The Sliming Of Isaac Challenge - Rules

Hello; I am Cat Chaos - master of ridiculous challenges. This year, I’ve come up with some serious gaming tasks for our good friend Mog Anarchy. Today, I’m going to explain to you, the rules of my first new challenge: The Sliming Of Isaac.

What is The Sliming of Isaac?

Mog is playing The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth. Mog must play as Isaac on hard mode and make it to The Chest. If Boss Rush, Hush or Mega Satan are available, she must fight them. Mog must explore every unlocked non-special room before attempting the next floor. Mog is not allowed to purchase items from the devil room, but angel room items are fine.

Every time Mog takes damage, I shall keep a note of it on this on-screen tally. Every hit of damage taken will add 500ml of gunge to the accumulated total that Mog will have dumped over her at the end of each level.

What counts as taking damage? Anything that causes Isaac to cry out in pain - with the exception of health down pills. Sacrifice rooms, blood donation machines, cursed rooms and self-inflicted damage all count, however.

Let's begin!

Animal Crossing: New Leaf RVs - Booker

Today I'm going to show you around the RV of the mumbly and somewhat chunky British bulldog Booker.

Booker is a local RV, meaning he shows up randomly in your campsite without the use of an Amiibo.

For blogs on other Animal Crossing: New Leaf RVs - click here.

The exterior of Booker's RV is coloured with the three colours of the Animal Crossing police uniform, blue, white and gold and features their emblem.

The interior of Booker's RV is camping themed - complete with cookware, campfire and sleeping bag - so he's combining the best of both worlds by camping outside... inside an RV?

Furniture for sale:

• 1 piece of wallpaper
• 1 piece of carpet
• 7 pieces of furniture

Total cost: 27 MEOW coupons.

Camp Stove (Furniture)

Can be obtained from NPCs camping in igloos, or purchased from RVs

Campfire Cookware (Furniture)

Can be obtained from NPCs camping in igloos, or purchased from RVs

Dirt Floor (Carpet)

Can only be bought from RVs

Meadow Vista (Wallpaper)

Can be obtained from Sahara, or purchased from RVs

Picnic Table (Furniture)

(This piece is customised)

Can be purchased from Timmy & Tommy or purchased from RVs

Plastic Canister (Furniture)

(This piece is customised)

Can only be bought from RVs

Propane Stove (Furniture)

Can be obtained from NPCs camping in tents, or purchased from RVs

Sleeping Bag (Furniture)

Can be obtained from NPCs camping in tents, or purchased from RVs

Smoker (Furniture)

Can be obtained from NPCs camping in igloos, or purchased from RVs

Animal Crossing: New Leaf RVs - Blanca

Today I'm going to show you around the RV of one of my favourite Animal Crossing characters - the playful prankster cat with a mysterious face - Blanca.

Blanca is a local RV, meaning she shows up randomly in your campsite without the use of an Amiibo.

For blogs on other Animal Crossing: New Leaf RVs - click here.

The exterior of Blanca's RV is patterned in bright red and yellow and decorated with comic book style speech bubbles.

The interior of Blanca's RV is primarily Cabana themed and includes some nods to her joker personality, in the form of the Jester Shirt and Makeup Case, and also a nod to her species with a Cat Tower.

Furniture for sale:

• 1 piece of wallpaper
• 1 piece of carpet
• 2 pieces of clothing
• 7 pieces of furniture

Total cost: 33 MEOW coupons.

Yellow Flooring (Carpet)

Can only be bought from RVs

Cabana Armchair (Furniture)

(This piece is customised)

Can also be purchased from the Island gift shop for 40 medals

Cabana Bed (Furniture)

(This piece is customised)

Can also be purchased from the Island gift shop for 40 medals

Cabana Lamp (Furniture)

(This piece is customised)

Can also be purchased from the Island gift shop for 40 medals

Cabana Table (Furniture)

(This piece is customised)

Can also be purchased from the Island gift shop for 40 medals 

Cat Tower (Furniture)

Can only be bought from RVs (was previously available as DLC)

Crayons (Furniture)

Can only be bought from RVs

Daisy Tee (Clothing)

Can also be purchased from Able Sisters 

Jester Shirt (Clothing)

Can also be purchased from Able Sisters 

Makeup Case (Furniture)

Can also be purchased from Timmy & Tommy 

White Brick Wall (Wallpaper)

Can only be bought from RVs

Resident Evil SCENTED CANDLE?!

So, Resident Evil 7 is coming out. And I actually like the look of this one - they're finally bringing back the claustrophobic old mansion setting of the original games rather than wide open peasant villages and boring cruise liners. The special edition goodies also look pretty nice - though notice how the European “finger” USB actually looks like a finger rather than a piece of charred male genitalia.

Anyway, while mooching around Amazon the other day, I came across this

Yes; a Resident Evil 4D SCENTED CANDLE.

Firstly, “4D” is a misnomer, as the fourth dimension deals with time - if anything it's a 3D candle - but I'd have just called it an immersive candle or a VR candle - because what this candle is designed to do is enhance the experience of playing Resident Evil 4 using a VR headset by making your room smell like the mansion.

...A scented candle that smells like a survival horror game. Right.

When I first read that, several ideas came to mind about what Resident Evil could possibly smell like. Dust? Mildew? Rotting flesh?

Apparently it smells like blood and timber. Lovely, just what everyone wants their living room to smell like - an accident at an abandoned logging mill.

And I'm sure our girlfriends/fiancees/wives won't be too pleased about it - I know mine isn't! I wanted to pre-order one to review and Shelly won't let me. Amusing really, since all she does is fill our house with incense and scented candles herself, but I digress.

I agree it would probably make the game more immersive whilst playing with a VR headset, but in theory, so would covering yourself in Brussels Pate and allowing several rabid dogs to bite your testicles.

But it got me thinking about something else; what other games could employ this scented candle idea? What other games would actually smell pretty damn good if condensed down into candle form?

Mmmm, hot elixir soup!

Awesome, greasy burgers!

Lush lawns, flowers and various animal dung.

Ground meat and freshly waxed floors.

200 year old freeze dried macaroni cheese and scorched wasteland?

Hmmm, blood and timber… hang on.

How about you? Got any ideas for other games that could smell good in candle form? How about other horror/gore games that could also work with the blood and timber Resident Evil candle?

Skyrim - The "Sexy Lockpick" Mod?!

Skyrim is an amazing game - that's something 99% of humanity can agree on. And modded Skyrim is even better. Vanilla Skyrim only has so much to offer - and I like it so much I want it to last as long as possible - hence why I use a lot of different mods.

As far as mods go, we can divide them into several specific categories.

• Immersion mods (mods that increase the overall immersion of Skyrim) (e.g. Frostfall)
• Item mods (Mods that add new recipes, weapons and collectables) (e.g. Ingredients of Tamriel)
• Sound and graphics mods (mods that improve the graphics and ambient sounds of Skyrim) (e.g. Enhanced Blood Textures)
• Quest mods (mods that add new quests) (e.g. Helgen Reborn)
• House mods (mods that add new player homes) (e.g. Haven Bag)
• World mods (mods that add whole new world's to explore) (e.g. Falskaar)
• Mechanics mods (mods that alter Skyrim’s mechanics) (e.g. Hunterborn)
• Stupid mods 

And the stupid mods are aplenty - naked character mods, silly weapons mods, downright out of place mods - and the most ridiculous, pointless and stupid mod I've ever found. 

The sexy Lockpick mod.

As you can see; this mod alters the standard Lockpick mini game - changing the keyhole into a woman's vagina and anus. As you do.

What's even weirder is the fact she will orgasm upon success and scream in pain when you fail. What the actual fuck.

If you ever find someone using this mod - smash their PC, tie them up and lock them in a dark cupboard for several days to reflect upon their life choices.

At least change the standard Lockpick tools into gigantic purple dildos. Jeez, some people.

Review: Gardenscapes: New Acres

Gardenscapes is a free-to-play match-3 style app available for Android and IOS devices - but unlike the usual slew of Bejeweled clones or multiple Candy Crush Saga spin-offs - Gardenscapes also features an RPG-style story mode which involves restoring a run-down botanical gardens back to its former glory.

As you complete the match-3 levels, you will be rewarded with stars - these stars can then be used to complete various tasks within the garden, such as planting trees and flowers, repairing fences and fountains and building new features such as a tree house and spring. Part-way through the game, you will also adopt a dog, which you can name (I named mine Rufus) who will create chaos within the garden and provide you with other things to build, such as a kennel.


For such a simple concept, Gardenscapes is actually filled to the brim with content - throughout the game you interact mainly with Austin, your butler - but as you progress, you will meet and unlock more characters who can be recruited to complete tasks within your garden. There is also a Facebook-style newsfeed app where you can read conversations between them - the posts between Austin and his parents are particularly amusing.


Unlike many match-3 games, each coloured piece is unique - made up of fruits, acorns, droplets of water and flowers - and Shelly (who is red-green colour-blind, remember) assures me she has no problems distinguishing between colours like she has done in similar games.

Of course, the game is not without issues. As with many free-to-play apps, you CAN use real money to purchase in-game coins, which can be traded for lives, boosters or be used to speed up tasks taking place within the garden. You are rewarded with these coins simply by playing the game, but it's a paltry amount. For each level you complete, you'll receive 50-75 coins - but it costs 900 to refill your lives and even more to buy boosters. 

Once you pass level 60, the levels begin to become unforgiving - whether you can pass the level or not will be determined in your first few moves, and quite often, it's based on luck - hopefully you can start a level with the means to create bombs and rainbow blasters in your first few moves.

The game can also be linked with Facebook - to IN THEORY send and receive lives between your real-life friends - well I'm calling this feature out right now - it DOESN'T WORK. Shelly and I were constantly asking for and sending each other lives - the requests for help sent, but the actual lives we sent each other were lost in cyberspace. I think out of the dozens she sent me, I only received about two of them. 

Also, unlike Candy Crush Saga, Bejeweled Stars and similar games, you can't see your friends' progress - and overly competitive people like Shelly enjoy this feature. You also can't replay levels - so if there was a level you particularly enjoyed - too bad, you only get to play it once. I'm not sure why this feature isn't included - even if they allowed replaying of levels but didn't reward you with the paltry amount of coins they do initially.

I enjoyed Gardenscapes initially, for the first few days I played it - before the levels began to become unforgiving and downright frustrating. I can't help but think it's fallen into the typical trap of trying to squeeze real money out of players just so they can continue progressing through the game - and I'm only onto the 3rd area of the garden - there's a greyed-out area you can scroll across that's 3 times bigger than the area I've already unlocked - so clearly this game is pretty beasty. The Facebook-esque newsfeed also has several greyed-out profiles of characters I can potentially unlock in the future - if I can ever get past fucking level 77.