Good morning everyone,
Last night's stream of Chrono Cross was basically a continuation of where we left off the previous night of hunting Dragons.
First on our list was the Fire Dragon, and we took Miki and Fargo with us. This was the second encounter with the Fire Dragon which meant it would transformer into a mech-version of itself. We prepared for this fight by making sure Miki and Lynx had plenty of blue elements to pummel the red-innate boss into the ground. This was pretty much a straight forward battlethat involved keeping Fargo healed because of his vulnerability as a blue innate facing a red innate
From there it was off to face the Black Dragon, still keeping Fargo and Miki in the party, but loading up white elements along with Blue to hammer this once sleeping giant down. Now what some may not know is that the Black Dragon is completely optional depending on when you clear out the monsters from Marbule in the Home World. If you did not do that prior to this point, the Black Dragon would be a sleep. Goes to show where actions can be important in a game like this one! A key moment in this battle was having Fargo steal the Black Plate which came in handy in two battles that happened later on
The toughest fight of the game in terms of needing multiple attempts with the pain in the ass Sky Dragon. Not only does it and Lynx cancel each other out, but the Sky Dragon has a move called Ultra Nova which can and will wipe out the party. My first attempt involved Fargo and Miki, but said Ultra Nova move basically ended that. The second attempt involved replacing Miki with Irenes and again Ultra Nova became a factor. Attempt number three saw me stick with Irenes and Fargo, and realizing I had two revives which meant I could split them between Lynx and Fargo because of their higher health stats. Funny enough by the end, Lynx was dead and it came down to Fargo and Iarenes to seal the deal. Now I know for this fight everyone would say use the Black Elements, but here's the problem using them basically triggers the reaction of the Sky Dragon pummeling the party with white elements... and I remember that strategy only working in a New Game Plus run.
Once the Sky Dragon was defeated it was off to Guldove to present the dragon relics to Steena who joins the party. I made the choice to skip over the Criosphinx side quests since defeating it requires quite a bit of planning and luck, and is really only possible on a New Game Plus run. However, we did went to do the Dario side quest. Taking Riddel to the Forbidden Island, we found the 'Home World' version of Dario who has the Masamune which possesses him into wanting to kill her thus triggering a very tough fight. You see when facing Dario, you cannot under any circumstances use elemental attacks on him Instead only use physical attacks and stock the party with healing and defensive elements. Since Riddel is n the party make sure she has the Black Plate from the Black Dragon. Any of Dario's skills that are directed at her which are black innate will heal her, but this does leave her vulnerable to physical attacks. Still having her in the party with the likes of Lynx and Fargo serving as heavy hitters means focus on keeping Riddel alive and wearing Dario down. The big trade off of this completely optional battle is that Riddel gets her Level 7 ability SnakeFangs and the Mastermune becomes your weapon to use for pretty much the rest of the game unless you can craft a rainbow weapon
Lastly it was off to Fort Dragonia in the Home World where roaming around we were able to find some power elements (ThundaStorm, Iceberg, Tornando and Volcano) before making out way to facing Dark Serge. With Fargo and Irenis in the party, it became a focus of using Blue Elements wherever possible to try and turn the field completely blue to summon the Frog Prince, and then just outlasting Dark Serge's onslaught. Equipping the Black Plate on Lynx is a good idea for whenever Dark Serge using any black innate abilities on him so basically getting a heal boost. After facing Dario, this tough fight is rather easy in comparison. After the fight was done, made sure to hatch the big egg to recruit Draggy before making way up to the top of the tower to have Lynx be reborn into Serge and then going off to Marbule to pick up Irenis' level 7 ability Siren Song.
Also side note: When Serge is reborn... he's buck naked... where the hell does he get a full set of clothes from?!
So with all that done this sets up Monday's stream of going to the Sea of Eden and dealing with everything there as well as hunting down the level 7 abilities of various characters..Anyway, here's the list of clips from last night's stream!
- The Fire Dragon Has Gotten Huge
- Lynx Slays The Fire Dragon
- Defeating The Black Dragon
- First Attempt To Defeat The Sky Dragon Ends In Failure
- Second attempt to defeat the Sky Dragon... Also Ends In Failure
- Third Attempt to Defeat The Sky Dragon... We Did It!
- Back From A Break With A Alcapurria
- Defeating Dario
- We Have The Mastermune!
- Taking Down Dark Serge!
- Draggy Joins The Party!
- Some body get him some pants!
Following the stream we raided Phoenix_face (twitch.tv/Phoenix_face) who was playing Tomb Raider, not the original one, but the awesome reboot. I really have to do a console run of that game at some point having already played it using the Steam version twice on stream.
Now prior to the stream, I lost power around 5 PM and I was in the middle of a having a real good match as D.va in Overwatch, power came back up at around 5:45 PM so we were able to start on top.
Saw the police report of the chick from Laurel Springs who ran into my fest the Saturday before last. It's amazing how simple the form is.
Apparently OnlyFans has dropped its plans to ban adult entertainment from its services as the backlash it was receiving was clearly large enough to make them realize that doing so would basically kill their business pretty much the same way it did Tumblr.
As a fan of the original anime of Cowboy Bebop, it does bother me that John Cho is playing Spike Spiegel... I mean, Spike is supposed to be in his late 20s early 30s... and Cho is 49 going on 50 with it really showing! Sure he's in great shape, but lest face, Spike was modeled in part on Bruce Lee in his prime.This also throws off how the character of Spike will relate to Jet Black who was in his mid to late 30s in the Anime... if Spike is gonna be in his 50s, that means Jet is gonna be pushing a hard 60, thus changing the dynamic and flow of what fans like myself want with a live-action version of an awesome show. I'm gonna say it now... the live action Cowboy Bebop series is gonna be a fucking train wreck.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 28 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 423 kcal. The scheduled exercises were Body Hook Combo, Body Uppercut Combo and Uppercut Combo #2. I did do an extra set with Difficult Challenge Combo #2, so the total workout was 34 minutes with a total calorie estimated burn of 537 kcal.
For tonight's stream we will play some Smite before Iceman joins in for some more fun in Tom Clancy's The Division.
So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!
