Today's Notes 8/7/21: Omno Is a great little game!

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night I wasn't completely sure what I was going to do with last night's stream until about 5:30 PM, an hour before start time, and since Iceman (who you often hear as part of the The Division streams), recommended Omno earlier in the week I gave it a shot.

The story is that you are on a pilgrimage on the path of Light, following the footsteps of those who went before you. Along the way you'll pick up skills like surfing, floating and teleportation that are all key to getting through the various puzzles and finding items. Each area is pretty open for exploration, and you will want to explore as there are normally three journals to be found that give some lore to journey you're on. 

Now I made the mistake of not checking out the achievement list before hand, because it turns out Omno is a game one can 100% complete in a single play-through (I will have to do a second play-through at some point so we will revisit Omno in the future). It looks gorgeous, has a great sound musical score, controls handle very well, and the puzzles, with the exception of one, are not designed to screw with the player. 

Extra note: Omno also has a really subtle story involving your companion, a little green floating squirrel type creature that actually plays into the ending of the game, which I'll admit made me tear up a little. 

Anyway, all in all, I highly recommend Omno to anyone looking for a quality game.!

Now I did happen to get raided once we finished Omno, and I extended the stream a bit with some Forza Horizon 4, did a few races and messed around for a bit, nothing major. 

Both games were playing using an X-Box console (my Series S), and so we got a lot of achievements last night.

OMNO Achievements

1. The Initiate: Rode the First Legendary Animal
2. Pit Master: Auqui Pit completed
3. The Apprentice: Rode the Second Legendary Animal
4. Plains Master: Malaha Plain completed
5. Valley Master: Sag'Ya Valley completed
6. The Disciple: Rode the Third Legendary Animal
7. Likeminded: Surfed with Scipuins for 30 seconds
8. Aggression management: Stomped a Lapicrab 5 times
9. Canyon Master: Cavulta Canyon completed
10. The Adept: Rode the Fourth Legendary Animal
11. Desert Master: Unkh-Tuur Desert completed
12. Ground is lava: Kept an Astendeon airborne for 10 seconds
13. Mesa Master: Yeccaph Mesa completed
14. Heights Master: Pulyang Heights completed
15. The Exalted: Rode the Fifth Legendary Animal
16. Cliff Master: Fluamao Cliffs completed

Forza Horizon 4 Achievements

1. Colossus of Roads: Reach Round 10 in the Horizon Road Racing Series.

We do have a list of clips from last night's stream as well, which we'll now list for you to check out!

• Omno: That surprise sub jump scare
• Omno: No nope nope nope!
• Omno: Ah-ha... Ah-hahaha!
• Just Chatting: Found the strategy guide for Grandia III
• Omno: DUUUUUDE!!!!!
• Omno: A graceful dismount
• Omno: We're surfing with them! 
• Omno: I Can Walk On It! 
• Omno: Teleportation Things 
• Omno: The Ground Is Lava! 
• Omno: Did that say 6.66%?
• Omno: Whoa!!
• Omno: Cliff Master
• Forza Horizon 4: Coming in 2nd 
• Forza Horizon 4: Okay so we did get there... barely! 

Manage to track down a copy of the Grandia III strategy guide published by BrandyGames, it was used and was missing a huge chunk of it's back cover, but hey, when I get around to give that game a shot I have a better hope of figuing out where to go, because I remember Grandia III' being a lot tougher to navigate in an open desert area that the first two games in the series.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 488 kcal! Keeping things consistent is key don't you think?  

I did try my hand at the 'weekly championships' for Dr Kawashima's Brain Training... wonder how I'll bad I rank, maybe I'll post the results on Monday or Tuesday?

For tonight's stream we're back to Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee, as we'll try to figure out what out next objected should be and go through the hassle of catching many creatures to level up my main six.  

And on that note we'll see you later tonight around 7 PM Eastern over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!