Brave The Video Game Has Replay Value

Disney Pixar Brave: The Video Game and other notes

This week we wrapped up two video games, one Grandia II as part of the Grandia HD Collection was wrapped up on Tuesday's stream in very straight forward fashion... with the exception of the rematch with the Eye of Valmar which is a battle that can end real quickly depending on what the enemy AI wants to do. Still we ended up 66 of the 71 achievements between the first game and its sequel.

Second game we knocked out was Brave The Video Game, making it the 3rd time and 3rd different version we've finished. (Other two times were on Steam and PlayStation 3). Did try to play it on its hardest difficulty setting, but my reflexes are too slow .

Picked up a bunch of achievements in Sea of Thieves, some off which were done off stream. Sea of Thieves will not be on the agenda this week with Iceman being away.

So on Wednesday we'll play Smite, and I'm working on getting Neith to rank 10.

Monday I'm going to start Little Kitty Big City, which will also be featured on Tuesday and possibly Thursday. We'll see how the achievement hunting goes 

Closing in on the next major story related trophy in God Eater Resurrection, but it maybe like a week or two before we reach that point.

I got to work in more Overwatch off-stream to knock out the battle pass.

 

Sea of Thieves Achievements

• Unto the Horizon: You completed the Maiden Voyage
• Perfect Dark: You sailed through a storm with no lights during the night.
• Night Bite: Delivered a luminescent fish to The Hunter's Call.
• Dead Pirates DO Tell Tales: Used Pirate Chat to communicate with another dead pirate on the Ferry of the Damned.
• Friends Not Foe: You performed the Pirate Salute gesture to befriend someone in-game.
• Smile, you son of a…: You killed a shark with a gunpowder keg

Grandia HD Collection Achievements

• Old Priest, Young Priest: Find the Exorcism Bow in Demon's Law.
• Hot Body: Defeat the Body of Valmar.
• He Has One?: Defeat the Heart of Valmar.
• All Cracked Up: Defeat the Egg Guardian.
• Put a Notch in It: Find the Black, Heracles and Sonic belts.
• Visited Elmo's World: Find Elmo in the Birthplace of the Gods.
• Bad Apple: Defeat Valmar's Core.
• Amateur Lepidopterist: Defeat Zera Valmar.

SMITE Achievements

• Locked and Loaded: Unlock the SMITE Award Locked and Loaded

Disney Pixar Brave: The Video Game Achievements

• Swordful: Collect a sword.
• Bowsome: Collect a bow.
• Digging in the dirt: Find the earth charm
• Dirty work: Cleanse the ring of stones
• Carpet runner: Collect a tapestry piece.
• Impressive: As Merida, defeat 15 enemies in a row without taking damage.
• Ante up: Purchase an upgrade.
• Triple H's: Solve a triplet puzzle.
• Minimum wage: Accumulate a total of 1000 currency.
• Toasty: Find the fire charm.
• Everyone knows it's windy: Find the wind charm.
• Affluent: Accumulate a total of 5000 currency.
• Ice to see you: Find the ice charm.
• Full of power: Purchase 15 upgrades.
• Heating up: Defeat 100 enemies using the fire charm.
• My fair lassie: Collect an outfit.
• Tremble :Defeat 100 enemies using the earth charm.
• Taking out the trash: Defeat the rock golem guardian.
• Breezy: Defeat 100 enemies using the wind charm.
• Untouchable: As Merida, defeat 30 enemies in a row without taking damage.
• Mum's the word: Defeat 100 enemies as Queen Elinor.
• Throw rug: Complete a tapestry.
• Mopping up: Defeat the harpy guardian.
• Wealthy: Accumulate a total of 15000 currency.
• Wall to wall carpeting: Complete all tapestries
• Power hungry: Defeat 100 enemies using power attack.
• On Fire: Defeat 250 enemies using the fire charm.
• Swordtacular: Collect all swords.
• Brilliant: Solve all triplet puzzles.
• Cooling off: Defeat 100 enemies using the ice charm.
• Bowlicious: Collect all bows.
• Clothes horse: Collect all outfits
• Get out of my way: As Elinor, charge 5 enemies with a single charge attack.
• All bunched up: As Merida, defeat 5 enemies with a single charged shot.
• Great scot: Defeat Mor'du.
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Brave The Video Game Is A Nice Casual Adventure

Good afternoon everyone,

Well... it snowed yesterday... I figure we got about 4-5 inches where I live. Anyway, for last night's stream, we hooked up the PlayStation 3 to play Disney-Pixar's Brave. Why the PS3 version? Because up until about an hour ago I was unaware the X-Box 360 version is on the backwards compatible list!

Now long time followers of me over on Twitch would know I have played Brave before, but that was the Steam version, and I was looking forward to playing a console version of it when I got a working PS3. So finally choosing last night to play it was an eventuality. 

Of course, me being a casual gamer, we took it easy to make our way through the game, exploring every nook and cranny to get all of the collectables (having to back track for one) and managed to complete 35 of the games 48 achievements aka trophies. Since I have not seen the movie, I don't know how faithful it is to it, but I do think I saw enough with the game to want to see it at some point, and I think I had the same feeling when I played the Steam version a couple of years ago. 

Its very straight forward in terms of keeping players on the path to journey ahead, but going off that path does result in finding gold which is needed for upgrades and finding the various collectables. There's a great use of being aware of what an enemy's weakness is, as each of the charms has a different element that can make quick work if used on the right opponent... i.e. Ice beats Fire, Fire Beats Ice, Wind beats Earth, Earth beats Wind. The controls are very responsive and don't take long to learn.

Brave does sound good in terms of it s sound effects and music, but I do feel the audio mixing was a bit off as any dialog said is on the low side. Visually... well the Brave has a really drawn out camera, the environments are nice and varied, but getting a good look at the character models of Merida in her various outfits and the enemies is not really possible to appreciate how things look up close.

For the raid, we went to Hover to find someone random, and it was JustBrootal we picked who was playing Call of Duty: Warzone over at twitch.tv/justbrootal!  

Disney Pixar Brave: The Video Game Trophies

• Swordful: Collect a sword.
• Bowsome: Collect a bow.
• Digging in the dirt: Find the earth charm.
• Dirty work: Cleanse the ring of stones.
• Carpet runner: Collect a tapestry piece.
• Ante up: Purchase an upgrade.
• Triple H's: Solve a triplet puzzle.
• Minimum wage: Accumulate a total of 1000 currency.
• Toasty: Find the fire charm.
• Everyone knows it's windy: Find the wind charm.
• Impressive: As Merida, defeat 15 enemies in a row without taking damage.
• Ice to see you: Find the ice charm.
• Affluent: Accumulate a total of 5000 currency.
• Full of power: Purchase 15 upgrades.
• Heating up: Defeat 100 enemies using the Fire charm.
• My fair lassie: Collect an outfit.
• Taking out the trash: Defeat the rock golem guardian.
• Tremble: Defeat 100 enemies using the Earth charm.
• All bunched up: As Merida, defeat 5 enemies with a single charged shot.
• Mum's the word: Defeat 100 enemies as Queen Elinor.
• Throw rug: Complete a tapestry.
• Wealthy: Accumulate a total of 15 000 currency.
• Mopping up: Defeat the harpy guardian.
• On Fire: Defeat 250 enemies using the Fire charm.
• Charge it up: Defeat 100 enemies using charged shot.
• Breezy: Defeat 100 enemies using the Wind charm.
• Wall to wall carpeting: Complete all tapestries.
• Untouchable: As Merida, defeat 30 enemies in a row without taking damage.
• Swordtacular: Collect all swords.
• Brilliant: Solve all triplet puzzles.
• Bowlicious: Collect all bows.
• Clothes horse: Collect all outfits.
• Get out of my way: As Elinor, charge 5 enemies with a single charge attack.
• Cooling off: Defeat 100 enemies using the Ice charm.
• Great scot: Defeat Mor'du.
• Ranged only: Complete a level without using your sword.

Twitch Clip Links

1. Untouchable! 
2. This is Bowlicious! 
3. Get Out Of My Way! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured a 31 minute workout with Straight Combo #1, Weaving Combo #2 and Beginner Combo #2. The Estimated Calorie Burn was 481 kcal. At the moment we're at 45/50 for hours trained with Janice for Janice's Champion.

The progress towards the last achievement for Capcom Arcade Stadium is now at 88 hours. If I time it right to get it under 96 hours off stream, we'll feature the last push on stream this week.

My off-stream progress in Final Fantasy XIV was a hell of a lot more positive than the previous one, as I progressed the Main Story Quest from Gateway of the Gods up through In Shadow's Wake. The Twoer of Babil was a fun quick dungeon with the bosses being fairly easy to understand. The Dark Inside trial was a nightmare... from the first time I got downed it lead to me getting resurrected and instantly killed by Zodiark. I pretty much spent all of phase two basically laying down. 

Also had a weird instance where I ended up in first-person view and had to scramble to figure out how to get out of it. Didn't think that was a thing in FF14. But what is kind of obvious is that with Zodiark dead... that means Hydaelyn herself is next on the chopping block as one cannot exist with the other. Then there's the fact that Zenos is going to be the final boss of Endwalker... ugh.... and I thought Sephiroth was annoying antagonist with no real purpose.

A new week begins, but let's recap the past week with the Twitch Bits. Last we we featured Overwatch, Battletoads, Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, Forza Horizon 4, Gears 5, Final Fantasy XIV, Star Trek Online, Kingdom Hearts III and Disney-Pixar's Brave! 

For tonight's stream, well you know what time it is with it being Sunday... it's all about Overwatch, and with the Lunar New Year event going on

Today's Notes 8/18/21: The Part Where Chrono Cross Address Everything Wrong With Chrono Trigger

Good morning everyone,

We begin with last night's stream of Chrono Cross where we continued on to the Dead Sea, and while the battle against the Highwayman was almost a cakewalk, the battle against Miguel was everything I was dreading because unlike nearly every other boss fight to that point, Miguel actually combos some abilities, such as using a Turn Black element followed by a powerful White Innate element to devastate my team. Now I did try to plan for the fight, building around Blue Innate Elements because he wouldn't be able to seal those and thus I could chip away at him with what ever elements I had on hand with the hope of maybe triggering Frog Prince (note: was not successful at that)

From there it was off to the 'Other World' to rescue Riddle at Viper Manor while recruiting Zoah, Karsh, Marcy, Viper, Fargo and of course Riddle herself. Since we went back to the 'Other World' I was able to have characters met their duplicates, Norris, FunGuy Van & Zappa in particular. The rescue of Riddle was pretty straight forward with various puzzles, good thing I had the strategy guide on hand otherwise I might have missed something.

Now since we dealt with the Dead Sea and Miguel, this means we should address the issue with Chrono Cross as a sequel to Chrono Trigger.  Let's keep in mind that I did not care for Chrono Trigger as a I feel it's an over bloated mess with all the time travel that feels off in terms of how it deals with the consequences of time travel, it's treated  as big happy go lucky adventure to save the world. Yeah but first rule of time travel is that when you change something in the past it does effect the future and that's barely addressed in Chrono Trigger. The entire concept of Chrono Cross is based around fighting fate and the consequences of doing one thing or another. 

We see that through out Chrono Cross with every character that has a duplicate where there are huge differences. Serge is a alive in one timeline, dead in the other, Van and his father are rich in one timeline and poor in the other, Fargo is a pirate ship captain in one timeline and a captain of a cruise ship in the other... and what lead to each of those fates (and those of others through out Chrono Cross) is the choice that were made. In Chrono Trigger, we never saw the results of all the tampering that was done, how lives were possibly ruined by Chrono, Lucca, Marle and the rest of the gang, it's more of just chasing down Lavos and stopping it no matter the cost, while in Chrono Cross we do see how certain choices and lead to a difference in how things play.

Hell a lot of this is really cover in Harle's dialog with Serge once he and Lynx exchange bodies, regarding who is to say one reality is better than another. 

I'm sure that probably pissed a lot of folks off.... and here's one more... Chrono Cross has better game play that Chrono Trigger... BITE ME!

Anyway, here's the list of clips from last night for you to enjoy!

• We Now Have The PS2 Metal Slug Anthology 
  
• Defeating The Highwayman!
• Free Fall.... Funny... Real Funny
• Nicely Done Irenes 
• It's all your fault! 
• Defeating Miguel!
• Van meets Van 
• Defeating the Roachster!
• Defeating Hell's Cook! 
• Of course it goes to Van! 
• Defeating Grobyc! 
• Defeating Guillot 
• Run Away! 
• Reflections... 
• What do you mean? 

Following the stream we raided SmoresDaFloof who was playing Final Fantasy XIV Online, they were one of the first people I came across when I started streaming (at the time they were using a different name) and they use to play a lot of Overwatch (they are why I got interested in that game). It is funny that when Smores saw what i was playing their reaction was of shock of wondering how I was playing Chrono Cross since it is a game of great significance to them Anyway you can check out SmoresDaFloof over on twitch.tv/smoresdafloof! 

Speaking of Overwatch, I had three consecutive games of Mayhem last night playing as D.va where I didn't die once... also managed to earn Play of the Game in all three matches.

We added a trio of games to the collection, Raging Loop and Root Letter, both for the PlayStation 4... these are both visual novels and I figure they were serve as great 'Saturday Night' games the way the Zero Escape trilogy did. Also tracked down the PlayStation 2 Metal Slug Anthology which collects the all 7 of the Metal Slug games... I believe there is a PS4 digital version, if there is, we might just stream that and leave the PS2 version permanently sealed.

And as I was writing this, today's mail arrived and we added Disney Pixar's Brave for the PlayStation 3,  Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse (also the for the PlayStation 3) and Family Guy: The Video Game for the PlayStation 2. Brave and Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse I have streamed before using the Steam versions, so the PS3 versions will allow us to go after the PlayStation achievements.

As I was organizing my shelves yesterday (finally), I found a copy of WWF Betrayal for the Gameboy Color. Released in August of 2001, it is a beat 'em up, where you are to rescue Stephanie McMahon at the request of Vince McMahon and in return he'll give you a WWF Championship opportunity... so you could say the Billion Dollar Princess is in another castle. The funny thing is that there was a story line in 1999 where Stephanie was kidnapped by the Ministry of Darkness and Vince begged Steve Austin to rescue her. in WWF Betrayal you play as either Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker (in the American Bad Ass gimmick) or Triple H, and depending on who you choose, the other three will serve as bosses for you to deal with. Anyway, I remember it being an okay little game that had limited replay value, but I do remember there being some actual story variance particularly if you play as Triple H since he's the only heel as an option to play as.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 455 kcal. The exercises for today were Weaving Combo #2, Straight Combo #1 and Beginner Combo #2. We're up to 96 out of 100 for the Karen's Best Friend achievement , proving my guess that we would knock it out by Thursday wrong, because of how Fitness Boxing 2 will alternate giving 2 and 3 points for a daily work out. So we'll knock it out on Friday.

For tonight's stream, Iceman said he won't be available, so we'll do some random gaming and just have a good time!

And on that note we'll see you later  around 6:30 PM Eastern over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!