PixlBit

Good morning Pixlpeeps! It is a rainy Monday morning here in what is usually sunny Southern California. The first full week of the New Year and I miss the weekend already but I am happy to get back in the workweek grove. So how are you good people? This past weekend has been good because I knocked off three games off Mount Backlog, and I am a level away from knocking off a fourth. Its amazing how close I was to finishing off games but I put them down for one reason or another, but after checking out the internets to see how much more I have to finish, I realized a couple of them can be taken out with an hour or two of work. Before I get into those games lets look back at what happened in December

 

In December I started three new games and finished four games. Band Hero was a lot of fun to just sit back and play a couple of tunes during each play, and the same can be said with Project Mirai DX, except I had never listened to the tracks in this game. With NCAA Football the rebuilding process finished with another National Championship with the Baylor Bears. Currently I am wondering if I should continue with Baylor or start a new career and do the career path of having an Offensive Coordinator start out with a low school and work their way up to head coach. The final game of the year was a fun one that I wish there were more games like it, and that was Knack. It was such a fun platformer. Here’s hoping that I finish off all the games I play in January!

 

Back to the games I finished this past weekend. The first game I finished was

 

This game is a greatest hits of Guitar Hero collecting many favorites from I believe the first four games (GH, GH II, GH III, GH 80s) including a certain really fast and difficult game. During the play through I found many favorite songs and were a pleasant flashback to the PS2 games. Ozzie Osbourne’s Bark at the Moon, and The Donna’s Take It Off where my absolute favorite songs from the original game, and when those songs popped up I was really having fun. 

 

The next two games are from the same franchise but on two different handhelds

 

I finished the Story Mode on this game, which apparently I was more than halfway finished with. I think the best part about this Story Mode is that the cut scenes can be skipped. I’m sorry as much as I like storylines that tie in the random fights together, the storyline for this game is just brutal to sit and watch. With this game I believe you play with all the fighters inside five chapters, which isn’t a lot especially if someone like myself stopped playing halfway through the third chapter.

 

This game felt more like a grind when it came with the story mode because it checks in at 70 chapters. The positive is that it counts each match as a chapter, but for someone who sat through the first 40 or so cut scenes (didn’t know about the skipping until after I played the 3DS game) it took forever. Once I figured out I could skip, the game itself became much more enjoyable and I did watch the final cut scene at the end of the game. For both of these games I’ll continue to play random fights here and there, but they won’t live in my handhelds, and I’m really not interested in online battles, or the challenge stages that each game offers.

As for games I am currently working on:

 

Borderlands The Handsome Jack Collection: The Pre-Sequel – PS4

The funny thing about this game is that it doesn’t get me dizzy on the big screen. I tried to play it on the Vita at first but whoever mapped the controls to the screen must have felt terrible controls is the way to go. It makes more sense to have the shoot buttons be the top left of the back touchpad instead of the screen next to your directional buttons on the side. You have to stop moving to shoot, and that just doesn’t work. Anyways as for the game I really like it, because its Borderlands and I really need to get out of the habit of stopping and searching everything especially when I have a limited number of oxygen early in the game.

 

Tearaway – PS Vita: I bought this game maybe a year ago and never played it. During the Rose Bowl blowout (Iowa fans are hilarious on Twitter. The minute their team gets their doors blown off, they attack Iowa State fans) I decided to give this game a go because new year, and I wanted to move it out of my plastic container of games. This game is really fun and it kind of reminds me of Little Big Planet. The environment is really well done and the use of touch is incorporated well, and not shoehorned like other games

 

I made my little character a little thug. He has the teardrop, arm, and cheek tattoos, and I’ll probably add a chest piece later on. I wish their was a bit more control when it comes to creating decorations on your character but considering it is on the Vita, it offers a lot. Tearaway is an early leader for Game of the Year for me.

 

Mortal Kombat – PS Vita: Currently I am on the final chapter of the story mode. Last night I started playing it again after not playing it since 2014 (this was crazy). I was a little under 50% finished when I picked it back up, and I’m one or two fights away from finishing the story mode. My one grip with Mortal Kombat is that the bosses tend to go super cheese mode during battle. Shao Kahn was a perfect example of this and at one point where it got frustrating because he kept doing the same shoulder push move constantly I kept going back and just shooting fire balls with Liu Kang until he was defeated. It was a cheap win, but it was a win.

 

Alright Pixlbit, I should go find some breakfast, so have a good week!

 

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris