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My Many Mes Make March Marvellous - March reviewPermalink
So here we go again, another month has passed and with it, another review shall be written!



Let's take a look at what games I beat last month:



Games completed



Gem Smashers Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 2/10 Personal Game Rating: 2/5



Final Fantasy XV (EU) Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 3/10 Personal Game Rating: 4/5



Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 2/10 Personal Game Rating: 4/5



So Many Me

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 5/10 w/o guide (3/10 with guide) Personal Game Rating: 4/5



Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 3/10 Personal Game Rating: 3.5/5



Typoman: Revised (EU)

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 4/10 with guide (7/10 w/o) Personal Game Rating: 2.5 (3.5 w/o glitches)



Eekeemoo - Splinters of Dark Shard (EU)

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 2/10 (1/10 minus glitches) Personal Game Rating: 0.5/5 (1.5 w/o glitches)



Ghost Blade HD Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 6/10 (3/10 for genre experts) Personal Game Rating: 3/5



The Little Acre Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 2/10 Personal Game Rating: 2.5/5



The World of Nubla Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 2/10 w/o guide (1/10 with guide) Personal Game Rating: 1.5/5



Phew! 10 completions last month and 9 Platinums! Score! rock

Now onto the games I played but didn't beat...



Games Played



Horizon Zero Dawn Trophies

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Chime Sharp (EU) Trophies

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Battle Princess of Arcadias Trophies

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So that's my progress for March! A few too many easy games perhaps but oh well.



Onto the stats:



12 games started, 13 games played, 10 completed

246 trophies for 10,845 XP worth 14,875 TT!
Milestones achieved

155 completed games

250 games played

340,000 TT score

Playstation Level 34

160 completed games

6,000 trophies won
Games I'll possibly play in April

Well, I shall hopefully be finishing off all 3 games I didn't in March, though with Chime Sharp, we'll have to see... :P

Other than that, expect Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren's Call Trophies to feature, HOPEFULLY The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (EU) Trophies as I opened the game and put it into my PS3 but haven't started it yet. redface REALLY been wanting to play that for quite some time now.

Besides that, this might be the month I FINALLY get some other region games and do some major doubling up, been putting that off, plus getting some games that disgracefully STILL haven't surfaced, such as Linelight Trophies and Volgarr the Viking Trophies. Might even try Attacking Zegeta Trophies and the 2nd game, which doesn't have its list here (it's a GRP, which I believe NO-ONE has even got one trophy in yet...are they even possible??? LOL)

I would also LOVE to start playing the Touhou games, Touhou Double Focus Trophies has a BEAUTIFUL drop-down menu tune, my favourite to date. I'm gonna place a bet and say it's the credits theme, it sure sounds like one but we'll see.

Finally, Yooka-Laylee Trophies and Persona 5 (JP) Trophies comes out this month!!! rock

Other than that, who knows? wink



Final thoughts

So yeah, that blog took a while to write, I still haven't played anything yet today, must change that in due course!

I am now within touching distance of European #1 and the Site Top 10 in Puzzle games so I'm looking forward to getting that soon! :D

Might even start aiming for some other genres soon, more on that later, perhaps...

I'm nearing my goal of 1,000 Gold trophies now as well, that's exciting for me! headspin

I REALLY need to tackle some harder games, though, esp. after last month. Obviously, the ones I've set targets for but also in general. Whilst it's fun in its own way to get a load of easy Plats, nothing beats the sense of accomplishment you get from overcoming something TRULY challenging, at least for me. :D

Are you guys still enjoying my blogs? Any way you think I could improve them, if applicable? Be it content or presentation?

Finally: HUGE congrats to Badly_Worn_Toy on the arrival of a baby boy recently! toast

So how was your March and what did you get up to! As ever, those who leave comments are sexy! (Non-commenters aren't too bad, though!) :P toast
Posted by AtsumaKarin on 01 April 17 at 20:53 | Last edited on 01 April 17 at 20:59

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Posted by AtsumaKarin on 01 Apr 17 at 20:54
A_Tennis_Giraffe Wow you certainly played a lot of games during March! Some of them I've not really heard of and some are games that aren't my thing, but there's a few there that I'm somewhat interested in.

I'm disappointed you couldn't really recommend Typoman because that looks really good! Maybe if it goes really cheap though I'll consider picking it up.

Gems Smashers is another one I might look to get cheaply for something easy and somewhat mindless when I'm not in the mood for anything involved.

Will look forward to to seeing what you play this month and I'll expect to see some high ratios :P I know what you mean - completing games that aren't just a cake walk does feel very satisfying (although that doesn't happen to me very often! LOL).

Good luck with your quest to hit 1000 golds - will that be this month?!

Oh, by the way, I'm sexy because I commented! smile
Posted by A_Tennis_Giraffe on 01 Apr 17 at 21:42
takutoneko No i don't think there is anything you can do to improve your blog after all the blog is mostly done for yourself ..well that's what i think a blog should be about N we just get to read whatever you want to show :)

Busy month in the world of games for you tho :D Most of them I've never heard of but that's nothing new laugh
Posted by takutoneko on 02 Apr 17 at 01:22
AtsumaKarin First of all: A_Tennis_Giraffe and takutoneko are sexy! dance

A_Tennis_Giraffe: Yep, was another busy month, I'm hoping to keep the big scoring going all throughout the year but of course, you never know what's around the corner, might prove too difficult at certain points in the year but we'll see...

Yeah, I'm disappointed I couldn't recommend Typoman either, tbh. I hope that they patch it up soon, I sent enough error reports! laugh

Yep, Gem Smashers is alright for what it is and I shall certainly D-D-D-D-Double Up!! that one sooner or later. wink

I sure hope I can get some high ratios but even IDK for sure if I will as I never have a concrete plan with what I want to play. :P

I'd be very surprised if I don't get the 1,000 Golds this month, only need 20, that's 2 good GRP games!!! headspin

takutoneko: that's a cool way of looking at it but I think it's kinda a mixture for me. Obviously, you've gotta do something for yourself first and foremost but for me, this is as much about showcasing games that people might not have thought to check out and advising them on whether I think they should or not.

Of course, opinions being what they are, no-one will agree with me 100% of the time, maybe even most of the time but I hope that people can at least see my perspective on why I think a certain way at least 95% of the time. laugh

Yep, hoping to add some even more obscure games to the blog in the coming months! :P
Posted by AtsumaKarin on 02 Apr 17 at 11:43
Slayer1189 Nice blog and another good month's gaming!

Gem Smashers - This game actually looks pretty interesting and not what I thought it was at all. I'll definitely give it a try at some point.

Not being too impressed by mainstream titles - I get this often myself and and have wondered what causes it. Here's what I think it is. I think mainstream, AAA titles are often designed to appeal to the largest audience possible. So whilst a ton of money and a lot of effort goes into them, they usually just don't seem to have that 'X factor' that can make a game great.

They don't tend to try many new ideas, and in the event that they do, they usually make it basic and across numerous genre so that it doesn't put certain people off. This can then mean the game seems shallow and doesn't grip some gamers (Particularly gamers who play many games)

That being said, AAA games can be phenomenal and even the ones I don't like tend to be at least okay simply due to the amount of effort and money poured into them.

Misc - Throughout April I wish you the best of luck with your puzzle leaderboard goals. I'm sure you will get #1 in Europe. I very much enjoy your blog and think it has a good layout and flow to it. I agree with you that a blog is first and foremost a collection of your thoughts and primarily for your own notes, but it is also important that others like it as well toast
Posted by Slayer1189 on 02 Apr 17 at 14:41
biff_beefcake That's a LOT of completions for one month! I look forward to your blog: I don't think you need to change anything about it. It's a nice roundup of all the games I'd seen pop up in my feed all month!

My March was fun, not able to do ton of gaming, but what little there was was good times. :) A bit sad to wish farewell to Skyrim and my badass buddy Ralis... but I'm sure I'll start it up again in 4 years or so. Finally finished the Lego game I'd started on my Vita ages ago in order to get into a new one (World of Final Fantasy) and returned to DQB for a bit. Usually I have a good idea what I'll get up to in the next month, but this time I have no idea. It seems that every time I start up Journey of the Prairie King while my son is at school the baby wakes up - even if I play with headphones! laugh

Good luck on your gold trophy and leaderboard goals!!
Posted by biff_beefcake on 02 Apr 17 at 15:55
AtsumaKarin Slayer1189 and biff_beefcake are also sexy! dance

Slayer1189: Cheers! Yeah, you could do worse than Gem Smashers for sure, a nice, no-frills, easy time-waster for when you don't want to do anything else. :P

That's pretty much the same conclusion I've drawn re: Triple A games, really. Production values are nearly always phenomenal but somewhere along the line, it loses a bit of magic, I think, at least, most of the time.

There are always exceptions to every rule, of course.

A thought I had earlier: I'm wondering whether, if only in part, it could be down to the fact that those of us who have seen gaming evolve through the ages and had the experience of playing many purely fun games (because technology wasn't there to make the technical marvels we see today) miss that purity in most modern games?

What was Triple A back then (the original Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog just being 2 examples), whilst technically impressive for their day, of course, don't really blow your mind graphically or musically when taken out of that context and certainly old school Arcade games such as Frogger or Robotron don't either so that magic in the gameplay is what's needed to make them truly fun, memorable games.

Now, people are wowed by photo-realistic graphics and orchestrated soundtracks as a standard that are virtually on a par with movies so as long as the gameplay doesn't completely suck and the story is gripping, that's what makes the games great by today's standards, at least for a lot of people.

Like I say, this is all just a thought I had, not saying I'm correct by any means. Maybe this could be your next blog? wink

An exceptional game will always stand out, though, I think, regardless of limitations or lack thereof. smile

Thanks! It shouldn't take long to get European #1 if only for the sole reason that I don't think anyone else above me really cares lol. :P

Glad you like the blog, though and thanks for your feedback! toast

biff_beefcake: indeed, not very often I get that many completions in a month, having a week off and playing some easy peasy games didn't hurt, I suppose. laugh

Cheers for the feedback too, glad you enjoy it!

You did some good gaming for the little time you had, though! Still enjoying World of Final Fantasy? I really hope to get to that this year sometime but you know me. wink

I hope I can find the desire to give Dragon Quest Builders another go, indeed, Stardew Valley as well. Might have to do what one of my other friends did and have a guide on hand while playing.

I *might* also get the Harvest Moon Remaster coming out (A Wonderful Life), actually had that on the Gamecube but couldn't get into that either so I might not...we'll see...

I can't wait to see you get the SV Plat, though, you shall no doubt have an honourable mention in my blog after doing it so if that isn't incentive to do it, I don't know what is! laugh

Thanks! Gold trophies should be done pretty soon, the Leaderboard goals as well, though the Site #1 position will take a bit longer to get to and I need to get those Angry Bird games at some point...I wasn't overly keen on the Trilogy on 360 but it probably won't be too bad with a guide on hand if I get frustrated. smile
Posted by AtsumaKarin on 02 Apr 17 at 19:02
biff_beefcake I forgot that the Harvest Moon game was coming out! Now I have to beat SV, definitely can't have two of the same genre on the go at once. DX So many incentives! laugh

World of Final Fantasy is still fun! I tend to play that one in little blitzes lol Gotta catch 'em all!

Having a guide on hand while playing might be a good motivator to those games done, especially if you just need a nudge to get back into them.
Posted by biff_beefcake on 04 Apr 17 at 17:05
AtsumaKarin Harvest Moon is already out, came out last week, just searched to make sure it was on your store. wink

Glad to hear you're still enjoying WoFF! Almost looks like a dog barking when written like that! laugh

Indeed, I usually don't like using guides unless I get really stuck or for awkward collectables/missables (or want to progress in GTASC) laugh but sometimes, it might be worth it for the greater good.
Posted by AtsumaKarin on 04 Apr 17 at 18:05
SNES_Prime I'm late to post. My sexiness has dwindled. Shame! Shame! Shame!!!
Posted by SNES_Prime on 07 Apr 17 at 18:09
AtsumaKarin For shame, SNES, for shame! warning laugh
Posted by AtsumaKarin on 07 Apr 17 at 20:12
GizmoCat79 I'm kinda intrigued by hidden objects games. I've never played one are they kinda relaxing to play?
Posted by GizmoCat79 on 16 Apr 17 at 00:18
AtsumaKarin For the most part, I'd say so, yes. Only problem comes if you get stuck trying to find one last item for a few minutes. laugh
Posted by AtsumaKarin on 16 Apr 17 at 10:59
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