November has passed and what it mostly consisted of is shitty weather, the usual grind of work and sleep, some better films than in October and gaming on the usual titles. Thanksgiving was rough at first due to being sick on the actual day. The day after, I was feeling better but bummed that I missed out on Thanksgiving for the first time in my life. Luckily, my older brother came to the rescue and invited me to a late Thanksgiving dinner with his wife and the in-laws. Good food, plenty of time spent with my now 9-month old nephew and the company of family. Perfecto.
I'm getting really into Xbox My Rewards quests. It's informed everything I've played this week so far. Today I added about 500 points. I think the points can be worth about $1 per 1000. Hey, it's better than achievement points. Of course, most of the quests ask you to get achievements in certain games. Here's what I've played in the last two days.
Good afternoon Pixlpeeps! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving (for you Canadian folks I hope you had a wonderful week). I did something different this year and spent time with the family in Las Vegas. We spent a week in Las Vegas and went to the strip once. Crazy, right? Anyways let’s take a look.
Recently I reviewed SkullGirls: 2nd Encore. It’s a 2-D one-on-one fighter with cartoony graphics and I’ve been wanting to review it since 2012 when it came out, but for whatever reasons I wasn’t able to. But I got my chance when it came out on the Switch! For what’s considered an indie game, this one is very good. Almost on par with fighters like BlazBlue and Guilty Gear! I was very impressed with the creativity of the characters and even the storylines in the Story Mode were pretty interesting. And usually they aren’t in fighting games. So when that happens, I usually like to write a blog about the characters, and so we’ll do that here. Some slight story spoilers here and there, just to warn you, but the game HAS been out since 2012.
I was thinking, probably too much, about the games that got me to buy a particular system and that one game I would have if I could only have one. Here's what I came up with across all the systems I've played
Thanksgiving doesn't have to be about turkey; in fact, I am having salmon. It doesn't even have to be about meat. I'm having a vegan chestnut stuffing I made this morning. I hope it goes over well. Here's a pic:
I'm trying a lot of Game Pass games lately and a few I've gotten on black Friday sales on Xbox.
Its on sale on PS Store Black Friday sale for $10 right now. I'll see you all in 3 months....
Luckily I picked up KH3 on sale and I think it's a pretty solid conclusion to the series, or at least the story so far with all the side story games. It made me want to go back and play the other games in the series. My favorites are KH3, Birth By Sleep, KH2 and then 1, mainly because I like how the combat mechanics have gotten better over the years, although story-wise I'd reverse the order in terms of favorite story game. I was surprised to see the mobile game playing a significant part to the story because I skipped out on it. I probably need to read up on what I missed out with that game because it seems to be important.
I've noticed a couple of their reviews, specifically for Shenmue III and Death Stranding, have middle-of-the-road review scores and note either outdated (Shenmue III) or boring (Death Stranding) gameplay.
I'm on Dragon Roost Island in Zelda Wind Waker and got to the boss there, Gohma, and got stuck. I stopped playing but looked up the solution. I wasn't aware of certain things I could attach my rope to. So next time I'll beat it and continue.
The update containing the new event, Maliwan Takedown, was supposed to drop at 8pm, but I never saw it. My friend Mark got the update at almost 9pm, which is when we both stop playing. So I didn't get to play it. Instead I tried out a bunch of new Game Pass and Games with Gold games. Here's a quick breakdown.
The new content drops for Borderlands 3 tomorrow, so I'll be doing that and not Railway Empire. But today I got some train sim in.
I downloaded all five new Game Pass games (I'm most excited about Rage 2), but I never left Railway Empire to check them out and neither did my friend Mark, who was also playing Railway Empire.
I finished Afterparty and finally got a handle on the controls in Railway Empire, almost finishing the first set of tasks in campaign mode.
On Saturday I had a blog all typed up because I didn’t want to get out of bed and be productive. After finishing it I didn’t like it so here we are…I’LL READ IT LIVE!!! This opened up more time for me to actually play some games. Crazy, right? Let’s take a quick tour because I think my laundry is almost done.
I think I've mentioned on here before that my desire to watch anime greatly outpaces my ability to do so. But, over the last few months, I did slooooowly watch through Gurren Lagann. I went into it knowing almost nothing about it, to wit, it is a well-loved mecha anime, and I expected it to be a monster/adventure of the week kind of show with zany characters. Well, it quickly gave me zany characters but not long after that the story had a definite arc and endpoint in mind.
I’ve cooked up a smorgasbord of game reviews I’ve recently written at GamerDad.com for you all to munch on! Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a ‘like’ or comment or two! I’d appreciate it. Bon appetit!
I put in another hour into Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker today. I'm liking it more and more.
The glitch with the achievement in Sherlock Holmes: Devil's Daughter fixed itself I noticed today. If this was PS4, I'd have a Platinum trophy. I wish Xbox would acknowledge completing a game 100%. After that I played Subnautica, Road Redemption and most of all, Afterparty.
I finished this game today. I got all the achievements too, or almost. The game recognizes that I've done them all with an achievement that says I've done them all, but one isn't showing up in the list on Xbox. I'll replay the short case it's connected to and see what happens. Or maybe it'll fix itself on its own overnight.