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In Pursuit of Platinum – Demetrios: The Big Cynical Adventure

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Demetrios: The Big Cynical Adventure Platinum trophy

Back in December, PlayStation Lifestyle asked me to review Demetrios: The Big Cynical Adventure on Vita. I like point-and-click adventures, and this one seemed to have a seriously dirty sense of humor, so I was all in. The game isn’t too difficult thanks to the hint system, and I was able to get through the game in 7 hours. However, unlike most PAC games, the biggest draw to this one is finding all the ways for the protagonist to get a game over. Really, that’s the only challenging trophy to obtain, and I did have to look up help with the Steam Community.

The second most difficult trophy was finding all of the cookies, which are your hints. There are three in every scene, and if you miss one, the only way to have it count in your point total is to load an earlier save or start over. I was hoping I could do it all in two playthroughs, but after I finished the second, the cookie trophy didn’t pop. I looked at my cookie count, and I missed one cookie, ONE COOKIE, in one of the early scenes.

I ended up playing the game three times total. Fortunately, you can skip scenes and once you know the puzzles, it’s very easy to play through the entire game in 2 hours. After playing it for the review, I only needed two more nights to get the rest of the trophies. The third time I played is when I looked up help, because there were a few options that you can only get if you set something first, and I never would have realized what I needed to do with a prod in the right direction.

I know I need to do other things than Platinum a Vita game, but this one seemed so easy I couldn’t help myself.

Monday Gaming Diary: LEGO Marvel’s Avengers Pursuit of Platinum

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LEGO Marvel's Avengers Platinum Trophy

I went on an incredible overdrive over the weekend to get the LEGO Marvel’s Avengers Platinum Trophy complete and get this strategy guide review done. I didn’t have to get the Platinum Trophy to get everything out of the guide that I needed, but it was so easy to get the other trophies before reaching that coveted 100% completion in a LEGO game. That part had to achieved before reviewing the guide, and it happened to be the very last thing I did, as the screenshot above evidences. One trophy is to witness the 100% fountain in the Avengers Tower, which was the second to last trophy I earned.

I brought in Falcon and Quicksilver to the party, because they were my heart and soul for getting all of the Hub worlds completed. Quicksilver was primarily my man for Manhattan, as it’s quite easy to run around the Big Apple with his super speed. Falcon I used in every Hub, as he was my man for flying. He was far smoother to control than any other flying character, and it’s thanks to him (and Quicksilver, really) that I finished any of the races. The vehicle handling is atrocious in the game, and thanks to these two, I was able to complete each race with ease.

Other honorable mentions include

  • Hawkeye, both Kate and Clint, as their weapons made them the veritable jacks-of-all-trades,
  • Jane Foster Thor, because I like her comic,
  • Tigra, because using her scan ability avoids one of the dumbest mini-games in the game,
  • Ultron, for his repair ability because switching him out was easier than Iron Man every damn time, and
  • Vision, for his tunnel grate ability and host of other abilities that made him more efficient to use than others who could use the grates.

Thank you all so much for making LEGO Marvel’s Avengers a better game than LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, even though that one had Deadpool.

Another thing I will say about this game is that getting the Platinum has given me additional courage in getting the other wayward Platinum trophies from the LEGO games. I never did finish LEGO Batman 2 or LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, because the Hub world overwhelmed me too much. But now thanks to this game, I have a method to transversing the Hubs. However, I think I also need a break from LEGO games for a little while. They’re fun, but they do get tedious.

In Pursuit of Platinum: LEGO Batman 3 for Vita

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LEGO Batman 3 Vita Platinum Trophy

I am not sure why, but for whatever reason, I picked up LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham on the Vita, even though I haven’t touched the game on the PlayStation 4. I assumed, and rightly so, it would be a great little couch game to play downstairs instead of staring at my phone and scrolling through Twitter or Facebook. Each little level took about 10-15 of my time, and none really required my concentration. I could put it down at any time, and it helped my eldest loved watching me play. He liked it so much, he used the last of his Christmas money to buy the 3DS version for himself.

It also gave me a chance to actually use the strategy guide Prima Games sent me (I know, I’m not worthy of their stuff sometimes…most of the time…fine, ever) to lock down each and every trophy, which I did Friday night, as you can see from the date above. So at least for the handheld portion of the strategy guide, the book is extremely helpful in finding every collectible and obtaining every Trophy. There were a few collectibles I could not find, and the collectible detector was less than worthless. There were also a couple of Trophies I couldn’t figure out, or didn’t want to spend the time to figure out like the lazy little bitch I am. One Trophy required that I obtain maximum studs on the tech hacking puzzles in each and every level they exist in. I knew I hadn’t done that in the beginning, since I kind of rushed through them, and if I had read the guide, I would have known not to do that. Instead of playing every single level again, I bookmarked each puzzle mentioned in the strategy guide, and replayed those levels. It cut out a considerable amount of time.

Platinum achieved in 15 hours time, and now I’m back on chasing that Platinum in LEGO Marvel’s Avengers in between reviews. I really wish that I didn’t have these Internet sinkholes in my house where I could use remote play to do the same thing on my Vita I did with LEGO Batman 3. Before you give me all this Internet advice, I really do have Internet sinkholes throughout the house. My bedroom interferes with bluetooth communication, and you can forget about accessing Wi-Fi in the kitchen, even though the access point is just behind one kitchen wall. Gotta love old houses.

In Pursuit of Platinum: Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments

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B2RIDGvIgAAD_bBI’ve gotten on a Platinum trophy kick lately with games. I don’t really care about my GamerScore on Xbox Live, but for whatever reason, I really want those Platinum trophies. I’m not sure if it’s how shiny they are or if I simply like the idea of trophies better than Achievements, but I’m all in if I think I can get that beautiful piece of virtual platinum.

The latest pursuit has been for Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments, a game I was meh about when I saw it at E3 and then fell in love with it when a review code fell in my lap. One thing I will say about this Platinum trophy list is that it is possible to get all of the trophies your first time to play as long as you’re willing to take your time, possibly compromise your moral decisions, and reach all of the right conclusions. Otherwise, you’ll be replaying the cases.

From just my first playthrough, I was only missing three trophies, which therefore made my path to Platinum all the easier. All I had left to do was reach every single conclusion possible (something I didn’t do as I was rushing through the game), max out the personality alignment, and win all of the final scene QTEs. If you don’t pick arresting the culprit for each case, you won’t get to see all of the final QTEs. If you don’t pick arresting the culprit for each case, then you won’t max out your personality alignment either.

Fortunately for me, I only had to replay each case once, and I didn’t have to finish the last case entirely. As soon as I reached a conclusion I didn’t make last time, the trophies dinged in, I danced around my office in glee, and then I quit the game.

Now that that distraction is out of the way, I can focus on what I’m supposed to be working on, like Assassin’s Creed Unity, strategy guides for Skylanders Trap Team, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, and Sunset Overdrive, and maybe Dragon Age: Origins. Or maybe I’ll just work on my Platinum pursuit for Diablo 3 on the PS3; I only have 2.8 million more gold to go!

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