Most Recent Platinum

[MarcusPunisher]

Platinum # 178 - Deus Ex Mankind Divided 

2.38% - Ultra Rare

 

Here is a game I thought I wouldn't platinum. I replayed the old Deus Ex and played Human Revolution for the first time over the course of this Summer to then lead to Mankind Divided. Skipped Invisible War, cause it was really hard to have it run on modern system. The first is still an absolute classic, Human Revolution is a nice follow up that suffers issues in the third act and little bit of jank controls. That leaves Mankind Divided and wow, I don't remember being this torn on a game that I love and hate at the same time.

 

The main MVP of this game is the hub world of Prague. It is not small, but not big at the same time, which actually works towards its benefit as the team at Eidos do a fantastic job of creating environmental storytelling. It is a lot of fun to explore this city and apartments to find little things that can relate to the overarching story. This is what I have been preaching for the longest time and it is the reason why these oversized open world games from Ubisoft and so on make me sick, as they often skip on the interesting environmental storytelling and instead cram the world with useless exploration. It weirdly felt like a breath of a fresh air and more of these types of games would be beneficial. I can't think of a moment where my curiosity was punished or when exploring the map was completely pointless, which is then further helped by the gameplay. The arsenal of augments and tool that help you navigate around the world are so much fun to use. Of course, there are plenty of vents to sneak around just like in Human Revolution, which can make sneaking around very easy, but it never feels like it is a cheap go around. I do appreciate the design of this futuristic Prague in 2029, but I do have a major gripe with something. As someone, who has grown up in Prague and speaks the language, I can very easily pick up on certain lines and the way the sentences are structured or spelled. If I designed a drinking around this, I would have to go through at least 10 bottles of whisky. I could tell on many occasions that certain lines were translated via Google translator (I actually tried that), resulting in some serious mumbo jumbo of sentences and even first grade grammatic errors, which does come off as lazy. I know that not everyone is gonna notice these mistakes, unless they speak the language, but it does break my immersion when playing this game. I also found it funny that suppose "Czech people" often have Russian and Bulgarian accents in these games, which can't be further from the truth. 

 

So the story part. Not much here unfortunately, as it all feels like a first act of something big, which was a dumb move on Square Enix's part, but they like money. It also doesn't help that the side characters who accompany the player feel like a massive downgrade from the previous game and range from either useless or boring. Some characters like Alex really needed to be fleshed out or given some quests to make them at least useful in something. It's weird, cause the side quests in this game feel much more interesting than the main story and they do flesh out some of the important parts of the overall worldbuilding in Deus Ex. Some of my favorites were collecting memory for Elena or solving a murder mystery that then continued in other quests with its own twist. These quests give you a great variety of options and ways to tackle them. Some can be played out entirely different even missing one single element that could give you some type of advantage. That kind of variety only comes two times in the main story. One feels very artificial and the second is the one where more routes can be explored, resulting in more varieties that feel earned. Because of the nature of this feeling like act 1, the game needs to stretch the length into a narrative that often has no point or is bugged by contrivance issues. It is most likely as a result of Square forcing to split this game in half, but this is the final product we got.

 

If you want to platinum this trophy - it's not that hard honestly, but you need to follow a guide to the T and make sure you collect the mandatory Ebooks along the way if you want to shorten your number of playthroughs. There are fair share of missables, especially in the side missions. Other parts will require you to make a save in order to complete a trophy, mostly killing somebody and reload back if you want to maintain your pacifist run. Probably the craziest one was to carry a golden penguin statue of all things from the beginning of a mission all the way before the end. I still don't know why golden penguin. In any case, follow the psn walkthrough, which helped me a lot personally, and you should have no issues

 

If you plan to 100% this - then get ready for some agony that is called The Breach. There are few that are included in the platinum section, but they are relatively manageable, but the added stuff is what makes this mode a living hell. What should have been an easy and fun time is turned into a chore, time wasting, microtransaction grabbing dog shit. If you are attempting all of the legitimately, then may all the Gaming Gods be with you, and I will pray for your salvation. If you however get this over quickly, do use the still functional glitch that will give you infinite energy. I did that in my last section and I actually had some sort of fun with that. You should not be ashamed for doing that, cause the glitch is not only useful, but necceseary to remain your sanity and precious time, since the developers who worked on this do not actually respect yours and don't wnat you to have fun. This is strictly designed to cash as much money from you as they can, given the level design that make some of these levels straight up impossible. You will be thanking the lord for the other DLC sections, cause those contain some actual strong stories and fun level design, especially Criminal Past, which takes place entirely in prison complex. 

 

I think I said all I could. Love and hate this game, I appreciate the challenging journey and Breach can go back to the pits of hell one day when those servers will be shut off, but not too soon so others can still complete the 100%. I will be amazed if we ever see some conclusion to this series, but miracles can still happen in gaming industry and from fans of the series, they definitely asked for this.

[JungleCat20]

 Milestone Platinum #1,250 

 

 

 

No problemo

 

I rented this game (PS4 Disc Version) and really liked it. I downloaded the free enhanced version on PS5 but will probably wait until the DLC for it goes on sale to play it. An overall fun game. ?

[Alantor32]

#51: Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

Enjoyment: 10/10

Difficulty: 7.5/ 10 

[BlitzkriegHottie]

Swingin' in the living room, swingin' in the kitchen Most folks don't 'cause they're too busy bitchin'...

Red Scare

Be Yourself

Rarity: 43.42%

 

Swinging is as fun as in the first game (or maybe even better), the visuals and animations are phenomenal, the unlockable suits are great and often amazing (spider-cat anyone?) and the stealth system / combat is one of the best I've seen but all the issues I had with OG are back and Miles Morales adds a bunch more.

 

This is by no means a bad game but this should have been a 10$, two hours long DLC instead. There clearly isn't enough material for the 6 (more or less) hours long main story so there's an obscene amount of repetition: Half the missions are just introductions to collectibles and adding insult to injury, the game forces the player to engage in the repetitive hell that is the side content in between missions in a desperate attempt to bloat the running time, a la Ubisoft, but for some reason Insomniac can get away with it apparently.

Also, oh my God, Miles' voice gets super annoying really quick, just watching clips of 'Into The Spiderverse' makes me like that voice actor a lot better and that's supossed to be an even younger version of Miles, how comes?

 

Platinum wise this is like the easiest thing ever: All collectiles show on map, no difficulty related trophies, no missables, etc. The only thing that keeps this from being a Telltale level platinum is the fact that you have to beat it twice. 

 

Game Rating: 6/10

Platinum Difficulty: 1/10

Time to platinum: 15h

 

Hopefully Spider-Man 2 will iron all the wrinkles and deliver the ultimate Spider-Man eperience.

 

[Biscoito18]

 #134 - Stray

All Done

Platinum in 4 days, 21 hours

Rarity: 30.81% (Uncommon)

Difficulty: 3/10

Enjoyment: 8/10

 

 #135 - FAR CRY 3: Classic Edition

Mastered the Jungle

Platinum in 1 week, 3 days

Rarity: 39.73% (Uncommon)

Difficulty: 3/10

Enjoyment: 6/10

 

 #136 - Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure

Ice came, Ice saw, Ice conquered

Platinum in 1 day, 23 hours

Rarity: 39.63% (Uncommon)

Difficulty: 2.5/10

Enjoyment: 5/10

[JadedDragos]

#134

Stray

[Jermster_91]

 #110 ICE AGE: SCRAT'S NUTTY ADVENTURE

 

This is my 8th Platinum in less than two months because of PS+ Extra. This is essentially a kids/family game based on the Ice Age movies. The plot is of essentially collecting four purple looking acorns across maps that are based on the Ice Age movies. The gameplay is simple, platforming takes up most of the gameplay. A majority of your time will be doing collectables across two playthroughs. The game is easy, however has the occasional bugs, the main one for me being following through the map. If you are however looking for something easy and able to do in less than 10 hours or so, give this game a try.

[percy547389126yv]

#1,395 Spartan Fist

[DesmaBR]

Plat #183

 

 

void tRrLM();++
Obtained all trophies.

 

So here's a game I've always wanted to play.

I consider ZHP to be one of my favorite games ever, and I'm one of the few with the Guided Fate Paradox plat.

I really liked Nippon Ichi's Mystery Dungeon games, so I wanted to try this one out.

...

But it did look way more simpler than those games. Like, you don't even increase your base stats when you die in this.

It felt more like a regular Mystery Dungeon game than a NIS one.

 

But I saw this on sale the other day, and I decided to pick this up.

It was a bit more than what I wanted to pay for, but the PS4 ver was also on sale at half the price, so tbf I could've picked that instead.

 

But the PS5 ver is nice. It doesn't really do anything different than the ps4 ver, but the load times are really fast in this.

With the activity card, every time I died I could exit the game before the autosave kicked in then come back really fast by using the card.

 

As far as a mystery dungeon game goes, it's pretty neat.

The maps just look the same, with different colors, which is a bit disappointing.

But at least there's good enough enemy variety, to keep you on your toes.

 

The whole stuff with the human girl feels a bit pointless.

It's really easy to take care of her, and you have to actually put effort to fail.

Which is a bit of a shame, because seeing the different diseases she can get was pretty fun.

[JadedDragos]

#135

Maneater

[percy547389126yv]

#1,396 PS5 version of The Jumping Nuggets: TURBO

[Doctor Completion]

This is my third platinum.

 

 

I'm currently in a backlog challenge. I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish the other two platinums planned by the end of the contest, but I will get them done either way. The next titles are Dragon's Crown Pro and Odin Sphere Leifthrasir.
 

[Viper]

 #283

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands (PS5)

Bunker Mastered

 

Got a little worried about this one. Hit a road block at Chaos Trial 17 because of the boss fight, but I managed to get through it after respeccing a little bit. 

 

Always been a huge Borderlands fan, Borderlands 2 will likely forever remain my favorite FPS of all time. But after being disappointed with Borderlands 3, I was worried this game was going to go down the same road of Gearbox not being able to capture their former glory. And while I still don't think this game comes anywhere close to topping Borderlands 2 (or TPS for that matter), nor is it better than the Tiny Tina's assault on Dragon Keep DLC. I think it was at least an improvement over BL3. 

 

I really like that we can finally create our own characters and there's quite a nice selection of things to customize them with and you unlock more of as loot drops as you play (and aren't nearly as scarce as previous games). Also one of my big gripes about BL3 is that it was so insanely focused on you having a very specific build...if you didn't have one then endgame content is pretty much impossible...and that's just not how I like to play. I prefer to spec into what sounds cool and useful rather than worrying about what skill affects another and what gear I need to further affect my skills. While you CAN do that in this game, and it'll obviously help...you don't really have to, and I think that helped with my enjoyment here. 

 

Overall it was enjoyable. The Chaos Chamber can be a little tricky but it wasn't too bad. The DLC looks ass though...I'll get the Season Pass at some point in the future, but I'm not in a hurry for that one. 

Edited August 8, 2022 by Viper

[Brainswashed]

Nioh 2 

Difficult : 5/10 with DLC 7.5/10

Fun : 10/10 one of my favorite game

Time : 60 hr ( with coop friend )

[Lightsp33d1987]

 

[percy547389126yv]

#1,397 PS5 version of Xump Jump

#1,398 PS5 version of Snow Journey

[ResiGamer_28]

 :124 Maneater Ps4 and 100 percent completion

125 100percent completion Maneater PS5. One bit of advice. FUCK the Atomic Leviathan. Seriously that thing will make you want to eat Semtex. Theres a good video on Youtube by achievement hunter. Follow it, it works. Ignore the one from the kid who claims he beat it in 2 mins. Its impossible he cut sections out of his video.

[StraightVege]

Random Rules!

 

  #299

 

Hate to say it, but for the first time, a Zoink-developed title has disappointed me. Like everything in their charmingly offbeat library, Lost in Random was certainly more interesting for me than most of the unimaginative dreck this industry churns out, but as an overall game, it just wasn't particularly fun, and failed to reach its true potential.

 

The realm of Random is ruled by the powerful, dictatorial Queen, who decides the fate of its inhabitants with a mere roll of her diabolical die, while abducting numerous children for her own nefarious ends. Once, everyone had similar magical dice of their own, but the Queen outlawed this after taking over, and all hope seems lost. That is, until circumstance leads a young girl, Even, to happen across a sentient die of her own. She proceeds to run away from her destitute hometown, on a mission to rescue her kidnapped sister, Odd, and overthrow the heinous Queen.

 

By rolling her new partner, Dicey, Even can freeze time and conjure weapons or traps out of thin air. This is done by drawing randomly from a deck of 15 battle cards you select in the inventory menu, which each have different effects. However, you'll first need to shoot crystals off the robotic baddies with Even's slingshot, to gather enough energy for the roll. This repetitive song and dance quickly becomes tedious, so I recommend turning the combat difficulty down in the settings, something I unfortunately didn't realize was an option until halfway through the game. There was great potential here for a deep combat system, with strategic card combinations, but it mostly boils down to summoning hammers and explosive bows, to gradually dismantle your enemies with. I usually found myself wanting to just get these dull encounters over with. Certain fights take place in board game arenas, where it's necessary to advance a giant playing piece to the goal, but these only rarely make a noticeable difference to the gameplay formula.

 

When you're not sending murderous machines to the junk heap, you're exploring the bizarre world of Random across six unique towns, helping their oddball denizens solve various problems to progress. The novel themes of each area can be pretty entertaining—like investigating the murdered father of three eccentric, warring siblings in Threedom, who employ colossal mechs to fight in their stead—but boy, does this game love to seize control seemingly every few steps, for a cutscene or dialogue exchange. When am I allowed to actually play? Even also controls poorly when sprinting, and the camera isn't the best, so it's not exactly that enjoyable to traverse anyway. The final couple of worlds felt rather rushed, too, and the conclusion was a bit of a letdown, since it seemed like they were building up to reveal something bigger.

 

While there are elements about Lost I adored, such as the Tim Burton inspired art style, the peculiar characters, the occasional amusing gag (although I oftentimes wished the narrator would SHUT UP already), and the way it unabashedly questions the status quo systems of power we're born into, its individual aspects didn't coalesce into a terribly compelling video game. Now that the foundations are established, though, perhaps a sequel would amount to far more? I'm always willing to give Zoink another chance; those folks have creativity in spades, that much is undeniable. Let me present the very exciting screenshot:

 

 

[ZoKu08]

SpongeBob SquarePants

 

#291

Neptune's Spatula

Get all the other trophies for this game.

 

34.37%

Uncommon

Edited August 25, 2022 by ZoKu08

[ResiGamer_28]

14 hours ago, JadedDragos said:

#135

Maneater

Now do the dlc and seriously good luck with the atomic leviathan. Its level 100 you will need it. 

[sk_lp_him]

#134 - Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time

 

 

The Lombax Triumphant
Collect all trophies in the game.

 

My first streamed ps3 game. It was fun even though the camera and controls are pretty bad which lead to some frustrating moments in Dr. Nefarious boss fight. I'll play Into the Nexus next.

[Moridin83]

 #225 Enter the Gungeon

 

The first of a double dose of Gungeon. Enter the Gungeon is a roguelike top down shooter, with a bit more of an action factor than some in the genre. Even with good weapons, you're not going to get far if your dodge roll isn't on point. There are a huge number of unlockables, and the two major free expansions make the game significantly more varied then I imagine it was at the beginning. I really enjoyed the game, but I did have a couple of issues with it. Any run where you're trying to unlock an elevator, or the 3rd floor hidden floor is severely gimped by the need to hold on to all your resources instead of using them. You have to not spend money or keys or blanks, or blow up chests depending on the elevator you're going for. This can be mitigated by doing Rainbow Runs once you've beat the game once, but that is sort of my second problem. I never felt like that game quite hit the right balance with drops. Normal mode way too frequently left you with lots of stuff, but mostly crap, and once you have a few successful runs under your belt, some of the items you're likely to find in a rainbow run are near guaranteed wins. I would've liked a middle ground with some better drops, but still a bit more challenge, and also you're much less likely to use any synergies in RR mode. The last issue I have is the grind for Frifle's challenge. That is one of the most over long, unfun grinds I've done. It may not take as long as a Musou game, but the randomness of the enemy spawns for some of the later hunts is miserable. All in all, a very fun game, let down a little by one trophy and some design choices.

 

 #226 Exit the Gungeon

 

Part two is the snack sized follow up, Exit the Gungeon. This game is simpler, shorter, and somewhat less involved than it's predecessor, but still worthwhile. If you're only going to play one, go with Enter, but Exit holds up decently itself. It's stripped down, and every run uses the enchanted gun which changes forms regularly. There's a mode that offers permanent guns as well, but that mainly handicaps you with less item drops. Runs are much shorter, typically clocking in between 20 and 30 minutes, so you don't need to devote as much time at once. Just a word of warning, be careful what guns you unlock, you're much better off not unlocking some of the joke weapons (Looking at you wood block and quad laser). Still has something of a problem with grinding for credits once all the meaningful content is finished, but not as bad as Frifle.

 

[percy547389126yv]

#1,399 PS5 version of Long Live The Queen

[Kishnabe]

 Platinum #571: EA Sports UFC 4 (PS4)

 

Spoiler

 

Difficulty: 5/10  

Enjoyment: 6/10 

Time: 20+ hours

[percy547389126yv]

#1,400 Blue Reflection: Second Light