Uuugh, sorry for the delayed replies, comments and posts folks. Life has kind of exploded with family, school and work and I haven’t had a chance to do much of anything!
Hello everyone. This is me in Pokemon land – just casually posing for my trainer license like a pro model.
1 thing I have been filling in my short breaks between commitments is the new Pokemon X game! I have bought and played through every Pokemon game since my original obsession with Blue way back when – and I must say, I’m between feelings on the new one.
If you don’t follow the games as I do, you may not know this already, but this is the game Nintendo announced was their start to changing the experience of the Pokemon gaming franchise. It has a big story, cut scenes, 3D animation and all that jazz (in addition to a bunch of additional internet connectivity and bonuses related).
So, here are some snaps I took of my screen while playing:
For starters, this game is a lot more customisable in regards to what you look like. So I took the general route of making my character “somewhat” like myself.
This is the wholly arrogant and obnoxious fist pump my character does when beating a trainer for plot required purposes.
I honestly don’t know if the change view makes exploring dungeons better or worse to be honest.
At least it’s pretty, I suppose?
As tradition dictates, I chose the fire starter. Now this is the second stage evolution (Braixen).
This thing actually pulls a ‘branch’ out of it’s tail and uses it like a wand. I actually hate it.
The main evil ‘TEAM’ in this game is a group named ‘Flare’. Now, don’t get me wrong, Team s always have a tendency to look rather comical.
These guys are absolutely no exception in that regard.
One of the things I do very much enjoy about this game is the customisation through hair cuts and various accessories.
For once I have a character I’m playing in Pokemon that I identify with.
At least it’s not the mushroom headed girl from Black, anyways.
And finally, another feature they have added is on occasion you encounter a sign with a camera on it. This summons a photographer to take a commemorative ‘snap shot’ of you on your adventures.
The DS responds in your hands the same way a camera would (ie. tilting the device, tilts the camera angle).
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Other than Pokemon, all the painting I have been doing has been for my Rotten Harvest entry for the Wyrd painting competition and due to rules I can’t post anything about it. 😦
The only other thing I have managed to find the time to do, is to keep up with the ‘Paint-along’ thread for free handing. As of week 3 highlighting has been completed:
I found the highlighting on this really tricky, as there was no obvious ‘light source’ for where I had done the highlighting on the coat initially!
I ended up doing a few shades of the gold/yellow colour to highlight – but it appears only one shows in this photo.
I shall have to get a better picture when I do the next round of touch ups!!
Well, Love you all!!
Sincerely,
Ellie.
Cappuccino Gaming 
Nice to see that you’ve managed to pick up a paint brush – she’s coming along nicely, I reckon.
Why thankyou! 😀
There’s a plan to change the direction of those highlights as they’re looking a little oddly placed at the moment. Hopefully it makes it look a bit more ‘real’ !
the highlighta look really nice
is this new pokemon game worth it?
I used to play lots of pokemon as a kid!
Yea, I’ve followed all the games up to this point.
Honestly, it took be a while to adjust to the new graphics/play style, but once I did that it was relatively the same ol beloved game I remember.
It was nice that they put quite a bit of extra work into the overall story this time. Really enjoyed that!
my favorite pokemon games so far is the pokemon silver and pokemon gold! some of the following were a little shallow.. perhaps I will search a litle bit in the internet for some critics and info!