Most Recent Platinum

[X_Wizi_X]

 #234 Far Cry Primal

 

 

 

Apex Predator

[Kalmaneos]

Platinum #28

(2024-06-22)

  
Superliminal (Ps5)

 

Difficulty: 3/10.

Time required: 5 hours according to guide.

Play Time: 8 hours, 33 minutes.

Enjoyement: 7/10

 

[Darghel]

#219 Spirit Hunter: Death Mark

Difficulty: easy but without a guide it's very trial and error

Time to Complete: 12 hours

Recommended: yes

Total score: 7.5/10

 

My mood for horror games continues, and there was this one that was in my wishlist for YEARS, always waiting for a good sale, but never going below 20 bucks for some reason. And so one day i thought "Alright, fine, I get the bait" and bought it on the current sale, and while happy of the purchase, I'm also a little disappointed.

 

Spirit hunter is, in essence, an horror VN about, you guessed it, spirit hunting, and you have to deal with the titled "Death Mark" on your body that if not taken care of, you'll die a horrible death. You'll be going with a bunch of different people who will help you, and depending on whether you destroy OR save the spirit, you'll get a different outcome, one where the person dies, the other where she lives. For the trophy I had to do both so it was kinda sad to see the guy/girl dying in gruesome ways. Too bad there's no artwork of the death!

 

The game has 5 chapters + 1 chapter that was originally DLC, and they're overall well done, some less but some more, with quite a twist that...was honestly expected, so expected that we (my sister and me) joked about what's the twist going to be and when you know it, it turns out to be real! Either we're getting good at guessing plot twists or the game was very predictable...

 

The game has a mixture of VN sections and adventure phases, where you get to explore areas and interact with the environment. Despite the time the game gives you, there's no actual time limit, so you only have to think about playing the game and finish the cases. I enjoyed the idea of having different partners but i wish i didn't have to go back everytime and change them, especially when this can actually give you a game over, if you didn't know.

 

As for the negatives, I want to just say this: I really enjoyed the mix between VN and adventure game, being able to explore areas was nice, but if there's one thing I have to nitpick is how trial and error the game felt. In particular, the "boss fights" and the choices often didn't make sense, and despite KNOWING what to do, I didn't know what order or which combination I had to use. Like, in the first area, I knew what to do, but the game called it an error and I must've died a dozen times. Then using a guide, it told me what combination to use specifically, which was basically one item off but it counted as an error. And the choices, while a nice thing, was once again trial and error most of the time, and unless you read the memos - which I DID - you'd most likely NEVER figure out what to do...and sometimes I made a mistake regardless. 

In addition, to get to the chapter 6, you NEED to do the good ending, or else you'll be restarting the game and have to do it properly, which is a pain and unless you use a guide, you're most likely going to achieve the normal ending. It's not hard without a guide, per se, but as I mentioned above, the game requires some specific order and responses that WILL cause you to achieve a game over more times than others.

 

Other than that, the game is also easy to platinum, requiring doing both "saving and destroyed" paths for the bosses - in which you can reload right after - and a normal and good ending, the former being achievable by just failing to save one person. Other than that, it's extremely easy, but in a good way.

 

What can I say, it was creepy, spooky, but really enjoyable. I love good horror games that don't overuse jumpscares and have actually great atmosphere, and the spirit designs are especially creepy - the "final" spirit is super creepy and definitely didn't give us nightmares! However, if you're not into VN, you could just skip it...or get the platinum if you only care about that.

 

And now, time to get my 220th plat. I'm still in the mood for horror, and I need one right now!

 

[Melofest]

Among Us

 #85

 

[ZephyrZeon]

 #303 Stellar Blade

Pretty fantastic game. Took about 60 hours for the platinum. The collectible soda cans were less of a hassle to find than I thought. Your little robot drone pretty much notifies you whenever a can is nearby. The post-launch update included additional NG+ trophies which was a welcomed surprise. Also, loved collecting all the outfits, like this absurd bear suit. 🐻

Edited Saturday at 08:55 PM by ZephyrZeon

[matrelli01]

# 41 - Monster Truck Championship

 

[DrZero_1983]

Platinum # 202

 

 

 

Culmination
Earn all other trophies

 

 

[Duke_Ryle]

#84 - Evil West.  I'm very thankful I was able to get the platinum.  There were some pretty bad bugs and glitches that halted my progress.

 

[provoligia]

Cats Quest 2, since it's ''free'' and a fun inbetween game

 

2.5/10

10hrs

[Alantor32]

Plat #76

Diffculity: 5/10

Enjoyment: 10/10

A childhood classic. I can't wait for them to release more PS2 classics.

[Kalmaneos]

Platinum #29

(2024-06-22)

  
Medievil : Resurrection (Ps5)

 

Difficulty: 4/10 (in game cheats doesn't work anymore).

Time required: 10 hours according to guide.

Play Time: 6 hours, 03 minutes.

Enjoyement: 9/10

 

Edited Sunday at 03:32 PM by Kalmaneos

[MoreFuego]

#25 + 100% - Dead By Daylight (PS4)

 

Rating/Enjoyment: 9/10

Difficulty: 4/10

Time: 200+ Hours

PSNP Rarity: 2.21% (0.11% for 100%)

PSN Rarity: 0.3%

 

this is my guilty pleasure game, I will always have joy in playing this game with friends. For some reason, I already have 350+ hours at this time of typing. I know there will be more DLCs, I will be there!

 

I recommend if you're a masochist or just like putting humans on hooks

 

#26 - Stellar Blade

 

Rating/Enjoyment: 6/10

Difficulty: 4/10

Time: 50 Hours

PSNP Rarity: 33.22%

PSN Rarity: 7.8%

 

I hate to say it, and I know I am in the minority here, but I felt this game was okay, underwhelming from what I was anticipating. I would go into more detail but honestly it has to do with the dead open worlds levels( I hate deserts even more now lol), the gun section levels and the characters were overall pretty eh. Side missions were pretty boring and rarely offered anything new .The game itself teaches you many ways to approach combat, there you can use the same moveset from the beginning of the game all the way to the end tbh. But in technicality, the combat is pretty fluid and responsive and works very well with its parry/dodge mechanics, which made it very fun. The end game boss fights were what made the game worth platting, if the whole game was like the final stretch of the game, it can easily be a 8/10 game!  The enemy designs were great and the music along with the tone of the game is simply awesome. Sadly, it can't help the issues overall with the game but I still had my fun with it.

 

Overall this is a decent first game from a new developer, and it shows that they have flaws. The combat is the right idea, the levels I think would've worked better if it was linear focused, as they work better in action games. The graphics, performance and music were top notch, so nothing to complain there. And please, no gun only levels ever again lol.

 

I would kinda recommend if you like action games, but this is just my opinion, I do think the game could've been executed better in certain categories.

 

 

 

[prex02]

Red Dead Redemption as my 25th Platinum. Such a great game but the multiplayer trophies sucked.

[percy547389126yv]

#4,166 Love Island

 

[PHIL_DADDY1]

 #521

 

Unpacking (EU) (PS4)

 

 

 All Moved In
(Obtained every Trophy)

 

[parkerdip]

 #101 - WWE 2K24 (PS5)

 

 

First trophy - 22nd March 2024

Platinum - 14th May 2024

Time taken - 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 1 Day

 

This was my 4th platinum of 2024
 

 #102 - Disney Pixar Toy Story 2 Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue (PS5)

 

 

First trophy - 17th June 2024

Platinum - 22nd June 2024

Time taken - 4 Days, 19 Hours, 43 Minutes

 

This was my 5th platinum of 2024

 

[Sailar91]

 # 353 - SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake

 

 

All in all, your enjoyment of The Cosmic Shake is going to depend on your history with SpongeBob. Fans of the show will appreciate the love and care that has been poured into every nook and cranny of this acquatic adventure, but the references and jokes may be lost on those who have never seen an episode. Still, even those will a slight interest in SpongeBob love The Cosmic Shake for its unique worlds, great pacing, and infectious charm. If nautical nonsense be something you wish, there's a ton of fun to be had under the sea in SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake.

 

 

Edited Sunday at 11:56 AM by Sailar91

[sk_lp_him]

#234 - After Us

 

 

Humankind
Get all trophies in the game

 

Incredibly frustrating game. It's confusing, most of the time I had no idea where to go, especially in the underwater levels. The collectibles are annoying for the same reason because of bad level design. The controls are floaty and that helps for quite a lot of deaths due to missjump. This game is from the studio that made Arise: A Simple Story but it's nowhere near as good as Arise is.

[OldSnake031]

On 5/29/2024 at 2:00 AM, slender_adrian said:

 

 

  #148

Difficulty: 4/10 

Enjoyment: 9/10

Grind: 5/10

Time: 82 Hours 

100% Completion Difficulty: 6/10

100% Completion Enjoyment: 9/10

100% Completion Total Time: 223 Hours 

Rarity: [Very Rare 6.1% / Rare 20.17%]

 

"Not exactly a fairy tale beginning huh."

 

 My trip to Final Fantasy 15 is over!!! This game has become one of my favorite looking FF games, I totally cherish my time spent in this game. I like a lot the mixture of modern times with fantasy, the whole "fantasy based in reality" thing is by far what caught my eye since the beginning. I finished FFXV story in 35 hours and I can say I really enjoyed it. I can't speak for FFXV vanilla since I've only played Royal Edition but I can say that Royal Edition is pretty good, but is nowhere near to other FF games in quality lets be honest. The biggest sin of this game is how the story is told, it's mandatory to watch the movie Kingsglaive and the anime Brotherhood to understand the game, and I did just that, so I could grasp better the story. As for the movie, well you can see it as a lengthy opening movie for FFXV hahaha, but with Jessie Pinkman, Cersei Lannister and Ned Sark on it, you can tell Square really put the money on the movie hahahaha, and I don't understand the bad critics about the movie, honestly the movie is pretty good, I watched 2 times hahaha is that good. So this FF game is a very special one for me, it's a very casual FF experience and despite the development hell it went through, this is still a fun game to play. It has some awesome freaking cool looking moments but it happens near the end of the game, the summons in this game look incredible. As for the OST well I can really say it's not that memorable, it's still amazing don't get me wrong, but being honest I only remember like 4 tracks and one of them is Stand by me, (which btw I really liked the opening for this game, it is so simple but yet I like pushing a car while listening that song).

 

The main cast is by far the strongest point of this game and it's my favorite thing about it by far. Noctis at first glance may look like the typical emo edge lord but he is nothing like that at all, that tittle is between Cloud and Squall haha. But seriously, the bond between Noctis, Ingnis, Prompto and Gladio has is so damn natural that they truly look like a group of friends going on a journey, I remember one part when someone gets mad at Noctis and you can really tell the tension in the air and go like "yep, that's how it is." This is by far one of the most human main cast in all FF games I played. I also like other elements about it like the car drives, listening to all FF ost while casually waiting for 4 minutes is awesome and you also get this cool moments between the main cast, and the photo mechanic is so damn awesome, getting all moments captured is incredible. As for the combat mechanics well, since FFV13 it always looked like the KH one, which KH has a nice combat mechanic especially KH2 but in FFXV the combat lose a lot of its magic, you see this game is very easy and you can spam potions and items all the way so it kinda loses the whole point, and because of that enemies feel like tanks and you have to spent a lot of time on them, that is until you get to break the combat mechanic with powerful magic or by leveling up, still is fun to play anyway so meh. And it also misses the point in a lot  of other things like side characters, and a lot of good story moments, but I can't really blame them seeing all this game went through. Btw, Gentiana and Lunafreya are the best waifus hahaha.

 

Final Fantasy 15 had the potential to be one of the greatest FF games since Nomura gave birth to FF Versus 13, but FFXV had everything against it, this game is a victim of fate and it's a miracle this game even exist, and if this game had had the chance to truly chance it would've been one of the best one truly, this games story, lore and the world are incredible. It sucks the story is all chopped into a lot of media forms, which I don't like, but hey like I said it's a miracle this game exists, literally Hajime Tabata saved this game from being nothing to actually making it a reality, huh I guess not all miracles comes from magic. If you are looking for a casual FF experience this is a great game, it has some "unique" things since its an open world and follows the formula but hey it's a pretty good looking world to explore. So far from all Final Fantasy games I played I always leave with some good memories and I remember all fondly and FFXV is no exception. FFXV totally earned a place in my gamer heart!!

 

And another FF platinum goes to the collection!!! I spent 82 hours doing this and oh boy it was pure fun and good moments! Despite this game being rushed and having the story told in a very bad way, that is in multiple media forms like the movie, anime and the dlc, and other stuff I really enjoyed this game. The platinum for this game is really easy since the trophies are very simple, I played the entire game on normal and I've only got a game over once on Cerberus (which is a Royal Edition exclusive I believe) and that was only because I wanted my party to die so I had the chance to use a megaphoenix but I ran out of time hahaha, you can play on easy to speed the plat if you like. One tip I can give is using the car as least as possible and just run hahaha it will save grinding time later for the survival skill, it took me 8 hours to level it up in the endgame, but being honest running around from place to place is no fun and it can make your game experience worse, since going in the car has a lot of good moments and you get to know the main cast better, so if you don't mind throwing some extra hours for grinding afk don't bother running and use the car, other than that the fishing skill can take some time but nothing to hard, leveling the other 2 skills is pretty easy. And the big turtle can be instantly killed with the ring of Lucii so no big deal there either. But I have to say I didn't play with trophies in mind, I took my time to enjoy the game, so that explains the 200+ hours I spent on it hahaha. Totally love this guys!!! They truly are the best!

 

100% Completion journey:

 

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This are my thoughts on each DLC, as for trophies added on the Royal Pack or updates, the tricky part is going for 80% of the data log entries related this are basically collectibles some of them are locked to story chapters and are missable, personally I only missed 2 and I didn't used a guide, so if you look around you can get all  that are missable, but if you are not confident use a guide, you can miss a few but I highly recommed getting all the entries that are chapter related since that means less work from you later since you'll have to do the menace dungeons, I was afraid I missed entries that are only obtainable on specific chapters but I'm very proud to say I only missed 2 so I didn't need to use chapter select to get them.

 

FINAL FANTASY XV: EPISODE GLADIOLUS

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You see this DLC occurs in a part of the main (very minor spoiler) story were Gladio in the most casual way just leaves the party for a while and that's when the DLC happens. Look the DLC is good since it add more lore to the characters involve but lets be honest, completing this DLC takes less than 2 hours, this could be any level for any other Final Fantasy game were some character goes in its own self discovered journey and then evolves as a character. Look having to pay for this is very lame, I'm not gonna defend it, I know FFXV was very bad when it originally launched and but this DLC's are basically story segments cut out and then pasted behind a pay wall (if you don't have RE).

 

As for the DLC content well is basically a level with Gladio, were you have to kill some bosses nothing to special, its pretty easy too, the gameplay was cool enough for what it is. The whole vibes this DLC gave me were of Devil May Cry haha but with a lesser combat system. As for the trophies well there is only one trophy that can tricky to get, is for winning a fight with Cor. It's basically a skill related trophy mixed with some rng. It's basically a parry fight all the way, you see Gladiolus is locked to level 24 for the DLC, but Cor is level 52 and he can enter a rage mode where with one hit can kill you. So if you play games like the Souls franchise or DMC it's nothing that bad, it still require learning the move set from Cor and doing perfect parries so you can build you special gauge so you can deal more damage. But what makes this fight tedious is the constant bad rng, if Cor spams rage mode you better run for you life hahaha, and having those bad loading times doesn't help either. The rest of the trophies are very easy.

 

 

 

FINAL FANTASY XV: EPISODE PROMPTO

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This episode happens, just like Episode Gladiolus, in a moment of the main story were Prompto leaves the party. It shows the self journey Prompto had before reuniting with the party again. Like the previous episode, in this DLC we get to learn and understand more about Prompto, which is a very depressing character in my opinion. In comparison with the previous episode Gladiolus, episode Prompto in lengthier and has more content. The main story can takes 3 hours max to finish and less than 2 hours if you play it fast. It has a mini open world and it includes side quests. I still think this DLC could've been a segment in the main game, at least for the story part regarding Prompto. Since Prompto is a range character that uses guns the gameplay here is focused on guns, and as for the difficulty is pretty easy. The episode was good enough I liked it more than Gladiolus. 

 

Trophies here are way easier than the one of the previous episode, the are miscellaneous trophies that are very simple and easy, there's also one trophy regarding a side quest which is no problem at all, a boss fight like the one from the previous episode which is very doable and the last trophy which is for getting 3 star on 3 races again very easy to get. 

 

 

 

FINAL FANTASY XV: EPISODE IGNIS

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This episode happens, just like previous episodes, in a moment of the main story were the party leaves Noctis for a brief moment. I have to say that by far this is my favorite Episode from the Brotherhood. It happens on the peak moment of FFXV and honestly Episode Ignis is incredibly good. This episode is centered on Ignis, and his develops further the bond Ignis and Noctis have in a heartwarming way. It adds new gameplay mechanics and adds and extra chapter for the story which is quite the surprise. Ignis is my favorite character from the Brotherhood (excluding Noctis of course) and this episode really shows why Specs is the best.

For the trophies this episode is very similar to previous ones, you'll have to do some miscellaneous things as well finding collectibles, and like custom, have a boss fight. What boss fight should be good enough for Ignis? Well non other than prince Noctis itself. But this time you won't get the trophy just by winning you'll need to get A+ on the fight to unlock the trophy. The good thing is that getting A+ is based highly on time, you'll have around 15 minutes to win the fight, and the bad thing is how challenging Noctis actually is, this fight can take easily 10+ minutes. The strat is using fire daggers and constantly getting counterstrikes and good dodging. This fight is all in the practice, it took me more time to beat Cor on Episode Ignis, but you don't want to underestimate Noct, since he goes full arsenal, yes he can use the ring of Lucci to erase you from existence haha, there's nothing friendly about this fight. I'll leave my run in the hidden content because the way I beat Noctis was the most hilarious one possible hahahaha totally recommend checking it out.  

 

 

 

FINAL FANTASY XV: EPISODE ARDYN

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This episode happens, just like previous episodes... wait a minute, this episode actually happens before the main story? Yup this is by far the most important DLC story wise of the bunch, it tell us the story and background of Ardyn, the main bad guy of the game, Ardyn has a very interesting background and playing this episode the way you see Ardyn will change, he is not one sick maniac like most of us think while playing the game, instead he is a tragic sick maniac hahaha and its story will also change your view on Noctis' ancestors. This episode really delivers and makes Ardyn more interesting of a character. Other than that we see other cool stuff in this episode, like the city of Insomnia, yep we actually get the chance to explore it and all, we also se more stuff related to Ifrit which in my opinion is the most interesting summon in the game other than Bahamut. This is a very cool episode, it reminded me of DMC hahaha and is totally worth it. This 4 Episodes were all fun and cool, some more than others but if you really liked FFXV, this episodes are totally worth it since they expand more the game. I know there were going to be more DLC's for FFXV, but they got cancelled, it would've been nice to see a Lunafreya episode or a Noctis episode, but we never got them. 

 

As for the trophies this are the easiest of the bunch. Select easy and done you get all of them in a breeze, I recommend doing 2 runs to enjoy the episode but you can get all trophies in 1 playthrough. With this done I completed FFXV trophy list to 89% and it took me 160 hours. The remaining trophies are for the multiplayer stuff which is a hassle to access since I have to downgrade to get the trophies but I'm committed to get 100% . But before that I'm going to keep playing FFXV normally I'm really having fun with this game hahaha so I'll keep grinding it until I'm ready to get more trophies hahaha.

 

Unfortunately no Ardyn pic, so here's my chocobo called Choco. 

 

 

FINAL FANTASY XV MULTIPLAYER EXPANSION: COMRADES

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So multiplayer trophies eh? What a hassle this is going to be but all for that sweat 100% completion. So this is a Multiplayer DLC, that of course, happens in one incredible point of the main story which, in my opinion, was wasted.  Of course this DLC adds more lore to the game, and I kinda like the idea of playing as a Glaive but not like this. Man I want to keep playing more of base game no this hahaha. As for trophies well, the one trophy I was really afraid of was the one for meeting Kenny, this is basically pure rng and I read a lot in the forums people experience with it, but thankfully Bahamut saw my commitment and love for FFXV that he gave me with his good rng blessing hahaha so I got it on my first 6 hours playing casually, a not only that in my total play time of comrades I got 2 Kenny appearances hahaha lucky me!

 

The way this dlc works is that you get most of your stats level up by leveling the weapons and adding them stat buffs, so that means grinding for items. Playing this dlc really made me wanna go back to base game and grind there instead hahaha. 

 

Getting all the trophies for Comrades took me 37 hours and most of that was pure old fashioned grind. I can tell this trophies can be done faster if you know what you're doing. This last 3 trophies are quite easy to get, the most "complicated" trophy is the cochobreeder one, is not difficult you only have to select stats to level the chocobo in a way you don't cap the chocobos level until you reach 99, it requires thinking, luck and resetting but is fairly easy just tedious. Thankfully there's a guide in gamefaqs that really helps understanding the whole gimmick about it. Then once the chocobo is level 99 and you have the necessary stats you can get the remaining Royal Sigils, some are locked behind a quest so you are going to have to clear the quest first, and some of this quest may require good gear, level 40 is enough to get this trophies done, but I highly recommend getting first a lot of good gear so you make your life easier. As for the Ifrit fight all you need is a good bow since there's a exploit for this fight that's a life savior. The final trophy is for completing a quest with the Brotherhood, which is very easy to get. I really enjoyed my 223 hours in FFXV, this is one of my favorite platinums and 100% completion journeys in a videogame. Totally worth it! Who knows maybe I do a NG+ hahahahaha.

 

And with this my 100% journey is over sadly.

 

 

 

*I played on the physical Royal Edition, which brings a code that access all dlc (except for the Ardyn dlc which you'll need to buy separately) content including comrades. This code expires on June 2028, I paid 40 bucks for my sealed copy. But be warned!!!! If you are looking to get the RE for 100% you must buy the physical copy corresponding to your region, if you buy another region's copy the code won't work, to my knowledge.

 

 

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[s68sc]

Platinum #173rd - Shadow of the Damned

Platinum Difficulty 3/10 [if you use the red gem glitch, you can actually complete Legion Hunter Difficulty in a breeze]

Fun 7/10 [3 Playthrough ruins everything, from a trophy hunter standpoint]

 

This is my second game that I played from Suda 51, the first one was Killer is Dead, and not going to lie, this one is not as good as Killer is Dead or Lollipop Chainsaw [I watch a entire playthrough on YT, but I wanted to play that game too]. The story is a bit all over the place, we need to save Paula, but I didn't understand why until the end of the game, also you need to read a lot because some of the part of this game are just filler without a reason, I talk to you ACT 4. I hate to say this, but I didn't want to get this platinum done, because I didn't like this game at all. The humor is probably the only best thing about this and the gameplay in Resident 4 OG Style.

 

Edited Sunday at 03:27 PM by s68sc

[shadaik]

Plat #160 -  100% 245

Suika Watermelon Fruits

Fruit Wizard

Your garden bursts with magical fruit blends.

PS4

 

Suika games are a recently popular subgenre of tiny forever-games. You know, stuff like Tetris, Snake, Sudoku and their ilk. Not much to talk about, but very satisfying. I personally enjoy this specific subgenre a lot and was happy to see a suika game on PS4. Perfect for whenever I want to play something but don't want to commit too much, but just relax.

 

To explain, in these games, you throw objects into a box or jar. Identical objects combine into an object of the next higher tier. The game ends when the box overflows from too many objects. That is basically all. The game is very much an average example of its type, so it will not dethrone my favorite title, Zooplop, which you can find on many online game sites by googling. Or binging. Or anyothersearchengineing.

 

The trophy list on PS4 is a bit too easy, but that's fine for the type of game this is. I do like the platinum's whimsical description a lot, though. And that is all.

 

If you think cats and fruit equals bigger fruits instead of pieces of fur in your fruit basket, you never owned a cat

 

Game: 6/10

List: 4/10

Difficulty: 2/10

Time: 20 minutes

 

 

Plat #161 -  100% 246

Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Rise of SH1FT3R

Spy Racer

Unlock all Trophies

PS3

 

On to a more substantial title. Relatively speaking.

 

This one once more slid in due to leaving the Plus Extra library next month. But there are very few leaving, so those will not take over the month. These keep getting me to play games I would not otherwise try but also am not completely opposed to. I see this as an absolute win. Here we have a racing game (strike one) based on a movie series I have never had any interest in (strike two), but does it get a third strike for being bad? Spoilers: No.

 

Time to explain.

 

Let's!

 

The game focuses on a team of young spy hunters (the saturday morning cartoon and James Bond kind of spy) hat act as a racing team. Which is precisely the kind of insane I expect The Fast and the Furious to be  based on th etrailers and the presence of Vin Diesel, so that works.  Probably. The team participates in a fake racing competition using an extremely advanced prototype car with a stealth mode as the main price in order to bait a team of evil agents that should never get there hands on this very car. If that sounds like the dumbest plan ever to keep the car out of their hands, that's because it is. But we are operating on insane cartoon logic here, so, fine.

 

We now have to win the races in order to detain the evil team's members. Because, apparently, losing a race is grounds for detainment. Good to know.

 

That team is, of course, named SH1FT3R.  Howeve,r unless I misunderstood something very elemental about the English language and rising is in fact a downward movement, they do not exactly rise in this game.  So quite what the Rise ofSH1FT3R refers to, I have no clue. Maybe they're being incarcerated in a prison airship?

 

Yeah, the story is so insanely nonsensical, this has to be deliberate. Surely! And on these grounds, I'm willing to just submit to the glorious stupidity of it all. Though I have to say it's not as funnily dumb as Coffin Dodgers was. And it also fails to be as colorful and joyous as Mario Kart. Because, as much as this might look like a semi-serious arcade racer in the vein of Need of Speed, it's much closer to a gimmicky fun racer like the previous two mentions. Though in some ways, SH1FT3R puts itself in between those. Mostly in that the lead racer will get harassed by a very annoying variant of blue shells, paint throwing drones that smear the screen and slow us down.

 

Unlike the aforementioned Coffin Dodgers, and also more than other racers of this type, the racing actually feels like there's speed to the cars.  Variety is nice, ranging from a Porsche to a futuristic race car, but also including monster trucks and stuff  like a truck that looks like what the Cybertruck would look like if it was created by people  who actually know how to make a car look good.

 

That all said, the four hours this plat took were very fun. The challenge on hard was okay for me as somebody who rarely plays, easy was so easy I was regularly leading the race by up to a minute. People who regularly play racing games will find no discernible challenge here, though. So I guess, this is fun if you're a noob like me in this genre. But because I'm a noob like me, I absolutely enjoyed this.

 

Gold! Always believe in its so-ul...

 

Game: 7/10

List: 5/10

Difficulty: 2/10

Time: 4 hours

[mega-tallica]

 

#281 - Rise of the Tomb Raider

 

Enjoyment: 4/5 - Another 7+ years in-the-making platinum. Been going back a lot in my backlog and finishing off games I abandoned. Didn't have much left in the base game to do besides get gold on all score attacks and beating it on Survivor difficulty and both weren't nearly as daunting as I initially expected. My favorite of the reboot Tomb Raider's and really reminds me of the Uncharted trilogy. Uncharted 2 had a cold, snowy setting, 2nd game of the Tomb Raider reboot also has a cold, snowy setting. This game also feels the best balanced of the trilogy between combat, parkour and exploration with a slight emphasis on combat. Something that was very much toned down in Shadow which had very little combat. 

 

Difficulty: 2.5/5 - Nothing overly difficult. Survivor difficulty is a joke and feels like normal difficulty and the score attacks are very easy with the right card usage. Only found a couple to be somewhat problematic, particularly The Lost City as you have to be near perfect and maintain combo through the whole first 2/3rd's of the run which did take me a few tries to finally do. Actually somewhat enjoyed the score attacks despite most other opinions about them although it does kind of blow that you basically have to replay the entire game again a 2nd time which I didn't mind too much considering my 1st playthrough was 7+ years ago. I would certainly consider this a fairly easy 'near' ultra rare platinum to get. 

 

Excluding the Endurance DLC's which can be the biggest pain in the butt if you're going for 100% due to their RNG nature and reliability on co-op and the reason why I won't be getting 100% on it. 

 

Now to work up the courage to attempt Deadly Obsession difficulty on Shadow, last thing I need to do for that plat. 

[Mariner1534]

#97: Baldur's Gate 3 - Pride of Baldur's Gate

 

This is easily my most time-consuming plat to date (clocking in at just under 300 hours over 9 months), but it was a hell of a ride getting there. Baldur's Gate 3 was my clear-cut pick for 2023 GOTY, and is now one of my favorite RPGs of all time. As someone who had zero experience with Baldur's Gate before this, and only a passing knowledge of Dungeons & Dragons, I was surprised by how much I loved this game; I just bought this on a whim for my birthday after hearing all the positive word of mouth. I loved the sheer amount of character/party/build customization, and the myriad of ways you could tackle just about every conflict you came across. I also loved the setting, characters (Karlach4life), and story on top of that. I will say that I still had some minor gripes, such as the occasional annoying bugs (which seemed to change with every patch), cumbersome item management, and that Act 3's pacing can be a little weird and overwhelming - feels like almost every building in the titular city either starts, advances, or completes a questline. However, those things never kept me from gleefully immersing myself in this world for several hundred hours. I haven't even touched Honour Mode or multiplayer yet - with those, plus the official mod support coming later this year, I will very likely come back to this game at some point. If you like turn-based RPGs and skip this one, you're missing out.

 

The plat is definitely a huge undertaking, with the game's length and large amount of missables on top of that. It can also definitely be overwhelming getting the hang of how to play this game, though the difficulty should level off as your party gets stronger. To elaborate on the missables, a lot of them are story-related and easy to lock yourselves out of depending on the choices you make. There are also several trophies for killing bosses in a certain way, beating the game on Tactician (hard) mode, and a couple of points-of-no-return for good measure. I think you can technically get the plat in one playthrough, though you'd probably have to follow a guide and play in such a specific way that it would sap a lot of enjoyment out of the game. Two playthroughs is much more doable, although I did it in three:

1. Mostly blind playthrough on normal mode where I just had fun without worrying about trophies too much (I'll admit I peeked at the boss-related trophies to get them out of the way, though).
2. Tactician mode playthrough where I cleaned up almost everything that I missed the first time.
3. Dark Urge playthrough, where I got the associated trophies for playing as that character - if I really wanted to I could've done this in run #1 or 2, though the way I wanted to play the Dark Urge (going full psychopath) would've voided a lot of trophies, lol.

Regardless of how you tackle this game, you'll have to set aside dozens of hours, so be prepared!

 

Difficulty: 6/10

Fun Factor: 10/10

Plat Time: 296 hours

Karlach: 11/10

 

Edited Monday at 01:09 AM by Mariner1534

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 #51 Elden Ring (PS5)

 

 Elden Ring - Obtained all trophies

 

FromSoftware have made some of my favourite games of all-time, but their platinum trophies have always eluded me. When I looked over the Elden Ring trophy guide, I realised that everything looked a lot more straight forward compared to Dark Souls and Bloodborne. At first I wasn't really thinking of the platinum, but when I got to around Malenia's area, I seriously started to consider it. She in many ways was going to my brick wall in being able to platinum this game. I got myself geared up, found a weapon I really liked in the Bloodhound's Fang and upgraded it as much as I could before facing her.

 

At first, I was having a similar sort of tough time to my PS4 playthrough, barely getting her past Phase 1. However, I started to really slow down and tried to stay calm, I got her to Phase 2 and half of her health. Which was a huge improvement. After that, it only took me a few more attempts and I took her down. I honestly couldn't believe it at first and my heart was racing afterwards.

 

That's when I started following the guide to get all the required items (talismans, weapons etc.) which was really fun. It took me to a lot of areas I wasn't likely to discover just by roaming around. Some of the dungeons were pretty well hidden. The platinum in this game was fantastic to get, it makes you see and experience a lot of the bosses and areas, plus it got me to do Ranni's complete questline which was awesome. I never knew some of those areas existed in the game. It just made me realise how much attention to detail FromSoftware put in designing the world. There's always something I stumble on that I have never seen before. I would say I enjoyed this playthrough even more so than my first blind run on PS4, I really enjoyed playing it on PS5 and feeling the visual leap of the areas. Places such as the Leyndell Capital really popped graphically. It's a beautiful game and I have had so much fun with it. Now I have even more content to work through with the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion which I haven't started yet.