We Knock Out A Huge Chunk Of Hi-Fi Rush

 Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Hi-Fi Rush saw us getting through chapters 4 through 9 of the game, and sure it went over five hours because I did kept searching for secrets and stuff through out every stage. I really enjoyed the art style and music, the game is easily a sleeper hit for me. And there is incentive to revisit the game to find things that I miss and take advantage of a probably New Game Plus to reach areas I couldn't in earlier parts of the game. Assuming that is a thing.

The twist that Peppermint is Kale's sister was a twist I didn't realize, and it was oh so obvious to me before I started putting a few things together in the Museum stage. 

That said, we're in real good shape to finish Hi-Fi Rush tonight, so we'll probably pair it with something else. I'm tempted on doing it with Hades... but other possibilities include Smite, Divine Knockout or some other nonsense to serve as a back up game.

Hi-Fi RUSH Achievements

• Whoa! There's ANOTHER health bar!?: Increase your health to where you unlock a second tier.
• This will cost you big time: Drain development's budget, removing creative control.
• Uh, they were broken when I got here: Destroy 200 Vandelay security robots.
• Z-shielding's got nothing on us!: Shatter 10 enemy shields by calling in Macaron.
• The Negotiator: Remove the head of Security from the equation.
• I have to read these things?: Find and read half of the Vandelay Vlogs on the campus.
• There's such a thing as TOO helpful: Find and engage with every Smidge, while completing all of his practice tips.
• Kissing the sky!: Perform 50 Aerial Raves.
• Check out my moves!: Purchase every combo and partner attack.
• Headliner: Be the showstopper for the head of Marketing.

Big thank you to Kalenal for the Raid followering their stream of Pokemon Scarlet over at twitch.tv/kalenal

For my raid, we dropped in on PowerThumbz during stream of Dead by Daylight over on twitch.tv/powerthumbz

The developers of MultiVersus announced the game is going on hiatus, and a lot of folks are pissed because it wasn't really stated that this entire time was an Open Beta. I suspect the death of Kevin Conroy (the voice of Batman) may have been a factor because, since no new characters were added to the game since he passed away, and there was a real long content drought. Hell most know I stopped playing it because it started feeling monotonous and I banged out quite a few tough achievements.

My idea of using a Splitter to divert the HDMI signal from the output of my capture card to a monitor and TV didn't work the way I hoped it would... but I did found a three-way HDMI splitter so now I don't have to disconnect the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One or Xbox Series consoles. Will need to do so for the PlayStation related consoles because they are positioned further away from the others.

I do have a new commission short story request based around Mass Effect, namely Mass Effect 3. I think I'll try to keep it straight forward, unless I can find specific dialog transcripts. 

Did pick up am Amazon Fire Stick, because it didn't occur to me until after I moved the TV from the living room to my basement that if I have family come over, and if they bring their kids there is nothing to entertain them. 

Also figured out how to make YouTube shorts... so that could be a thing I do going forward.

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