According to the final results screen it took 22.5 hours to complete the 4 main maps 100% and then do what’s presented as the final challenge to hit the credits, but I definitely took my time. Not sure how much postgame content there is. If I end up restarting (I haven’t had a day off since then to get into anything) I should be able to do things a lot quicker. A pretty major theme of the game is the pursuit of efficiency.

A lot of my stress lately has been work-related, and let’s just say I might have a lot of free time coming up to play Pokémon, I should know next week :/

I don’t know much about it because I try to avoid seeing anything and go into games blind, but the Internet has an infuriating need to know everything about upcoming games which makes that very difficult. I am looking forward to Z-A though, it should be fun.

I’ve just been playing Pokémon and Pikmin 4 for the last month or so because I’ve been so stressed that I can’t handle anything more intellectually demanding.

I beat the main story of Pikmin 4 yesterday with no deaths, I’d reload every time anyone died. The final status screen listed 2 deaths, which I’m 100% certain didn’t happen. I guess they must have been from when I played the demo back in June. Now I need to get jnto postgame stuff, but it’s kind of ruined for me. I’ll probably start over instead :( I know it doesn’t make a difference, but still.

Pokémon is just shiny hunting in outbreaks because it’s easy and mindless. I have a good 40-50 mons trained for raids and 90+ combat-ready, but standing in the field and pressing the auto-battle button is about as much ss I’m up for these days. At last count I had around 340 or so shinies, so the living dex is coming along.

I played a few races with my sister at launch, then didn’t touch the game again until I had a couple of mates over the other week for a games night. We did all 8 cups and knockout races back to back. Because it was all one night everything blurred together, I honestly don’t remember what was a circuit race and what wasn’t, I don’t know if things were changing lap to lap like in Sonic Transformed or if it was moving us to different areas, I don’t know what the hell was going on at any point. There’s clearly so much there but it all felt so random which made it completely forgettable and so disappointing.

Then it wants me to do all this other disconnected stuff in free roam but from what I can tell it’s just 15-second challenges and there aren’t any races? And it doesn’t allow split screen either. Who plays Mario Kart alone?

I don’t need an article reporting on something that might happen, I’ll just wait for the one reporting on the thing once it’s happened. That’s where the juicy info will be.