ABC of Unstarted Games 2020 (Sign-Ups Closed)

[Kevvik]

Got another done.  Zombie Tycoon II has been completed so I'm up to 3! (cue dramatic victory music)

After losing a month, I'm not sure I'll make it in the end given the time commitment of several of the titles but we'll give it a shot!

 

A-Z Status

Spoiler

A - Atelier Totori Plus

B - Baldur's Gate   (25%)

C - Catherine

D - Dragon's Crown

E - (The) Evil Within

F - Fallen Legion: Flames of Rebellion

G - Gravity Rush Remastered

H - Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart

I - Infamous First Light

J - Journey

K - Killer Is Dead

L - Lost Sea

M - MediEvil   ( 13 Apr 20   )

N - Nioh

O - Odin Sphere Leifthrasir

P - Persona 4 Golden  (14%)

Q - Queen's Quest 3   ( 2 Jan 20   )

R - Record of Agarest War

S - Salt & Sanctuary

T - Torment: Tides of Numenara

U - Unmechanical Extended

V - Valkyria Chronicles Remastered

W - Wasteland 2

X - Xeodrifter

Y - Yomawari: Midnight Shadows

Z - Zombie Tycoon II  ( 20 Apr 20   )

 

[piualan90]

Finished Yooka Laylee, fun game, nostalgic actually, loved banjo and dk64 (ikr) so this was a good reminder of it, not sure why everyone hate that much on the game, I think it was because of the camera, it's fixed right now so I didn't have any problems. Recommended if you like platform games, also if you need some color in your life. 

 

Gonna pause the event for a little bit, just becuase I'm helping a friend with Doom and I'm gonna plat it too, after that I guess I'll start Dark Souls.

 

[freddie1989]

Hey guys,

Hope everyone is doing well and keeping themself out of harms way e.g. in front of the console! 

No update for me at all to show, had a rough time work wise so not played most of March. Got back on it this month and finished story in Rise of the Tomb Raider which isn't on my list. Just installing Infinite Warfare to get back on it.

[rebeccafar]

So really been grinding some games not on this list (Red Dead 2 omg the grind) so haven't caught up as much over lockdown as I thought I would, but have got the platinum on Spider-Man just need to get the DLCs done now. And also platinumed Far Cry Primal, which was probably my least favourite Far Cry game I've played becuase the stealth just did not seem to work at all which kinda got frustrating at points and I didn't really care about any of the people in camp or anything which even made finishing the stroy kinda hard tbh. Going to keep working through Borderlands and The Walking Dead atm. ?

 

A Assassin’s Creed Origins 

B Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel 15%

C Crash Bandicoot 3

D Days Gone 

E Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture 

F Far Cry Primal 

G God of War 3 Remastered 

H Here They Lie

I Infamous First Light 

J Jedi Fallen Order (Star Wars)

K Kingdom Hearts 3

L Life is Strange 2 

M Man of Medan (The Dark Pictures)

N Nioh

O Outer Wilds

P A Plague Tale

Q Q.U.B.E: Directors Cut 

R Ratchet & Clank

S Spider-Man (Marvels) 62% 

T The Walking Dead (Definitive Edition) 1%

U Untitled Goose Game

V Vampyr

W What Remains of Edith Finch 

X Xcom2

Y Yesterday Origins

Z Zeroptian Invasion 

 

Backup #1: Tales from the Borderlands

Backup #2: The Sims 4

Backup #3: Crash Bandicoot 2 

[AuroraHistoire]

Coming Back From Bullet Hell

 

I've completed Touhou Genso Rondo, Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner and 198X since my last update. I'm pretty excited about how well I'm doing since I've completed the game I was worried the most about. I only have 16 games left to complete. Most of them are long RPGs, so it will take me a little while. 

 

Touhou Genso Rondo was the one game I was extremely worried about because it had the potential to kill the whole run. Touhou games tend be bullet hell games to at least some degree and I'm not very good at them. Genso Rondo is a bullet hell fighting game; for the record, I'm not particularly good at fighting games either. The controls for Genso Rondo are rather simple with no complex button combinations. The fights consist of both players firing barrages of colorful bullets at each other while trying to dodge as many as possible. There is the option of melee attacking too. Spell Cards are also part of the battles. Either player can use one if they spend a bomb and their special meter. You enter a special mode where the user gets to launch really flashy and difficult to dodge attacks without taking any damage while the other player does their best to not get hit. Spell Cards last until time runs out or the defending player reduces the attackers HP to zero; the attacker doesn't take any actual damage during Spell Cards but the defending player does. Another cool mechanic is that once a player's HP hits zero, the screen gets cleared of all bullets and they're still in the fight until they get hit by 1 attack.

 

The story is... there really isn't one. There is a story mode but each character gets they're own unique story, where they fight every other character in the roster for various reasons. They're all entertaining. You are required to play them all for trophies. You're also required to beat 7 characters in a row with every character (excluding DLC characters) in arcade mode, beat 10 characters in a row in boss rush with every character and win 10 multiplayer matches (local or online or a blend of the two).

 

All the characters are fairly balanced compared to each other and the controls are universal. Utsuho is clearly the strongest character in the game but playing against her isn't too difficult if you keep your distance. Everyone else is pretty much on par with each other;  with their own individual strengths and weaknesses.

 

Story mode and Arcade mode where not very difficult for me. Boss Rush mode was very difficult though. Boss Rush is basically just surviving a character's spell card for 20 seconds or reducing their HP to zero. It doesn't very difficult but surviving Spell Cards requires you're bullet hell skills to be at their best. Surviving one a match is very difficult; you recover 20% of your HP between matches and will recover a bomb every 3 matches. Bombs are great because they basically make you invincible for a few seconds. You will recover additional HP if you defeat your opponent instead of just surviving the 20 seconds; you recover an additional 5% at most. Attacking makes it harder to see and caused me to just get hit more so it wasn't worth trying with most characters. Most of the character roster has the potential to end your run if you're not careful. I pretty much learned every character's attacks & patterns, and it still took a bit of luck for me to "beat" ten characters in a row.

 

Moving on to Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner. I really enjoyed the first game and the second one was mostly the same as the first. It's a bit more linear I feel. The missions where you had to not cause property damage where still a thing in a very small capacity and were not as terrible as before. Two playthroughs are required to complete the trophy list. It took me three playthroughs because I'm bad at finding collectables. It didn't really bother me because the game is very short; 5 hours with cutscenes and 2 hours without.

 

198X gets the medal for being the shortest game of the update. I took a little over an hour to finish the game if I include watching the credits. In 198X, you play brief games inspired by arcade games from the 80s and listen to a teenager monologue about their uninteresting life between games. The trophy list will pad out the games length by a lot. You are required to beat every game without getting hit or with only one life. It took me about three and a half hours to get enough to get good enough to get all the trophies. I did take a break to eat a nice breakfast.

 

The full list of my accomplishments and my future accomplishments is in the spoiler tag. Hopefully my own hubris doesn't screw me over in the future. I'm not out of wood yet as far as difficult games are concerned, so I shouldn't be celebrating like I've already won just yet. 

Spoiler

198X (PS4)
A Rose in the Twilight (Vita)
Broforce (PS4)
Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online (PS4)
Double Dragon Neon (PS3)
Everybody's Golf (PS4)
Fallout 4 (PS4)
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (PS4) 
htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary (Vita)
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone (PS4)
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 (Vita)
Infinifactory (PS4)
Just Cause 3 (PS4)
Jet Set Radio (Vita)
King's Quest: The Complete Collection (PS4)
L.A. Noire (PS4)
Megadimension Neptunia VII (PS4)
Ninja Pizza Girl (PS4)
Nekopara Vol. 3 (PS4)
Oddworld New 'n Tasty (PS4) 
Persona 4 Golden (Vita)
Persona 5 Royal (PS4) 
Psychonauts (PS4) 
Quest of Dungeons (PS4)
Quantum Conundrum (PS3)
Riddled Corpses EX (Vita)
Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny (PS3) 
Superdimension Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls (Vita)
Spyro the Dragon (PS4)  
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage (PS4) 
Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon (PS4)

Trinity Universe (PS3) 
Touhou Genso Rondo (PS4) 
Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity (PS4)
Uncanny Valley (PS4)
Valkyria Chronicles 4 (PS4) 
WILL: A Wonderful World (PS4)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition (PS4)
Xeodrifter (PS4) 
Yomawari: Night Alone (Vita) 
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows (Vita)
Zone of the Enders HD Edition (PS3) 
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner HD Edition (PS3)   
+ Persona 3 FES but it doesn't really count since it doesn't have a trophy list.

 

[igs63]

Time for another update!

 

This week I really started getting into the second Zero Escape game bundled in The Nonary Games- Virtue's Last Reward (VLR). In my previous posts I expressed a bit of uncertainty about how I felt about it, considering the different direction it has taken from the first. Interestingly enough in some of the text in game it refers to the first game as a "sister title" rather than a prequel of sorts.

 

I'm happy to report that having played a bit more of it now, especially when I hit the first few 'locks', and saw some endings, I can see things starting to fit into place, and I've gotten back that drive to really see the full thing through. It does a lot of different stuff to the first game, but I'm starting not to mind so much. The branching story in this one relies on you jumping around the branches to learn little tidbits of information you wouldn't have otherwise known, as opposed to reaching all the way to the end and then starting over to see different choices- a new concept for me. It's quite interesting as my character can unexplainably (as of yet) remember pieces of information from other timelines that I can use to unlock 'locks' (a point in the story I can't otherwise complete without learning a piece of information (the 'key') from another timeline). Of course I know I'm jumping around, but my character is visibly confused as to how he knows certain things, or remembers going to places he hasn't in the current timeline. The only nuisance thing here is that the game at one point assumes I took one branch before I took another- i.e. one of the other characters in the game appears to be able to view other timelines as well, and in one part of the game, justified a choice they had made as being based on a choice I would make in a separate timeline, a timeline that I had not yet explored. It made me feel a little cheated considering my first choice had been the exact opposite.

The game does a good job at not making me repeat very much- different doors open in different timelines, which leads to different puzzle rooms. The characters I am grouped with also changes up, meaning I get to learn about each of the characters in turn (something that I did not realise at the beginning of the game, as it appeared initially impossible to be ever paired up with certain characters). 

 

The only other thing that does bother me a little so far is how the game is designed to essentially flip choices to be the opposite no matter which branch I go down- meaning I never win. It often makes the outcomes either worse, or .. much worse. To elaborate, a few portions throughout the game consist of a voting game- the prisoner's dilemma, to be specific. The gist of it is that two prisoners are separated and given a choice to either ally with or betray the other. This choice will determine the length of the sentence they will receive. In short, if both prisoners chose to ally (with each other), they receive a moderate sentence. If one betrays the other, the one who betrays gets a reduced sentence and the other gets a much longer sentence. If both prisoners betray, they both receive the same sentence, which is longer than if they had both allied. The difficulty with this game is that even though the best choice is for both to choose ally, they cannot communicate with each other and will generally instead choose the option that serves to give the most personal benefit (to betray, hoping the other will ally). (This is really interesting stuff, I'd reccomend giving it a google if you're interested so you could have a look at a proper explanation haha).

Anyway, to get back on track, the game uses the prisoner's dilemma to assign points to the characters in the game- however on each branch the game generally flips the choices so that if I choose 'ally', only to find the other character chose betray, if I play the other branch thinking 'well they chose betray, so I will too' I'll vote betray to find the game has flipped the other character's choice to become 'ally'. Often times this doesn't make sense as the game even specifically points out that the other character made their choice BEFORE I did- and so logically their choice should NOT change based on my choice. For this reason as well I am hoping the game will explain this later- since it seems silly to bring attention to it without good reason. And on that note, it better be a GOOD reason, because it seems when I am betrayed, all is quickly forgotten, but if I betray- a lot of branches end with everyone being unforgiving and angry at me. 

 

The other game I am nearly finished with is How to Train Your Dragon... and oh boy. I *did* have another rant lined up but I think I went on long enough about VLR, and so I may leave my thoughts about this one until I inevitably report the platinum hopefully next week (as I so badly want to be done with this game..).

 

Again, here's the list, hope everyone is doing well during these times!

 

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey PS4 - 0%
Batman (Telltale) PS4 - 0%
Cyberpunk 2077 PS4 - 0%
Deus Ex: Human Revolution PS3 - 0%
Erica PS4 - 100% 
Fallout 3 PS3 - 0%
Guardians of the Galaxy PS4 - 100% 
How to Train Your Dragon PS3 - >98%
Infamous PS3 - 0%
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy PS4 - 0%
Kingdom Hearts PS4 - 0%
Late Shift PS4 - 100% 
Minecraft: Story Mode PS4 - 100% 
NieR Automata PS4 - 0%
Oxenfree PS4 - 100% 
Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight PS4 - 0%
Q.U.B.E 2 PS4 - 0%
Republique PS4 - 0%
Stranded Sails: Explorers of the Cursed Islands PS4 -  100% 
Trüberbrook PS4 - 0%
Unravel PS4 - 0%
Vampyr PS4 - 0%
Wonderbook: Diggs Nightcrawler PS3 - 0%
XCOM 2 PS4 - 0%
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles PS4 - 0%

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games VITA - >41%

[Kevvik]

4th title is done, still leaves me with a lot of catch up but at least I'm heading in the right direction.  Unmechanical Extended (PS4) was a really good little puzzle game and a shorter title than most that I have listed.

 

A-Z Status

Spoiler

A - Atelier Totori Plus

B - Baldur's Gate   (25%)

C - Catherine

D - Dragon's Crown

E - (The) Evil Within

F - Fallen Legion: Flames of Rebellion

G - Gravity Rush Remastered

H - Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart

I - Infamous First Light

J - Journey

K - Killer Is Dead

L - Lost Sea

M - MediEvil   ( 13 Apr 20   )

N - Nioh

O - Odin Sphere Leifthrasir

P - Persona 4 Golden  (14%)

Q - Queen's Quest 3   ( 2 Jan 20   )

R - Record of Agarest War

S - Salt & Sanctuary

T - Torment: Tides of Numenara

U - Unmechanical Extended ( 23 Apr 20   )

V - Valkyria Chronicles Remastered

W - Wasteland 2

X - Xeodrifter

Y - Yomawari: Midnight Shadows

Z - Zombie Tycoon II  ( 20 Apr 20   )

 

 

[Edunstar84]

April Update:

 

Just a handful of days left in April, and I'll only manage to complete half of the letter V: Forgotton Anne. I would've done Hyperdimension Neptunia, but I couldn't get my Vita to charge. I think I'll save that for June because next month will be busy. I plan on starting and completing both FF7 Remake and Tales of Xillia 2. They're both big games, so I'll have to be efficient with my time. I'm still waiting on a 2nd controller for Catherine before I start again. The virus has delayed that bit. Hopefully, I can start again in August.  

[ArtikSkarab]

5 people, 1 platinum trophy

Yakuza 5 (PS3)

 

It's been a while since my last completion, but I finally cleared the longest time sink I had envisioned for this event. After 140 hours, Yakuza 5 is finally completed.

 

The Yakuza games are open-world action/fighting games. The open world portion plays like most JRPG: go around the multiple cities talking to people, doing sidequests, playing minigames and battling in random encounters. The encounters themselves are played as 3D beat-'em-ups: comboing basic attacks and unleashing pretty spectacular finishing moves.

 

This series is also known for their focus on expansive stories first and foremost. This specific chapter of the series encompasses the lives of 5 different protagonists. Kazuma Kiryu, the sole protagonist of the first 3 games, a legendary yakuza who is currently in hiding as a taxi driver to distance himself from his adopted daughter. Taiga Saejima, one of the protagonists of Yakuza 4, is going back to jail (after he escaped in Yakuza 4) to atone for his crimes. Haruka Sawamura, the adopted daughter of Kiryu and main plot point of the first game, is entering the harsh world of idols. Shun Akiyama, one of the protagonists of Yakuza 4, is opening a new moneylanding office. Finally, Tatsuo Shinada, a newcomer to the series, is investigating the baseball sign stealing scandal he was dragged into. Over the course of the game, there are multiple revelations and plot twists and it's a really good story to go through if you don't mind it being a bit cheesy and are able to muster through the Saejima chapter (the weakest part).

 

The big difficulty for the platinum was the 100% completion list which is pretty expansive, though not too difficult. The only minigames that are really hard are Darts (until you can figure out the timings), pool (inconsistant physics), pachinko (luck-based) and batting center (timng is really strict). The other parts that I thought would be difficult, the Climax Battles and Extra Hard playthrough, were actually really easy to go through. The Climax Battles are really easy except for maybe one or two, especially compared to Yakuza 0 and the secondary playthrough can be cheesed with the Golden Gun in maybe 5 hours.

 

Overall, it's a pretty good game, but not as good as Yakuza 0 which is still the recommended starting point if you're interested in the series.

 

 

This brings my total to 11/27 for the event. Not sure what I'll be going for next, but it will definitively be shorter.

[Salima-sensei]

So FFVII + Yakuza 0 are finished, also Valkyria Chronicle.

Half of the Games gone, most fast Games left.  ?

 

Spoiler

 

A	A Plague's Tale: Innocence	PS4	0%
B	Beyond Two Souls	PS4	0%
C	Code Vein	PS4	100%
D	Disgaea 5	PS4	18%
E	Everybody's Gone To The Rapture	PS4	0%
F	Final Fantasy VII Remake	PS4	100%
G	God Eater Resurrection	PS4 / Vita	21%
H	Horizon Zero Dawn	PS4	4%
I	Infamous	PS3	100%
J	Journey	PS3	0%
K	Kingdom Hearts	PS4	100%
L	Lost Dimension	VITA	100%
M	Marvels Spider-Man	PS4	0%
N	Nier Automata	PS4	100%
O	One Piece: Burning Blood	VITA	100%
P	Persona 5	PS4	100%
Q	Queen's Quest 2: Stories of Forgotten Past	PS4	0%
R	Rune Factory: Ocean	PS3	0%
S	Steins;Gate Elite	PS4	100%
T	Tales of Arise	PS4	0%
U	Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Remastered	PS4	100%
V	Valkyrie Chronicle	PS4	100%
W	World of Final Fantasy	PS4/VITA	100%
X	XBlaze Code: Embryo	VITA	100%
Y	Yakuza 0	PS4	100%
Z	Zero Escape: The Nonary Games	VITA	100%

 

 

Edited April 27, 2020 by Salima-sensei

[Geridian]

Hi all, hope you all have a good time and are feeling well .

My thumbs are pressed and I hope that this year will end in a better state as it is now in!

At least we all have still the fun in gaming so we will be busy for this year  .

For me today is a special day: I am 37 years old now.. and sometimes I think that I am just too old for gaming but then I just enjoy gaming too much for stopping it. I think that anybody is never too old to enjoy the things he/she likes.

 

Maybe people who checked my profile where noticing that I am sidetracked with many other games and I also where in some kind of EZPZ phase.

My side projects atm are:

• Final Fantasy XIV (The MMORPG) >> Girlfriend and I decided starting it again since we played it for the first time some years ago (She on PS4, me on PC but now playing it on PS4 also because of trophies) and finished the ARR (A Ream Reborn) mainstory yesterday. We both thought that the current situation was a good time to start again because we both had more time to spare then normally. Funny thing is that the expansion packs have 0 trophies. If anybody likes to join me and my girlfriend just contact me  .
• Final Fantasy VII Remake >> Like 90% of other Sony gamers did I started playing this game also and finished it on easy mode because girlfriend and I wanted to see the new story first without too much hassle. Okay.. I did 75% of the chapters in normal mode but then I switched on easy. Currently I am prepping the team for hard mode playthrough. Every time when I play this game I am thinking that this game must be much better for a person which did not play the original FF7.. but then again I think that for a person with decent knowledge of the whole "Compilation of FF VII" some things just make more sense.
• Trials of Mana >> Currently staying at 0% but I will start playing it today since I bought it for myself as a birthday present for today. Have some partys prepped in the ToM Demo which are ready for importing.

==> But still: Even with all the sideload (FF XIV is a timesink I am enjoying very much) I managed to get some competition games done.

 

Letters: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z B1 B2 B3

 

Some challenge games I like to share my thoughts about:

 

Y Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA = Finished my first playthrough on 24.03.2020 in normal mode and only need to complete/start the bonus dungeon and then go for getting the true ending on nightmare mode.. but I enjoyed this game so much that I don`t want to replay everything now with 100% of the story still in my mind. I had a great time with this game and had 0 things to complain. Characters, story, music, combat system.. everything right with this game. This is an JRPG masterpiece.

 

H HELLBLADE SENUA'S SACRIFICE  = This game was something special. Dark, twisted, great actress. Since girlfriend and I are watching "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix and where watching "Vikings" also I also enjoy playing games with Nordic mythology elements very much. 

 

O Onrush = This game was pure fun from start to finish although I needed my tries for some of the last challenges (It took me ~ 3 hours to get the 12 Titan takedowns done in one Superstar challenge. I just got better with every try and nailed the 12 takedowns in 2 rounds on my last try). I am really not your average racing game guy but basically this game felt like playing Overwatch with cars ?. You have 4 different "classes" (From speedy and squishy damage dealer to big cars acting as tanks), you have Ultimates, Lootboxes, different skins and stuff to unlock.

 

See spoiler for list of my challenge games:

 

Spoiler

1. ?A Assassin's Creed Origins [PS4] 100% AVG : 6.92% [LINK]
2. ?B BACK TO THE FUTURE [PS3] [DISC] 100% AVG: 50.72% [LINK]
3. ☑️C Concrete Genie [PS4] 100% AVG: 12.59% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 04.03.2020 ? 05.03.2020
4. ☑️D Day of the Tentacle Remastered [Vita] 100% AVG: 38.17% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 07.02.2020 ? 07.02.2020
5. ?E Everybody's Gone To The Rapture [PS4] 100% AVG: 17.84% [LINK] 

6. ☑️F FINAL FANTASY VII [PS4] 100% AVG: 24.16% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 01.01.2020 ? 13.02.2020

7. ?G GAME OF THRONES [PS3] [EU] 100% AVG: 10.52% [LINK]

8. ☑️H HELLBLADE SENUA'S SACRIFICE [PS4] [EU] 100% AVG: 40.4% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 17.04.2020 ? 18.04.2020

9. ?I I Am Alive [PS3] 100% AVG: 5.21% [LINK]

10. ☑️J Journey [PS3] 100% AVG: 16.05% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 07.03.2020 ? 08.03.2020
11. ?K KINGDOM HEARTS II FINAL MIX [PS4] 100% AVG: 12.87% [LINK]
12. ☑️L LEGO Legend of Chima [Vita] 100% AVG: 49.44% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 24.03.2020 ? 27.03.2020
13. ?M Moss [PS4] [EU] 100% AVG: 6.25%
14. ☑️N Never Alone [PS4] [EU] 100% AVG: 7.05% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 28.02.2020 ? 28.02.2020
15. ☑️O Onrush [PS4] 100% AVG: 9.82% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 20.04.2020 ? 25.04.2020
16. ☑️P Puzzle Agent (Nelson Tethers:) [PS3] 100% AVG: 38.77% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 11.01.2020 ? 11.01.2020

17. ☑️Q Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut [PS3] 100% AVG: 13.28% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 02.01.2020 ? 02.01.2020

18. ?R Risen 3: Titan Lords [PS3] 100% AVG: 8.25% [LINK]

19. ?S Sword Art Online: Re Hollow Fragment [PS4] 100% AVG: 1.57% [LINK]

20. ?T The Council [PS4] 100% AVG: 31.51% [LINK]
21. ?U Until Dawn [PS4] 100% AVG: 18.67% [LINK]
22. ☑️V Valiant Hearts: The Great War [PS4] 100% AVG: 11.04% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 06.03.2020 ? 06.03.2020
23. ?W World of Final Fantasy [PS4] 100% AVG: 10.85% [LINK]
24. ☑️X Xeodrifter [Vita] [EU] 100% AVG: 10.85% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 08.02.2020 ? 08.02.2020
25. ?Y Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA [PS4] [EU] 100% AVG: 17.7% [LINK] ==> ▶️ 08.03.2020
26. ?Z Zone of the Enders HD Edition [PS3] 100% AVG: 11.32%  [LINK]

 

Backup:

1. ?A Atomic Ninjas [PS3] 100% AVG: 8.61%
2. ?M Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2 [PS4] 100% AVG: 21.07%
3. ?W Windstorm [PS4] 100% AVG: 55.87%

 

That is all for now. Have fun people, until next time!

Edited April 30, 2020 by Geridian

[Mystvayne]

Finished 2 more games this month. Assassin's Creed Revelations and Earthlock. Was hoping to get more done but I went back to some Witcher 3 And FFXIV for the Attack on completion event.

 

9 games down - A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, O+, P, Q, Q+, R, S, T, U, U+, U++, V, W, X, X+, Y, Z

 

Spoiler

A - Assassin's Creed Revelations (PS4)

B - Bioshock Infinite (PS4)

C - (Swap) Detroit Become Human

D - Dragon Quest XI

E - Evoland

F - Far Cry New Dawn

G - God of War (PS4)

H - Horizon Zero Dawn

I - Impact Winter

J - Just Cause 3

K - Kingdom Hearts (PS4)

L - Lost Sphere (PS4)

M - Mad Max

N - Ni No Kuni II

O - Dragon Age II

O+ - Dragon Age Inquisition

P - Planetbase

Q - Darksiders II (PS4)

Q+ - Darksiders III

R - Ratchet & Clank (PS4)

S - Subnautica

T - The Flame In The Flood

U - Uncharted(PS4)

U+ - Uncharted 2 (PS4)

U++ - Uncharted 3 (PS4)

V - Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story

W - World of Final Fantasy (PS4)

X - Distrust

X+ - Earthlock

Y - Yakuza 0

Z - Zombi

 

Extra: Mass Effect / Infamous / Skyrim (PS3)

 

[Redbeard-Rik]

#1979 black friday
A- Assassin's creed 2 DONE
B- Bully
C- Cat quest 2 DONE
D- Dead space 2 (GER) DONE
E- The elder scrolls V: skyrim vr DONE
F- Final fantasy 8 DONE
G- God of war (ps3)
H- Harry potter & the half blood prince DONE
I- Illusion of L'Phalcia DONE
J- Jurassic the hunted
K- Kingdoms of amalur reckoning
L- Lord of the rings: Aragorn's quest
M- Mass effect 2 DONE
N- Need for speed: Rivals
O- Obduction
P- Paranormal activity: The lost soul
Q- Quest of dungeons
R- Reverie DONE
S- Saw
T- Tales from the borderlands DONE
U- Uncharted: The lost legacy
V- Vampyr
W- Wanted: Weapons of fate
X- X-blades
Y- Yesterday origins
Z- Zerotopian invasion DONE

11/27 Completed

 

Completed mass effect 2

[Kishnabe]

On 12/27/2019 at 0:10 PM, Kishnabe said:

ACT IT OUT! A GAME OF CHARADES
Batman: The Enemy Within
Creepy Road
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
Effie

 

Football Game(PS4 Stack)

 

 

Gemini: Heroes Reborn

Hero Express
ICEY
Just Ignore Them (PS4 Stack)

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

Life is Strange

Murdered: Soul Suspect

N.E.R.O.

 

One Night Stand
Perils of Baking (PS4 Stack)
Q.U.B.E. Director's Cut
Refunct

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

Tic-Tac-Letters by POWGI  (Stack Vita)
 

Unholy Heights
Virginia
Wailing Heights
Xeodrifter (PS4 Stack)
Yesterday Origins

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

 

 

2 Down: Batman: The Enemy Within and Tic-tac Letters.

 

 

 

Next Month: Going to try and get at least 4 more done. 

Edited April 29, 2020 by Kishnabe

[FairyCal]

April Update:

 

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  Q+ R  S  T  U  V  W  X  X+  Y  Z  Z+

 

Persona 5

Start: 22.03.2020 | Finish: 20.04.2020

 

Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight

Start: 20.04.2020 | Finish: 23.04.2020

 

Until Dawn

Start: 26.04.2020 | Finish: 27.04.2020

 

inFamous Second Son

Start: 27.04.2020 | Finish: 29.04.2020

[SpaceCoresDad]

Well, I waited until the end of the month to confirm it. No games finished in April It hasn't been a fantastic month for me, since I've had so much schoolwork to do thanks to Corona, but hey, that'll all be over shortly into May! Hopefully I'll get a lot more done that month, and it'll be my birthday then too so I'll see if I can pop one for that. Here's hoping.

Not all is lost though. I made a lot of progress in For Honor, and I've gotten almost halfway through Hunted: The Demon's Forge. I suspect the latter will be done at the beginning of May, and the former... well, it'll take a while, but we're getting there. This ain't supposed to be easy after all.

[AuroraHistoire]

Uni Styles on Everyone

 

I completed Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online recently. My personal experience with the game was a bit Unique. After trying every character out at the start of the game, I decided to use only play Uni because her dodging animations where stylish backflips. Uni was the party's DPS and I min-maxed her attack status as much as possible. I even sacrificed her entire defense stat to boost her attack; it wasn't a huge issue since she is a mid-long range attacker and I was able to dodge most attacks. Despite Uni's defense literally being 0, she could still take a few hits.

 

The rest of the party was controlled entirely by the game's AI. The AI tries it's hardest but it's not very good. Vert's role was to heal and buff the party; the AI was decent at those two things. I raised Rom's HP and Defense to the point where she was borderline invincible. My original intention was to use her if Uni got K.Oed but the game does the whole Persona thing, where your teamates are allowed to get K.Oed 20 times in the same fight and everything is alright but if you get K.Oed once, you lose. Rom wasn't a effective tank either, since the enemy AI would usually target Uni or someone else. The last member of the quartet was Nepgear. She was a mage who did magical attacks. I don't remember why I picked over everyone else. Maybe I felt bad for her because she was bullied a lot during Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory.

 

My strategy was really good in practice as far as I could tell. Uni did 95% of the work and was able to kill end-game bossed in a few minutes. Those results were probably only possible because I was controlling her. Vert's healing and buffs where useful too. Rom and Nepgear were there for emotional support mostly. Rom never did anything interesting but Nepgear did try to be the tank. Results were mixed. At worst, she went down in 2 attacks. At best, she was able to survive by standing next to the boss because the boss' attacks kept shooting over her head.

 

I had fun playing Cyberdimension Neptunia. I laughed when my AI party members ran around in tiny circles or kept teleporting off ledges. 

 

Game list in spoiler tag.

Spoiler

198X (PS4)
A Rose in the Twilight (Vita)
Broforce (PS4)
Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online (PS4)
Double Dragon Neon (PS3)
Everybody's Golf (PS4)
Fallout 4 (PS4)
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (PS4) 
htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary (Vita)
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone (PS4)
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 (Vita)
Infinifactory (PS4)
Just Cause 3 (PS4)
Jet Set Radio (Vita)
King's Quest: The Complete Collection (PS4)
L.A. Noire (PS4)
Megadimension Neptunia VII (PS4)
Ninja Pizza Girl (PS4)
Nekopara Vol. 3 (PS4)
Oddworld New 'n Tasty (PS4) 
Persona 4 Golden (Vita)
Persona 5 Royal (PS4) 
Psychonauts (PS4) 
Quest of Dungeons (PS4)
Quantum Conundrum (PS3)
Riddled Corpses EX (Vita)
Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny (PS3) 
Superdimension Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls (Vita)
Spyro the Dragon (PS4)  
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage (PS4) 
Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon (PS4)

Trinity Universe (PS3) 
Touhou Genso Rondo (PS4) 
Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity (PS4)
Uncanny Valley (PS4)
Valkyria Chronicles 4 (PS4) 
WILL: A Wonderful World (PS4)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition (PS4)
Xeodrifter (PS4) 
Yomawari: Night Alone (Vita) 
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows (Vita)
Zone of the Enders HD Edition (PS3) 
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner HD Edition (PS3)

+ Persona 3 FES but it doesn't really count since it doesn't have a trophy list.

 

[igs63]

I'm back! And locking in platinum number 7 for the event with How to Train Your Dragon! If you happened to read my last update, I reserved posting my comments on this one until this update just so my post didn't get too long. Well, here we are. Cue rant:

 

Initially, as a big fan of the series (see profile picture) I was a little ashamed I hadn't yet played this game, especially since it has been on my shelf for basically the entire lifetime of the ps4. I'm wondering now if some otherworldly force had been preventing me from starting this game just to save me from it- because now that I've played most of it... the only word that I can give is... disappointment. Despite bringing in the real voice actors from the movie and admittedly having some pretty decent dragon and character models the game is just sooooooo baaad. Not only this, but terribly inaccurate to the series. Now I get this is meant to be aimed at children... but still, it didn't have to be this bad.

 

The game is set after the events of the first movie- as explained at the start of the game, and is centered around training up your dragon to fight other dragons in tournaments- which, first off, is basically the opposite of what HTTYD is all about. Not only this but there are some glaringly obvious mistakes- like the terrible yellow colouring of Astrid's hair in cutscenes (not to mention they were fine with putting blonde on other characters- so not sure how they messed Astrid's up so badly) or the fact that Hiccup has both his legs (he loses one at the end of the movie). The village is obviously nothing like the one in the movie either, and despite most notable characters being present, when talking to them at any time they generally have only 1 or 2 different voice lines for the whole game (with the exception of the few that give you quests).

 

Noww..... I could try to look past all this if the gameplay wasn't also terrible. The dragon fighting involves a series of 1 on 1 fighting game like rounds, where you use combos to execute different moves. There is a series of trainings on each of these combos which would be great- if the game actually properly registered the button presses. I often had to mash the button multiple times for it to register. This meant legitimately performing any combos that included more than one different button was borderline impossible. So when it came time for real tournaments all I really ended up doing was mashing triangle and on occasion actually properly executing the triple triangle combo for stunning an opponent. There are a total of 52 rounds of training PER DRAGON, which is just insane, devolving into a mind numbing mashing of buttons until the other dragon, who generally didn't fight back, was finally k.o'd. Repeat this for 4 dragons as part of a gold trophy for getting them all to max level, and you can see how even if the training was perfect and enjoyable... that is a LOT of matches to have to do, especially when getting the dragons to max level for the trophy still involved 17 other "wild fights" and 15 minigame playthroughs. The minigames were not terrible, involving basic button mashing and memory games.

 

After 100 arcade fights consisting of the same monotony, and one more dash through of the main story with the opposite character, I was finally done. This week I also continued playing Zero Escape, scooping up a few more trophies to push up that percentage a touch. As I mentioned last week the only thing still bugging me is the game's subtle assumption that I have played the varying story branches in a certain order... but I can look past it, as the concept (to me at least) is definitely quite adventurous and complex to actually execute perfectly.

 

With another game complete I suppose I'll be looking at what to start next... and with Valhalla just announced and now on the horizon, that may very well be Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Until next week!

 

The List:

 

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey PS4 - 0%
Batman (Telltale) PS4 - 0%
Cyberpunk 2077 PS4 - 0%
Deus Ex: Human Revolution PS3 - 0%
Erica PS4 - 100% 
Fallout 3 PS3 - 0%
Guardians of the Galaxy PS4 - 100% 
How to Train Your Dragon PS3 - 100% 
Infamous PS3 - 0%
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy PS4 - 0%
Kingdom Hearts PS4 - 0%
Late Shift PS4 - 100% 
Minecraft: Story Mode PS4 - 100% 
NieR Automata PS4 - 0%
Oxenfree PS4 - 100% 
Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight PS4 - 0%
Q.U.B.E 2 PS4 - 0%
Republique PS4 - 0%
Stranded Sails: Explorers of the Cursed Islands PS4 -  100% 
Trüberbrook PS4 - 0%
Unravel PS4 - 0%
Vampyr PS4 - 0%
Wonderbook: Diggs Nightcrawler PS3 - 0%
XCOM 2 PS4 - 0%
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles PS4 - 0%

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games VITA - >44%

Edited May 2, 2020 by igs63

[GerritSlak]

New update!

 

I completed the oher 2 PoP games for my Z swap

Pretty easy games but doing multiple playtroughs got boring. Really glad I didn't encounter any major glitches so I didn't have to do more of them.

 

I also completed The Unfinished Swan.

A very sweet game that I would've liked to be a bit longer. The "Minimalist" trophy took a few tries but was easier than I expected.

 

I've started and beaten God of War but before I continue it I want to plat the older games first. Only have a few of them left so I should be done soon.

 

Not sure what I'll play after that but since it still looks like I have to stay home for a while I will have plenty of time to complete a few games.

 

 

Completed Letters: E, J, P, U, V, Z

[iXanon]

On 17/04/2020 at 0:06 PM, iXanon said:

 

Update #7:

The above still holds true.. I've lost my gaming mojo over the last few weeks and just haven't felt like doing much. Since update #6 on March 16th, this is the grand sum of my progress for this event. There's no one single reason for this, it just seems to be a culmination of several things.. Hopefully I manage to find some motivation soon.

 

H <=> Batman: Arkham Asylum => 28% => 65% => 72%

InFamous => 4%

Plague Inc: Evolved => 16% => 20%

Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut => 23%

V <=> Far Cry 3 (PS3) => 12% => 21%

Zombie Driver HD => 4%

 

Completed: 2/27

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (PS3) ?

What Remains of Edith Finch (EU) ?

 

The list to date:

Spoiler

Alice: Madness Returns (PS3) => 7%
Brink (PS3)
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (PS3) => 100% ?
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PS3)
Earthlock (EU) (PS4)
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy (PS4) => 7%
God of War II (PS3)
H <=> Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3) => 28% => 65% => 72%
InFAMOUS (PS3) => 4%
Journey (PS4)
Kingdom Hearts Final Mix (PS3)
Life is Strange (PS4)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS3)
Naughty Bear (PS3) => 8%
Oxenfree (PS4)
Plague Inc: Evolved (PS4) => 16% => 20%
Q.U.B.E. Director's Cut (PS4) => 23%
Ratchet & Clank (PS3)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PS3)
Toy Story 3 (PS3)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Remastered (PS4)
V <=> Far Cry 3 (PS3) => 12% => 21% + Splinter Cell: Blacklist (PS3)
What Remains of Edith Finch (EU) (PS4) => 100% ?
XBlaze Lost: Memories (PS3)
Yooka-Laylee (PS4) => 13%
Zombie Driver HD (PS3) => 4%

 

Edited May 4, 2020 by iXanon

[Redbeard-Rik]

Need for speed Rivals done. Puts me at 12 games finished now, nearly halfway there.

 

#1979 black friday
A- Assassin's creed 2 DONE
B- Bully
C- Cat quest 2 DONE
D- Dead space 2 (GER) DONE
E- The elder scrolls V: skyrim vr DONE
F- Final fantasy 8 DONE
G- God of war (ps3)
H- Harry potter & the half blood prince DONE
I- Illusion of L'Phalcia DONE
J- Jurassic the hunted
K- Kingdoms of amalur reckoning
L- Lord of the rings: Aragorn's quest
M- Mass effect 2 DONE
N- Need for speed: Rivals DONE
O- Obduction
P- Paranormal activity: The lost soul
Q- Quest of dungeons
R- Reverie DONE
S- Saw
T- Tales from the borderlands DONE
U- Uncharted: The lost legacy
V- Vampyr
W- Wanted: Weapons of fate
X- X-blades
Y- Yesterday origins
Z- Zerotopian invasion DONE

12/27 Completed

Edited May 6, 2020 by Redbeard-Rik

[flashpool23]

S (1 of 1) - South Park: The Fractured But Whole

 

I'm goin' down to South Park gonna have myself a time. Friendly faces everywhere....

 

So I loved this game. Actually, I had to finish The Stick of Truth before attempting this one but both experiences were genuinely worth it. As the new kid, the way you were integrated into the main cast of the show was perfect and every character from the show was exactly portrayed here without changes. Honestly, this game has the love of its creators and you notice it with just about everything. It's extremely ridiculous (in a good way) and I even recommend the dlc which had zero trophies, but helpful party members to unlock, as worth playing through. Would you really pass up interrupting a birthday party for vampires in a Mexican restaurant and a parody of horror films especially Friday the 13th with the South Park cast? Plus you collect Yaoi art and battle Morgan Freeman in the main game! It's not that long of a game either so this is for sure a positive recommendation and experience to be tried. It's one big episode of South Park and what a feature it was!

[igs63]

Update time!

 

This week I finished Virtue's Last Reward (VLR) from Zero Escape: The Nonary Games, locking in my 8th platinum for the event. I'm probably a bit behind where I should be in terms of being on track to finish the event, so this month I may try to knock out a few more of the shorter games on my list, considering this is the last month without a big release that I am absolutely going to play straight away (for the next couple months, anyway).

 

But let's talk VLR, and more generally, the world of Zero Escape. Let me tell you, these games were fantastic. VLR took some time to convince me (as you may know if you read some of my previous updates) but man once you get into it, and start getting to the end and putting all the pieces together, the game still laughs in your face and throws in a few more plot twists for good measure. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it all. I won't spoil too much but definitely check it out if you're into this kind of genre, or have played Danganronpa and liked it. To be honest I felt kinda sad when I finished the game, and that doesn't always happen for me, haha. Luckily I still have Zero Time Dilemma to go, and based on how VLR ends, I think I can guess when and where it's set. I feel very fortunate that my discovery of this series was completely accidental- I initially downloaded Zero Time Dilemma a while back when it was free on PS Plus (when we still got vita and ps3 games :') ) and when I saw it was the third in a series of games, I didn't start it right away. I didn't know all too much about it and so I kind of forgot about it. In between that time I did discover and play the first two entries to the Danganronpa series. Then, it came to this event, and I needed a Z game. Of course looking through everything I had and I found Zero Time Dilemma again. This time I recognised that it had some of the same devs and looked similar to Danganronpa, so I thought, why not? I did some research, found the games I was supposed to play first, added them to the list (and thankfully, bought them while they were on sale).. and now here we are. I'm so glad to have discovered these series.

 

Seriously though, if anyone knows anything similar to the Danganronpa or Zero Escape games, please let me know! Because once I finish both of those series, I'll be looking for something similar!

 

This week I did also start Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and this was definitely sparked by the incoming Valhalla. Initially I'd been trying to clean up trophies on the older titles before I got stuck into Odyssey, but I'd rather finish it before Valhalla so I can jump into that one too. I've clocked about 15 hours give or take so far, and man this game is huge. It's definitely a relief to see that the 'complete all locations' trophy present in Origins did not make a reappearance. I love all the small things too, like the fact that the character doesn't wear the headgear in cut scenes, or the ability to change the appearance of your gear, so I can always look put together and awesome, instead of wearing a set of mismatched gear just because they all have the highest stats.

 

My list for now:

 

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey PS4 - >5%
Batman (Telltale) PS4 - 0%
Cyberpunk 2077 PS4 - 0%
Deus Ex: Human Revolution PS3 - 0%
Erica PS4 - 100% 
Fallout 3 PS3 - 0%
Guardians of the Galaxy PS4 - 100% 
How to Train Your Dragon PS3 - 100% 
Infamous PS3 - 0%
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy PS4 - 0%
Kingdom Hearts PS4 - 0%
Late Shift PS4 - 100% 
Minecraft: Story Mode PS4 - 100% 
NieR Automata PS4 - 0%
Oxenfree PS4 - 100% 
Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight PS4 - 0%
Q.U.B.E 2 PS4 - 0%
Republique PS4 - 0%
Stranded Sails: Explorers of the Cursed Islands PS4 -  100% 
Trüberbrook PS4 - 0%
Unravel PS4 - 0%
Vampyr PS4 - 0%
Wonderbook: Diggs Nightcrawler PS3 - 0%
XCOM 2 PS4 - 0%
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles PS4 - 0%

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games VITA - 100% 

[Andrea9281]

AFL Live 2 0 -> 98%
Batman: Arkham City (PS3)
Catherine (PS3)
Dead Nation PS4
eCrossminton 60%
Fast and Furious Showdown  Completed 23 January 2020
Grand Theft Auto IV 85%
How to Train Your Dragon 2
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
Just Cause 3 Completed 11 January 2020
Killzone: Shadow Fall 92%
Lords of the Fallen  Completed 21 January 2020

Mirror's Edge
Naughty Bear 8%
Oddworld:New 'n' Tasty
Prototype
Quantum Theory
Red Dead Redemption 2
Shadow Warrior
The Sims 3: Pets
Unravel Two
Vikings: Wolves of Midgard
Wasteland 2
X Puppeteer
Yakuza 0 15%
Zombie Tycoon II Completed 2 January 2020

 

Backups:
Metro: Last Light (PS3)

Wolfenstein II

Slain: Back From Hell

 

I made no progress the entire month of April, which was actually one of my best trophy hunting months (by volume) in a long time. I was doing uncommon and rare games for Trophy Hunter's League and didn't get around to doing any of these. Upcoming season I'll try to work in more, especially shorter ones like Slain, Unravel Two, Oddworld, or Metro. I'm starting to feel pessimistic about my odds of finishing all 29 games, but I believe I can still manage to finish 26 by slotting in my backups for some of the longer grinds on my main list.

 

I have recently started and finished AFL Live 2, however. It's one of the easiest UR plats I've ever done, and I've done some easy ones over the years. Also quite short, probably in the 10-12 hour range. Holding the last trophy for the aforementioned THL, but it will take about 10 minutes to earn. Certainly only a game for the most frenzied UR trophy hunters as it has essentially 0 fun factor outside of popping the trophies and being able to watch or listen to enjoyable things while you play it

Edited May 11, 2020 by Andrea9281

[DeoffGeoff]

Finally got out of my video game slump. I haven’t really been motivated to play lately. I finished Deponia Doomsday (the 1001 jackalopes trophy really sucks!!) and Eventide 2.

 

Apocolipsis- completed 1/2

Batman: The enemy Within- completed 1/8

Call of Cthulu- completed 1/18

Deponia Doomsday- completed 5/10

Eventide 2- completed 5/14

Forgotten Anne

Grim Fandango

Hidden Agenda

Invisible Hours

Jolt: Family Robot Racer

Khara

Life is Strange

My Brother Rabbit

1979 Revolution: Black Friday

Oliver's Adventures in the Fairyland

Please Don't Touch Anything

Queen's Quest 2

Rozen Maiden

State of Mind

Truberbrook

Until Dawn

Variable Barricade

Wordsweeper by Powgi

Xing: The Land Beyond

Your Toy

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games