Archive for March, 2020

09
Mar

Brawlhalla!

Brawlhalla is a really exciting game overall! It reminds me of playing Super Smash Bros on the Nintendo Consoles when I was younger, but this game is like Super Smash Bros, but on PlayStation, and it’s free as well as long as you are a PlayStation Plus Member! However I believe that Brawlhalla is also available on other platforms such as PC.

There are multiple characters to play on Brawlhalla just like Super Smash Bros, but each character have different stats to start out with, and you can choose your character to have faster speed, or higher and lower attack and defense. I usually like playing characters that have better weapons such as guns and spears because those particular weapons deal more damage as well. There are also different stages that you can choose, and some of these stages will also maneuver the stage around as you’re playing against your friends or solo. You can also choose to play team fights in Brawlhalla as well, and team fights are the best in this game! Free for all in my opinion isn’t really my favorite type of mode to play.

This video shows a gameplay of two matches of me and my friends playing Brawlhalla as we play different characters. I’ve gotten a little better at this game after playing for a few hours and so, and I gotta say it’s a pretty fun game compared to Super Smash Bros if you don’t have a Nintendo Console like the Gamecube, Wii, or the Switch. Maybe one of these days if I have money, I’ll buy myself a Nintendo Switch and buy games to play on it, too. Otherwise, enjoy everyone!

03
Mar

Introducing with my guest on my blog posts, Brett Reader!

Hmong Lor Ryder:

Hey everyone! Just to let you all know that this post will actually be posted by one of my two guest I have collaborated in class, Brett Reader! His material differentiates from mine because he actually plays Nintendo, but I play games mainly on the PlayStation 4. If any of you play the Nintendo Swtich, Wii, Wii U, Gamecube, or older Nintendo consoles, you should check out his blog posts! Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy his post, and be sure to check out some of his blog posts! His link is here: Brett’s Bad Gaming Bash http://blogs.uww.edu/readergaming/

Brett Reader:

Cadence of Hyrule first came out as a crossover with Crypt of the Necrodancer that came as a welcome surprise to many. No one would have expected Nintendo, the company notorious for 

its iron grip on its license, to allow an indie game studio to make a spinoff game for them. 

Cadence of Hyrule is a game that takes a lot of getting used to for someone who isn’t familiar with rhythm games. Instinctually I tried to play the game like a traditional top-down Legend of Zelda game and was quickly met with defeat as I struggled to leave some of the game’s first area. Through trial and error I slowly was able to get further and further along in the game.

Once I started getting more familiar with the game’s rhythm and I started collecting a few more exploration based items the game opened up a lot. The Power Glove allowed me to move heavy blocks while the Hookshot allowed me to grapple to new areas. The combination of those two items fell into a satisfying gameplay loop that had me finding new areas that gave me more health and weapons, that allowed me to explore further to obtain more health and weapons all the way until the final boss.

The first time I completed the game was on my own where I spent about 9 hours scouring the map for every advantage I could get my hands on to make the coming battles easier. The second time I had gotten more familiar with the game so a friend and I tackled it together in about three hours, a significant increase from the previous time and with about the same amount of gear. The third time I played through was a speedrun where I finally started figuring out some sneaky maneuvers to skip parts of dungeons and get through the game in about two hours. I would highly recommend this game if you’re a fan of Zelda games or a fan of rhythm games. It’s a game I can always come back to and just have a relaxing trip through Hyrule to some amazing music.