A Gaming Diary
DS
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 21st
Well, that’s all eight gym badges obtained.
I’m not ready for Victory Road yet, though, so I’m going to have to level up a bit. I might change my team round a bit, too. My Medicham is far less useful than I thought she’d be.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 20th
Team Galactic are defeated!
The trek up Mount Coronet was awful, with random encounters every two steps. (I think caves might be worse at night, because the last bit this morning was much quieter.) Then Team Galactic’s boss very, very nearly wiped me out, but I just about won and got the chance to fight the legendary Pokemon Dialga, who in a somewhat anticlimatic battle I managed to catch in the first round with a Quick Ball.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 19th
No new gyms today. I’ve just been wandering around getting experience and waiting for an egg to hatch. Not overly interesting, but it took up about three hours of my life.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 18th
Forty hours in now. This evening I beat the sixth gym, finally. I only needed to use one Pokemon in the end. Now I’ve battled my way to Snowpoint City and I’m going to see if there’s anything that’s good against Ice type that’s not fire.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 17th
Thirty-five hours in. Five gyms down. Tried the sixth this evening, but I’m not ready. So I intended to level myself up, but didn’t do very well, sintead getting distracted by new Pokemon, trading and mixing records with my wife, dressing up my Crandios and going for a nice walk with my cute For Bear.
Yes, a bit of a contrast with Halo 3.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 13th
Well, I finally beat the fifth gym leader. About thirty-three hours in now and I’m going to see if the sixth gym is doable.
Picross DS (DS)
May 13th
I made two puzzles and then handed them over to my wife to do. She was very impressed. Darth Vader and Jason Voorhees. Didn’t actually solve any puzzles myself.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 13th
Went to the gaming casino. You get some super special prize if you get to ten bonus rounds. So I played the tedious no-skill fruit machine mini-game for ages and ages, getting bonus round after bonus round, until after the ninth bonus round… the bonus rounds stopped. No idea why. Was very annoying.
Since then I’ve been seeking out trainers I’ve missed to try and eek out some experience for Batowl, my Noctowl, who’s the only anti-ghost guy I’ve really got.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 12th
I’m unsure about what I should be doing right now. The next official task is the fifth gym, but I’ve somehow got to that stage with a severely under-levelled and unsuitable team, so I’ve got to try and level my guys up. If I just do battling of random Pokemon it’s going to take about six thousand years, so I’m trying to find a shortcut.
