Platinum #165: マブラヴ photonflowers*

Hey there!

This is one of the easiest visual novels out there. All you have to do is to watch all the scenarios that are available in the game. This will unlock all but one trophy in the game. For the missing trophy, which is also the hardest in the game, you need to scroll over a text and press and hold R2 until you’ve read through the whole text. That’s it – really!

If you ever encounter a copy of this game, don’t hesitate to buy it. It’s a nearly effortless Platinum Trophy which can be unlocked in under 1 hour.

Yours,

AvengedEvil

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Platinum #164: NORN9 Var Commons

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NORN9 VarCommons is one of the few visual novels that’ve been also released in the west. The first time I heard about the game I knew that I’ll get it as soon as it is on sale as it can be completed in 3-4 hours. It has been on sale in the NA store quite often already but it’s a Vita game, which means that you can only play it with the account you bought the game. As I’m from Austria I had to wait quite a long time until the game was finally on sale in the EU store.

Unless like every other visual novel, I looked for a guide and skipped through the game as fast as possible. There are 3 heroines and every heroine has 3 different guys she can date. This means that there are 9 routes with various endings. Luckily you don’t have to unlock all of them.

Unfortunately skipping through the game is not all that you need to do. After you’ve unlocked most of the trophies you also have to play some very strange mini game called Norn9 Quest with which you have to unlock enough points to unlock all BMGs. In this mini game you have to choose 1 character from the game which has to duel 3 randomly chosen characters. There’s nothing you can do to influence the outcome of this duel. This means that you need a bit of luck to win them. For me it worked best when I alternately picked one of the 3 heroines. After you’ve enough points you need to buy everything from the store and you’re done.

If you’re up for a quick Platinum Trophy, buy this game the next time it is on sale but keep in mind that you need to invest some time in Norn9 Quest.

Yours,

AvengedEvil

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Platinum #163: Late Shift

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Late Shift is more an interactive movie than an actual game. Similar to Telltale games, you’re watching and making some decision from time to time but this game doesn’t include any quick time events.

In this “game” game you’re following the events of a night guard, who gets out of the frying pan into the fire. You’re always asking yourself what will go wrong next and how will you get out of this misery?

The story isn’t that bad. It’s way better if you compare it to The Bunker, which is also a FMV game that has been released a few months ago. At least the actors are way better.

To unlock the Platinum Trophy you have to reach all 7 possible endings. If you’re playing through the game blind, this will take for sure 10-12 hours. If you want to go through it much faster, you can follow IBadDriverI’s video guide below and use the chapter replay exploit. In this case you won’t be able to see all endings but you can finish the game in 2-3 hours.

The game itself is only available in the PSN store. It’s not that expensive but it’s also regularly on sale. So it may be worth to wait for the next sale to get this game.

 

Yours,

AvengedEvil

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Platinum #162: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2

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This time I’m going to tell you something about Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2.

IBadDriverIand I played its predecessor many years ago on the XBOX360 and we’ve been thinking about playing this game since a few months. Finally we decided to start the game and play it couch co-op, as this is much more fun.

We started the game on his console and played through the first act and did some miscellaneous trophies on the first day. On the second day we continued and we realized that he kept all his stats but mine were gone. We thought that this might not be an issue as all story related trophies should unlock for both of us and that we’ll do the clean-up of some miscellaneous trophies in one run after finishing the game. So we played through act 2 on day 2 and act 3 on day 3. That’s where we realized that couch co-op won’t work as he got the trophy “I’m With Iron Man” (play through all levels of act 2 and 3 as pro-registration team) but I didn’t. To solve this issue I had to download the game on my own and had to play through the whole game once again. From now on we continued to play the game online as we still had one playthrough on legendary difficulty as anti-registration team to do. It was still quite fun for us but from now on we had to fight with very instable servers. One of us was kicked out every now and then. Worst thing was when we’re going for “Powers of Two”. This trophy is one big grind as you have to make all fusions by combining every available hero. I was host at that time and he got kicked out in the middle of our session and he lost his progress, which forced us to do it once again.

As you can see, we had a lot of issues but in the end we’re both happy that we completed this game.

If you’d like to go for this Platinum Trophy, I highly suggest to do it solo. The game might be a little bit harder due to this but you’ll save yourself a lot of troubles. Also the co-op related trophies can be easily done alone, assumed you have a second controller.

If you’ve played MUA2 and enjoyed it, I’d suggest you also check out MUA1, in case haven’t already. MUA1 was much more fun but also more of a grind.

Yours,

AvengedEvil

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