Trophy Bragging Rights

[Claytone]

Platinum is No Ape Can Escape! from Ape Escape.

This is one of the old games Sony dropped as part of the initial classics collection for PS+. I didn't feel like upgrading to the higher tier, so I just bought it a la carte.

It runs and looks pretty good on PS5, and it's neat that trophies are included. Having said that, it's a bummer the list is so boring. I'm sure part of it is that implementing trophies on games running in an emulator is probably extra annoying, but you don't even have to beat the final boss to get this plat! I'll take it, of course, but I wish it had been a little more interesting. Maybe future PS1 releases will have better lists.

[Claytone]

Platinum is Retro Gamer from Ms. Pac-Man. This was similar to the Pac-Man trophy. Clear a bunch of screens, do some tricky stuff (eg eat 16 ghosts in a stage and both fruits). Not too hard, but certainly requires a little bit of patience. Neat that it has a platinum, and I'm glad to have gotten it.

Hope to have another Pac-related platinum on the shelf soon!

[Claytone]

Platinum is Be PAC-TIVE from Pac-Man Museum+.

At ~63 hours this is now my most time-intensive platinum (although Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 and Streets of Rage 4 were close). There were some very, very grindy trophies in this game, but I finally knocked it out.

I'm particularly proud to have cleared the mission-based trophies of Super Pac-Man and Pac-Land without using save states (I also more or less did for Pac & Pal, but I did technically restart an early stage after stupidly losing a life). Getting to the later screens of those old arcade titles is tough, and it was rewarding to work out their ins and outs in order to do so. I may revisit Pac-Man and try to clear 15 screens of it without save states (I made it 14 before finally giving up!), since I really like drilling that one and getting my high score up little by little.

At $20 this is an easy compilation to recommend, and I'm sure I'll continue to play it from time to time basically forever (or until they put out another one). It covers a range of titles and genres, and although there may be minor emulation hiccups here or there in a couple games, it's nothing show stopping (to me, at least).

On a related note, I look forward to seeing what Namco does with the Pac-Man World remake coming out next month. I wasn't crazy about the original, but I think a lot of its frustrating bits could easily be remedied by smoother performance and tighter platforming, both of which I would *hope* they would offer. We'll see!

[Kong Wen]

Clay racking up plats for some classic arcade style games! Kongrats man!

[Claytone]

Clay racking up plats for some classic arcade style games! Kongrats man!

Thanks! Looking into maybe platinuming FFVII as well, but after that I may go quiet again for awhile.

[Sharecrow]

Got platinum #48 in Sonic Origins. Had a blast. Easy but fun platinum.

Theme song!

[Kong Wen]

I got my first bronze trophy in Final Fantasy XIV after 80 hours... 109 to go.

[Sharecrow]

Got platinum 49 in Centipede Recharged. A delightful game. My son loves it too.

[Claytone]

I got my first bronze trophy in Final Fantasy XIV after 80 hours... 109 to go.

This is so funny to me. Could you have gotten one any faster if that had been your primary goal?

[Kong Wen]

I got my first bronze trophy in Final Fantasy XIV after 80 hours... 109 to go.

This is so funny to me. Could you have gotten one any faster if that had been your primary goal?

The only other one that looks like low-hanging fruit for a blitz grind would be doing 100 FATEs (public events). I'm current at like 35/100, but I've been running past them to advance the story. If I weren't doing anything else in the game, I could have stayed in the first area and pounded them out.