I am the Champion of Kalos...

X style!

So after I done the two gyms, I forgot to update this, and blasted onto Victory Road. Which obviously I then had to go onto E4, and then the champion! Okay, so let's start with the final two gyms.

7th gym was.....yes, well I knew this gym was gonna be a strange one. Although I was happy that the level gap was getting closer. But it's was an easy type to beat. Loved the gym design, very different....and confusing.

8th Gym. Well, the gyms puzzle was interesting, and different. Although gym leader was a push over, levels were okay, but that type is just too easy to beat.

Before I go onto Victory Road, and E4. I've beat the Evil Team for this game. I kinda understand their plight for the story, although it all kinda seemed added the sad story on, would have prefer to hear it over the course of the game or something. And of course I had to catch the legendary for this game, but never used it in my team.

So Victory road was a very nice walk for a change, and I really liked it. I know some people think that Victory Road should be a challenge before the E4, I think the opposite. This was a nice walk with little struggle to get through.

The Pokemon League this time around was a fantastic building, really amazing. However very disappointed inside. The four members of the E4 was seriously boring. Not even full teams! Although, I did have to use a few different pokemon, and they have some marvelous names, Wikstrom, and Siebold!

Onto the Champion....didn't expect that person to be champ. And then...such a let down. Not tough at all. :/ Only used...two pokemon. And one was just a sacrifice to heal the other.

So now onto my team.
Blastoise Level 71 holding Blastoisinite, Gogoat Level 75, Malamar Level 75, Aegislash Level 76 holding Quick Claw, Delphox Level 76, Hawlucha Level 76

And thanks to my friend, Laura. She has send over all the starters from her games, and I've breed them so I now have all the starters. Plus the game took me. 9 days to complete, and 97 hours and 30 mins.

Anyway, with that being said and done. I'll now go back to talking about other general stuff on this channel.

So until next time....

Wow! Another post!

Well, yes. Because I have defeated two more gym leaders!

Firstly the 5th gym was very different to what I imaged it was going to be. Reminded me a bit of Blaines gym in the original game (Red/Blue). Which weirdly this game does a lot! Even Santalune Forest is an exact match for Viridian Forest in the Kanto Region! Also Blue is mentioned (although not by name, but it's Oak's Grandson, and he apparently said "Smell Ya Later"

Also, I've noticed the Hoenn has been mentioned a bit, as well as a man talking about Ruby and Sapphire! (3rd Gen remakes confirmed?)

Haunted house was a bit of a let down, expecting something much bigger out of it. :( However the pokemon on the outside has lead me to find a new favourite pokemon.....Goomy! Who's a Dragon, and looks so cute! But he's got such a poor defense stat. :(

And finally we get to the sixth gym, and wow....again. Reminding me a lot of the original games again, almost copy and paste of Sabrina's Gym (but obviously a different type). Again due to levels being high, didn't cause much of a problem in this gym, although the gap between me and them are closing. So maybe it's been intentional? I don't know.....also this gym has lead me to one of the weirdest pokemon to date.....a set of keys....I don't know.....I really don't. Apparently I should run into a wild set of keys soon.

So yeah, what will Goomy evolve into? Will the Next Gym be harder? Will the set of keys be a decent pokemon? Until next time.....

We're half way there!

We're not Livin' on a prayer tho, but you can still take my hand and we'll make it to be champion, I swear.

So update on X, I now have two more badges, both pretty easy to get. I think I'm extremely over leveled tho. Which is kinda nice, but at the same time it's being much of a challenge.

The cave before the 3rd gym tho. How awesome was that. I loved the reflective mirror walls idea. It was more of a psychic cave rather than lots of zubats, and geodudes. Speaking of 3rd gym, the what has rollerblades got to do with that type?

Tower of Mastery was interesting (based on Mont Saint Michel in France) I would have liked it to be it's own city, but happy with just the tower. Will probably not be using Mega Evolutions in regular story mode.

Some lovely person on PSS, sent me a Squirtle Egg via trade (not sure if it was a wondertrade, or regular trade), but I've hatched it, and I'm now offering it for trade if anyone wants it.)Monorail/train bit seemed a weird idea to get to the 4th gym city, seemed pretty weird in my opinion. Would have been nicer to see a train go from one side of the region to the other, making an alternate to fly, with possible trainer fights maybe?

4 Gym was a nice maze, did miss a few trainer before I got to the leader, so went back and took them on. Swapped Blastoise, for Fletchinder just for this gym, but still haven't got him to evolve.

Made it to the power plant, and sorted that all out, the desert before it was very interesting idea. However the wind is annoying, as are the wild pokemon, did get trapped in a corner at one point and was forced into five fights straight after each other. However still over powered, so I don't care.

Now back in Paris....I mean Lumiose City, and should be taking on the gym leader for there soon. Not sure what type as I thought I've already took on this type.

Wish me luck, until next time.

2 gyms down on my quest.

And the reason I've not been updating this.....Pokemon X is awesome....just really awesome. I'm playing it now as I'm writing this. So far on my journey....

I beat the first gym leader quite easy, which was very surprising, and hugely fortunately good for me. I was low on health as I went in there, hadn't saved for a while, and could figure out how to get back to the pokemon center once I had defeated a few of her lackeys!! But luckily having two fire types, and three flying types, and one poison type was a pretty good idea.

Then it's a pretty long time before you get to the next gym! I was very shocked at this. But very happy. You get a lot of new pokemon between the first and second gym, most notably one of my favourite new pokemon....which I done a post on earlier (well, his evo!) Yup, I got a Honedge, it rocks. I can't believe how powerful, and useful it is!

I do feel very unhappy. I choose Squirtle over Bulbasaur. :( I should have gone with Buddy, but Mega Blastoise just looks so much better than Mega Venusaur. :(

I choose the Jaw Fossil, plus what an amazing cave! Hint for any maze! The left hand rule!) Yet to use the fossil pokemon. It looks great tho, but don't know who to swap out! :(

Second gym was sadly very easy. Was very disappointed, however it was a nicely desgined gym. And it was a nice, little, 3D maze to get through. However it was good that I could escape out of it, but I didn't need too, as since it was a long time going from one gym to the next, I was way over leveled!

Now on the other side of Geosenge, and my team is currently

Pancham! (HM Cut, and Strength) Pretty good attacker. Trying to figure out how to evolve it, someone said I needed to have a Dark type on my team, but it's not working so far!
Malamar! I love this squid! Contrary is a great ability, and has kept her from harm! Hyposis is helpful for catching stuff!
Honedge! Great attacker, doesn't get hit by many wild pokemon. :D
Skiddo! He's a goat! He's staying! Leech Seed, Seed bomb, Bulldoze, not sure what else to have, but he's so awesome looking!
Wartortle! I needed a water type, and Mega Blastoise looks awesome.
Braixen! My starter, I'm sure it's soon to evolve.

So onwards to the third gym....hopefully! So until next time!..

I got it!! (Some spoilers)

X was started today. Fennekin is my starter.

First route was a big of a let down. Hardly seemed worth the effort to walk down.

The new battle style is amazing, looks so much better. Against trainers it's very dynamic, and seems to make them seem more important.

The first route where you can start catching pokemon is a gold mine of pokemon to catch. Pidgey and Fletchling (one of the new pokemon), Weedles, and Scatterbugs (another new one.), and Zigzagoon and Bunnelby (another new pokemon). Then straight into a forest, and there's another boat load of new pokemon. The three monkeys, Pansage, Panpour, and Pansear, plus Caterpie, and Pikachu (yuk! They made it say it's name!)

However, it's a gorgeous new world, trainers battle each other, and you get the running shoes right off the bat!

So far my team is
Bunnelby, Scatterbug, Fennekin, Zigzagoon, Kakuna, and Fletchling.

However I'm just about to take on the first gym! Wish me luck!

It's the final countdown! Do do dooO do!

 So I have had a wonderful email saying that yes, my Pokemon X and Pokemon Y games have been dispatched. I will hopefully playing them tomorrow!

 So this is the first time that the pokemon adventure will be taking place in a region called Kalos. Kalos is closely based on France, and at the centre of the region is a city which has an "Effiel Tower" like building at it's centre.

 At the moment we only know a handful of new pokemon (although, I'm sure the whole list is out, as the game has been unofficially released in some countries.) Out of the ones we do know about, the most important pokemon of all. Will be.... Who are you starting with!

 You'll always get the option to choose one of three pokemon. You can pick the Grass type, Chespin. Who looks like a cross between a gopher, and a chesnut. The Water Type, Froakie....who's a frog... or the Fire Type, Fennewin....I mean Fennekin. Who's a Fox, and will be my starter of choice!

 In past games I tend to favor Grass types, but Foxes are awesome.

 Usually I'd try and guess my team out before hand, but there is honestly so many good looking pokemon this time around with amazing type combinations like Steel/Ghost, Grass/Ghost, Fighting/Flying, Dark/Psychic, Rock/Dragon. To one's that look fantastic, but with nothing else special going for them. So I will be testing out pokemon as I go, and seeing what fits my game style.

 Other new stuff that is interesting this time around, is the new Fairy type pokemon. Which a few pokemon are reclassed too, and brings a whole new stone to the Rock, Paper, Scissors concept.

 And the introduction to the idea of Mega Pokemon, which is basically a battle use only evolution in which the pokemon will evolve mid-match, and then go back to normal afterwards.

 I will try and document some of my game here, and give updates in to what I think of the game, and how well I'm doing.

 So until next time....

Next on Netflix....

 So I've gotten into Netflix recently. I've always seen friends on facebook watching stuff on it, but I never found myself interested in using it. (Far too busy playing video games), but a lot of people have recommended it for watching some of the shows I've seen odd bits of, or always wanted to see.

 I started it a month ago, and I'm really happy to have had it. I've managed to watch quite a few things that I have always wanted to watch, carried on watching, and found stuff that I have never heard about.

 So far, I've watched "Up", the First Episode of "Firefly", lots of "Drawn Together", the Live Action "Thunderbird" film, first series of "Red Dwarf", Season Five plus most of season six of "Dexter", and "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus".

However, I am quite shocked that there's no Big Bang Theory, and none of the "Harry Potter" films. As I've only seen a few episodes of BBT, and none of the HP films.

Although, I'm open to suggestions about what to watch, so always let me know. I have Stargate on my list of things to watch, plus I will try and watch more episodes of Firefly, but I wasn't too keen on the first episode.

However, I got Thunderbirds Boxset on Blu-ray, and DVD. So will be a while before I get around to watching Netflix for a while.

So until next time...

Thunderbirds Are Go!

Can't sleep! Thunderbirds is following me. I've been noticing a lot of Thunderbirds stuff lately. I use to love the show as a kid, but haven't seen it for a long while. I haven't even seen the Live Action Film that came out a few years ago. Will have to look into that. However they've been stalking me, a few weeks ago I found myself humming the theme tune (quite a few times), then last week one of the market people had a Tracy Island Island Base toyset (complete with Thunderbird 1 and two Thunderbird 3!). Then while I was on Amazon.com I found a Thunderbird Jumpsuit Onesie, and then today as I was on lunch, my iPod was on Shuffle (as it usually is) is played the Theme Song! (Which has been on there for years!)

 So yeah, what does it mean?! Why is it following me?!

 Anyway, Agents of SHIELD episode two was on last night. Second episode in, and getting even better! Favourite parts of it were noticing that the flying robots were named after the Seven Dwarfs! And the staff Grant Ward, what a weapon! Plus two references to Capt American, and Thor! And then.....at the end of the show! That cameo!! XD Looking very forward to next weeks episode.

So short blog today, but most importantly one week til I get that game! 3:)

Pokemon for Dummies

 Okay, so it's the last week before we get Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, the most highly anticipated pokmon games of all time. After a bit of drama earlier in the week, with someone getting their hands on the games early, it's suddenly hit that calm before the storm. It is now is taking ages to get here. Although, I'm curios about that guy getting the game early, if it's all bug free, and ready boxed and sent to stores, why are we still waiting for one more week to past!! Come on, Nintendo!!

 However I know what you're thinking. How can I be this old and like pokemon. Firstly, age is just a stupid thing to bring into it. There's plenty of older people that play pokemon. Secondly, the game has a lot of strategy, and tactics to it too.

 So let's start with the basics of the game. This world is a lot like our own world, except it has creatures known as pokemon living along side us. (Pokemon comes from the words "Pocket" and "Monster") Lots of pokemon exist in the wild, but now and again, Pokemon will befriend people, or people catch pokemon in devices called Pokeballs, and tame them.

 Some people who befriend pokemon are trainers. These trainer use pokemon for battling (which actually seems barbaric thinking about it, but I'm sure the pokemon would easily refuse to battle if they wanted to.). To battle you need to understand some basic points about pokemon.

 Firstly, there are roughly 695 different types of Pokemon, and these Pokemon are broken down into eighteen types. These types are Normal, Water, Ice, Fire, Grass, Electric, Ground, Rock, Steel, Bug, Flying, Fighting, Psychic, Dark, Ghost, Poison, Fairy, And finally, Dragon. These types are important to matches, because they usually dictate who's going to win. Battles are pretty much like huge games of Rock, Paper, Scissors. If your opponent has a rock, you need to use paper to win, pokemon is pretty much the same.

 One of the easiest examples to use are Water, Fire, and Grass. Water is strong against Fires, but Weak to Grass (Grass soaks up water.), Fire is strong against Grass, but weak to water, and Grass is strong against Water, and weak to fire. However because pokemon has eighteen types, you can imagine it's a complicated ordeal. Thankfully, most of it is logical. Another example is Rock types break wings of flying types, flying types can dive bomb fighting types, and fighting types smash rocks types. Also, it make matters even more fun, some pokemon have two types instead of one. Giving more weaknesses, but also covering some weaknesses.

As pokemon learn how to battle, they gain experience, as you get more experience, you gain levels (like most RPG's, and likewise you'll gain more attacks), when some pokemon reach a certain level, or requirement (such as being happy, or given a certain item) they can change into a completely new pokemon, who'll be stronger and before. This is called "Evolution.". The stronger your pokemon are the better chance you have at winning, even if you have the weaker type pokemon!

 Now to make our jobs even more fun, you can't carry more than SIX pokemon at a time. That's Six out of six hundred plus! Very difficult job, but to me that's one of the best part of any pokemon game. The fact I can switch between so many pokemon, and each pokemon battles differently, it can feel like a whole new game. Well, okay maybe not a whole new game, but it gives you a lot of options.

 Each game is part of a generation. Each Generation adds new pokemon, a new part of the pokemon world, new lore, new bad guys (because what game isn't complete without an evil team taking over the world,), and general shenanigans. The basic story for each game is roughly the same. You start in the hometown, you get give a choice of starter pokemon (a grass type, a water type, or a fire type) from the regions professor (who will always be named after a tree!), you'll be asked to fill up a pokedex (a pokemon diary, that tells you all about the different pokemon as you see, and  if you've caught them or not), you'll be told that you're a good trainer and should try out to became a pokmon champion trainer. To do that you need to visit eight towns and visit special pokemon gyms. Each gym is based one on of the many types of pokemon, and all gym members, and the gym leader will have only those types of pokemon. Once you have gained eight badges of proof of beating the gyms, you get to take on the Elite Four, who once again, specialize in one type of pokemon. Then you face the current champion, defeat the champion to win the game. During your travels, you'll defeat an evil team trying to rule the world, or ruin it completely. See legendary pokemon, which according to many people inside the game are fictional, and have a chance to catch them. You also have options to take part in numerous other side quests from beauty contests, to appearing in films.

 One of the most unusual parts of the pokemon series is connectivity with other games, and players. You can trade pokemon with friends, or battle them to see which of you is better!

 Of course, next week holds a new game coming out, a start to the sixth generation of pokemon games, they're adding quite a few new stuff. Of course new region and new pokemon are a give, but this is the first time since the second generation, that we are getting a new type. This is the Fairy type, which could also pass as a magic or fae type. They added this to balance out the type advantage and disavantages, and the idea behind it is extremely well thought out. We also now know that some pokemon can Mega evolve, which only last until the battle is going, then they'll go back to the previous form, which should add some interesting twists.

 What other surprises are instore for us in pokemon, is something we have to wait and see. It nearly got spoiled on Tuesday, when someone got hold of the X game. They were posting photos of their playthrough, highlighting, and some interesting infomation. (Which I won't go into, but I'm happy to have seen the route map for the new region.) However I've decided apart from my starter pokemon (Fennekin, for the win!), I shall not decide on my team before hand, I'll try every new pokemon out as I find them.

 But rest assured, next week Friday, when I have the game in my claws, Disgaea, GTA V, and every other game, is going on the back bench for a while....along with most of my social life, because everyone knows....I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was, to catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause. I will travel across the land, searching far and wide.....

I am the Overlord! Ahhhh-hahaha!!

 So out of all the game genres around one of my favourites has to be Role Playing Games (RPGs). There's something awesome and satisfaction of gaining levels, growing in power, and gaining sweet, sweet, loot. Specially the sweet, sweet loot!

 But out of all the RPGs, one of the funnest and randomest games I have played has to be the Disgaea Series. It started out on the Playstation 2, and I remember getting the game. It seemed a very different game to what I had ever played before. The graphic style is anime cartoonish world, lots of big, bold colours, but the best difference was  it being a tactical RPG. A Tactical RPG means that battles take place on a chessboard like grids (think of D&D game mats). Our hero wasn't a good guy either, he is/was a Demon Prince, and we was in a strange demonic world. There was humor injected straight into the start of the game (a sure fire win to keep me interested.) There was also plenty of endings to find, and lots of character creation going on (including Ninjas!) Plus the level cap! Oh my god! The level cap! Most of the time you'll get to level 100 or less, and then that was it....no more leveling. However Disgaea said "knock yourself out, and  keep on leveling till your level 9999." Yup, you power level.....it's over 9000!

But that wasn't all, you could then reincarnate yourself back to level 1...but with all your stats and skills pretty much there, and off you go to level to 9999 again, and be even stronger! So you have very powerful characters...but that not good enough for you....okay....lets look at that sword you have, we'll give it a level as well. Since it has a level you can now level it up sword, and add whatever stats you want to it, to make it even stronger and uber powerful. Yes, this game is that crazy! Even the basic sword at level 100 would be stronger than a level 1 expensive "strong" sword,  if you leveled it up right.

The lore of this game is very interesting too, so basically Disgaea means "Not Earth", the game says that there's hundreds and thousands of worlds are out there. Some are ruled by humans (who usually don't know that other world exist), some are demon ruled called Netherworlds, and some run by Angels.

 What was even more fantastic was that "Disgaea: Hour of Darkness" was pretty much a complete game, no loose ends to force a second game with, but that was the thing! As much as I loved Disgaea: HoD, I wanted more! I wanted a new story, new characters, new items, and the most marvelous thing happened! They said yes!

 Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories however was a bit of a weird game for me. It was very different to the first one, you were a good guy now, and it was set in a human world that had been taken over by an evil overlord, and the presence of the overlord had turned all humans into demons, except for the main character. It took me a long while to finish the game, it didn't catch my heart as much as the first one did. I hoped they would make a new one, and make a mends for this disgrace. (I have completed this game, and looking back after completing it, I guess it isn't as bad as I first thought. However it's still the worst one in my opinion.)

 Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice was the correct remedy. Back to the Demon world (well, another demon world), back to being the prince of this netherworld, back to being evil! And!, back to school...wait..what? Yup, Disgaea 3 took place in a netherworld, which was a Demon Training School. With the Overlord as Head Teacher, and high demons as teachers. While the plot was a bit....strange (again, their award winning humor is spot on.), however it was the hidden story, and the values it tries to install which made this a very marvelous game, and even I found myself very moved by certain events.

 Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten is sadly one I've still yet to completed. The maps were (or I thought) was really hard. Even with a lot of power-leveling, and making some really good equipment, I found my characters dying an awful lot. I don't think I've gotten past the 4th chapter (even in Crused Memories I got past Chapter 6 before restarting it.). I really don't see myself as getting it completed any time soon. However, there are more characters I like in this one, which I struggled to find in Cursed Memories. So that's something, I probably will attempt this again, but it'll be after I've completed a ton of other games.

 And then....something magical happened. "Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness" was announced, I thought it was gonna be a Japanese only game, but I was wrong. The famous three main character from the first Disgaea game was back (who were my favourite characters in the whole series), and they were making a completely new story for them (okay, it's kinda the same story from the first one, but still), lots of changes were going to be made to everything. I got it last friday, and it's been a glorious game so far. They kinda explain some of the story from the first game so you can hop into it (but of course I recommend getting the first game! It's a classic). They've revamped a lot of menu's to make it less cluttered, and they've redone all the character creation options (a big relief again, so much easier, and less confusing!) and it seems that the maps are less prone to killing you out right. (I've not powerleveled at all!) So far, it's looking to be just as great as the first, and third games.

If you like the top down tactical RPG's, with tons of humor, anime graphics, engaging story lines, memorable characters, penguins that explode, massive stats (and tons of damage), over 90 bazillion hours of possible playtime (seriously so much to do!), tons of hidden stuff to find, and possibly the most epic loot ever looted! Then this is the game for you.

So, until next time, Dood!