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| What might lurk in the grass? Rattata probably. |
So I had a request to play a game! I’d never got one before
and I was quite excited to do it. Katie, someone I know from the open mic
circuit, asked me to cover a Pokémon game, and I remembered I had Leaf Green on
my Game Boy Advance so I was happy to oblige! I hadn’t played it or any Pokémon
game for a long time, though I remembered it being basically being the same
game as the original Pokémon games released in 1999. (I don’t remember anybody
talking about it before then – and people talked about it a lot at school!) I
enjoyed what I’ve played of it so far; I named my player character Katie after
the girl who asked me to cover it, and the rival Boris because he keeps appearing
to mess everything up, rather like our current Foreign Minister, Boris Johnson.
I didn’t get very far because I started with Charmander, which is all but
useless for the first two Pokémon gyms so I had to do some grinding with my
other Pokémon to beat Brock. I’m currently at Moon Mountain, and I intend to
keep playing! But I’m not going to go for 100% completion. Even if I could be
bothered, the chances that I’ll find someone with a GBA and a copy of Fire Red
to trade the necessary Pokémon with are slim indeed.
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| Ezio before he becomes an assassin... |
My new game for this week was Assassin’s Creed 2. You’ll
remember from my previous blogs I enjoyed Assassin’s Creed when I played it
last year, and I found I was missing large open worlds with things to discover
and do so I gave the next one a go. It’s a good game; I haven’t noticed much
difference between it and the first game yet in terms of how it plays but the
Assassin’s Creed 2 seems a lot more invested in its own plot than the previous
game was, which is making for a far more compelling experience. I’m a couple of
hours in to the game and I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes next!
And my new game for last week – I did play one, but I forgot
to put it on the blog – was Dynamite Heddy from the Sega Megadrive Ultimate
Collection. This is an oddball platformer typical of the time, where you
controlled a little puppet that could attack by throwing its head in different
directions. It’s competently-designed, and fun enough, but I don’t have much
interest in coming back to it simply because I’m not all that invested. If it
had been a game I’d been playing since I was nine, it would be another matter,
but having just picked up the game at thirty-two, I couldn’t honestly say it
held my interest.
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| They grow ever more numerous... |
Finally, in the space of about a week, I built and painted
five Chaos Space Marines in Word Bearers colours. I was tidying around in my
room in preparation for having new windows installed, and found a box of Chaos
Space Marines I’d had for years but hadn’t built (it was my original intention
to build them as Thousand Sons.) I enjoyed painting them, and the vast majority
of that was done in Warlords and Wizards in Netherton where I had some great
company as well! I’ll never be allowed to use them in a tournament because the
bases are the wrong size (the rank and file of the current edition of 40K uses
slightly bigger bases than previously, and unlike Age of Sigmar, 40K measures
from the base rather than the model,) but I’m not bothered by that. I’m no tournament player,
and I’d rather they were built and used than never touched again because
someone was being funny about their base sizes!
I’ve built and sprayed some more models that I’m hoping to
paint next week. I’ve also re-found the fun in micro-managing army lists, and
I’ve found that I can fit two squads of Chaos Cultists into a 500pt army, so
that’s where I’m going next. I’ve got an old box of cultists that I never touched,
so I’ve built them now and I’ll try paint scheme that fits in with the Word
Bearers!
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