Tag: Trophies
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Crow Country Platinum Trophy Review
Although the first games I played as a child were on the Super Nintendo, my first real console was the PlayStation 1. It marked the dawn of the 3d era of gaming, and it felt like such a huge leap forward in what games could look like. Final Fantasy 7, Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid…
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Stellar Blade Platinum Trophy Review
I remember watching the PlayStation showcase when Stellar Blade was announced in 2022 and thinking it looked like a cross between Bayonetta and Nier Automata and being incredibly excited about it. I’m not particularly good at them, but I love character action games like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, and Nier Automata is one of…
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Signalis Platinum Review
A few months ago, a friend and fellow trophy hunter, revisited a survival horror game, that we had both been interested in since its release in 2022, called Signalis. We had both been intrigued by its PlayStation 1-style graphics and survival horror gameplay but as often happens with smaller titles it got swept aside by…
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Alan Wake 2 Platinum Review
A sequel poses a difficult challenge in any form of media. You need to do something new and push the story forward, maybe recontextualise information or motives, or introduce new conflicts that may not have been planned for when you were writing the original. It needs to be fresh, but also familiar. For a good…
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Alan Wake Remastered Platinum Review
In 2010, an Xbox Exclusive title named Alan Wake was released and quickly became a genre darling of the horror scene. For my part, I would say I definitely enjoyed it, and I would recommend it to someone who hadn’t played it but I wasn’t itching to go back and revisit it. As time passed,…
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Lies of P Platinum Review
In 2011, From Software released Dark Souls, a dark fantasy Action-RPG that garnered a reputation for being incredibly challenging while simultaneously extremely gratifying. It was an improvement in almost every way over their initial stab at the genre, the PS3 exclusive Demon’s Souls, and was received so positively that it heralded the start of what…