This week in words, YouTube.

After last weeks less than stellar content turn around I went on a busy spree recording videos .

So i have what I think maybe two or three new videos depending on how good the last 50 minutes of content is.

So this week I shall be dropping some more video content than ever plus more of Gunman Clive's adventures.

Probably more Bipolar medical updates, content was short last week from me having the flu and then going into a very horrible depressive stage where I didn't wash for two weeks, wasn't eating and slept for three whole days. not fun for anyone!

Sorry if I'm abit to honest about my illness but its always been part of my blog, ever since I started writing these small crayon scribblings, so I like to keep the continuity up.


So please kick back and enjoy my content, please like and subscribe, share between friends and family and make a depressed soul happy.

The thought of making people laugh is what keeps me going.

I think thats everything.

Stay till the end!

Manic Army,

Caleb, ManicallyDepressed-Moderately Funny.

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Online Diary, Day 1 - Bipolar Zelda.

Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up with that title I posted last week, whilst I was on the speculation train I thought it only fair to stop off at platform 3 and a Half-Life.

Ready to save the day, one crowbar at a time.

As long as people use Steam it's safe to say Half life 3 is a long way away.

It would be a nice thing to hear though wouldn't it, enough photo shop jobs on the Internet to make you think otherwise, My personal favourite being the 'Gabe' Half Life 3 image I used in that blog.

Talking of Steam I saw Tomb Raider for £2.99, absolute madness if you ask me!

Jumped aboard the Zelda train this morning, Spirit train for all you technical nerds out there, and brought a copy of Majora's Mask 3D, I then spent the whole day playing A Link Between Worlds. How odd?!

Only 2 of the seven sages left to collect, so its been a fun filled, dungeon questing day.

That adorable train!

I feel like I haven't released any proper content in a while even though I just edited content drop mark II 'I think I'm going to Spelunk"

Originally 45 minutes long I cut nearly 2/3 away to keep it in the 15 minute time frame YouTube allows.

Hopefully you'll be able to see the effort that went into making this one.

A different experience from the first video, but I hope you enjoy it all the same.

Not sure what the next video will be of and when it'll be recorded but hopefully it'll happen in the next week or two as Matt's one busy bee, I could always try being funny alone but that's just a scary thought.

Its not that scary.

Matt's also my partner in crime when it comes to creating content!

Has this become an online diary for me at the minute as I've lost any sort of direction I once had, I think it has a little, do I just stop 2 months into this project?

FUCK NO.

Documenting the mind of a Bipolar gamer and all the content he tries to create was always the idea of this blog, To do it for me, to prove I can do things no matter how scary they may seem.

My biggest anxiety actually coming from people knowing its me, Its amazing how your views can change in such a short period of time.

Now I want people to know it's me.

Create content! If not for others then for yourselves, it's rewarding to see what you can create from nothing.

I also got my Diagnosis back today from the doctor so I have an official piece of paper saying I have Bipolar disorder, its sad and scary to read about spots of amnesia and memory lapses I suffered from being so far down the rabbit hole.

Next step is treatment so after some blood tests and heart scans they will be able to move me over from an anti psychotic to a mood stabiliser, either Lithium or Valproate.

Hears to the next big step in this crazy new year.




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Moon Walking Trains - Gunman Clive part 3

Today's Gunman Clive update comes from a coffee shop, the coffee shop where I work, not the familiar and safe surroundings I've grown accustomed to, but still I

I'm actually sat in this Costa.

familiar setting non the less, I wonder if people will be able to see the mental strain this game is causing me.

It takes me two failed jumps and a serious being form a wolf to get in the zone, I'm not going to make it far on this run.

I dash way to fast to the left and fall straight into a spiky pit once again. (26)

I make it through the small laid out path and straight into a hobbit cowboy dwelling in a small cowboy hole, I shoot him in the face and walk on by. completely forgetting whats next I start to worry.

Death, hot steaming death is next (27) Death and Bats.

Bunny with a gun. 

Back to bat city, I jump and shoot all over the place like a bunny with a gun. I make the jump, shot a man in the gut and run through into what feels like a wind turbine chamber full of ducks?! Weird. as.
FUCK.

I eat a whole cake, like you do in cowboy times, candle included, run to the another room full of wind turbines and floating platforms, the more I think about this game the less cowboy it seems.

One scary platform ride spent running against the force of the wind and dodging giant circular saws I finish stage 8 in 141 seconds, Did I mention the left side of that room was covered in spikes.

Stage 9

Coming to you live on the trailer of a train dashing through the desert, I'm greeted by a pelican drive by shitting.

'Shit off' I blast at him, shooting him straight in the beak, I kill a man dead, shot a wolf gone and punt a duck in the neck, I decide that mans name was Noah seems as he had so many damn animals following him. (27)

Cartoon Animals!

Noah decided it best to drown me so I had to start again.

I run through the level as fast as I can, Ducking and diving along the way. Thinking very methodically every step of the way I miss judge a jump and get shot in the back by a cowboy hanging out a carriage window joker style. (28) 

I make it to what I think is the end of the level and jump in-between the connecting carriages barrel rolling down the tracks in little Clive chunks. Idiot! (29)

A nice bowl of minced Clive.

As I'm hit in the guts once more I rag doll straight onto the railway track and get turned into minced meat again.(30)

Turns out there was a room full of people after what I thought was the end, Easy work for a master cowboy like Clive, finished in 76 seconds

Stage 10 - Boss battle.

Turns out the train is a giant moon walking robot, Awesome. Terrifying!

I shoot it in its big yellow head and make more progress than I did with Elvis on my first go, Ultimately I die again through trying to figure out his attack pattern, it seems to be shoot a bomb from his chest and dodge his big robotic hands made up off wheels.

Every so often he breaths fire but thats just awesome.

Fire Breathing, Moon Walking giant robotic Train.

The best thing I can suggest is to stand on the boxes and duck the on coming punches and shot in bursts of three at his big yellow head. (31)

Lets do this this time, More positive thinking!

Nope, I die a few times in this process (32) (33) (34) 

Victory, 71 seconds and that giant moon walking mother fucker is dead.

Manic Army!

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I think I'm going to Spelunk!

Happy Friday 13th!

I managed to edit it together and this is the end result, 13 minutes of awful spelunking!

I hope you enjoy, please subscribe and leave comments and come back for more ManicallyDepressed - ModeratelyFunny adventures!

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Caleb

Spelunky's a bitch

So apparently confirming Half Life 3 is a death wish  on the Internet as its wanted so bad.

I doubt it will ever come out as it honestly doesn't need to, Valve makes so much money with steam its silly to release any game at the minute, they may as well save it till steams on the down and pump some life back into the stocks with the ultimate box collection 3, Half Life 3, Team Fortress 3 and Portal 3, like the orange box with numbers or add Left 4 Dead 3 to confirm more 3s.

Today's post is short and spontaneous, just how I like my woman, saying that I'm 6.4 so most people are short compared to me.

The reason why its so short is I'm currently editing some video that we shot last night, I'm trying to turn it into something for tomorrow/Monday, seems as I'm fairly new to the editing world its taking a while!

I did however finish Life is Strange yesterday, as well as shoot 45 minutes of video, so cutting that down to ten minutes Is how I'm spending my Thursday.

Spelunky's a bitch

Manic Army

Caleb.

Exercise my right to pick up a gun and fight - Gunman Clive part 2

Today I'm Celebrate America by watching the Super Bowl, I'm betting the Patriots will win for some weird reason, whats more patriotic than having patriot in you name?

Rugby for wimps?

Anyway I decide in my pure chill state to fire up some Gunman Clive in what I'm describing as 'Let's Play meets walk through that adds no help at all, just details of death via cute animal'

Let's do this.

Stage 6 - 19 Retries - 16 Minutes play time.

A pelican hangs around in the air later deciding to shit a bird bomb at me, feeling one with the controls I jump shot him, jumping a cliff in the process and taking out two cowboys exercising my truly bad ass gunman skills.

A saw stares me out, daring me to make the jump, I think nothing of the stupid task only to get rushed by a man on horse back straight away. I worriedly shoot  all over the screen waiting for him to make a second pass, I don't look so good now.

What gap?

I focus so much on this shooting this passing arsehole I completely miss the hole in bridge falling to death number (20) 

I start of with a far more aggressive play style this time and figure it takes between 3 and 6 hits to kill this horsemen, I  smash all four this time with out taking one hit, beast mode engaged.

Bye Bye bridge of death, hello freshly blown holes in the next bridge.

I shoot a large red barrel, blowing what I can only assume are the pieces that are meant to fly away up, I can almost taste stage 7.

Two more terrifying bridges later and multiple explosions I roll through stage 6 in 59 seconds, that's a lie, more pre judged excitement when in fact I'm greeted by two more horsemen.

I jump down a ladder and that's stage 7 in 77 seconds.

Oh fuck it I need to stop guessing and wait until I finally actually do I, Oh I do now, 80 seconds in.

Stage 7

Creepy? Fuck no.

I start this part of my adventure in an abandoned mine shaft, jumping in the only thing I can see,
I wonder if I'll spend my whole time in this mine cart?

Looks like a yes, as I go to jump out the cart as a gap appears, the cart follows me like its welded to my lower cowboy parts, legs that is.

It's almost over as fast as it began, shooting me across a level of pelicans and gunmen in opposing mine carts.

I miss time an awkward short jump and jump straight into the abyss (21) 

Lets tackle that one again shall we!

More high speed chases in mine carts making Battlefield Hardline look like child's play, I high speed my self into the abyss one more time. (22) 

Once this game kills you, it kills you a lot! FUCK IT (23)

Fuck those guys, I fly through the level in 60 seconds flat . ONWARDS!!!

                                                                                    Stage 8

Only work he could get these days.

I climb down a ladder and bitch slap a wolf in the face, I rescale the ladder to notice he's re appeared once again.

I'm more taken by the magic blocks that appear and disappear before my eyes, I wonder what I'm going to have to do with them?

JUMP ACROSS THEM.

They form together into a tedious puzzle, one appears, one is taken away, making you                
                                                                                       memories the order they appear in to get to the       next level.

As I focus on the man in front of me with a gun I lose focus and walk straight into a decent, a decent into spikes, damn times moving blocks! (24)

I manoeuvre the jumps, slap a man in the face a dash over to a tiny killer bat, I finish bats off and jump over some more spike floor finishing another bat and gunman, I'm getting good at this now, I miss judge the jump and eat spike salad once again, No more!

That's a wrap.

Manic Army

Caleb.

Future Proof, Fame not included.

A strange week for me this week, 

Future proof, fame not included.

Firstly I was diagnosed as Bipolar which is a huge relief and a long time coming, but to finally hear those words is the best thing that could happen as now I can be treated accordingly, which means more blood tests and heart scans!

I love blood tests so fucking much it's untrue.

Then to celebrate the diagnosis I brought an Elgato HD60 to start streaming some gameplay, I then realised my laptop couldn't handle the power of full 1080p 60fps streaming and recording, I then made a decision based on it being a success.

Like any reasonably sound of mind person would do, I brought a MacBook Pro.

Normal people wouldn't do this but I think its part of my charm.

So now every blog is delivered from a laptop I'm still not sure how to use, so badly so I had to text a friend, from MacBook to MacBook I should say,  about how to hashtag. #TrueStory

Dollar bills and explosions.

My week has mostly been filled with downloading Beta's

Battlefield Hardline was the first beta, my normal blog should be up in the next few days showing my 1337 skill set, If everything goes well I could technically record gameplay of the beta and narrate my blog over the top of it, like a white Morgan Freeman.

Secondly I emailed the Neverwinter devs about getting a place in the closed beta, a Xbox One MMORPG based around the dungeons and dragons franchise.

Greek battles never looked so good.

I was lucky enough to get a place so I'm intrigued and excited to see whats to offer.

So normally I have a list of games I've finished, after the last few weeks I've finished close to 10 games so its strange to not finish one at all, The list is starting to grow as I add Saints Row IV and Apotheon, a free Playstation Plus game for ps4 users!

Transistor and Rogue Legacy are the two amazing games free with Playstation Plus this month, Transistor is a science fiction RPG that follows the story of voiceless singer Red as she travels through a beautifully handprinted world fighting an enemy known as the process, My personal game of 2014 and Rogue Legacy an indie platform game, the goal is to explore a randomly generated castle, defeat four bosses in four unique environments and then defeat the final boss.

Jen Zee's amazing digital art.

I finally finished my adventure after 27 hours. 

So from me to anyone reading this that hasn't played either they are a must own for any growing Playstation Library.

Once upon a time I contacted the artist for Transistor wishing to buy some of Jen Zee's amazing art only to have my heart broken when she told me it was all done digitally and there wasn't a original copy, I was then told to check out the supergiant games store and buy some one of the posters and having it never work for me.

I still mourn to this day, another true story.

Lets hope the next week brings more finished games.

Never one to force the very natural work flow I've adopted hopefully some video content will start to be uploaded in the next few weeks.

Enjoy your Friday and download those games!

Koi Koi

Caleb

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I'm finishing games, It's that bad!

Today I text my Dad,

'I'm so broke. I'm finishing games, It's that bad'

This made me giggle, so much so I picked up a crayon and started to scribble on my bedroom wall

I needed this game so bad! I used this image
a lot to sum up my feelings around that time.

Now I'm one of those people that 'NEEDS' everything.

Always release day, never after. Because that would mean that I'm missing something important, I feel like I cant play FarCry 4 any more after 9 hours because its old news.

This is okay when your working and have money, but not acceptable behaviour when you have no money to your name.

I always have a healthy pile of games I play depending on my mood, spanning over 4 formats, triple AAA titles all the way down to indie games, like Mount your Friends, this amazingly intense title costing £0.59 on my Xbox 360, many a gathering has seen that game in full swing.

My main thought is, do other people do this?

Do you buy one game and play it till its old news?, then start another? or do you stack a pile to the ceiling, dipping your toes in each one, but never quite settling down?

I have a tendency to do the latter, every so often one game gets worn down enough that its finished, but normally I get to the 25% mark and swap to something else, demoting the previously Favorited game to the bottom of the pile.

I'm starting to catch up.

So today I've managed to finish Halo Combat Evolved, Flower and Dust.

This is more than I normally clear in a good month.

The only games that normally see completion without interruption are RPG'S, Dragon Age Inquisition being the last major title that got fully worked over in a ten day, 125 hour massacre that I don't really fully remember.
All I do know is every mission got finished, the only thing keeping me from getting that platinum trophy was the fact I finished it on hard and not nightmare difficulty, Balls!

Trophies and Achievements play a big part in my diet, It sounds bad but it keeps me going at a point I would normally call it quits, Nothing screams 'Hey guys we got a champion' like a platinum trophy or an 87000 gamer-score, yes mine is that high.

That hunt and grind for pointless achievements has slowed down over the past 3 years but its still a very real driving factor for me, playing games to completion is rewarded by fake numbers and gold! I love that

Nintendo trophies like this! Super cute, also just Mario Trophy.

It sounds silly but I wish Nintendo had introduced some reward system to show off those in game achievements, things we should be proud to show people, I know there's competitive leaderboards and friends lists but that's not the same, I want more numbers and gold etched to the side of my name!I want to display my accolades like a true gamer.

Telling and seeing are to very different things, I can tell people I'm an elite sniper on the latest Call of Duty, but when they see my name 'x-uLtImAtESNIPZ360-x they WILL know I mean business!

Is it just me that feels this way about a number or metal? It makes me want to explore a game multiple times when someone can see that I've beaten that game, Like shovel knight! no body knows that, defiantly going on my C.V, I could have made it all up, check my Instagram, there's a picture of me crying next to a completion screen.

This appears every time I finish a game.

Back to the worry at hand, Finishing Games!

I've finished more games in the past month, all of multiple difficulties spanning from the beautiful Flower to the near impossible at times, Shovel Knight.

The godfather Halo to 50cc of Mario Kart 8 fun.

The time killer Dragon Age Inquisition to the super addictive Hyrule warriors.

Another accolade only documented by picture, 100000 kills on Hyrule Warriors, again see my Instagram.

I'm going to make an internet tally of games on that pile

Colours and Characters.

1. Bayonetta 2.
2. Super Mario Galaxy 2.
3. Captain Toad - Treasure Tracker
4. The Legend of Zelda - The Wind Waker HD.
5. Pokemon - Alpha Sapphire.
6. Bravely Default.
7. The Legend of Zelda - A Link Between Worlds.
8. Halo 2.
9. Halo 3.
10. Halo 4 - The Master Chief Collection, is that 1 or 4?
11. FarCry 4.
12. Assassins Creed Unity.
13. Rogue Legacy - STILL!
14. The Swapper.
15. Infamous - First Light.
16. Hotline Miami.
17. Lara Croft and The Temple of Osiris.
18. Velocity.

Holy Fuck it's under 20, when I started this blog it was sitting at 34, Its worse than I thought.

Koi Koi 

Caleb.

The Binding of Isaac:Rebirth - Poo Edition

The only 'normal' image you'll see today.

Isaac lives with his Mother, his Mother hears a voice from above telling her to remove all evil from Isaac's room, she does this, even taking his pants in the process.

This voice tells her to lock Isaac in his room away from evil, she does this like any crazy voice hearing Mother would.

Turns out it's God, nice one God,

Hey Mother!

He finishes off this crazy Mother by telling her he needs a sacrifice, A sacrifice in the form of Isaac's dead limp body, sounds like a wonderful God to me.

Isaac runs away as his Mother now carries a knife, taking shelter in the cellar.

This is Isaac's story, told in Caleb's point of view.

So I'm doing this, late night, coffee on the go, I miss the challenge of indie developed arcade games, I hate them, but strangely enjoy the stress it brings.

sex face.

I choose Isaac as my loveable character.

I appear to be naked and crying, a lot like sex.

Move and shoot, that's all there is too it, wonderful, I'm not one for overly hard controls.

Room 1, 3 doors, One Gold, I'm not going in the gold one yet, I choose you door to the left, I confirm these details are corrected by making an L with my hands. People who know me should know this fact.

Nothing in this room, Right it is then.

I'm greeted by fly's and a Golden shit, I shoot everything including the shit, coins galore, I leave via door on the right once again.

Golden shit.

I think this game has pass codes as I just saw an 8 character code in the corner, Stress! Poo's with smiles on their faces, this games full of funny shit.

I walk through a scary door, this time greeted by Larry Junior,  a terrifying worm with a taste for Isaac flesh.

It's a fun filled maze built out of shit, inhabited by two giant spiky toothed man child eating worms, a lot of shit in Isaac's basement.
I kill them both with 1 heart to spare, still not looking forward to what will happen WHEN I die?

Basement II

Up or down? Down down as Lady Gaga once sang, I think?

Handsome-o

Double headed fly's this time and shit, sounds like a high class French restaurant, left's my only option, so left it is, Not much to look at. Headless kids throwing up blood, nice.

I use my key acquired after beating up Larry to go into the next room, It's full of cards. I don't get it.

Another scary looking boss room, Fuck that things horrible, Monstro, I can see where he adopted that name from, time to run and gun.

This fucker leaps and throws up blood (1)

I start again with nothing, what the shit? If its like that this is going to be one short lived blog series.

I run into a horrible room, worms throwing up blood (2)

Nightmare's back on the menu.

Faster than before with no signs of any progress. Damn it!

I run into a door that this time decides to bite me, then blow me up with bombs

I go into another room and pick up some bombs, I use said bombs figuring out the other button to use them in the process. Idiot

A spider kills me (3)

There's a head spider, nightmares tonight. I kill it and run the fuck away.

I eat dead onion and look like what I can only imagine bane to look like, with out the mask

Bane with out the mask.

Now I just look like I'm throwing up shit

Larry again, I make quick work of him, his weakness must be naked kids throwing up shit? I'd soon disappear if I saw that

Really big shits that turn into little shits. I'd rather try play Hotline Miami, at least when I was playing that you had a sense of progression like Shovel Knight, I feel like this is all for nothing.This games all skill and I have none!

I unlock a gold room,like the one I ignored at the start of the game, now becoming clear these are 'safe' rooms, now I have a little friend that's following me around.

He's as useless as my shit breath, actually I take that back, at least my shit breath is helping, he's not doing a thing

Crying babies with exploding heads cry and explode, Hello Monstro, we meet again, me with half a heart of health and you being a giant Monster head hell bent on death

crying exploding baby head.

Fuck it (4)

Seeds use the codes I mentioned at the start of the game to lock in a version of the world you've already run before, I'll try you again soon mother shitter

Koi Koi

Caleb

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 5 - Breaking the trend

Another Cryptic name, why ?

Getting it done

Because its 10.00 am and I'm going to have a little session now as I'm really enjoying my time with Shovel Knight, Death's and all! I've put some Slipknot on as this is music you get things done too.

Where to next then?

Well all I can do is walk into the ENCHANTRESS, she chats shit about trying to persuade the Evil named BLACK KNIGHT to join the order ,

 I chime in with a " What the Shovel Fuck " and she float runs away.

12 rounds it is then.

Now the BLACK KNIGHT wants to go 12 rounds.
Obliged, I Knock the Knight out in one quick round.
I thrust my Shovel in the air to show I am the mightiest of knights, never corrupted by the evil, just fighting for what's right. like the 1500 man purse gold I just received via direct debt. even evil people bank, who'd have thought it.



The Adventure is go!

Said catapult, Horse and song sheet

So I jump out of the level like I said I'd stop doing and land in a catapult, yes that random, Which flings me too some distant land.

I grab a song sheet, so I'm okay with this current turn of events. Apparently its all thanks to a horse who loves Ballistic Physics! The more you know and all that, Holy shit, it flung me from the Village to the Armor Outpost, DECENT!

5000 Man purse coin please

I continue my adventure to the Hall of Champions, sounds expensive. 5000 man purse coins to enter?! I give the odd looking duck princess the middle Shovel finger and be on my merry way.

I go see my trusty Shovel Smith to upgrade McShovels

 "You now hold in your hands the ultimate Shovel blade"  Shovel Smith                                   

 I laugh Shovel MAD with all this power at my fingertips, if only I could get some down time,I'd shovel build the best sand castle the world has ever seen!

10.39 am - CLOCKWORK TOWER - lair of the Tinker Knight.

First thoughts on this world, lots of cogs, lots of treadmills of death. Clock work death comes to mind. 59 deaths and leaving on a high note probably won't come from this world, It already looks evil and I'm just standing in reception.

Deadmaus

Clock work Mice are today's enemy of choice, Fucking Brilliant! I'm also greeted by a wizard who casually starts throwing cogs at me, I just jump straight over the cogs and Shovel smash him to death.

I'm kissed by one of these evil flying cat head things and that's death number (60) and back to the start of the level again.

I get straight back to my flying dead loot to claim it my own once again, I assess the situation wrong, bouncing off the ceiling and straight into death (61) 

I boom straight through the level remembering every enemy and every trap, I make the jump and claim my man purse coins and climb a ladder to claim checkpoint 1, a sigh of relief as its done.

Isaac 

As I climb straight up some ladder I see Isaac from Dead Space shooting shit at me from across the map. I bounce on his head to claim an instant kill, staring out the other Isaac across the map.

I decide to leave him to it as I climb up a ladder some rockets fly past me, I'm lucky I don't get hit by one.At the top of the ladder I'm welcomed by a Jousting Knight! I run away like the hardcore coward I am, health a major issue now, not to worry I see some chicken .... and lots of timed jumps and death.

I get the gut feeling I'll be standing here again in 5 minutes time (62)

As I foresaw I'm greeted by death and a puzzling amount of jumps, treadmills and rockets flying around, I'm going to raise my stress level to a 4.

Part Shovel Knight part rocket salad.

(63) Spikes for dinner this time as I'm not so lucky and eat rocket salad.

I cruise through this time moving to get a better position on this floating piece of wood, I nudge left to get more centred, centred straight into a fucking hole (64)

The rocket makes quick work of me this time as I'm the key ingredient to a nice rocket salad (65)

I DO IT! I get through, I see Checkpoint 2. To celebrate my success I jump straight down a hole in the ground, my heart sinks (66)

11.09 am - Just over an hour in and I've hardly progressed. I want this clockwork twat dead so badly now.

(67) Another rocket jump, another rocket salad. Stress level 5 and rising. Maybe my evening session will be more productive as I'll be a little calmer.

I kill the Joust Knight this time just to prove I can, lets see if I can get this checkpoint now. I DO. Checkpoint 2, my more aggressive play style pays off.... for now

Candy cock

There are some horrible looking things that look like giant candy canes which you get stuck too and drag you along, As an optimist all I see is stress, I walk into the room. It crushes me (68) 

Eaten by a flying Cat head (69) 


I fuck the cat head up then figure out the puzzle, I celebrate by jumping on some nearby spike (70) 


I go to jump on this candy cock and miss, hello familiar hole (71)

11.26 am - 11 Deaths in this world so far! HARDCORE, I persevere.

I correct all the mistakes I made this time, I fight off 3 Jousting Knights then climb a ladder to safety.
Checkpoint 3 waves at me. I go give it a sweet high 5 and remember it wasn't all for nothing.

I kill another Isaac and run straight for the ladder, The level now throws a complete curve ball at me. Not only do I have to jump and climb a lot the floor is also rising and rockets are flying at me from across the map. I'm then reminded of the key ingredient to an excellent rocket salad (72) 

I die once again, nothing special this time (73)

More of the level is revealed to me as a progress higher (74)

I'm to slow to the party this time and the rocket's celebrate with out me (75)

This time I jump to death out of pure fear (76)

I do it. I surprise myself. I was honestly about to call it quits as 16 DEATHS is to many, 4 orbs of health and a boss, I know I'll die but I'll kill him second time round.
I find the hidden boss Chicken, it mocks me once again by being out of my reach.

BOSS - Tinker Knight 

A small problem

"Just work on letting me pass little friend"

 I calmly say before it all kicks off. He runs from left to right panicking, I make SMALL work of him. Long live Shovel Knight
WHAT ?!

He's a fucking massive robot now, I take all above back and death (77)

Mines bigger than yours

Lets pray full health helps me this time, 8 orbs, beast mode engaged. death. again.(78)

I kill him this time, not one hit to my sweet Shovel Armor, now for that Robot!Lucky bounce and the robots dead!

I head back to the village for a breather and to hand in some song sheets to this lunatic, I visit the witch to see some of my stats 94 total deaths, Jesus I wouldn't have guessed so many.

6.38:35 Total play time, I call that break time.
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