Just a brief play before bed. I’ve wandered past the Garden now, and into another part of the castle. There I found Dmitri, or whatever his name is, fighting some thing that threw balls at him. He killed it, and there was some conversation regarding Dmitri’s ability to copy magic attacks. Then I had to fight him. He started by throwing balls at me, but after I’d hit him once with my thrown-through-an-arc axe move, he then did that to …
This DS game arrived this morning. I know lots of people have been saying how ACEBEST it is, but I haven’t actually played a Castlevania game since Super Castlevania IV, and that was more than 10 years ago. Five minutes on the crap 3D N64 Castlevania doesn’t count (although that was more than 5 years ago anyway). Anyway, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. What I got, was a slick, smooth, fantastically animated platformer with a deep weapon upgrade …
Clearly I wasn’t paying attention to what was actually going on, as the museum was now open for me to get in, and Capn. Stern was in there all along. A quick fight with two consecutive Team Aqua Grunts, and I’d given Stern the Devon Goods. I’m at a bit of a loss as to what to do now though. I wandered north a bit, and caught an Electrike, as well as fight a few more trainers. My Torchic has …
Hmm. I defeated a load of trainers at the beach, and then moved onto the city itself. Loads of Team Aqua goons are hanging around a museum, and Captain Stern (who I’m supposed to give the Devon Goods to) has buggered off. Went on a bit of a hunt for him, beat some more trainers, levelled up my Zigzagoon and Poochyena a bit, and then realised I don’t have a clue where to go next. Hurrah for me!
Brawly defeat0riZ0red! Turns out my Beautifly had learned “Gust”, which just blew him away. Hahaha! DYSWIDT? It seems Gust is the ubar-move for killing all rock Pokémon, so after getting Flash and the Muscle Badge from Brawly, I headed into the nearby cave to find Steven and give him his letter. Killed a load of pokeymen there, and caught a few too. My Lotad evolved too, into a Lombre – some bizarre Mexican lilypad monkey thing. Off to Slateport in …
Went to see Mr Briney, who owned a boat, and he took me across the sea to some place called Dewford Town. There’s a gym there with fighting-type Pokeymen, and I didn’t really have any Pokeymen to use, so wandered round levelling up my Shroomish and Zigzagoon, and also caught a Magicarp. Once Shroomish was up to about Level 14, I set upon the Gym Trainers, defeating them all, but the Gym Leader “Brawly” has a load of Level 17 …
It seems I unlocked Vectorman without trying, and without playing anything, to start with. Didn’t choose that first though, instead playing Sonic the Fighters, which isn’t great. I never played it in the arcade, but I think it is based on the Virtua Fighter game engine, or something. Played through as Sonic, relishing punching Tails in his stupid bloody face, but was defeated by Nack, who has a gun and so I can’t get within a mile of him. Sonic …
Wandered up towards the Rusturf Tunnel, defeating trainers left right and centre with my ubar-powerful Beautifly, and get my Zigzagoon up to level 10 on the way. Team Aqua had stolen some stuff from the Devon Corporation, so it fell down to me to get it back. You know, it’s one of them things kids are for. Anyway, went into the tunnel, found the “Team Aqua Grunt”, defeated him, and returned the moychendoyse to the Devon Corporation, who have now …
Gym Leader Roxanne – SMOTE! My Lotad, being a water Pokémon, easily defeated all of the rock-type Pokémon in the gym, and although it almost died actually fighting Roxanne herself, I swapped it for the newly evolved-from-a-Silcoon Beauifly who had a grass move (absorb) which was even more damaging. So, Stone Badge GET!
Some more levelling up, and then off into some woods. Faught a few trainers (most of whom had Bug Pokeymen, and caught myself a Silcoon and a Shroomish, both of which are pretty pants at the moment. Made it through the woods and into a city, fighting more trainers and my first Tag Team on the way. I’ve been trying to avoid using my Torchic, since it is now on Level 13, where as my others are on 4, 6, …
Hurrah for games for children! Except Pokémon is a game for MEN. Obviously. Or something. Just like all the other Pokeymang games, Sapphire starts with you meeting a tree-named Professor (Birch, in this case), the Professor’s kid, and your rival (May, in this game), and your own My First Pokémon (I picked a Torchic). And off I went, into the Magical World of Pokémon(TM). Walked through some grass, and got to the first Gym, to find my dad. Couldn’t fight …
Set my new Megadrive 32X up for the first time today, so I could finally get round to playing the 32X games I’ve had on my shelf for more than 5 years. First up was Virtua Racing. It’s, er, not as good as I expected. Part of the problem was with the screen shaking due to something wonky in the 32X itself, but is isn’t as good as the standard Megadrive version. Then it was onto Doom. More screen shaking, …
I spoke too soon, it seems, since Dungeon 8 is hard. Very hard. No Wizzrobes (yet), but loads of recycled previous dungeon bosses (although it hasn’t gone all SuckySuck(TM) quite yet), and blue Dark Nuts. And not just Blue Dark Nuts either – but gargoyles that shoot fireballs at me at the same time, so I can’t even use the same Dark Nut killing tactics I had previously as that requires standing still (and therefore, getting shot). And! To make …
Hurrah for cuteness! I infiltrated the space base of the evil block king bloke, and was turned into a block myself a few times by lasers and stuff. Made my way to another really simple boss, who effectively killed himself. After that, it was onto the final level, where the villagers were generating power to fire a photon cannon at a giant robot, and I had to slow him down by throwing bombs at him and then launching pineapples at …
Dungeon 6 has to be the hardest thing ever. The Wizzrobes were making me cry real actual tears. I died about 984759823745 more times, and progress was hampered somewhat by the fact that all of the baddies (aside from the three-headed dragon mid-boss) had come back to life overnight. Imagine my joy. Thankfully, I had a bit of luck, and made it to the dungeon boss – a crab spider thing with a giant eye. Guess what I had to …