X-men: Days of Future Past

So on Monday I went to Cambridge to see the new X-men film. Now obviously, there'll be some spoilers but I'll try to keep to a minimum.

Firstly, Wow! What a movie! I thought everything was done fantastically, the pacing and performance of everyone was brilliant. This is easily the best X-men film out of all of them....so far! (Hidden scene at the end, has easily made me want to go see the next one.)

I wasn't expecting this film to impress me, after the horribleness of Last Stand and the Dark Phoenix story arc. (And I thought New Class wasn't that great....well, okay apart from Jennifer Lawrence, but I don't really have to explain why...). However, the fact that I enjoyed The Wolverine, I had to go give it a try (and the fact Jennifer was back in it, had nothing to do with my reason to go see it...honest!)

However, as you can tell, I was really impressed with the Film. Wasn't too over keen with the Sentinel Design (more purple, and taller please!), however, they were used really well.

Really liked all scenes with Evan Peter's Quicksilver. Although, I thought he was going to be used a lot more.

The same can be said for a lot of the Future X-men. Iceman, Shadowcat (Hmmm, Ellen Page), Colossus, Sunspot, Blink (Can't wait to see the other four films that she'll be in!), Bishop, and Warpath. I don't think many got enough story time. Yes, they did a lot of fight scenes, but it would have been interesting to see more of a story. Although, if Fan Bingbing, is written into another four films as Blink, then I hope they'll bring some of these new mutants back too. Although, this is the problem with using such a big world of marvel comics, there is sooo many people to choose from.

Anyway, back to the movie. Yes, you should see it. It has opened a lot of interesting questions up as of timelines, but it's comics and this sort of thing happens all the time. Hopefully, the next film will answer some questions, and leaves us for more. If you haven't seen it yet, you shouldn't be reading this blog! Go now!.

Been away for a bit.

At least it's not as long as last time. Anyway, lot's of stuff has happened, played lots of games, watched a few films, and such (ya know, general life.)

Planning to write a load of reviews, and views over the next few weeks, and hopefully carry this on, because I do enjoy doing this. I just forget, and then come back to it a month later and think..."gee, I forgot about this. I'll have to update it during this week"...and then I completely forgot until another month goes by. So this time, I've checked here, and thought...."I wont put this off. I'll do it now!"...and here I am, rambling on.

What I've done since last time.
Played, and completed, "Assassin's Creed: Black Flag". Which I've really enjoyed, and will do a review on that.
Played a lot of games and not completed them yet. "Spider-man: Web of Shadows", "Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeros.", "Disgaea D2", "Lego Marvel Superheroes", "The Guided Fate Paradox" and many more.
Watched "Thor 2: Dark World", "The Amazing Spider-man 2", "Lego Movie" and tomorrow I'm hopefully going to watch "X-men: Days of Future Past". (and I'm going to review most of these too.)

So, yeah. Lots of stuff to write about, plus other stuff that comes into my head.

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!