Why do I bother? *sigh*

Yep, I got sucked back into the world of Maples again. They are putting out the final part of the story of the Black Mage and the war against him so I had to take part. On the plus side, no monthly sub! On the bad side, when I tried to hop in right away I hit their usual maintenance wall. :(

This is my Tera Burnt character, a normal Explorer Ice/Lighting Mage.

Why did I choose this instead of the awesome wicked cool characters that just came out? Well....

1. You get probably the best badges in the game outside of events just by completing your story.
2. Since I am going to be ripping through levels(just got 12 levels from the first part of a story event alone), I won't have time to stop and enjoy the story, and the normal Explorer has story quests that are spaced out from Level 10 to 100 very generously.
3. Also, I can monster hunt all I want without being interrupted by story...
4. And I love the Ice/Lightning Mage. His mechanics are easy to get into. Already I have a homing thundercloud that zaps enemies nearby and a powerful area attack that hits all enemies around me and an ice chain that drags enemies to me!
5. It gets better: 4th job gives me CHAIN LIGHTNING!!!

As such I am making an early New Year Resolution for 2019. I resolve to get my main character to Level 250 and go through the stories which involve getting carried for the super-bosses. I do get some great armor... but it vanishes after 30 days, so I have to be online all month to get better armor before it vanishes and leaves me naked and forced back to the weaker Frozen set.

Not only that, but Super Smash Bros. Ultimate comes out in a few days and once that game downloads to my Switch, I'm going to be spending my days unlocking every Spirit in the game and completing the World of Light campaign. As such, I will have to seriously cut down on my Playstation time to make room for these games. Already I have not earned a single platinum in days due to half of my day being spent on Maplestory, and I need to spend the afternoons on that game so I don't burn the midnight oil and ruin my sleep schedule.

And then there is Christmas...

As such, I am going to be demoting trophy hunting to a on-off hobby now. I will still hop onto PS games like Dark Cloud 2 and spend a few hours there, but now that I have earned over 100 platinums, something which few casual players do, I want to step back.

Milestone #105!

I'm so sorry, Pupuru! I promise I'll buy your game and play it through. I am not going through the 256 floor bonus dungeon in a rental!

Of course, I say that after spending a WEEK on Tearaway. It took me a few tries but I eventually got the platinum for it. I also got the platinum for LEGO Marvel Superheroes, but I don't have a shot.

So that's Platinum #105 and !06 in the bag. I'm at an impasse right now.

WE DID IT, GUYS!

At long last, I have hit 100 platinum trophies. ^_^

Almost there!

Finally got my 99th platinum and now I can repackage the Spyro Reignited trilogy and give it to my friend for Christmas! ^_^

Nice Try, Get Famous...

With The Sims 4 getting bugged, it looks like Black Friday is coming sooner than I expected. :p

Platinums 97(bottom) and 98(top) in the bag. ^_^

So much for Let's Go Pikachu...

No, just no. :(

I've been really busy with platinum hunting. Here are the games I've conquered in the interim:

91. Shadow of Loot Box, a really stupid game mocking game development and microtransactions. Really short but filled with RNG madness. It took me hours to get enough experience from the loot boxes to get the final trophy.

92. Word Sudoku, again. This time it was the PS4 version. The solutions were EZ and I needed to glut the list to get to #100.

93: FreezeME. Finally got this turd out of my toilet. Got the last 12 cubes, opened the last levels, and only died twice getting to Fat the Cat.

94: The Gardens Between. While you only use the analog stick and X button, the time manipulation puzzles are really devious. I also missed two trophies because I didn't pay attention to the video guide I was looking at. Still very beautiful.

95: A HAT IN FREKING TIME. FINALLY! I love this game, I do, but the last trophies are pure evil. Still it was a fun game to play and I might play it on PC to do the Seal the Deal DLC for kicks and giggles. :)

96: Ratchet and Clank, so that makes my Backlog Pyramid a little more complete...

So only four games left to #100, and I will reveal my plans for them now. First...

You knew this was coming.

I was a big fan of Spyro the Dragon back in the day, and these games kept the hell-bending challenges that made them so love/hate you back on the old PSX. Now they are more hateful with the 3D HD graphics and orchestrated music. ^_^

So yeah, I will try hell and high water to get at least one of these as #97-99, hopefully all three for...

Yeah, this is going to be my 100th platinum because of ProfessorPalmer, Twitchighspirits, and Bowiethehero when they did a four-part video series of their twitchstream of the Platinum Percent speedrun of this game. I think this game will be the one to crown my first 100. I know it will mean a lot of work to avoid any other games until this happens but I have faith.

Platinum 90, obtained! ^_^

I finally have my 90th platinum! If you want to check out the list of platinum trophies I have, go check out my thread on PSNProfiles.com's Trophy Checklist sub-forum. Click on the pic below to be linked to that forum thread.

Happy Hallows in advance!

Happy Halloween, everyone! I know it's a week ahead of schedule, but I plan on doing a lot of platinum trophies involving monsters, ghosts and other spooky/goofy games. Well, not horror titles, I hate those, but those in the spirit of the season. ;)

Having reached 85 platinums now, I am in the home stretch for my triple digit breaker so I want to get these games out of the cabinet before they turn into shambling zombies. XD

Small update

Some Mega Man 7 stuff that I need for a post in my thread. :p

And that's 78 platinums so far.

My Fall Backlog drawing (work in progress)

Someone on the PSNProfiles forums drew an amazing image of the characters from all the games she finished in a summer camp setting, so I had to do something similar for the five games I was working on for my Fall Backlog challenge. I'm more of a freeform artist, though, so the beginning is a bit iffy.

General: Everyone attending a Halloween costume party!

Left: The hero of Dragon Quest Builders hammering up a Dracky ornament while Pippa is breaking her heart because she wants him to dance with her.

Bottom(unfinished): Ogden from Dragon Fantasy dressed up like Protoman while Rock Man is at his side.

Bottom-right (not drawn): Oliver and Esther from Ni no Kuni, dressed as Link and Zelda respectively, dancing the funky chicken.

Right: Drippy, dressed as Tingle, yelling at Mesmoroth to stop hogging the punch!

Back(not drawn yet): Chase McCain in his robber disguise sneaking snacks from the snack table. :)

Please help me...

Have no idea what I was thinking picking up this trainwreck of a game. Fill-a-Pix puzzles are not meant for speed runs. :(

Spring Cleaning Superlate

I am finally doing some belated "summer cleaning" of my PS4: I am going through all of my old accounts, cleaning out the backlogs of games I liked, and then DELETING THE ACCOUNTS. This way I will lose a lot of games but that is good because then I can focus on the important games and not get tempted to do something else when I get bored. (I have ROMhack Randomizers and stuff like The Sims 4, I don't need extra PS4 titles.)

Also, some of the libraries are... rather ugly. :(

So I am going to go through all of my backlogs, extract the games that I am going to platinum for sure, download them, platinum them, and then delete the accounts so that the entire library on that account is erased forever. Yep, I will lose the ability to play those games unless I buy them again, but this way I can assure myself that I am finally done with those games because I know I won't re-purchase a game unless I want to do it for a speed-run.

Here are the games on my old accounts, with the ones I will play highlighted in blue and those I have gotten 100% on my current account are in purple. For the sake of not allowing network thieves to steal my accounts, I have given code names to my old accounts based on Pokemon names. (The sprites are taken from Google and not my own.) Those games I am on the fence about will be highlighted in green, but I will probably change them to blue eventually.
Account #1: Charmander

• Kingdom Hearts 2.8: Dream Drop Distance HD
• Kingdom Hearts 2.8: Birth by Sleep 0.2
• Ape Escape 2
• Cast of the Seven Godsends Deluxe Edition
• Fat Princess Adventures
• Gone Home
• Hitman GO: Definitive Edition
• LittleBigPlanet 3
• Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
• OKAGE: Shadow King
• Psychonauts
• Rogue Galaxy

Time to deletion: Not until late 2019, due to me having purchased Kingdom Hearts 2.8 on this account and already busy with Dream Drop Distance HD. However, there are a lot of games I do not really like, and there are a lot of non-plats on this account as well.
Account #2: Pikachu

• Bastion
• Buff Knight Advanced
• Deponia
• Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice
• Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
• FreezeME
• Ginger: Beyond the Crystal
• inFAMOUS Second Son
• Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
• Shantae: Risky's Revenge
• Super Dungeon Bros.
• The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
• The Little Acre
• Unravel

Time until deletion: Sometime in 2019 as well because there are a few games I am on the fence about which I could platinum easily but not touch due to them being boring, tricky or morally questionable. I do intend to do FreezeME again because there is a stupid speedrun of it and I have to get this out of my system because of A Hat In Time. Deponia is not an option because I didn't really like the story and I am never touching Bastion again because, while I did get through it, it was tough and the trophies for clearing the special dungeons are impossible for me to do.

Unravel is getting platinumed because it's part of a year-long personal challenge.
Account #3: Togepi

• Alone With You
• Broken Age
• Catlateral Damage
• Eekeemoo: Shards of Darkness
• Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
• Final Fantasy XIV starter pack
• Goosebumps
• Grim Fandango Remastered
• Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
• LEGO Harry Potter: Legacy Collection
• LEGO The Hobbit
• Patapon Remastered
• Ratchet and Clank
• Rogue Legacy
• Shadwen
• The Witness
• Woah Dave!

Time until deletion: If I get all of the games I highlighted blue completed non-stop, I could probably erase this account before Halloween. Catlateral Damage is also part of the personal challenge but it won't take too long to get the platinum on, save a couple of trophies. I'm already doing Ratchet and Clank for the Backlog Pyramid and the rest are a moot point.

NOTE: I do intend to plat Final Fantasy XIV but I am going to buy it on my current account.

Account #4: Mawile

• Enter the Gungeon
• LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
• LEGO Jurassic World
• LEGO Marvel's Avengers
• The Binding of Issac: Rebirth

Time to deletion: Soon. The only games I haven't touched are games that are really really not going to be played. Sorry, I enjoy them but only casually. :(

Account #5: Oricorio

• Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
• Lili: Child of Geos
• Poi
• Quest of Dungeons
• Stories: The Path of Destinies
• Virginia
• Yooka-Laylee

Time to deletion: Late 2018 or early 2019 because I plan to plat Yooka-Laylee as part of a personal challenge to myself.

Account #6: Octillery

• Cat Quest
• Devious Dungeon
• Gal*Gunvolt Burst
• LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Monster Hunter: World

Time to Deletion: Depends on whether I want to commit to Monster Hunter World.

Account #7: Floette

• A Hat In Time
• AER: Memories of Old
• 36 Fragments of Midnight
• Claire: Extended Cut
• Cyberdimenson Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online
• Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance
• Dragon Quest Builders
• Engimatis 3: The Shadows of Karkhala
• forma.8
• inFAMOUS First Light
• LEGO Marvel Superheroes
• LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2
• Little Adventures on the Prairie
• My Name Is Mayo
• Nightmares From the Deep 3: Davy Jones
• Perfect Angle
• Pillar
• Planet of the Eyes
• Portal Knights
• Seasons After Fall
• Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
• Teslagrad
• Trine 3: Artifacts of Power
• Zeus Quest Remastered

Time until deletion: Unknown.

Current Progress of Dragon Hearts Pyramid (July 30, 2018)

Platinum #2 in the Backlog Pyramid complete! It took a while but it's done now. Buff Knight Advanced is now 100% complete and out of my mind forever. Shame, it was a very great game music-wise. (Then again, I love chiptunes. ^_^)

Next up on my hit lit: Ratchet and Sly. They need to go and fill out my common row. I know the other games will take a lot longer but I expected that when I made the pyramid.

So much more to be done...

Scary.

Current Progress of Dragon Hearts Pyramid (July 28, 2018)

I admit I haven't updated in over a week, but I made some minor progress before my first big update so I have included that as well:

Row 4: Common/Uncommon: 
44% (3 gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze)
100% PLATINUM
12% (1 silver, 7 bronze)
19% (1 gold, 7 bronze)

Row 3: Rare
1% (1 bronze)
7% (5 bronze)
1% (1 bronze)

Row 2: Very Rare
11% (8 bronze)
3% (2 bronze)

Row 1: Ultra Rare
(NSY)

The only updates I have are this: I got a few more trophies in Buff Knight Advanced, and...

I finally got my first platinum in this pyramid!

Yep, Jak and Daxter is the first game I got platinum in. I just decided to get this out of the way ASAP because it was tough to deal with. I eventually capitulated and used the debug mode to get the rest of the orbs. (I didn't cheat in the orbs, I used the debug ability to fly to get to all of the orbs that I used to have trouble with. Spider Cave was giving me grief.)