Pokémon Sun
Mar. 23rd, 2019 10:22 pmI enjoyed Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! so much that I ended up returning to Pokémon Sun to play through the postgame content. It took me 45 hours to finish the game, and I think I did just about everything I can do after that (not counting the competitive battle systems), bringing me to a total of 53 hours.
I only caught 115 pokémon. I’m sure that I could spend many more hours filling my pokédex, but I think I’m good. Up until about five years ago I would log close to a hundred hours on each of these games, and never once did I ever complete a pokédex. You need a solid management strategy and an extended support system to do something like that, and that’s not why I play video games.
I don’t have anything new or interesting to say about the game. It’s still reasonably fun but needlessly complicated, and my cute team of cute animals is still very cute. The main characters are still loveable, the villains are still fantastic, and the teenage lesbian love story is A++++++ forever.
Also, the strategy guide for Pokémon Sun and Moon is really nice! I appreciate that the Pokémon Company (which publishes these guides directly) is putting effort into making handsome books that include character art, creator interviews, and peripherals like bookmarks and maps. I usually don’t go in for game merch – I don’t even have that many amiibos – but I think I’m probably going to order the shit out of a special edition guide if they release one for Pokémon Sword and Shield.
Speaking of which, I was planning on spending some time in the UK this summer, but I’m going to have to cancel everything if the assholes in charge of Brexit don’t figure out what they’re doing. If the next set of Pokémon games is the only way I’m going to be able to visit the UK for the next couple of years, then I might as well make the best of it. Even though the real world is terrible, I’m heartened by the fact that we’re at least capable of imagining what a functioning utopia would look like.
I only caught 115 pokémon. I’m sure that I could spend many more hours filling my pokédex, but I think I’m good. Up until about five years ago I would log close to a hundred hours on each of these games, and never once did I ever complete a pokédex. You need a solid management strategy and an extended support system to do something like that, and that’s not why I play video games.
I don’t have anything new or interesting to say about the game. It’s still reasonably fun but needlessly complicated, and my cute team of cute animals is still very cute. The main characters are still loveable, the villains are still fantastic, and the teenage lesbian love story is A++++++ forever.
Also, the strategy guide for Pokémon Sun and Moon is really nice! I appreciate that the Pokémon Company (which publishes these guides directly) is putting effort into making handsome books that include character art, creator interviews, and peripherals like bookmarks and maps. I usually don’t go in for game merch – I don’t even have that many amiibos – but I think I’m probably going to order the shit out of a special edition guide if they release one for Pokémon Sword and Shield.
Speaking of which, I was planning on spending some time in the UK this summer, but I’m going to have to cancel everything if the assholes in charge of Brexit don’t figure out what they’re doing. If the next set of Pokémon games is the only way I’m going to be able to visit the UK for the next couple of years, then I might as well make the best of it. Even though the real world is terrible, I’m heartened by the fact that we’re at least capable of imagining what a functioning utopia would look like.