Adachi's P4AU story fills in the gaps

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream saw us featuring Persona 4 Arena Ultimax one final time in order to see Adachi's story play out, and it certainly filled in the gaps as to why he was out of police custody and why he was 'helping' in his own way during the P4 version of events. It does however raises a question as to how much of the P3 side of the story is actually canon because both side contradict one another yet complement each other at the same time, particularity once the True Ending is considered.

Anyway, we did do one Score Attack run as Elizabeth to get its related trophy and also a few attempts a flows 41-50 in the Golden Arena to see if we could get further in that, but a lot of grinding is involved as far as that goes, since that mode is more of an RPG.

We also revisited Persona 5 Dancing in Starlight, picking up a couple of King Crazy's and setting a few new high scores on some songs. I was a tad bit rusty at it since it's been about a month since I last played it any of the Persona dancing games.

One thing I did reveal during the stream is that next Friday... the PS4 game will be Final Fantasy VII Remake

For the raid we dropped in on Flint_Locke while they were doing a VRChat stream over at twitch.tv/flint_locke! 

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Trophies

• Score Attacker: You completed one Score Attack Course.

Stream Clip Links

• Adachi vs Hi-no-Kagutsuchi
• I ran right into it! 
• Why yes is his yelling at them to...
  

My brother and one of my aunts visited mom at the hospital yesterday, and I talked to her a bit, she sounded better for sure, so maybe what the doctors did for her throat helped some. There are lot of concerns for sure still. I didn't get any updates or news regarding her condition, but if anyone would like to help out, please donate to mom's gofundme at https://gofund.me/6adf8354, all funds go directly to covering medical expenses in her fight against lung cancer and other ailments!

Also went and saw mom this morning, but she was sedated because they took her to get an MRI earlier, so she was partially asleep

Managed to finish the Gotham Knights commission request rather easily, despite not playing the game and not having any context as it relates to how the four characters interact in it, but I'm not complaining as it was nearly 4000 words long. Got another short story request for a WWE, I'll get to work on that in the afternoon. And all these little commission requests I've been doing with work being slow has certainly helped out in covered my electric bill for this month.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Weaving Combo #2, Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo for 28 minutes

"How do you follow Will Smith in the snow?" "You follow the fresh prints."

Song of the Day: Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches & Herb.

For tonight's stream, we're resuming Catherine after completing the first five floors last week. And if the giant bride is any indication, things in the second half of the game is going to get crazy.

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

Thoughts on Star Trek Online: Stormfall

Good morning everyone,

Last night we returned to Star Trek Online for the first time since February, as two new episodes were added, titled 'Blue Shift' and 'The Calling'.

'Blue Shift' continues from where the previous mission 'Red Shift' ended, as a rescue plan to rescue Ilia from the Terran Empire, and I believe this is the second mission to ever to make use of mechanics used in a Task Force Operation, as one was introduced that involved raiding Terran Space Dock and guarding three Exocomps (who steal the show with how sassy they are... I mean one is called Cereal Killer!). Beyond that, there are nice space battles, as well as the payoff of getting Marshall Janeway back in command of the Mirror Universe version of Voyager. Once Illia is retrieved she lets the player know that there is a Mirror version of V'ger that is very pissed off and is being summon by the Terran Emperor.

'The Calling' sees another trip into the Mirror Universe, where we get to play as our mirror counterpart 'The Inquisitor' in what is a glorified flash back scene to show what is happening on the alternate version of Pahvo (a payoff to 'Killy's' escape from when that character first tried to take over Pahvo and escaping when her plans were thwarted). There is a major space battle, a re-taking of the Mirror Universe Enterprise to put Admiral (Mirror Universe) Leeta back in command as well as dealing with the alternate version of V'ger for the first time... and out first look of the Terran Emperor's flag ship.

Of course I should talk about Forged in Fire, which is a remake of Assault on Tarok Nor using the remodeled Deep Space Nine interior from FOUR YEARS AGO (let's keep in mind Assault on Terok Nor was introduced seven years ago). It basically plays the same, with some things simplified down and made more obvious. I do like the twist of having to run up different levels in the Ore Processing portion to avoid getting nuked by Admiral Leetha's nova blasts. Plus you finally get to take down Kurland... and make the joke that 'Kurland WAS here'.

Overall, the new content is great, Both missions are really well done as the pace is kept moving with both, even with all the dialog, but of course this is Star Trek Online, so we won't see the next chapter of the story for like another two months..The new Task Force Operation is a quick in and out affair, that most people in PUGs can tackle in 5 minutes. Overall it took about two hours and change to get through all the new stuff... that was not the new tutorial for Federation 2409... I'm debating featuring that next week.

For the remainder of last night's stream we played Smite, going six and four in ten matches that were a mix of Arena and Assault. Big thanks to LvStkr for being apart of a few matches, always cool to team up with one of the channel regulars!  We also managed to pick up a couple of achievements as well.

SMITE Achievements

• Love to Guard: 5 Mastered Guardians.
• Get Over Here: "Unlock the Smite Award "Get Over Here"!

Twitch Clips

• We don't need a HUD!
• We'll just look at you... 
• Ooo that was a terrible line!
• Coming through! 
• One for me
  

For the raid we dropped in on Flint_Locke as they were doing VRChat things over at twitch.tv/Flint_Locke!  

Knocked out Today's Daily Death in Friday the 13th Killer Puzzle right after last night's stream ended (and a much needed trip to the rest room) I need to do the next two on Thursday and Friday to unlock the final achievement. Progress is being made!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hook Combo #2, Double Combo #1, Defensive Combo #2 and Defensive Combo #1.

Added two games to the Xbox digital library, From Earth to Heaven and Sam & Max Save the World. The later we have played before but it's the remastered version that was released after Telltale originally closed down, so if we stream it'll be good for a few laughs, plus the challenge of playing a point & click game with a gamepad may make for a unique experience. From Earth to Heaven, it's a first person platformer that is supposedly an easy completion. We shall see if that's even true or not.

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For tonight's stream, I'm going to start off with Fallout 76, and we'll see if Iceman joins in or if we may be teaming joining in for a four person run of Gears of War 3, who knows! Regardless we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

So about the Ann being a decoy scene in Persona 5

Good afternoon everyone,

Yeah I'm not even going to pretend stepping around this, as I remember an episode of Outside Xbox where Luke talked about this particular scene in Persona 5. So the story progress saw us discover the next big bad of the game, an artist named Madarame, who actually plagiarizes the art of those he has taken under his wing... and part of the investigation involves Yusuke, his last pupil who is apparently blind to his master's actions. Now Yusuke happens to get a look at Ann and wants to paint her... in the buff as it were.

Yes I am aware of the ages of the characters in Persona 5... and I know Japan has a much different approach to things than the United States, but for fuck sakes the entire scene where he declares his intentions was just cringe worthy. Now I get it, it sets up a bit of comedy with Ann being a decoy and allows for a way to get Yusuke into the Metaverse to unlock his Persona so he becomes the 5th member of the team... but c'mon man, that entire portion was just... nutty. Particularly when afterward, you can tell Yusuke 'no nude paintings' and he says he still intends to paint Ann in the buff.

It also doesn't help that Yusuke has a voice deeper than a good portion of the male characters seen so far in the game.

So outside of that, I do feel like I screwed up a few things, as I took a trip into Mementos long before I should have  which threw off the pacing of a few things, but since I'm not playing for 100% completion just to make sure I'm ahead of the curve on things, But this did mean I didn't get any trophies unlocked because of it... oh well.

I should be fine as long as I remember what things I neglected to do. The Museum Palace itself has a nice layout too it and seems far less intimidating than the Castle Palace with its layout. Still if all goes to plan next Friday's Persona 5 stream will see a nice even split of mostly story and palace stuff next week if all goes right.

Twitch Clip Links

1. Well that was my reaction to that scene 
2. Give me the power
3. Yusuke is real quick on the uptake... 
   

For last night's raid we dropped in on Flint_locke who was doing some VRChat over at twitch.tv/flint_locke!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #2, Left-Right Step Combo and Advanced Combo #2! Beyond the daily, I've set a new personal best for Difficult Challenge Combo #2 on No Mercy Difficulty 894 Perfect Action + 1 Okay Action out of a possible 896 Actions

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise Stats For 36 to 3/12/2022

• Punches Thrown: 12,803
• Estimated Calorie Burn 5255.98 kcal
• 17 out of 30 hours trained for Evan's Contender
  

We're expecting below freezing temperatures today and snow... keep in mind this is the middle of March, but also keep in mind that I have seen snow as late as April here in South Jersey.

My current Xbox achievement streak is up to a solid 30 days as we once again did the exploit with the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, then put in the level up grind in Ugly Americans which resulted in getting the kill count achievements for Manbirds and Demons. I haven't played any additional levels that are not DLC related yet, so next time we feature it on stream, it will resume with stage 5... but with characters leveled up quite a bit. I got Callie up to level 60 and boy does it have a bit of lag to it.

SNK 40th Anniversary Collection Achievements

• The Warrior Within: Beat the Arcade version of Ikari Warriors.
• Showed Some Guts: Beat the Arcade version of Victory Road.

Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon Achievements

• Put Your Cheeks Into It!: Kill 1000 Manbirds.
• No Loitering!: Kill 5000 Demons.

We've officially added Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha for the PlayStation to the collection, I may have had a copy 20 years ago, but I don't fully recall. Still it will be interesting to show case it at some point!

For tonight's stream, I'm not 100% sure yet what we're going to do, but we'll be up to something or other!

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