The glorious return of someone that isn't very interesting. Seriously.

So where to start, well it's been a year. yup, a whole year since I lost what little mind I had, the most logical thing I could think to do was to try and pull my arms off and all my hair. Safe to say I eat medication for breakfast and dinner now, I rattle more than a maraca but my mind is in the right place so that's what matters more than anything.

I decided to start this up again, Its been a fun adventure over the past year, I've tried lots of different forms of being creative in the gaming space.

I chronicled my adventures whilst playing Shovel Knight and got some kind words and responses from the developers that worked on the game which was amazing. ( I've currently brought the game on every platform it's been released on. Wii U, 3dsxl and PS4/Vita)

I started reviewing games for a company called The Nerd Stash for a few months, my focus shifting more to reviews and news.

Lastly Twitch became a new outlet for me, Taking to it so much I couldn't juggle writing and streaming.

Plus now I have a part time job as a postman.

The benefit of the job is that I only work 5 hours a day, meaning I can sleep when I get home and stream in the afternoons. Work took more of the focus over the christmas months as we where very busy, but now with the new year ago go and things starting to get quieter I thought, why not?

So why the fuck not.

This was an outlet when I felt I'd lost everything, giving me a reason to wake up in the morning and be productive. Avenues where opened, coming full circle a year later and trying to mix all 3 together.

So I've decided to blog reviews and updates as well as streaming my favourite new and current titles.

My Twitch is  http://www.twitch.tv/fi5h5tick5/profile

I'm juggling between Bloodborne, Final Fantasy VII, Dark Souls II and some other titles I fancy.

Keeping it short and sweet like mmmmmmmmmmmmm Kirby.

Love Love

Caleb, FI5H5TICK5, Senpai Fi5h, ManicallyDepressed-ModeratleyFunny and all the other personas I currently have.

Shovel Knight 10 - Crunch Time

I wake up deciding it's crunch time, I fire up Shovel Knight for what looks like might be my last recorded journey, Doubt it though!

Troupple King.

I'm sure the game won't give up that easy.

I have tear's in my eyes as I enter the final world, before that I visit the Troupple pond to fill my Troupple chalice with my Ichor of renewal, 2 that is!

Full health and magic for what might be a tough fight to come, good job, I forget about them till now, this might have been slightly easier had I remembered before hand.

THE TOWER OF FATE: ASCENT

Everything in this room is covered in spikes, great.

As I jump off this platform, down through a gap in the floor an eel appears.Wonderful, invisible enemies, now everything is under water making jumps slow and deaths even slower, after writing I decide to slow motion jump on a platform only to have it quick motion slam me into a spikey ceiling.(132) 

The same happens again (133) I see this timing annoying me a lot today. (134) (135) 

I couldn't find anyone eating lava, so here's lava

I make it through one room, bouncing on a jelly fishes head and into another, 4 quick deaths just like that, I accidentally drink a Troupple chalice to add insult to injury,

1 more just to be sure (136)

I run through that dreaded start,navigating it well, Bumping fists with checkpoint 1 on my way.

I eat lava (137)

No more water this time, just mice, lava and timed jumps into the open arms of joust knights

I rely on my war horn to clear half the room, mice also in the process (138) Yum, lava AGAIN! (139)

I change the location, I decide to blast my war horn this time dealing with all the enemies and mice in the process, bring on room number 2.

I navigate through a maze of flubber and fire stumbling across checkpoint 2 in the room next door, death follows as I fall from a vomit statue and eat lava for breakfast.(140)

I war horn a man out of fear of losing, I end up in a pit of doom. (141) (142) 

Accurate depiction of Mr Ninja.

I take out Mr Ninja horn style and some guy using the wind stick thing from Super Smash Bros soon after, new territory, new Caleb. Let's die some more

Checkpoint 3! Breath, only spikes and treadmills in front of you, nothing that bad. I wonder how soon I'll die after saying that, 15 seconds later. (143)

The run between 3-4, the hardest part, always. Great! (144)

I run at a wall covered in spikes, not sure why? (145) 

One miss jump and that's death, I believe the checkpoint to be at the top of this, I can feel it in my shovel bones.(146) spiked again. (147) I grunt at the game, rather annoyed, (148) (149) Spiked..... again!(150)

150 Cake.

I get to the part I was originally stuck on and die once again, none the wiser. I have no idea what I need to do. (151) (152) (153) (154) (155)

I cant figure this puzzle the fuck out (156) (157) (158) Still no clue, I get to the same familiar spot and die.

I luck out and navigate a path through a horrible obstacle of enemies, exact cuts through a path of blocks, navigating me from top to bottom, as the level closed in on me, every miss jump and error meaning certain death, that being said I bump chests with checkpoint 4. BOSS BATTLE!

I fall into a room with every other boss knight in the game sitting around, there all sharing dinner and stories of death. One smart ass pipes up and challenges me to a fight, all the rest chime in and agree, guess it's a Royal rumble.

Polar Knight makes me eat snow shovel (159) 

Now I start off fighting Bioshock Knight, this time then coming at me in a different order, I finish him off and eat some chicken, King Knight decides it's time, I celebrate his death by eating more chicken.

Polar Knight kills me once again, (160) I should say that the spikey floor kills me in fact, not the Icey prick (161) and again with the snow shovel!

Tint knight first then Spectre Knight, I think I need to beat them all to progress! Shit.

This time I decide to make a list I beat them in:

Tiny Knight
Spectre Knight

Tell me about it.

Snow Knight
King Knight
Bioshock Knight
Knight that throws pots

Death. (162) so close. (163) (164)

I'm calling break time!

I continue this mammoth task 2 days later, praying that time is on my side as well as luck.

I beat them all, It's all left to Tiny Knight to defend there Knightly Honour. The pressure feeling very real now, I feel sick! Why leave a hard one till last dammit, He's a two boss battle basically

I DID IT, holy shit that was lucky.

I run through the massacre and into the next level worrying what's next, Instead it unlocks another level.

TOWER OF FATE! This is it, The end is nigh!

Days of avoiding my 3DS, finally the thought of playing pokemon becomes a reality once again.

Greatest and Hardest achievement in gaming as of yet.

Koi Koi

Caleb.

Forcing myself to write

What I write just seems to appear in  my head.

No thought about it, no notes about what I'm writing about or the subject, I just sit, it appears like it's already been written for me, just straight from brain to paper, even brain to blog.

As you could probably tell I have no format or style, It's bullet points joined together with crude words, bad humour and poor English, yet I enjoy every minute of it.

Mr at my best.

Sometimes I read them back a few days later and laugh at how badly arranged they are. All the misspellings and punctuation being part of the charm....I hope. There not perfect, just laugh at them, that's my style.

If you ever had the misfortune of seing my hard writing, you would soon realise this is all written over my bedroom walls in crayon.

2015 should be an amazing year for games, I'm super excited about a handful of games so far, one in particular being Final Fantasy VII, One more reason to play it through again being the newly announced trophies for the game, platinum being my only thought.

Everything else would just be failure in my eyes, hopefully this time I'll find Vincent as all the other times I missed him out.

Best game ever? I think so.

The rest revolving around some of the biggest titles of the year my personal favourite being The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, A huge fan of the series and follower of the books any reason to jump into Geralt's world is all the reason I need!

Hopefully leading to another stellar RPG I can quickly put over 125 hours into in the first 2 weeks, beating my recently achieved Dragon Age Inquistion speed play, 125 in the first 10 days. I loved that game and series but hopefully this game will take me above and beyond the 200 hour mark.

My top 5 time absorbing games being Diablo 3, Skyrim, Final fantasy X, Dragon Age Origins and Final Fantasy VII. These all being above and beyond the 200 hour mark, Diablo 3 being more near the 300 mark, and then there's Call of Duty 4's online mode which was 17 days in total.

Nothing compared to my brothers combined effort of 55 days on Modern Warfare 3, there rank beigng 2ND in the WORLD at kill confirmed!

I'm also looking forward to another weekend spent in heaven or to normal people called EGX, this
time being at the birmingham N.E.C. Last years being where I got almost all my hands on experience with some of the biggest titles including

Some show, can't remember the name.

FarCry 4 - I rode my first elephant and fucked up a fortress.

Mortal Kombat X - my girlfriend ripped my heart out fatality style.

Sunset Overdrive - I won a can of OverCharge for being badass at the game.

Dragon Age Inquistion - dodging a 6 hour queue and having my first online experience raiding a castle with my girlfriend and 2 strangers.

Shadow of Mordor - Riding wargs and popping orc heads has never been so fun and graphic

A Pre alpha bulid of Dead Island 2 - Zombie smashing good fun.

A breath taking look at The Order 1886 - I stood motionless watching the screenmthinking it had frozen, later realising that this in fact was the demo, me stood in the open getting shot at.

A lot of my time spent in the Nintendo Zone where I concreted my love for Shovel Knight and the fact i was going to buy it and later dribbling over the first playable demo I had seen of Super Smash Bros WiiU.

Stick with me as I'm sure my Blog will go through a lot of changes this year.


Alway's one to have and give my opinion on a diverse selection of games, I hope you enjoy what little sense I bring to the table

I want to create something, I'm tired of having these thoughts and this passion, not expressing any of it, I want to meet new people through social media and forge friendships over the latest release titles and opinions leading to new stories and chapters in my life.

My boiiiiii Kirby.

Talking Videogames, moving into the Podcast territory and doing something I love.

I do this out of love for the industry and nothing else, so join the conversation and get involved!

Koi Koi

Caleb

Shovel Knight 9 - Silence

It's quiet today as I revisit McShovel's after a few days off. The power of this blog carrying me through to what I can only describe as 'The last few runs'

Toader, 8 bit disapproval.

I try and cash in on a cheap laugh by joking to Toader, he shakes his head disapprovingly, determined I try another 5 times, Silence, with that silence in mind I start my slow walk to the TOWER OF FATE

As I rock up to the entrance it's green sky and wizards for breakfast, I walk on past witnessing a scary reminder that this game wants me dead in the form of pit jumping fish, as you time that precise jump they spring out at the half way point normally flinging you to your death, I turn up the anti and shovel bash him into orbit reminding him I'm the knight, him mear castle fodder I must crush.

I think a book is bouncy. I run straight to my death (117), the game not even trying then, me doing all the work.

The mistake this time is propeller mice feet to the teeth (118), still fucking adorable I must say.

I get through the next room and all I have to do is shovel bash 6 flying mice and make a dash across a flying platform to another ladder, Checkpoint 1 nearly in view?!

Google images picture of a Griffon.

I realise the error of my ways, the platforms to far away! I think I need to shovel drop the mice, bouncing my way over to the ladder, starting well I bounce to my death (119)

I fall again this time getting lucky and landing on a platform below, I've started these final two assaults dreading what's to come every step of the way, Instead of checkpoint I get giant griffon battle, another huge 'fuck you' from the game right there.

I defeat the bird and again there's no checkpoint, 1 orb of health left now due to it also raining fire and breathing fire at the same time, wizard walking into view.

My brain hurts.

Turns out I'm lucky and my final 3 fire blasts connect, setting Mr wizard ablaze, please, surely that's checkpoint 1, Oh sweet Jesus, I couldn't care what happens now!

Ohhhhh your my best friend, in a world we must defend.

Huge lie, I'm massively intimidated by this little game.

I dash through making quick work of these moving walls only to hesitate at the last jump and get crushed (120) 


2 DAYS LATER


I leave it two days, I've been playing Xbox One games all night but I remember the horrors I'm about to re-encounter.

Ah old faithful knight crusher how I had forgot about your sweet existence, but I can't play Pokemon Alpha Sapphire or use my 3DS as a super smash controller, curse you tiny Knight!

I jump at the wall like a right fucking idiot (121), I feel to weak, playing this game today is testing as I jump straight down a hole again, no longer in control like before (122), I over jump this time forgetting the lay out (123), (124), (125), (126) half way along and it's slowly coming back to me (127) 

As I get further than ever before my most favourite Knight appears, Sir Joust Knight the 83rd

I nudge forward to attack, the corner of a ceiling crushing the corner of my tiny shovel head, FUCK. (128), (129)

Not one but two Joust Knights war horned into oblivion.

Checkpoint, stress levels in the dangerzone!

That dangerzone hype.

Two samurai guards run at me, what the fuck, I reach for my war horn and kill them both with my fishing rod?!

Checkpoint 3 in my view, I try not to rush to fast, my eagerness putting me in a bed of spikes once again. (130) 

This time I drift on through and bring it on back, quickly finding my shovel groove and checkpoint 3. Fuck yea shovel groove!

The back drop is a green rainy sky of lightning, as my knightly outline powers across a dark bridge shadowing me to any foe, I dare you to stand in my way, power at my finger tips, 3DS covered in sweat I make quick work of anything that stands in my way.

Green doom.

As I travel further I come to realise I cant actually see a fucking thing, I jump to the outlined platform.(131)

Ahead of me,  it hits me in the face like a BRICK, the rain isn't bouncing of this plat.........

'Not again fake platform' I shout as I run to checkpoint, hugely relaxed compared to the awful 1-2 stretch recently finished.

Awful!

BLACK KNIGHT you evil son of a bitch, It's another boss fight. Match 3, ding ding. Let's do this.

The ENCHANTRESS finally revealing to me that BLACK KNIGHT is acting of his own accord

The Dark Knight.

Oh shit the ENCHANTRESS just dropped him, Hard!

Turns out he ain't hurt that bad as he runs across the map at me, Time to shovel this bitch up.

Turns out he's as hard as balls, now being able to fly, Is this the ENCHANTRESS's doing?! Is she in control of him making him have some super human knightly strength?

Apple sauce bitch

Sob story, BLACK KNIGHT's also trying to save SHIELD KNIGHT, I don't care!

There's a reason why the games called Shovel Knight.

148 Deaths    11.25:51

Shovel Knight 8 - Picking up the pieces from a gyroscopic jester.

Death, Green Lantern style

I try to pick up where I left off, due to the Halo 5 Beta excitement, Slowly eased back in by a death from above, Green Lantern style! (96) 

8.27 am - I swear its's getting earlier, this game being on my mind 24/7.

The thought of beating it scares the shit out of me, but also excites me at the same time.

Do I have the stones to shovel on through to the end, that we will find out.

I pre kill all 3 Green Lanterns's, I'm not having the same thing happen to me again, next part being pure evil, the wind pushes me through the level forcing me to progress at twice the speed I normally would, relying on muscle memory to push the jump button when immediate danger follows as every platform falls away form my feet.

A bunch of Green Lanterns turn up at the scene, as I try to progress by throwing my self at an oncoming cannon ball, I slip and fall to my death. (97) 

I need to ride it like it was a wrecking ball

I don't even manage to bounce on the cannon ball this time, just fall straight to my death once a 'fucking' gain (98) 

This platform falls away from under my feet (99) 

I need some music on to chill me out, Bring me the Horizon it is, a Red Bull quickly follows so I get a mad focus on.

Once again the latter addition of music helps, my heart jumps as I hit checkpoint 4, I saw
myself getting a bit stuck then, that's nothing compared to what the level now brings to the front-line, in the form of turbine platforms, Spiked walls, ceilings, floors and the even adorable propeller mice.

The fan slams on, pushing me down to the lower level, progress lost, but at least I wont be dying as much, just forced to traverse the levels again.

The level claim's that I touched some spike's, I call bullshit and with that comes the big recorded death (100) fucking game, I wonder what the total number of death's is at now.

Red Bull, GO!

My super juice

I use my now super human level's of focus and determination to sprint through, as I climb into what appears to be the top level, I see roof fans and one knight, I think to myself I'll use my beam vision to destroy all I see, then remembering this is a game, not real life.

I use my mind powers to throw the Red Bull can in the bin and get on with it.

I pounce and so does the bastard knight knocking me all the way back to checkpoint 4.

Apparently sniffing spike's also kills you (101)

I jump whilst blowing my war horn, I do this in perfect harmony of man and oversized horn, That's that knight dealt with , as I float to the bottom I worry through each section of level that he will just re-spawn at the top again when I start my climb back.

Fist bump

When I get there I'm lucky, the war horn completely blew him to pieces thus destroying his ability to re-spawn, I claim the hidden chest he was guarding, the treasure a welcome addition to the ever growing bank balance, as I walk out the level I pump fists with my brodem checkpoint 5.

Picture this, jellyfish, roof spikes, no floors and an highly aggressive wind current carrying my heavy ass along, I fucking hate this game.


I'm hugely surprised I got this far to be honest, I know its all down to this blog keeping my drive going forward, Normal Caleb would have claimed the game broken 5 death's in and never played it again .......BANG!

Normal Caleb

I drop my 3DS but alls okay as the powers still on, If it had  switched off 5 checkpoints in I would have seriously lost my shit, only to then find it and lose it all over my 3DS.

I figure this puzzle out to late and eat spike salad, roof spike salad (102)

It's a giant puzzle I have to glide through as the wind changes direction, so does McShovel's, the ever popular extremly hard checkpoint 5-6 vibe kicks in, I get through the first area, area 2 causing me trouble.

I die for no reason (103) and again (104) my cool has definitely gone today, I'm finding it stressful and hard.

(105) I need to time my jump, letting the wind carry me to safety.I run straight to my death.(106), (107), (108), (109) 

(110), I continue adventuring only to have the wind push my now squishy brain into spikes (111) 
I get further than before, panic dying in the process.

Evil Jellyfish

I make it through as I always do in my stories, the Hero never truly dying, only to see what one can only describe as living hell cruisung across the bottom of my screen, cannon balls evenly timed, flying in a frustrating line, jelly fish tormenting me as they fly above.

My guess is to shovel drop across them, bashing the jelly fish above, then running safely into the arms of checkpoint 6.

I jump to my death (112)

I make it second time and that's checkpoint 6, I could cry this morning.

"Get down here and face me, you gyroscopic jester"Propeller Knight

This is going to be an absolutely elemental bro down, air-bender style (113), he fucks me up.

He's wearing a propeller hat, super cute! (114), (115) 

Gyroscopic Jester Knight

He's now throwing me around like a cat would its kill (116)

The hole this dick smashed in the floor claimed my last 4 live's, I'm growing wiser to his patterns of attack, I remind him of this fact by smashing his propeller hat to pieces, claiming 3000 man purse coins and a rather pleasant dream about catching Shield Knight once more.

I save her this time, waking by the fire as I do. I find another meal ticket by the fire and thats max health for me, 10 orbs!

Next place to adventure , THE TOWER OF FATE, end game perhaps?

133 Total Deaths and 10.25:42 Play Time

I celebrate buying the wickedly named propeller dagger

Shovel Knight 7 - The Halo 5 Beta

So I start today's Shovel Knight experience staring at a 94.5% Halo 5 Guardians Beta Installation progress bar not moving, it's nearly been 2 hours I think?! FUCK it,
we all know Shovel Knight is better than Mr Chef.

Hello download my old friend

9.44 am -  Today's Music choice is MGMT, I think to myself this wont last 5 minute's, then I'll be back on the Slipknot.

I toy with the idea of going to the FLYING MACHINE - Lair of the Propeller Knight, then I see a rogue looking knight on the field.I could do with some more man purse coins this morning, mana also. Let's be honest I just want to kill something.

Halo 5 Beta just downloaded! 2 hours of waiting, 95% and it's finally done.I click Go, It tells me  "Slow down Caleb, have another 7.7GB download" I stare at the screen, as it quickly loads to 8%

Remembering better days

Oh I'm definitely shoveling this knight up now, It's not a straight up fight though, my 'flaming blob' and 'Joust Knight's' senses tingling.

This is your fault Halo 5 Beta, things could have been so simple if you would have loaded first time round.

Either way I clean up and claim a giant chest O gems, still its not over yet, the levels flashing lightning, I need to be careful every step of the way.

I see more canon fodder in the background, Easy, Just jump-shot the two stranded skeletons and run on through.

Last option on the map, FLYING MACHINE it is then.

I see this being the shortest and most stressed session, why I hear you scream at your screens whilst eating cereal, as I've replaced your daily newspaper?! Well because all I see is floating ships and bounce jumps to floating ladders.

Its Raining Shovel Knights

My brain flashes forward 5 minutes and all I hear is 'Its raining Shovel Men'

Even better, so these weird jelly fish die once you bounce on them. I pre raise the stress bar to a level 3 just to be safe.

I climb into the next area, jump on a ledge, it falls from beneath me. This also happens with the next three, the last one adding a well executed timed jump to the mix because you know, dying.

Now the jelly fish have a complete outer layer of lightning to make things that little bit more unbearable.This game means business, I can only imagine what future terrors lay ahead in worlds to come.

Future Terror

It's all about perfectly timed shovel hits and deadly precision with every jump as the wind carries me along. I get through orbs intact.


This room decides to up the fun by adding walls which enemies can hide behind, also McShovel's, so I'm now some what blind half the time.

When I feel them rogue blasts

As I float to the next area I get cracked in the side of the helmet by a wizard's rogue blast.
I blast the fucker back, simple.

Wind is carrying me across the level now, making everything twice as fast and
tense, some hooded fellow comes over to check if I'm okay, I whack him dead just to be safe.

I continue to sail through the level using the wind to my benefit and fly straight into bed with the lovely Checkpoint number 1.

Now Joust Knights are more aerial in there attacks as one casually flies over and bops me on the head, I reply by bopping his head clean of his bopping shoulders.

GIANT CANNONS. I jump upon one and elegantly glide into the next area and take shelter in a bed of spikes (93) I decide this time before I go into this room I'm just going to war horn everything dead, This please's me, as does the ever growing Halo 5 Beta screen, sitting at 79%

Clearly distracted by this I jump straight into an area, greeted by a floaty Knight, Angry, I bash him dead at his sudden arrival. I then war horn the rest of the newly named 'Green Lanterns' into lucky charms causing the place to
look like an 8 bit murder scene.

Lucky charms picure

Holy Jebus there's propeller mice now not clockwork ones!Super cute

STOP EVERYTHING HALO 5 BETA HAS DOWNLOADED, come on Checkpoint 2. Just remember to not rush, I rush, that brings up (94)

I was so sure I had it, damn it. I don't make the same mistake twice as I power through straight into the side of a flying boat full of Armoured Knights, They make crude signs at me from the safety of distance and flying longboat.

Look, longboat in the sky,shame about the rude passengers.

I get lucky and kill it with half an orb of health left and that's checkpoint 2 and Beta time, I decide against beta time and power through two areas I don't remember and that's checkpoint 3. NO shit.

I mess the first green lantern up only to be messed up by the second. (95)

I call it break time as this beast of a level is a 6 check pointer and the screen is currently screaming 'LET'S GO!'

No shit, That's what it say.

Kirby Style

Caleb

This all took place during and throughout the ongoing Halo 5 Beta

See my Halo 5 Beta blog - Live.Die.Repeat