Day 339: Last day of the week

All my jobs are done. Everything for this week is dusted. It rained liked crazy in the city at 2. So I decided to end my day at 330. See you on Monday 

Year In Review 2015

Another year has pass a lot of things happen... Here are the highlights of 2015.

Games

Shield : 1
Vita : 17 (↑ 1)
PS2: 3
Wii U: 1
NES: 1
PC: 2 (↔)
Genesis: 4 
PS4: 1 (↓ 1)
PS1: 18
iOS: 3
GC: 1
Wii: 1

Racing : 7 (↑ 3)
Shooter: 3
Platformer: 10 (↑ 6)
Adventure: 2 (↔)
Action: 11 (↑ 7)
RPG: 1
Fighting: 11 (↑ 7)
Music: 3
Puzzle: 1 (↓ 3)
Sport: 1 (↓ 1)
Endless Runner: 3

Game Played : 53 (153) (↑ 27)
Finished Game : 38 (125) (↑ 14)

Steamworld Dig (100 Game Played)
Batman Arkham Knight (100 Game Finished)

Game of the Year

3. Real Racing 3

This was the first game I've played in 2015 and it was the first game I fell in love with. This Android title kept me busy for months. I think I have spend hours upgrading cars, playing the racers and winning tournaments. It helps in the fact that, I just got my new Nvidia Shield. So playing with a controller makes it much more awesome

2. Mario Kart 8

The second racing game that made my list. This was the first game I played when I got my Wii U. I even bought all the DLC ( I rarely buy DLC for anything, let alone anything Nintendo made). Turns out the DCL made the game even more epic. My wish one day is Nintendo will released Mario Kart with all the stages and that will be the last Mario kart ever

1. Batman Arkham Knight

I played this game on PC. This is the only game that I forked out my money on the first day of its released. Even there were numerous reports that the PC version was buggy, I could play it without any issues whatsoever. I refunded that game when WB was giving refunds last month. I'll will probably wait till the game of the year edition to get it again.


Series

Total series I've watch this year have decline. Due to the fact I've played tons more games that I've done before

1058 shows (↓ 198)

Memorable shows

• DCTV Arrow and Flash
• Mr Robot
• Person of Interest S4

Movies

26 movies for the year. Including items that I've watched for this first time.

Movies of the year

3. Mission Impossible Rouge Nation

2. Star Wars The Force Awakens

1. Avengers Age of Ultron

Unrelated = 40 :)  (↓ 6)

Even More Unrelated = 162 :(

NEW STUFF FOR 2015

1. My new ILLGEAR S5 laptop. I use it to play PS2 games... And batman so far

2. A Wii U which is used for one game so far

MEMORABLE MOMENTS FOR 2015

1. Finally got a job in April and I am still loving it.

2. Went to see Russel Peters

3. Got suprise party for my Birthday and threw a couple for others 

4. Made a new friend which I figure in my age would be nearly impossible. The only one who reads this blog.. (He should get a wordpress so he can comment on stuff)

New Years Resolution

1. More games, more movies, more series, more comics

2. Try to lose at least 10kg... Need to start eating right

3. More new blog post about other stuff (there are some stuff in the works)

Happy New Year 2016

Super Smash Bros Brawl

Since I've done the Gamecube version. It's the Wii's turn



Game no: 125
Genre: Fighting
Platform: Wii
What's Good:
- Smash ball (like limit break for each characters)
- Improved graphics (its looks a bit better than the GC version)
- More stages
- More challengers



Gone: Pichu, Mewtwo, Young Link, Roy

Pit: Dual welding, arrow guy.
Meta Knight: Overpowered and people's choice
Pokemon trainer: Charizard is always the best
Ike: Strongest smash power
Snake: Projectile specialist
King Dedede: Hammer of justice

Wolf: Rehash version of Fox with slower move sets

Locario: Pokèmon version of Ryu

Sonic: Damn fast 

Wario: Got a bike to move around

R.O.B: One hit kill

Olimar: Strategic player

- FMV cutscene with adventure mode

What's bad:

- bosses are still cheap

- there a lot of things to do

- fighting feels a bit nerf compare to Melee 

Status: played 100 + hours of it with 300 trophies to boot

Score: A rare gem. Worth to be played multiple times 

Super Smash Bros Melee

I found my old memory card of GameCube games. The GameCube was a device I had from 2001-2005. A lot of good memories and a lot of good games. I've already finish this games so here are the reviews 

Game no: 124

Genre: Fighting

Platform: GameCube

What's good:

- Best smash bros ever.

- Variety of Characters 

Dr Mario & Mario: Same move sets, Dr Mario can shoot pellets.

Luigi: Can fly like a rocket

Bowser: Damn slow and strong 

Peach: Hardest character to fall

Yoshi: Shoot eggs

DK: Strong and fast 

Captain Falcon: Falcon Punch can knock you off the stage 

Ganondorf: Slow version of Captian Falcon

Falco and Fox: My personal favorite, have deflectors to repel projectiles

Ness: The bat is damn powerful 

Ice climbers: The blue is the important one

Kirby: Fan favorite due to the fact he can fly and eat up people

Samus: Very technical 

Zelda: 2 characters in 1 ( Shiek)

Link: Also a fan favorite due to the alla rounded skills

Young Link: Faster version of link. Also weaker

Pichu: Faster version of Pikachu

Pikachu: Lighting Attack

Jigglypuff: Hardest character to use. sleeping attack is one hit kill

Mewtwo: One of a kind

Game and Watch: 2d sprite 

Marth and Roy: Strongest among the rest 

- Throphies 

- Adventure mod is awesome 

What's bad

- in balance of characters 

- the boss is super cheap

Status: 385 hours spend (no kidding) that's where my handle comes from.   

Score: A rare gem. Worth to be played multiple times

Day 152: Another 6 days off

Today I worked half day. Only today I didn't do much work. Finish my claim and went to have lunch with my best friend. After this I am finishing my last 2.5 days off... Until next year...

Lara Croft Relic Run

A cool endless runner

Game no: 123

Genre: Endless Runner 

Platform: iOS

What's good:

- dynamic stages (Jungles of Cambodia, The Sahara desert and the Tibetan mountains)

- customizable weapons

- vehicles 

What's bad:

- the bad guys are cheap

- to advance we need to get the relics which is kinda of hard

Status: went to Tibet and finish level 90.

Score: Great way to waste your time 

Will keep it for 2016.

Day 151: Im back...

After a long extended holiday. Well is actually on Day 150, my sickness apparently got worse.. I mean way worse. Like hospitalize worse. I was admitted to the hospital for 3 days and got another 2 days of medical leave. So basically the week I was not able to come to work. So holiday start early for me...

Anywho... today was my first day of work after 17 days off. I came back and was greeted with open arms. My boss and everyone was interested in my well being. Which is very touching for me. So I spend the better half of the day doing my claims and catching up on emails.

The things that happen for me today that I can highlight

* I was going to the toilet and at the same time I entered my CEO walked out... Gave me a heart attack. We both laughed it off...

* One of my friends brought his wife to the usual hangout place for lunch.

* I got the Death Star of all project. This is big.. .Very big...  I am scared

Pac Man 256

I An interesting take on pac man

Game No: 122

Genre: Endless Runner 

Platform: iOS

What's good: 

- Pacman stages just go on and on 

- Hitting 256 will cause all the ghost to disappear 

- Tons of power up to help Pacman go further 

- each ghost colours with different attack patterns 

What's bad:

- It gets to repetitive over time. It doesn't test your skill like crossy roads but more testing your luck

- in app purchase makes it a drag.

- 6 credits and then we have to wait 1 hour to reload. Which is good since you won't get too hooked doing this

Status: got all the 16 power ups then they released another 4 which I then stop

Score: a great way to waste your time 

Will be deleted from phone since I rarely play with it anymore

Crossy Roads

Is that time of year where I review the apps that are keeping me busy in my phone. It's a bit different then reviewing a game. I'll make it up as I go along

Game no: 121

Genre: Endless Runner

Platform: iOS (also available on Andriod)

What's good:

- Lots of 8 bit characters. More than 200. I was in this game for a couple of months. Almost got all of the characters. Until they decided to release a patch. Which made it difficult to grind somemore

- stages include: day, night, themed, Korean, pac man, rained, disco

What's bad:

- you need coins to get more characters. Or just pay 0.99 cents. I draw the the line for paying for apps unless is a full game

Status: high score 800. Can't seem to get it back again

Score: A great way to waster your time

Will not be deleted for 2016. Kids seems to love this game 

Bushido Blade 2

One hit kill

Game no: 120

Genre: Fighting

Duration: A couple hours

Platform: PS1

What's Good:

- No health bar, realistic combat. One hit kill. Timing is used to predict attacks

- Multi leveled stages. Interactive environment 

- Great story mode. Each character has their own story with other characters helping in the middle.

- 5 different weapons with 3 fighting styles.

What's Bad:

- The bosses are cheap. One has indestructible armor and one more has some kind of shadow attack which makes getting a shot at him nearly impossible.

Status: Finish one tribe and played the other. Once the boss become to cheap, I decide to stop playing

Score: A great way to waste your time

Dilwale

Got dragged watching this movie with the whole family. I notice that in a Hindi movie there are 3 constant things happening 

1) The laws of physics disappear and the laws of awesome comes in 200%

2) There seem to be no police in the area

3) The hero always gets the girl but after the obligatory drama

This is my first Hindi movie. I can say that, this movie is enjoyable. Got a couple of characters that make the movie dumber than it looks. Which is kinda a buzzkill. Would I watch it again. Probably not. 

3/5

Bugs and Taz Time Busters

A surprisingly good Platformer

Game no: 119

Genre: Platformer

Duration: 9 days 

Platform: PS1

What's good:

- Storyline is funny and good

- Platform mechanics

- Tag teaming to slove puzzles (is better to play with 2 players)

- Stages

- Variety of gameplay (there is at least a sport section, running on rails as well as puzzles)

- Will never be game over. Since there is always a reset point if you die

What's bad:

- Targeting could use a bit of work

- Progression... Lots of backtracking 

- Some puzzles are confusing unless you use a walk through 

Status: Finish the game with the end credits 

Score: Worth to be played at least once

Hush

Comic: Hush

Issues: 12 issues (Batman 602 - 614)

Story:

A new threat has come to Gotham and is targeting the Dark Knight. He starts by targeting his enemies and then crippling Batman himself. After he was saved, the person then killed his friend. At first, Batman though it was the Joker, then Scarcrow. But it turns out it was Jason Todd. The second Robin... But in the end... The real mastermind behind it was... Hush... Aka Two face 

Overview:

Well technically is only one face since the other side of two face has been fixed by plastic surgery. This story is one of the best Batman stories I have read in a while. This is even better than Arkham Knight. Jim Lee did a fantastic job in drawing the Dark Knight. The whole plot came together around book 11 so it took a while to understand what the heck is going on. 

Ctrl+Alt+Del

Comic: Ctrl+Alt+Del 2002-2012

Issues: 3 Volumes (368 pages each)

Story:

The story about a crazy gamer name Ethan McManus that lives with his best friend Lucas. Together they are joined with Lilah, a female gamer and Zeke, a sentient Xbox robot. Hilarity ensure when they are on their adventures

Overview:

I love this when it was a web comic. Now after 10 years, reading their adventures is damn awesome. The end was quite of sad since there are still more stories to be told but I can see 10 years of doing this was enough. 

Battle Arena Toshinden 3

Better than before

Game no: 118

Genre: Fighting 

Platform: PS1

What's good:

- More characters, combos, super moves

- Stages are more box type than right out

What's bad

- 10 characters are locked

- the arcade mode needs to fight everyone in a row. That's close to 40 mins

Status: Played arcade mode. That's about it

Score: A Great way to waste your time 

Batman and Robin

The concept for Arkham Knight but this is wayyyy off

Genre: Action

Platform: PS1 

What's good:

- Open world exploration

What's bad

- Controls. You need to hold a button to run and hold a button for fighting 

- Batman walks slower than a snail

- The batmobile handles like jelly

- Man this game sucks

Status: Played 5 mins and then I'm dead 

Score: Delete this game and never speak of it again 

Battle Arena Toshinden 2

Good times

Game no: 117

Genre: Fighting 

Platform: PS1

What's good

- Weapon based fighting 

What's bad

- This game didn't age well

- Tank controls 

- Bosses are cheap

Status: Finish Eiji Story mode 

Score: You'll be bored after 2 to 3 hours 

Aladdin Nasira's Revenge

Man... This games suck

Genre: Platformer 

Platform: PS1

What's good

- CG storyline

- Voice actors

What's Bad

- Slow gameplay

- the mechanics doesn't seem to work 

- limitation of hardware cause the game to have some issues 

Status: Played it for 1 hour

Score: You'll be bored after 1 hour 

Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere

Best simulation ice played in a long time

Game: 116

Genre: Action

Platform: PS1

Duration: 6 days

What's good

- Gameplay is fast paced 

- Multiple variety of mission

- Multiple aircrafts 

- The feeling of hitting a bullseye 

What's bad 

- The storyline is not compelling enough

- The bosses are damn hard 

- Controlling the plane takes a while to master 

Status: Finish all 35 missions. End credits

Score: Worth to be played at least once

Batman: The man who Laughs

Comic: Batman the man who laughs 

Issue: One shot

Story:

It's the origin story of how the joker met batman. Batman was not known to the public and commissioner Gordan is just a captain. Joker is killing of the top people of Gotham and its up to Batman to stop him.

Overall:

The plot is your typical Batman plot. There are no twist and turns. In the end Batman stops the Joker as expected. In the end he got the Bat Signal