Arceus Adventures: Effing Arceus

On this, the final day of my vacation, I FINALLY finished the last Mission in Pokemon Legends: Arceus. My Pokedex is now complete (as far as catching the 'mons). I feel accomplished. It only took me an whole 3 YEARS to finish this thing.

Okay, so, this story actually starts with having to finish the "Incarnate Forces of Hisui" Request line. I've been working on that on and off for a few weeks. Earlier this week, I spent a good couple of hours getting frustrated chasing Enamorus around the Crimson Mirelands. So. Many. Smoke Bombs. There's no cover in the portion of the Mirelands Enamorus is running around in. None. Well... a rock or two. But that's nowhere near enough. So you gotta stealthily chase her around, dodging her tornadoes if/when she spots you and the aggressive Pokemon that inevitably attack you while you're trying to be stealthy. Such. A. Pain.

Or so I thought...

Jeebus Christ was that last Mission a pain in the butt. "The Deified Pokemon" first requires you to finish your Pokedex. Enamorus was the last Pokemon I needed, so that was a frustrating few hours of nonsense... and a couple days between that frustration and this one.

At the top of Mt. Coronet lies the Temple of Sinnoh, where you play the Azure Flute to summon Arceus. You are then transported to the Hall of Origin to begin a grueling battle with Arceus. Much running and dodging, rolling around over and over while attempting to throw balms at the dang Pokemon. OMG I threw my Switch 2 at the couch at least twice during this. Took a good 3-5 hours (I can't remember exactly when I started) of this.

Oh, and the one time I attempted to get my Boyfriend to help out. Boyfriend plays a lot more games than I do, so I figured he could maybe so some of this involved gameplay. I was halfway through Arceus' "Fury Bar" or whatever. I told him what the controls were, and let him go. He could not figure out the controls, kept bitching at me about "remapping" them... like dude, it's the final boss fight, I'm not just gonna remap the controls, even if I could. He then... restarted the battle instead of continuing it after blacking out. I about strangled him. It had taken sooooo long to get to that point... I was so mad.

Another hour or so after this incident, I kept dying just as the last "throw a Pokemon" command popped up on the screen. Because of course that pops up and Arceus' attacks are still going. And then I would die immediately.

But I finally did it! I honestly thought I'd died again. I swear I got hit by an attack just when the "Fury Bar" went to zero... but no. It was time for Arceus to tell me I'd done a good job collecting all the Pokemon and give a piece of himself (itself?) to me.

So yay! I did it!

Now to leisurely complete the rest of the Pokedex... all the attacks and catching and stuff... until Legends: Z-A comes out.