IndyBuff said:
I usually have to use a guide to find all the treasures, as some are pretty much impossible to find without it. I like to play through the game and find as many as I can on my own, then consult a guide on my second playthrough to help me find the ones I missed.
I've never platinum-ed an
Uncharted. While I love the characters, stories and gameplay, I loathe collect-a-thons. I've tried going back over the years, but, no, I can't do it. They're ridiculous. Despite the addition of the Hoysala tokens,
The Lost Legacy isn't much better. It could be though.
While
Uncharted doesn't need to devolve into edutainment, the collectible treasures littered throughout the game could be used to offer the random factoids (as the modern gamer is largely illiterate).
For example, early in the game you find a Jade Archer's Ring. It's not the deep green normally associated with jade, though. It's nearly white; if not actually white. This would be a good time to let players know that, while white jade exists naturally, it's believed the imperial/emerald green color will fade to white after ~1,000 years.
Or the Bronze Deccan Incense Burner. The ghats form the western border of the Deccan Plateau, thus The Western Ghats*, and that plateau gave rise to the majority of India's most celebrated empires. In this case, I have to assume the incense burner is from one of the Deccan sultanates.
* - A ghat is typically defined as a series of steps leading to a large body of water, typically a river, but is also used to identify specific mountain ranges.
It would make the treasures worth going back and collecting.
Anyway.
I just began Chapter 8 after ~7 hours. An hour of that has been spent standing around looking at stuff, another hour or so collecting Hoysala tokens, and another hour mucking about with the jeep.
Since I only play a little bit at a time it will probably take another couple of days before I can beat it.