Passed 300 trophies... thanks to that old PS3 classic, Eye of Judgment

I guess it's kind of nothing more than pure Trophy mining, going back to Eye of Judgment. But I did it. And the game is still fun, and it is still a challenge to beat the CPU decks. Wringing another dozen or so Trophies out of EoJ crested me over the 300 threshold.

Almost all of EoJ's Trophies are based on CPU play. As was suggested on our latest Aeropodcast (#84), that's probably because no one is still playing Eye of Judgment online. The game delivers a Trophy for beating each prebuilt CPU deck (what, 18 of those maybe?) and then another set of Trophies for beating each deck under some insane condition. The easier conditions are workable stuff like "beat CPU without playing spell cards." Some of them are crazy like "don't let any of your creatures die."

One of them - "don't kill any opposing creatures" - actually opened my eyes to a new strategy: the "Don't Kill Any Opposing Creatures" gambit. Whenever you kill an enemy, as a balancing rule, the opponent gets one free mana. The usual way I play, I try to kill all comers, which ends up granting a lot of mana to the CPU. Playing under the pacifist role sort of crippled the CPU from getting his big cost creatures to the table.

So a round of wins from EoJ got me up to 304 Trophies... and then I scrounged some leftovers from Flower ("Wait ten minutes before playing again"), LittleBigPlanet ("Play online with three people not on your friend list"), and new-to-Trophies The Last Guy.

Last Guy sucks for Trophies. There's a nice pile but they're all secret. Who thinks 100% secret Trophies is a good idea? So far I have picked up about three of them... beat level 1.1, beat level 1.4, save over 10,000 people.

Not to mention that you have to restart your game to get the Trophies. Bleah. At least the Trophy patch (and some new bonus levels) was free.

Last Guy is exceptionally frustrating thanks to an arbitrary time limit and a once-and-done one life per level structure. My man Mike got really good at it (and he doesn't even own a PS3) so next time he's up I'm going to make him play it and get me Trophies.

Incidentally, what's up with EU getting a different Buzz Jr PSN game that happens to include Trophies? Europe received Buzz Jr Robot something-or-other, with Trophies, and we got Buzz Jr Jungle Party. Jungle Party is OK, but it came with zero Trophies even though it was released after January 2009 (Sony's mandated Trophy deadline).