@Bentleyma- I always preferred it that way, if I'm honest. I always thought the RPG elements in the first game were really weak and just made the game needlessly cumbersome. Streamlining the whole thing worked in its favour, I think.
@RogerRoger Notable observation, Rog. Didn’t realize I could monkey the system to have two different banners.
I recently changed my banner on my PS5 from the GoW shot I took for the screencap contest a few months ago to a Control shot I recently took and I need to check out how it might be formatted to look differently on the PS4. I did notice that the PS5 didn’t seem to match up the colors quite as well as the PS4 does, and the pic didn’t have the same impact on my PS5 screen as I had hoped. Like you say, hopefully an update gets these things a little more fine tuned.
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@RogerRoger so I just checked and you’re spot on. I guess the different lay out (4 tiles in front of a faded background that is actually your existing banner) just meant I didn’t notice it. Don’t think I like the layout as much if I’m honest.
@Th3solution I loved the game. I think it's fantastic. It's mostly just wandering around talking to people like a slightly more interactive visual novel. But because it's broken up into lots of small chunks and most of those chunks contain an interesting development it rarely lulls.
Platinum wise it's easy. I got the platinum when I finished the game. There's weird little RTS missions and there's a trophy for getting S rank in every one of those. I dropped the difficulty down to casual after the mission because I knew I just wanted the story and I S ranked every one on the first try. So if you do that you'll be fine - not sure how tricky it is on normal or hard.
@johncalmc I picked this up a while back too, not sure it’ll be my thing but the response to it was so overwhelmingly positive that I have to give it a go. Read somewhere that the plat should take around 40 hours, does that sound about right?
@colonelkilgore according to my console I played it for 48 hours but I think I wasted a lot of time. Based on my time I'd be surprised if you couldn't get that down to below 40.
@johncalmc I try not to rush things too much and just ‘live’ in the game a little, at least during the beginning while I acclimate to the game-world. I find I’m normally about 10% over the stated time to plat.
I got the Platinum in Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart. I've got the Platinum Trophy in most Ratchet games, and they're mostly fairly quick and easy, but this one is the quickest and easiest of them all. It's actually almost too quick and easy. You don't even need to play the game a second time on Challenge Mode like normal.
I've grafting through the second (ridiculously difficult) playthrough of Ashen. I'm now at the last boss, which I'll try and beat tonight when I get home from the office. IF I can beat her, this will go down as far and away the toughest Platinum I've earned... and that's saying something as I've plat'd all bar Sekiro and Demon Souls PS5 of From Softs output (they will be plat'd too, just haven't gotten around to it). Outrageously tough in parts!
Plat #48 - Ashen - holy **** what a nightmare that Children of Sissna (Hard) playthrough is! I'm normally a very calm gamer but this pushed me to limits I've never known in gaming... and I've been an irritable bugger as a result.
@Jimmer-jammer if you do end up going for the CoS completion, I'll deffo help you out on the last boss... but the way the co-op works is pretty awful. You have to be at the same point in the game both geographically and narratively (which I've only recently found out). So the only part I'll be able to help out on is the last fight... but that fight is a doozie as you'll recall from your normal playthrough.
@colonelkilgore Congrats!! That’s an impressive platinum to have under your belt. Not sure if I’ll end up going for it on this one. I wanted to at a time and maybe farther down the road I will but with how busy things have been recently it just feels like it wouldn’t be fun, if that makes sense.
Bit of a bummer with how the co-op works. I was thinking I could help from my save (non sissna) but seeing as I’ve beaten the last boss I guess I wouldn’t be able to anyways. That seems like a frustratingly limited multiplayer design but alas, I’ve seen stranger things.
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” C.S. Lewis
@Jimmer-jammer I totally get you... and if I had known quite what a slog that CoS playthrough was going to be, I probably wouldn't have gone for it. But having said that, regardless of the stress I definitely feel a greater sense of satisfaction on doing this than on popping most other plats.
If you do end up going for it, I will be able to help you on Sissna (using my normal difficulty character) as once she is killed the game automatically loads back to just before you fight her, so the offer is there for sure. Just getting to Sissna is an achievement though, the Palace of Lathyrus in CoS very nearly broke me.
If anyone is interested, myself and some friends are looking to boost the Doom (2016) trophies some time next week as the servers are so dead that it seems impossible to get a match any more.
Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice now finished for platinum #82.
Quite enjoyable journey, decent graphics and interesting story touching on the protagonists mental health issues. Puzzles are simple enough but occasionally required some exploration. I do feel this game was let down by its repetitive and sometimes not especially responsive combat.
Worth a look if it has been on your radar though.
On the trophies: all except one are gained by finishing the story, that one is for collectables (lorestones) and I finished about 5 short. As areas are not accessible once you have left them this meant I had to do a second entire play through using a guide. I wish it had had a chapter select to save a bit of time.
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