I wanted to make an April Fool's Day Joke, buuuut...

To be honest, I really just couldn't bring myself to insult your intelligence with a silly prank on my blog about me platinuming Hannah Montana: The Movie The Game. Needless to say, you will have to expect a very sexy game to be on this list sooner or later. ;)

Anyways, I'm working on Disgaea 3 for the Vita a lot so I find it hard to tear myself away to work on any other games. Also, I have a few games I am going to almost-plat for the PSNProfile's Platinum Rain Day Event coming this August, so they can't be platinums for five months.

So my next platinum will probably be something from GameFly, when they deliver the next game. I try to pick games that don't take weeks to platinum. I'll see you soon!

Journal Entry #29: More Rings? Oh bother.

GAME #29: Guess the Game! :p

Having flashbacks about that strange sorceress and the Phantom Field made me go back and read the entire series of J.R.R. Tolkein, aka the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Eowyn - still awesome even on the small screen. ^_^

It was a heavy read, mind you, but it was quite the masterpiece, telling of Frodo Baggins and his struggle to take the cursed One Ring to the place of its creation and destroy it.

Still, I have no doubt that the world I was in was not the same one in the books. Still, it was quite an adventure... even though I got stuck in some weird place afterwards. I recreated the book I had been given by Frodo and put it on my cabinet as another platinum trophy.

AFTER THOUGHTS: And another late comer to the party - I put this in my Q for months and got no delivery, but it finally came in. Yep, the PS Vita version of LEGO Lord of the Rings. I spent all of of Good Friday 2016 to get every trophy no matter how much I hated it. (And the platinum trophy image is a mess - the Vita photo camera tends to mess up at this, but I don't want to waste time getting a replacement for it.)

Luckily, Vita versions of LEGO games are easy as pie, as they are ports of the 3DS version, which are complete garbage because the hardware is very limited. The only painful part was grinding out the 30 million studs to buy everything... 75% of the Red Bricks cost 5 million studs or more, even the cruddy ones you'd never enable like Helium Voices! :(

Anyways, another Vita platinum in the bag. I am going to cut down a bit on getting double platinums and I'm not into LEGO games as much anymore. (Though I hope LEGO Avengers will live up to the hype since I've seen Age of Ultron on the big screen. The original LEGO Marvel game was a bit disappointment in my eyes. I just hope they fix the flight mechanics.)

Journal Entry #28: Happy St. Patrick's Day, a week late

PLATINUM #28 - XBLAZE LOST: MEMORIES (Vita)

I had a strange dream about that witch who rescued me after Gandalf's spell went wrong, long ago.

 

 

I dreamt about her travels in the Phantom Field, her memories, and the memories of another called Es, and all the strange things that happened. I found a smaller plaque like the one that I found earlier, so I put it in the trophy cabinet with the rest and wrote off the whole thing as bad gas.


AFTER THOUGHTS: After two months of having it on the Q and not getting a reply, GameFly finally got the mail through for the PlayStation Vita version of X-BLAZE LOST: MEMORIES. And guess what?

Had it not been for the Sly 4 cross-save, this game would have been my fastest platinum! Yep, it was much faster to mash through the scenes than it had been on the PS3 version, and I burned through the entire game in under five hours while watching podcasts. ^_^

For now, Visual Novels are on the back burner. If I wanted to watch an anime, I'll watch an anime, not hog my precious Vita time on a book. X( To be fair, the gameplay was pretty nice and I had worried again about missing stuff but I got everything time.

Journal Entry #27: All Jak'd Up

Platinum #27: Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (Vita)

I had that mysterious weird dream again, only the quality of the visions was crisp and clear. I chronicled everything I had dreamt only to find another of those platinum egg-shaped sculptures, a smaller one this time, on my desk. I put it next to its brother just in time to hear the doorbell.

"Mail for you, Mr. Groff."

I sighed and opened the door to find a small package wrapped in cellophane. I took it in and unwrapped it, my eyes widening in shock.

(Cue the Digimon theme song)

(To be continued...)

Sorry Dad, I had to buy this even though it came from my bank account. At least I only paid 55% of the price thanks to trading in the Jak collection on Vita (after getting the Platinum  and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time as well as LEGO Batman 3 for store credit.

Oh yeah, after thoughts. Well... this was a copy of the PS3 HD version on the handheld. I was warned that the controls were horrible and man were they right! The zoomer controls stank and I got more frustrated than ever. I was wise enough to trade in the cart after platinuming the first game... and I had missed a touch-screen trophy and had to do a second playthrough to get it. :(

NOTE: You may wonder why this is #27 when the last was #26. Well...

I cross-saved my file to the PS3 version and got Platinum #26(Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time for PS3) in under nine minutes. To amend myself, I DID have to re-upload and re-download the save because only half of the trophies got registered the first time I booted up the game. But I am NEVER GOING FOR CRAZED CLIMBER OR 8-BIT BENTLEY AGAIN!

Journal Entry #25: A Time-Traveling Thief?

I received a shiny silver cup wrapped in papyrus which had notes scribbled on them.

Please send help, trapped in Ancient Egypt. HELP!!! - S.C.

 
I wish I could help, but I don't know how I could have explained this situation to Bentley. I sent the note to Carmelita under an anon address and hoped for the best. I put the silver cup in the cabinet.

AFTER THOUGHTS: I'm really sorry I didn't make this major milestone - my 25th platinum - epic, but right after I got the platinum, I had to go grocery shopping. :|

Anyways, this is a great game and continues the story-telling that the original trilogy founded with cartoon animations for narrative interludes and the usual mission-based gameplay. Once you rescue each of Sly's ancestors, they get missions that show off their abilities. The treasures you pick up are all booby-trapped so you have to make a mad dash to get them to the hideout, but you no longer have to go inside to collect, and the treasures are all displayed on a shelf in each hideout. There are even several special treasures you get for collecting all the clue bottles in a hub world from Coopgiwa's coin magnet to a reference to Sir Raleigh that gives you the old Water Safety ability from the first game, which is really great.

As of this writing, I hear of an claymatic movie of Sly coming out soon, just like Ratchet and Clank are getting one. I hope this bodes a sequel because Sly is trapped in ancient Egypt now and needs to be rescued, so come on, Sanzaru, give us Sly 5!