Thoughts on Rise of the Tomb Raider's Baba Yaga

Good afternoon everyone,

Hope everyone had a happy and or merry Christmas yesterday! I know my nieces were pleased with the gifts they got this year!

Anyway, last night's stream saw the return of Rise of the Tomb Raider... mostly for achievement purposes and to play the Baba Yaga story. While it is probably more grounded than anything seen in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the Baba Yaga content certainly gives folks a chance to test their puzzle solving abilities under fire, particularly the encounter with the 'witch' herself. There is a little bit of an issue in regards to the obvious identity of the 'witch', as it was quite clear everything was pointing towards it, but overall I enjoyed it.

Of course most of the time I was searching for items, tombs and caves, as there were various things I wanted to accomplish within the game. I did knock out a couple of side missions, but there are still a number of things I still want to do in this game, so don't be surprise to see it back at random times.

Big thanks to LvStrkR for gifting Ori: The Collection to me for Christmas! Much appreciated dude!  

Raids were not working last night on Twitch, and everyone I know was not streaming, so we just closed things out for the night. Very rare that happens!

Rise of the Tomb Raider Achievements

1. Was That Really Necessary?: Kill any animal with an explosive
2. Craftswoman: Craft 5 pieces of Equipment
3. Self-Improvement Junkie: Purchase all skills in one category
4. These Belong in A Museum: Collect 300 cards
5. Hide and Seek: Baba Yaga: Rescue Nadia from Trinity
6. Abandon All Hope: Baba Yaga: Enter the Wicked Vale
7. A Moment of Clarity: Baba Yaga: Face the Witch and live
8. Amateur Chemist: Baba Yaga: Craft the Antidote
9. Season of the Witch: Baba Yaga: Collect 50% of the Documents in the Wicked Vale
10. Last Ride of the Witch House: Baba Yaga: Activate the Ancient Lift
11. Truth Behind the Myth: Baba Yaga: Unmask Baba Yaga
12. Fond Farewell: Baba Yaga: Speak to Nadia again before leaving the Wicked Vale

Twitch Clip Links

• Was that really necessary?
• Figuring Things Out 
• The End of Baba Yaga
  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Straight Combo, Triple Combo #1 and Uppercut Combo #1 for a duration of 31 minutes and an estimated calorie burn of 438 kcal.

Installed Gears 5 last night, and knocked out a few basic achievements, such as the tutorial to get started on it. I'm surprised that Gears 5 is much smaller than Gears of War 4 in terms of how much space it takes up on an Xbox console. 

Gears 5 Achievements

1. My Body is Ready: Completed Boot Camp
2. In the Name of..: Acquired Character Skins for 3 different post launch Characters
3. Controlled Bursts: Won a Match of Horde Frenzy (any difficulty)
4. Class Act: Reached level five on any one Assault, one Tank and one Support
5. You've Got Character, Kid: Own 50 character skins
   

Did a bit of Final Fantasy XIV last night but just to get some featured side quests advanced, so nothing major.

It's time for this week's Twitch Bits Reel! This past week we played Overwatch, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Battletoads, Jump Force, Pac-Man Championship Edition 2, The Grand Tour Game, Final Fantasy XIV, Capcom Fighting Evolution, Marvel Super Heroes, Mortal Kombat Mythologies Sub-Zero, WWF SmackDown and Rise of the Tomb Raider!, 

It's Sunday which means we'll be playing Overwatch tonight, and we'll be gunning to unlock the Mistletoe Symmetra skin!

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!