Grandia HD Collection and other notes

This week we finished Grandia on Thursday night (well early Friday Morning) with only three missed achievements in that half of the Grandia HD Collection. We started up Grandia II tonight, banging out 8 in nearly five hours. Grandia II will be featured on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. I did forget that Grandia II's camera is not as helpful as the original games because of the more 3D environment

Installed some older WWE 2K games cause I have an idea for some streams late in the year to feature some older games, and I knocked out several achievements. Rather surprised how many were diamond achievements in 2K17 and 2K18. Hell same applies to Bejeweled 3

Messed around some with Guilty Gear Strive and it's not as fun as the XRD games in the franchise, but I do intent to try and feature it this year, give maybe several streams dedicate to it.

Iceman and I lucked out in getting three achievements in Sea of Thieves, so our Wednesday night adventures have lead to some gamer score boosts form time to time.

No trophies earned in God Eater Resurrection, but we did reach Level 5 difficulty in terms of the hunts, so the game is starting to become very difficulty. Also some the clipping  and bullshit involving hit detection was very apparent this past Friday.

Outside of Monday work was solid all week, I did get in a little trouble with my tendency to free style a little 

On the story writing front I got several commissioned requests done and have three more to do to wrap up Augusts work load. With luck I can get them done in short order in order to get a jump on Septembers content.

Grandia HD Collection Achievements

• Spaced Out: Arrive in Alent.
• Brawny Blade: Acquire the Spirit Sword.
• Dream Catcher: Defeated Gaia Trent
• Final Foe: Defeated Gaia
• The Bodyguard: Add Elena to the party.
• Growth Spurt: Level Up.
• Guard for Hire: Escort Elena to Garmia Tower.
• Spicy Lady: Add Millenia to the party.
• More Than He Could Chew: Add Roan to the party.
• On the Podium: Find Roan's missing medal.
• Fashionista: Change a character's outfit during combat (Weapon, Accessory and Mana Egg).
• Bloodhound: Add Mareg to the party.

WWE 2K17 Achievements

• Now that's hardcore!: Hit an opponent with a foreign object or put them through a table. (Single play)
• Suplex City: With Lesnar, execute "German Suplex 4" or "Back Suplex 2" 10 times in a single match. (Single play)
• Oh! My!: Put your opponent through the announce table via OMG! moment. (Single play/Exhibition)
• This match won't end!: Successfully perform a major reversal. (Single play)
• Tragic commentators: Destroy 2 announce tables within a single match. (Single play)

Guilty Gear -Strive- Achievements

• Battle Ready: [TUTORIAL] Finished the tutorial until the end.
• Gym Regular: [TRAINING] Trained for more than 30 min.
• This Year's Fashion Trend: Customize the hair, top, bottom, shoes, hat and equipment of your avatar.
• The Room where Demons Dwell: [ONLINE MATCH] Completed the Network Mode Tutorial.
• I'm Overflowing with Power: Get into the Positive Bonus state without performing a Wall Break while in a match.
• I'll have a Little of Your Time: [VS CPU] Win against a CPU opponent.
• Give It My All: Defeated the opponent with less than 30% of health left while in a match.
• Triple Cross: Play matches using 3 different characters.
• Beautiful Catch, Ain't It?: Fished for the first time
• Begin Assessment of the Target: [REPLAY] Watched 3 replays.

WWE 2K18 Achievements

• #FinishIT with truth: Win a Normal One on One match in less than 60 seconds (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• I'm not like most girls: Win a match as Nia Jax. (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• Show-Off: Perform a Crowd or Opponent taunt. (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• Kingslayer: Win a match as Seth Rollins. (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• Modern day Maharaja: Win a match as Jinder Mahal. (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• Legit Boss: Win a match as Sasha Banks. (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• Go go Hideo: Win a match as Hideo Itami. (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• Ashes to ashes: Win a match as Goldust. (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• Monster among us: Win a match as Braun Strowman. (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• Glorious: Win a match as Bobby Roode. (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• No autographs please: Win a match as The Miz. (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• YES! YES! YES!: Win a match as Daniel Bryan. (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• 2 Badd: Win a match as Karl Anderson. (PLAY mode against A.I.)
• You just made the List: Win a match against Jericho. (PLAY mode against A.I.)

Sea of Thieves Achievements

• #BeMorePirate: You purchased a new hook, peg-leg, eyepatch, and hat from the Clothing Shop.
• Walk the Line: You travelled 5 km walking along harpoon tightropes.
• This One's To Go: You used a zipline while carrying a treasure chest on your back.

Bejeweled 3 Achievements

• Friendly FireL: Detonate a Flame Gem
• Supercharged: Detonate 2 Star Gems in one move.
• Skull Crusher: Destroy a skull in Poker.
• Game in Hand: Unlock all 8 game modes.
• Elite Gem Wielder: Complete one of the Elite Bejeweled 3 Badges.
• Lightning Storm: Get a x5 multiplier in a Lightning game.

 

From the Isle of the Damned to Earth Dragon Isle

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Chrono Cross The Radical Dreamers Edition saw a lot of progress made in terms of both advancing the plot and knocking out side quests. We made blatent use of the battle boost and fast forward buttons to try and make things move quicker particularly in areas with a lot of battles (Marbule). We did make sure to find just about everything major, and tried to make sure certain characters were used in key parts, such as Radius being in the party for the Garrai battle, plus having Zappa and Van met their counter parts, dealing with the Dead Sea, rescuing Riddle and doing things through the first two Dragon god battles (Water and Earth).

Of course we reached the point of the game where Harle leaves the party, and for over 20 years it has bugged me regarding how friendly she and Starkey are, because they have that one cut scene that implies they hang out a lot from the point Starkey is recruited.  If Chrono Cross had an anime or manga that expanded on things, it would answer a lot of questions, because I do know when some characters are not in use they are hanging out in some places.

Now a lot of people say the Dead Sea is where the plot of Chrono Cross goes off the rails, but I don't see it that way, I see that gang from Chrono Trigger saved the world, but doomed an entire time line of people in the process to be erased... and I firmly believe that the events of Chrono Cross are, without question the fault of Chrono, Lucca, Marle and the rest.

Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition Achievements

• Lunacy: Use Harle's unique level 7 tech, Lunairetic.

Twitch Clips

• Glide Hook Is The Final Hit
• Ride a Dragon, Drop An Elbow 
• Do what you can... ride a dragon!
  

For last night's raid we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Mass Effect 2 (The Legendary Edition) over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!

The Capcom Fighting Collection will be coming out in June, which is awesome!

The servers for WWE 2K19 and 2K20 will be shut down at the end of June, goes to show the stupidity of yearly releases, when you cannot even get 5 years out of a game in terms of online play. And  this is why you will never see me pay full price for any game that puts so many achievements associated with online play.

Completed today's Daily Death for Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle, just three more to go for the last achievement! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficult Challenge Combo #1 on No Mercy, Triple Combo #2, Intermediate Combo #1 and Biceps Shape Focus Combo. Managed to set a new personal best for Difficult Challenge Combo #1 as well.

Played some Smite last night as well, actually figured out a few things with Baron Samedi. Also did a couple of matches as Khepri, who I think I figured out, but not 100% sure.

Also got in a couple of matches in on Overwatch 2's Beta, and I can safely re-confirm Orissa is going to need some serious nerfs with how much of a charge tank she is at this point. Also was pleased to see the Quick Play with no Role Queue enabled to allow for some variety.

So there is apparently official statues of Tifa, based on her appearance in Final Fantasy VII Remake being sold of her in the Jack-O pose from the Guilty Gear series, and some folks are up in arms about it. I'm not because hell over the course of the past 10 years, there have been so much SFM, Blender artwork and videos made of Tifa that it was only a matter of time before someone at Square-Enix approved of a way to profit from it. There is a reason I use the line 'Because Japan' to explain some stuff in Persona 5! That said, it's not a bad looking statue, and it is what ne would expect from a character like Tifa put into that pose. But if you think this statue is fake... nope, here's the link to where one could pre-order it: https://www.favorgk.com/collections/newest/products/1-4-scale-jack-o-tifa-lockheart-ff7-final-fantasy-vii-resin-statue-nl-studio-pre-order

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For tonight's stream, the plan is to feature the new content of Star Trek Online that is yet another revamp of the tutorial, which includes two new episodes and a new Task Force Operation called Forged in Fire, which is a rework of the old Assault on Terok Nor. I figure this would take about two to two and half hours to go through. Afterward, we'll probably load up Smite or Overwatch 2 for the back end of the stream.

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