Today's Notes 7/27/21: A Return To Kingdom Hearts

Good morning everybody,

Last night we returned to the Kingdom Hearts franchise with Birth By Sleep, which was originally released on the PSP... which does amaze me. This being my first play through of it, I'm going to the casual route of it for all three campaigns. Now we did start with Terra, and the way I figured we got through half of his story (we've gone to every world up thru Disney Town....

Now the combat is a little different, certainly seems more hack & slash that Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2, but there is a special place in hell when it comes to the mini-games. Now the other biggest complaint so far is the voice acting for Terra which is just terrible, Ventris' design just being the use of the Roxas assets... on the flip side, Aqua looks down right awesome, and the voice acting for the Disney characters is really good. I was able to instantly recognize Leonard Nimoy's voice, even if I felt i needed to confirm it was his voice since he did work for Birth By Sleep later in his career.

Anyway we did get a couple of achievements to begin the journey.

1. The Journey Begins: Clear the prologue, "The Land of Departure."
2. Pursuit of Truth: Clear the Mysterious Tower episode of Terra's story.
3. Defying Darkness: Clear the Disney Town episode of Terra's story.

Now I did notice that most people have not played Birty By Sleep as part of the 1.5 + 2.5 Collection for Xbox consoles.... which means even the basic stuff are mostly diamond tier. So it'll be cool to rack up a few during our journey.

Here are some clips from last night.

• Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep 7/26/21 Clip 1
• Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep 7/26/21 Clip 2 
• Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep 7/26/21 Clip 3
• Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep 7/26/21 Clip 4 
• Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep 7/26/21 Clip 5
  

We added 'The Thing' for the PlayStation 2 to the collection, it's considered by John Carpenter for the canon sequel to his film of the same name. It certainly will be a game we may check it out come October... you know messing around with spooky games. Maybe... who knows!

Was great to see FnDanteSavage streaming last night as he started a play-through of Bendy & The Ink Machine.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 432 kcal. Was feeling alright enough to do some extra, so the complete session went 43 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 624 kcal. In terms of achievement progress, we a re now up to 6 out of 10 for Karen's Trainee and 4 out of 10 for Karen's Buddy.

For tonight's stream, we are continuing Kingdom Hearts; Birth By Sleep and we'll see about finishing Terra's campaign. The areas seem to be getting larger as the story progresses, we'll see if we are that lucky!

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