PixlBit

Played a lot of retro stuff on Xbox One today, and one new release. Kind of a lot so here's a list. 

I got stuck in so many games today. At least they're off my list for now. Here's a list and how I got stuck, or not in a few cases.

I like to dabble in some retro every month. May will be the years '85-'89. These are still the arcade years but it's also about the NES. 

I managed to get every achievement but one in the game. That last one is for beating the game on the hardest difficulty. I think you only have to beat the final level at that difficulty, but I had a hard enough time beating it on medium. I did try it anyway. Even with all the upgrades, I got stuck in a room just before the final battle where you get mobbed by a dozen giant rock trolls. Not enough room and too much damage taken. It felt impossible. Fun game though. I enjoyed it's Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance style gameplay. Merida must have a wagon train of arrows following her. I probably shot them in the 10s of thousands.

I started getting obsessed with this list of games I can play on XBO and PS4. Through various free giveaways and backward compatibility, I have a lot of choices. So I looked up all their play times and listed them from shortest to longest. Part of doing this is to compete on the achievement leaderboards, if possible; but it's also to knock a bunch of stuff off my immense backlog list. 

Yes, there's more. These are the Star Wars Rebels figures. All of them came out with wave 1. Here's my pic:

I'm still on Wave 1 releases of Disney Infinity 3.0, or you could call it Disney Infinity: Star Wars. I don't know why they didn't call it that. 2.0 was called Marvel Super Heroes. There are other franchises within 3.0, but it's mostly all about Star Wars in its various incarnations. What I have here are all the figures from the original trilogy that got released in wave 1. Of all the figures, these I had to have for sure. Here's a pic:

I mopped up the remaining collectibles, tried to play it on Bring It On difficulty and attempted a few level specific achievements before deciding to give it a rest. 

I did another time trial in Minecraft again. I took 90 minutes to build the enchantment table and apply magic to all my gear. I wanted to continue on, but I hadn't solved the distance issues. Since the Bedrock update on the XBO version of Minecraft, I've been very annoyed by how long it takes to find things like a village or woodland mansion in survival mode. The world has just gotten bigger and things are usually farther away. I don't want to hunt endlessly for these things. I'm thinking of a method to make it shorter. I may look up a seed. It feels like cheating, so I may not do it, but, I may. 

I mainly tried to collect more enimga codes to unlock assassination missions today. I'm down to the last four of them but I have to replay missions to get more codes. Along the way, I'm picking up collectibles, attempting perks (which are just stats on particular types of actions), and doing any side missions that pop up in the submarine base.