Deactivating my Playstation Plus Account

Hey, guys.  Playstation Plus on my end still says that I'm a subscriber yet gives me no free game options other than Dead Space 3 and Vessel.   Last month, there were about 15 things to choose from once Vita games were included.  I am going to call them tomorrow and see what they say when I tell them what is going on.  I'm going to e-mail them right now and let them know about the issue first.
I really wanted to do an entry on this month's free games, but I'm not sure I will be able to now unless they fix it on my end.

Hey, guys. Sorry for the inactivity.

I want to talk updates concerning the Playstation Plus freebies, but I'm in the middle of finishing up a Child Development Psychology class online.  I will do the update on the 25th at the end.

Dear HBO...

I don't care much about money, or if you pay me or even admit to seeing this....


There needs to be a Game of Thrones Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG).

This might be bigger than World of Warcraft's initial hype.

Epic fantasy has come back in a big way and we need to make sure it continues to stay throughout our next generation and not replaced by an almost exclusively science fiction culture.

So here's the particulars, HBO...
You would carry out tasks as a knight of the houses or or a persuasive speechcraft type character who would carry out tasks by the eunuch or the bawdyhouse owner, another type of character would obviously be Nightwatch and there are many, many more possibilities. What I just described is only the tip of the iceberg of my ideas about what I'd like to see in video game setting regarding the lore, stories and characters of Game of Thrones.

Please, please contact me if you are interested in working together or picking my brain for the initial outline.  I am very confident the creation of this game would be a staggering success.  Or just never contact me and make the damn thing.  Don't really care.  Just want to play.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
That is all.

Some new games are up on PSN for Playstation Plus subscribers.

The new games PSN added for the month of July have me pretty excited.  Currently, subscribers can download Dead Space 3, Vessel, Doki-Doki Universe aaaand.... it's gone.  Screw this! Seriously! To explain what I'm getting heated about, I went on the other day and I could look at a list of the free games and the ones they have on discount today and yesterday, and now the list is gone!!!  I can't access it and I doubt anyone else can.   You can still download Dead Space 3 and Vessel, but I don't know about Doki-Doki.  Yeah, I just checked and it's still the same.  Normally, I'd check and see a list of titles that they are offering for free.  Right now all you can see is Dead Space 3 and Vessel and when you try to navigate to the screen that gives you that above mentioned said list, it's empty.  Well.. It's not empty, it just tells me I should sign up and subscribe yet I recently made a payment for this month's subscription.  Weird.  I suppose they will appear eventually.  Stay posted, friends.   UPDATE: Playstation has not updated.   Annoying because I'm all paid up.  I have been lightweight toying around with Vessel, neat, simple platformer.  The puzzles are low-to-middle difficulty, but they seem to be the same solution repeated or variations of the same solutions being repeated.  Makes it easy, but less challenging.  

Adding me on the PSN (Playstation Network.)

Realizing that I wrote my PSN ID incorrectly on a past post, I need to make another entry to clear up confusion (I've also gone back and corrected the typo.)  My PSN ID is Tullohs2bShep.  Feel free to add me, send me messages, and send me multiplayer game requests.  The multiplayer games I currently have are: Resistance/Resistance 2, Mass Effect 3, Uncharted 2 [I had said 3, but I remembered that I deleted it after platinuming the game to save space and help with system performance.] 

I really dislike the format of this blog! And....

It looks like I need to brush up on my HTML skills and learn CSS to make this blog look the way I want it.  I also learned the past couple days over, considering the direction of this blog, that it's very unrewarding to try to knock out many platinum trophies at once (surely the same for Xbox users with their achievement system.)  
SO... in lieu of running around like a chicken with my head cut off, I am going to focus on one game at a time.


IT'S ABOUT TO BE A NEW MONTH!
What does that mean?
NEW GAMES ON PLAYSTATION PLUS!  
I just looked and they haven't updated their games yet, but if you want to download Mutant Mudds Deluxe or PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate for PS Vita, today is probably your last chance!  Same goes for Sly Cooper®: Thieves in Time for PS Vita/PS3 and NBA 2K14.  Puppeteer and Remember Me are no longer available to download for free. *sadface*  
Sly is a cross-buy, meaning that you can play it on your console and TV, then seamlessly transition to playing it on your Vita on the bus or walking to wherever you need to be (I think--correct me if I'm wrong.)  I believe cross-buy also means that you only need to purchase the PS3 copy (or vice versa) to be able to play the game on your other system.
Also! If you're into the Sly Cooper series, you will be excited to know that there will be an animated feature coming in 2016, maybe sooner.  Here is the trailer.

Anyways, I highly recommend Thieves in Time.  A new studio took over the series and a lot of people out there who have played the other games in the Sly series (I have not) say that Sanzaru Studios pick up where Sucker Punch Productions left off.  Sanzaru's previous work with the game includes porting all the PS2 games into HD PS3 greatness (Wikipedia). 
The game is so fun to play that I've stopped playing everything else until I platinum it.  A great source for trophy guides for almost any PS3 game is Playstation Trophies; I use this site extensively.  Apparently, the users of the Playstation Trophies forum gave Thieves in Time a 4/10 difficulty, so not incredibly difficult to platinum.  There is only one thing about the game that has annoyed me thus far and it is how hard and time-consuming the trophy, "Unexpected Package," is.  For this trophy, you have to put 60 bombs in enemy pockets as Bentley the turtle and not all enemy pockets are created equally!  What I mean is that some enemies already with a bomb on them will go crazy running around, making the second bomb super hard to land, if not impossible, making that enemy completely useless until it stops flailing about.

  If you put too many bombs all at once, the bombs never explode (as you control the detonation) and the enemy never seems to calm down and return to their normal patrols. Here is the best way to get the "Unexpected Package" trophy according to the internet.
The easiest way is to use sleep ammo, then plant 5 bombs at once into the same enemy's pocket, boom, reload, repeat x12.  This seems to be the quickest, but the bomb has to be on the enemy's pocket or else it won't count. 
All I'm saying is that 60 seems a bit excessive, under the circumstances. There are better guides (seen above in yellow and video) to this where they explain easier ways of achieving this trophy than the way I'm going about it, but I'm stubborn and prefer getting the trophy out of the way when I want it out of the way.  

I still get to keep RM and that game with puppets as long as my subscription stays active, so I am planning to review these games once I get to them.  I am not satisfied with the review/preview I did for Puppeteer, so when I finish it, I will be updating that for you.  
If you would like me to review them sooner, just shoot me a message or comment.  I am also planning on starting a YouTube channel real soon as well.

PUPPETEER AND REMEMBER ME AS PROMISED

(THIS POST IS NOT COMPLETE)
Hey, y'all! I've been playing a little Puppeteer and Remember Me.  Played Puppeteer today because I am playing RM on Memory Hunter mode, the hardest mode, and I am stuck on the Madame boss battle inside La Bastille prison in episode 4.  I've found a lot of great screenshots but, I'm not ready to talk about RM.  I will when I finish it.
Puppeteer's story is framed as if it were a puppet show, so when you barely make a jump from one platform or nearly escape a hit, an unseen audience will gasp. 
Let's just go over some of the basics about this platforming performance.  Puppeteer is much easier, for starters.  The easiest of all the games I'm reviewing currently, but I also plan to review the Uncharted series.  Uncharted 3 was available for free, but it's not anymore (THOSE BASTARDS!)  My PS3 came with the game, but I traded it in.  Luckily, I've already platinumed it.  If you want to add me on PSN, my username is Tullohs2bShep.  I am an active gamer.  Gaming and making music is life to me.  
Anyways, I'm having a lot of fun playing Puppeteer because it is slightly challenging, but not annoying in difficulty.  Puppeteer is a platformer developed by SCE Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment that came out in 2013.   This game, so far, is less difficult than Castle of Illusions Starring Mickey Mouse.  I love the artwork and rendering in this game.  The graphics are pretty, engaging and fresh.  The game was directed by Gavin Moore and there is an option to play it in 2D or 3D.  As far as I know, it is currently available for Playstation Plus users.  Here are some screenshots.  

           This is the moon ruled by Moon Bear King.                     This is the Moon Bear King.

In the game, he oppresses puppets of the moon with various generals underneath him who help facilitate his treachery.  He has various generals under him that command his oppressive regime.  This is very cliché, unoriginal and boring (kind of), but the art, gameplay and voice acting makes up for this slightly.  Here are some of the Moon Bear King's henchmen.

There is also a part where you travel across a snake's back and then you break out from inside of  this snake shown below who is also one of the Moon Bear King's lackeys.

Finally, some actual in-game screenshots.