Time for a Throwback

This week I decided to take a little bit of time and unwind while playing things more casually. This week I went and played some What the Golf? since they added in some new levels that I never got around to playing. It is still a goofy and wild time exploring this game, and there were some fun puzzles in the latest game. One had a focus on slime while another focused primarily on stealth. They didn’t take too long, but they were a nice little time killer. The crazy thing is how the levels are always so creative and wacky. It is a shame that I could only play for another hour or so, but there is something that I get to look forward to that is coming soon.

I remembered while playing these two bonus episodes that there existed another game by the same group that was called What the Car? I didn’t know much about it other than it involved a car with legs. Anyway, I didn’t have a good way to play this game so I had to put the idea aside. However, it turns out that it will soon be coming to Steam as well. It should be coming out in the next couple of weeks which is quite exciting. So hopefully, I can finish up Cat Quest III by then and jump right into it. I can’t wait to play more wacky games in the future.

It’s a bit of a shorter post today because I just wanted to put the news out there about this game for those who haven’t played it. That will be all for tonight. See you next time!

A Miracle Happened

I will say it was worth watching those Pokémon Worlds battles. Some of those matches were crazy. It was also cool hearing about the news at the closing ceremony. I do understand some people were hoping for some new info on the newest Pokémon Legends game, but it does make sense not to include it for a couple of reasons. First, is that they probably want to do a full presentation on it when things are ready on their end. It also is a single-player game which doesn’t really go with the competitive format of the competition. So, while it would have been nice, I get it, but there were some cool things shown, especially the fact that TCG Pocket finally has a release date of October 30th. I cannot wait for that game.

In other news, I am still working on Cat Quest III while also working on the Gimmighoul event. For those who don’t know, the chance for shiny Gimmighoul is back in five-star raids, but it is a 1 in 4103.5 chance so it will be a long hunt. I just need to remember not to go online after the event is over so I can keep hunting them. It would be great if that was the miracle, but that isn’t what happened. However, it is related to shiny Pokémon. I know I said I would take a break from hunting, but I can’t help myself sometimes and part of it is because I want to do preparations for later hunts. Also, I am very stubborn and don’t know when to quit. So I’ll show you what I got.

That is right. I finally managed to find a shiny female Nidoran. Unfortunately, I was only able to snag one of them, but it isn’t all bad news. I can now hunt for Nidornia in a different location on Route 221, meaning I never have to hunt for a shiny Pokémon on Route 201 ever again. I have every Pokémon I need from this route. Thank goodness the shiny RNG finally graced me with this pink Pokémon. That does it for this little update. See you next week!

Sailing The Purribean!

As I mentioned last time, I am playing the latest game in the Cat Quest series. I will do my best to keep the cat puns to a minimum while I talk about the game. This will be my first impressions of the game so far and I will try and keep any spoilers to a minimum. Now something I always forget whenever I start a new one of these games is that the map is bigger than I think it is. There is a lot to explore and this time there is a lot more water. Thankfully, they at least allow you to swim from the beginning this time. More importantly, they give you a ship to allow you to travel faster on the high seas. Also, your ship serves as another means of attack. This game has a bigger focus on ranged combat since some enemies are best handled from afar and you can’t always rely on magic. I find it useful, but I haven’t quite gotten used to it yet. Also, I am noticing that there seem to be a lot more options for weapons and armor than I remember, but that could be my mind playing tricks on me. Right now I am not very far into the story so it will be a while before I am sure about how many items the game actually has in it.

One thing that was definitely interesting is there are different kinds of dungeon layouts. Some are strictly on a 2D plain. That means that both enemy and boss encounters have a different style to them and there isn’t a lot of space to run away and cheese enemies. I’ve heard that the hard way. So I’ve died a few times. What’s funny is every time you get put down and get a game over it tells you to maybe use your ship to deal with harder enemies. I think that advice was only applicable once as every other time it was in a 2D dungeon. I can’t really bring my ship into those. Thankfully, dying isn’t so bad as you just go back to the last checkpoint. Currently, I am torn between exploring and potentially getting wiped by higher-level enemies or trying to play things safely and continue with the story. I haven’t decided yet, but I am leaning towards exploration. It’s a pirate’s life for me after all.

Anyway, that’s about it for my first impressions. It might be hard to tell but I am having a blast. These games don’t really miss and they are just cute fun games to play in my downtime. Hopefully, I will be able to unravel the secrets of my bloodline again and find the hidden treasure, but that will be another day. Maybe I will even find out about the different timelines and figure out what this is all about?

Your guess is as good as mine as to what this is supposed to mean. I have a feeling about it, but I may need to replay the previous games to be certain. Anyway, have a good night! I’m off to find some pi-rats! That last bit wasn’t a joke. that is what they are called. See you next time!

Getting Ready to Set Sail

So, you may not know, but there is a particular series that I have been a fan of since college. I don’t remember exactly how it was brought to my attention, but I have enjoyed playing through the games in the series so far. This series is called Cat Quest, and features as you might expect from it, lots of cats. Of course, the quest part is the big selling point here as it is a simple RPG with levels, magic, and armor. You just happen to be a cat on an adventure. Curently there are only two games in the series with the third on the way. Going by the trailers that I have seen, this third one has a focus on pirates which should be interesting. I am thinking that it will be its own storyline just like the other two games. However, there is a possibility that there may be a universe I don’t quite understand yet. And I am not just saying that in the hopes that the dogs will come back from Cat Quest II.

I know this all sounds silly, but these games have their fair share of challenges for completion. The first game was a bit harder to complete since it required you to play through the game multiple times with increasing difficulty, but it was at least still managable. By the way, if you ever do decide to go for those challenges runs, remember that your level is the one thing that you want to keep normal since it directly correlates to your base stats and damage. Just trust me on that. The rest of it is just figuring out your style of fighting, not that it is super complex. again, it is a lighthearted RPG full of cat puns. Don’t expect things to be taken too seriously. It does have its serious moments though, especially when we get to the plot twist. So far each game has had one, so I believe the third one will have something similar in its campaign. Man, am I excited!

By the way, I forgot to mention that the third installment is coming out in three days on the 8th so that is why I have the game on my brain. Thank goodness I put it in my wishlist cause it might have dropped off my radar with my lack of Steam presence these days. i have no one but myslef to blame for that though Something else I found out is that I am really rusty at these games after doing a couple of practice sessions. I might try and work of that, but for now I am going to sign off. The next time you hear from me, I will be plundering treasure.

Slight Delay

Sorry again. Feeling a bit under the weather so I plan to turn in early tonight. Hopefully, I will be fine and dandy in the morning, but if not I will just bite the bullet and talk about something. It is an upcoming game that I am excited to play so I hope you look forward to me talking about it. For now, though, I’m going to bed. Goodnight,

I’ve Come to A Decision (Nothing Crazy)

So, remember last week how I talked about how annoying it was to hunt for the female Nidoran in Pokémon: Shining Pearl? Well, I have made a few more attempts since then with no success. Honestly, most of my long-term hunts have been like that recently. Today I managed to find two full-odd shiny Pokémon before I even saw a female Nidoran. That is absolutely absurd. So, I have decided that I am going to put this hunt on pause since hunting for a Pokémon with a 2% spawn rate is slowly eroding my last vestiges of sanity. Instead, in a couple of months, I will go and play Pokémon: Brilliant Diamond all the way through and hunt the Pokémon in that game instead. I won’t do any special quests or anything for that one, I just want to play through the game normally. I don’t need to do another badge quest since my current one hasn’t seen a gym yet. So that is one thing I’m planning on doing. The second thing is I am going to try and finish up some other games.

I have a terrible habit of playing most of the way through a game and not putting the finishing touches on it because I have too much fun exploring different areas. So, I’m going to try to work on a couple of games in my backlog if I can. That’s the goal at least. I’m trying to mix things up a little bit. There is also a game I am looking forward to playing that I will probably end up talking about next month so look forward to that. Anyway, that is what I have decided right now since I have been on a slight dry streak. I will still hunt from time to time, but not as much for just a little bit. So in the meantime, I think I am going to dust off an old friend and get back to it. Have a good night everyone and see you next time!

PokéRadar Problems

Hey everyone. Due to reasons, yesterday I wasn’t in a space to form any coherent sentences, but now I am feeling much better. So, now let’s talk about that little mini rant I promised you. This rant is regarding PokéRadar chaining in Pokémon Shining Pearl. Now you may not be aware, but chaining in this game isn’t exactly easy. In fact, I can count on my hand the amount of times I have a good chain. However, there is some fun in it which is why I continue to do it. Especially since it feels less tedious than some of my other hunts at the moment. However, there is a big exception to this. There is one Pokémon that has been toying with me for the longest time and that is Nidoran. Now you might be wondering what I am talking about. After all, I showed off getting some shiny Nidoran in a previous post. Well, as I mentioned back then this Pokémon is a bit special since it has two different evolution lines depending on whether it is the male or female variant. It turns out that the male variant is much more common in this game while the female is much more common in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond. With all that in mind, I swear that female Nidoran hates me. Each time I finally get it in the chain, it doesn’t last for more than a few checks before the chain breaks. Every. Single. Time. Nothing like my luck with the male variant. Not at all.

This chain has been the most consistently broken one since I started chaining. This thing has the gall to hide from me in the random patches of grass and then dip without even getting to know me first. Like what did I do for it to hate me? You would think I was holding its family hostage or something. Well, I get that shiny male Nidoran does kind of look like the female, but that shouldn’t count. Do you want to know something absurd? I am not trying to get an insane high chain like I did with Skitty. I don’t think that is in the cards. However, I at least want to attempt the seventeen method by encountering seventeen of them without the chain breaking on me again. That would at least put me at half-odds. I can’t even get that. Do you want to know something even funnier? If you don’t, too bad. In the process of hunting for just one shiny female Nidoran, I have found five shiny Pokémon at full odds. Two Starly and three Bidoof are what I have to show for this hunt right now. I am on phase six trying to get to a chain of seventeen. WHY? It is starting to get to the point where I’m wondering if it would be faster to play through Pokémon Brilliant Diamond instead of sticking to hunting like this. I’m not quite there yet, but boy is the game not making this easy on me.

I know that I have to get at least three of these to be done, but at this point, I would be okay with just one so I could at least see a different route for the hunt. However, who knows when that will be. I just have to be patient because when this game decides to be generous, it is quite kind to me. Anyway, have a good night. That should hopefully be more readable than what I attempted to type up last night. I’ll sleep on it. See you Sunday. Unless my brain stops working again. Bye!