Month: June 2020

Sometimes when you get a full head of steam, you just keep on going.  I finished Lego Ninjago.  Yes I know, I had only finished a couple of the areas of gold bricks.  But I just methodically took down each level and kept going.  The only part where I had a real pause was the Docks race which as it turns out gives everybody pause.  Took me about 30-40 times (3 separate sessions) before I got it and then I beat it by 2 full seconds.  After that, it went fairly easy.  But it’s another completion in the books which feels nice since I really haven’t done much of that this year.

Here are the Xbox Sales for this week.  It looks like a good list, sure there are repeats but anytime we can get some DLC on sale, it’s a huge positive. I will certainly have to check what DLC’s I do have especially when it comes to Dead Space and Mass Effect to see if I can grab one more at really reasonable prices.  Anyway, please have a great week and I will try to do the same.  Maybe I’ll find my next game.  Enjoy.

This past week was a little more productive when it came to gaming.  In Slay the Spire, I got a random achievement with the Silent for poison.  In Lego NinjaGo, I actually made a little headway with completing the first two stages entirely of collectibles.  I have completely skipped the docks for the moment and am nearly done with the Uncrossable Jungle.  I’m at nearly 92% complete so maybe if I systematically takes these down I can actually do it.  Even if I can add one area a week, it would be enough to keep me interested until completion.

Moving on to the sales.  There are some more sales this week than normal but the problem is that its the usual suspects of Sonic, Tom Clancy and Rayman leading the pack.  Some Trials and Persia too but nothing out of the ordinary.  There is a good chance we will have a Games with Gold announcement this week and we’ll see what that brings us.  As usual, please try to have a good week.  Find something different to do, even if its in your home safe and sound.  Enjoy.

Gaming wise last week I can’t say I did a lot.  A few more games of solitaire completed, a couple of rounds of Slay the Spire that went nowhere good, and then there was Lego NinjaGo.  As explained previously, I had beat the game and had amassed over 150 gold bricks (220 total).  Welp, last week for some reason I have already hit that wall that occurs in every Lego game.  Sometimes the wall isn’t so bad, and sometimes it’s pretty relentless but usually this is at the last 10 or 15 bricks.  65 bricks left and I’m already hitting that wall is very troubling.  It mostly has to do with the mini-map which is pretty awful at best.  I’ll look into it this week, but if I can’t get over this hump, I might just move on to something else.  We shall see.

Sales are not exactly plentiful this week but they do exist at least I guess.  Deadfall Adventures is well kinda it.  Furthermore, most people probably grabbed this when it was a GWG title.  Which does remind me, there are two new Games with Gold this morning for the XB1 and 360. Feel free to pick them up, they should be pretty good.  I might mess with Coffee Talk this weekend, it looks like something that wouldn’t take too much effort on my end.  Anyway, that’s it this week, be sure to try and have some fun.  Enjoy.

Naturally, I played more Lego NinjaGo this past week but an odd thing happened, I got to 150 Gold Bricks, popped the achievement and then I haven’t played it since.  It almost felt as if that was all I needed to do even though I still have 70 left to go.  Maybe I just needed a break from the grinding out of gold bricks.  Also, I’m used to the Lego games that let you enable all of your red bricks for the end game.  This one, there are no red bricks, instead you get a very small map which sort of tells you where things are but I’m having trouble deciphering it as well as I need to.  At least it isn’t the races (minus one) that are giving me the trouble I suppose.  I am sure I will go back to it, but I was concerned about burn out.

Outside of that, I played some Solitaire (finished a few more hard boards) and did another few runs of Slay the Spire focusing on the Ironclad character.  The first three runs ended poorly.  The fourth, I got all the way to the third boss but it was not meant to be.  My hit points were right on track but I didn’t have that many relics and my cards weren’t quite as good as I hoped.  You would think I might give up on that game, but it keeps calling me back.

This Week’s Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale Plus Deals Unlocked Sale

Please take a look at this week’s sale, the Deals Unlocked Sale actually started last week but I knew it was going to continue so I waited until now to report on it.  There is some good stuff in here and worth taking a look at.  I really hope for most of us we are trying to get back to a normal life.  I know it’s a strange new world out there, but maybe if we resume some of our usual activities, things won’t seem so bad.  Take care and enjoy.

Well, I certainly made some progress in Lego NinjaGo, beat the story mode, beat all of the dojos and now can concentrate on the infamous gold bricks.  Unfortunately I have about 120 left to complete which will get me the final nine achievements.  The only thing I feel like I’m missing at this point is the Gold Brick detector which is missing from the game (unless someone knows something I don’t).  But I have all of the major character types (including the guys with the dynamite) and theoretically should be able to complete this.  I know I won’t complete it in the next week, but the end of the June is something to shoot for (hopefully).

I also beat Slay the Spire with the Watcher finally (for the second time, the right way so I can get the achievement).  That will probably be my last hurrah with the game as I don’t have the gumption to play with the ascension levels or try to beat that Heart.  If it was a quicker game, I would probably be more interested but roughly an hour or so to get back to that final final boss if I do it right (not to mention the 3 or so failed tries in between) doesn’t really make me want to keep trying.

So we do have some, errr a couple of BC sales for this week.  I think these were carry-overs from the previous week as well but at bargain basement prices.  Unfortunately there is not much to see, at least the Xbox One has a few more games to tide you over if you really need to play something.  As for myself, I will be with the Gold Brick fever and desperately trying to forget the world outside.  Try to have a decent week.  Enjoy.