Good morning! I forgot to write yesterday, apologies. I was playing Bullet Girls Phantasia and I was getting really into the story, so kind of lost track of time! I've still got a little way to go on that so there'll probably be a piece specifically about the sexy elements this week (because there's some interesting stuff to talk about there, relevant to some articles I've posted recently) followed by a bit about the story next week.
As I've noted previously, I'm also interested in resurrecting the New Game Plus video series to play through some postgame content because there's a lot to do there and I'm actually quite keen to do it — I just don't want to drag on the feature for too long.
There's a really satisfying sense of progression, and it's clear that playing through just Normal difficulty is only going to allow you to see a fraction of the power level you'll be able to attain by the end of the postgame. So watch out for that in the near future!
Next up, as I've said, will be Pokémon. I'm a relative newbie to Pokémon having only played a bit of Red and Gold back in the day, and all through the main story of Moon, so I'm interested to come at it from that perspective — and with Sword and Shield being something of a "fresh start" for the series in many ways, I think it's going to be cool to explore.
I'm also keen to do Pokémon for another reason: to counter the massive negativity that has been boiling over about it recently. I understand that longtime fans are upset over the lack of National Dex, but the behaviour of a lot of people who are disappointed in what they perceive Sword and Shield to be lacking has been absolutely disgusting. I've seen a lot of really unpleasant, abusive tweets being thrown around along with outright lies about the game (someone actually tried to convince the Internet that the game had no battle backgrounds yesterday… that went about as well as you can expect) — though I was heartened to see how much traction the #ThankYouGameFreak hashtag mustered in a very short space of time over the weekend.
The game is in urgent need of some quality analysis that looks at what the game is actually doing rather than what it is not doing or "how bad the trees look" or whatever. I'm looking forward to it and can't wait for Friday to give it an initial shakedown!
Anyway. Better do some work… or rather, prepare for an entire morning of pointless conference calls. More to come later today. Have a lovely day!
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