PixlBit

I've put my personal quest first over the rewards and achievement quests I've been doing. The personal one is highlighting a historical game mechanic and finding modern equivalents. I'm on brick breakers this month. But I got around to maintaining my number 1 status in monthly achievements among my friends list on Xbox and knocking off a few Xbox Rewards. 

Peggle: I got a few more levels done on Adventure mode for Peggle and Peggle Nights but couldn't finish either to unlock the Challenge modes. Those last levels are tricky. Then I played online with four randoms. In this mode you each make one shot simultaneously, each on their own screen. Then the score is tallied up and you continue like that until everyone's cleared their levels or run out of balls. There was one player in there who was clearly a master at this. He won every single time with a mammoth score. I played probably four or five rounds and then left to find another party, but there wasn't one. I was hoping to just win one of those things, but it's not to be. Perhaps another day. 

Batman The TellTale Series: I noticed I was overtaken in the achievement leaderboards by PhantasyStar77 and so i played episode three of Batman to get ahead. This game is very well put together but I totally hate the story. It seems a violation of every character's comic book story up until now. The situations are also preposterous and unbelieveable given what I've experienced of Batman stories so far. I get they are trying to modernize it, but the changes seem extreme to me, and I feel like this is some alternate version of Batman. I wish I could share details, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone. It's well told and is worth watching (playing?), but darn I don't like what they've done with the characters. 

Doughlings: Arcade: As part of my brick breaking, Breakout-like game theme this month, I bought this for under $10. It's basically Breakdout but with colorful characters and all sorts of powerups and special moves. Your goal is to heal these sick Doughlings by knocking them on the head with your ball. I guess it's a medicine ball. You score points for how many you heal, so it's not so much about clearing the screen, although you do get a better score for doing it. I like the powerups that change your "paddle" into different forms with special attacks. You can even level them up to make them more effective. I played 20 levels and took a break. I'll do more next time. 

Kingdom Hearts III: I finished the Corona world (yes, the world Repunzel lives is called Corona) and then got in the gummy ship and tooled around space doing gummie missions. Then i went back to Toy Story world to figure out how to complete it. I haven't found any information to help me inside the game. I cleared all the enemies in the toy shop and I still don't know where the rest of the captives are. There's a list of missions for the gummie ship, why not for the main quest? Maybe I'm just missing it in the miriad number of menus. 

Oh, that's a day. I got Gauntlet for NES through ebay today. Stuff for the collection. I don't know what to get next though.