Casual Thursday's Are Casual

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was a casual experience, as we made sure to do the Pandemonium raids good and early, and finally got the parts needed to get the best armor I can get from the relic drops. I still need several runs of the fourth circle to get the best possible weapon I would want to get. We also had a nice time fishing getting to level 52, but then I learned there are special fishing requirements that require like multiple levels of mooching... I think I'll continue to level up fishing to try and get the best possible gear for it.

That said, I started up the Botanist skill quest and safe to say I like it a lot more than carpentry as it just makes sense the way Fishing does. In fact gathering is a lot more fun than trying to go through the nonsense that is the crafting in FF14, which is just as convoluted if not more so than Star Trek Online. In fact I was able to shoot up to level 16 as a botanist fairly quickly... while also running from enemies.

Twitch Clip Links

1. I got hit by a few things
2. We're Fishing In A Casual Manner
3. Lush vegetation
   

For the raid we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x who was playing We Were Here Together with FnDanteSavage over at twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficulty Challenge Combo #3, Difficulty Challenge Combo #1 and Difficulty Challenge Combo #2. While the daily workout was only 34 minutes, I did enough free training to break the hour mark for the first time since May  8, 2021. My longest workout is at 1 hour 10 minutes, while today's was 1 hour 1 minute.

Also as some saw, we adjust things to a more full screen perspective of the games being featured that are 16:9, older games will still been seen in a 4:3 ratio. Will also see about bumping up the Bit rate output as well to resolve some issues when streaming PC games looking a bit blurry in comparison to console games.

It does not surprise me that some of the 8 Republicans who voted against punishing Russia are Trump supporters.

I do love it when the supervisors think they'll get me to start earlier than I'm scheduled. The reason I start when I do is to avoid being jerked around with start times changing as those who start earlier than me often have happen. Of course I often get jerked around with shifts ending early for one reason or another.

Managed to pick up a few more achievements in Garfield Kart Furious Racing last night following the stream to extend my current daily Xbox achievement streak to 36 days, putting one day behind my 3rd longest streak. Now would I go for 100% completion on this game? Probably not, I don't really have the reflex to chase after the gold objective times in the various game modes. I figure there are maybe three more achievement I could possibly get if I assume certain things hold true as it relates to acquiring the hats and spoilers.

Garfield Kart Furious Racing Achievements

• Geroni-cat!!!: Trigger a super cannon start
• Purrrfect Spoiler: Win your 1st spoiler
• Feline it: Use your 1st perfect combo in a race
• Jumpin' cat flash: Complete your 1st image

For tonight's stream we'll be returning to Persona 5 Royal to continue the saga of the Phantom Thieves as we deal with the second Palace story arc!

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

From A Wedding In Hell To Dropped Frames

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was certainly plagued with some issues as we lost connection half way through... but oddly enough my internet did not go down at all. We did drop a lot of frames, but near as I tell, the issue may have been on Twitch's end, but Comcast Xfinity gave an indication something may have been wrong on my end. But I know there was scheduled maintenance at 1 AM last night so hopefully that resolved things for tonight.

Anyway, we finished up Ugly Americans Apocalypsegeddon, , and since I was playing so much of it off-stream to level up Callie to max status, it was a breeze with a few dangerous spots if I got a little too cocky. I did enjoy the story, everything being resolved in a 'sitcom like fashion', with a nice little epilogue. Now I was a little peeved because I couldn't find the last secret file to get the final weapon to earn a third achievement during the stream for the game... but it drops randomly, so re-running levels  until it pop up was the best solution as I knocked it out as well as a run of all the games' original 11 stages without using a special attack to get two more achievements. 

The remaining achievements for Ugly Americans Apocalypsegeddon both involve co-op play, one for doing a complete run of the original 11 stages with other players, and the other is getting 50 revives. I might be able to do that second one solo with the use of a second controller. On a side note, among all those who have played it, I'm ranked 540th overall, which is in the top 5% of 10,800 players. Also the game does have an actual episode that is unclockable, 'G.I. Twayne' which aired in season two.

The Gears of War Ultimate Edition half of the steam was really plagued by the drop frames and lost connection issue I mentioned earlier. Still Iceman and I got a lot done with Acts III and most of Act IV done, so next week we should be able to finish it out right while also looking for the COG tags. There were a few silly moments thankfully that were mostly issue free with the clips I segmented out. 

Still with the issues that hampered the stream, that actually does end up resulting in the schedule of VODs being ported over to my YouTube channel getting back to being seven days from initial broadcast.

 Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon

• Demons, The Bane Of My Existence: Locate and collect all of the Demon Babies.
• See You In Hell: Complete the game using any character.
• It's the Collector!: Collect all the projectiles.
• We Don't Need No Magic!: Complete all levels without using special attacks
  

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Achievements

• Smell Good Too...: Reunited with Baird and Cole inside the Imulsion Factory
• Go Time, Show Time: Delta descended into the mines
• Honor-Bound: Recovered 22 COG tags
• Broken Fingers: Killed a Corpser
• Lethal Acoustics: Deployed the Sonic Resonator
• Raven Down: Delta found downed chopper
• Fry Up With a Side of Greens: Killed a Berserker in the Conservatory

Twitch Clip Links

1. Defeating Bethesda
2. Finishing off Desdemona
3. Sweet! 
4. It ran just past Iceman 
5. The Charm of Bender No Longer Applies To Baird 

For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal as they were working on their Blue Mage over on in Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal! 

Side note: My Xbox achievement streak is continued through today thanks to the fourth and fifth achievements I listed earlier for Ugly Americans Apocalypsegeddon! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Sway back Combo and Hip Shape Focus Combo! I woke up late and did not do anything extra.

For tonight's stream we'll be doing some raids, fishing and maybe some blue mage stuff in Final Fantasy XIV! 

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

A Night That Featured Some Old SNK Games

Good morning everyone,

As you know I was lightly messing around with the SNk 40th Anniversary Collection off stream, mostly to get the achievements out of the way, then last night we dedicated about half the stream to it, playing P.O.W. Prisoners of War, Paddle Mania, Baseball Stars and Beast Busters. Two of those game we are counting on the tour for this year in the same way we counted some of the Street Fighter Alpha games a few weeks ago. Just because they are part of a complication doesn't disqualify them from being on the tour. Besides I only counted  three of the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology games.

Now thoughts an impressions of the games we played... well P.O.W. Prisoners of War is your standard left to right beat 'em up... with some of the worst hit boxes possibles. The trading of hits certainly favor the a.i. which was designed to be a quarter muncher There was one bullshit moment involving a grenade exploding and yet somehow I took damage... even though I was out of its blast radius!

Paddle Mania was interesting, in that it is a tennis game... but each round has some gimmick to it. I made it round four... so I saw the standard tennis stage, the 1 vs 3 volley ball stage, and the tennis stage with the sliding wall and the sumo stage. It took me a few tries to figure out the mechanics of the game  but it was fun.

Now I'm no strangers Baseball Stars 2, in fact we have streamed that in the past. Baseball Stars is its predecessor which was originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment Systems. We did one game, winning a slug fest 12-10... and managed to hit a few home runs. This is the only game I used the collections rewind feature for because much like it's sequel, when I'm on defense I can't ever figure out who I have control of when the ball is hit by the opposing team!.

Beast Busters was a ton of fun, it's one of those old school rail shooters that used light guns in the arcades. It's a horror game so there were various monsters, but what made me chuckle is the zombies with guns and some of the in-between stage text.This is the one game I wished I had someone to play with because it's such a good game. The sprite work was top notch. I'm actually surprised this didn't have an achievement associated with it.

Of course we didn't stay with the SNK games the entire night, we switched over to Paladins and had a few good matches before ending with two matches where people intentionally left the match and never came back. Spent the majority of the time playing as Ying once again remembering how much I depend on tanks who focus on the objective..

Twitch Clip Links

1. I was no where near it!
2. Actually clearing the first round... 
3. It's Back... It's Back... It's Gone!
4. It's Vulnerable Spot Is Its Face! 
5. That's How You Take Charge
   

We did not do a raid last night, instead we just hosted Maximilian_dood who was discussing new content for Monster Hunter Rise before playing Elden Ring over at twitch.tv/maximilian_dood! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hook Combo #1, Waist Shape Focus Combo and Block Combo. Worked in some extra time, which resulted in setting a new personal best with Beginner Combo #1 on No Mercy Difficulty!

There was a patch update to Overwatch and they removed the Paris and Horizon Lunar Colony maps... and I don't understand why? Both maps have the same mechanics as the Hamamura map in that they had two control points for the attacking team to capture and had some great places to set up defensive if one had the mind for it. The new Overwatch League skin for Sombra is rather neat looking.

Messed around a bit with Garfield Kart Furious Racing last night, it's a fine little kart game with the Garfield gimmick slapped on top of it. Seems like all of achievements can be gradually knocked out without any online play... which is good because I bet there is no community for this game. We might throw in on a stream next week just to mess around with it.

Garfield Kart Furious Racing Achievements

• Cat got your tongue: Win your 1st puzzle piece
• Cat out of hell: Win your 1st hat
• Cat's good with me: Complete a race in any mode or category
• The cat’s meow: Win your 1st unique hat

For tonight's stream we'll be playing Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon, and since I have Callie up to level 60, that means we'll probably see some game breaking stuff or so I'm told. Then after 9 PM, Gears of War Ultimate Edition resumes with Iceman!

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

Finally Streamed Sonic Generations

Good morning everyone,

Last year was the 30th Anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog, but with Covid-19, the celebration was a quite one as the big game that was supposed to be for it, Sonic Frontiers, was delayed. Still, back in 2011, for the 20th Anniversary of the Blue Blur, Sonic Generations was released, highlighting every major Sonic the Hedgehog game up to that point... yes even Sonic '06, with some passing references to lesser known titles.

Sure it's a story that revolves around time travel that sees Sonic and Tails from the early 90s meet their modern day counter parts while on a quest to stop the Time Eater from ripping up all of time and space, rescue their friends and celebrate Sonic's birthday... but what matters is the game play, which is about as straight forward as possible. 

Admittedly, I have played this game twice before, briefly for the PlayStation 3 before my original PS3 broke down in 2013, while also playing the Steam version back in 2018. While I was streaming at that time, Sonic Generations wasn't a game I could stream because it did not support a Windowed mode, or even a border-less Windowed mode ... and since I only had one monitor at the time, I couldn't really go all in in splaying games that had a fixed full-screen display.

So playing the Xbox 360 version last night saw me slowly remembering a number of details, and my absolute hatred for the Planet Wisp stage, and I think I did alright got a few S ranks, didn't really have any major trouble until open pits were a lot more frequent in the latter stages. Hell the Egg-Dragon and Perfect Chaos fights were a lot easier than I remembered... while I did struggle against the Time Eater... it took me 5 attempts.

In terms of achievements I knocked out 29 out of 49 in about 5 hours, which is one more than I managed to do on the Steam version... in nearly 14 hours. I certainly had fun with it.

Sonic Generations Achievements

• The Opening Act: Completed the first stage.
• Bright Star: Got Rank S in an Act.
• GREEN HILL Restored!: Restored the GREEN HILL Stage Gate.
• CHEMICAL PLANT Restored!: Restored the CHEMICAL PLANT Stage Gate.
• Walk on Air: Cleared SKY SANCTUARY Act 1 without falling and losing a life.
• Shooting Star: Got Rank S in three Acts.
• Eradicator: Defeated 100 enemies.
• SKY SANCTUARY Restored!: Restored the SKY SANCTUARY Stage Gate.
• Scrap Metal: Defeated Metal Sonic.
• Sunny Side Up: Defeated Death Egg Robot.
• SPEED HIGHWAY Restored!: Restored the SPEED HIGHWAY Stage Gate.
• CITY ESCAPE Restored!: Restored the CITY ESCAPE Stage Gate.
• Action Hero: Performed all of Sonic's actions in Act 2.
• SEASIDE HILL Restored!: Restored the SEASIDE HILL Stage Gate.
• Shadow Boxing: Defeated Shadow.
• Perfect Punisher: Defeated Perfect Chaos.
• A 30-Second Test: Participated in a 30 Second Trial.
• Ring King: Reached the goal without dropping any of the rings you collected in GREEN HILL Act 1.
• Join the Ranks: Joined the rankings.
• Look Both Ways: Reached the goal in CRISIS CITY Act 2 without being hit by a tornado-carried cars or rocks.
• CRISIS CITY Restored!: Restored the CRISIS CITY Stage Gate.
• Trickstar: Pulled off a seven or more trick combo or six trick combo ending in a finishing trick.
• ROOFTOP RUN Restored!: Restored the ROOFTOP RUN Stage Gate.
• PLANET WISP Restored!: Restored the PLANET WISP Stage Gate.
• Silver Got Served: Defeated Silver.
• Boom Boom Dragoon: Defeated Egg Dragoon.
• Treasure Hunter: Collected all the Chaos Emeralds.
• All Stages Cleared!: Cleared Sonic Generations.
• Walkie Talkie: Chatted with all of Sonic's friends you saved.

Twitch Clip Links

1.  Scrapping Metal Sonic
2.  Look Both Ways
3.  By Our Power Combine....
   

During the stream we had a big raid from Kalenal who was playing Pokemon: Brilliant Diamond, and cleared victory road! Hopefully they will have an easier time getting through the elite four and Cynthia than I did! Kalenal streams over at twitch.tv/kalenal!

For our raid, we dropped in on RoseMaryShorn who was playing Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance over at twitch.tv/rosemaryshorn!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #1, Weaving Combo #2 and Beginner Combo #2.

Wrestling icon Scott Hall passed away yesterday at the age of 63, dude certainly had a lot of good matches, and was probably one of the bigger big guys in pro wrestling when his head was on right. Most say that ladder match at WrestleMania X was his best match, but I'd say it was the match he had with Rick Martel on RAW for the Intercontinental title. 

Cheesed out the remaining achievements in the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, now most people do this all in like 25 minutes, but I did try to play some of these so my completion time is way off on comparison to everyone else. Completing this achievements also extended my streak through today

SNK 40th Anniversary Collection Achievements

• Athena, I Will Go: Beat Psycho Soldier.
• Street Smarts: Beat Street Smart.
• A Full Tank: Beat TNK III.
• On Guard: Finished the second level of Vanguard.

For tonight's stream we're going to feature the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, so we'll give the collection it's due. This should be a night of many deaths and game hoping! But there is a slight problem the collection itself is not listed on Twitch, so we'll open with Just Chatting and then manual select each game we play. Chances are the entire stream won't be focused around this, and we'll work in some other things I have on the Xbox One as well.

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

Well That Was A Night Of Overwatch

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch was interesting... everything felt a little off, in terms of people either trying to make stuff happened and then just bailing. More than once I just put myself in 'preservation' mode and just phoned in the last 30-40 seconds of a few matches because of the stupidity I was seeing. Here's a tip to Reinhardt players... if a Moira is on your team using her ultimate, don't walk backward... GO FORWARD WITH YOUR HAMMER SWINGING SINCE MORIA'S ULTIMATE WILL HEAL YOU!

That said, I did nab one Play of the Game as D.va in match where we were just on the back foot the entire time and I managed to get behind the other team to take out nearly everyone in the span of 30 seconds. Too bad the team I was on didn't do anything to ensure we kept the advantage. We also got in several mayhem matches, and I dedicated a lot of time playing as Sombra, someone who I normally don't play as because of how her 'teleport' gimmick does often lead to being out of position.

Now the question becomes, do I want to sign up for the Overwatch 2 PVP Beta... and the answer is not really because I'm more interested in the PVE aspect of Overwatch 2, that is what was promised and that is what I'm expecting.

Twitch Clip Links

1. Doing everything I can 
2. Ultimates Were Ready 
3. Well Bob Did Something 

We didn't do a raid last night, instead we just dropped a host for LadyPanicPants over at twitch.tv/ladypanicpants. They were playing Goose Goose Duck, which seemed to be an Among Us clone.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout featured Weaving Combo #1, Advanced Combo #1 and Intermediate Combo #2.

 

We've added Street Fighter EX2 Plus for the Playstation to the collection, this is the Japanese version of the game because the North American version is impossible to find. Also added a physical copy of WWE 2K18 for the Xbox One, I believe it's DLC is still obtainable so maybe we'll go after that... probably not any time soon.

The speculation that the Phillies will bring back Odubel Herrera is going over like a wet fart with the local fan base. He's a below average center fielder who is still upset that his own personal actions derailed what could have been an okay career. 

Knocked out two more achievements in the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, now off the games in the collection the one I can safely say I played before was P.O.W., in fact I can remember exactly where I first played it. It was at a laundrymat on Federal Street here in Camden, New Jersey. It used to be on a corner, but that was about 25+ years ago.

SNK 40th Anniversary Collection Achievements

• No Escaping the Fun: Beat the Arcade version of P.O.W.
• Pterodactylized: Beat Prehistoric Isle.

Saw that the WWE is putting Queen Sharmell into their Hall of Fame... and I have to wonder how many women told the WWE to fuck off when asked if they would be willing to go into the Hall of Fame this year before they settled on Sharmell, who lets face it checks off two boxes as it relates to the 'quota mark' in terms of representation. If you think I'm kidding about that, look at that the past decade of hall of fame ceremonies, and you'll see the pattern.

Found some really well done Super Mario / Ghostbuster animations over on YouTube yesterday,, you can check one out at this link: Super Mario Busters 3 - Extra Life.  I do have a question, if Sonic the Hedgehog is clearly Winston, does that make him the sex appeal? Yes that is a Ghostbusters Afterlife reference.

And speaking of Sonic the Hedgehog, the next game we're going to start up to mostly be seen on Mondays and Tuesdays is Sonic Generations. We'll be playing the Xbox 360 version of it tonight!

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

So We Played Teen Titans For The PS2 Last Night

Good morning everyone,

There's a good reason for this being posted before 7 AM... I'll explain when I talk about the Fitness Boxing 2 workout.

Anyway, last night, randomly I decided to play Teen Titans for the PlayStation 2. Released after season four of the original show that aired on Cartoon Network (Since there was promos for a DVD and Season 5), the game itself has the story where the Titans (Raven, Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy and Starfire) slowly realizing they are within a video game,  It is a 'dungeon crawler' style beat-em-up, similar in some regards to Marvel Ultimate Alliance in that you clear out an area of enemies and move onto the next. Boss battles typically involve a few different mechanics, but most end up having to set up for a 'team super attack', which is just silly because Beast Boy doesn't have a beam attack.

You are not locked into just one character, you can between all five titans, but I found myself mostly using Starfire towards the end for two reasons, her charge attacks are a lot easier to position than the others and two, her projectiles have the best range. Now there are 'screen clear' attacks, and Raven has the best one on the grounds that she screams 'Azarath Metrion Zinthos!'. Beast Boy, for me is the worst character simply because his combo inputs are not as fluid as the others.

In terms of how it looks, it looks fine for a game from 2006, the character models are nice 3D renders of what was seen on the show, and all the voice actors who worked on the show were featured in the game. The music is pretty generic outside of the Teen Titans theme performed by Puffy AmiYumi. Controls are pretty good as well. I do like how the game breaks the fourth wall fully once you beat the final boss, it's something that was also seen at the end of The Simpsons game with Ralph Wiggum. 

Beyond the main game there is a 'Master of Games' mode which is basically a fighting game, inspired byt the episode 'Winner Takes All', and I'm not sure the main game mechanics works for a fighting game format, but I bet it is meant to be played with four people instead of one on one against the A.I. .

I will say that that Teen Titans joins Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise as games that surprised me for being a completely fun experience. That is what I look for in most games I play.

Twitch Clip Links

1. The battle against Gizmo 
2. Where is that little (bleep) at! 
3. I didn't do a damn thing! 

For last night's raid we dropped in on Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV over on twitch.tv/kalenal! 

It's Sunday which means, time to take a look back at all the games we played last which with a highlight reel! Last week we featured Overwatch, Paladins, SSX, What Remains of Edith Finch, WWF SmackDown 2: Know Your Role, Gears of War: Ultimate Editions, Ugly American Apocalysegeddon, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Royal and Teen Titans!

My Xbox achievement streak continued with two more achievement knocked out in the SNK 40th Anniversary collection. The streak stand at 31 days. Yes I am aware I could easily have cheesed out all the achievements for this game in less than an hour, but by spreading them out we extend the streak.

SNK 40th Anniversary Collection Achievements

• Rescue Me: Beat the Arcade version of Ikari III.
• Tread on Them: Beat Iron Tank.

I totally spaced out that today was the day we set our clocks forward... so I went ahead and did my daily workout before dawn because when I thought it was 5 AM it was actually 6 AM and I said fuck it, let me do it before going to bed. It still counts! Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Straight Combo, Uppercut Combo #1 and Triple Combo #1. I also set a new personal best with Difficulty Challenge Combo #3 on No Mercy difficulty, out of 704 actions, 698 were perfect and 6 were okay.

For tonight's stream we'll be playing Overwatch, and you know it'll be the usual quick play nonsense!

So on that note 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!