ATA1201058 10.19.16
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It is now a little more than halfway
through October. Wow! Feels like the month has been running through
its
days rather fast, compared to September which for some reason felt a
little slower, but I don't why. Anyway! It's time
to discuss the following videos that were uploaded yesterday: Asphalt
8: Lamborghini Urus Bathes In China,
Kiwi
Wonder: My 1st Nightmare!!!,
Yoshi's
Story: Be Surprised! and
Bowmanville
Adventist Church: Touring The Exterior.
It's obvious
enough, but the title is revolved around the unfortunate incident,
where
I was racing with my Lamboghini Urus and tried to pull off a flatspin
and land on top of the temple, but ended up coming off! It was a
little disappointing and annoying, but it did end up inspiring me to
give the video a funny title, so I made light of this unfortunate
event and turned it into something a little more hilarious and
positive. What bugged me more than that was the inability to sync up
the audio for this race. It wasn't
terrible per se, but certainly not good. My gameplay itself also
wasn't good, and I even ended up down the wrong tunnel at one of the
parts to make the segment even more facepalm worthy! Sheesh! During
the next race I went to Monaco Reverse Elimination with the Class A
cars, and chose the Ferrari LaFerrari just because it's so awesome!
The audio was nicely synced, but I probably could have spent less
time hitting walls, and more time driving like a Ferrarian boss!
Still, at least I manged to come first, wreck a few computer players
and avoid getting wrecked. The last race I chose for this episode was
the track in Season 8, in Barcelona Reverse with the Mercedes-Benz
Silver Lightning. Now as you can recall, I was determined to pick
this race because I wanted to accomplish a certain goal, but what was
that goal?! Well, you'll just have to go back to my
old, crappy video from 8 months ago, titled: Asphalt 8 gameplay 1 to see it:
a wreck! I wanted to complete
this track without wrecks, and successfully pulled it off! YES! But
now that I mention it, how much have I improved in terms of both
gameplay and video production of this game? Truth is, looking at that
older
video and my most recent one, there's certainly not a stark contrast
between the two. The newer video has a
bigger, flashier logo, narration, original audio and no wrecks on
screen, so yes, I have improved in certain areas,
but there's still room for improvement, especially in regards to
audio quality and racing.
You
heard my roaring rant in the
video, so you should very well
know what my first nightmare was all about, but if for some reason,
you read the blog posts before the videos, then it's basically me
talking about how angry I got when my phone shut off with about 15%
of battery life
in it! What the hell?! Why?! And to make things worse, the video did
not save. Period. Not even up to the point where it cut off to make
things even more insulting and rage inducing. Oh well. Time was
running out, so I quickly just resorted to doing another segment.
Ranting, negativity and phone irritations aside, I must say that this
game was well put together. Artwork and graphics were smooth and
neat, animations well done, it was colourful, it was fun to play, it
was cutesy, and it was simply put
– Funkoi! These
guys
really
know how to make a good BlackBerry 10 game! Some of the titles are
also available on Android as well, but I'm not sure about iOS or
Windows 10 Mobile. Kiwis are flightless birds, so when Kiwi Wonder
sees birds flying, it makes him very sad. So sad, that he ends up
crying himself to sleep. Sounds depressing? He ends up dreaming a
dream where he can fly, and it's up to you to make sure that he keeps
dreaming about flying, without it getting interrupted by constantly
crashing into enemies and falling! Thankfully, I think I did a decent
job at keeping his dreams sweet, and this is
further proved by the fact that I managed to unlock a new track.
Speaking of that, how many tracks are supposed to be there anyway?
I've played the game for about 20 minutes, so I wasn't able to quite
discover everything, and then me playing the game for the first time
doesn't help either. Anyways, this game was great!
Quite surprising
I chose to play this game, isn't it? Not really. I did a test with my
BlackBerry 10 Gameboy
Advance emulator, so it was only a matter of time before I tested
the Nintendo 64 emulator. I don't have much titles on it, so I
decided to go with Yoshi's Story to keep the test fun, easy and
uncomplicated. The game ran well and syncing up the audio also
went well. Speaking of audio, the audio in the video sounds a little
muffled, but surprisingly good in my opinion. Could still be better
of course, but I liked how it
turned out for this video. I kind of wanted to do a story mode run,
but because I wasn't sure about how well the game would function, I
steered clear of the idea.
I can tell you,
some of the
places can experience some pretty bad frame rates! Will I do another
episode with story mode? Who knows. For this episode, I decided to go
for a run in Page #1's surprise course. Ah, such a fun, nostalgic,
Yoshi
experience!
In this video I
explore Bowmanville's quiet, mysterious, Seventh Day Adventist
church. For real though, the
intersection its located at
doesn't have a lot to see around it, and is pretty rural in nature. I
was also surprised to see that it did not have anyone present at the
time, given that it was a Saturday. Then again, it was also around
3-4 PM, so I guess it's because they left long time. Splendid!
So with that out of the way, I proceeded to walking around and
filming the church. Closer towards the back, you can see that I
discovered a shed full of some unknown things, but presumably
garbage. It didn't take me very long to cover the perimeter, but yet
I still did not feel like putting the camera down. Why?! Because I
felt that I had to cover some more things within the area, so I
started wondering away from the property going eastbound along the
grass, behind the trees,
wild
flowers and gravel. It didn't take very long before I decided to
stop, talk about uninteresting things, and turn back. So
what happened next? I decided to finally call it quits in front of
some cube filled with a mysterious blue-grey liquid. What was it? I
have no idea, but I'm sure the pastor of that church probably knows!
Considering (and
coincidentally?) that this church is located on a road called Lambs
Road, they could have went with the name Lambs Seventh Day Adventist
Church, which would be fitting in a way, considering that the lamb
often represents innocence and harmlessness in Christianity, but it
seems like they decided to go for a name that represents the
community. Not suggesting that they change the name, as it's fine the
way it is, but it's just a random thought that came up while I was
reading over this entry.
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