Hello 2017!
Hello everyone, yes, I am still here, and still gaming! I started back doing full-time work the past year, so I’ve not really given myself much time or motivation for writing here, but I had…
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Review: Pokemon Picross
Pokemon Picross is Nintendo’s latest “free to start” Pokemon game (along with Pokemon Shuffle and Pokemon Rumble World) and I’m already addicted. It combines the fun of picross puzzles with collecting Pokemon. You are limited…
E3 Excitement!
So E3 happened, and I am feeling quite warm and fuzzy with the afterglow. It’s nice to be excited about upcoming game developments after a few years of not very much happening in the all-important…
Pokemon follow up – catch some of them
A while back I posted a frustrated vent about how impossible it was to “catch ’em all” in any modern Pokemon game. Since then, I finished the main story of Pokemon White and went immediately…
Pokemon – never EVER catch ’em all
I sit here trying to reconcile shelving yet another Pokemon game, without having been able to catch ’em all. I put over 100 hours into Super Pokemon Rumble. I have one world rank upgrade left…
LEGO games = 100% Completable (the holy grail of gaming)
Today I want to write a bit about how frustrating I find most games. Being a completionist, I have a compulsive urge to collect all items, complete all side quests, battle all enemies and upgrade…
Super Pokemon Rumble / Pokemon Rumble Blast
Back in May, I graduated from my BA at Curtin University and attended my ceremony in Sydney. While I was there I thought I deserved a present, so I bought myself a copy of Super…
Pokemon frustration
Today I decided to get the Zoroark for my Pokemon White game (which I have not played much of yet, but don’t want to miss out!). To my absolute frustration I see that it is…
Q2 2011: what I have been playing
Very bad at updating this blog, but it is definitely time to tell you what I’ve been playing over the past three months. Despite extreme stress at work, and completing two units of my degree,…
Q1 2011: what I have been playing
As I consult my oracle (GameCollectorz database, which I thoroughly recommend – no affiliation even), I see that I have somehow managed to play a darn lot of games despite work and study monopolising my…