a blog about video games from a guy stuck in the 90s
It's no secret that the 3DS has been absolutely killing it this year so far, with more announcements coming out seemingly every week. Truth be told, I thought I was going to be retiring my beautiful Hyrule Edition New 3DS XL as I shifted my focus to the shiny new Switch, yet the Switch has …
Continue reading Will 2017 be the Strongest Year for the 3DS?
Continuing our journey through the Sinnoh region, Munchkin and I have been getting along swimmingly! And in that way I mean that the Water-type Pokemon is absolutely demolishing everything in her swim lane. Following some trouble with Gardenia, we sought out the next gym leader, Maylene, owner and operator of the Fighting-based gym (so kind …
Continue reading Pokemon Pearl: The Solo Run – Growing Up (part 3)
It's been a few more days of Munchkin and my journey to throw the ring into Mount D-- take out the gym leaders of the Sinnoh region! Following a brief partnership with Cheryl, we made our way throughout Eterna Forest in our quest for the second gym badge in Eterna City. It was on a …
Continue reading Pokemon Pearl: The Solo Run – Ken the Bridge Troll (part 2)
Given the good news about Pokemon at the Nintendo E3 Presentation earlier today, I figured it was as good a time as ever to put together a write-up of my latest foray into the franchise. Read on! I have a confession. I get nostalgic about things and then buy stuff. You could say.. my nostalgia …
Continue reading Pokemon Pearl: The Solo Piplup Run – Munchkin’s Journey Begins (part 1)
I'm a little over-the-top excited right now, so bear that in mind. I've also had 19 quarts of coffee today so exaggerations are bound to happen. Anyway! As Nintendo's E3 presentation is the one that affects me the most, I had to watch this one live. And boy, I'm sure glad I did. I would …
It came and went - the seemingly out of left field Pokemon Direct, a mere week before E3, failed to deliver anything significant to the Switch. Well, I shouldn't say that, as Pokken Tournament is being ported. Ported, that is.With the addition of 5 new Pokemon and a presumed minor graphics improvement. By significant, I should …
Word on the street is that we're to receive a Pokémon Direct tomorrow morning! And it couldn't have come at a better time, let me tell you. For one, I've been getting a real nostalgic Pokemon itch for the past few weeks, and this might just be the scratch I'm needed! What could possibly be in store …
Continue reading Pokémon Direct: My Hopes, Dreams, and Everything In Between
This has been a real killer week - I've wrapped up two of the three long-ass games I had promised myself I would finish. I knew I was right near the end with Xenoblade Chronicles, but honestly, finishing Pokemon Moon happened way sooner than anticipated. It turns out, when I got a little burnt out …
Hey, I haven't posted one of these monthly updates in a while! Around the time last year when I was wrapping up Dark Cloud 2, I had plans to grab Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD and finally play and finish it. I had some fond memories of playing parts of it on Playstation 2 back …
Continue reading No, THIS is the Year I’ll Finally Play Final Fantasy X / January Update
I had a few articles written up before the new year already scheduled, so this is going out a few days late, but HAPPY HOLIDAYS and HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope you were able to spend some time with family, and maybe just maybe, get in some quality gaming time as well. 2016 was a …
Continue reading The 2016 Master List – TOP 5 GAMES of 2016 OMG!
It's been a quiet end of the month, what with Thanksgiving break eating up a lot of time, but there's been a huge amount activity on my radar. I accrued quite the collection of new gaming things - some Vita games, some 3DS games, even some collector editions! Of course, like most of the world …
Continue reading End of November Updates + Black Friday Luck!
Demo day has finally arrived! After some expected sluggishness on the eShop, I finally booted up the game, and I'm loving what I'm seeing so far. This will be my fourth Pokemon game, following Red, Yellow, and X, and from what I've read so far, there are so many little changes that it's really shaping up to be a fresh …
Continue reading Hands On: Pokemon Sun and Moon Special Demo!
It's not surprising that I loved everything I heard at the Direct that just ended, mainly because I'm still half asleep after reading predictions of what I would hear until all hours of the night. Actually, let me go make a coffee first so this doesn't turn out terrible. Be back. ...and I'm back. I jotted down some barely …
I'm seven minutes away from the time I need to go to sleep if I want to successfully catch the earlier bus to work tomorrow, but the excitement is real over here, people. I need to get this all out. Maybe it was the media attention surrounding the release of Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow on the 3DS …
Continue reading Finished Pokemon Yellow! Post-Game Thoughts
It shouldn't come to any surprise that the long term plans of Pokemon Go involve a large amount of advertising, what with more than 7.5 million downloads and a presence on a more-than-respectable percentage of devices. I remember long ago, the first time I ever heard of virtual reality, and especially augmented reality, my views towards it was …
With Pokemon Go dominating every conversation, the entire world, and basically the whole human race the past couple of days, it's required actual focused effort to remember what we all did before That Thursday.
While the Nintendo servers are down, I recount my first day playing around with Nintendo's new mobile game.
