Week in Review - 11/12/2021

 

• Pokémon Crystal (3DS)

I started a Crystal Nuzlocke this summer and I picked it up again to chip away at it. I left Eruteak and made my way all the way to Cianwood. Gym Leader Morty took out some of my best Pokémon, though. It felt a bit impossible to recover. Sure enough, Gym Leader Chuck defeated me in Cianwood. My newly caught Gyrados, Satya, defeated his Primeape easily enough, but then his Poliwrath tore through the rest of my weakened team. Even MVP Magnemite, Quartz, was taken out in a single Dynamic Punch. 

• Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield (Switch)

It has been a while since I fired these up. Anticipating the Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl in two weeks, I decided to do a bit of Poké-maintenance. Deez was kind enough to get me codes for Shiny Zamazenta and Zacian, Shiny Celebi and a Dada Zarude. I had been sitting on the codes for a while and decided it was time to add them to my collection. Pokémon Sword is the first Pokémon game I've completed the entire Pokédex since - I daresay - Pokémon Silver. This includes the DLC. It's one of the few good things about the Dexit Controversy. It made collecting a bit easier again. 

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Week in Review - 11/5/2021

 

• Gloomhaven (PC - Steam)

Gloomhaven has been my board game addiction for a few years now. The PC version has never really managed to hold my attention for too long. Now that the full game is out and the campaign is available, I booted it up to give it a try. I've played through the first two maps on a tabletop and on Tabletop Simulator so many times that playing it again in a video game format feels really weird. I really couldn't give it much more attention than that, right now. 

• Kingdom: Classic (PC - Steam)

A new Norse expansion for Kingdoms: Two Crowns is coming soon. It reminded me that this franchise exists and I had a blast with it many, many years ago. I'm pretty sure I beat Classic back then, but for the life of me I can't manage to pull off a win anymore. This is where I sank the most hours early this week, trying to get my kingdom into shape for the final assault, but every time was met with disaster. 

• Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk (Switch)

I've had this game kicking around my Switch for a while, but I never bothered to try it. I bothered to try it this week and it didn't hook me. I'm not a huge fan of the Etrian Odyssey style dungeon crawling / dungeon mapping genre, so it's really not surprising that this isn't an instant hit for me. I don't love it. I don't hate it. I'm not sure if I'll fire it up again anytime soon.

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