Dark Nights with Poe and Munro Platinum: A Paradoxical Pursuit

Trophy 1: Dramatic Paws

Official Description: You played the cat sound effect
Type: Bronze
Earned on: May 8th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1537

A trophy for making a cat sound? Sign me up.

Trophy 2: Take it to your Grave

Official Description: You destroyed the evidence
Type: Bronze
Earned on: May 8th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1538

I let Poe answer the door and he brutally murdered a murderous fan of their radio show. Time to hide that evidence!

Trophy 3: Pilot

Official Description: You played the first episode. Don’t stop now!
Type: Bronze
Earned on: May 8th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1539

As you say, trophy description.

Trophy 4: Once Upon a Dream

Official Description: You got Poe and Munro to dance
Type: Silver
Earned on: May 8th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1540

Episode 2 is about an odd radio marathon Poe and Munro do from a bed. Yes. There were lots of sexual undertones in this one that made me feel very uncomfortable.

At the end you find out Poe and Munro were tripping on a dangerous carbon monoxide buildup. One of their trophy-awarded hallucinations is dancing in weird CRTV form after fleeing from a demon lady named Millicent. Huh.

Trophy 5: John Doh

Official Description: You left Poe for dead
Type: Silver
Earned on: May 8th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1541

Munro is the one who wakes up at the end of Episode 2. You get a trophy for choosing to leave Poe behind as Munro gets the hell out of there. Don’t worry! He survives at the end.

Trophy 6: The Kicker

Official Description: You gave Poe a taste of his own medicine
Type: Gold
Earned on: May 8th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1542

Yikes at the tones of this one. Poe goes entirely nuts in bed and tries to kill Munro. You get this trophy for kicking him in the face and knocking him out. Jerk.

Trophy 7: Neighbourhood Watch

Official Description: You raised Violet’s suspicions
Type: Silver
Earned on: May 8th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1543

Episode 3 is about playing detective to find a kidnapped teenager before he dies. Poe and Munro will question several wackos and bounce around on a Fallout-looking map during the quest. Violet (one of the wackos who runs a guest house) will call the police after Munro talks to her.

Trophy 8: Bad Cop

Official Description: You let Poe do the talking
Type: Bronze
Earned on: May 8th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1544

Poe is anything but discreet, that’s for sure. This trophy is for making Poe bluntly ask an entirely unhelpful question.

Trophy 9: Hey Joe

Official Description: You saved Joe quickly on your own
Type: Gold
Earned on: May 8th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1545

I did get a bad ending to this episode where Joe (the missing teenager) dies and it was really sad. I’ll take the trophy and the good vibes from the happier ending, thanks!

Trophy 10: Safety Girl

Official Description: You used Munro’s safe word
Type: Silver
Earned on: May 8th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1546

Episode 4 is apparently a huge nod to another FMV game by D’Avekki Studios: The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker. I haven’t played it yet but it was kindly gifted to me by Later Levels years ago. I’ll get to it eventually!

This episode is about Munro exploring a past life through hypnosis by a sketchy lady (who robs them at the end of the episode). If you choose the safe word ‘banana’ you can pull Munro back from Doctor Dekker’s office for a bit.

Trophy 11: Random Factor

Official Description: You rocked rock, paper, scissors
Type: Bronze
Earned on: May 8th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1547

Episode 5 is all about Wolf Lane blocking. A man who seems to know the art of time travel holds Poe and Munro at gun point to stop them from allegedly getting themselves killed. Poe will play rock-paper-scissors to get the guy to leave (for some reason) and the outcome of the match is totally random.

For once, the RNG gods smiled upon me and I got this trophy on my first try.

Trophy 12: Love Fool

Official Description: Love Fool
Type: Bronze
Earned on: May 9th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1548

Episode 6 involves wishes, disappearances, and a canvas demon. At the start if you choose the wish option on the left, Poe will definitely become a love fool.

Trophy 13: Reckless Endangerment

Official Description: You made all nine callers disappear
Type: Gold
Earned on: May 9th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1549

The false museum curator (and thrall of the canvas demon named Rose) will give Poe and Munro 10 capsules to hide for their listeners to find prize tickets. 9 will be hidden and Munro will keep one to spite Poe.

It becomes quite clear there is something very evil about those capsules when the callers suddenly go silent after opening one. You can stop after the first caller to check Munro’s capsule, but choosing to have all 9 callers meet with a terrible fate unlocks this trophy.

Trophy 14: She Didn’t Say We Couldn’t Sing

Official Description: You got Poe and Munro to sing a song
Type: Silver
Earned on: May 9th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1550

Since I made Poe wish for Munro to never stop loving him at the start, Rose teleports them both to a room to spend the rest of eternity when Munro opens her capsule.

The key to breaking the deal is to make Munro stop loving Poe. Rose intervenes and bans them from talking, but Poe has a brilliant idea to sing about being an asshole who will never leave his loveless marriage to be with Munro instead.

Trophy 15: True Fan

Official Description: You played all six episodes. Our hero!
Type: Gold
Earned on: May 9th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1551

Gotta respect a developer who cares about their games and shows gratitude to their players in trophy form.

Trophy 16: Blow Me

Official Description: You asked everyone about the whistle, but you’re none the wiser
Type: Silver
Earned on: May 9th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1552

Back to Episode 3, I needed to choose all the whistle options to get this one to pop.

Trophy 17: August and Everything After

Official Description: Elizabeth got what she wished for
Type: Gold
Earned on: May 9th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1553

I’m honestly not sure exactly what happened here, but getting Elizabeth in Doctor Dekker’s office to give a nod to being Munro seemed to award a trophy.

Trophy 18: The Beck Stops Here

Official Description: You left Kasper with no other choice
Type: Gold
Earned on: May 9th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1554

In Episode 5 if you lose the rock-scissors-paper contest, Poe and Munro will be locked in their soundproof booth to prevent them from going to Wolf Lane. Unfortunately, the gunman will wander away prematurely and Poe and Munro will go to Wolf Lane anyway. Oops!

After they leave the booth the time traveling gunman will seemingly intervene again as the day restarts. He kills Beck (the caller that triggered Poe and Munro to go to Wolf Lane in the first place) to finally accomplish his task.

Trophy 19: It Ended with a Kiss

Official Description: You got Poe and Munro to kiss and make up
Type: Gold
Earned on: May 9th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1555

In the final episode if you make Poe wish to be Munro’s intellectual equal instead, they will be transported to a library where they have to choose from a bunch of different books as a test.

Choosing Poe > Exit with Munro and then Divorce with Poe will eventually make the pair become an official couple it seems.

Trophy 20: Intellectual Equals

Official Description: Poe and Munro chose the same number of books
Type: Gold
Earned on: May 9th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1556

Back to book picking! If you immediately choose Exit with Munro and Divorce with Poe you get out of the library with Rose’s wish granted.

Trophy 21: Exit Fail

Official Description: You copied Munro’s work
Type: Bronze
Earned on: May 9th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1557

The Exit book only works for Munro so if you make Poe choose it you only get snarky remarks and a trophy.

Trophy 22: Radio Star

Official Description: You unlocked all the trophies!
Type: Platinum
Earned on: May 9th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1558

Done!! That was certainly an experience.