I’m gonna be that bitch and play this game only
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I beat the first boss in Bomberman Quest! It’s very cute and focused on enemy encounters.
This game seems like such a slight twist on the formula at first, but really it borrows more from Link’s Awakening than I first realized. I can equip my B and A buttons with different actions and move across a grid map. Bomberman can only move in cardinal directions but enemies move freely about the open spaces. They all have unique behaviors. I love that the very first enemy is the balloon from the first game. The first few enemies are attracted to bombs. Others avoid bombs. Still others avoid me.
One problem I have with it is that Bomberman’s base speed is extremely slow. That means I have the running shoes permanently glued to the B button. It would be so much better if the running speed was Bomberman’s default! Then I could use things like the yo-yo or jumping shoes or whatever!
If I get tired of other games before the end of the month, I’m sure I’ll come back. Unfortunately for Bomberman, Dragon Quest Monsters is on the bill so I doubt it will get a second chance.
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Pokemon is still good but holy hell this game is grindy, and type matchups are basically the only important thing. Also really stingy on non-normal STAB moves at low levels.
I started with Bulbasaur and beat Brock as soon as i got my first grass move, v easy. Actually leveling a pikachu for the first time, also.
Bugs are even more useless than i remember.
Pidgey is MVP though
Using switch battle mode (or whatever its called) but only to level up my pissy idiots, never to trivialize battles.
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The real blue experience is charmander because there’s literally nothing that has a good type match up with brock. In red you can get a Mankey early on, but you’re fucked in blue.
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Oops! Kind of figured I was boned.
Maybe not applicable to your play situation but on the mister last night I got to a near impossible boss in a game and finally went “you know I’ll check that cheats tab” and it allowed me to skip it. So see if there is always run?
The key thing is: Brock has no rock type moves, so while almost nothing you’ve got in your arsenal is strong against his pokemon nothing you have will be weak. Once you get to cerulean I believe you can get some grass types, or bugs with grass moves, which is good because otherwise you’d be totally fucked lol.
Another weird quirk is all of his pokemon are rock/ground. Which means that while a pikachu could do something if it was just rock, the ground type means electricity is a bad idea. For years I thought rock was strong vs electric for this reason.
all rock types are also ground in gen 1 i’m pretty sure, except the fossils. makes you wonder why they were separate
same w grass and poison i think? unless tangela was straight grass
was the red/blue port on 3ds just a straight virtual console rom, or did it have some kind of quality of life changes? i think i vaguely remember something like that
i haven’t played it since its original (palsland) release. wow, that was actually before the anime started airing here by a few weeks! imagine that, like a different world~
I played red as a kid and just leveled charmander until i could beat brock. I basically only leveled charmander the whole game, i think it was level 70 something by the end.
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It was compatible with the pokemon box thing i think, but I’m not aware of any major changes. Maybe save states?
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I’ve never played it all the way through but Dragon Warrior Monsters seems good.
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This worked until the elite four and then I was fucked
Grind grind grind grind! I also had a bunch of those PP restoring items and potions and whatnot. I was dumb
Reminds me of how somehow I’d wound up with a team full of really strong fighting types in… Pokémon Y I think, and I got to a psychic-type gym and took the bus straight to Grind City.
just played nearly an hour of pokemon red
it’s surprisingly engrossing! obviously, it’s the perfect thing for a handheld: you put on a tv show and grind for a while. really dispells the old wisdom that handhelds are for simple games and “short bursts”.
i actually haven’t played any pokemon game at all since the release of heart gold/soul silver. those games were so boring, i just thought i was done with the series. maybe i still am, and enjoying red this morning is largely down to nostalgia?
i think i should probably try some other games that seem to attempt to put a whole rpg world in a game boy cartridge in this way, like that one saga game? or maybe lufia? it’s a concept i love, tbh.
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Its a remarkable game, the pacing is incredibly uneven as well. I forgot that mt moon is a legit dungeon, very confusing and difficult. It’s definitely the crunchiest and weirdest pokemon game
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You should absolutely play the GAMEBOY SaGa games!
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Always been curious about James Bond 007. Saw one in the wild over the weekend, taking that as a sign.
First mission sends Bond to China which provides the obligatory exoticism (yes, they kick things off with the cliché “oriental riff” at the top of the mission) and a kind of context for highlighting Bond’s Judo Chop and block techniques.
I was one step ahead of this game’s pixel hunting protocol because I’ve played enough games to have my brain warped in that way (found a med kit (and a hammer…) by searching a pillow well before anyone told me that was a good idea) no visual clues, just action button around it’s that kinda game.
After karate chopping the Dragon Lady and stealing the Secret Plans, back to HQ. And Money Penny.
And M.
And Q (he gives Bond a gun).
You can touch it again…
…to access this (secret?) item listed as M.A.R.B.L.E. in your inventory*
They’re still ironing out the glitches in this sofa you can interact with (unfortunately for the guy sitting on it)
This already feels like more of a Bond game than most in a cosy kinda way? I don’t recall being able to hang out with the gang like this elsewhere.
*Mostly A Ruddy Bloody Likeable Experience
Now it’s off to Kurdistan to see what’s become of 008
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