Weekly Gaming Blog · 9:55am Feb 24th, 2017
Welcome to my Weekly Gaming Blog!
This week's coverage: Pokemon Shuffle and Pokemon Sun.
This week will be the final regular coverage of Pokemon Sun, as I beat the game Wednesday evening. I need to get back to console gaming soon; also, now that I've beaten Pokemon Sun, I'm probably starting Dragon Quest VII soon. (I'm sure I'll do some of the post-game stuff in PokeSun, but it's not a priority.)
Newly acquired games this week:
None.
Pokemon Sun
Good lord...Vast Poni Canyon is a little TOO vast... @_@;;
Welp...it's done. I've beaten the game. There's a buttload of post-game stuff to do, of course...still a Pokedex to fill and all that jazz, but I'm honestly not going to go all-out or anything with it. Not right now, anyway. Other games await, other things to do...for now, I'm going to simply be content to have beaten the most story-rich Pokemon game ever.
Am I the only one who was surprised at how incredibly Squaresoft the end of the whole Lusamine plot was? I mean, the Ultra Beast transformation, her whole Queen Zeal-esque thing she had going on... Damn.
Unfortunately, I screwed up and accidentally fainted Tapu Koko in the post-E4 battle, but you get additional chances to capture it, so I'm not too worked up about that. It's just irritating that I overestimated my Raichu's ability to faint it in two shots. Derp. Ah well.
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Trainer: Marinette / Alola League Champion
Starter: Litten
Current Party: Chandelure, Garchomp, Incineroar, Mudsdale, Raichu, Solgaleo
Champion Party: Chandelure, Garchomp, Incineroar, Mudsdale, Raichu, Solgaleo
PokeFinder V2
Total Thumbs-Up: 6,064
Record Thumbs-Up: 3,568
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Completion percentages:
Alola: 65%
-o- Melemele: 80%
-o- Akala: 76%
-o- Ula'ula: 71%
-o- Poni: 67%
Seen: 305 (265 Alola, 40 National)
Caught: 236 (196 Alola, 40 National)
Shinies: 0
Legendaries: 2
Mythicals: 1
New Pokemon obtained this week: (Does not include extras caught for trading)
Chandelure (evolved from Lampent)
MAGEARNA (no nickname)
SOLGALEO (nickname: Convoy)
Z-CRYSTALS
Z-Crystals/Type:
Buginium Z, Darkium Z, Dragonium Z, Electrium Z, Fairium Z, Fightinium Z, Firium Z, Ghostium Z, Grassium Z, Groundium Z, Normalium Z, Poisonium Z, Rockium Z, Steelium Z, Waterium Z
Z-Crystals/Species:
Aloraichium Z, Decidium Z, Incinium Z, Primarium Z, Snorlium Z, Tapunium Z
Pokemon Shuffle
Meh.
Pokemon caught: 733
Pokemon at level 10 or higher: 153
* Main stage Pokemon caught: 525/??
* EX Stage Pokemon caught: 46/46
* Special Stage Pokemon caught:
=All Special Stage Pokemon released through 2/21/17=
* Safari: All Pokemon caught through 2/14/17
Main stages cleared: 1-545
Main stage S-ranks: 535
EX stages cleared: 1-46
EX stage S-ranks: 20
Survival Mode best record: SM16
Max combo: 166
Meowth's Coin Mania Record: 7200 coins
Best Competition Ranking Score:
Mega Houndoom Challenge
Score: 65809
Final rank: #2148
Best Competition Ranking Placement:
Mega Gyarados Challenge
Score: 58742
Final rank: #1178
Ranking Event awards won:
Abomasite, Absolite, Alakazamite, Banetteite, Beedrillite, Blastoisinite, Blazikenite, Cameruptite, Charizardite X, Charizardite Y, Garchompite, Gardevoirite, Gyaradosite, Houndoomite, Lucarionite, Manectite, Sceptilite, Sharpedonite, Steelixite, Swampertite, Venusaurite
Escalation Battle #1 highest level reached: 200
Giratina caught at: level 12 (12% catch rate)
Escalation Battle #2 highest level reached: 96
Cresselia caught at: level 4 (4% catch rate)
Escalation Battle #3 highest level reached: 101
Darkrai caught at: level 13 (13% catch rate)
Escalation Battle #4 highest level reached: 71
Latias caught at: level 16 (16% catch rate)
Escalation Battle #5 highest level reached: 101
Latios caught at: level 42 (42% catch rate)
Escalation Battle #6 highest level reached: 92
Keldeo (Resolute Form) caught at: level 11 (11% catch rate)
Escalation Battle #7 highest level reached: 239
Kyurem caught at: level 8 (8% catch rate)
Escalation Battle #8 highest level reached: 151
Diancie caught at: N/A (Diancie obtained prior to this event)
Escalation Battle #9 highest level reached: 247
Zygarde (50% Forme) caught at: level 9 (9% catch rate)
Escalation Battle #10 highest level reached: 246
Giratina (Origin Forme) caught at: level 14 (14% catch rate)
Escalation Battle #11 highest level reached: 100
Meloetta (Aria Forme) caught at: level 15 (15% catch rate)
Escalation Battle #12 highest level reached: 200
Mew caught at: N/A (Mew obtained prior to this event)
Escalation Battle #13 highest level reached: 75
Celebi caught at: N/A (Celebi obtained prior to this event)
Escalation Battle #14 highest level reached: 51
Volcanion caught at: level 48 (48% catch rate)
Now you need to make a party of Convoy and five Dittos.
"Pokémon, Transform and roll out!"
Yeah, that's one of the coolest moments of the game- when she goes completely off the deep end and OMG WHAT IS THAT?! Too bad you can't actually fight her, but guess attacking a human (even in that state) would be going a bit too far for a mainline Pokemon game. Great boss battle too, with all her Pokemon having boosts and evil expressions.
Not to mention the Pokemon League after that. At last, you're actually the first Champion without a rival beating you to the title by five minutes! Awesome to see Kukui in action too, especially as a reference to the original Professor Oak battle that could have been back in the first games.
4434659 What gets me is how QUICKLY they built that incredibly elaborate Pokemon League.
"Get in the bag, Convoy!" Just doesn't have the same ring to it.
As a person who loved Chrono Trigger I may have second thoughts on Sun and Moon (assuming the Lusamine plot is in both versions?).
Unfortunately, I sold my 3DS.