Today's Notes 7/25/21: The Grind Is Real

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night's stream featured Pokemon Let's Go Eevee as we traveled from Cerulean City all the way to Lavender Town over the course of about 5 hours and 45 minutes. Now one would assume because of that amount of time I would've cleared two gyms, Vermilion City plus Lavender Town but nope... a good chunk of tonight was spent trying to catch Pokemon and dealing with the timing, aiming and the annoyance that I can't quite get the Pokeball to go to the right. Occasionally I can get it to go to the left when I want to, but for the most part I'm hoping for the Pokemon to remain dead-center.

But the biggest issue I had (besides my team's Pikachu leveling up slower than everyone else on my team) is how random it seems when it comes to Pokemon breaking out of the balls. I get it, that's the struggle and gimmick of Pokemon Go that was implemented into this remake of the Pokemon Yellow, but it gets really annoying when you get Excellent throws that feel penalized then get one toss captures on terrible throws.

That said there were a few cute moments, mostly focused around Eevee having some special cut scenes and learning key abilities and a run in with Team Rocket that sees a member of the Elite Four coming to our aid. The game's story is different 'enough' from the original to make it stand out... even if there are some continuity issues. 

Anyway, here are some clips from last night.

Pokemon Let's Go Eevee 7/24/21 Clip 1: Don't You Vomit Me On Me!

Pokemon Let's Go Eevee 7/24/21 Clip 2: Weepinbell''s Vine Whip For The Win!

Pokemon Let's Go Eevee 7/24/21 Clip 3: Eevee Being So Damn Cute

Pokemon Let's Go Eevee 7/24/21 Clip 4: Catch The Graveler in Mid-Ar

Pokemon Let's Go Eevee 7/24/21 Clip 5: An Ominous Arrival

Since we are starting a new week that means we have a highlight reel of everything from last week, which featured Overwatch, Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, God of War, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Space Jam: A New Legacy - The Game, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Tom Clancy's The Division, Star Trek Online, Star Wars: Masters of the Teras Kasi, Tekken 2, Wild 9 & Pokemon Let's Go Eevee! 

There is a question on if I'll start a second large campaign game for Friday Nights since we wrapped up God of War last week... but since there is still stuff to do in God of War, I'm really debating on if I should try and get close to 50% completion of the trophies and such. Not really sure people would want to see me get my but handed to me repeatedly by Valkyries!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout lasted 28 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 436 kcal, we did do some extra things, so the total session was 40 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 594 kcal.This was the last daily session using Evan as a trainer as we switched over to Karen and we went ahead unlock most of her outfits to knock out some her appearance related achievements. Because of how tickets were rewarded, six of her attires remain lock, but we should be able to a couple unlocked tomorrow. Here's the list of achievements unlocked today

1. Karen's Stylst: Change Karen's Outfit
2. Karen's Fashion Designer: Put a matching outfit together for Karen
3. Karen's Fashion Saboteur: Mismatch an outfit for Karen
4. Evan's Best Friend: Reach A Trusting Parternship With Evan
   

With those achievement done, we're at 97 out of 100 for the King Fit Fighter achievement, but since that is an actual percent, there are 5 achievements for Karen: Karen's New Student, Karen's Best STudent, Karen's Trainee, Karen's Buddy and Karen's Best Friend. So to get her remaining attires all six of the remaining achievements must be reached.

It's Sunday which means Overwatch is on the agenda! The Summer Games Event is in full effect and so I've updated the skins and voice lines for every character. Granted I only use the same handful every week, but still... I like to keep things uniformed!

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

 

Today's Notes 7/23/21: Not Quite A Master Of The Teras Kasi...

 Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream feature four items of interest, starting with Star Trek Online, with the weekly endeavors quests being knocked out. One of the quests involved completing Binary Circuit, which is two teams of 5 racing across a series of puzzles / mazes to the end. Now one of the puzzles involves turning 4 sections of a tube to where one side has a straight blue line and the other side has a yellow line. There are indicators before the first section to give a huge clue, but I got stuck with clowns who kept trying to flip it every which way possible! If the hint is right in front of you TAKE THE HINT! 

Anyway, we have some clips of last night's STO action.

Twitch Clip: Star Trek Online 7/22/21 Clip 1: That Was The Look On My Face

Twitch Clip  Star Trek Online 7/22/21 Clip 2: Dino Hunter!

Twitch Clip: Star Trek Online 7/22/21: Clip 3: The Krakken Are In Seattle

Next came the game that took up a larger amount of time than I thought it would, Star Wars: Masters of the Teras Kasi. It's a Tekken clone in every sense of the phrase, with some real cheesy AI, three-dimensional movement that only really makes sense to people who dedicated way to much time to it and some of the most deliberate input button pressing needed.  Now i set it on its easiest difficulty setting, and it was still a night mare to get through the arcade mode. Still we did it with Princess Leia... and the only reason to go back to it is to see if I could learn how to do some stuff with the various characters.

Of course, here are some clips

Twitch Clip: Star Wars Masters Of The Teras Kasi Clip 1: Skywalker? More Like Ground-Layer!

Twitch Clip: Star Wars Masters Of The Teras Kasi Clip 2: Well She Dead

Twitch Clip: Star Wars Masters of the Teras Kasi Clip 3: I'll Take It!

A few weeks ago Mezmerrizer recommended Wild 9 as a game I should pick up and we finally gave it a look tonight, made by Interplay, this is a puzzle side-scroller platformer that has a nice sound track, easy to understand controls and a charming element to it. We only went through the first level, as the first attempt only saw me getting 1/2 way through, but the 2nd attempt worked out rather nicely. This is a game I should mark down as something to dedicate longer streams to!

And here are the Wild 9 Clips!

Twitch Clip: Wild 9 7/22/21 Clip 1: Losing Their Heads

Twitch Clip: Wild 9 7/22/21 Clip 2: Into The Grinder They Go

Twitch Clip: Wild 9 7/22/21 Clip 3: We Need Another One

Finally the night ended with Tekken 2, and like the original Tekken, it was my first time playing it. IT certainly feels a lot better to play the original, looks better, the soundtrack is pretty kick ass. However Kazuya is more cheap than Heihachi was in the original. It does have a practice mode and so I went into it to see if I could learn a few special moves... which I couldn't quite pull off against the AI! We were unsuccessful in clearing the arcade mode, but after Star Wars: Masters of the Teras Kasi, I wasn't in the mood to try and cheese the game.

Anyway here are a couple of clips!

Twitch Clip: Tekken 2 7/22/21 Clip 1: Getting Use To Jun

Twitch Clip: Tekken 2 7/22/21 Clip 2: Accidental Quit

Twitch Clip: Tekken 2 7/22/21 Clip 3: Nina Was Just Tired

Yesterday we added Star Ocean: Till The End Of Time For The PlayStation 2 to the collection, yet another highly regarding RPG to added to the list of things I think people will like seeing!

Twitch Clip: Just Chatting 7/22/21: Things Arriving: Star Ocean Till The End Of Time

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout lasted 28 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 440 kcal, and obviously because of the shorter length, I did some extra. So the total session ended up being 40 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 598 kcal. With every thing done today we're now up to 93 out of 100 for the Evan's Best Friend Achievement.

For tonight's stream we're looking to finish God of War, and we'll go straight forward, hopefully things will go our way to finishing up another epic journey this week!

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

Today's Notes 7/18/21: Let Go With Eevee!

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night we started up Pokemon Let's Go Eevee on the Nintendo Switch, and if I remember right it was about a year ago we were playing Pokemon Shield, so the timing is kind of perfect! First off, the battles mechanics are the same as they are in every Pokemon game, so nothing knew there in terms of how give commands, use items and so forth. 

The biggest challenge with the Pokemon Let's Go games is the fact for streaming purposes I have to use the joy cons, because this game was designed to be similiar to the Pokemon Go app in terms of catching Pokemon, so we have to do a throwing motion. The best thing I figure is to just try to get it in the middle, because I don't exactly have the best set up to do a throwing motion. It's really tough to figure out what counts a solid throw or a weak one. This does remind me of a detail of Pokemon Shield where you had hte option of trying to capture first or battling against wild Pokemon... and I do wish this was the case here, because leveling is up is tied to both catching wild Pokemon and doing battles against trainers, which as far as I know is the only way to get Poke-dollars to buy Pokeballs... so it's possible to screw oneself over in this game.

So it's safe to say the majority of streams will involve me badly missing throws, even if I manage to catch 39 Pokemon with 20 of them being unique. 

Anyway here are some clips from last night!

Twitch Clip: Eevee Versus Pikachu... Eevee Wins By Knock Out!

Twitch Clip: Playing with Eevee

Twitch Clip: Vine Whip Them Good!

Twitch Clip: A Mankey versus My Eevee

Twitch Clip: Buzzy Buzz! It was Super Effective

It's the start of a new week which means let's recap what we did last week with the weekly highlight reel. This week's video includes clips from all the games played on stream: Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise, Overwatch, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Power Rangers; Battle for the Grid, Tom Clancy's The Division, Capcom vs SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium, Cartoon Network Racing, George of the Jungle & The Search For The Secret, Space Jam, Star Trek Online, God of War & Pokemon Let's Go Eevee!

Per the recommendation of long time friend of the channel Mezmerrizer, we added Wild 9 for the  the original PlayStation to the collection. I know nothing about the game, so it will be interesting to check it out on stream at some point!.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 505 kcal. Since I didn't wake up till mid-afternoon, I elected not to do this session on Twitch, which means I'll try to do tomorrows for a stream or maybe Saturday's. We are now up to 77 out of 100 for the Evan's Best Friend achievement.

It's Sunday which means Overwatch is on tap for tonight. I know Mayhem matches were available yesterday cause I played a few yesterday afternoon off-stream, so if it cycles back around to be an option for tonight that's the way we'll roll! Otherwise, just standard quick play matches and I will work on keeping a list of match results!

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