Good morning everybody,
For last night's stream, we hooked up the PS4 and played Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions for the first time!
Now I wasn't expecting much, maybe just a modern take on the Rocky games that were released for the PS2 over 15 years ago... in terms of presentation and how it looks, it's a real pretty game. The character models are on point for the licensed characters of Rocky, Apollo, Adonis, Clubber, the Dragos and the villain from the first Creed movie. There is a nice set of arenas, plus a back alley location, so not every fight is in the ring. The music is nice, with the real gem (and DMCA nightmare being Eye of the Tiger from Survivor).
Game play wise... it's a button masher, while the controls are simplistic... it's really more about overwhelming the opponent with a barrage of punches in a quick fashion. There does seem to be a delay or lag when it comes to blocking and dodging, which makes it a lot tougher than it needs to be.Still once I got the hang of it I was able to put some combos together
Now surprisingly there are quite a few unlockables, from bonus characters to alternate attires, and there are two ways of doing getting them. One is to go through the arcade mode with every default fighter at least once to unlock their respective alternate attires and a corresponding bonus character (example beating Arcade Mode with Rocky, unlocks Rocky's alternate trunks as well as Apollo Creed). The other method is to just do versus matches and grind out the requirements needed via an XP type bar to unlock something random.
With that said, I highly suggest and encourage going through the arcade mode, because every character has a story. With Rocky, he's telling Adonis stories, and you are replaying some of the big fights from the films, plus a couple to help stretch out the story mode. With Adonis, he's in a fixed tournament going up against guys he had issues with it... then you have Ramirez, whose story is a prequel to the original Rocky, where he is dealing with a loan shark and it caps off with street fight against a young Rocky... then you have Scraps, whose story is a fever dream involving having to fight for world peace against Ivan Drago and the resurrected Apollo Creed.
Perhaps the biggest drawback is lack of online multiplayer, considering
the roster, it seems like it would be a blast to play online. Oh
well....
With Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions being a PlayStation 4 title, there are plenty of achievements to earn, and the best part is, because of the Arcade mode being a story mode, it justifies me streaming it again! And you can bet we'll go through everyone's story!
Following the stream we sent the fun over to eltipometroidvania who was playing Super Punch-Out! over at twitch.tv/eltipometroidvania!
Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions Trophies
- This Guy Is Still Standing?: Land a Super Move 3 times in a single match
- Finality: Win a match by Knockout using a Super Move
- Ain't How Hard You Hit: Armor through a Basic Attack 10 times
- Unmistakable Fire: Break your opponent's Guard Meter 3 times in a single match
- It's How Hard You Can Get Hit: Armor through a Basic Attack 20 times
- Sunshine And Rainbows: Break your opponent's Guard Meter 10 times
- The Legend: Beat Rocky "The Italian Stallion" Balboa's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty
- Eye Of The Tiger: Win a match without Slip Countering or blocking any attacks
- No Playing: Perform a Slip Counter 10 times
- Imma Let You Finish: Interrupt an opponent's attack with a Super Move 10 times
- No Jiving: Perform a Slip Counter 20 times
- You Slip, I Slide: Slip Counter a Slip Counter 10 times
- Just Business: Perform a Slip Counter 30 times
- The Legacy: Beat Adonis "Hollywood" Creed's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty
- A Mean And Nasty Place: Break your opponent's Guard Meter 20 times
- Flying High Now: Slip Counter your opponent 3 times in a single match
- Head Trauma: Beat Luke "Scraps" O'Grady's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty
- Beat You To Your Knees: Break your opponent's Guard Meter 30 times
- How Winning Is Done: Get the first Knockdown in a match without losing any health
- One Step: Pierce an opponent's Guard with an Unblockable Move 5 times
- Hit The Bars: Beat Axel "El Tigre" Ramirez's Arcade Tower on Any Difficulty
Twitch Clip Links
My off-stream Final Fantasy XIV adventures continued with my attention turned to the Crystal Tower story line, which involved my first taste of the Alliance Raids... and boy, just being told 'kill stuff and don't die' certainly was inspiring on my first successful run of Labyrinth of the Ancients. Granted I was downed once... but still managed to get through it, thanks to one person putting in some tips as well as having a wiki up to see where I'm supposed to go. Turned my attention also to the next steps in the Main Story Questline, which introduces Yugiri and the Doma, who are refugees who we get to bring to Reverenant's Toll... and I also learned that I'm now on a collision course with the next Primal... Leviathan... why do I feel there's going to be a Primal a giant Tonberry
Am I nervous about my Dental appointment on Monday afternoon... yes... yes I am.
Received my copy of Daria: The Complete Animated Series today, and I wasn't expecting the delivery, in fact I didn't get a notification it would arrive until late this evening... after it already arrived. That said this box set is the 8 disc variant with all 5 seasons plus the two movies. The box set itself is from the era where for some reason, every packaging maker tried to be cute, and so the discs don't on the pegs neatly. Oh well.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily work out lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: Advanced Combo #1, Intermediate Combo #2 and Weaving Combo #1 for an estimated calorie burn of 494 kcal.
For tonight's stream we're going to do something random,,, not completely sure, as I want to save doing more Big Rumble Boxing for next week as a feature title! Plus on Saturday, we're playing The Walking Dead: The Final Season, so we need something chilled for tonight. We'll see what I come up with!
So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!
