winner!

Song of Horror Trophy Guide

Song of Horror Platinum Walkthrough - Guide of the Year 2023 Exceptional Use of Formatting 2nd Place Winner!

Honkai: Star Rail Trophy Guide

Honkai: Star Rail Volume Two DLC Trophy Guide - Guide of the Year 2023 Exceptional DLC Guide Nominee!

Hidden Cats in London Trophy Guide

Persona 5 Tactica Trophy Guide

Honkai: Star Rail Volume Three DLC Trophy Guide

 

PowerPyx:

 

Dead Island 2 Haus DLC Trophy Guide - First PowerPyx guide!

Alone in the Dark Trophy Guide

Alone in the Dark All Collectible Locations

Alone in the Dark All Puzzle Solutions & Key Items

Rise of the Ronin All Bond Missions

Rise of the Ronin How to Unlock All Allies

Stellar Blade Trophy Guide

Stellar Blade Wiki & Strategy Guide

Stellar Blade All Collectibles Location Guide

 

PSNProfile Events:

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Events:

Let's Play Persona 5 - Abandoned

Let's Play Kingdom Hearts - Abandoned 

Songkran Festival - Event Concluded

Gaming By Numbers 2022 - Event Concluded

Let's Play Yakuza/Like a Dragon - Event Still Active

Edited yesterday at 04:24 AM by ObsiEez

[Mr_Wright95]

Nice checklist and very nice layout! I feel like I need to redo mine at this point with the inspiration I see on these forums.

 

Also thanks for your work in helping with guides. Chances are you probably have helped with a few of my platinums 😆

[ObsiEez]

4 minutes ago, Mr_Wright95 said:

Nice checklist and very nice layout! I feel like I need to redo mine at this point with the inspiration I see on these forums.

 

Also thanks for your work in helping with guides. Chances are you probably have helped with a few of my platinums 😆

Thanks! I'm quite happy with how the formatting has turned out!

 

Based off a quick look through your profile, it seems the only one I've worked on that you've done is Moonlighter, which is one I'm super proud of honestly since it's the one that really pushed me into putting more effort into writing guides.

[Mr_Wright95]

8 minutes ago, ObsiEez said:

Thanks! I'm quite happy with how the formatting has turned out!

 

Based off a quick look through your profile, it seems the only one I've worked on that you've done is Moonlighter, which is one I'm super proud of honestly since it's the one that really pushed me into putting more effort into writing guides.

Moonlighter was a great game and truth be told I did rely fairly heavily on some tutorials and guides for that one. Look forward to following this thread and your progress mate!

[modest_undue1]

Immediately following topic and you, cant wait for the road ahead!

[Vanqishd]

Good luck on the thread. Looking forward to reading your review on Rise of the Ronin 👀

[ObsiEez]

The entire thread has now been caught up to date! Instead of reposting the entire Alone in the Dark review I wrote before, I'll just link to the forum thread where I wrote it. All other reviews will be done here in a comment with the next one being Rise of the Ronin, which I should post later on tonight!

 

 

[ObsiEez]

Platinum #367: Rise of the Ronin

 

Time/Difficulty/Grind:

Time to Platinum: 50 Hours

Personal Difficulty Rating: 5/10

Personal Grind Rating: 1/10

 

Introduction:

Rise of the Ronin is a an Open World Action-RPG by Team Ninja. It takes heavily influence from previous Team Ninja games such as Ninja Gaiden & Nioh, while adopting some new ideas from games such as Sekiro & Elden Ring to incorporate it in their own way. The game takes place during the Bakumatsu Period in Japan, where you play through the final years of the Shogunate in a historically rich world brimming with tons of historical events & characters.

 

Story/Characters:

The story of the game spans over 3 total Chapters & is overall quite short. It follows a very basic story premise of finding someone you've lost, but have no way of finding other than getting involved with the war against the Shogunate. The story does have branching paths, so you can choose to either fight for or against the Shogunate, which will change which characters you interact with throughout the game as well as some story events.

 

While the story is very basic, the characters is a spot where the game shines a lot. Pretty much every single character you meet in the game is a person that existed in real life during that time period in Japan, & helps tell that persons story, even if they aren't apart of the overarching storyline. This makes the game extra entertaining for people who are well-versed in Japanese history & its historical characters as you'll be able to get more out of the game than someone who doesn't. At the same time, this can also spoil your experience as the game does closely follow historical events for both people & events happening within the game.

 

Gameplay:

Gameplay is where this game truly shines as it is some of the best combat in this setting. The massive variety of weapons & weapon styles keeps the combat fresh as you can constantly swap weapons/styles to get a whole new combat experience. The combat itself is very close to Nioh's combat, but a little more refined, so if you like Nioh's combat, Rise of the Ronin's combat will hit very close to home.

 

This game also does away with Team Ninja's typical mission select to start playing & instead has a main open world, where certain Main Missions will put you in a mission instance, which will let you take up to 2 allies & real players with you into the mission.

 

The addition of difficulty settings also makes the game extremely accessible to people who are fully accustomed to the gameplay style of Nioh or the difficulty spikes that these games can entail. At the same time, the higher difficulties will still give you that taste of difficulty you're looking for. After finishing the game, you'll also unlock a new difficulty that you can play when going through the Testament of the Soul in order to earn new gear types.

 

Bugs/Performance:

For bugs, I personally didn't encounter a single one while playing, even when I was playing the game a week & a half before launch. The closest to a bug I have personally come across is the horse glitching out getting stuck on things throughout the overall, but that isn't the biggest issue at all.

 

Performance can be an issue with the game since while it is suppose to run at 60FPS on Performance Mode, it will frequently dip to 40FPS & sometimes even lower depending on what's going on. While this overall doesn't affect my personal experience, it might be something that affects yours. I do hope this is something that ends up being fixed in a future update, as Performance Mode should be able to hold a solid 60FPS without drops, especially when it's a PS5 exclusive title.

 

Graphics:

Normally this is something I would never bring up in a review unless there is something egregious with it, but I bring this up solely because of the hate this game gets because of its graphics. The game isn't the best looking game on the market, especially when it comes to PS5 exclusives. But at the same time, it also doesn't look like a "PS2/PS3 game" like a lot of people has claimed & used against the game as a "gotcha" when trying to downgrade it. The game looks more like a mid PS4 release, which in my personal opinion is fine. All I have to say is if you're one of those people saying it looks like a PS2/PS3 game, visit an optometrist.

 

Trophies:

All the trophies are extremely straight forward. Complete the Main Story. Complete all Bond Missions. & some miscellaneous stuff to boot. Nothing is missable as you can easily go back to do new story paths through the Testament of the Soul, which you can access from your Longhouse starting in Chapter 2. You don't need to 100% the game either, as you don't need to do a vast majority of the overworld content, but it's still fun to do anyway.

 

Overall Rating/Conclusion:

Overall, I think the game is fantastic & out of the games I've played so far in 2024, it is my favorite game to come out this year. I've got more to play still so my opinion will probably change, but as it stands right now I think the game is great. It's heavily carried by it's extremely fun gameplay, so if you value games like that or are just a fan of Team Ninja or Historical Japanese Settings, I highly recommend the game to you. Even if you're not a fan of harder games & prefer some easier gameplay, playing the game on the easiest difficulty can make going through the game a breeze, especially with the ability to bring allies with you on missions.

 

8/10

Edited April 6 by ObsiEez

[Mr_Wright95]

I’ve been considering this game for my introduction to this genre. Great review! Sounds fun and exactly what I want to play, will probably nab this one soon, congrats on the platinum!!

[ObsiEez]

1 hour ago, Mr_Wright95 said:

I’ve been considering this game for my introduction to this genre. Great review! Sounds fun and exactly what I want to play, will probably nab this one soon, congrats on the platinum!!

Thanks! I think it's a perfect introduction since it does have those difficulty options to prepare you for other games like Nioh that don't have those options, so if you do end up enjoying it & want to check out more of Team Ninja's works, you'll at least know what you're going to get into now since they play very similarly with just a few different mechanics overall

[Mr_Wright95]

27 minutes ago, ObsiEez said:

Thanks! I think it's a perfect introduction since it does have those difficulty options to prepare you for other games like Nioh that don't have those options, so if you do end up enjoying it & want to check out more of Team Ninja's works, you'll at least know what you're going to get into now since they play very similarly with just a few different mechanics overall

I have a fair few of the other games in the backlog, eager to give them a crack! Same logic as you though I feel this is a nice introduction to the genre. 

[Shikotei-kun]

Welcome to the most wholesome corner of the forums! I'm glad you took my suggestion and created a thread here. It's nice to see reviews by gamers who have taken the time to fully explore a game. Most journalists don't get that amount of time before a piece is due.

Hopefully PowerPyx isn't working you to the bone 😅

 

I'm happy that you use Nioh's combat to compare Rise Of The Ronin's with, as I have been enthralled by those two games for probably over 1000 hours combined. I might pick it up once my backlog has shrunk considerably (I want to clean up the mess that shopping spree caused before buying more games).

[ObsiEez]

1 hour ago, Shikotei-kun said:

Welcome to the most wholesome corner of the forums! I'm glad you took my suggestion and created a thread here. It's nice to see reviews by gamers who have taken the time to fully explore a game. Most journalists don't get that amount of time before a piece is due.

Hopefully PowerPyx isn't working you to the bone 😅

 

I'm happy that you use Nioh's combat to compare Rise Of The Ronin's with, as I have been enthralled by those two games for probably over 1000 hours combined. I might pick it up once my backlog has shrunk considerably (I want to clean up the mess that shopping spree caused before buying more games).

Yeah I hate reading a lot of reviews since they either never finish the game (either due to deadlines or just massive skill issues), or just seemingly hate video games to begin with, but yet is a reviewer for video games.

 

Thankfully it's been pretty laid back writing for PowerPyx still & I was even a few days late with finishing my 2 guides for Rise of the Ronin, which turned out to not be a huge deal.

 

Hopefully whenever you do snag Rise of the Ronin you end up enjoying it!

[ObsiEez]

Platinum #369: Crisis Core: Final Fantasy - Reunion

 

Time/Difficulty/Grind:

Time to Platinum: 30 Hours

Personal Difficulty Rating: 4/10

Personal Grind Rating: 8/10

 

Introduction:

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy - Reunion is a remaster of the hit PSP title Crisis Core that released in 2007. The game is a prequel that takes place 7 years before the original Final Fantasy 7 & tells the story of Zack, & his connection with Cloud & Sethiroth which leads up to the events of the original game. The game has a total of 10 Chapters (11 if you count the prologue) & is pretty short overall.

 

I have not played the original Crisis Core on PSP, so this was also my very first experience with Crisis Core.

 

Story/Characters:

The story & characters is truly where this game shines as it's fantastic. Following Zack's character development over the 7 years the game takes place is extremely well written, & really makes you feel for him as a character when everything starts to hit the fan. The game does a great job at showing a lot of the major characters backstories & as well as showing us what motivated them in the first place to become the characters we all know & love from the original Final Fantasy 7.

 

As for the story, it's very slow paced as the story doesn't really pick up until Chapter 8, but once it picks up it's just constant plot point after plot point, with very little breaks in-between. For some people this can feel overwhelming, but I absolute loved how the plot kept advancing when it got to that point. Chapter 1-7 is mostly building up the characters as well as the plot points that will unfold in Chapter 8 & beyond, but still have some interesting story points.

 

Gameplay:

Now this is where my praise stops. While the story/characters is absolutely fantastic, the gameplay is downright awful. The game is a perfect example of being hard carried by its story. The entire DMW (Digital Mind Wave) mechanic completely ruins the game. Having a slot machine dictate when your materia will level up, when/what limit breaks/summons you get to use, when you level up (even though you still need EXP), & what sort of bonuses you get such as no AP/MP consumption is just straight up a bad gameplay mechanic. No one liked playing Cait Sith in the original Final Fantasy 7, so why on gods green earth did they decide to make an entire game based around that mechanic?

 

Besides the DMW being down right awful, the game is clunky, which can lead to a lot of deaths, especially since the game starts throwing massive damaging enemies at you pretty early on in the optional missions. Speaking of optional missions, there is absolutely 0 subsistence to them & are there simply to pad out the game since the campaign is pretty short overall. The only mission line that has any substance at all is Yuffie's missions, & even then it's just some dialogue at the start & end of a regular mission.

 

When it comes to balancing, I think the game does it extremely poorly as it practically railroads you into using specific accessories/materia. I'll list some examples below.

 

• The game gives you 4 accessory slots (you start with 2), which sounds nice on the surface if they didn't force you to use very specific accessories for pretty much the entire game since you NEED to use the HP Break, Damage Break, & Anti-Death accessories equipped. The reason you need the Anti-Death related accessories is because so many enemies in the game have attacks that will cast death on you & you'll encounter them very frequently, especially mid to late game. Even once you get late game, you'll have the Genji set + some of the other OP accessories which at that point there is literally no reason to ever equip anything else.
• Stat boosting materia like HP Up for example is absolutely useless in the game due to the fact you can use materia fusion to put 999% HP on literally any materia, so taking up any materia slots with stat boosting materia is actually just a waste of a materia slot, which really shouldn't be the case.
• When it comes to attacking materia, you'll find yourself gravitating towards the "meta" materia simply because they completely outclass everything else. Attacks like Darkness, Costly Punch, Aerial Drain, Gil Toss, High Jump, Quake, are just so much better than literally everything else. You'd think with how powerful these materia are they'd unlock later in the game, but you can get some of those before the mid point of the game & use them right up until the end easily.

Because of the reason listed above, there is very little room for experimenting with builds, which I personally think is a bad thing when it comes to JRPGs/RPGs in general since a lot of the fun in that aspect of games is finding a build that suits your gameplay style or what you have the most fun with, but when the game is railroading you into using specific things it takes the fun out of it.

 

Trophies:

The trophies suck are & extremely mind numbingly boring to complete. The 2 biggest culprits being Mission Completionist for clearing all 300 of the extremely boring & cookie cutter missions, as well as DMW Master for getting 100% for all DMWs. Completing all 300 missions is very straight forward to do, but is just extremely boring, but DMW Master takes the cake as the worst trophy in the game. In order to get 100% in all DMWs, you'll first need to collect every DMW first (which there are 18 in total, but you really only need to 100% 7 of them since all the summon DMWs will 100% after 1 use). To 100% a DMW, you need to collect all 6 unique videos that play when you roll that specific character in the DMW (except Genesis, who only has 2). This trophy sucks simply because it's 3 layers of RNG stack on top of each other. You first need to actually roll the character you want, then it needs to actually play a video, then it needs to be a video you haven't seen yet. This trophy alone makes or breaks pretty much everyone's platinum since it can take HOURS of just getting your ass beat in Mission 1-1-1 until you get the DMWs 100%. There is ways to increase it with DMW boosting materia & abusing Cissnei's Limit Break, but at the end of the day you're still at the mercy of luck, which I absolutely hate.

 

As for the rest of the trophies, they're extremely easy & you'll probably earn them while working towards Mission Completionist & DMW Master. You'll also need to beat the game on Hard for SOILDER of Legend, but you can set your difficulty to Hard right before fighting the final boss & it will unlock the trophy, saving you from a second playthrough or doing the entire game on Hard.

 

Overall Rating/Conclusion:

Overall, I feel like this game is carried solely by its amazing story/characters & without it, it'd be just a down right terrible game. What a surprise that I didn't like yet another title directed by Hajime Tabata, who has never directed a single Final Fantasy title that I like, & as a matter of fact he pretty much dominates my most hated Final Fantasy title list. If you're interested in the story of the game, for the love of god just watch a playthrough of the game or go watch all the cutscenes/dialogue instead of playing it.

 

4/10

(Without the story being there, it'd easily be a 2/10, however)

[ObsiEez]

Decided my next game is gonna be Eternights, & I'm working on a guide for it as well. I'm already cleared up to Act 3 & written the 100% Walkthrough guide up to that point as well, but took a break to work on the Persona 3 Reload guide a bit more (which should be finished within the next few days).

 

So far first impressions of being over halfway through the game now is that it's alright. Game is basically just a dating sim with other gameplay elements/story added for padding since they aren't exactly fleshed out very much.

Edited April 11 by ObsiEez

[ObsiEez]

Platinum #370: Stellar Blade

 

Time/Difficulty/Grind:

Time to Platinum: 50 Hours

Personal Difficulty Rating: 5/10

Personal Grind Rating: 6/10

 

Introduction:

Stellar Blade follows EVE, a member from the colony sent on a mission to earth to liberate it from the threat of Naytiba's with her trusty boo- sorry, I mean blade. Taking inspiration from games like Nier, Bayonetta, and even Sekiro, Stellar Blade tries to stand shoulder to shoulder with some of the juggernauts of the genre.

 

Story/Characters:

The story is surprising good, but starts out pretty slow. I don't want to get too much into detail, but it's very well crafted and paced. There are a lot of twists and turns, and some really great moments overall.

 

As for the characters, they're extremely well written, very likeable, and what everyone is saying in their head right now, very attractive. The character designs are really good & you even have quite a lot of customization options, with ear/eye accessories, customizing your hair a bit when you finish a specific quest, & loads of different Nano Suits to equip that are all purely cosmetic (minus the Skin suit, which removes you shield when it's equipped). My only real complaint with the characters is the VA for both EVE and Lily. Having a heavy British accent on 2 very Korean looking girls is just super uncanny for me. It just doesn't fit. Adam's VA isn't too bad since while he doesn't really sound Korean, he doesn't really have a heavy accent like EVE & Lily's VA's do. This is just a small nit pick however.

 

Gameplay:

The gameplay is where the game truly shines. Taking inspiration from games Nier, Bayonetta, and even Sekiro with its parry/deflection mechanics. It does an extremely good job of blending these ideas together and coming out with a very cohesive game that flows really well. All the bosses in both design and in their attack patterns are unique, so you never feel like you're fighting a rehashed boss fight, except for the optional boss fights which are all rehashed with the exception of 1. Combat feels very responsive and flows really well into different combos and abilities, letting you get some wicked combos in on your enemies.

 

My only complaint with the gameplay overall is that it's gank central when it comes to regular enemies when you get further into the game. You can very easily get stun locked and die because you got attacked by 4 different enemies all at once. This can some times feel very unfair and just down right bullshit, especially when it's a forced gank section with enemies that just don't stop attacking, basically forcing you to use specific attacks in order to deal with them quickly.

 

Overall Rating/Conclusion:

Overall the game is absolutely fantastic and does a great job at mixing all these different ideas together. For a studio that has only made a single mobile game before this and to come out release a massive quality product with absolutely 0 bugs and does a better job at releasing a AAA quality game than the big AAA studios is extremely sad. Shift Up has done an absolutely fantastic job and I look forward to seeing what else they do in the future!

 

9/10

[Mr_Wright95]

Oh no way! I just read your review on the PlayStation Trophy Hunters page over on FB haha! (Unless this is the weirdest coincidence ever) Never realized that was you.

 

Anyways congrats on the amazing write up and I am looking forward to the guide! 

[ObsiEez]

1 minute ago, Mr_Wright95 said:

Oh no way! I just read your review on the PlayStation Trophy Hunters page over on FB haha! (Unless this is the weirdest coincidence ever) Never realized that was you.

 

Anyways congrats on the amazing write up and I am looking forward to the guide! 

Yeah that's me! Thanks though man! Guide is already up on PowerPyx. Man that one was a hassle to write since there was soooo many collectibles & I did the vast majority of guides for this one as a sort of "stress test" type deal I guess. Glad I absolutely demolished expectations though!

[ObsiEez]

Both Persona 3 Reload & Persona 3 Reloads 100% Ultimate Walkthrough have now been submitted for review! So should hopefully be live within the next week or 2. Guide took a lot longer than expected between myself being busy with a lot of PowerPyx stuff, and the writers, even including myself, just being busy with life stuff that kept coming up while we were working on it.

 

Happy to finally be done with that!