The Road to Mein Leiben

Section 4 and End of Chapter 1

-For the Uncensored!

(Soundtrack to Wolfenstein 2)

Section 4: Nothing is for Certain

If the consequence of video games has one lasting effect, it doesn’t really make you the baddest motherfucker in the goddamn land. It does help in your social circle, but then, trying to achieve the Mein Lebein trophy can break people emotionally. In my journey toward even a Bronze trophy, there are other trophies that people can’t get. A game rant article has ten games that have a high difficulty, all based on how hard a player works for it. That includes Street Fighter 4, “complete multiple increasingly difficult challenges with over 30 characters in the roster, or ask players to play and win 10 ranked matches in a row.” The Gamerant article lists off “Mirrors Edge, Super Meat Boy, Star Wars Battlefront, Evil Within, Titan souls, N++, Wolfenstein 2: The New Collosus,” which lists at number 3, “Max Payne 3,” and oddly enough “Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified” at Number 1 for “difficult trophies for players to unlock which includes beating a mission without taking any damage and killing eight targets with four bullets or less. The latter is where most of the issue stems from as the controls are shoddy, stiff, and unresponsive making this a platinum much harder than it's supposed to be.”[1]

            There are probably more lists that rally off impossible games to beat. For me, it’s the years of video game experience that lead me to this quandry. Some players have listed off an Hour thirty minutes of game play in total. Which leads me to believe they didn’t use the in game cutscenes as a way to list off the final result. It’s always subjective with timing, and video games prove they can be as difficult with the tricky when used to correctly time a playthrough. But what will you lose in order to find that trophy?