We Finished Hi-Fi Rush!

Good morning everyone,

Had another rough start to my day, waking up a bit before 6 AM but feeling not doing anything... but this is why I give myself little daily goals.

Work yesterday was good, sure I was not thrilled with the assignment but hey, two complete interviews are two complete interviews.

Last night we did finish Hi-Fi Rush, granted I did delay things by going after the achievement for completing all the combos in the Training Room. Once that was done, it was a straight forward thing getting through the final level and dealing with the final bosses. I really liked how the game ended one the 'there's more to do', but at the same time I kind of wished going back to find things in various levels didn't involve all the cut scenes... but oh well.

Out of the games 61 achievements, I managed to knock out 31 one of them, with quite a few being diamond. There is certainly a lot of things for people to do who want to get every achievement for completion, but several achievements involve having to do multiple runs of the game on various difficulties... which is certainly asking a lot of gamers who just chase 1,000 Gamer Score.

Now the next game to take over on Mondays & Tuesdays will be New Tales From The Borderlands. A normal playthrough is estimated to only take 9 hours or so, so that seems doable to me for a new night stretch next week

Hi-Fi RUSH Achievements

• OK, I THINK I know what I'm doing now: Successfully pull off every combo and attack in the Training Room.
• I play my own way!: Purchase and equip your first Special Attack.
• You must like calling me in, Chai: Destroy 50 barriers by calling in Peppermint.
• Time to pay up!: Settle the bill with the head of Finance.
• Easy Listening: Finish the game completing every level on the Easy difficulty.
• Who's the boss now?: Take it up with the CEO, and come out on top.
• Wanna hear my playlist?: Change the background music in the hideout.
• That's a lot of junk metal…: Destroy 500 Vandelay security robots.
• Chip-tuned: Increase your chip slots to the maximum capacity.
• Out in a puff of smoke: Put out 10 fires in battle with Korsica. (Enemies included.)

For the raid we dropped in on misscammi316 while they were playing Grand Theft Auto V over at twitch.tv/misscammi316

The plan for tonight's stream is of course Fall Guys & Resident Evil 5... who hilarious things will happen to me this week in both games.

Spoke with my brother and the big plan is get a lot of large stuff out of the house on Saturday, April 8th. This way I can finish the basement and start getting a handle on things up in what is supposed to be the dining room.

Got some writing done for the Mass Effect short story commission, and I would dare say it's already about 30% complete. Yay me! Have not figured what the next SubscribeStar Exclusive story will be, I'm leaning Star Trek again...

Watched the Top Gear Vietnam special last night, and that still holds up as one of the better road trips Clarkson, Hammond and May went on.

I was having a question regarding what is going towards earning stars on Regular and Hard versions of exercises in Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star... and I just realized it only counts if I haven't done an exercise on that setting yet.

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

 

 

We Knock Out A Huge Chunk Of Hi-Fi Rush

 Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Hi-Fi Rush saw us getting through chapters 4 through 9 of the game, and sure it went over five hours because I did kept searching for secrets and stuff through out every stage. I really enjoyed the art style and music, the game is easily a sleeper hit for me. And there is incentive to revisit the game to find things that I miss and take advantage of a probably New Game Plus to reach areas I couldn't in earlier parts of the game. Assuming that is a thing.

The twist that Peppermint is Kale's sister was a twist I didn't realize, and it was oh so obvious to me before I started putting a few things together in the Museum stage. 

That said, we're in real good shape to finish Hi-Fi Rush tonight, so we'll probably pair it with something else. I'm tempted on doing it with Hades... but other possibilities include Smite, Divine Knockout or some other nonsense to serve as a back up game.

Hi-Fi RUSH Achievements

• Whoa! There's ANOTHER health bar!?: Increase your health to where you unlock a second tier.
• This will cost you big time: Drain development's budget, removing creative control.
• Uh, they were broken when I got here: Destroy 200 Vandelay security robots.
• Z-shielding's got nothing on us!: Shatter 10 enemy shields by calling in Macaron.
• The Negotiator: Remove the head of Security from the equation.
• I have to read these things?: Find and read half of the Vandelay Vlogs on the campus.
• There's such a thing as TOO helpful: Find and engage with every Smidge, while completing all of his practice tips.
• Kissing the sky!: Perform 50 Aerial Raves.
• Check out my moves!: Purchase every combo and partner attack.
• Headliner: Be the showstopper for the head of Marketing.

Big thank you to Kalenal for the Raid followering their stream of Pokemon Scarlet over at twitch.tv/kalenal

For my raid, we dropped in on PowerThumbz during stream of Dead by Daylight over on twitch.tv/powerthumbz

The developers of MultiVersus announced the game is going on hiatus, and a lot of folks are pissed because it wasn't really stated that this entire time was an Open Beta. I suspect the death of Kevin Conroy (the voice of Batman) may have been a factor because, since no new characters were added to the game since he passed away, and there was a real long content drought. Hell most know I stopped playing it because it started feeling monotonous and I banged out quite a few tough achievements.

My idea of using a Splitter to divert the HDMI signal from the output of my capture card to a monitor and TV didn't work the way I hoped it would... but I did found a three-way HDMI splitter so now I don't have to disconnect the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One or Xbox Series consoles. Will need to do so for the PlayStation related consoles because they are positioned further away from the others.

I do have a new commission short story request based around Mass Effect, namely Mass Effect 3. I think I'll try to keep it straight forward, unless I can find specific dialog transcripts. 

Did pick up am Amazon Fire Stick, because it didn't occur to me until after I moved the TV from the living room to my basement that if I have family come over, and if they bring their kids there is nothing to entertain them. 

Also figured out how to make YouTube shorts... so that could be a thing I do going forward.

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

Big night of Overwatch

Good morning everyone, 

Last night's stream got off  to a rough start as my mic wasn't quite working correctly, warranting a stream restart. First time that's ever happened.

Once that was sorted, we got down to playing Oveewatch 2, big thanks to PandaSweet for being apart of the fun. We certainly were hampered by some noobs who clearly had no clue of what they were doing, but we did won a lot more than we lost. I picked up four plays of the game (1 as Moira, 2 as Reinhardt and 1 as Junker Queen), which means this months collection of Plays of the Game for March is at 18 (assuming I don't get one in an off-stream session).

Other characters used were Orisa, Wrecking Ball, Ana, Mei, Junkrat, and a handful of others.

Did discover that the analog stick on my Xbox One controller does have some drift, mostly moving in an upward direction. So will have to track down a back up wireless controller for it at some point if it get worse. 

For the raid we dropped in on Flint_Locke who was doing a voice acting stream of the visual novel Hotoful Boyfriend over at twitch.tv/flint_locke

The plan for tonight's stream is of course Hi-Fi Rush, picking up at Chapter 4 I believe, and if things go right we could knock out a huge chunk of the game tonight. Yes we are looking for the possibility of finishing Hi-Fi Rush this week, and what we do tonight will determine that.

With the strong possibility of finishing Hades on Thursday, I'll have to consider what to do with the Thursday night streams.

Finished up both the Dragon Ball short story commission and the original idea I had for an All That story. The first is already up on my Subscribestar page and will be posted publicly after the 28th, the later will be exclusive for my Subscribestar followers for the month of April

Ended up doing more organizing of things in the basement, getting the shelves in order mostly as I do want to move away from using crates as make-shift 'bookcases'  

Also ended up watching Space Jam last night, for no real reason, just wanted to watch something silly.

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

First Impressions Of Hi-Fi Rush

 Good morning everyone,

First an update regarding my billing issue with PSE&G, apparently, when I got things sorted with the accounts following my mom's passing, no one told me that I would have to wait a billing cycle to have everything implemented back the way it was before. So that explained that sudden panic attack I had.

Anyway, work yesterday was really good, minus the fact the final hour was cut because they needed things fixed for the evening shift... not sure why that would affect those of us on the assignment I've been on since i t doesn't run in the evenings.

Last night we started up Hi-Fi Rush... and I'm really glad I'm playing it on the lowest possible difficulty, because the rhythm patterns and beat isn't something I can hear since I'm not using earbuds or headphones to listen to the game's music. Still I love the art design and the game play is solid. I'm certainly relying on as much basic stuff as I can to overwhelm enemies quickly... and i could do without the parry system. 

Still it's very fun and I do find myself looking to explore everything to see if I can find any secrets along the way. Which means that levels that should probably take me 30 minutes to complete take an hour

We'll continue Hi-Fi Rush on Monday, in what I believe is the middle of the third chapters (as we met The 2nd of the ally characters)  

Hi-Fi RUSH Achievements

• Does that say weakpoint?: Destroy QA-1MIL's face, revealing its shame.
• Feeling the beat!: Land 20 beat-hit attacks on enemies.
• Start with a bang!: Take out the last line of defense at Quality Assurance.
• I look cool. But I can look COOLER.: Equip any costume.
• You can pet the cat!: Play with 808 in the hideout.
• Who put gears in there?: Destroyed your first golden statue of Kale.
• Cream of the Crop: Come out on top with a battle against the head of Production.
• Thanks for the free chip, Peppermint!: Purchase and equip your first upgrade chip.
• You got this, Peppermint?: Destroy 10 barriers by calling in Peppermint.
• Perfect Parry: Sucessfully parry with perfect timing 15 times.
• Alright, that felt AWESOME!: Defeated your first enemy with a Rhythm Parry Attack.

For the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz as he was still playing Prey over at twitch.tv/powerthumbz

The plan for tonight is to open with Fall Guys, then at 9 PM we'll be switching over to Resident Evil 5 with Iceman to continue our co-op adventures!  

Got a fair amount of writing done regarding the Daria commission request, I'll be looking to finish it after tonight's stream.

Really pondering how I'll going to layout the basement once the Deep Freezer is out of it, because I think I'll some stuff in that far corner. Really considering adding another bookshelf or two as well.

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

Agents of Mayhem Is Finished, How Was My PSE&G Bill $80 Higher Than Expected/!

 Good morning everyone,

Yesterday, with the help of my brother, the couch, the large tv, an exercise bike and other items were removed from the basement, giving me a lot more room to work. I still need to get the deep freezer out as well, but that's going to happen sooner or later.

Also found a box of CDs in the deep freezers, which means I'll need to get more CD binders than I was anticipating to get down the line. 

In a bit of a shock, when I finally got my first bill from PSE&G in my name, I was shocked as hell to see it at $255, when I paid $163 in January and $186 in February when it was under my mother's name. Needless to say I was caught off guard by that amount.And the past 30 days wasn't much colder than than previous two months.

Last night's stream of Agents of Mayhem saw us covering the final two story arcs... and the fact that Agents of Mayhem can and will adjust the difficulty on the fly to make things more difficult. Thankfully a trip back to the Ark allowed for the difficulty to be lowered to make sure the final boss fight would go fairly quick. Now there is a post-credit open world, it's set for grinding out every character to get to level 20, plus do other tasks... but I'm not going to dive into that. Maybe as a lark we can re-install Agents of Mayhem just to do a bit of achievement chasing down the line. We'll see

Agents of Mayhem Achievements

• Hello, Ladies: Collect all agent vehicles.
• Through the Looking Glass: Complete "Operation: Madhouse".
• Fall of Babylon: Complete "Operation: Damocles".
• Not Technically a Golem...: Destroy a golem in the open world.

For the raid we dropped in on the official Twitch channel for Mystery Science Theater 3000 while Attack of the Giant Leeches was airing over at twitch.tv/mst3k

The next big early week game we'll be playing is Hi-Fi Rush, which game out fairly recently 

Picked up the remake of House of the Dead for the Nintendo Switch, will be interesting to see how that plays, since I am looking for local couch co-op games to play with my brother and cousin on stream. 

It appears work will still see me on the assignment regarding hiring & staffing issues in a state controlled by Republicans... aka psychopaths. 

Oddly enough, I have seen a lot of folks asking about Tekken X Street Fighter lately, which was supposed to be the Bandai Namco version of the Street Fighter & Tekken crossover. Considering how we all saw Akuma used in Tekken 7... I think it might be best that we forget about it.  

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

When every achievement I can get in AOM is a diamond achievement...

Good morning everyone,

Song of the Day: Where Do I Go From Here? By Al Kent

Work yesterday was pretty solid, felt productive and the rude gate keepers were not as rude as they can be. I sweat if I answered phones the way they did, I would've been fired ten times over!

Last night's stream of Agents of Mayhem saw the completion of two story arcs, one for Steeltoe and the other for Aisha, with the first basically flowing into the later. The best part about it is that the actor who voices D.va in Overwatch is also the voice of all five personas that make up Aisha, so I got to make 'D.va Is Pissed' jokes the entire time. At this point there are two major story arcs left to complete in the main game, which we'll do on Monday's stream.

Now in regards to achievements, Agents of Mayhem wasn't well received by so many people for some inane reasons that it means after a certain point every single achievements is a diamond one, meaning it was unlocked by less than 10% of Xbox players who have played the game.  Now I'm not insane enough to even consider going for completion, because of how much good fortune is involved in getting certain things to appear.

Agents of Mayhem Achievements

• #SquadGoals: Fully deck out Firing Squad in their signature outfits.
• Wedding Crasher: Complete "Operation: Machine Man".
• Broken Hearts Club: Complete "Operation: Red Queen".
• Contract Killer: Complete 30 MAYHEM & Agent Contracts.
• Globally Offensive: Complete the Moscow Global Offensive.

For the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbZ as he was still playing Prey over at twitch.tv/PowerThumbz 

Now for tonight's stream, we're just playing Fall Guys on tonight's stream as I continue to ponder what will be the next co-op game to play with Iceman. I'm really leaning in towards playing A Way Out or Resident Evil 5.

Of this also raises the question of what game will follow Agents of Mayhem once it's finished, and I'm really leaning towards Hi-Fi Rush

Still not sure what we're starting on Friday's stream in terms of something exclusive to the PlayStation 4.

Did not get any writing done last night, as I got distracted with a few personal projects

And on that note we'll see see you later tonight over on twitch.tv/fredcasden