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[percy547389126yv]

#1,319 PS4 version of The Bear B

[FarSideOfSaturn]

#49

 

Road 96

 

 

 - Discover Petria's fate

 

Not gonna lie, I only bought this because while I don't normally care about milestones, I want to make Elden Ring my 50th and I'm absolutely dying to do it ASAP so I wanted something that wouldn't take long.

 

 Then I fell in love with this game hahaha. I've developed a habit of buying these indie/smaller games in between longer endeavours and end up loving them. Games like The Talos Principle, The Last Campfire, Inside, SOMA, I can add this to the accidental happy discovery list. The premise of the game being you play as multiple characters, all teenagers trying to escape the fictional state of Petria whose leader is a bit of a dick, leaving them with no future. Along the way you meet NPC's who all have their own questlines which you can affect through your dialogue choices and actions in game, much like any Tellgame game. 

 

It is possible to fail in getting your character across the boarder, via getting arrested or murdered for example. Though I failed to cross the boarder with only one character because I decided to sacrifice myself to save someone else. The graphics aren't the best, but it makes up for that with it's art style, somehow it's just charming to look at. Meanwhile the OST is, and I'm absolutely not exaggerating, fucking incredible. It's already found it's way onto my spotify playlist, totally fell in love with it. 

 

If you're into the Telltale series of games, or stuff like Life is Strange, 100% you gotta check this out too. As always I didn't look at a walkthrough for my first playthrough but platinumed it first try regardless, just check everywhere for the collectibles and exhaust dialogue/interaction with the environment options and you should be good.  

 

I'll return in the coming days with Elden Ring lol.

 

Enjoyment: 9/10

Special category, OST enjoyment: 100/10

Difficulty: 1/10

Time to platinum: 8 hours (with breaks)

Edited July 7, 2022 by FarSideOfSaturn

[aarnettbraun]

Life Is Strange: Before The Storm: Remastered

 

 Bring on the Storm

Complete all other trophies

 

Difficulty: 2/10

Time: 6+ Hours

 

Screenshot When Earned:

 

Edited February 25, 2023 by notandrebraun

[Redgrave]

#248: Earn Them All! - Assassin's Creed: Origins

 

I had thought about getting this for a while since I heard it was good and was a new take on the usual formula for the series since they took more than a year to make it. It's kind of a mixed bag but I think I'm more positive on it. I think the thing that felt different right away was that unlike the other games and most other games in general it felt like the intro just goes a bit too quick and you aren't introduced to the mechanics and the characters at a slow pace. It just felt really sudden and once you get past the initial tutorial area it felt like the game just goes "Alright here's your open world" before you're properly introduced to everyone and everything. Maybe I'm just making a big deal out of nothing but I guess I just prefer the intro to these games to where you are given a slow burn kind of introduction.

 

But the thing that I think carried the game was the main character and seeing how the Assassin order started. The ending and the song that plays at the end was cool and I liked the reveal on how the Assassin logo started. But I also just liked Bayek in general since he felt more likeable than ones like Connor and the quests where he would interact with children were kind of nice to see since it was kind of funny seeing him humor and play along with them even though he's out on his own quest for revenge.

 

The gameplay is obviously different from the others where it's like an RPG. I didn't particularly mind it but it did feel a bit repetitive after a while. On top of that it has the Far Cry-like system where there are outposts and stuff but you don't take them over and instead you just kill and loot certain things only for them to have the enemies brought back later. It kind of made going after them feel redundant and pointless but I guess in a way it helps for the trophies where you need to farm or do certain tasks. It also felt like they took some of the criticisms regarding some other mechanics like the ship fighting since while there are ship battles they are far and few between and the mechanics feel more simplistic. There are also only a few modern day segments as well and truth be told I'm not sure if I missed out on something since I feel like you're supposed to know who the character you play as in those segments are but at the same time I feel like it's another thing that was introduced without properly introducing it. I assume it's the new Desmond/whoever you played as since Black Flag but I don't know if they show up again in Odyssey and Valhalla.

 

Since I got the 100% I feel I should also mention that I thought the DLC was alright. I think I liked Curse of the Pharaoh's one because of how strange it was since as far as I know it's not really explained as to what you were seeing in the tombs for the afterlives since the series likes to explain away supernatural stuff with that precursor race tech and for that DLC it didn't really do that.

 

So yeah it's a pretty different Assassin's Creed game but I think I mostly like what they did. I don't know if I will play Odyssey let alone Valhalla but if I do I hope that that mechanics are more refined and the characters and mechanics are introduced in a slower way.

[Golem25]

Platinum #127 - The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

 

 

 Total Shocker! - Collect all Trophies

49,741 Owners - 3,999 Achievers for a percentage of 8.04% (average completion; 27.06%)

 

 

Enjoyment; 6/10

Difficulty; 2/10

Trophies; 5/10 (frustrating collectathon thanks to the nature of the game)

Spooky skeletons scare me; 10/10

 

Sony really knows how to toy with your heartstrings. A second month in a row where I'm actually quite happy to play one of the monthly PS Plus Essential games, only to then find out it's double-dipping into the PS Plus Extra category, which I'm paying extra money for. Could have just as well played it even if it wasn't a monthly game. Why am I paying (at a discounted rate tho lol) for this service again?

 

Anyway, Man of Medan. Part one of The Dark Pictures, an anthology series of super duper spooky horror-themed walking simulators by developers Supermassive Games, who we know from smash hits such as Until Dawn and.... well, that was their big game really. Until Dawn seemingly did so well for them that they've decided to essentially cut-and-paste that game's mechanics and design philosophies into this new series, which will supposedly have eight parts to it. Eight functionally identical games, wew lad, bit much innit? Although I'm not one to talk; my favourite series is Yakuza!

 

 

See these five young adults? They're alive now, but they won't be if you make the wrong choice and miss a few crucials QTE's throughout the game's three-and-a-half or so hour runtime. For that entire duration Man of Medan is an extremely linear walking simulator that funnels you down narrow hallways, broken up with the odd side-room housing a collectible every once in a while. Most of your inputs that don't involve walking around at a painfully slow pace involve deciding what to say in certain scenarios; characters can reply with one of two canned response or complete silence, and the option chosen by the player determines how the relationships between the characters develop, and, in a select few cases, which branch of the story you're sent into.

 

Ultimately though, these are by and large meaningless. At one point in the game you can choose to either distract a guard or block a door. If you choose the former, you escape provided you then hide your escape route. If you choose the latter, you get captured. However, whichever happens, you will be accosted by a guard just two scenes later regardless. It's unrealistic to have CYOA (Choose-Your-Own-Adventure) games like this to have massive budgets and endless sprawling paths, but it's disappointing to note just how striking the lack of alternative routes is. You can see pretty much everything there is to see save for a handful of short scenes in just a single playthrough, and while you can cover even more in two playthroughs, you likely won't enjoy that second run through the game.

 

(Whichever option you pick here - run or jump - you only get a slightly different scene with the same outcome for each choice)

 

For you see, not only is the walking speed slow and the environment extremely linear, but there is no way of speeding things up on subsequent playthroughs to get to the parts you've missed. Chapter select is available, but if you replay chapter 2 you will be bound to the choices you made in chapter 1. Suffered an early death, or did someone get caught before they should have been? Oopsie, enjoy replaying everything to earn a slightly different scene in chapter 12! Oh, and be sure to re-watch all the cutscenes (basically more than half of the playthrough), because you cannot skip cutscenes. Ever.

 

I get it, I get it. If you let players walk quicker and skip dialogue-only scenes, you can fly through Man of Medan in an hour if not less than that. But the alternative is leaving them frustrated at having to slowly do everything again. That's fine if you replay the game once a year or so (Halloween, anyone?), but for the niche audience of Trophy hunters this is a nightmare. You need at least three full playthroughs plus plenty of save-scumming and replaying certain sections, and I had one Trophy glitch on me meaning that I had to do a fourth run, and even then I had to re-play even more because some character relationships precluded certain events from happening. That's no fun when you try and rush through Man of Medan over the span of just a few days. Some of the more memorable/cheesier lines I can now recite by heart, because I had to listen to them again.... and again.... and again....

 

(The dialogue choice above also doesn't really matter, and it can actually be the last interaction between these two characters even though it's barely a quarter of the way through the game)

 

But that's my fault. I'm not here to munch popcorn with friends, or to actually enjoy a horror experience (which there isn't really, this game consists of cheap jump scares and mindless monster spamming), or to engage with the game in a way the developers intended me to. I'm here to pay attention to the story once and then to unlock the Plat. And Man of Medan, from its design to the requirements for its Trophies, just does not let you do that in an intuitive way. As such, I'd actually recommend you play this game just once on a dummy account, irrespective of how many Trophies you unlock. Because the very moment you finish that first playthrough, you need another two if not more, and if by then you didn't already feel like the game wasted your time with the glacial pace it forces you into, you would start to feel its full effects very soon. And that's nothing I will blame the devs for, as it simply comes with the territory of going for Plat after Plat. It's just something to keep in mind if you're thinking about going for the Platinum yourself.

 

But for a single playthrough on a throwaway account, yeah, for sure, fire up Man of Medan and enjoy the pretty decent graphics, the Pacific Ocean setting of the first few chapters, and a handful of meme-y lines.

Edited July 7, 2022 by Golem25

[percy547389126yv]

#1,320 PS5 version of The Bear B

[TomataEighty9]

FIFA 21 (PS5)

 

 

The Great Achiever
Unlock all other trophies (excluding additional content trophies)

 

Aaand, done with FIFA 21 for the second time  

 

My 6th FIFA platinum now (19,20,21x2,22x2). Bring on 23 EA  

[Valzentia]

 #60 - Rocket League

Difficulty: 2/10

Fun: 9/10

 

Figured i'd get this out of the way before Epic potentially fucks it all up. Great game for now...hopefully they keep it that way.

[KenjiCBZ]

 

 

#78: Indigo Prophecy

Indigo Prophecy Master (11.46% - Rare)

Unlock all trophies (the use of cheats will disable all trophies).

 

Also known as Fahrenheit, this is an early title from Quantic Dream, originally released for the Ps2 five years before Heavy Rain.

 

I have a love/hate relationship with this game: I am a big fan of story driven games, and I enjoyed the plot of Fahrenheit, even through I did not appreciate the late chapters, I found them being rushed and somehow forced. Also, controls are very clunky and unresponsive, and the graphics feel very outdated, even for a 2005 game. And in the end, I didn't like how the Hard difficulty was a complete joke: it made the game harder in a way that you a very very slim time to perform the QTEs, which was not the usual time displayed on the screen. I spent around 10 hours playing a certain section where I had learned all of the QTEs, but the game was stupid and failed to register my inputs so I had to retry everytime. Very frustrating.

 

But since I liked most of the plot, that's enough to say that overall I enjoyed my time while playing the game. ??

[Zuggha]

 

 

YAKUZA LIKE A DRAGON

 

 

 

The New Dragon
Obtained all trophies.

 

[Valzentia]

 #61 - Megamind

Difficulty: 1/10

Fun: 7/10

 

The OG EZPZ platinum. Unlike the many EZPZs out there for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation Vita, this game is actually pretty decent, if short. I had fun with it.

Edited July 8, 2022 by Valzentia

[JadedDragos]

#133

Wolfenstein: The New Order

[whodeygamer]

#31: inFamous: First Light

 

 

 

2nd platinum I’ve gotten with my 1 month subscription for ps plus extra. This will probably be the last plat I get for awhile unless Sony gets their act together with the premium tier or if I can finally get my hands on a PS5.

 

Edited July 8, 2022 by whodeygamer

[HumorUsHumerus]

On 7/6/2022 at 1:18 PM, Charizarzar said:

#163 Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (PS3)

 

Julius Ceasar

 

Enjoyment: 6/10

Difficulty: 6/10

 

I finally finished this off after 9 years, after a few days of stressful boosting and thinking I'd never get it done. The single player is enjoyable enough, but I gave up on the online a few years back thanks to unreliable servers that almost give Far Cry 2 a run for its money, and the Abstergo Employee of the Month trophy, one aspect of which involves getting 15 bonuses in a single match. This sounds straightforward enough - at least while boosting (I can't imagine how anyone could have got it legitimately, even when the online was active) - but it depends on how coordinated your team is and how prepared you are. With only a 10-minute timer, it can be stressful when you have so many people waiting on you for your turn. After a couple of failed attempts, I surprisingly managed to get it the following day in a half-hearted effort with my alt and just 2 other actual players. I thought the alt would slow things down as I'd need to switch screens to get it to help me set up the different kills I needed, but thankfully I only had to use it right at the end.

 

The hours upon hours of XP boosting sessions were at least made better by the name of one of the people in my boosting group, made me laugh every time I saw it:

 

 

 

I finally got this plat too. Yeah the name I made when I was younger, glad it brought some goodness during that boring grind

[ZoKu08]

Mass Effect 3

 

#287

N7 Elite

ME3: Acquire all trophies.

 

46.05%

Uncommon

[percy547389126yv]

#1,321 PS4 version of Canada Break

[insaneeeRob]

You've Only Done Everything

Astro's Playroom

This is game was so fun and it was pretty short too! This is also my first PS5 platinum!

[chaoticescape]

Plat #1:

Terminator salvation

Plat difficulty 3/10

enjoyment 9/10

Time to plat 5 hours

Decided to return to a very old account  but anyways. The plat is pretty straight forward just play on hard that's it  

[Moridin83]

 # 221 Psychonauts

 

Hoo boy, this was a rough one. I never played Psychonauts at launch but I knew of it's status as a cult classic, and a friend suggested I give it a shot. I sorta wish I hadn't. I'll start with the good: The humor is out there, and darkly funny in spots. Diving into people's subconscious being physically represented is an interesting concept. Aaand that's it? This is a PS2 on PS4 game, so there's no major graphical upgrade. You get what you got back then, but higher resolution TVs make all the flaws more noticeable. There is some input lag that may be unique to this version. There's definitely lag, but I've seen suggestions it was not in other releases. But the biggest problem is the collectibles. I'm not averse to collectible heavy games, I have several on my profile, but the figments may be the single worst collectible I have ever seen. They're semi-transparent, visible from only certain angles, and some of them may literally not be there depending on when you pass a certain spot. While you will get a significant amount just by playing, trying to collect all of them without a guide would be an exercise in utter frustration. To add insult to injury, my audio glitched out during the ending of the game, so I didn't even really get the catharsis of finishing it properly, and I can't care enough to check it out online. Would not recommend.

[Biertje373]

Platinum #58

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

 Top of the Heap
You have mastered the game and collected all there is to collect!

 

Dificulty: 3/10

Fun: 8/10

Sadly there's no time saved, not even on my account.

 

I've said these words before, but I'll say them again; I'll love platformers, they're one of my favourite genres. Sadly I don't play too many of them. But thanks to the new PS+ system, I got all 3 Jak games, and I didn't expect much from the game, but I am glad that I was wrong, this game is great. Jak and Daxter are a fantastic duo, most of the levels are great and the story is pretty alright, but I don't play a platformer for the story.

 

So with that little intro out of the way, let's start with the positives:

+ Jak and Daxter themself, they really are the big thing that makes the game great.

+ While there were a lot of collectibles, it never felt overwhelming.

+ The bosses were pretty good, really enjoyed them.

+ The music was nice and really fit the game.

+ Most of the levels were really solid.

+ Once I understood the platforming the game was great.

+ The humour was pretty good.

 

A few flaws, but nothing is perfect:

- Sometimes certain commands didn't register like the double jump (and it's always when it counted).

- Some of the moves they did not explain.

- I really hated the snow level.

- Also can't say that I loved the fishing minigame.

 

But honestly, this game was good, and it's been a game that really helped me distract from some negativity.

And of course I have a platinum screenshot to share, I really like this one:

[Golem25]

Platinum #128 - Syphon Filter [PS5]

 

 

  Excellent work, Agent! - Unlock all other Syphon Filter trophies.

2,983 Owners - 622 Achievers for a percentage of 21.17% (average completion; 24.85%)

 

 

Enjoyment; 7/10

Difficulty; 2/10

Trophies; 6/10 (Nice tiles, generic and straightforward requirements with no frustration)

But what is the Syphon Filter, actually?; 10/10

 

When the news of PS Plus' new tiers broke, Sony had left year-long subscriptions for Now online on my local Playstation Store. Knowing that the cheap-ish Now sub would be turned into the most expensive new tier, Premium, I stacked a couple of years and, lo and behold, I get to reap the benefits immediately by having access to this game, available only to those PS Plus subscribers that spent the money to get into that highest tier.

 

 

So, Syphon Filter. The name is famous enough and through pure cultural osmosis I knew it was a third person spy-themed action game, but I had never actually paid it much attention. It was one of Sony's flagship franchises on the PS1, but died off following a couple of outings on the PSP. All developed by Bend Studio, who would go on to bring us Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Days Gone.

 

Being a game from 1999, Syphon Filter (which has a PS4 and a PS5 stack, although I only played the latter) can be quite archaic. You have to go into the menu to swap weapons and tools out - boggles my mind after so many years of enjoying more modern games - and the map is entirely unhelpful. Controls are incredibly heavy, and the game very much looks like a PS1-era game. But then the graphics are hardly an issue at all - they are the quintessential original Playstation look, and actually quite endearing. Sure, textures are all very rough and flat, but character models are impressive enough, and the rest of the presentation - the cutscenes and voice acting particularly - is so hammed up that it's pretty hilarious. As such, even though this was a trip to the distant past (23 years!), it was hardly an unpleasant voyage.

 

 

The only real niggle I have with the game - besides the swapping-weapons-through-the-menu thing - is the fact that level design and objectives can be a little frustrating at times. Most notably the Stronghold level, where you need to hunt down numerous NPCs without so much of a hint of where they are, but ultimately it's nothing that will make you rage-quit. If anything, this is a very easy Plat thanks to the modern upgrades Sony has added to its PS1 re-releases. Save states allow you to re-try every time you die, and the game's original cheats don't actually disable Trophies. As such, enjoy the one-shot-kills you can make use of throughout Syphon Filter's runtime, which will take you perhaps three to four hours, perhaps a little more, depending on how well you can navigate some of its archaic eccentricities.

[Trancexistence]

 #8 - Sound Shapes (+ All DLC'S 100%)

 

 

I finally mamaged to navigate my way through the hell that is the Death Mode levels. Had an easier time with some of them than I did with others. Some I was able to do in about 5 or 10 minutes. Others took me a good hour or two. The only thing I disliked was the 30/70 skill/luck ratio required to complete some of the harder ones with success often dependent on how lucky I was with the note arrangements which are randomised every time the levels are retried.

 

Very happy I saved the Beat School levels until after I finished the Death ones. Blasting through those at the end made for a nice way to unwind knowing that the hardest part was done.

 

Enjoyment: 7/10

Difficulty: 6/10

[Brainswashed]

TheEvilWithin2

Difficult: 8/10 but now 2/10

Fun: 10/10

Time: total ( 1 day & 10 hr )

 

one of my favorite horror game but it became very easy after last patch released from Bethesda they will add 3 different mode when you open game first time and sing in account or sing up you will have ( unlimited health - unlimited stamina - 1 hit kill for all enemy and boss expect the last boss but still easy with no die when i play the game first time i am suffering to get plat but now anyone can obtain it

 

My Guide to get platinum fast

first you play on nightmare or survival for first playthrough and do collectibles from ch1 to ch3 then stop . Now best way to not missable anything clean the chapter 3 without going to main mission start left it until you doing ( sniper - shotgun - crossbolt & collectibles and afew trophy in this chapter then clean the enemies for get trophy killing from 30 to 60 you will have alot thing in this ch after you see everything alright continues and per ch check what you want like part or mission side story or weapon and there is afew missable trophy ch5 and 9 , 11 , 14 

like kill lura first time run & second time kill her you just need do backup before doing anything after you beat the game with killing you will have enough to upgrade some or weapon or anything you want then back again play on classic its easy with last patch make you playing without seen to beat the game lol , thats all happy hunting 

Edited July 8, 2022 by Brainswashed

[StraightVege]

Head Master

 

  #294

 

How refreshing; this must be the most unique Metroidvania I've yet to play. After all, it doesn't even have a jump button!

 

Instead, the gameplay's novel twist has you detaching the mysterious protagonist's head and piloting it through the air, sort of like those jars in Futurama, to forcibly seize control of other robot bodies. Enemy soldiers are ranked by various colors, with each having the necessary security clearance to unlock their corresponding doors, so you'll need to locate and commandeer the correct body to make progress. Simply knock their block off—literally—then plug yours on, which is effortless with the great controls.

 

These flamboyant bad guys come equipped with a number of different laser guns, which are not only useful for blasting enemies, but are also utilized to solve intuitive puzzles. See that distant, unreachable green door? Fire a green laser at it to pop it open, then quickly launch your disembodied noggin right through! Our brave cranium is no slouch, either, possessing plenty of valuable movement and combat abilities itself, such as a shield to reflect lasers, and a boost that can be used offensively to ram foes. I always looked forward to earning the next upgrade, and diligently searched out hidden energy caches to pay for them, because they all felt worthwhile.

 

A few minor flaws did bug me, so I'll cover them briefly. First, the cover points you can hide behind are basically a worthless afterthought, and I pretty much never bothered doing it. Room transition thresholds are also slightly too large, making it very easy to accidentally exit rooms in the heat of combat. Finally, the elevators move painfully sluggishly, and since there's a lot of waiting around for lifts to arrive, it slows the otherwise blistering pace of this delightful game to a crawl. Headlander feels so good to play that you just want to get back into the action, you know?

 

What a brilliant little gem of a game, though. It's got interesting mechanics, smooth controls, a charming retrofuturistic style, understated humor that rarely annoys you, and the story ain't half bad to boot. I'm sure I could go on, but what I'm saying is, I can't recommend Headlander enough. Possibly the best game I've played this year thus far.

 

 

[MonaSaxPayne]

 

 #378

Last Stop

 

funny thing about trophies. based on time stamps, I can pretty much check through any game on my list, and I'll remember a time or event that transpired in my life while I was playing a particular game or earning a particular trophy

 

this is a really nice game, that I never heard of. saw it as an available game in the PS Premium catalogue and decided to play it. just because of the name. why was the name significant? because my dad just died. and I'm having a really hard time dealing with it. and in my own stupid way I wanted to play it to memorialize him, on my trophy list, at this specific point in time. because its his last stop. in my life 

 

RIP Papi. I miss you. I love you ❤️