Shadow and Flame with Magik

Last week, Emily Mitchell’s brother posted a link to her game, Fractured Minds, on reddit :

The game is only $1.50 and 40% of the proceeds go to Safe in Our World :

https://safeinourworld.org/

A mental health charity with a specific focus on video game players and developers.

With all of that in mind, how could I note want to support her.

http://ygd.bafta.org/winners-nominees

Emily was the BFTA Young Game Designers’ 2017 15-18-Year Old Winner of the Game Making Award.

The game is 20 minutes and well worth your time.

Here is an extended interview of Emily’s :

Thanks to GP GameTrailers for the extended interview that has a portion used in the trailer.

Emily comes off very likeable.

Here is me playing the game :

Apparently the game may have came out last year, accidently, but it is being given a proper launch now.  Since it was released early, there was already a trophy guide for it :

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/fractured-minds/333996-fractured-minds-trophy-guide-roadmap.html

There are three missable trophies and I was reading the guide with each new chapter so there is a slight pause as I read the guide.  I knew the game was short but after completing it, I wish I had simply done a blind playthrough for the fun of it.

Looking at Safe in Our World’s “About Us” page, I recognize some of these names!

Emily is part of the team, which makes sense.

Rob of PlayStation Access is a patron, which is pretty cool.  I thought I recognized Lucy Hale but not from what I thought.

Seems like Safe in Our World does a lot of good work.

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Now it is time for another Mad Max check in!

I accomplished all of my preliminary goals and have started playing the story missions again!

I have all four strongholds equipped with working Scrap Crews and Cleanup Crews, and Deep Friah’s requirements required even less material so I have built a slew of items for him.

Dog is everywhere we go!

I was able to knock the threat of Deep Friah’s territory down rather quickly too so I was able to upgrade the Thunderpoon to 50% damage rate.

I earned the trophies for obtaining 5000 and 10,000 scraps on my person, and then I started upgrading everything!  I got down to 4000 scrap and figure I will hold off until I get 5000 total scrap before buying another round of upgrades.

I also got the trophy for earning the rank of Road Warrior, so that felt pretty great.  Now Mad Max is the Road Warrior!

I completed Hope’s first mission and Chumbucket’s wrench mission, which are both considered Wasteland Missions.

The Outcrier, who has a stronghold in Gastown, but is not considered a safe stronghold that I can build things in.  Hope is in one of his cages.  He sent me on a mission to gather some lights for him that were located in an old airport.  His next mission and my current one is to gather a fighter which I have to do by completing a race.

It feels really good to be playing the story again and I do not feel overpowered so that is good.

According to CloNe817’s excellent guide, I might be getting the proper car, Speed Demon, after the race or some time after that maybe?.  Which, ideally, will also be the end of Act III as well.

I will complete the race, then Hope gets me through a door to get the V8, and either before or after that, I have some fights to deal with.

My plan is to just commit to the story, completing any challenges and scavenging locations as I come across them.  As far as I know, I am doing everything right thus far but it sounds like the scavenging location glitch is not something you know has gone wrong until there are no more locations to discover.

I have one Scarecrow left to demolish of the 28, which is another trophy I will earn.  The one I am missing is right in front of a Stank Gum legion camp so I will knock that over once I take over that camp.

I have come across some mine sites but I will get those taken care of after the main story as it seems weird now to stop what I am doing to get the buggy and Dog and discover some mines.

I have looked for come convoys and completely dominated a few and that was prior to upgrading the Thunderpoon, so now I am really looking forward to laying waste to those guys the next time I come across one of those.

If I can start using my actual car in races, races should become much easier to do, so I am really hoping that race opens up those for me.  That is also where the bulk of my scrap will go, upgrading all of Archangels.

I have a few Wasteland Missions to still unlock and complete.

I will have to come up with a fun way to take out all of the threats during the post-game.  I figure I will make a list of races, do any side stuff on my way to a race, but there will be stuff that is just out there that has to be dealt with.

I might just use the legend of the map to go down all of the items, that way I can keep track of it easier.

I received another quest to complete some epic jumps so I hope to get the “Maximum Air” trophy when I finally commit to that quest.

As I have to build all of the projects in the strongholds, I probably come across more scavenging location as well.  Which will also have Historic Relics.

I have been saving camps for post-story too.  I have Top Dogs to fight, Oil Pumps and Transfer Takes to explode, and Stank Gum legions to fight.

I also have three more balloon rides to fly.

Lots to do and all of it seems very doable and fun!

I will know how I really feel once I actually beat the game and see what else is happening.  Next week we find out what the December 2019 games are and that might throw me off if I am still playing Mad Max.

I am sort of in a mood for another open world game, so much content!

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Anyone else addicted to Lizzo’s Good As Hell?

Thanks to Lizzo Music for hosting her own video!

I immediately liked it from the first few bars I heard on the radio and the song just kept getting better.  It is so much fun and a great message!  Though Walker Dennis and my beautiful wife has pretty much listened to it first thing in the morning for the past few mornings but I still find lyrics to enjoy on repeated viewings.