So, I have not been posting stuff in a while cuz I'm busy (with assignments). I still have assignments now, but I'm not as busy as before.
For the past few weeks, some awesome stuff happened. So I'll summarize some of the stuff (note, I'm doing this on the top of my head, so I may miss some stuff)
Pokemon Direct, and more Poke Stuff:
Holy crap, you get to choose a Kanto Starter?! How awesome is that? And said starter can Mega Evolve too?! Mega Blastoise look so cool!!
Yeah, that was my reaction. Not really a big fan of the PokeBank thing for now, since I can't see myself catching so many Pokemon that I have to use it, but I may in the near future. Some may complain on the USD 5$ price tag, but I think it's reasonable.
While it is true that Pokemon data (in bits) will most likely not be a lot, and that you can store 3000 Pokemon. An estimation of this cloud storage service is that you pay 5$ to store about 5-10 Mb worth of Pokemon data (assuming that you fill all 3000 slots), from that perspective, it does seem like a ripoff, but bear in mind that this cloud storage service may be used for future generations (which is a good thing), and seeing that so many people worldwide play Pokemon, there needs a maintenance fee for all the servers.
Oh, and Mega Mewtwo X rocks, glad I pre-ordered X. It's like, at the cost of not getting Yveltal as the mascot legendary, I get the more awesome looking Mega Mewtwo X, while they get Mega Mewtwo Y. Fair trade. Also, the fossil Pokemon looks cool too. And a poodle Pokemon that can be groomed, Simba's (I mean, Litleo's) evolution (which looks different depending on gender, similar to real lions) and that cat (?) Pokemon who's stats and movepool depends on its gender all looks cool.
Finally the 1st evolution of the starters were revealed. Do they look weird? Mostly, but it's okay. I don't think there is any 1st Evo Starter that looks good, all of them looks awkward and derpy in some way (like real teenagers, lol). One cool thing about their evo's is their names, possibly revealing what their final form may be (and what typing will it be).
Quiladin's name resembles Paladin, which (to me) is a mounted class that uses lances and swords (Fire Emblem reference). It's more to being a noble knight who may wield magic. From what I've gathered, Chespin and its evo has a Rock and Ground attack in his movepool. I'm hoping that when it is true that Quiladin will evolve into a more badass Paladin, he will have either Rock or Ground armour.
Braixen looks like a Mage, with that wand and stuff. While most starters gender ratio is skewed towards males, Braixen looks like a female Pokemon to me (maybe it's the colour, and the stick reminds me of a witch's stick instead of a magician's staff). While it has some Psychic moves, we may see the final evolution being a Fairy too.
Frogadier took a turn to be more badass. His name resembles Brigadier, which is a high ranking military person. While not the highest rank yet, I think his final form will give him a name which resembles the highest military rank (being evolved and all). He may get Fighting or Dark as his second typing, but we won't know this for now.
Ohhhhh, I almost forgot, you can customize outfits now!!!!!! I'm gonna like this a lot (LOL)!!
Yeah, other than that, that's all I can think of for Pokemon. Next up
PSV TV:
So, a strange announcement (like the 2DS), but it seems like a great idea. After all, most Vita games have the quality of a PS3 game right?
Well, this cheaper PSV lets you remote play the PS4 on another TV too, and you can play PSP games and PS1 games on it. All that at the cost of portability.
But the thing is that the controller that comes with PSV TV is the Dualshock 3 controller (the one for the PS3) and not the PS4 controller. Why is this a problem? Cuz some Vita games uses the touch screen, as in the front (and sometimes back) screen. Dualshock 3 doesn't have that, Dualshock 4 doesn't have that either, but it could be implemented on that small touch-sensitive area in between the analog sticks.
I dunno about you, but the Vita, while having some genuinely good original games, would be better off as a handheld, or it will defeat the purpose of having the Vita as a handheld, but that's just me. Nothing much to say here since I don't own a Vita. But with this PSV TV it will turn the tide of battle for sure, but I think there will be a cost. I mean, is the Vita how a console-handheld hybrid now? Will the increase in sales of the PSV TV cause game devs to make games less focus on the touch screen? Will those game devs also make more console oriented games for the Vita now? It's still hard to tell for now.
Next up, it's
Skytrex:
A few weeks back (on a Saturday), I went to this place called Skytrex. It's basically an obstacle course 20m above the ground in the rain forest. What you do is that equipped with safety gear, you climb up this ladder to the platform of a tree. You travel from one platform to another by completing an obstacle. Some of the obstacles are challenging, and some are easy.
Despite the assignments I had I still went for it because the last time I was there (which was 5 years ago), I enjoyed the experience with my cousins. Now, we're older, and they just opened a more challenging course. Problem is we couldn't find the time to go there together as a group. And I saw some club in my uni organizing this event, so I went away.
I never consider myself to be a fit person, and being there with guys who goes to the gym (or play sports), I felt a bit intimidated, and I think to myself 'I'm gonna suck at this tough course'. How wrong was I.
I was the first person in the entire group to start the course because the two guys in front of my dare not be the first to take up the challenge (and one of them is the rather muscular leader/organizer of the group. Some brave organizer he turned up to be). So I blazed through the place and completed it way faster than I expected. Was it tiring? Yeah, but it was very satisfying.
If you like extreme sports and in Malaysia, you should go try it. Even if you aren't an adrenaline junkie like me, you should go try it, it's very fun.
Lastly.
Apotheosis completed:
After grinding my team for a while, I decided that my team is ready to face the secret route of Apotheosis.
The 20 people I brought are:
Chrom (the convoy), Lissa & Cordelia (Main Healers), My Avatar, all 13 Children Characters, Olivia (Dancer), and two Rallybots.
Needless to say, I restarted a few times due to not being prepared. The first wave (Generals and Clerics) was easy and was completed in a turn to trigger the first wave of the secret path.
Secret Path (SP) 1 was easy. SP2 was easy too, even though the 70 speed Sniper and the Counter Snipers are a bit intimidating.
Funny story for SP3. I didn't know all my units were standing on the exact location where the Sorcerers will spawn. I had to devise a plan to kill them all in a turn or my supports will die. And I did. The general strategy I had for SP3 is to kill all in one turn.
SP4 was by far the toughest one. The Soldier, Snipers, and Tricksters are okay. But the ShadowGift Dark Fliers were annoying. Having such huge range with Hawkeye, I had to make sure my supports are not hit by them. But by far the most annoying units are the Hawkeye, Luna+, Aegis+, Counter, DragonSkin Berserkers. I died so many times from the boss because Dual Guard won't trigger. I had to resort to Nosferatu Sorcerers to weaken him.
SP5 wasn't as hard as SP4, but is still hard. Had to take down the Berserker henchmans with my Magic users. The Sorcerers weren't that tough, neither is the Snipers (since it's the same Snipers in SP2). Anna was surprisingly easy compared to the SP4 Berserker boss. I one-shot her with Inigo (Assassin) paired with Kjelle (Swordmaster), something I can't do with the SP4 boss. I had Inigo use a Bow to not get Countered, and he was able to defeat Anna pretty easily since he was able to outspeed her (Anna's speed is 70, my Inigo hit 84 after rallies and pairups), defeating her.
Finally got the Supreme Emblem and can equip it for bragging rights.
I did learn a lot of things from Apotheosis, and may talk about that in the next post. But for now, that's all.
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