noiseredux wrote:I got sucked into it for MONTHS a few years back when it first released. Whelp... turns out it still sucks you in. Or at least it sucks me in. Played it until I really needed to sleep.
I got sucked into it close after release also, and kept playing it (without spending a penny of course) all the way until mid-2017.
I eventually got tired of chasing the carrot, and after they 'nerfed' some Pokemon I had heavily invested in with my limited resources (since I didn't spend any money) I got tired of playing catch up, plus all the Pokemon they kept re-releasing also put me off, you only need so many Pikachu's.
I recently updated it again, but didn't bother to play it, I
may go back if they stop messing with it, and they have a constant source of all the Pokemon I must have missed in all this time and all possible boost items, but more realistically I'll just forget about it and get Pokémon Trozei! on the DS that was released before Shuffle instead.
I've been stuck on Shadow Man for the past week, and by stuck, I mean I've glued myself there because of my completionist bullshit.
I first finish the game and find out that one of the secrets I was missing was permanently unobtainable (only thing in the game that's that way really) so I go ahead and use the debug menu (since I'm on PC and that's available) to obtain it.
That didn't sit very well with me, and the fact that another secret that I did get on my way through the game didn't unlock for some reason, made me restart the game all over again.
After I made some way through my second playthrough, I realized that I was missing some cut-scenes from the cut-scene viewer at the main menu. Turns out you have to keep going back to Nettie and Jaunty early game for 'hints' that I obviously didn't need having played the game previously all those years ago (and once more just before now).
So I start yet
another game to get those, while keeping my second playthrough as my 'main' one since unlocks like that are universal between saves. And then I realize, two of the most simple, unmissable cut-scenes in the game (boss introductions) also didn't unlock for some reason, and at least one of them still won't unlock in my second playthrough.
So now on my third playthrough I'm trying to get to the boss before Shadow Man gets his powers in 'Liveside' to see if that unlocks it. But even if it does, it looks like is impossible to get to the other boss's cut-scene without your powers, but I guess we'll see.
My original playthrough was for 27 hours, my second is at 15 now and my baby third already at 3. This is the sort of stuff I do, in the sake of 'completion' that turn 20 hour games into 40 hour ones...
And of course even if I'm done, then I'll have to go and make sure I've got everything in the Dreamcast version, because of course I have to do that! Can't have an imperfect save file, no siree!