DS2 Platinum is really solid apart from some trophies that should have the reqs dozens of times higher like the distance travelled and cargo weight held trophies which pop so early in the game. The main one here is maxing all outposts which is extremely fun and way more varied than the first. Raiding outposts and even fighting the BTs is massively fun and you don't have to worry about void outs, the outposts clean up the corpses as long as you leave one of them alive. I've only had one void out and thankfully.

I'm 77 hours in, probably have 15-20 left. 

No. 17. Death Stranding 2. 118 hours. Game 10/10. Difficulty 3/10. Overall Plat rating 10/10. 

My backs been fucked, immobilised completely so it's been nothing but DS2 for three days, like 12 hours a day and I could not stop playing it and I don't think I wanted to either. I want to say I loved every second but like the first it is indescribable what the pull is here is after you've build all the infrastructure you need and spend 30 hours maxing out all facilities, I just know it's very strong, soothing and enjoyable, it's not exactly fun but something closely resembling fun. Perhaps it's only for certain personalities, idk but here they kinda break the DS1's super zen, delivery after delivery and add in some variety with recoveries, infiltrations and main story like missions for certain NPCs aling the way, you have to think more in this one and switch up traversal methods a lot more.

There's a really cool order they tried their best to make sure was the last one and almost succeeded (for me, it'll probably be Last for most people) and it's a perfect end to that loop. I love how right up till the end you still need to be thinking about the most basic of tools. Incredibly designed world, so finely tuned that everytime I thought I should be able to go somewhere in my current traversal method I was almost always right.

10/10 but the main story lacks masterpiece level. There was a lot more in the post game than I was expecting though and it's def a stronger 10 if you're going for the platinum. 

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Zero completions for July making it the second month of nothing. I’m just (very) slowly playing through DS2. Got fast travel and went back to the first area to get all facilities to 5*. Aiming to be completed with the story at least by the end of August, mid September, aiming for the plat by next year if I actually can be bothered for it.

So what the heck is the trick to raising your combat score higher in DS2 @LegitHyperbole
I feel like it barely increases. Don’t you dare say just shoot more 😭😅

Sonic Colours Ultimate complete.

I think going for the red rings and A rank is fairly annoying. Unless you're extremely well-versed in 3D Sonic or just lucky, that will end up taking the bulk of you platinum time.

There's some extra missions you can do that are pretty boring to do, and 1 trophy requiring a full playthough of the game without saving. I did it in just below 90 mins. It's not too bad that one actually.

Main missions, Elimination standard orders and sub orders that are tied to a few select facilities, often recoveries from camps too when stealth fails. Don't skip through BT areas. Throw a few blood grenades, cut the umbilical chords and stuff like that but it comes with the platinum anyway through sub orders and the trophy for elimations. I was near 60 and I was getting combat and stealth increases for just clipping BT areas or a camp but never seeing an enemy. 

Yeah I’ve only 8 levels left till combat lvl 40 then I’ll be done with the everything at level 40 trophy. I’m at 53.5hrs on mission 7/16, connected 24/42 facilities and I’m at 5* with 20/42 of them. So looking like a 100hrs+ easily.

Platinum #27 - Death Stranding 2 @124hrs

Death Standing 1 had its critics, but I genuinely enjoyed it. It’s open world was pretty decent and it didn’t overstay its welcome to long, story was a mess like usual but it was one of my favourite games that year.

Death Stranding 2 tho, the story was a complete mess, more so than the first and I think I’m just tired of the out of left field scenes Kojima is known for. Open world gameplay was pretty much exactly like the first … just 50hrs fucking longer for no reason. There was zero reason to make getting 5* with facilities such a slow process when the facilities offered pretty much nothing to the story. I won’t say this was the worst game I’ve ever played, but as a sequel it was definitely worse than the first. Combat was a pain with the constant slow down, felt like a sideshow at times. Unlike the first I just didn’t find it’s open world gameplay as engaging and I really don’t want to touch anymore open world games for a while (I’ll be skipping Ghost of Yōtie for sure). Overall I’d rate DS2 a 6.5/10. As a platinum experience tho, maybe even less.

Well shit… Hellblade 2 made doing a Dark Rot (permadeath in 4 deaths) playthrough a requirement for platinum. There goes a nice casual afternoon lol. Edit: so far I’m over half way through on my second run (DR mode) and can comfortably say this is so far the hardest plat I’ve attempted this year. Plaything the first run on hard definitely help prepare for it, even if DR mode is a step further on the difficulty scale. It’s not just not dying, you have to be careful not to get hit period as you don’t heal during combat and the hits will add up till the next straight kills you.