Platinum #62 Marvel's Wolverine

Time Taken: 28 hours

Difficulty: 3/10 (Played on Hardest Difficulty)

The more I played Wolverine, the more I came to notice how much of an unfinished product it is. Levels have no rhyme or reason to how they are designed, the combat takes an hour at most to master, and the story moves at a breakneck pace with little introspection along the way. There is a lot to love in this game, but it's hard to appreciate its heights when it is painfully obvious that this game had a different vision sometime during development, leaving a disconnect apparent within core design philosophies.

It's core gameplay pillar is reminiscent of the PS2-era brawlers I grew up on, and so of course I was going to enjoy it somewhat. Even within its simplistic combat model, they leave out abilities late into the game which makes for some dull stretches of sequences where you can't do much but mash a couple of buttons. I enjoyed the combat later into the game, where open areas and a variety of movesets made me feel in control of the battlefield.

Where I don't feel in control is in laborious walking sections, where neither the story shines nor can you have fun ripping baddies apart. Cutscenes do a better job at storytelling- the highlight of which was Jean and Logan's will-they-won't-they relationship. Even though Insomniac's tendency for chaotic story progression hurts the narrative, strong character work from brilliant performances save the day, and make for much needed maturity within Insomniac's storytelling repertoire. I did not find the story all that compelling, but I did come to care for this version of Logan and Jean, and to an extent I even appreciated this Nathaniel Essex, even though his arc felt quite rushed.

It was a bittersweet reaction when the section in which "The Dark End of the Street" played, I was taken back to the announcement of this game and how exciting it was. Every design decision in this game is a safe, tested recreation of what we expect from any videogame, but that hurts to say that when the game comes from a studio as revered and talented as Insomniac.

Finished the main story within 11 hours and then it took 8 hours to do all the other trophies. For a total of 19 hours to complete the game. I've only owned my PlayStation for a couple of years now, and this by far was an awesome game.

I can’t say the platinum was an easy ride, but I did enjoy (almost) every (of the about 400) hour played.

Got the Platinum before GTA 6. So much to of it unnecessarily long (the submarine stuff, or Kifflom).
Good luck to everyone trying to do it.
happy hunting.

Now I have a milestone platinum to consider, most likely doing Blood of Dawnwalker since I started that the other week and was enjoying it. I figure it’s a vampire game… that’s basically Halloween themed.

…For how DOGSHIT this game is. They made this off the back of god of war 3. That games combat is perfect. This is easily the worst game in the series, and the combat is fucking ATROCIOUS. They made parrying harder, and simultaneously damn near useless. Every single attack you use animation locks you, so does parrying. There are some enemies in this game that are so horribly unbalanced it’s not even funny. Story was pretty good though, and I liked the puzzles. If you read this far and are wondering why I got the platinum, it’s because I’m trying to plat every GoW game. 5/10 do not recommend

Edit: I’m being harsh because the gameplay is really bad. However, this game does have some REALLY good moments. The first big sequence with the bugs and body horror is classic god of war, it fleshed out Kratos’ backstory really well, but man it’s just so hard to enjoy

Yes it’s “Eurojank”

Yes it’s rough around the edges

But the lore and the world building is exceptional.

Recently started to go for platinums, very fun experience so far and proud of the little list I have made.

Got Control Resonant lined up for the next plat.

Suggestions for fun plats are always welcome!

Played the story twice when it came out and went back now to get the platinum! I love this game so when i went for the plat i started a new save.

Finally have my first 10 platinum trophies!! Haven’t finished anything too challenging but I’m pretty proud of finally reaching a milestone. I’ve been working on gta v on and off and I’m pretty close to finishing that one. Just some cleanup and getting the 70 gold medals and I’ll be finished. Currently focusing on Kingdom Hearts Final Mix right now and I’m having a blast playing it on proud mode!

Wasn’t too bad of an experience other than the damn feathers. I used MapGenie to mop em up.

If you’re gonna go for this plat, don’t go for any feathers until you’re ready to do it all in one go with a map resource.

The game doesn’t track the location, so you might backtrack unnecessarily when going to grind the feathers.

First trophy in this game was earned back in 2017! Finally got it done though.

Time: 20 hours

Difficulty: 2/10

PSN ID: JeanChoy

I'd give Wolverine a solid 6.5/10. I thought it was decent but I got it from a rental service which I only pay £15 a month for and it was absolutely perfect for that. I enjoyed the game but if I had spent £70 on it I would definitely have been disappointed.

Mortal Shell 2 was an 8/10 for me. Love Souls-likes and that was probably the 2nd best I'd ever played behind Lies of P. I think the only issue I had with the game was how easy it was as it's very easy to get quite OP but the abilities of the shells were all very fun.

Now the question is do I do Onimusha or Blood of Dawnwalker next?

Here’s a full list of all the platinum trophies I’ve gotten over the years for a variety of different games. Anything stand out?

Almost to 60! Currently working on black flag platinum but then i really want to get demon souls and nightreign going. Anyone here got ang tips for those?

Simply one of the best games I've ever played

I waited this long on Elden Ring because I wanted my first playthrough on a PS5. Finally a Fromsoft game that rivals Bloodborne and Sekiro. Amazing!

60TH PLATINUM!!!

It took me a month, but I finally managed to do it. It was actually not as bad as people were saying imo, the collectibles sure were horrible but I was actually having fun doing the gold medals and other miscellaneous things.

The thing that took the most of my time was GTA Online, as I watch only lvl 55 when I started going for the plat and it took me agessssss to get to 100 as the rp was really mid, so thanks rockstar.

Anyways I can move on and maybe do the PS5 version at somepoint in the future.

(No i am not doing the DLC stuff I just can't.)