Board 8 > Platinum #313 and 314: Death end re;Quest and Death end re;Quest 2

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https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/11242-death-end-request-2/ArcticCress
https://www.truetrophies.com/game/Death-end-reQuest-2/trophies?gamerid=5963
https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/8649-death-end-request/ArcticCress
https://www.truetrophies.com/game/Death-end-reQuest/trophies?gamerid=5963

this is platinum 314 and 315 oops

I held off on making the topic for DERQ 2 when I finished it two weeks ago right before it got taken off of PS+ Extra because I knew I had DERQ 1 ready to finish, just needed to finish the NG+ run and do the bonus dungeon. Of course I didn't touch the game again until yesterday, so all this results in is a massively delayed topic.

Death end re;Quest, the first game, is probably Compile Heart's best game they've ever developed. The story is really good and focuses on older protagonists (the main character is 27, which is extremely rare in any JRPG) while the battle system is an extension of what they used in the Neptunia series, with a lot of added functions such as knocking the enemies around the circular field and bouncing them off the walls. The platinum required a full run and NG+ through the game, getting a number of the bad endings, and finishing the bonus dungeon (which is basically just a gauntlet of 70 monster fights and 1 boss that can counter any attack... or you use genre shift and beat him pretty easily since he can't counter that).

And then you have Death end re;Quest 2, the second game. The second game kind of destroys everything that the first game made good - the protagonists are once again teenagers in a school setting, and the battle system is heavily simplified compared to the first game. I still enjoyed parts of it, including the connections to the first game in the NG+ run, but it wasn't as good overall. The platinum is basically the same list as the first, but requires all bad endings (though there are less of them in this title) and the bonus dungeon has puzzles scattered throughout its runtime.

With a spinoff and a sequel announced just a few days ago, I am interested to see where they take this story, as the NG+ ending of DERQ 2 was basically a non-ending with a sequel hook. And if you are interested, the first game is available on PS+ Extra, even if the sequel has been removed!

You numbered wrong :|