Platinum trophy #58: Spider-Man (PS4)Kong Wen wrote: ↑21 Nov 2020 05:59 It took me literally an entire year, but...
Platinum trophy #57: Astro's Playroom
I normally don't really care for 3D platformers. At best I find them functional. But I really enjoyed this one. I think because it's compact and focused and snappy. The PS5's next-gen hardware definitely helps with that last point, where jumping around between stages is instant. They highlighted a couple of key DualSense mechanics, but they were special features of specific areas so it didn't feel like they were scattered randomly about the place. Plus I loved all the little PlayStation history tidbits that literally filled up every stage. Cute game.
This was a good game. I had some minor problems with it, but nothing that significantly detracted from the experience. They did pretty nice work here! Spider-Man was well-acted, which was probably the most important part. I also liked how each chapter ramped up into the next one. Combat was pretty good. Swinging around was usually excellent. This makes me look forward to playing Miles Morales... maybe I'll get it for X-Men or my Birthday.
is You Only Did Everything from Astro's Playroom. What a cute game! Platinum involves getting all the collectibles and interacting with some fun environmental stuff. Fun.
is Be Greater from Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered. Unlocked it by loading up my PS4 save. Didn't know that would actually do it! Downloaded the Remastered version because it came with my copy of Miles Morales and includes the DLC I never bought on PS4. Gonna give that a go at some point, but for now here's to the easiest platinum ever!
is Pro Skater Returns! from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2. This one was a lot of fun except for the very last trophy which is just an extraordinary exp grind that you don't even come CLOSE to hitting through natural progression of the game. I decided to automate a little grinding sequence while I was doing chores the other day to knock out that last chunk over the course of several hours. Other than that, though, the trophy set is pretty nice! It's a nice mix of unmissable progress stuff, amusing stuff, and multiplayer stuff. Plus, it has a couple really difficult challenge-based trophies to separate the to Pro Skaters (like myself 
) from the rest. Countless hours of playing these games as a kid served me well, and I was able to knock 'em out. They also patched in some truly brutal non-trophy challenges a couple months ago that I'm somewhat interested in trying, but those are for even more talented Tony Hawkers than me.
was the auto-pop from playing the PS5 upgrade of Tony Hawk. Those feel kinda dumb, but it was that or start a new save file, which I didn't really wanna do!
is Retro Gamer from Arcade Game Series: Pac-Man. This was mostly an easy one to knock out in the space of a day, and it also finally encouraged me to learn the AI exploits in this game, which has long been one of my gaming to-dos. The most difficult trophy involved eating all four ghosts with *every* power pill in the level and grabbing both fruit that spawn while you're at it. But I think that still only took me an hour of frustrated restarts and expletives. Overall a fun excuse to learn a little more about the inner workings of the Pac. I'll probably try to get the trophies for Ms. Pac-Man and Galaga as well.