Sunday, May 29, 2022

Nick's All-Star Brawl and Persona 4 Arena... Surprised Me

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream was a triple header which lead off with Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, and I have to say it's not bad. There is a great variety of characters and representation of Nick Toon characters, although the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Characters and Garfield stick out because those are franchises that were not original to Nickelodeon. The stages are kind of a mix bag, I really dislike the ones where there is an extremely zoomed out camera. I did go through the entire roster to get an idea of how everyone plays, some characters have some very unique gimmicks, I probably enjoy Michelangelo the most just based on first impressions.

Second game was Persona 4 Arena, and of course I'm no stranger to the cast of Persona 4 in a fighting game as they made up a large part of the BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle roster. Since I'm not familiar with the events of Persona 4, any references to things from it are of course lost on me. Still P4A has perhaps the best Fighting Game Tutorial I've ever seen as it really lays down the basics with no bullshit . We went through the arcade mode on the game's default settings and I have to say the difficulty was pretty solid for a casual gamer like myself. I look forward to seeing if its story mode has the visual novel aspect.


We closed out the stream by playing some Smite, focusing on some of the weekly goals, which involved playing Egyptian gods, so we did a few matches as Eset and Neith, and picked up a few wins. It was a really good.
  • Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Achievements
    • I Want an Award!: Compete in your first local battle
    • I Only Know How to Give 110%: Compete in 10 local battles
    • Getting to Know the Family: Play at least once with all standard brawlers in a local battle
    • I'm Ready! I'm Ready!: Complete an online quickplay match
    • Rise and Shine: Clear Arcade with 1 brawler
  • Persona 4: Arena Achievements
    • You know the Midnight Channel?: Tuned In
    • School's Out: You've aced all the tests.
    • Per...so......na...!: Have you burned your dread? Or reached out to the truth?
    • Calm Down.: You suffered a Persona Break in Arcade Mode or online. It happens to everybody...
    • Champion!: You completed Arcade Mode with one character.
    • They Call Me...: You've created a Title for your online matches.

For the raid we dropped in on Starvexia who was playing Minecraft over on twitch.tv/starvexia

Off-stream I did log into Gears 5, to nab the two achievements that were decommissioned. Hey Easy achievements are easy.

  • Gears 5 Achievements
    • Homegrown Hive: Completed a Featured community built Escape Hive
    • I Made It All By Myself: Created and published an Escape Hive

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Defensive Combo #2 and Defensive Combo #1. I kept it light today because of when I woke up (which was at 2:50 PM lol)

A new week has started, but let's look back at all the games we featured last week, which were Overwatch, Lego Batman: The Video Game, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Star Trek Online, Persona 5 Royal, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Persona 4: Arena and Smite!


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For tonight's stream we're kicking off the new week with Overwatch! So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Overwatch 2 and other notes

We were joined by PandaSweet for many matches in Overwatch this evening, and I branched out a little playing as a wider variety of character...