I sure fell off the challenge update wagon for a bit there. I haven’t done a progress update since July, so that must definitely mean that all of my numbers are going to jump up for the end of year recap, right?! Well… not exactly.
Platinum 15 games
2022 end total: 10
Focusing less on shovelware games in 2022 and more on games I actually wanted to play meant that I didn’t quite hit my goal for platinum games. I’m not even mad about it. I played some really fun games this year, and went back and cleared up some games I’d started but not 100% completed, as well as some games I’d bought a long time ago but hadn’t even started.
Here’s my list of platinum trophies for 2022:
- Doraemon Story of Seasons
- Cozy Grove
- When The Past Was Around
- Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
- Potion Permit
- Persona 4 Golden
- Goosebumps: The Game
- Wytchwood
- Buried Stars
- The Artful Escape
Get the platinum in Persona 4 Golden
As you can see above, I finally did it! I got the Persona 4 Golden platinum! It took me a really long time, and I didn’t do it in the most straightforward way possible, but I got there in the end which is the most important thing. It’s definitely still one of my most favourite games, if not coming out at the top of that list. I’m ready for the console version to come out at the end of January, and I’ve definitely got a roadmap in mind to getting the platinum more quickly than I did the Vita version!
Watch 30 anime
2022 end total: 10
A really poor effort for me and anime this year. I promise I am an anime fan, don’t take my figures away! I seem to have a problem where I’ll sit down and promise myself I’m going to watch something and then before I know it, it’s three hours later and I’ve done nothing (see also: physical Switch backlog). It’s something I really want to work on for 2023, because I just want to be productive, you know? I didn’t finish my first anime series until March and the next one wasn’t until May, what’s that about? Things have to, and will, change! Mark my words!
That being said, here’s what I watch this year:
- Blue Period
- Tokyo Revengers
- My Dress Up Darling
- Sasaki and Miyano
- IDOLiSH7 Third Beat!
- SPY x FAMILY, part 1
- Dakaichi! -I’m Being Harrassed By The Sexiest Man Of The Year-
- Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War s01
- Demon Slayer: Entertainment District Arc
- SPY x FAMILY, part 2 (cheating perhaps to include both parts of a split cour as separate shows, but desperate times and all that)
Watch 30 films
2022 end total: 17
I used to watch so many films that it wasn’t unheard of for me to go to the cinema and watch 4 films in a day. Those were the days I had an Unlimited pass, of course, which I don’t any more. I do miss going to the cinema, but my nearest decent one is 30 minutes away which seems like a real effort. I know in the days of streaming I have an unlimited catalogue at my fingertips, but even so, I struggle to watch a film. There’s perhaps too much choice? I’m not sure what the reason is. This is all a really long way of saying I didn’t watch 30 films, I only just hit a little over the halfway mark.
Here’s what I did manage to watch:
- The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorised Bash Brothers Experience
- Afterlife of the Party
- The Mitchells vs The Machines
- The Tinder Swindler
- The Duke
- Three Identical Strangers
- Turning Red
- Tell Me Who I Am
- Joker
- Senior Year
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Murder Mystery
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- Do Revenge
- Ticket To Paradise
- Disenchanted
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Watch 30 anime films
2022 end total: 2
This is honestly abysmal, and not even deserving of a proper list. I watched The Garden of Words and Jujutsu Kaisen 0. I don’t even know what happened here, apart from a whole lot of nothing.
Read 18 books
2022 end total: 9
I got halfway there, which isn’t awful but it’s certainly not great. I was so confident in my reading challenges that I bought myself a Kindle towards the beginning of the year, and I’m pretty sure I still have an Unlimited account for Amazon Books which is honestly a huge waste at this point. I want to start getting into better reading habits and reading a few chapters of something every night before bed, so we’ll see how that goes.
Here’s what I read in 2022:
- The House in the Cerulean Sea
- A Medal for Leroy
- The Vanishing Stair
- The Hand on the Wall
- The Awakening
- Ruthless Fae
- They Both Die At The End
- Hector And The Search For Happiness
- Wranglestone
Clear physical Switch and Vita backlogs
I absolutely did not even get anywhere close to this.
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