Elden Ring - Shadow of the Erdtree -DLC

 Today we got our first look at the Elden Ring expansion was created by FromSoftware director Hidetaka Miyazaki, who has been cooking behind the scenes to bring the new DLC expansion The Shadow of the Erdtree. After watching the trailer I'm curious to find out if the players who skipped Mogh will need to make that Jump as it looks like this could be the location of the DLC.

Miquella, brother of Melania, was a background character who is now central to the Shadow of Erdtree expansion. He is one of the Empyreans cursed with perpetual youth. He created the Haligtree to allow himself to grow into an adult and purge the rot from his sister Malenia. 

Mohg, Lord of Blood and Mogwyn Palace, is a demigod who specializes in blood magic. He infiltrated Haligtree to steal the Miquella's cocoon, as he wanted to elevate him to godhood and become his consort. However, Miquella had stripped himself of his flesh and, as we now know, traveled to the Land of Shadows, so he was never in the cocoon.

Malenia, the Blade of Miquella and Goddess of Rot, is a two-phase demi god who is the twin of  Miquella and the most powerful of the Empyreans. She was renown for her battle with Radahn during the shattering, in which she unleased the scarlet rot that drove Radahn insane and destroyed Caelid.

Shadow of The Erdtree is due to be released on June 21st and is now available on PlayStation for pre-order. If you haven't already bought the game, then buying both can be less expensive than buying the DLC alone.

If you are interested in Elden Ring Lore checkout some of these videos from @VaatiVidya.

If you haven't yet played Elden Ring and you need somewhere to start here is a great beginners guide published by Platinum Chasers on YouTube. uploaded May 19th 2022.

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White Day - A Labyrinth Named School - Kill Me Now

This game has one of the most annoying Platinum's to aim for, but for some, this may be more of a kill me now than a challenge. They have the most ridicules trophies that make it grindy and annoying, not forgetting the creepy Janitor. You have to play the game multiple times to get the platinum, so if you are a trophy hunter, you will know the first thing is to play and enjoy, then look at the trophy list. To blindly play this game and hope to get platinum with a couple of playthroughs and some challenges, think again. You may need more than a cup of coffee; think about writing your last will and testament. 

If you are not interested in trophies and looking for a story, playing this game on anything other than hard would be a pointless walkthrough as most of the ghosts only show up on hard mode. What really bores me to tears is the lack of thought that goes into the achievements.

Memory of white day is a day the game will never let you forget.

There are multiple endings in the game that you need to get the platinum. The problem is that you must get every ending on every difficulty to obtain the "Memory of White Day" trophy, along with the related trophies. There are five characters in the game, and you have to find all of their endings. There are a total of 10 endings and five difficulty levels to complete, so it can take a total of fifty playthroughs. Not to mention the cryptic story line of having specific items and carefully choosing dialog in the hope of playing a character.

If you are prepared to spend the next 85 years of your life playing one game with a polluted story or spending an extra 10 years reading through walkthroughs, then go for it. Whatever the developers were thinking with this is beyond my comprehension, and anyone who wants to attempt it may actually have a meme named in your honor.

The many routes through hell to get an ending.

The game requires you to do separate playthroughs for each character and not just once, as well as play on each difficulty. You also need the ending trophies for each character, as well as the "Memory of White Day" trophy. Let's not forget that even though they put you through hell to play their game, they want you to repeat that experience by doing it ten times in hell mode.

This really is a trophy hunter's nightmare, as there are too many permutations to simply pull off without a walkthrough. As a trophy hunter, this has to be the worst trophy collection in the last decade, and to boot, they have managed to turn a game into a grinding mass of polluted story-telling with a Janitor who is overly used, annoying, and makes the game almost unplayable. So don't expect a haunting experience walking through dark corridors and rooms, not knowing who is going to pop up next, because you will spend 90% of the time running from a guy with a club. 

The worst part about this game is that the story can be told in one sentence, so you are putting yourself through hell to come up with the same conclusion 50 times. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer Japanese survival horror games that just play and feel differently than their Korean counterparts. So if you really are looking for a game with an actual story, plenty of jump scares, and a haunting experience, then pick up a copy of Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. 

Trophy List Rating -1 

Kill Me Now

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Alien Isolation: When you think you are safe.

I recently decided to stream one of my older games. I'm not known for streaming single-player games, but I decided to give it a shot with the support of my dear friend Final Cut. This is one of those games that never gets old and can be replayed multiple times. 

Alien Isolation is a 2014 survival horror game based on the Alien films. The game is set 15 years after the events of the original film. Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley, learns that the flight recorder of her mother's ship, the Nostromo, has been located and retrieved by the salvage ship Anesidora and is being held at the Sevastopol Space Station. Samuels, an android, offers Ripley a place on the retrieval team to obtain the flight recorder.

Alien is a single-player action-adventure game with an emphasis on stealth. The player controls Amanda Ripley from a first-person perspective and must explore a space station and complete objectives while avoiding, outsmarting, and defeating enemies. The alien creature cannot be defeated, requiring the player to use stealth tactics in order to survive, but there are other enemies who can be defeated.

Alien was nominated and won many awards, and by 2015, it had sold over 2 million copies and supported additional in-game content in the form of a downloadable content pack, but it never got the sequel it deserved as it was not seen as financially successful.

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Trophy List Rating 9

Survivor

To gain the platinum for Alien, you will have to replay the game in hard mode which can be a bit tricky if you neither like or are good at stealth games. It has the usual trophy collection of collectibles and accessing/upgrading your equipment, with some minigames and accessing computers under some constraints. The main trophies are: 

Survivor - Complete the game on hard and Mercy or Prudence - Do not kill any survivors and importantly do not get Androids to kill them for you or uses the Alien as your shield.

One Shot - Complete the game without dying, which will also reward you with three other trophies: 

Mind Your Step - Navigate the maintenance reactor without dying. 

Hide, Run, Survive - Complete the filth mission without being killed by the Alien.

Just Out of Reach - Contact your team and escape comms, without being attacked by an android. 

Excluding hard mode, every other trophy can be awarded on novice. It's also important to save the game every chance you get. Overall, the trophy list is fun to complete, but you are always under duress, not knowing who is going to show up, whether it be aliens, androids, or humans, especially in hard mode, as the experience is more intense.

 

Ten stars is the maximum rating given, but there are two things that negate one star. There is no trophy tracking in-game. Yes, I know PlayStation now has this feature, but in-game will always be better, as it's easier to pause and look at your stats than pin a card to track. The most annoying trophy is 100 times too many, but it can be achieved by playing through nightmare mode. I feel this trophy was unnecessary and should have been removed or replaced. I personally would rather have seen a trophy related to not dying anymore than 10 times on normal mode. There are also a lot of similar trophies but that is probably because of the nature of the games as its about survival, in which you cannot kill or damage the alien it self. 

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Rainbow 6 - Sad Story

Playing Rainbow 6 with Final-Cut, he tragically died in battle 😭. We weren't winning any matches, but finally, in the last match, it seemed like there was hope. It was a heavy burden and down to me 😟, but the enemy was hiding and the smoke was overwhelming. 🤣 Then suddenly...

RIP Fares & Angel thankfully the puppy stayed home. 🤣

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Remnant II - Death becomes you

Remnant II is the sequel to Remnant: From the Ashes, which pits survivors of humanity against new deadly creatures and god-like bosses across strange worlds. Inspired by a souls like video game but with guns. Players choose their own archetypes with a choice of two guns and one melee weapon. You can play solo or play with up to 2 other players. 

RIP Fares & Angel but at least the puppy made it out okay.

To play the game, your main goal is NOT to fall over bridges or jump into the depths of the unknown, which will lead to your ultimate death and an orphaned puppy. If you want to die, hang around the sewers to be dragged down to the depths. I warned Fares not to hang around in that area multiple times, but he kept peering down; obviously, he has a death wish or wasn't tasty enough. 😂

Will I make it? he said. Yeah, of course you will, and he died. 😂

 

Well that didn't go as planned. 😂

Broadcasted Live on Twitch - Playing Remnant II 

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