Journal Entry #15: To Catch a Thief

PLATINUM #15: Sly Cooper and The Thievius Raccoonus (Vita)

I paid a brief visit to Solana where I visited Ratchet and Clank. They told me that they had defeated Chairman Drek and were going to gather money for the Golden Weapons as well as kick back with some hoverboard races. I wished them luck and went back home to R&R...

 

Only to find a case file about some master thief called Sly Cooper. I shrugged and read over the file. It told about how he had infiltrated the lairs of a group called the Fiendish Five and shortly thereafter, a police detective called Carmalita Fox arrested them when they were found unconscious.

 

Sly was notorious for leaving a calling card and only stealing from other criminals. I smirked. "A virtual Robin Hood."

PLATINUM TIME: January 9, 2015; 10:05 PM

Nevertheless, as I was thinking about this, someone delivered a package to me, it was a book called "The True Thievius Raccoonus (abridged)" and I recognized the symbol on the signature, it was the one on the case file. I smirked again. This was ironic, a thief giving me, an investigator, a trophy.

AFTER THOUGHTS: Unfortunately, my plans to platinum the PS3 versions of LEGO Batman 3 and LEGO Jurassic Park went down the toilet when the disk I received refused to update due to a bug. The Batman disc tried to update but my PS3 beeped in rage and refused to work until the offending material was removed. I knew that the PS3 versions of these games would have issues (being on an inferior machine) but not like this! :(

So, hopes dashed that I'd ever platinum the PS3 versions of this game(at least for now), I had to have a back-up plan. It took me a while to come up with one since I was busy with a pet project that would last a minimum of three months, but eventually I did. I didn't create a Detective persona for nothing, mind you. And what better game for Plat #16 than a game about a thief! (I have to apologize for the doctored screenshot - just when I caught the screenshot showing the platinum pop-up, I got the stupid pop-up cascade bug that made the trophy alert unreadable. I take no credit for whose picture I ripped the PS3 alert from.)

I bought the Sly Cooper collection at Gamestop only to find that Sucker Punch lived up to its namesake - Sly Cooper: Honor Among Thieves, the third entry, was a digital download only and anyone who bought a legit copy on release date got a code to download it from the PS store. :I

But platinuming this game was sort of fun - the only things that made me rage were the races, the escort missions, and the final chapter. (Surprisingly I managed to not screw up the third stage at the critical point, go me!) I even managed to get it as my fastest plat yet, beating my Ninjago one by eight hours at 11 hours, 26 minutes. All of the trophies will be guaranteed except for the collectibles - the clues and the vaults they open. You have to collect the bottles in a stage(except for ones like races, escort missions and the final chapter) to open a vault in that stage. There are 26 vaults but they are easy to get to. Trophies are either story-related(beating bosses) or collection related(opening all of the vaults in the game), so half of the trophies will be yours even if you don't open any vaults.

Also, since I opened my final vault in the Flaming Temple of Flame stage, Bentley's words were "You're lucky I'm versed in chaos theory, or this code would have been impossible." XD