Good afternoon everyone,
Well... it snowed yesterday... I figure we got about 4-5 inches where I live. Anyway, for last night's stream, we hooked up the PlayStation 3 to play Disney-Pixar's Brave. Why the PS3 version? Because up until about an hour ago I was unaware the X-Box 360 version is on the backwards compatible list!
Now long time followers of me over on Twitch would know I have played Brave before, but that was the Steam version, and I was looking forward to playing a console version of it when I got a working PS3. So finally choosing last night to play it was an eventuality.
Of course, me being a casual gamer, we took it easy to make our way through the game, exploring every nook and cranny to get all of the collectables (having to back track for one) and managed to complete 35 of the games 48 achievements aka trophies. Since I have not seen the movie, I don't know how faithful it is to it, but I do think I saw enough with the game to want to see it at some point, and I think I had the same feeling when I played the Steam version a couple of years ago.
Its very straight forward in terms of keeping players on the path to journey ahead, but going off that path does result in finding gold which is needed for upgrades and finding the various collectables. There's a great use of being aware of what an enemy's weakness is, as each of the charms has a different element that can make quick work if used on the right opponent... i.e. Ice beats Fire, Fire Beats Ice, Wind beats Earth, Earth beats Wind. The controls are very responsive and don't take long to learn.
Brave does sound good in terms of it s sound effects and music, but I do feel the audio mixing was a bit off as any dialog said is on the low side. Visually... well the Brave has a really drawn out camera, the environments are nice and varied, but getting a good look at the character models of Merida in her various outfits and the enemies is not really possible to appreciate how things look up close.
For the raid, we went to Hover to find someone random, and it was JustBrootal we picked who was playing Call of Duty: Warzone over at twitch.tv/justbrootal!
Disney Pixar Brave: The Video Game Trophies
- Swordful: Collect a sword.
- Bowsome: Collect a bow.
- Digging in the dirt: Find the earth charm.
- Dirty work: Cleanse the ring of stones.
- Carpet runner: Collect a tapestry piece.
- Ante up: Purchase an upgrade.
- Triple H's: Solve a triplet puzzle.
- Minimum wage: Accumulate a total of 1000 currency.
- Toasty: Find the fire charm.
- Everyone knows it's windy: Find the wind charm.
- Impressive: As Merida, defeat 15 enemies in a row without taking damage.
- Ice to see you: Find the ice charm.
- Affluent: Accumulate a total of 5000 currency.
- Full of power: Purchase 15 upgrades.
- Heating up: Defeat 100 enemies using the Fire charm.
- My fair lassie: Collect an outfit.
- Taking out the trash: Defeat the rock golem guardian.
- Tremble: Defeat 100 enemies using the Earth charm.
- All bunched up: As Merida, defeat 5 enemies with a single charged shot.
- Mum's the word: Defeat 100 enemies as Queen Elinor.
- Throw rug: Complete a tapestry.
- Wealthy: Accumulate a total of 15 000 currency.
- Mopping up: Defeat the harpy guardian.
- On Fire: Defeat 250 enemies using the Fire charm.
- Charge it up: Defeat 100 enemies using charged shot.
- Breezy: Defeat 100 enemies using the Wind charm.
- Wall to wall carpeting: Complete all tapestries.
- Untouchable: As Merida, defeat 30 enemies in a row without taking damage.
- Swordtacular: Collect all swords.
- Brilliant: Solve all triplet puzzles.
- Bowlicious: Collect all bows.
- Clothes horse: Collect all outfits.
- Get out of my way: As Elinor, charge 5 enemies with a single charge attack.
- Cooling off: Defeat 100 enemies using the Ice charm.
- Great scot: Defeat Mor'du.
- Ranged only: Complete a level without using your sword.
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Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured a 31 minute workout with Straight Combo #1, Weaving Combo #2 and Beginner Combo #2. The Estimated Calorie Burn was 481 kcal. At the moment we're at 45/50 for hours trained with Janice for Janice's Champion.
The progress towards the last achievement for Capcom Arcade Stadium is now at 88 hours. If I time it right to get it under 96 hours off stream, we'll feature the last push on stream this week.
My off-stream progress in Final Fantasy XIV was a hell of a lot more positive than the previous one, as I progressed the Main Story Quest from Gateway of the Gods up through In Shadow's Wake. The Twoer of Babil was a fun quick dungeon with the bosses being fairly easy to understand. The Dark Inside trial was a nightmare... from the first time I got downed it lead to me getting resurrected and instantly killed by Zodiark. I pretty much spent all of phase two basically laying down.
Also had a weird instance where I ended up in first-person view and had to scramble to figure out how to get out of it. Didn't think that was a thing in FF14. But what is kind of obvious is that with Zodiark dead... that means Hydaelyn herself is next on the chopping block as one cannot exist with the other. Then there's the fact that Zenos is going to be the final boss of Endwalker... ugh.... and I thought Sephiroth was annoying antagonist with no real purpose.
A new week begins, but let's recap the past week with the Twitch Bits. Last we we featured Overwatch, Battletoads, Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, Forza Horizon 4, Gears 5, Final Fantasy XIV, Star Trek Online, Kingdom Hearts III and Disney-Pixar's Brave!
For tonight's stream, well you know what time it is with it being Sunday... it's all about Overwatch, and with the Lunar New Year event going on
