Saturday, 29 May 2010
Note to Self: Version 1337.
Smugleaf is not smugleaf. Smugleaf is actually Abicion. This concept confuses and enrages me.
RE: Concrete Reasons Why I hate my DS. The DS Lite Version.
So I have a DS Lite now... I like it. Here's why;
1: Power switch is in a sensible place that you can't accidentally push when using the D-Pad
2: Sexy, shiny, ooh...!
3: Screen is bright and awesome.
4: Stylus is located in a convenient spot and isn't the size of a fingernail.
5: Start & Select are placed nicely below the main buttons.
6: Not a DS Phat
7: Screen was shiny and awesome when I bought it.
8: Headphone socket works. Nuff said.
9: Volume slider is much improved.
10: F***ing massive battery life.
11: Pokémon Heart Gold.
1: Power switch is in a sensible place that you can't accidentally push when using the D-Pad
2: Sexy, shiny, ooh...!
3: Screen is bright and awesome.
4: Stylus is located in a convenient spot and isn't the size of a fingernail.
5: Start & Select are placed nicely below the main buttons.
6: Not a DS Phat
7: Screen was shiny and awesome when I bought it.
8: Headphone socket works. Nuff said.
9: Volume slider is much improved.
10: F***ing massive battery life.
11: Pokémon Heart Gold.
On Procrastinating.
Well it's a day late and it's neither witty nor humorous, but I have a deviantArt account! Only 5 years overdue, so I didn't do too badly, I guess. http://evilsapphie.deviantart.com/
Friday, 28 May 2010
About damn time I posted something.
Too tired to create something coherent now. Note to self: Write something witty and epic for the world to see when you wake up. Also, stop eating all the cheese.
Monday, 3 May 2010
On my DS. Concrete reasons why I hate it.
1: Power switch is in an absolutely retarded place.
2: Ugly, ugly, UGLY!
3: Screen is dim and crappy.
4: Stylus is located in an awkward spot.
5: Start & Select could be placed better.
6: Not a DS Lite
7: Screen was scratched to hell when I bought it.
8: Headphone socket just does not work with wide headphone jacks. (I mean the plastic housing on the jacks specifically.)
9: Volume slider is terrible.
10: 2 F***ing hours battery life!? Are you f***ing joking!? And you can't even get replacement batteries for the original any more!!!
My wishlist: Cobalt Blue DS Lite. Somebody I know, please win the lottery, kthx.
2: Ugly, ugly, UGLY!
3: Screen is dim and crappy.
4: Stylus is located in an awkward spot.
5: Start & Select could be placed better.
6: Not a DS Lite
7: Screen was scratched to hell when I bought it.
8: Headphone socket just does not work with wide headphone jacks. (I mean the plastic housing on the jacks specifically.)
9: Volume slider is terrible.
10: 2 F***ing hours battery life!? Are you f***ing joking!? And you can't even get replacement batteries for the original any more!!!
My wishlist: Cobalt Blue DS Lite. Somebody I know, please win the lottery, kthx.
On Mudkipz and why I liek them.
So as some of you will be no doubt aware, I acquired Pokemon Heart Gold last Friday. Yes indeed, fun times have been had and as of almost exactly a week later, I had beaten the game well and truly into a bloody pulp. So I guess I'll legitimise this post by doing a review of sorts. Now, way back in the day when there were only two Pokemon games, (no really, there was such a time,) I was the owner of a copy of Pokemon Red. Together with my accidentally overpowered Arcanine, I was... Well let's just say that of all the link battles that went on in school over the lunch break, I used a Mewtwo, just like everyone else. Only my Arcanine was truly the sole Pokemon present capable of putting the hurt on the hordes of Mewtwos that wasn't a Mewtwo itself. I'm quite proud of that, considering I knew nothing about the technical aspect of the game back in those days.
But anyway, along came Yellow and I like so many others bought in to the anime tie in vibe of having Pikachu follow you, even though in my case, the most I ever watched of the anime was maybe one or two episodes and the second and third movies. Yellow was a blast, to say the least. Just different enough to make it fresh, even though it was a 90% retread of old ground. But then, Gold and Silver were announced. A brave new world with 100 more critters to catch? Day and Night cycles? A world twice the size of the original with dozens more sidequests and amusements? It seemed too good to be true and it almost was. When I think back on my days of playing Silver, all I can really remember is a great game, but certainly not a memorable one. About the only thing I can remember is a certain level 80 Pikachu...
This might explain why I never bought in on the Generation 3 games. Sure, I emulated them, but I had grown somewhat tired of the premise when they came out and besides that, I had no GBA to play them on. I only got myself a GBA after the original DS came out and to date I still only own one game for it. (No prizes for guessing what that is.) But anyway, the nail in the coffin for me was moving away from the town where we lived, which effectively isolated the entire family and killed my social life and any interest in Pokemon along with it. Certainly I know who to blame for that, but I don't hold it against them, as it's in the past now and has been for the best part of six or seven years.
Then of course, the DS came along and with it, Diamond and Pearl. I was late to the DS party, I bought my DS phat some time after the Lite was released. So I missed those two games and even only picked up Platinum recently. And then, HGSS comes along and all of a sudden, Pokemon are awesome again. So, I went down to the shops and bought a copy of Heart Gold, on the reccomendation of many different people. I was not at all disappointed with what I got.
What HGSS is, is a culmination of all the things Game Freak have learned over the last ten years. It is a triumph of learning from trial and error and the best game in the series in my opinion. It really is the original Gold and Silver, but with more heart and soul, a game which takes the best bits of each game in the series, throws it into the mix with the original Gold and Silver and comes out as much more than the sum of its parts. And besides that, it has Mudkipz.
But anyway, along came Yellow and I like so many others bought in to the anime tie in vibe of having Pikachu follow you, even though in my case, the most I ever watched of the anime was maybe one or two episodes and the second and third movies. Yellow was a blast, to say the least. Just different enough to make it fresh, even though it was a 90% retread of old ground. But then, Gold and Silver were announced. A brave new world with 100 more critters to catch? Day and Night cycles? A world twice the size of the original with dozens more sidequests and amusements? It seemed too good to be true and it almost was. When I think back on my days of playing Silver, all I can really remember is a great game, but certainly not a memorable one. About the only thing I can remember is a certain level 80 Pikachu...
This might explain why I never bought in on the Generation 3 games. Sure, I emulated them, but I had grown somewhat tired of the premise when they came out and besides that, I had no GBA to play them on. I only got myself a GBA after the original DS came out and to date I still only own one game for it. (No prizes for guessing what that is.) But anyway, the nail in the coffin for me was moving away from the town where we lived, which effectively isolated the entire family and killed my social life and any interest in Pokemon along with it. Certainly I know who to blame for that, but I don't hold it against them, as it's in the past now and has been for the best part of six or seven years.
Then of course, the DS came along and with it, Diamond and Pearl. I was late to the DS party, I bought my DS phat some time after the Lite was released. So I missed those two games and even only picked up Platinum recently. And then, HGSS comes along and all of a sudden, Pokemon are awesome again. So, I went down to the shops and bought a copy of Heart Gold, on the reccomendation of many different people. I was not at all disappointed with what I got.
What HGSS is, is a culmination of all the things Game Freak have learned over the last ten years. It is a triumph of learning from trial and error and the best game in the series in my opinion. It really is the original Gold and Silver, but with more heart and soul, a game which takes the best bits of each game in the series, throws it into the mix with the original Gold and Silver and comes out as much more than the sum of its parts. And besides that, it has Mudkipz.
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