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#1 - Proteus | Generall Historie of Plantes

No, I didn't make a typo on that trophy name, and no, Proteus is not really a video game. It wants to be a video game, but you cannot convince me that this is a game that you play with a goal and some kind of obstacle to overcome.

Proteus, for those who haven't played it, is a walking simulator where you walk around an island and stand in the middle of a circle of stones to progress to the next season. The game auto-ends after you spend a few minutes in winter. In the meantime, you can look around and... well, actually, that's about it. You can look around.

It's a horribly boring walking simulator with visuals that can't keep your interest for the hour that you'll probably spend on it should you ever decide to play it. But the worst part of the game by far is the fact that it has trophies, because the trophies in this game all suck and a lot of them would definitely fit within this top 5 if I didn't restrict the list to one trophy per game. This is obviously problematic for me who loves to get trophies.

Generall Historie of Plantes requires you to look at every plant on the island in a full playthrough. You have to be very thorough with your walking and looking to make sure you have had every plant on your screen at some point, and you have to repeat the process for each of the four seasons. The game gives you no way to track your progress (because again, the game is literally walking and looking and absolutely nothing else. No HUD, no in-game menus, no inventory, nothing). This makes it very frustrating if you mess the trophy up, because you don't really know what plant you missed and you don't even really know what you are looking for. Additionally, you have to play Proteus again if you miss the trophy, which is punishment enough.

This is doable without a guide, but you wouldn't really have any idea of what the trophy is asking you to do unless you had a guide anyways because the description they give is complete fucking nonsense.

"If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delight is there than to behold the earth apparelled with plants?"

Fuck off Proteus. Your trophies aren't art and your game isn't art. It's an incredibly boring walking simulator with a really horrible trophy that you don't even bother hardly describing and that you give the player no indication of if they're doing it right until it pops. Not only is this a game I never want to play again, this is a trophy that I refuse to ever attempt again. I got it on my first try (thank God) and if I didn't get it on my first try I'd probably just resign myself to not having it.
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