Trophy Bragging Rights

[Claytone]

Platinum is Home Run Derby Champ from MLB Home Run Derby VR!

This is a pretty mindless little arcade batting simulator. It uses the PS Move controller and greatly exaggerates my ability to smash absolute monster home runs. The last trophy for this one is pretty grindy, requiring you to hit 100 of the score multipliers in the outfield, which is pretty tough (not uncommon to go an entire round without doing it once). Ultimately, though, I was able to enjoy it as a countdown to a milestone home run like the all-time greats do in real life.

I'll do a song this time like Share.

[Kong Wen]

Platinum trophy #71: Howl (PS5)

Excellent little turn-based puzzle game. Picked it up on sale for $7.50 CAD and finished it in 7.5 hours, for a cool $1/hr of entertainment value.

Every time you act, the enemies act. You have to use your skills and enemy positioning to clear levels and accomplish feats (defeat all enemies, reach the goal within a certain number of turns, etc.). It has a nice aesthetic, but the plot is ultimately secondary to the puzzles.

Platinum trophy #70: Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster (PS4 via PS5)

Completed my Red Mage Rampage all-RDM autobattle-only (except Chaos) challenge run. Fun little remaster, but astonishingly easier and quicker/shorter than the original. That's fine. The music was the highlight!

[Claytone]

Platinum is Hall of Fame from Bat Boy!

This was a solid trophy set. You gotta 100% the game and do a couple other odds and ends, and the plat is yours. Bat Boy is a platformer of a dozenish levels, so it's a pretty quick plat too.

Kinda funny that I only got a single platinum in 2023 and have notched eleven this year. I just seem to keep picking them up on smaller titles like this (although Infinite Wealth was certainly not a short one). Maybe I'll try to collect one more before the end of the year to average one a month? We'll see.