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Beating Games

I heard there was a new resident evil out so I finally got around to playing the last one after claiming it on PS+. Village is pretty good! Rest of the game loses something after the hot vampire ladies bit but you’ve got a weird dude selling you incrementally better shotguns and that’s all I really need.
 
Beat A Tiny Sticker Tale. Short cute little game. Currently on sale on Switch for $5, normally $10. It's definitely worth $5, but at only a few hours long I dunno about $10. Still, I liked moving little guys around, helping cute animals and solving simple puzzles.
 
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I did, however, do the whole questline that lets you boost your base statistics. There are spots in the game that boost your core stats, but you can "recharge" them by visiting the Clerics of the South and completing their quest to be deemed "worthy". It's repeatable, so I ended up with core stats above 40 (except Endurance, which weirdly capped at 27).
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I didn't play the NES version, but I did go through M&M 1-6 a few years back on PC. To my mind, this is what these games are. They're games about exploration to find all the ways to buff up your characters. There's often little tricks you can find in each game, to the point where it seemed to me that playing it with a guide would be near-pointless. Discovering the map is the game.
 
Nodal said:
I didn't play the NES version, but I did go through M&M 1-6 a few years back on PC. To my mind, this is what these games are. They're games about exploration to find all the ways to buff up your characters. There's often little tricks you can find in each game, to the point where it seemed to me that playing it with a guide would be near-pointless. Discovering the map is the game.
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Yeah, I think that's absolutely true. Just doing a straight-line run without exploring the world and seeing what it has to offer, including the feeling of "whoa, I just got a stat boost!", seems really contrary to the spirit of things.
 
I finished my Pokemon Platinum monotype Steel run. This was actually the first Pokemon game I played, when it released nearly 20 years ago. I had forgotten a lot of the details, but it came back to me as I played it. I really like the map and how it loops around for the first 3/4 of the game, it might be my favorite map in the first 5 gens. Good new & returning dex, too. The setting is a bit generic compared to the other regions, but overall I like the game a lot.

Steel ended up being super easy, as I expected. Empoleon and Bronzong can defend against every type of attack between them, and I was able to build them out to hit every type of weakness except for bug. Funny enough, there is a bug trainer in the elite 4, but his team is all dual-type, so I was able to target a weakness on each of them, anyway. I rounded out my team with Probopass, Steelix, Magnezone and Riolu (I did not bother evolving him because his egg hatched so late in the game).

Poison, Bug, Dark, and Steel runs down.
 
Finished off Hyrule Warriors: The Age of Imprisonment, which I will definitely say is an excellent game that I enjoyed quite a lot, but it was also probably the Nintendo-themed Musou game I wound up having the least affection for (bit of a toss up between this and the original Fire Emblem Warriors). I think a large part of that is that almost the entire cast are randos with minimal connection to any previous Zelda game (even most of the main characters pretty much only existed as faceless masked warriors in cutscene flashbacks in TotK), and the maps may have been the least interesting I've ever seen in a musou. On the other hand, the combat itself was incredibly fun and while their personalities were all non-existent, most of the characters were in fact VERY fun to bash monsters with.
 
And Pokemon ZA is done and dusted. I liked it a lot more than… most recent Pokemon games. Still feel like Arceus is the stronger game, but that’s not the one I finished, so, make of that data point as you will.

I think a lot of the appeal here is less on the catching and training of Pokemon and mostly on the back of the fact that almost every NPC is a friggin’ weirdo and I was *here for them*
 
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