Shadow and Flame with Magik

I am not exactly sure why I haven’t written in so long, just busy I guess.  I have completed Man of Medan and I had a great time with my first playthrough.

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan Trophy Guide & Roadmap

I did not look at PowerPyx’s Trophy Guide list until my third night of playing but it was mostly just a curious glance at it.  Once it seemed like it was going to spoil anything, I looked away.

It was a very fun game, and I’ll post four more videos of my playthrough.  It takes around four and a half hours.

I’m disappointed that I’m not going to get the platinum for this game as I can’t commit to playing five hours with someone else online.  So that sort of kills my buzz for the overall game and really makes me want to hesitate before preordering New Hope as I could clearly wait it out until the game drops ten dollars.

I had fun, but I’m distracting myself with other games before attempting a second playthrough.

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In much more fun news, the season pass for Arkham Knight finally went on sale!

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP1018-CUSA00133_00-DLCSEASONPASS000

So I have to sneak and treat myself to a PSN card as I barely have eight dollars in my PSN Wallet.  But buy a card, I will!  I am so jazzed to get to play the Arkham Episodes and play with the various costumes and variants of the Batmobile.

I read a tip to save Mr. Freeze for last so that it remains snowing in Arkham, and that sounds like a fun thing to do in my Normal playthrough.

There is a pretty massive sale going on the PlayStation store that is good through October 1.  I would caution to wait until the free games are announced on September 25, if you are buying any games over two dollars.

Thanks to PlayStation for hosting the launch trailer.

I type that, as I am tempted to get Murdered : Soul Suspect, as that is two dollars and I was tempted to buy it at Shopko one time when it was ten dollars.  It might make for a great October free game, so I am going to hold out.  Plus, I have Arkham Knight to keep me occupied.

There are two other two dollar games I was tempted by, Toro and Yasai Ninja, but the reviews for those games are bad.  Like, not even playable bad.

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I also started and completed The Last of Us!  I was looking over Girlfriend Reviews videos and I sort of do a mini-marathon every weekend, as I wait for the new video to drop.  I came across The Last of Us video again and figured I’ll finally play the game.

So now I have played all of the games that Shelby has reviewed that I could.  Well, technically, I have not played Detroit : Become Human, but that’ll be nice.

I pretty much played The Last of Us straight through.  I played on Normal, so I got the Normal trophy as well as the Easy Trophy.  The game as a slew of collectibles but the only one I made a point of collecting were the comic book ones.

I did start Left Behind (on Normal) and did the first chapter but now that Arkham Knight is now on the table, I’m going to take a slight break and do those missions before coming back to Left Behind.

I could, looking back, have taken breaks between the seasons but I was told the game wasn’t horribly long, so I figured I would just play it straight.  Plus, I was really getting into the game.  I don’t think I love it as much as others clearly do but there were moments like in the sewer when Joel and Ellie were with Sam and Henry, and we come across what should have been a safe zone, and getting all of the lore, that I was recognizing what great the game really is.

I also got the trophy for crafting one of everything, that didn’t include all of the melee weapon types, just one of each of the five categories.  Melee Weapon, Shiv, Health Pack, Molotov Cocktail, and Smoke Bomb.  I barely threw any bottles or bricks.  I also got a lot better with stealth, something I usually don’t tend to be in games.

I’ll commit to playing a New Game Plus on Normal but after Left Behind, and probably do a full rotation of my games as well, just like how I am waiting to do another playthrough of Man of Medan.  Like, Late Shift, I want a decent break between playthroughs.

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I did take a slight break inbetween The Last of Us and Left Behind to play The Witness.

Thanks to PS4Trophies for hosting the guide for how to get the Symmetry trophy.

It was bugging me so much that I had The Witness at 0% when I legit gave it a proper go when it was a free game back in March 2019.  Which I knew I really didn’t give it a proper go, more like 30 minutes but I had not committed to fully giving the free games a fair chance back then.  Then I kept thinking about it and I decided to really look into how long and complicated was earning the first trophy in the game really was.  And it wasn’t all that hard at all!  I think I just got lost in the game’s world, like a maroon, and with the aid of the above video, within 20 minutes, I had earned the trophy.  So that is one less thing on my silly mind.

I was also convinced to play while watching Dave and Rosie play the game during one of their live streams.  I’m not really sure why I was so dismissive of their live streams in the past, I’m sure it was mostly how long the videos were, but now that I have an hour lunch break again and realizing I can watch 30 minutes a night, I can commit to watching these.  They are so fun and I love the team so it makes sense I’ll love them in a long format too.  I can be so silly sometimes.

So that has been what I’ve been doing for a week or so.