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Another platinum for Spooktober! This game fits the very themes of a campy b or c horror movie. The build up to the Mother is interesting as you see her skittering offspring running around the zoo. The characters were interesting as they each have their own reasons to be in the zoo. All in all, the game for one or two play togethers is a decent game.

However, the platinum experience is more than a little annoying. To get the platinum, you have to get all 23 of the games original endings. I wouldn’t have much of an issue with this, if it wasn’t for the fact that the endings are so minimally different from each other, that of the 23 maybe 6-7 are actually unique. Additionally, each run is about 30min to 1&1/2 hours. This, combined with the 23 runs, ends up making the any scripted jump scares more annoying than scary.

All in all, fun game but annoying platinum.

Hey all! Decided that with it now being October, I decided that my platinums for the next month will revolve around horror, suspense and/or monsters. I decided that this was a perfect fit for my first SpookTober platinum.

This game was an absolutely beautiful tragedy. I don’t want to spoil any of the story, so I’ll be keeping this post short. This journey of siblings and family is a true masterpiece and I portrays an amazing representation of the 5 stages of grief. The gameplay was fun as it provides an interesting mix of puzzle solving and combat. Some of the most suspenseful elements were the various chase sequences that had you fleeing literal tidal waves of ravenous rats.

Unfortunately, my major critique of the platinum experience revolves around the 3 combat oriented trophies, ‘Sneaky’, ‘Fighter’ and ‘Malignant’. These three revolve around how many of the enemies you kill during the major combat encounters. This is not too bad during the first play through (you can get at least 1 and 1/2 full if you intentionally focus on them) but NG+ makes it a bit more troublesome. NG+ puts the game on the highest difficulty, so try to complete these three becomes exponentially more difficult.

All in all, I recommend this beauty, but highly recommend that anyone trying to platinum this pay close attention during the journey.

This was an interesting time. I’ve seen a few play throughs and clips of this game and finally decided to get it to try out. It was fun to just play a character who didn’t care about anything. Seeing the various classic school stereotypes and having jokes that even the characters acknowledged was hilarious. I found it funny that there were trophies and game mechanics that encouraged the players to be a playboy with the female NPCs.

Now, we reach the deficits in the platinum. First, the story is remarkably short if you only focus on the story. All in all, the main story only took about 6 hours. The really painful trophies were the real grind heavy trophies. The worst ones were ‘Problem Child’ (160,000 trouble points), ‘Marathon’ (walking/running 100 kilometers), ‘Skate Pro’ (skateboarding 50 kilometers), and ‘Tour De Bullworth’ (riding a bike 100 kilometers). These were extremely draining and only ‘Skate Pro’ can be somewhat cheesed.

All in all, great game but the platinum experience was somewhat draining.

This was an interesting experience to say the least. The characters were to watch as they grow from a band of misfits, to a chosen family. The best, and most annoying in the beginning, is the main character Sakuna. She starts as a spoiled pampered goddess, and becomes a strong protector of her new family.

The growth system is interesting, as it’s a mix of metroidvania and a farming simulator. Both play an integral part, as you get necessary materials by adventuring, while you level up and unlock new abilities from each rice harvest. It creates a balancing act of cultivation and battle.

All that said, if this is a platinum someone is looking to add to their collection, I highly recommend following a guide as a few trophies are very tricky to get due to being vague. Some of the necessary items or events require you to perform specific triggers that the game doesn’t mention until you do it. ‘Glutinous’ was a particularly difficult trophy as the growth of the crops can be difficult rng. I’m shouting out Cloud12817 on YouTube because, without his video on the Glutinous trophy, I don’t think I would have been able to see it.

All in all, great game and an ok platinum.

Ughh. This was an interesting experience. Like most Lego games, this was saturated with collectibles, so I spent most of my playtime flying around Gotham as either Superman or any other flying character for them. The flying mechanics were a bit buggy, but they could be adjusted to. The streaming was the biggest challenge as it would randomly decide to stutter. The story was good, however I was a little disappointed that only Superman appeared in mission 5, while the rest of the Justice League did appear until mission 14. All in all, not a bad game, but I still prefer 3 and Villains for the LEGO DC franchise.

And here I’ve completed the PS5 version of the PSP port for Toy Story 3. Normally, I’d space out the time between platinuming the PS4 version and the PS5 version. However, with this leaving PS+, I decided to blast it out after completing a different platinum. All in all, it’s an easy short platinum for a fun and nostalgic game.

Played and platinumed the PS4 version of Tactica last November. Saw that it was leaving PS+ next month, so I decided to get the plat for the PS5 version. I completed the entire story and 35 of the 40 available trophies. After returning to the title screen, I’m about to start the NG+ grind when at the bottom of the menu I see “Save Data Transfer” and realize I could have just seen or an old save. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love Tactica, I just didn’t enjoy the thought of the grind again. So, I transferred the data and got the 4 remaining trophies for the platinum. I highly recommend Tactica if it’s your first time platinuming it, but if you’re going to get the second platinum, then just transfer the data. It will save you 20hrs of work.

This was very interesting. The first time I ever heard about Bubsy was from a YouTuber by the name of TearsOfDisgrace. He plays a variety of both good and bad games. During his play throughs, he will sometimes go on rants or comparisons for fun and zaniness. All in all, I had a very fun time. It’s been a long time since I’ve played a sonic mania style game and, while I had a few frustrations about the style, it still an enjoyable experience. Highly recommend this before it leaves PS+.

I saw that this was one of the games leaving PS+ next month, so I decided, since I had already gotten the PS4 and PS5 version of Toy Story 2, that I would complete this. Honestly, this joins the category of games that can be platinumed without finishing the game. Initially, I thought that this platinum was going to a whole lot harder. However, I noticed during the play through that the recommended guide didn’t match the game. Ultimately, I realized that this version was a PSP port and was infinitely shorter and easier. All in all, I had some fun, it was an easy platinum, and it was a fairly short experience. Definitely recommend before it leaves PS+.

Recently, I found a Reddit post talking about a few PS3 games that had easy online trophies that were soon to become impossible. The servers for inFamous 2 official go offline August 31st 2026. So, after seeing that, I decided to speed through the online trophies for the games the post listed and return to them later for the platinums. inFamous 2 ended up being the last of the speed throughs, and I decided to just make it and its spin off DLC my next platinum. It was primarily for the sake of using the online features to help make the platinum easier.

Now, about the game. All and all, I enjoyed inFamous for the most part. Despite not having played the first game yet, the story was interesting and very thorough. The characters were compelling and the twists and turns they took as you progressed either the Good or Evil paths were fun to see. The powers were both fun and very versatile, allowing you to mix and match based on your play style.

With all the positives out of the way, now it’s time for the negatives. First, while the powers were fun, you only really get to enjoy them close to the end of the game. Additionally, one of the most useful traversal powers was locked in the same time frame. Speaking of traversal, moving around the map for all the side quests and collectibles felt extremely slow. Occasionally, you’d have a side quest spawn on the entire opposite side of the map from you. You’d then have run all the way to it, then all the way back for the main quest.

Next, some of the enemies were just annoying or infuriating. Because of how they fight and not including the two major bosses, of the 20 different enemies/type, 5 of them require you to basically only use the grenade power or the rocket power to be able to damage them. That wouldn’t be so bad, if both were unlocked early. You get the grenade from the start, but you only get the rocket in the later half of the game, after you have already faced off against four of the five multiple times. Additionally, unless you’re using the Sticky Grenade or the Double Grenade, the power is virtually useless against those five enemies. Throw in, that they have attacks that can throw you and some, used in main quests, are positioned to be fought on unbarred platforms that are above deep water. In this game, you land in deep water, you die and have to restart from the checkpoint. I can’t tell you how many times I was either stun locked and/or knocked back off the platforms and into the water. It was beyond rage inducing.

Finally, and this will mostly just be a problem on my part, because I was Streaming this game on PS+, I would randomly get bouts of the Stream lagging or sputtering. What made this so infuriating, is that it only decided to happen after I had completed my first play through and began my shorter second run on hard difficulty. It had no rhythm or reason as to why it happened and it was just annoying in the least.

All in all, great game for the time, but I can easily say that new innovations in gaming have spoiled me to where many the traversal and progression systems of some older games to feel quite lacking. However, I definitely recommend getting this platinum, or at least the online trophies before the servers are shutdown forever.

Saw a post recently about a few PS3 games that have online features going off line soon. So, I decided to blast through the games online trophies and then get the plats for them later. Infamous 2 has such an interesting online mechanic, that I’ll probably finish it next before the online servers end on the 31st. I highly recommend and this DLC/Spin-off only solidified my interest.

Uggghhh! The grind is finally over!!! This was an interesting experience to say the least. Aside from the BS of the NG+ and higher difficulties being locked behind DLC, I greatly enjoyed the entire experience.

First, the story. It was interesting to see not only how the game took modern culture, such as social media, and was able to use it as a focal point both for and against the characters. Next, watching the remembrance and reconnecting to all the previous games as the story progresses. Finally, seeing both old and new characters coming into the fold. I absolutely lost my shit when I saw one of the boss enemies was both modeled after and voiced by, the myth, the legend, Machete himself, Danny ‘Motherfucking’ Trejo!!!

Second, the gameplay. The turn based action RPG style really worked well for me. Being able to adapt and alter both equipment and style really builds on the fun of a Yakuza game. The mini-games were interesting, but a lot of them were hit or miss. For example, after playing previous Yakuza games, I avoided mahjong like a plague. Dondoko Island was kind of draining and a slog. All the rest, were interesting and fun to an extent.

All in all, I had an absolutely great time and will possibly go and play a few more Yakuza games in the future. Now, I’m going to play a few short and/or online games before I put my nose to the grind for another length and intense game.

I’m currently working on Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, when I decided to take a break after seeing the post about games leaving PS Plus on August 18. Pursuing them to see if any looked interesting and would be possible, I decided to try Harold Halibut.

Harold Halibut is an interesting walking/puzzle game. The story follows the title character who is on a spaceship that crash landed on an alien planet about 50 and 1/4 years ago in the narrative. That’s all I’ll say about the story as you just have to experience this drug trip yourself to understand. That said, it was actually fairly unique in how it chose to design the characters. It genuinely felt like I was playing an interactive claymation movie.

All in all, the platinum experience was fairly easy and enjoyable, until the second to last trophy called Slow Bro. Pre-warning, I highly recommend you use a guide for this platinum, as there are many missable trophies, and some portions of the game can’t be skipped, so it will drag if you do 2 play throughs. Now, the rest Slow Bro is so annoying is because, unlike how most walking/puzzle games have speed-run trophies, Slow Bro is for playing the game slowly. How slowly? To pop Slow Bro, you need to have an in game play time of 15+ hours. The story, if played efficiently, will take maybe 7-10 hours, so that means having to leave the game active and idle for 5-8 hours before completing it.

Highly recommend, but be prepared to leave the PlayStation running for the night while you sleep. Now, it’s back to Infinite Wealth. Including the DLC trophies, only 11 trophies left for platinum and 100%.

And so, I’ve got another repeat platinum. This was just as good as the first time I platinumed it for the PS4 version. With this, I have now platinumed all the available versions of all 3 of the Cat Quest games, unless there’s a version on PS3 or Vita. This is an easy and absolutely enjoyable adventure RPG series and I can’t wait for the next addition to the series to come out.

This was both amazing and exhausting. While I have heard the lore and seen the gameplay for Dead By Daylight, I’ve never actually played the game itself, primarily because it’s rare that I enjoy an online multiplayer. Getting to play this game was fun since it follows the same style of games like Until Dawn. The platinum however, can be a bit draining.

This game’s story only really takes about 5-6 hours if you get all the collectibles along the way. The real reason that the platinum time ranges to 25 hours is due to 1 trophy ‘All Seeing’. This trophy requires you to see all cinematic branches in the story, all 224 cinematic branches. Now, this isn’t so bad once you’ve completed your first play through as it will unlock ‘The Cutting Room Floor’ which will let you replay different points in the story. However there are so many small choices in early game that unlock different branches way later. Additionally, since you can’t skip cutscenes or actively choose the path you want on the cutting room, you end up having to replay most of the game after choosing your deviated path. I highly recommend you have a book, food, YouTube, or whatever you need to pass the time except during the moments when you’re getting the needed branches. I’m shouting out ‘Bing! Game Guides’ on YouTube because their brake down of the branches helped me immensely.

All that said, I still had a lot of fun, and can honestly say that this wasn’t the worst offender of a branch timeline platinum I’ve played. That honor still goes to ‘Zoophobia’. At least with this, you can put the controller down on multiple occasions. Zoophobia requires you to play the same 1.5 - 2 hour game roughly 27 times for each ending, and can sometimes glitch making impossible to know if it counted your current play through for your intended end. Sorry, rant over, have a good day everyone!

This experience was a bit of a 50/50. That classical Ratchet and Clank gameplay was absolutely incredible and a fun time. The mini-game sections, not so much. If not for the rewind function, the rhythm game would’ve been impossible. A few of the Qwark levels felt like they were far longer than they needed to be.

Aside from that however, the story was hilarious, as it parodied a ton of spy movies, with the primary being the James Bond movies. I had a good laugh at a socialite robot being named ‘Ivona Lotabolts’ just because it reminded me of all the corny fake names of evil characters in spy movies. So honestly, aside from a few mini-games, I had a lot of fun.

Finally got around to getting the PS5 version of this amazing visual novel full of political satire and interesting characters. A nice and simple platinum that is fun ride from beginning to end. The characters make the game, as they pull you in with their compelling stories. Definitely worth the play and, after platinuming Coffee Talk 2 again, I’ll have to see about trying the newest game in the series.

A couple of years ago, I was doom scrolling through the PS store, and found this for free, so I added it to my library and left it to sit. Now, I decided to go into my library for some easy mellow games and found this. It took me maybe 2-2.5 hours and was just solitaire with anime girls. It was simple quick, and going back to the game library for a while until I decide to get the PS5 versions plat.

Haha! Okay, in all seriousness, this was actually a really fun time. Normally, I’m not a very big fan of hack-and-slash and beat-em up games, so I initially was going to pass up on this as it left PS+. I’m a little glad that, seeing others post this game on this subreddit, I had my interest peaked enough to give it a try.

The story is kind of confusing and full of tropes, however it was still interesting and got a couple of good laughs, because of said tropes, on the first play through. Aside from the bosses, the enemies were fairly repetitive. The Bosses however definitely make up for it with their interesting designs. My favorite has to have been Ubie in its second form. It reminds me of the monster in House Beneviento if you could actually fit it. Finally, the characters were interesting and the gameplay was easy to understand, however it was kind of distracting given the obvious fan service in both the playable characters and some of the bosses.

All in all, I’d say that this game, while an easy platinum, was as kind of a mid tier experience. Not a complete masterpiece, but far from a horror game. This might be slight bias from me due to the hack-and-slash and beat-em style of the game, so I can only recommend that you all give it a try for yourselves to see if it’s your cup of tea.

Now, this is likely going into my file for ‘Games That Would Have Me Blushing Trying To Explain If Someone Walked In While I Was Playing’ alongside games like Lollipop Chainsaw and Conception: Maidens of the Twelve Stars. Seriously, try explaining to someone walking in on you playing a game where your character is a late teens girl wearing nothing but a bikini, cowboy hat, high heels, a feather boa, thigh high stockings and belt fighting zombies, or worse, fighting two teenage punk zombie girls who are wearing very revealing school uniforms.

After an intense platinum in Nine Sols, I decided to mellow it down with a few easy platinums. I chose Venba to start, because I thought it was a quick cooking game. I WAS WRONG! While cooking was the central element, it was primarily a visual novel covering culture, identity and both the experiences of immigrants and children both in a country to immigrants. It was both beautiful and sad watching the slow development of the distant that developed between Kavin and his parents only to then come around for a truly sweet and beautiful moment. I can’t tell you how much I highly recommend this masterpiece. Now, I’m going to go call my mom and tell her how much I love and appreciate her.