Monday, July 24, 2023

Death Battle Fight Prediction: Jack Frost (Jack Frost horror movie series) vs Gingerdead Man (Gingerdead Man/Evil Bong series)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, It's very surprising a particular joke horror movie fight request for Death Battle. Ends up with a lot of fan DB trailers on YouTube. Honestly, we still need to bring more horror into the web show. This is also one of the weirdest DB requests. I also previously talked about these two on my blog entries in the past.

We have two unusual famous Chucky knock off characters. Jack Frost not to be confused with a lot of similar titled things. This particular version is a very short lived, low budget horror movie slasher villain. His opponent, the Gingerdead Man has a similar story. Originally was the slasher in a short lived horror movie series before becoming an recurring character in Evil Bong series.

Full Moon Features is mostly low budget films. They ended up making more Evil Bong series than The Gingerdead Man movies. This episode could easily fit in as a Christmas horror episode. We got an mutant snowman fighting an possessed gingerbread man. We don't even need Santa, The Grinch or Krampus for that matter.

Update: both short live low budget horror movie franchises are largely known for being bad movies. They rushed out sequels that constantly gets even worst. They also previously shown the actual killers when they were alive prior to being supernatural slashers. Again ripping off Chucky in the original Child's Play movie.

We got a mutant snowman taking on an possessed gingerbread man. I don't think people are willing to go even sillier horror wise for the web show. I already seen enough to know who actually wins this fight. There's several major things they got in common, no this isn't a random joke fight thrown out there. Along with what I previously stated, both also involved with an unpleasant sexual kill scene.

They also hold an grudge against the very person that lead to their arrest. Both died then got transformed into rather laughable objects to continue their murdering sprees. Somewhat similar appearances, well it's an snowman taking on an gingerbread man for God's sakes!!! They also once used someone else's car to kill em with.

This is a difficult fight to take seriously. I'm actually on board just curious to actually see if Death Battle would actually do this fight or not. The jokes alone is more than enough reason to do this episode guys. Personally, this one going to be an episode. The joke itself may speak volumes, what the hell is wrong with you guys?

Yes I previously done a short video prediction but I figured to do a more in depth version here. Also how can you not wanna see this joke fight?

Jack Frost

Jack Frost was a serial killer up to his arrest. He was getting transferred when the transport vehicle had an accident. Jack goes to check when chemicals caused him to melt into the snow. This also caused him to be reborn using snow, a mutant snowman. I guess this got snowballed lol.

Gingerdead Man

Millard Findlemeyer was a serial killer. He killed some relatives of Sarah. Not long afterwards, he gets arrested. He gets put to death but his witch mother hid his ashes into a thing of gingerbread spice mix. He becomes alive again as his new body gets heated up. Well the cookie crumbles lol.

Powers and Abilities

Jack Frost

+Stronger than a normal man
+Faster than a normal man
+Shape shift
+Icicle projectiles
+Icicle teeth
+Freezing water
+Snow
+Manipulate pieces of himself
+Creates mutant snowballs
+Throwing snowballs faster than a normal man
+Turn into liquid to get through tight spaces
+Greater pain torrent
+Faster reaction speed

Gingerdead Man

+Faster than a normal man
+Possess people by being eaten
+Greater pain torrent
+Small enough to sneak around vents

Advantages

Jack Frost

+Much stronger
+Faster reaction speed
+More powers
+No longer vulnerable to Anti-Freeze
+Temperature also no longer a problem
+More deceptive usage of his powers
+Much more durable
+Easier method to get through tight spaces

Gingerdead Man

+More confirmed experience
+Faster

Disadvantages

Jack Frost

-Has a fatal weakness to bananas
-It's possible to prevent him from entering spaces with enough towels used

Gingerdead Man

-Doesn't have as many powers
-Much easier to kill
-Possession might not work on Jack either
-Requires finding weapons
-Isn't as bright
-Not as strong
-Jack's superior reaction with snowballs counters Gingerdead Man's speed
-He also wouldn't know to not drink unattended drinks
-Jack no longer vulnerable to temperatures
-Jack also became immune to Anti-Freeze
-More vulnerable to liquids due to being a possessed cookie

Weaknesses

Jack Frost

He used to have a weakness towards temperatures as well as Anti-Freeze. Neither is no longer an issue to him. Yet he gains a stupid fatal weakness in the form of bananas.

Gingerdead Man

His reborn body much easier to break. Either by simply breaking off pieces of him or too much liquid soaked in. Also he barely has any powers. He also isn't the brightest among the two killers here.

Verdict

Jack Frost

This was very clear cut who was going to win. Jack has a lot more powers with some could be used deceptively. Also the Gingerdead Man isn't smart enough to know bananas is Jack's one weakness. Gingerdead Man is getting stomp in stats. Jack also may have his mutant snowballs. Let's be honest, he doesn't even need to win this fight.

In that particular case, Gingerdead Man more screwed. Jack was capable of having an entire small island covered with snow at a fast rate. He was even capable of freezing an pool fast enough to trap an victim underneath to drown. Basically he would have more direct control whatever they fought. Jack also slightly smarter or at least more common sense in comparison.

Jack also has some form of shape shifting. Like he transformed himself ice like anvil to kill someone. He also can be the water with no real way to fight again. More of an ability from his second, last movie. So it wouldn't even matter if Gingerdead Man could melt him or not. Especially after fusing his DNA with the sheriff and more importantly Anti-Freeze.

Gingerdead Man likely might drink something. Then all of a sudden, Jack is killing him from the insane. He easily could force an icicle go through him or cause his head to explode. Like this lady about to get her picture taken roughly when it was taken. Again, neither Gingerdead Man has counters for. He even has the disgusting option forcing his entire snow mass inside of someone too.

Gingerdead Man's body is much less durable to Jack's. Gingerdead Man has to go out of his way to find any weapons. We do know, most of them are going to fail against Jack. The big question is if Jack were to eat Gingerdead Man. Considering a little above I said here, I don't think it's going to be a real possibility in this fight.

Would he become possess by him? Surprisingly, a particular scene confirms he can shape shift inside himself too. Which means, his spirit would have a difficult time possessing him. Not only that, he easily could crush Gingerdead Man to death while he's inside of him too. Gingerdead Man lacks counters to icicles, both in being used as a projectile as well as his icicle teeth.

Jack was even capable of decapitating an man's arm with just one snowball. I highly doubt Gingerdead Man could survive being hit by one of them. This is virtually a stomp, Jack has plenty of ways to kill him off. Gingerdead Man only has one solid means to do so. Unfortunately, it also could work against him too.

Jack also being much stronger making an direct fight a terrible idea. As for hiding in vents, Jack could simply turn into liquid to get the drop on him. It seems stuff like that or already having dangerous weapons as parts of his body, Jack always ready to fight. Even if we were to given him that one machine with lasers from Gingerdead Man 2 movie, it still wouldn't help here.

On the surface, Jack already has most the major advantages. Gingerdead Man ultimately fighting a losing battle. Even if he were to attempt using bananas against Jack. He's still the more difficult out of the two killers to predict. Chances are, Gingerdead Man wouldn't know how to use em neither gets a solid opportunity to do so.

What I am trying to say is Jack Frost actually more broken joke horror movie slasher villain in comparison. I know this is a huge insult but not even the Evil Bong movies he appears in helps his case. In majority of those, he's mostly just there with a few weird moments. The next big opportunity he had, he quickly got killed while in Hell.

Death is a weird topic because in a sense, both of them could come back. Gingerdead Man had a trickier time doing so after his death in Hell. It actually led to two similar characters being created. Eventually, he does return in a surprise cameo. Otherwise, he didn't do anything worth noting from those movies.

Winner

Jack Frost

Also yes I requested this fight on their official forms. I would love to see how funny they possibly could make this. I know by so many fan DB trailers, I'm not the only one here.

Saturday, July 22, 2023

My thoughts on Doc Ketchum's Murder Circus (Saints Row)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, A few weeks ago they released the next big update to Saints Row reboot. I can say it's better than the dlc story mission pack but not by much. It's more fun that quickly becomes too easy and boring after awhile. I will say it's still currently my favorite dlc for the game. I always been a fan of killing enemies in video games.

Doc Ketchum's Murder Circus is a follow up event to the famous Boot Hill mission. You get an call from Kevin telling the Boss aka you about it. Then they had to make it more clear in a sorta "derp" way. The Boss isn't invited because they want a new winner. There's four new playable characters that plays somewhat differently.

I will say this is way better than Dead Rising 4's multiplayer, yeah let's not talk about it. Similar to that story mission, it takes place on Boot Hill once again. You face waves of enemies while doing challenges as well as unlocking chests for some decent stuff. There's a few notable problems that makes this not a rememberable experience.

For starters, the difficulty is barely noticeable. You also have a different map limits from the main game. I'm glad it isn't you're being forced to turn away like that. They decided if you don't go back from those sections, you'll die from gas. It's a little annoying but the worst part is sometimes you can't tell exactly which areas you aren't allowed to go.

The only way to know is when you start seeing gas showing up. Otherwise, you are allowed to explore there. There's not enough variety of enemies to keep this mini game interesting. Let's not compare this to the Xbox One dlc mini game for Dead Rising 3. I rather be playing more rounds in that. All four characters can level up to 8.

For the most part, it's too easy to tell where the chests are. There isn't much bosses wise either with the main bosses being each character's rivals. You have to reach level 8 with them. The next run at the end of it, your rivals shows up. Yes they are notably different from each other. The only real issue is how this mini game works with rng just isn't clear.

I played a lot of runs with Artemis just to have another shot at a secret achievement. I ended up starting a new save working up to unlocking the mini game again. I gotten Artemis to level 8 to finally live stream the finalized run he has where he faces. Wait for it, Professor Genki!!! Yes Professor Genki is surprisingly in the game after all.

After a few runs, you become too good at it. You can rely on the move to take out enemies while regaining health. You can use boot coins, it's in game money for upgrades. The big issue with majority of them is they all play int the randomness factor. You may or may not get what you want in these runs. Even if you bought the loot upgrade giving you two upgrades instead of just one.

There isn't much variety which section of Boot Hill you play in every run you do. It does try to be different but again you quickly get use to all the different lay outs. It kinda no long matters anymore. I even felt Exoprimal did better with that in comparison. Speaking of the horde of enemies, it's kinda too low of the amount.

When you see Murder Circus, you could've wanna be more over whelmed than normal. Like in a couple story missions filled with enemies. I think the highest I recalled seeing was around 33 enemies in an challenge. The challenges are always exactly the same. Kill all the enemies then claim your prizes. I actually recommend playing Smash TV over this!!!

This mini game felt like a huge let down from the very story mission you had to play to unlock it. More brutally honest, it felt like an after thought. Not in the same way as the previous big update dlc. This is slightly more fun as well as interesting. The appeal quickly goes away however. In all honestly, the achievements for the most part was also mostly too straight forward.

The longer achievements is play through runs with their rivals enabled. They have to show up too, you win the mini game as the characters. The other real annoying achievement was the secret achievement I already mentioned. I very recently made a short achievement guide video to maybe help some people out.


Things aren't looking good for this game. Especially after Postal 4 balanced back from it's big update. So you know Saints Row reboot currently being called the worst Saints Row game yet. Personally, I don't think it's that bad of an game. I had played games much worst than this. I'm hoping for a miracle with the next big update next month.

A big month for me because not only it's my amazing wife's birthday. Later the same month will mark being married for eight years. Time sure flies right lol. This mini game just felt it needed more variety. The money system also played into later runs being easier. Honestly, it could be fun just lacks a proper replay value it desperately needs.

Friday, July 21, 2023

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, considering Death Battle getting ready to do Raven (DC) vs Phoenix (Marvel) episode. I should do an review on X-Men: Dark Phoenix movie. I already reviewed most X-Men movies in this franchise except for this and The New Mutants. For the present, let's talk about X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
I'm not going to sugar coat this. You would think after failing an attempt to cash in on the Phoenix with X-Men 3: The Last Stand. 20th Century Fox would do this newer attempt better. Haha wow somehow this one is even worst!!! No joke, they managed to  make every character look bad.

Yes that includes Magneto too, the story has the X-Men travel out to space. They are on an rescue mission, most the astronauts were saved. Jean ended up getting stuck on a destroyed space shuffle. All of a sudden, the Phoenix Force interacts with her body. This originally would've killed her to clarify due to destroy parts of the shuffle while in outer space.

Jean starts losing control because the Phoenix. Thankfully, both Jean's appearance as well as the Phoenix itself looked notably better than in X-Men 3: The Last Stand. Sadly in this rare case, that actually isn't saying much. There's no Wolverine this time not even an cameo. Some of the newer X-Men members aren't quite right.

It's safe to say for characters like Storm or Magneto, the older actors were better. I don't think it's their fault, they didn't work. Most of the time, it's the writers at fault here. A little controversial to say considering a writer's strike going on. The movie heavily plays off Jean being an emotional teenager.

The entire third act got rewritten after it failed to test screenings. They killed Mystique off in a horrible way. Quick Silver, who had the single best scene in X-Men: Apocalypse gets one shotted. The story gets a little hard to follow when two more notable sides comes in. We have Magneto building an mutant army.

Sadly they don't show much regarding that unlike in X-Men 3: The Last Stand. Magneto was easily used the worst in this particular X-Men movie. His big scene is he uses his powers to use a lot of guns on an alien. Yes they even brought in aliens this time around. At the same time, it just doesn't connect the dots here.

The main alien is named Vuk, vastly different from the actual comic book character. Now that should be a red flag, the writers didn't know how to go about this story. When an forgotten comic book character gets used not even remotely well. The movie would've been a little better without the aliens.

Some of the movie, the X-Men tries to help Jean. Some people tried to kill her while these aliens wanted to use her. This by itself is confusing enough to the viewers. Magneto went from why you're here to wanting to kill her to ends up trying to save her in the end. If that isn't confusing to you, what the hell is then?

Not even the X-Men looked good in this movie. You already know it's bad when their main enemy, Magneto gets treated so poorly here. They do dive into Jean's past, after awhile these flash back scenes gets annoying. How many times do we need to see the same car accident Jean caused?

Even Professor Xavier is somewhat unlikable in this movie. No really, you could even argue he's more of a villain than an supporting character here. He lied to Jean about what happened, she finds out the truth. The entire movie from start to finish is so filled with drama.

The actual Phoenix isn't used well either. We mostly see the Phoenix controls Jean. It's a huge improvement over the last time they done the Phoenix story arc in a movie. Originally in X-Men 3: The Last Stand, they played the Phoenix off as Jean's dark side. There wasn't even flames coming from her body or anything symbolizing an phoenix bird.

Most Marvel fans knows the Phoenix is a cosmic entity. An Phoenix that traveling through space. A god like being with insane levels of power alone. Not accounting it's abilities that helps making it into a terrifying being. Virtually none of that original at all. Somewhat of an improvement in this movie but not by much.

It's true, the Phoenix did cameo in a critical scene the previous X-Men movie. Where the Phoenix ended up defeating Apocalypse mentally. Maybe the movie was too unclear what the story should've been. Even X-Men 3: The Last Stand gotten that right. Also Magneto was notably used better there too.

Somehow this ends up being a much bigger disappointment than both X-Men 3: The Last Stand & Apocalypse combined. Especially after you watch X-Men cartoon that aired on Fox back in the day. All of these you can watch through Disney+. The fact that show gotten the Phoenix right while two live action movies screwed it up badly.

X-Men 3: The Last Stand was a horrible mess itself. There's a handful of things I could say it's done better than this. For example, the X-Men got used better. There's a more focused story with an epic final moment. Wolverine walking slowly towards Jean. When he reaches her, he kills her to save everyone else.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix does have a more faithful take on the Phoenix. Sadly, most of it's powers got used for smaller things. The one big usage was killing off that main alien in space by burning her to pieces. The movie itself doesn't fully make it clear how it ends. No really, after this alien dies we see the Phoenix briefly that's it.

Magneto still building his mutant army despite things. This partly felt like they were recreating some scenes from X-Men: Days of Future Past. A much better X-Men movie, I highly recommend. Maybe indirectly the last X-Men movies suffered because Disney was on the verse of buying 20th Century.

All of a sudden, there was a rush to get this movie out. A likely factor in how they mess it up again. It's like you mess up once, you should already know not to do it again thing. Clearly, they didn't learned from the first time!!! I would even say this actually is the single worst X-Men movie I had the displeasure in seeing!!!

It's barely X-Men, it's barely Magneto, it's too much teen drama, why aliens? Most of all, it never fully comes together. This felt like it easily could've been two X-Men movies that suddenly got forced into becoming one. There is virtually no good scenes in this movie!!! I can't even pick a small moment I liked enough to say that's my favorite scene.

You know a movie is terrible when you can't even do that!!! The Phoenix was obviously barely an consideration. Everything else had to take front stage. But wait this is based on a particular early 80s X-Men comic story arc. WOW, you guys screwed up this bad!!! What makes this worst is they actually got an decent actress playing Jean in this movie.

There's too much unneeded teen drama, this alone further killed the movie. She confronted her father that doesn't goes well. As stated before, she confronted Professor Xavier regarding stuff when she was 8 years old. Of course, the Phoenix was going to blow these emotions to insane levels.

A good amount of the movie, Jean tries distancing herself from the X-Men. She eventually gets control over it very late into the movie. By this point, we the viewers waited too wait to see this happen. Honestly, if you turned off the movie prior to that point. I can't blame you because that's also a sign of terrible writing.

People wanted to see more actual stuff the Phoenix could do. These live action X-Men movies really don't do the character neither Jean Grey herself justice. It's kinda pathetic the second attempt ends up being much worst from the previous one. This X-Men movie felt like a massive waste of time.

It actually felt like a big filler movie you don't even need to watch. But hey it's there if you wanna watch it. Which should've been how they should've treated it. Instead, it's treated as the conclusion to the more recent prequel, new timeline X-Men movies. The first two X-Men movies in this line up were decent.

Something happened from X-Men: Apocalypse that carried over to this. In all honestly, the level of disappointment I actually felt from X-Men 3: The Last Stand to the original movies. There's no comparison, as disappointing that was in itself. We followed a poorly adaptation with a even worst adaptation.

Not only that, people waited for years to see Apocalypse in an live action X-Men movie. Clearly he wasn't done justice at all. Going into this X-Men movie, an second attempt at the famous Phoenix story arc. It's mind blowing, how truly bad this X-Men movie turned out to be.

I know I'm ranting hardcore on this X-Men movie. But it truly deserves every unpleasant thing everyone ever said about the movie. It deeply fails in every possible category imaginable. This movie is a huge turn off to X-Men and especially Marvel fans in general. This felt like a massive wasted opportunity or more directly an cash grab!!!

Yeah, you heard me an cash grab. "Hey they're doing the Phoenix again!!!" Do yourselves a favor don't watch this X-Men movie!!! I'm sure by now there's plenty of better adaptations of the Phoenix. There's slightly more on just Jean Grey herself. X-Men: Dark Phoenix's title should've been called and I quote.

"X-Men: The Never Ending Drama Fest", yes that's a more fitting title for this garbage. No one in any possible way looked good in this movie. The story itself is too all over the place with horrible pacing. Not only that, it's a huge insult when Magneto looks this bad. Overall, this movie isn't even worthy being called an X-Men movie.

Yes the X-Men doesn't do much that's worth noting. Unless you wanna talk about Beast wanted to kill Jean. He had feelings for Mystique, he wanted revenge. This was very out his character but hey they went with it. Hell just leaving Jean alone must've prevented some stuff from happening was the very message the movie was sending.

I also gotta mention, originally in X-Men 3: The Last Stand. When the "Phoenix" side took control, her eyes were black. It's more faithful with her eyes being almost like flames yellow. A notable improvement but that's about it. When the Phoenix takes control, some of her veins glows yellow too.

I'm honestly not sure how I felt about that aspect. Jean herself comes off like a nasty teenager. They played too much out of this drama. Rather than having the Phoenix do some epic stuff. Also it would've be awesome, Jean could've taken control much sooner too. Maybe this would've saved the movie who really knows or even cares anymore.

Look we all know it, this X-Men movie is dumpster fire. The flames are just high enough, you see em. Almost looking straight in Hell!!! Maybe that's where this movie belongs. Can you imagine someone used this X-Men movie as a torture method? The movie itself is easily one of the absolute worst Marvel movies I ever seen period!!!

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Beta Tester review: Exoprimal (first version)

Warning this will be a long review please take as many breaks as inhumanly possible.

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, A while back I took part in closed beta testing for an Capcom game called Exoprimal. Last Friday, the game not only came out but also became available to play through Game Pass. I actually got a lot I wanna say about the actual game. Before I do I wanna be clear, I'll do two reviews of it.

The first review you're getting right now. The last review will be posted not long after the game's last update. It's so tedious to keep making follow up reviews or thoughts on a game that's getting updates. I figured the best way around that problem was by doing it this way. You get an review on the first version with a more completed version for a later review at some point in the future.

Exoprimal (2023)
Let's get this out the way, despite having dinosaurs. No this game is not connected to Dino Crisis series. Even if it were in the same timeline, Dino Crisis 3 happened a few decades after this game. It would've bagged too many questions with not enough answers. Which is exactly why Capcom chose to simply make the game it's own thing.

Such was the case of the original Devil May Cry game. At one point, that was originally going to be an Resident Evil game. Then the game changed too much, they chosen to go into a different direction. The rest was history, it's virtually what happened here. Some rumors claimed this was suppose to be an Dino Crisis game.

I felt that might not be the case here. The same team responsible for Monster Hunter series made this. Another big money earning franchise Capcom has. It's actually among the top 3 for them currently, quite impressive. I also noticed in videos as well as people's streams, a couple games gets thrown around. Exoprimal is a difficult game to describe on it's own.

It doesn't mean I don't have games in some way to compare it to here. Some compared it to Overwatch, I personally never played it so I can't directly compare. Some felt it's more like Warframe, again I never played that either. The big one I actually could judge to a degree is a particular game series. In fact, last year this franchise received a new successful entry.

I am talking about Earth Defense Force series. Parts of the game play are somewhat similar. Both have stories that's difficult to believe. In other words, both were meant to be ridiculous or rather give you an cheap excuse. Hey because this happened you're facing hordes of creatures. A major difference is in Exoprimal, you're mostly facing dinosaurs while in EDF series it's giant insects.

Exoprimal does have a weird story even for an Capcom game. To my best understanding, an experiment lead to parts of reality like dimensions getting warped. This caused people in mechs as well as dinosaurs get stuck in time loops that strangely plays out like digital simulations. It's kinda confusing stuff, not the best story to say.

A man named Durban plans to use this strange situation to his advantage. He's one of those god concept villain characters. He's also the second boss fight in the game. He arranged most the major story missions to a degree. He isn't working alone, an AI called Leviathan. Leviathan runs these wargames, yes a major aspect that kept getting to Warframe.

Also due to the fact, the games looks somewhat similar with some of the animations being nearly identical. I hope you love dinosaurs because this game is literately filled with so many of them. I'm used to a lot of zombies for a couple games but even those doesn't compare to the dinos. If I learned one thing about Capcom from this game, they sure love Raptors!!!

Then again who doesn't love Raptors? They're awesome, among the smartest dinosaurs. Virtually one of the scariest among them despite not form of poison at all. They usually attack people in packs too to better their chances. Hell the Jurassic Park movies shows you what they could do if left unchecked. Exoprimal also similar to a lot of multiplayer games.

In terms of each mech has a particular arsenal as well as fighting style. It's so easy to say it's similar in some ways to games like Overwatch, Paladins, Team Fortress and a couple more. If I had to pick my favorite mech currently in the game, Musamune. Musamune wields a Sephiroth length sword with some awesome moves.

The game heavily plays on randomness factor. Sadly, also get used to a lot of repeated objectives as well as locations. You may be spending hours among hours doing those. You do unlock files to unlock more of the story as you process in the game. You aren't able to choose which missions you get either. Yes you can customize your mech but it comes off being a little too limited.

The game itself isn't much different from the closed beta I took part in. Maybe someone at Capcom reads this review who really knows. I never figured out how to report my experience of that beta to them. There's a handful of bosses in this game. The story kinda felt rushed as well as forced in within the matches you played.

I strongly felt if they would've made an single player mode. They would've taken more time to work on that. Also the story likely would've been told better too. It could've caused a delay in it's release but if it's improved more than it's current state I'll wait for it. By the way, guess how many times I fought the first boss fully?

If you guessed five times then you are correct. Five times I faced the same exact boss fight. Also some of these bigger scale missions has unskippable cutscenes. No you aren't allowed to skip em if you previously played em either. All the boss fights are done differently, I can respect that. The first two bosses have breaks facing more dinos.

The final mission itself, a big recommendation go on with a friend or an family member whose a high rank. Also hope the rest of your huge team is decent enough. I'll talk more details on that mission later. First I still gotta explain how the game actually plays. Which by itself is a strange beast concept too. Both teams are randomly given objectives.

The first major goal is which teams finishes those objectives first goes to the final portion. Which is randomized what you do there. Then the last goal in standard matches is win the match. Most of these final objectives towards the end allows you to face the enemy teams. For most of the match, both teams are playing on their plain of existence.

Luckily, I do have an Capcom comparison for this. If you were played Onslaught in Resident Evil 6, a similar concept. It's an alternate take on The Mercenaries. But the combos adds more additional enemies for either side to face. Thus, making it more difficult for either to win the match. I kinda wish this mode would return in the future.

It might not be the most fun Capcom mech game. I say both Armored Warriors and it's spin off Cyberbots is more fun than this. I will say Exoprimal is a rather unique experience in it's own right. I do wish they would allow more in depth customization of your mechs. Right now it's partly bare bone customization wise.

The game is very kind about the rate you rank up as well as earn in game money. Although, Capcom tried getting people to buy some stuff that's unlockables in the game again. They don't even hide it either, as you fully start the game following the training portion. The only real difference if you had bought those mechs was your rank process would've been increased.

Considering it's normal rate, I felt that's faster than a lot of it's competition. I should point out next Friday is a new mode. By beating the game, you become qualified to play it. So when the mode comes out, I can try it right off the bat. At a later date, I'll discuss everything else in a likely long future blog post.

Exoprimal has a good variety of dinosaurs with some original variations as well. This game not only has Crossplay but also an Xbox Anywhere title too. Two great things the Xbox versions has it because if you bought it digitally. You automatically have it on PC sharing your save game as well as your overall progress too.

Honestly, I didn't even considered Capcom would do those plus make it available on Game Pass. When I took part in it's beta testing period. Sometimes, you got to rely on your team mates. Other times, you may have to play differently because some of your team mates aren't great. This is a very notable in the bigger scale story missions.

Now I'm going to talk more in depth about all the bosses starting with the Neo T-Rex. This is the biggest, ugliest T-Rex in the game. This mutated dinosaur has glowing purplish bumps. They act as weak points to deal more damage. Be careful, this dinosaur fires powerful beams that can one shot you. I also thankful most missions except one has respawns up to a point.

I also need to point out all the boss fights or other similar scaled story missions has a time limit. There's also a limit on the amount of respawns too. Thankfully, other players can revive you preventing using those up. I quickly wanna talk about that one mission before discussing the second boss fight. It starts like normal until both teams gets teleported.

Among the stuff Leviathan says, he confirms for this one mission respawns are disable. You better hope your team mates are decent here or you're screwed. These missions has a lot more dinos than normal too. Now onto the second boss fight, Durban comes almost off like an Devil May Cry boss. No joke, he's floating a little off the ground just slightly higher than a few DMC bosses.

He has a good variety of attacks while moving faster than expected. This is the closest it felt like another Capcom game's boss fight honestly. For these bigger scaled missions, both teams works together. It took a lot of effort to bring him down too. I would even say he's more difficult than the Neo T-Rex.

Funny enough, I also say he was the game's best boss fight. This boss mission was well thought in my opinion. I know some may disagree that's fine I guess. His weak point is the device on his back that connects to these additional pieces floating close by him. This guy also so full of himself within his own dialogue too.

He kinda reminds me, a weird comparison I'm about to make too. Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, no really. If you compare some stuff they say maybe you see it too. The final mission is almost perfect I say. It's the most ambitious mission in the entire game. The most insane amount of dinos. The most variety what you need to do that comes off strangely refreshing after a long while.

There's a major twist, I think by now a lot of people already knows this. Leviathan betrays Durban by killing him then steals his new, improved exosuit for his plan. Yes, this AI you see at the beginning of every single match is the game's true main antagonist. All of a sudden, parts of it's originality is gone. No really, stuff like Terminator and The Matrix quickly comes to mind here.

The game also reminds me of Raid Mode from Resident Evil: Revelations 2. Personally, I felt that mini game was way more. Sure, it partly plays on randomness factor in a different way. Some creatures may have one or more effects up to three maximum they could have. Also that too plays mostly like an digital simulation too.

Also you can play that coop as well, kinda underrated among the Resident Evil minigames I felt. Back to Exoprimal, you can upgrade particular actions or the effectives of your weapons. After awhile you'll be given war chests, open these you may get something good or even great eventually. I will confess something that might come as a shock.

I actually never partied up with anyone the entire time playing out it's story portion. Currently all my Exoprimal streams are up on Twitch. I also taken every match I won off those streams to make em into videos to put on YouTube. Don't worry I'll be linking it down below here. I do wanna say the final boss doesn't actually do much.


In fact, if you do everything the games asks of your huge team. You are virtually given a notable period of time to deal as much damage as possible. To sum it up, the actual challenge isn't facing the final boss. But rather completing every objective for those opportunities to heavy damage the Behemoth. Yes the Behemoth does attack once in a blue moon with a powerful team.

It actually could ko all ten players. Mostly, you got to deal with a lot of dinos. If that wasn't bad enough, they throw in some of the harder to kill dinos too. This is where the true difficulty of the final boss comes in as the final mission goes on. I don't wanna say the final boss was a pushover. But in a sense, he kinda is technically speaking.

I just wish they changed it a little where it fights back with a slightly weaker arsenal. In order to make it feel more like an actual boss fight. As stated before, you unlock files to get more of the complex, wacky story. I already gotten that section an 100% yesterday. You also can level up mechs, I don't know what the max level is though.

Exoprimal does look amazing with some great animations. I'm even surprised people seem to be enjoying it for the most part. The game does a good job keeping you not wanna mess around. You gotta always be serious to get further without dying. I also wished they had more of an interesting variety among the unlockable skins.

Don't get me wrong, there's a couple I really like. Most of them are mostly recolored of their usual designs. I would say this game is just different enough to stand out a bit. I don't think in it's current state it could rival the likes of Paladins. I confessed Paladins has a lot over this game despite being online since 2018, I know not fair to compare here.

Not only that, the game can be very repetitive at times. I could even say among all the Capcom games I played, a lot of them. This easily cracks the Top 5 Most Repetitive Capcom games I ever played!!! Exoprimal is a fun time for anyone wanting to play. If I could rate it where the game stands it's around 6.5.

The game needs some notable huge improvements to survive such a repetitive gaming market. Multiplayer gaming market alone is really repetitive alone. I'll even list a few changes I strongly felt would notably improve it's chances even by a slight possibility. I also wanna point out Exoprimal has a few planned crossovers on the way, again I'll discuss those later too.

1. A more in depth mech customization
2. More objective variety
3. Mission selection screen
4. A separate single player mode for story
5. Making Durban's exosuit playable
6. More Modules variety
7. More Dominator variety
8. More bosses
9. A more balancing match making system
10. Allowing the players to swap backgrounds for the main menu
11. Customize the game's soundtrack with songs from other Capcom games
12. More weapon variety
13. More location variety
14. More dinosaur species added
15. Please add in an Neo Triceratops
16. Add in another mech class
17. Add in more reference emotes
18. Add in a mode with more than ten players working together in a boss rush
19. Better online stability
20. Add in Devil May Cry theme exosuits

Any of these could go a long way for Exoprimal. I'll try to stay on top of the major changes it goes through. It really depends on future plans on my end. I'm still thankful Capcom gave me an opportunity to test the game out. I do see the potential it could have if they listen to the fans. Especially those becoming deeply passionate towards this game, I'm sure they got some great ideas.

I can't recommend the game at this time but that could easily change in the near future. Right now, it's doing better than Saints Row reboot. Honestly, it's a fun excuse to be let out your wild side. Killing as many dinosaurs as possible even when parts of the story doesn't make much sense. I guess that's a joke, we don't care how it's possible, we're still going to kill us some dinos!!!

Saturday, July 1, 2023

Another Dead by Daylight vs Resident Evil: Resistance comparison

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, it's been awhile since I done any comparisons between Dead by Daylight and Resident Evil: Resistance. As of recent, I finally can do a major comparison, more on the lines of a sibling rivalry. I compare Alex Wesker from Resident Evil: Resistance to her brother Albert in Dead by Daylight.

In order to determine which Wesker is superior? Now obviously I don't wanna compare all five Masterminds to just Albert Wesker. Let's be honest, that would end badly for him. Also keeping it in their family is the way to go for many reasons. I will confirm both in their respective horror asymmetric multiplayer games is fun to play as.

This will be very different from my short video comparison regarding Nemesis. He's the Ultimate card for Nicholai in Resident Evil: Resistance. Therefore, he only comes out for short period of times in matches while Nemy in DbD virtually all the time. Still a more interesting comparison than Jill Valentine in both games no lie.

It's safe to say both are among the best in their respective games Killer/MM wise. With the possible exception of Add-Ons, virtually everything can be used on every killer in DbD. This is similar for Alex in Resident Evil: Resistance with the solo exception being her skills. Add-Ons either increase effects or speed things up to better their chances.

In vice versa, Alex has three main sections for her skills. The top tier strictly meant for her Ultimate card being Yateveo an huge mutant plant. The other two sections are more directly effecting Alex in matches. As previously mentioned, an MM build is much bigger than that of an DbD killer build. Alex also gets equipment up to four slots that has a huge variety to choose from.

Oh wait there's more, Alex also has a deck with five categories. You can choose up to ten cards per a build. Every MM builds also has exclusive Area Cards. Although, Spencer does have Omniscience that allows him to use other MM's Area Cards during matches. When you reach Areas 2 and 3 respectively, another card gets added to your deck during matches.

Wesker is virtually alone in matches. He can infect people just not as effectively as The Plague or Nemesis. One of two things Alex specializes in is infection. She also specializes in traps making her very dangerous. Maps is set up very differently between the two games. Ultimately, the main goals for both sides remains virtually the same.

The survivors got to escape while killers or the Mastermind prevents them from doing so. There's more stuff survivors do to escape in Resident Evil: Resistance's case. Also there's no hiding from the Mastermind. Yes both of them do have voice overs but Alex has way more of them. Albert has to work harder in comparison.

I recently gotten the best rank you can possibly get with both of them. I felt both games made them both incredibly fun to play in matches. I will be honest, despite being a bigger fan of Albert Wesker myself. He's one of my favorite villain characters in the entire franchise. I got to give this to his sister in Resident Evil: Resistance.

Look Alex controls cameras with so much more. In DbD, you got to make most perks teachable. In order to use em on other characters. Which is a rather tedious process if you ask me. Yes Albert is a strong killer in DbD. I also can say Alex is a strong MM in Resident Evil: Resistance. She simply has more including outfits you can use points to unlock.

Yes you may not be able to directly choose what you unlock on the cosmetic chests. Also they do cost 50,000 points per a chest. You also can earn free chests to open as well. The entire point is virtually little to no real money is needed to do this. In vice versa, Albert's outfits will cost you Auric Cells. Which does cost you real money to get those.

I'm not done yet, the cosmetic chests also gives voice overs. emotes, and sprays too. Personally, I am so sick of getting these damn sprays myself. I rather have the other stuff those chests gives you. A lot more outfits wore by most of the creatures in the game. Alex can directly control most creatures as well. Hell they can do some rather interesting animations at times lol.

It also doesn't help Albert still an victim of the looping strategy. For those either not into DbD or isn't familiar with the term. Looping is an strategy where survivors constantly gets chased by the killer. They often vault over things while wasting the killer's time to better their team's odds of escaping. Which is virtually not an issue in Resident Evil: Resistance.

Alex Wesker in Resident Evil: Resistance is the superior one!!!

Tips on How to get Adept Mastermind achievement

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I don't wanna come off like a broken record. I done a lot of blogs on giving tips to get Adept Killer achievements/trophies. Although, it's been a long time since I last done one of these. Very recently, I came back to get Adept Mastermind achievement/trophy. I will do a faster style on the topic I felt more people may prefer to my usual style here.

There's four different categories you can get score in during matches. A more recent update forever made getting any Adept Killer achievements/trophies a little easier. Some of my big tips no longer apply to the game anymore. Like Crossplay removes getting easier teams to get em. Also you are now guarantee to get an Merciless Killer rank if you defeat all four survivors in matches.

This following match is my Adept Mastermind match. Also surprisingly a difficult map to get such an achievement/trophy on too.

Prior to this, you had to hope you scored enough in each category. You actually can do it with that particular character's three perks or no perks at all, a more challenging option. Regardless, yes I plan to talk about all three Wesker's perks. Simply because of Crossplay, you got to play harder than ever before. I can promise you in time, you'll get more used to players with ridiculous time put into the game.

Superior Anatomy will increase your Vaulting speed by 30/35/40% the next time you vault a Window. Awakened Awareness allows the killer to see other survivor's auras when they are within range. Terminus forces Broken Status Effect on injured, dying or hooked survivors. Until the Exit Gates are opened that may differ when the effect stops depending on which tier the perk is in.

Personally these perks doesn't help much but still better than most killer's perks in general. Wesker is a speed theme killer that can charge after survivors. You can even throw em at other survivors. Also using it often does help speed up getting to the generators as well as the other survivors. Wesker is surprisingly well rounded in this game no lie.

A huge tip is knowing how to use other fast killers on a couple of maps that's difficult to move fast on. This alone helps so much getting Adept Mastermind achievement/trophy. Wesker also uses his knife attack quickly that helps injuring or downing survivors as well. Also his charge move if that survivor was injured gives the killer a free grab.

In other words, if Wesker correctly uses his charge at an injured survivor. He will automatically be carrying that survivor to a nearby hook. I also felt Wesker is a better killer than Nemesis. Both are from Resident Evil series, you knew I had to mention Nemy at one point right? Unlike Nemy, Wesker hunts survivors alone.

Wesker is among the fastest killers in the game. He also has currently the highest default terror radius of the killers too. Which also means survivors are more likely going to know when you are coming for them. Wesker also can use his charge move to vault over in a hurry. Which can be helpful in chases sometimes while others tricks you into going over an vault spot to escape you.