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So last week I started The Banner Saga. I got several hours into it. I love the Disney annimation art style. I kept thinking of animated Lord of the Rings though, both Rankin/Bass and Bakshi versions. I like the tactics combat. It's simpler than something like Final Fantasy Tactics, but it's still really fun. The story is neat too, all about politics with these Viking-like peoples, and characters can die if they get knocked out too often, but there's no going back. You can't undo anything with a previous save file and I like that. It'll make replaying it a lot of fun. All that being said, you'll see ahead how I got side-tracked by other things this week. 

First I got a new Adventure Pack, Dragon's Peak, for Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. Mark gave it to me because he bought it twice off Amazon by accident. See pic. 

                           

I guess I'll be getting back to this game sometime soon. I still have to finish it and try out these Adventure Packs which come with a new level to play. It's DLC via figure packs. What's wrong with that?

Today I messed around with YouTube videos on XBO. I'm beginning to like the new UI. To go to Youtube and watch videos on Xbox 360 took a lot longer and was often unreliable. I got right to it on XBO and was watching the Brutal Doom trailer in short order. 

Then I could've gone and played The Banner Saga, but I was feeling a bit strange after my month long ordeal with some weird virus and other problems related to over exercising and under eating. I'm not sure I'm ok quite yet. So Minecraft: XBO Edition was just the ticket. I play this game one way: on Survival mode, Hard difficulty and no respawns. In the first phase, I rush to protect myself and get the basic necessities taken care of and then, in the second phase, start mining. I got killed in the second phase several different times in hilarious ways: twice by Creepers and once by a Witch throwing poison. Then I did better and got deep into a natural mine. Somehow I came across the Stronghold. I cut my way in there and found myself in a room with a Mob Spawner surrounded by skelton archers. I battled valiantly, but on the last skeleton, I ran out of health and died. That was the end of my strategy of mining in natural caves. So I thought of a new, actually old, one. Dig a vertical shaft straight down, laying ladder as I go, and mine at bedrock level. I did that and didn't meet one enemy. Soon I had a full set of iron armor and every type of mineral except diamond. I guess that's the best way. Stay off the surface and out of natural caves, at least in the first two phases of the games (basic necessities, mining). I couldn't get away from Minecraft all day. It's so much fun. 

I did however lament the fact that the XBO version of Minecraft does not talk with the Xbox 360 version, so Mark and I couldn't play co-op. I'm going to remedy that tomorrow by setting up my Xbox 360. We're going to mess with that awhile, and I think I'll pick up Destiny and two copies od Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edtion for other co-op goodness. Solo play is great and all, but co-op is the best. Sorry Banner Saga. Friends win.