I have been enjoying the heck out of Sonic Forces.  It is a pretty solid Sonic game, I may be even enjoying it so much more than Sonic Mania.  I like how there are super simple daily challenges.  I will admit I am mostly doing it so that I can earn the 10 daily challenges trophy but I do to mind playing a level a day and doing a daily challenge a day.  The level designs are varied and I am enjoying all of the customization I get to do with my avatar.

This is what my avatar looks like right now :

I have over 50 items unlocked thus far.

Will I play after I unlock that trophy, only a few more days will know.

I earned that trophy and I already feel like I am done with Sonic Forces for a bit.

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I killed the first Colossus in Shadow of the Colossus.  I liked playing enough, but like I initially felt, I don’t feel compelled to keep playing.

After watching Nathan of PlayStation Access kill the first few Colossi :

Makes me want to at least kill the second one, but I am not super excited to make the attempt.

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I moved my plans to make Life is Strange : Before the Storm my March Platinum to my April Platinum.  I made this decision as I finally earned the Lego Batman 3 Platinum!

I really missed these early Lego games, where the missions do not feel like they take forever and the subchapter selection is nice.  I have to play the full level in Free Mode but for clean up purposes, it is great to jump in and out of levels once obtaining minikits, or character tokens, or rescuing Adam Wests.

Walker Dennis and I have been playing Lego Incredibles and like Lego DC Supervillains, we are not both earning trophies so that has been highly disappointing.  So for now on, I will just play games with Walker Dennis on his account, as I can only imagine how disappointing not earning a trophy is.  I already started this policy with Lego DC Supervillians, and I am annoyed that I have to play that game separately, but earning several trophies in Lego Incredibles that he should have rightfully earned, was enough for me to make that decision.  He also tells me how disappointing it is, so it is not a secret or anything.  Such lousy game design, and with Lego games too.  These earlier games are just the way to go.

I also already know I will not get the platinum for Lego Incredibles, as I can’t earn the gold in two races, so that has been a lousy feeling as well.  I still want to finish the levels in Free Play, and I do like how there is a trophy for each main level.  What I don’t like, is that there is no minikit red brick so I am going to have to look up how to get all of the minikits, which is also annoying.  We still want to get more characters, I just have some work to put into it.

Whenever Lego Jurassic Park goes on sale again for under ten dollars, I will probably pick it up as I can only imagine it is a fun game.  I know there is no DLC, so hopefully it is more like Lego Batman 3 and not Lego Incredibles.  I should probably wait until we have finished Lego DC Supervillians, as it was causing some silly stress having three ongoing Lego games.

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I also earned my second bonus trophy for the year with Hitman Go!  Which I can already see myself, once earning 12 platinums, just cooling my quest to earning a platinum a month.  12 sounds good enough to me, one way or the other. I am at five already.

Hitman Go was a lot of fun and so relaxing.  Did i just follow a guide the entire way?  I sure did and it was just a nice way to start a night’s gaming session.  From what I have read, Lara Croft Go is not as good, there are puzzles added to it, which makes sense, and I imagine it is as easy to play but I have never been much of a Tomb Raider guy.  I am not much of a Hitman guy either, but playing his games at least exposed me to the character and encouraged me to get this game.  That and it being only three dollars.

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I was looking through the Double Discount sale and saw Bulletstorm : Full Clip Edition is currently $24.  It was a PS+ title back in November 2018.  We also got Yakuza Kiwami, Roundabout, and Burly Men at Sea, that month.  I got the platinum for Burly Men at Sea, I enjoyed the silliness of Roundabout and I allowed myself to get stuck on the first real boss of Yakuza Kiwami, and that was enough for me.  I never got around to Bulletstorm, as I am not the biggest FPS guy, but I also am trying to make a bigger point of playing these free games I have received.

I finished Act 1, Chapter 1, and got to the train sequence of Chapter 2.  I had earned a few trophies along the way, and the game is pretty enjoyable.  I keep running out of ammo, so I end up leashing a guy, and kicking him into walls or off cliffs, so that was a fun night.

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I heard Call of Duty Modern Warfare : Warzone was a free battle royale so I gave it a shot.  I did the tutorial and the extra practice course for the free item both provided.  I then joined the 150 other peeps who were also playing.  I was grouped up with two other people for a squad of three.  The game looks amazing.  It took a while to find a gun with a scope that I prefer.  I am a simple man, so I like a scope that just puts a dot on where I am aiming.

I essentially just followed the one guy around the map, and made it all the way to ninth position, so I felt pretty good about that.  I probably will not go back to it but it was fun during the 10 minutes or so.  There is no trophies for Warzone, so I felt pretty free to just enjoy it.

The one thing I would have liked was to know how to crouch, as I could not figure it out.

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I have made it to just past the Bane fight in Arkham Asylum.  I am not sure if the game starts to look worst towards the end, as the main complaints I hear about the Return to Arkham remasters is that the cut scenes look drastically different (and for the worst), but the game looks good to me.  The controls are slightly different from Arkham Knight, so that took a little getting used too.  Mostly it is realizing I want L1 for detective mode, and not up.  Everything else feels pretty good. That and in the fighting, I can’t seem to string a combo together.  I am used to punching with Square, and pressing X to evade, and then follow up with punch again, but that does not seem to work as well, just I end up just punching and pressing Triangle to counter, to get any real combo going.

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I sort of feel like I am inbetween games.  I really like Arkham Asylum, but I feel like I am waiting for another game to make an appearance to get pulled into.  Chrono Trigger celebrated its 25th birthday on March 11, and I think I really want a JRPG to enjoy.  I found a list of 50 games like Chrono Trigger on PS4 but the bulk of them are not really jumping out at me.

https://www.50gameslike.com/games-like/chrono-trigger/ps4

The main games that do look interesting are :

Persona 5 (1), but I would also just wait for the Royal edition to release.  Though the 100 hour time cautions me.
Battle Chasers : Nightwar (6), which next time it is on sale for under ten, I will probably buy it.
I am Setsuna (8), which I know was made to be in the same spirit of Chrono Trigger but the game is rarely on sale, staying at $40.
Cosmic Star Heroine (9), which i played and platinumed, and is the type of game I want to play.
Ni no Kuni II : Revenant Kingdom (18), is on my psprices wishlist but is also an expensive game.
Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition (23), I am not sure what “Pocket Edition” means, but if the Royal Edition ever drops to under ten, I could be convinced to buy it.
Lost Sphear (25), is the other game inspired by Chrono Trigger like I am Setsuna, but is also a rather expensive game.

What I am looking for is a game I can complete in, ideally, one playthrough, and is not like a 50 hour game, or the 12th entry in a franchise that I have never heard of.  What I should do is just buy the Final Fantasy VII game for the PS4, play the heck out of that, and maybe get excited for the Remake.  I tried the Demo and there is just something about playing a demo to a game I either will not buy or will buy in a year, that I could not adjust to it.

What I really want, is to be able to buy Chrono Trigger and play it on my PS4.  I read that Chrono Cross is also available for the PS3 and Vita through the PSOne Classics line, but those do not have trophies and also, I do not currently own a PS3 or a Vita.  If only!

Though seeing Battle Chasers and being tempted to play the game, has made me want to read the comic again.

I know it was never finished and I have the first seven issues (somewhere), but I should treat myself to the Anthology series, actually read it, and then get the game.  That is how I should do it.