![]() ![]() There are no new missable Trophies either. Trophy hunters will also be happy to hear that there are no new Trophies tied to RNG collectibles like there was in the main game. All of the seven new Trophies revolve around The Tower of Sisyphus. ![]() You can start The Tower of Sisyphus by using the grapple hook to get up to a ledge where Selene’s crashed ship is. This update adds co-op for the main story and a wave survival mode called The Tower of Sisyphus. In addition to the new game modes, the update also added seven new Trophies to the game. It’s the exact kind of ‘brain off’ catharsis you need after losing all of your progress in a brutal boss fight you spent hours getting to.Welcome to the Trophy guide for Returnal: Ascension! Ascension is the free update out now for Returnal that adds a couple of new game modes to the game. Every moment you’re not running full speed from one fight to the next, you’re losing points on your multiplier, so the only thing you need to worry about is moving forward. The Tower, on the other hand, is just about going fast and killing everything in sight. Each massive zone has puzzles to solve, traps to avoid, an economy to manage, and decisions to make. The main campaign heaps such a mental load onto your plate. Use weird guns, try different tactics, make mistakes - none of it matters. The arenas become playgrounds rather than battlefields, and you can let loose in a way you never can in the main game. You go into it with a different mindset, and you end up having a different experience. It is freeing to know that, no matter, you’re going to fall and start over. It can be agonizing to slowly trudge through each zone with the hope that every attempt will be your last, but the Tower is the exact opposite. Selene’s journey to break free from the loop is a desperate one, and one wrong move can set you back to the start. It’s still Returnal, but the Tower of Sisyphus has a completely different energy from the main campaign. The sooner you start throwing tower runs into your play sessions, the better your overall experience will be. It’s a perfect escape in the moments where Returnal brings you to your breaking point. ![]() The Tower provides a way to break from the Returnal’s cycle without abandoning it. It has a story that runs concurrent to the main game, and their themes complement each other. It provides a palate cleanser after a long run or devastating defeat in the campaign, and an opportunity to practice your combat techniques in a stress-free way. You can’t ‘beat’ the Tower of Sisyphus, hence the name, and your only goal is to climb as high as possible on the leaderboard - a task that may not appeal to a lot of people - myself included.īut, in many ways, the Tower compliments the main game. The Tower seems like something you should do once you’ve finished the story, collected all the lore, and upgraded every weapon, but you still want to keep playing. Related: Returnal Is Sony's Most Impressive PC Port Yet ![]() Every time you return to Helios, you can grapple up the ledge on the left and enter the tower, a battle mode where you try to survive as many floors as possible in order to compete for leaderboard dominance. After defeating Ixion in the Crimson Wastes, you’ll be rewarded with the grappling hook as a permanent upgrade. The Tower of Sisyphus was added as a free post-launch update some months after Returnal launched, but you can access it fairly early on. If you’re checking out Returnal for the first time now that it’s on PC, don’t wait until it's over to dive into its exceptional endless tower mode. Right now I’m in the middle of replaying Returnal on PC, and I’m kicking myself all up and down the block for avoiding The Tower of Sisyphus. The Breath of the Wild DLC has some incredibly powerful items, like the Phantom Armor, the Travel Medallion, and the Master Cycle Zero, which are all way more useful if you get them before finishing the game when there’s nothing left to do. I didn’t play The Old Hunters during my first playthrough of Bloodborne, and when I tried to do so on my NG+ file, I found out you can’t access it until after you kill Vicar Amelia. I always hold the doors open for my partner, I call older men “sir” and older ladies “ma’am”, and I never play DLC before I finish the base game. The people that send me fan mail (read: hate mail) think I’m a woke SJW cucked snowflake, but I’m actually old-fashioned in a lot of ways. ![]()
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