I set up my Disney Infinity on my Xbox 360, and played some Immortals: Fenyx Rising and Pillars of the Earth. Pics first!
This is my collection of figures for the first Disney Infinity game. Properties represented are: Monsters Inc, Incredibles, Lone Ranger, Cars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Wreck-It Ralph, Toy Story, Nightmare Before Chirstmas and Fantasia. I don't have every figure but that's okay, these were the ones I was most interested in.
Of all the figures, Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey is my favorite. Unfortuneately, I found out, he is only playable in the Toy Box area and not in any of the play sets, just like Jack Skellington. This really limits my ability to level him. I'm shooting for level 15 for an achievement and got him to 7 by doing all the adventure missions within Toy Box. I'm not sure what else I can do now other than "feats" within Toy Box and see what that gets me. I may have to just replay the adventure missions. I do, however, want to see the play sets again, so I switched to Lone Ranger and started that play set.
I have a bunch of the power discs and hexagonal discs but not all of them. I'm using the Tron power disc to increase leveling and Mickey's car hex disc within Toy Box. You can stack discs too to add powers. I'd like to get more power discs. There's Mickey's sorcerer's hat that would be cool to have. So I might get a batch off ebay and see if I can get that one.
I don't have much left, achievement-wise, to do in this game since I got a lot of them when I played it the first time. I left "level a character to 15" (3 of those) and "75 feats done" on the table, so I'll go after those this time. There are two multiplayer achievements I probably won't get because my friend won't want to get into this with me. Ah, well, it'll be fun to level up by running through the story missions again and attempting "feats" in the Toy Box area again.
Immortals: Fenyx Rising. I keep giggling about this title because the Jack Black led band Tenacious D named their third album Fenyx Rising as an obvious sex joke. I don't see any evidence that the devs of this game were aware of the coincidence.
Anyway, I set the audio dialog to Russian with English subtitles. Why? Because I'm studying Russian cuisine this month and want to hear the sound of the language. The story isn't much anyway. You are a tool of the gods and they just kibbitz about you every so often.
This is an open world action game with puzzles to solve and a huge amount of collectibles. I'm enjoying it. The battle system is fluid and easy to learn. You pick up a sword, axe, bow and wings to do different things in battle. There are portals here and there that lead to challenge worlds where you do some platforming, skill shooting and boss battling. You pick up new gear and customize your character any way you choose. It's fun and on Game Pass.
Pillars of the Earth is a game based on the Ken Follet novel which I read part of a few years ago. It was too grim for me, and I didn't finish it, but I was always curious about the game. It appeared on sale this month for like $3, so I bought it. So far I've covered the parts I've read with many chapters left to complete.
The game is a point-and-click adventure. You have limited movement in different environments and interact with people and objects to figure out a mystery. Sometimes you have to combine objects. Each chapter ends with a list of your accomplishments.
The graphics are very appealing. The voice acting is very good too. It's not super complex either, but I did have to wrack my brain a few times to figure things out. Very enjoyable overall. I hope more great novels are given this treatment. It's fun to see the events of a book drawn out and to be a part of it in some way.
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