Last night we wrapped up DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power, and I have to say, this was a damn good little game, and if you take out all the time I spent looking around for collectables and logos, the main story plus all character side quests takes maybe 22 hours, depending on how quickly you adapt to the characters. I rather enjoyed the big reveal of it not being Lex Luthor but his bratty little sister Lena Luthor being behind all the trouble... which I think is a first, since normally Lex is the trouble maker. The game does a real good job of justifying while all the villains and heroes are teaming up against the common enemy, which actually does not give any hope for DLC for the game coming any time soon.
Now even thought we finished the game and saw the credits roll, there is quite a lot of post-game content to keep folks busy, such as finding all the hamsters in the open world, going back to every mission to find the golden hamster, maxing out every character's levels, getting perfect runs on every mission, completing the 'image training' side quests for each character, donating 25,000 gold to either Poison Ivy or Green Lantern to unlock every character's statue, and build things in every spot in Hobs Bay. If you are a completionist, this will take you a while to do. But I don't complete games, I finish them... and for me the main story of any video game is what I look to finish!.
That said, we do have clips from last night's stream, which I'll list next.
Also starting today, I'll be posting the weekly highlight reels with every Sunday post, instead of giving them their own posts, it just one less thing I have to do. Anyway this weeks highlight reel includes footage of Overwatch, Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise, Mass Effect
Legendary Edition, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Tom Clancy's The
Division, Star Trek Online, New Pokemon Snap, God of War & of course DC Super
Hero Girls: Teen Power!
Of course now next week's highlight reel is going to chance since we finished DC Super Hero Girls Teen Power, more than likely we'll move New Pokemon Snap to Saturday, and having something else teamed up with Star Trek Online for Thursday. Hell we got a bunch of used games recently, that would be a good day to see if they work or not!
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout was streamed over on Twitch, and no the plan is not to do extra bonus streams this week, I just felt like streaming today's session (lol). Anyway the daily work out went 28 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 473 kcal, but I also did some extra, so the total duration for 40 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 673 kcal. We're now up to 3 out of 10 for the Van's Trainee achievement and 3 out of 10 for the Van's Buddy achievement.
Since this session was streamed, there are a couple of clips for it.
With it being Sunday that means Overwatch is on deck for tonight! The Deadlock Challenge event ends in a couple of days, so this will be your chance to earn spray drops by watching anyone playing Overwatch over on Twitch (like me for example starting at 7 PM Eastern haha)
Last night's stream saw the focus returned to God of War, as we covered a lot of ground, covering three major areas, The Light of Alfheim, Inside The Mountain and A New Destination. We learned the Witch of the Woods is Freya, the Stranger is Baulder... and got several upgrades and new abilities. We also covered two side quests as well to help boost things along.... all of this is why the stream went well over six hours! That said the 'boy' is certainly annoying, but there are a few positive to his annoyance, mainly the number of times we can assume Kratos wants to smack him! Now the big 'early story twitst' that there is a taller mountain for Kratos to climb certainly was cool... but the more I think about it... isn't it just a reuse of textures and areas from the prior areas of the game? I have noticed a heavy use of repeated graphical assets throughout God of War, and so I'm wondering with another tall as mountain to climb if it's interior is gonna be almost the same with how it looks.
Anyway with everything that was done last night we did get a couple of trophies based on story progression.
Feels Like Home: Allow the Light Elves to return home
Dragon Slayer: Defeat the Dragon of the Mountain
That Dragon Slayer one for defeating the dragon on the mountain certainly felt epic because of how that battle ended, made, which certainly made for a nice change of pace from facing enemies not that much bigger than Kratos.Of course we do have links to some of my favorite moments from last night, which I'll list next.
Got in some Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown off stream yesterday winning 8 out 9 ranked matches played. At the moment out of 46 ranked matches I have 35 wins, 11 losses. Not bad for a guy who only pops into it every so often.
Of course now I do have a question... why is the PlayStation 4's Dual Shock controller has such a terrible ability to hold a charge? A fully charged Xbox One or Xbox Series controller can last 20 hours, but a PS4 controller can barely go past the six hour mark? Come on man! A PS3 Controller can handle that workload!
We added three games to the collection yesterday, Bio Freaks for the PlayStation 1, Tekken 5 & Dead or Alive 2: Hardcore for the PlayStation 2. Bio Freaks is probably best known these days for the Boss Rage done by Maxamillion Dood a few years ago, but I have to admit, the main reason it was on my list of games to get was to see if it's true that its worse than The Simpsons: Wrestling. So I'm thinking maybe doing a stream where I play both games to see which one is worse. With the addition of Tekken 5, I now have all 5 of the main games in the series and with DOA2: Hardcore, it's more along the lines of finding the Dead or Alive Games that I could possibly play, DOA3 may be a tough one to find because I believe that was a Xbox 360 only release.
Also picked up six books... Mass Effect: Revelation, Mass Effect: Ascension, Mass Effect: Deception, Mass Effect Andromeda: Annihilation, Mass Effect Andromeda: Nexus Uprising & Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation. I am missing one book in the Mass Effect series but I'll probably add it tomorrow. looking forward to reading these.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout went 28 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 466 kcal, and with today's session we wrapped up the last achievement for Laura and started work on the achievements for the next trainer Evan. Here's what we did today.
Laura's Best Friend: Reach a trusting partnership with Luara
Evan's Stylist: Change Evan's Outfit
Evan's Fashion Designer: Put a matching outfit together for Evan
Evan's Fashion Saboteur: Mismatch an outfit for Evan
Evan's New Student: Exercise with Evan as your instructor
Evan's Best Student: Receive a three-star rating from Evan
Since we had the New Student and Best Student achievements, that means we did do a little extra, namely we started progress on Evan's Buddy, we're 1 out of 10 for performing 10 free exercises with Evan. With tomorrow's workout we'll start on the Evan's Trainee achievement. Over all at this point were at 94% completion for the King Fit Fighter achievement which is to earn all the in-game achievements.
For tonight's stream we will be continuing DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power, picking up with the start of chapter seven, looking forward to see how the plot develops considering everything is pointing to a show down with Lex Luthor for the game's climax.
Last night's stream, we lead off with Star Trek Online and tackled the endeavor quests, which actually saw a big focus on the Lukari task force operations, having to complete three of them on Advance difficulty or higher... which meant we had to be stuck in a queue waiting (and hoping) others were doing them to. We had some luck, and got some good teams of wanting to get through them as quickly as possible. Now here are the links to some clips from STO portion of last night:
For the second half of the stream, our attention turned to New Pokemon Snap, continuing the journey of going around and snapping photos of Pokemon and hoping to get diamond stars on all of them. Near as I can tell, the story gradually moves forward with each level one gets on a particular 'course', and the higher the level you have on a course, the more variety of Pokemon you see and the more things they will possibly do! I've made up my mind that when we finished DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power, New Pokemon Snap will move to Saturday nights, but we're probably a few weeks away from that. The best part about New Pokemon Snap is the dark humor I can have with it when I say 'time to shoot some Pokemon'.... And of course here are some clips from the Pokemon portion of the stream.
Now as I've been busy upgrading things over the course of the past
year, there is one things that I feel could use an improvement and
that's the camera I use. I use both a Logitech C920 and a Nexigo 1080P
game. The C920 is the secondary camera because I had issues with it
where at times it would not capture video at all, so we added the
Nexigo, because it was the closest thing on the market I could get last
year because the Logitech Streamcam was sold out everywhere. So I
finally got my hands on one, and boy did this fly under the radar... it
uses a USB-C connection, which is the small port slot often seen on
laptops and more micro-built PCs (like an off the shelf HP or Dell)....
so it raises a question of, what was Logitech thinking? They put out the
best webcam possibly just before the pandemic hit last year, and it
uses a connection type that is not universal and needs a USB-C to USB-A
3.0 adapter to connect to MOST PCs. Anyway the big reason I want
to replace the Nexigo game is that it has no zoom in or out function,
which would be really helpful when setting scenes in OBS, instead I have
to use a crop filter to get things to where I have them, but it ends up
so zoomed in on my face it makes things a little awkward and less than
ideal since I use a green screen. If the C920 didn't have issues I would
just swap the two, but it is what it is. With luck we'll have the
Streamcam up and running by Monday.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout went 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 557 kcal. We took out the stretching for today's session. Did have a handful of ugly misses mostly due to the left joy con having the de-sync issues. Probably will have to look up how to 'calibrate' the joy cons again. Anyway we're up to 98 out of 100 for the Laura's Best Friend achievement, which means we'll have it unlocked with tomorrow's session before we move on to the next trainer. On a side note, I'm glad to see that there is a DLC music pack for Fitness Boxing 2, granted it's original music and not licensed tracks, but adding more variety to what the came uses as background music for each exercise is a good thing.
We've added it four items to the gaming collection, first for the PlayStation we now have Star Wars: Master of Teras Kasi, Tekken and Tekken 2 . Of the three I have played Star Wars: MOTK before, because my younger brother had it. I'm surprised that wasn't among the PS1 games I knew were his that I found several months ago because I know he wasn't into trading in the games he had. I've never played the original Tekken or Tekken 2 before, so adding them made sense since thanks to Kazuya being added to Smash has made it easy to track the older games down. Lastly for the Nintendo Switch, we've added Arcade Spirits which is a visual novel game that according to reviews I've read, is a little more in-depth that it seems. On a side note: I need replacement cases for Tekken and Tekken 2 as they came without their jewel cases or manuals. Knowing the folks at https://customgamecase.com/ it'll probably be two weeks before they arrive.
Also picked up a couple of books: Overwatch Deadlock Rebels which is the tie-in novel focused on Ashe and Jesse's past. Should be a good read from what I've skimmed through so far. Also picked up RWBY The Official Manga Volume 3, and it's been a joy to see how the series has been adapted to a different medium... even if the art style at times leaves a little to be desired.
Tonight's stream will focus on God of War for the PlayStation 4, as we pick up the start of our quest to go for the The Light of Alfheim. Of course I'll be doing as much random exploring as possible to find collectables, loot and enemies to fight. We'll get the stream started in the early evening!
