Cloud Monday - The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game - Pt2 - Auto Saves Start At Check Points

This week's new Cloud Monday video is part 2 of playing the PS4 version of The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game on PS4, via the PlayStation Plus Cloud Streaming Service to my Japanese launch model PlayStation 4.

After playing Part 1, i was left with a couple of questions i wanted to try and answer in this part regarding the game's Auto Save. Turns out, i got most of my answers immediately when my save launched as i start Part 2 not in the same place i finished Part 1. this was not expected as i thought i had quit the game after a save, but i hadn't. turns out i quit the game right before an auto save so i'm not going to blame it all on the game in hindsight.

After experiencing this i decided to check what an auto save after changing options would do. so whilst i'm sure the game is saving the new settings and possibly the amount of studs collected, when i reloaded that save i started back at a checkpoint. so in all, i did the section at the start of this video 3 times.

The gameplay was much smoother in this part than Part 1, with less artifacts from it being streamed to me. i discussed in Part 1 how that wasn't much of an issue as your character is essentially walking forward and attacking nearly everything around them. i still think that to be true, but The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game is a good looking game and looks best in todays video.

The big question to answer is whether The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game is a good game to stream from the cloud or not. i think it comes down to the save system as the gameplay holds up when things get rough. out of the recent games aimed at a younger audience, it's probably the most effected by it's auto save system and checkpointing. it's only around 18GB in size, too. so i would suggest downloading The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game if you're curious or want to play it, it's playable from the Cloud and if everything goes well then fine. but being streamed from the cloud has more of a chance of hurting the experience of playing the game. i would recommend checking it out via the cloud and then downloading your save and the game if you're interested in playing more.

Part 1 - https://youtu.be/Z0M72CnqiSM

Cloud Monday - The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game - Another Game With No Manual Saves

This week's new Cloud Monday video is part 1 of playing the PS4 version of The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game on PS4, via the PlayStation Plus Cloud Streaming Service to my Japanese launch model PlayStation 4.

Whilst i've played several of the LEGO games since the PS2 era, Ninjago isn't a LEGO property i've ever watched or engaged with. so as well as playing this as part of the recent look at "kids" games being streamed from the cloud, i was also a little curious.

Many of the "kids" games i've checked out recently have not had manual saves and The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game is not an exception. LEGO games typically have different types of game mechanics so finishing a stage or reaching a checkpoint can take more or less time depending on what you're doing. in this video, the tutorial wasn't too long but the flying chapter went really quick, and we finished with an on foot section that took maybe half of this video. this means that the auto save is sometimes frequent and other times less so. and then there's the snake. the game has not explained the snake. i'll check out the snake and menu saving in Part 2.

The stream this time wasn't as smooth as it had been recently, and i don't mean the sore throat and cough i currently have. there were examples of Stream Tearing where we saw occasional bits of grey on the screen. more frequently were what was either resolution drops or bitrate drops, or both. this wasn't much of an issue as i could just attack anything and make progress. but what got a little annoying my end was the audio. it was like the audio was peaking or clipping at the high end. it doesn't get in the way of gameplay, but it is a little annoying when listing to game audio. maybe dropping volume in the setting could help it sound less harsh at the top end. i didn't notice any issues with the controls and found the game to be quite quick and responsive.