Highlight for the Week of May 2, 2021

Here are highlights of all the games featured over on http://twitch.tv/fredcasden for the week of May 2, 2021. This week we featured Overwatch, Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise, Nancy Drew Dossier: Resorting to Danger, MLB The Show 21, Tom Clancy's The Division, Monster Hunter Rise, Star Trek Online, ECW Anarchy Rulz, Virginia and ESPN Major League Baseball!

Today's Notes 5/4/21

Good morning everybody, 

Last night's stream of Nancy Drew Dossier: Resorting to Danger, was surprisingly a lot of fun, with it being a lot more straight forward in terms of its puzzles and mini-games than Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights Cameras Curses, which we played last year. The facial mini-games were probably the most interesting as it required a lot of realizing of what layers should go where to create the various patterns, and I did enjoy the combining of letters and molecule colors puzzles, as that involved more outside the box thinking. There was just one small portion of the game, a dialog sequence about 1/2 way through that gave me trouble because I didn't realize what a clue was indicating right before hand. 

Twitch Clip: Facial Treatment Things

Twitch Clip: Come Here You Flea Bitten Varmint!

Also disappointed to find out that the teased third game in the series, Nancy Drew Dossier: Ship of Shadows was never released... because it looked pretty interesting.

Went through more stuff last night, added a bunch of things to the 'to be shredded pile', and placed a bunch of loose photos into photo albums. Yes its 2021 and I still have photo albums! Granted a lot of these pictures were probably duplicates, but hey, they are all safe and secure where they blond.

Update on the Washer and Dryer fiasco from last week, the washer needs a new motor, and the dryer needs out right replacing. When it rains it pours 

There was a nice little Nintendo Switch games sale happening earlier, and catching a few top titles at 50% off seems like a good idea.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was okay, granted at 35 minutes I got pretty loose and built up a good sweat, but my timing was off when doing left jabs, resulting in me blowing several combos in a row. Certainly feels weird when I miss that many. Still today was literally half of yesterday's total workout, so it works out considering I start work 20 minutes after writing this.

Not completely sure what we're doing tonight, yes it's May the Fourth and I do have Star Wars games, but I really don't feel like messing around with them. The leading candidate for tonight is MLB the Show 21, probably mess around with some online games and home run derbies.

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

Today's Notes 5/3/21

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night's stream of Overwatch was a lot of fun, with a mix of Mayhem, Mystery Heroes, Quick Play Classic and Role Queue matches. Picked up three plays of the game as Tracer, D.va and Reinhardt, with the Tracer one happening in a mystery heroes match, so I'm rather pleased with that.Also spent a lot of time playing as Mei last night, mostly because of the new skin she has which has her dressed as a MMA championship fighter, probably the biggest thing noticeable about it is that she's not depicted wearing her glasses and there are certain blemishes noticeable on her face. Big thanks to PandaSweet for joining in on the fun!

Twitch Clip: Thank You For Flying Rein Airways

Twitch Clip: I'm Still Alive!!!!

I went through more stuff last night, finding things that need to be shredded, and came to the realization that I'm going to need probably two short comic book boxes (because they are easier to move than a long box) as well as some protective sleeves for vinyl records that I have. Also as soon as a meat freezer and couch are out of the way I can move a bookcase that is the left of my table to the right, move a side table back to place my PC tower on it and move a filing cabinet in front of that side table for my left lamp and secondary fan.

Officially Added three games to the collection this morning, Star Trek for the PlayStation 3 which is set before Star Trek: Into Darkness. The copy I acquired is still factory sealed, and since I've played the Steam version, we'll probably put this one on a shelf and not crack it open. The other two games are both for the PlayStation 2: Star Trek Shattered Universe and Star Trek Encounters. The copy of Shattered Universe is interesting because apparently the seller got it at some point from a Blockbuster retailer.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was indeed streamed, as we had a good long set, with the daily exercise time clocking in at 47 minutes with an additional 22 minutes done with free exercises to make sure I burned 1000 calories with the overall session. You know I like to put in the extra when I know I can go longer than just the 30 minute limit of Tuesdays to Fridays. Also, a viewer, Torvic came in questioning why I was not paying attention to the chat... gee is it because this was an exercise stream and thus from where I stand for it I can't read the chat box to response, plus my focus in on doing the exercises? See it's people like that I just want to smack upside the head and ask 'what is your major malfunction'.

Twitch Clip: 1-2-3-4-5-6!

Tonight stream should be a one night run of Nancy Drew Dossier: Resorting to Danger, it's a point and click hidden item game and if it's anything like Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights Camera Curses which we played last year I'm going to suspect there are quite a few puzzles in it to! We'll more than likely start a bit early for it if possible.

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

Today's Notes 5/2/21

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night's stream of ESPN Major League Baseball saw my 2004 Phillies sweep the Cubs in the National League Division Series and the Diamondbacks (who beat the Astros in the first round) in the National League Championship series. Now I went into last night thinking I'd alternate between playing and simulating the games (i.e. play games 1, 3, 5 in the Division Series and games 1, 3, 5, & 7 in the LCS), however, because game two in both series were actually won, my plan went right out the window when it game to LCS because why not go for the sweep right? Anyway, over the American League side of things, The Red Sox got through the Twins and Mariners (who beat in the Yankees in the first round), and near as I can tell, they won game six on the ALCS by hitting 2 grand slams in the bottom of the ninth. So Saturday's stream will be a showdown between my Phillies and the Red Sox in the 2004 World Series... and I'll play each game as we'll be looking to sweep the Sox. 

Twitch Clip: This Ball's Outta Here!

Twitch Clip: Hell of a way to end the inning

Big thanks to long time friend of the channel ShadowStrkr who gifted me Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen for Xbox One / Series, looking into it I see it's a 100+ hour game to finish but I do at the least want to take a look at it, so we'll do a demo-night featuring it sometime in the near future!

Another friend of the channel Kalenal, asked if I ever played The Curse of Monkey Island, and I have, granted I haven't played it since 2018. But considering my fondness for Lucas Arts games, I think we're probably do for another run of the Monkey Island games... and hey maybe I can track down the PS2 version of Escape From Monkey Island, since that is the one game in the saga I've never played.

With Mass Effect Legendary Edition coming out on the 14th, finding short games to add to the 2021 tour becomes a little bit of challenge. But since I haven't played many PC games this year, I think a return to the Nancy Drew series is needed, with Nancy Drew Dossier: Resort To Danger/ It shouldn't take me more than a night to get through, and we'll probably start early to give myself extra time to get through it!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session saw me getting the achievement for using Bernando 10 times with Free Exercise sets, and at this point we're up to 58 points as it relates to his Best Friend achievement. The daily set today lasted 47 minutes and I did another 18 to make sure we burned 1000 calories. I'm hoping to do the weekly stream session in the morning because we'll be having someone come in the afternoon to check the washer & dryer which were acting up last Monday.

It's Sunday night which means Overwatch is on the agenda, and we'll be messing with Quick Play matches and whatever arcade modes spark interest this week (Mayhem, maybe Mystery Heroes).

And on that note well see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Best of the Week 10/25-31/20

Here are highlights for the week of October 25 to 31, 2020, and this was a packed week as we included a whole lot of games this week... which included Overwatch, Fitness Boxing, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull, Star Trek Online, Animal Crossing New Horizon, Final Fantasy XV: Comrades, Nickelodeon Kart Racers, Paladins, Twitch Sings, Hyrule Warriors and Super Mario Bros 35!

Today's Agenda 10/30/20

Good Afternoon Everyone!

We got today off to a decent start, if a little late with Fitness Boxing with a 46 minute workout session. I did do things a bit out of order as I had breakfast before the exercising... so it was a bit weird.

Last night's Star Trek Online stream went about 3 hours, as we wrapped up the New Ftonier story-arc for my Cardassian Captain in the Klingon Empire, which means next week we'll be doing the first half of the Gamma Quadrent arc, which of course involves the Deep Space Nine crew. On a side note, the ship I'm currently using for this character, the M'Chla-class Pilot Bird-of-Prey, is one of the worst ships in the game, particularly with a cannon build, as keeping the enemy ships in front is very problematic due to how awkward (and at will) the ship engages its afterburners / thrusters on its own. 

With the General Election next week, work for me starts to slow down as it's that time of year where things start getting a little tight with income, but the silver lining of this cloud is that I will have a few more hour avalible to do stream things. Which means tonight's stream will probably start earlier and we'll end up doing... different things as there is a good chance this will be a variety stream tonight over on twitch.tv/fredcasden

Of course with Today being Friday that means this week's commentary video is now up, and it's a review of Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgAT29eISz8

That will wrap up today's notes, see ya later!

Review - Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull

This week, I'm giving my thoughts on 2007's "Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull" published by Her Interactive.

If you are interesting in purchasing this game, use my Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/3oGvThx

 

Today's Agenda 10/29/20

Hi everyone, as usual the day started with Fitness Boxing, which again saw a focus on cardio, and we also had to step on the scale today, and it appears I dropped two-tenths of a kilogram to get back to 120 KG (or 264 lbs). I hopefully will be able to drop below that weight, as I would love to get down to 113 KG (or 250 lbs), so I gotta keep at it. 

Last night's stream of Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull ended up being a six hour stream, partially because I got irritated as all hell regarding a 'puzzle' that was actually more of a mini-game involving 'bowling'. In a game where everything is logic based (or nearly everything, some stuff was quite cryptic), a glorified mini-game that revolves around angles and getting pixel-perfect positioning should not count as a puzzle. Now I did plan for Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull to be split into two streams, so finishing it one night means next week's plans are little... up in the air at the moment. That said, I'm considering making this week's commentary video a review of this particular game.

Tonight's stream of course will be at 9:30 PM EST, and the focus will be on Star Trek Online, there were some patch notes for this week: 

• Resolved an issue that was causing slotted Experimental Traits on Starships to revert back to a previously selected trait when moving between maps. 
• Updated the Mirror Universe Bundle description to list that it also includes the Mirror Hakeev Duty Officer in the Zen Store.  
  • This is a text change only.

 So nothing major, as per the usual since we recently got new content with the House Shattered event. Anyway, the plan will be to do three (maybe four) missions for my Cardassian in the Klingon Empire, then maybe do a Special Task Force Operation as well. I don't plan on this stream lasting more than four hours, at the very least it'll last three.We'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

 

Today's Agenda 10/28/20

Hi folks, got up around 10 AM and had a killer 50+ minute workout session with Fitness Boxing, very heavy cardio workout that probably would've looked comical on Twitch is I streamed it. Anyway, later tonight I'll be playing Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull which is the 17th game in the series. Now while I have played Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill (well the remastered version), a lot of the games in the series (namely two to sixteen) have issues with being captured by OBS. Anyway we'll see you later again at 9:30 PM EST over on twitch.tv/fredcasden

Thoughts on Staying At Home & Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights Camera Curses

Here at the end of March in 2020, I obviously have some thoughts on the Stay At Home orders and of course, this week review of Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights Camera Curses!

Best of the Week March 15 to 21 2020

It's that time of the week again, with a recap of things that happened over on Twitch, this past week focused on Overwatch, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Saints Row IV Re-Elected, Star Trek Online, Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights Camera Curses and Twitch Sings!

Best of the Week March 8 to 14 2020

This weeks highlight reel includes Overwatch, Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill, Saints Row IV Re-Elected, Star Trek Online, Batman The TellTale Series and  Twitch Sings!

Thoughts on Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill

As Part of the 2020 Gaming Tour, I tackled Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill this week, and well I have some thoughts on that particular game! Come Over To http://twitch.tv/fredcasden as I stream seven nights a week