A Gaming Diary
DS
Pokemon Platinum (DS)
May 14th
Slogged my way to Celestic Town, or whatever it’s called, and thwarted Team Galactic’s evil plans there. I really like my current team, though my starter fire monkey chap has terrible defence. Still, he’s my starter, so he has to be in my team for ever and ever.
Pokemon Platinum (DS)
May 11th
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.
Pokemon Platinum (DS)
May 8th
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 fights to try and level up to beat the gym leader I’m stuck on.
Pokemon Platinum (DS)
May 4th
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.
Pokemon Platinum (DS)
May 3rd
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.
Pokemon Platinum (DS)
Apr 26th
Hooray! Got back home, connected to wifi and some nice Japanese person had sent me a Pikachu in exchange for my spare Shieldon. Also, I beat the third gym. Go me!
Civilization Revolution (DS)
Apr 25th
Being on holiday means I managed to play an entire game in one sitting yesterday morning. Only on Chieftan, but I rather like the stress-free life of an all-powerful leader. I was the Russians and won a cultural difficulty. I kept democracy from early in the game, only fighting when other civs declared war on me. It’s growing on me quite a lot, this game.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (DS)
Apr 23rd
Played quite a lot of this in the end. Made a cool £20,000 on a coke deal, delivered some noodles, bought a hearse, that sort of thing. The most annoying thing right now is that I think I’ve managed to buy all but one safe house, but can’t find another for sale anywhere on the map.
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (DS)
Apr 23rd
Thought I was in a strategy kind of mood, so ignored story mode and started up a battle on the first available map. Played a few turns, but I’ve completely forgotten how to play and found the AI was slaughtering me. Well, okay, that might be a bit strong – it started gradually pushing me back after a tussle in the centre of the map. It was enough for me to turn off in disgust, though. I just wasn’t really feeling it yesterday, I suppose.
Mr Driller: Drill Spirits (DS)
Apr 23rd
So, I set myself up with new games aplenty and what do I end up playing on the first proper day of my holiday? Old stuff. Mr Driller, for example, though I kept turning it off in disgust at my rubbishness, then back on a few minutes later.
