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Gaming Diary: That LEGO Allure

October 9, 2017 By Keri Honea Leave a Comment

After my huge disappointment with LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game, I’ve turned to another LEGO game to satiate my Platinum trophy woes. Well, that and I want a fun LEGO game to play. LEGO Ninjago had many grand ideas, but it was so rushed, it wasn’t much fun to play.

I’m currently working toward a Platinum trophy in the Vita version of LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens. That one is at least fun, although the challenges for Gold Bricks and some of the collectibles are a pain in the ass. I thought that the Red Brick to point out collectibles would help, but it’s made everything more confusing instead. I finally pulled out my strategy guide, wondering if it even included the handheld versions of the game. Thankfully, it does, and it has cleared up so much confusion with obtaining minikits in both the levels and the hub worlds.

It hasn’t been very useful for the challenges, which is a shame, I must say. Although I must say it’s not entirely the guide’s fault; the challenges are a muddled beating. I just wish that for challenges like surviving a cover mission without getting hit, the guide would have suggested activating the Stormtrooper Red Brick, which prevents all gunfire from hitting a character thanks to bad aim.

Need to get this out of the way now, since October 27th has way too many games and guides releasing. I need to start putting my pennies aside now. I should have been putting them aside awhile ago.

Gaming Diary: No LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game Platinum for Me

October 2, 2017 By Keri Honea Leave a Comment

I came down with a bit of a head cold over the weekend, so I thought it would be a nice time to hang out in a comfy bean bag and earn that Platinum trophy in LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game. Apparently that wasn’t meant to be. I am lacking one gold brick, and even with the collectible detector, I couldn’t figure out for the life of me what I was missing. Since there is no strategy guide, I turned to YouTube. Thanks to a kind YouTuber, I learned that I wasn’t missing anything; the game was missing it for me.

@TTGames this glitch is all that’s keeping me from the last gold brick & a plat for @ninjagomovie game. 🙁 Help? pic.twitter.com/l9YtSVuRGq

— Keri Pwny Honea (@crunchychocobo) October 1, 2017

As such, unless TT Games patches in this fix, which I doubt will happen, there will be no Platinum trophy for me. Obviously, there is a way it will appear, so not everyone is afflicted with this glitch. I could start over and hope it will be fixed, but dear Lord; this game isn’t THAT good. So unless it gets patched, no Platinum trophy for this LEGO game, which is more aggravating than I care to admit.

To try to get over it, I started LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens on my Vita. Maybe that will motivate me to finish the other LEGO games on my consoles. It’s always nice to knock games off the backlog, which is seriously way too pathetic.

Still chapped over LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game, though. That will sting for awhile.

Gaming Diary: LEGOs and Ninjagos

September 26, 2017 By Keri Honea 3 Comments

Friday night, we took the kids to see The LEGO Ninjago Movie. I knew it wouldn’t be as good as the previous movie or even the TV show (it’s pretty darn good, actually), but we enjoyed it all the same. This wasn’t set strictly off of the TV series’ lore; it was more of a reimagining of Ninjago’s defenders. This Green Ninja Lloyd was taken out of The LEGO Movie, where he was a Master Builder. As long as you went into the movie not expecting it to follow the show, it was enjoyable. Besides, how can you not love Jackie Chan voicing Sensei Wu?

A review copy of the video game of the same name also arrived that day, and I opened it right after we returned from the movie. I am so glad I waited, because if I played this first, I may have put off going to the movie. I can’t get into too much now since my review still isn’t up, but just know that the voice actors in the game ARE NOT the same from the movie. The voice acting in the movie was done well. This was terrible.

I wasn’t a huge fan of The LEGO Movie Video Game, but that might be slightly better. Movie tie-ins rarely work, especially when they’re rushed to release upon movie release date. LEGO Jurassic World was fantastic until you reached the fourth film. It was there that the game-breaking glitches surfaced, the camera worsened, and the game crashed quite a bit. The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game suffers the same fate.

Am I still going to try to Platinum it? YOU BETCHA. It’s so rare I can snag a Platinum trophy in a game at all, so you best believe I’ll do it in the games I know I can.

Gaming Diary: A Bit of Everything Across the Board

September 18, 2017 By Keri Honea Leave a Comment

One thing I really love about the Switch is that it’s a handheld console. It’s easy for me to pick it up and take it to the couch and play while my family watches TV. That way, if someone needs something, I can easily pause it and get up and help out. My consoles are all upstairs in my office, so if I go play on those in the evenings or on weekends, I feel like I’m abandoning everyone. Also, it’s not as easy for me to take care of little things like cleaning up a mess of spilled milk, fold laundry, or answer a child’s question. If I’m upstairs, that means people yell for my attention, and I’m not a fan of yelling up the stairs.

So in the evenings and on weekends, if there’s some gaming time, I’ll grab my Switch for Splatoon 2 action. After finally replacing my Vita charging cable (No idea where the other disappeared to. I know it’s not in Japan.), I’ve picked back up Tokyo Xanadu as well. I kind of want to finish that game, although it’s getting hard to want to when the story and gameplay grows stale. The Eclipse dungeons are becoming more and more puzzle platformers, and I’m not a fan of that style with my action-RPGs. It’s why I had to sadly abandon Ys: Oath in Felghana.

Speaking of Ys, I’m back on the Ys VIII train as well. I can only play that one during the day when I wrap up other work, and I think I’m 2/3 of the way finished with it. I have some areas I can’t explore yet due to missing adventure gear, but I’m hopeful I’ll come across it soon. I am nervous that I’m missing so much gear, however. I’m getting this distinct feeling that the story pursuit of the game is only 1/3 of what it really offers. I could have another 50 hours of exploration waiting for me, which, in reality, isn’t that bad of a thing. I like exploration almost to a fault.

Splatoon 2 Strategy Guide Review

September 12, 2017 By Keri Honea Leave a Comment

Splatoon 2 has been out for awhile, but sad little me hasn’t touched my Switch since I bought it. That is pathetic, I admit. But now that I’ve gotten my hands on it, I really like the little thing, especially Splatoon 2. It’s a great little shooter that is 100% Nintendo. No real deaths, no blood, and crazy puzzles to solve to get through levels and defeat bosses. Naturally, since it’s a Nintendo product, there is a strategy guide to accompany it. It’s a little book, but it packs a bunch of information. The question is, though, how solid are the strategies for traversing the levels and defeating the zany bosses?

Let’s just say I enjoyed putting this book to test for it’s tips and collectibles. It helps the game, even with its limitations, is rather fun to play.