Pokemon Sapphire

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 huge amounts of this over the weekend. Two more gyms done, lots of exploring and levelling, evolved my Buneary and a Chancy (that I got as en egg by trading with my wife), stuff like that. Ate hours and hours of my life.

I haven’t tried the gym again. Instead, I just wandered around a bit outside of town while my wife was on the phone, got my Psyduck up a level or two.