That was excellent! Quite a different game to Pokémon Y, although not in the way it is sold: No gyms! No gym leaders! No HMs! No, except trials are almost exact replacements for gyms, captains are virtually the same as gym leaders, and the Ride Pager replaces HMs. Net difference, almost zero.
What’s actually different is how the UI has been improved, with tweaks like being able to immediately put a caught Pokémon in your party. And the streamlined box management, simpler local trading, being able to see move effectiveness (against Pokémon you’ve already fought or have caught) – stuff like that.
Mega Evolutions are gone again, but Z-Moves are really pretty similar replacements. All of the PSS has sadly been stripped out and although the system that is here as an alternative (a mix of the Festival Plaza and Poképelego) is good, it lacks the always-on abilities, Streetpass, and the online web-based games you can play outside of the main game. Since the full announcement of the Nintendo Switch – which doesn’t have Streetpass, but does have a version of Pokémon Sun/Moon coming for it – it’s perhaps clear why this is the case. Anyway. The new features are great for levelling up a load of Pokémon at once so it gets a pass.
As for the game itself, 66 hours is a lot. Not far off twice how long it took to complete Y, in fact, and I’ve not even started the post-game content. I assume there is some (other than just filling the Pokédex), anyway.
I got my Steam Link working properly! With a wireless controller and everything! That means it’s almost a new console! Woo!
Play
Lego Dimensions (PS4)
Specifically, the Portal 2 expansion level for it, and the associated hub world that goes with it. It’s pretty good, although very easy to skip large bits of it. Funny though. And I completed it.
Roundabout (PC)
It’s Kuru Kuru Kururin, that Game Boy Advance game with a spinning stick in it, only with a rotating limousine driving round a city instead. And FMW video sections at the start and end of each “mission”. And it’s set in 1977. It’s very odd, and the acting is mostly terrible, but somehow it’s also excellent.
Pokémon Sun (3DS)
I completed this just after posting about it last week! I was really that close to the end. The final “boss”, such that it is, almost beat me, but I managed to narrowly defeat them. Since then, I’ve not really played it very much, although I really should.
SteamWorld Heist (3DS)
What I did play some more of, is this. Finished a couple of optional missions, and redid a handful of missions I’d not got all the stars on previously. Still have a few to go from early on in the game, but not many.
Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair (PS4)
I completed this in the week too. It is fantastic. Terrible production values, as expected, and completely over the top, but EDF is always like this. The final level was nuts.
Grow Up (PS4)
This is excellent. It’s basically just the first game, Grow Home, only with a bit less going up into the sky and a bit more horizontality. Yes, that’s a word now. Not sure how far into it I am, as I’m mainly just enjoying climbing and exploring and sometimes stumbling across things to collect, unlock, or play with.
Bioshock Infinite (PC)
The main thing I’m playing via Steam Link right now. It looks incredible – especially since I bumped the graphics up to “ultra”, who knew my iMac could manage that? – but isn’t especially interesting besides that. Yet, anyway. Dishonoured is a better Bioshock Infinite than Bioshock Infinite is so far.
Want
A NINTENDO SWITCH ARE YOU DEAF? Having second thoughts about Zelda though – it’s a 3D Zelda. I don’t like them.
Bin
Nothing! Doing well at this positivity lark.
Expense
Also nothing! Well, £3.50 on an Xbox 360 controller wireless adaptor thing. Does that count? Probably.
£3.50 then.
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