A Gaming Diary
DS
Omalone (DS)
May 11th
A very polished Homebrew board game. It’s too late to explain the rules here, but you use your pieces to push your opponents pieces off the board and it’s all very simple but well done.
Picross DS (DS)
May 11th
Ah ha!
Using button input means that the big puzzles aren’t zoomed out when you play them, making the whole game about five thousand times more playable.
I really don’t need another puzzle game to play, but I can see myself getting right back into this one now.
Slitherlink (DS)
May 10th
Haven’t played this for a while, so I did a couple of 10×10 puzzles. Took 5:31 and then 5:54, which wasn’t too bad considering I’m a bit rusty.
Panel De Pon DS (DS)
May 10th
Did my daily training. Somehow I managed to get 0 in Avalanche mode again, despite seeming to do quite well. Odd.
Panel De Pon DS (DS)
May 9th
I loved this when it had Pokemon it, way back when. Since then I’ve not been too in love, but thought I’d try the DS version anyway.
Not sure if it was worth bothering yet. Firstly, there’s a ton of Japanese. (I’m playing it off my R4 with the English patch installed and there’s still a ton of Japanese.) Secondly, well, there’s a nice Daily Practice section, but it gives you options, so I’m not sure how it can keep track of scores if you can play around with levels and difficulty settings. Thirdly, I tried a go of Avalanche mode and played for half an hour without any stress, at which point it just dropped a million blocks on me and killed me dead in seconds. Odd, confusing and annoying.
On the plus side, the stylus control works really well and with some experimentation I should be able to find a mode which balances fairness and difficulty.
Still wish there were Pokemon in it, though.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 7th
Failed a gym battle this evening. Bother.
I was five or six levels before the gym leader’s Pokemon and managed to beat the first two, but the third one went before all my Pokemon and killed them in one hit. Not much I could do about that.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 6th
Well, that’s the fourth gym done. No mention yet of being able to use traded Pokemon above level thirty though. I’ve now got a team of Pokemon I’ve caught myself.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 2nd
Another gym badge obtained. Quite easily, really, though I was annoyed The Bride died and had to be replaced with For Bear. Still, I won, so I shouldn’t complain.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 1st
Hmm. I’ve found what’s meant to be the fourth gym without seeing the third. Don’t think the order matters, though. I’ve not gone in yet, because my team’s not well-suited to the challenge and I’m waiting for an egg to hatch. It’s been using up a slot in my team for days now and I really wish it would just hatch itself.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
Apr 29th
I’ve done a couple of online trades with players in Japan. Got myself a Skuntank and Murkrow for a Zubat and a Geodude. I think I did pretty well there.
I also just entered and won a contest, once I figured out how the dancing worked.
Can’t seem to fight the gym leader in my current town, so I’m heading off to see where else I can go.