This is my 100th blog post!
While I’ve only just got over a box worth more of Pokémon since last week, I have done 3 of the annoying happiness-based evolutions. I’ve still got to do Chansey and the other Togetic.
The other upcoming challenges are Safari Zone Pokémon and breeding the female starter and fossil Pokèmon. My Venusaur is level 95 now, so I’m sure it’ll reach level 100 by next week.
After around ~240 throws, I finally caught Entei in a Poké Ball. I used Ariados with Quick Claw, which had a 20% of not letting Entei flee, followed by Spider Web that prevented it from fleeing directly, followed by BPing to Electrode which also prevented it from fleeing via Roar. I was able to use about 60 Poké Balls a time. So it took me around 20 encounters to finally succeed.
I’ve counted 172 Pokémon / 421 Pokémon in my Poké Ball Genderful Living Pokédex after some more breeding/evolving following that. So it’s now just a case of breeding/evolving wherever possible, including doing the in-game trades before I start my journey on FireRed. Maybe I can do a level 5 living dex on there.
So this week I basically beat the Post-Game and caught every non-Shiny Unown. I’m currently repeatedly encountering a low health asleep Entei to try to catch it. I’m using a Wobbuffet to trap it for 2+ turns.
I calculated that you can pretty much fit a full gender in-game living dex into the boxes (420 spaces). Although you don’t quite have space for Deoxys (421st), which can be in your party I suppose.
Last night I did Victory Road and then beat the Elite Four with my starter, the legendary birds, Snorlax and my Spearow that’s there just to use Fly. Agatha was the hardest because I had bad coverage for her. Oddly, Champion Blue was very straightforward, as was Lance since I used Thunder and Ice Beam. I’ll probably be done with the post-game by next week. Then it will be a case of completing my living both genders dex, remembering to get both starters from the other version.
I’ve finally started Pokémon LeafGreen this week. My goal is to have a complete living form dex with both genders where possible. I probably only have about 50 or so at present. I’ve been battling every trainer so far and have been using a level 60 male Venusaur (my starter) and a level 34 female Snorlax recently (the one I caught at Celadon). I’m trying to obtain everything in a Poké Ball too, so I will breed my Safari Ball catches.
After 200%ing Super Bomberman 5 with continues, I decided to use save points for both NES games, saving at the start of each level and reloading if I died. I didn’t want the tedium of having to be more cautious with the preciser controls by and/or keep starting over.
So that probably completes my journey for this collection 🙂
This game had very awkward bosses. The other levels were very straightforward. I just used continues and didn’t need help from save points. The challenge was finding every route to clear the levels 100%. I resorted to looking up the last two routes when I was at 95% completion. But it’s not over… in this game, you do it all over again (with different item placements I think) for 200%! So there’s now that and the two NES games to try to finish for next week. I’ll probably use a guide to speed things up.
The fourth game was much more straightforward with continues as you could replay levels to stack up on power ups and buddies. The fifth game just seems a big grind because of a lot of alternate exits, and the first boss was pretty frustrating too.
Although it started off easy, it was difficult from World 4 onwards and too difficult for me to beat World 6 with just continues. I resorted to making a save state after I got the brown line bomb Louie and then saving at the start of each level with the Louie intact. And it still took quite a number of tries to beat the boss! Apparently 4 & 5 are like this too!
Super Bomberman 2 took me much longer to beat with continues than the first game. I was learning how to beat the final boss by playing it repeatedly for about five hours!
The third game luckily seems fairly straightforward, so far at least.
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