Why Pokemon Picross sucks
Because it’s a puzzle game on a stamina system. Every move you makes consumes one point of stamina. And each stamina point takes a whole minute (!) to refill. An allegedly free game with a very heavy pay-to-play component. You need game currency to unlock stages, but it’s incredibly hard to get without paying.
For example I need 100 picrites to unlock Area 07, but my only source is daily missions, which only give me 6 picrites a day. DAY. And there are 25 areas, with rising unlock costs. If it takes 2 weeks to unlock Area 07 then… I’m not even going to attempt to do the math, I’ll just drop the game and be done with it. Nintendo, if you want money, just do like the other Picross games and have a set price.
Luckily, after this worthless experience I still have My Nintendo Picross: The Legend of Zelda and Sanrio Characters Picross to satisfy my love of Picross. When that’s done, I’m seriously considering wiping out all my saves and starting from scratch. Moar plz Nintendo?
Why my 3DS sucks
Because it has always been a cursed piece of kit and always will be. I’d be happy to take the blame for being bad at taking care of my stuff if it wasn’t for the fact that my PSX, PS2 and PSP are still working after many years no problems there at all. Nintendo DS, ancient, but still works. Wii, same. BUT THIS 3DS? It just hates me and has never recognized me as its master, that’s all.
Current issue: after the charger stopped working last time (yes, of course this isn’t the first time, why would it be), I bought not just a new charger but also a charging dock. I figured that moving the charger from place to place might be responsible for the failure, so I tried to keep everything in one spot as much as possible. Well, it worked for 2 and a half years so I guess that’s as good as it gets.
Actually I knew this would happen sooner or later, so I bought a USB charger as a backup. But since the 3DS is cursed, it’s only a matter of time before that stops working as well. Because why not? Before that happens, I’ll have to play the last few 3DS games I’m interested in: Persona Q, The Alliance Alive and Etrian Mystery Dungeon. I also started the Story of Seasons recently, but it’s boring so I’m thinking of dropping it, more on that some other time.
Oh, and I also started Atelier Shallie Plus. I was feeling a bit Atelier-ish this weekend, plus I want to solve this whole Dusk problem once and for all, so I took the plunge. Still only in the prologue. Shallistera’s route seems more story-focused so I’ll do that first, and then if there are significant differences in the routes I’ll do Shallotte’s as well. Updates on that one some other time.
