Gaming Reviews?

Hello friends, and welcome to another post. I hope you are having a great day so far. I wanted to write about an app that I found for mobile recently, it's called minimap, and you can track all of your achievements on there as long as you link your accounts. I will say I have emailed the team asking why there isn't a button to connect to Epic Games, because I am loving the graphs it uses to show you how many achievements you have gained. 

If you are an achievement hunter trying to beat your all time record of achievements this is for you, it lets you post all of your achievements and there is a section where you can write reviews about the games that you play so I am thinking maybe I will do about 4 game reviews in one blog post so it isn't so short but you get to see what I have been up to before it comes out on my YouTube channel or even after a stream. I will start off with the few core games I love, and I will try to keep this as neat as I humanly can. If you do check out minimap, if you would like to drop me a follow, my username is LillyLeather420 YT. 

I know my life isn't filled with a lot of new experiences, but I am more of a home person. I don't like to leave my safe zone, but I do really like trying different games out, so much so that I could not tell you what types of games are my favourite. I do know what games I gravitate to, but only in the title sense, not a category. These reviews will be in no particular order. 

Dead by Daylight - I have over 1000 hours in this game because it is so good. I started on Xbox and then moved to Steam. Don't get me wrong, there are some not-so-great people who play this game, and they can be horrible in end-game chat. There are people who full-on troll whilst playing, but they play how they want to play, and you can play how you want to play. Your game style may upset other people, but as long as it isn't a reportable offence, you should be fine. I have met many great people whilst playing, and that is a giant part of why I continue to play. Because you meet those lovely people who want to farm with you, or you have a funny moment. It's really great to connect with people. I do wish they would have end game chat for Xbox, switch and PlayStation users, but hopefully they will bring that in in the future. Play on your own or with friends. I find myself taking breaks from it and coming back to it all the time. Can't wait for new killers and survivors, and 2v8 is my all-time favourite game mode, so I always love it when that comes back. 4.5/5

ASKA - This game is stunning visually. I streamed it and even played off-stream; I was that addicted to it. It is hard to play on your own, and there is definitely a learning curve. The first winter, I kept dying over and over, so I am a little traumatised anytime winter rolls around, but you just have to be prepared, and I really wasn't. I don't want to scare people away from this game because it is genuinely one of my favourites. I do recommend playing with friends because it will be easier. I think you can play with 4 people. The blood moons can be a little tricky, but if you just follow what the wisps tell you to, you should be fine. I love that there is a fishing aspect because fishing games can be some of the most chilled games, so it's nice to just choose to fish while you let your villagers chop trees, gather food and rocks, build a train and protect the base. You can never have enough flax. If you think it's enough, you are wrong. Get more. You will find you need it for crafting just about everything. Exploring is amazing, and I haven't even gotten into building the ships and sailing across the ocean to new islands. I cannot wait until I am at that point. 5/5

Bongo Cat - This little pixel cat has motivated me so many times to write YouTube descriptions or blog posts and now reviews because I want to be able to open the chests. I will never run out of clicks. It's almost the mentality that most people have for Pokémon, but instead of gotta catch 'em all, it's gotta collect all the skins and hats. You can dress your little typing companion anyway you want, and you can have your friends on the screen too. There are achievements for all you achievement hunters out there.  Try it cause why not its free, and I think you will find you quite like it, sitting in the corner of your screen. I love mine so much. 5/5

Minecraft - I spent a lot of my time before becoming more of a social game player playing Minecraft. I love the updates they bring out regularly. It's nice that a game that is quite old still has people thinking about it. So many great people are in the Minecraft community and actually make a living off this one game all on its own. Your only limit in this is your imagination; you don't have to be creative to play it, though. You can play at your own pace, go exploring, tend to crops, look after your own animals, raid temples, and battle enemies. I see why people love it so much. I love it so much. Build and create or destroy its up to you what you do. Invite your friends to worlds and share in the caving experiences. You might argue that the game has everything, and it genuinely might. 5/5

Thank you so much for reading. I really hope you like my reviews. I may be able to get these out every other week, but when I run out of games I have tried, they will be fewer and farther between. Have a great rest of your day, and I will be back with another post in a week. :)

The Girl In The Attic Movie Review

Hello, and welcome to another movie review. This was not a movie I had planned to watch; it was just because I couldn't find other parts of it on TikTok, so I hope you enjoy the summary and the review.

Billy moved back in with his mum after she was in a car accident. She is in a wheelchair and has limited mobility. She gave Billy some money to fix up the attic into a gym. He ends up kidnapping Kelsy when she is out on a run. She had lost her mum and wanted to raise money to make her proud, so she was going to do a half-marathon. He kept Kelsy in the attic for over a year. One day, his mum crawls up there and tells Kelsy to leave. Kelsy manages to convince his mum that she was abducted, and she leaves for her phone that she dropped on the stairs. Billy heard everything. He flushes his mum's arthritis pills away and hides the rest. Kelsy has to do all the chores around the house because Billy thinks she is his wife. Kelsy and the mum work together to try to escape. Kelsy finds his mum's pills and manages to get them to her. When Kelsy and Billy are moving the mum, she scratches Billy. Kelsy then has to give the mum a manicure. Billy doesn't let her finish. He wants to be satisfied and takes Kelsy upstairs, leaving the mum in the living room. The mum pours nail polish remover on a rug, strikes a match, and drops it on the rug at exactly 5pm. The neighbour that the mum is friends with goes out for a walk every day at 5pm, rain or shine. She has hearing aids and hears the fire alarms going off from down the block. They arrest Billy, who tried to escape out the window, and rescue the two women. This movie is much like another abduction movie I have seen before.

 I only watched it because I saw a clip on TikTok on one of those pages that never has a part 2 (if you are one of these people, please be better). I needed to know what happened. I am glad they both got out. I will say trigger warning, there is rape in this movie, so please, if you watch it, be aware. It wasn't a bad movie, I just think a lot of things could have been summed up more, since the movie was 84 mins, it could have contained more of the daily life both women had to endure. There were a lot of cuts to black screens, given how long it has been since Kelsy went missing. A few clips of her dad looking upset or lost would have added a little more flavor. Overall, I think it's a 5/10. It was good, and I enjoyed it, but I would not watch it again.

Thank you so much for reading, and if you watch this, I really hope you enjoy it. 

Besties Across the World - The Power of Twitch

Hello and welcome to another post by me, Lilly. Today, I would like to talk about an online platform that could help you if you are feeling alone.

 It's crazy to think that I have met some of the best people in my life on Twitch; basically, my whole friend group is people I have met on Twitch. A lot of them are from England or pretty close, such as Ireland and Scotland. The group I have all have similar intrests but when someone finds something new, they share it with the group. It's a great community we have created over a three-year span, but seriously, these people are some of the best I have ever met in my life, and I am glad something like Twitch exists where people all across the world have the opportunity to chat and hang out without it being in person.  I actually came across Rambo because of my sister raiding into her, and I am so glad to call Rambo my bestie. This woman is outgoing, has similar goals in life to me, and she will message me every day. Twitch really has changed my life for the better, and you don't need to be streaming to make great friends from the platform. Just make a profile, search for a game you are interested in, and find someone who doesn't have that many viewers. I feel like a lot of people make the mistake of going into the bigger streamers' streams, but a lot of messages in the bigger streamers' chats will get missed. I recommend that you find someone who has single to double-digit viewers, as you may have better luck making a connection with the streamer and their viewers. Just remember, you are never alone. There is always someone out there willing to listen you just have to find them.

A little warning, if you are brand new at twitch there is such a thing as Twitch etiquette. Not every streamer wants to hear things such as bad thoughts or experiences; try to keep the conversation light. Maybe after sending a few messages in someone's chat, tell them it's your first time on Twitch or that you are new and are still learning what to do and what not to do. If you stream do not say in their chat that you stream too, I can only speak for my community but we tend to just give everyone a shout out so it will become known that you are also a streamer, some people will ask if you stream or what you stream, that ids your moment to shine let them know a little bit about what you do. Respect the chatters, respect the streamer, and respect the rules. If you follow this guide, you should be pretty good to go. Good luck in your Twitch adventures.

Thank you so much for reading. I really appreciate your time, and if you are someone who is feeling alone and wants to talk to someone, I stream most Thursdays and Saturdays, 8pm to 11 p.m. GMT. I hope you have a great rest of your day, and I will see you in the next blog post, I do or see you in a stream :)