@nessisonett well done on getting that far on those, Tony Hawk in particular… I really need to go back to that myself at some point so thanks for reminding me.
Platinum #152 - 12 Minutes - nowhere near as clever or profound as it seems thinks it is but is different enough of an experience from the norm to be an interesting diversion.
Platinum #153 - Chicory: A Colourful Tale - delightful!
@nessisonett Close but no cigar. @colonelkilgore Good stuff. Yeah I've heard 12 mins isn't as good as people thought it would be.
And yeah Chicory is delightful, very well designed despite the crashes.
@AgentCooper aye I got a third (We Were Here Together) earlier in the month as it was co-op… and I couldn’t really ask my co-op partner to hold off on one of the trophies until the 1st October, though I did consider it 🤣
I rolled the credits on Inscryption a couple of nights ago.
A clever, weird, but enjoyable deck builder that really messes with you and the genre. The story is intentionally a bit vague but cleverly done too. It’s the first game on a while that I won’t be getting the plat for though as the Kaycee mod trophies are way too time consuming.
I gut gud for #64 - Inscryption
The Kaycee mod trophies are no joke, particularly the final one (Skull Storm) which requires you to finish with all difficulty modifiers on. It took me ages to get through the first boss for that one but the first time I did I managed to see it through to the end.
As someone who keeps claiming not to enjoy deck builders, I bloody loved this game.
@Thrillho
Excellent work bud.
It's great when a game can draw you in like that and make you keep at it. Hope to get around to it sometime myself - I've only heard good, but mostly vague, things about it.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
@Thrillho Great stuff, I must admit that I played about 10 minutes of Inscryption and deleted it, I didn't have a clue what was going on and I thought, ain't nobody got time for this. Perhaps I should give it another go.
I also have Slay the spire which is perhaps more my thing. Have you tried that?
@CaptD I’ve never been into card deck builder games, but I did try Slay the Spire, on the back of its praise I’d been hearing. It was decently fun and if I didn’t have a large backlog of games to pull me away then I would have spent more time with it. But as it turned out, I just played it for a few hours and then drifted away from it.
These card games can be addictive though, so if it clicks with you it might keep you engaged for 100 hours.
I definitely want to try Inscryption though because it has some mysterious and weird vibe to it. Also might try Midnight Suns if it dropped onto PS+
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Thank you folks (well not you Sol). Funnily enough, Inscryption and Midnight Suns are the two games I've played in the genre and enjoyed them both.
Inscrpytion is weird and part of it is not knowing what is going on and how the story reveals itself and how the game changes with this (I'm also being vague as it's best experienced for yourself). The first part of the game is designed to be failed multiple times to give you chance to reveal things so not to get too disheartened! The "Kaycees Mod" part is DLC where you replay part of the game but with more specific starter hands and unlock difficulty modifiers as you complete runs.
Midnight Suns is cool as it has some XCOM elements to it and lots of little things that makes building and improving your deck really fun. It also has a good central story and an interesting mix of well and lesser known characters in the Marvel Universe. I took a punt on it and had real fun.
I haven't played Slay the Spire though and feel I probably should seeing as it seems to be the gold standard for the genre. I seem to remember it being as PS+ game at some point so probably have it in my library.
I got the platinum in Yakuza 4 Remastered. Relatively easy trophy list for a Yakuza game without much completion of minigames etc. required but you do have to play it three times and that is unacceptable. Anyway, I did it.
@Thrillho There's a trophy for beating the game on Normal and a trophy for beating the game on Legend difficulty. Legend difficulty only unlocks by beating the game on Hard. So you have to beat Normal, then Hard to unlock Legend, and then Legend for the last trophy. It's poor.
Ping ... Callisto Protocol
What a disappointment, it's like the Devs said "how can we make this different from Dead Space" when people were expecting (Yeah expectations) a spiritual successor which was certainly implied by the early trailers.
Felt more like Evil Within than Dead Space, Combat was boring , bosses were terrible with one hit kill mechanics , constant rushing at you when it takes 10 seconds to heal. Dead space had these features but statis prevented it being an issue...no such mechanic here.
However the game does have great atmosphere although you do get sick of vent shafts...I really do know what a TV dinner feels like.
Terrible waste really and it seemed very little thought went into the combat mechanics, perhaps they changed late into development.
It is definitely worth playing if you are a sci fi buff, if you do though just be aware that there is a strange bug which may load an incorrect save on restart and show you an incomplete set of saves. I panicked when it set me back 4 chapters and lost an entire day of saves, it only showed 4 saves when there are probably 20+ (it auto saves all the time and keeps quite a few, clearly very paranoid ). I suspect this might be a threading issue with their FILE system that they implemented (probably to minimise the stuttering that plagues the PC version), I say this because it might be down to me starting the game before it has finished initialising...so basically give it a few seconds after startup. Just a thought and I'm probably wrong. If this occurs to you then simply restart.
Anyhoo 3/10 difficulty if you play on easy (which isn't easy) and then NG+ on hard. This was quite fun this way because in NG+ I had so much money I just shot or slammed everything.
Time 20 hours. Enjoyment 6.5/10 (I'm not upset, I'm just disappointed).
@CaptD Nice work. I've never played Dead Space but quite liked the look of CP so plunged in day 1. The atmosphere of those first few levels I thought they'd nailed and you can see all the work they did on the graphical side of things paid off. It's not long though before those issues with the combat start creeping in and it just gets very old very quickly. The lack of variety and the issues fighting mobs really grated on me towards the end, I was really glad to finish it.
Back when I played it there was no NG+ and I wasn't relishing a second playthrough on a harder difficulty but luckily as I had the disk version I was able to load a save just before the credits rolled and switch the difficulty to pop that last trophy as there's no way I'd have got the platinum for it. Real shame though as I was hoping for a lot more but hopefully when I get around to playing Dead Space I'll see how good a game of this type can be 😄
@Thrillho It's a dreadful decision. I like the trophy lists like the one in Yakuza 4 generally, because it doesn't get too silly into the mini-games. It's not like you need to 100% everything, and beat Virtua Fighter with every character in the arcade, and because the shogi master etc. Some of the trophy lists have stuff like that and it's such a slog. But they do ruin this trophy list with the three playthroughs. Still, it's over now.
On to Yakuza 5 which is the one I've been dreading.
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