Pokemon Platinum (DS)

Blast from the past! Had a hankering for this, so dug it out and have spent an enjoyable few minutes using the stylus to make lines of matching Pokemon. Seems to have been unjustly forgotten this game – it’s a good little puzzler and the cutscenes look great.

I have foiled the evil Team Galactic! Ha ha! So that’s the end of the big story. Now I’ve just got… everything else left to do. Of most importance is the final gym and the Elite Four, but there’s tons and tons of toehr stuff to do, too.

Current team – Chistery, level 31 Monferno with Mach Punch (Fight), Rock Smash (Fight), Flame Wheel (Fire) and Ember (Fire). Lawson, level 35 Tangrowth with Vine Whip (Grass), Cut (Normal), Mega Drain (Grass) and AncientPower (Rock). Cadaver, level 34 Alakazam with Psycho Cut (Psychic), Confusion (Psychic), Psybeam (Psychic) and Miracle Eye (Psychic). PIKACHU (in Japanese),

Played this last night for a bit. First I went into the underground tunnels and dug for spheres with my wife. (And I stole her flag. She was annnoyed, I was amused. I’m a bad husband.) Then we went up top and did some trading to evolve some guys. And then I did a few

In Veilstone City, or somewhere. Just tried the gym, but although everyone on the way was incredibly easy to defeat, the gym leader had a lucario I couldn’t touch. Very frustrating. I’ll have to do quite a lot of levelling, I think.