The Wrapp

Hey there, welcome to our latest edition of The Wrapp.

This is a chance for you to see what the various members of the Pocket Gamer team are planning to play over this weekend and will, hopefully, give you an idea of some of the weird and wonderful things we get up to when we’re not keeping you up to speed with the latest news and tips. Heck, you might even find a new game to play.

For the upcoming weekend, I have some plans to climb a little in Ludus. That little game seems to have drawn me in surprisingly much! The fast-paced battles and the unknown factor that can turn the tide of battle in anyone’s favour in just one turn is magnificent. I live for that type of adrenaline in games! 

I am going to try to advance a little more in Black Beacon, which has proved quite difficult so far since my team needs to be upgraded a little bit more. Other than those two games, I am, of course, going to try and upgrade my newly-acquired Fire Spirit Cookie in Cookie Run: Kingdom and climb as much as I can in the Arcade Arena. It’s all fun and games until you run out of tickets and the season’s ended, so I don’t plan on losing any time and just climb, climb, climb!

Lost Crown was a big game this week, but now I’m looking closer at Where Winds Meet. It’d be amazing if we got access to that, but for now, I’ll be looking for other similar games that run well on mobile. I’ll also dive back into online and co-op play (though the latter might be trickier to pull off locally), to see what games are trying to capture that cosy couch feeling. Maybe I’ll also give Sonic Rumble a try, being a lingering Sonic fan and trying to see who SEGA threw into the mix for this “soft launch” crossover.

I’m hoping to spend some time away from my PC this weekend, so I’ve been eyeing up a couple of mobile games. I’m not sure how well my phone is going to cope with it, though.

I have consistently awful luck with technology. Just terrible. I’m clumsy and I buy the wrong things. That’s to say that my phone is really, horrifically broken, and it has been for months. I’ve had a long time to fix this – I smashed the screen some years ago by dropping it in a plate of brownies, sending whipped cream all over my then-kitchen, and it’s all just been downhill from there really. (This is only so much a joke as much as the whole situation is ridiculous.)

I’ve been trying to put off the upgrade for as long as possible, so I’m a little behind the curve with mobile gaming (most of my time is spent on The Sims News rather than PG). Despite that, I finally installed Good Coffee, Great Coffee this week, and I plan to enjoy that as much as I possibly can over the weekend. But that’ll only happen if my phone stops trying to dial random, almost-strangers from my contacts. If things don’t work out with my phone, then I’ll give The Blue Prince a crack.

I have reached a spot in Xenoblade Chronicles X where I am grinding a poor little fellow named Joker repeatedly for a specific weapon with three specific traits. Ergo, I am branching out into a few other games between sessions, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

SD Gundam G Generation Eternal has finally launched, so I will be diving into some tactical mecha action on the side. I love the Gundam series, I still remember staying up until 01:00/02:00 as a child cause that’s when it aired in England. Also, in a wildly different direction, Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is also out on mobile, and I am incredibly excited to enjoy that fun. The thought of breaking people and getting a confession via a duck stare is endlessly amusing.

I’m freshly back from Croatia as I write, and so my brain is bubbling with thoughts about the games I played on the way, and dedicating some more time to them. My main time-waster was Katamari Damacy Rolling Live, which feels absolutely perfect for touchscreen controls. I also had one of those ‘stars aligned’ runs in Slay The Spire+ where you feel like a genius with every card draw, and so that deep, dark part of me that thrives on success is telling me to make that a major part of my personality again.

Aside from this, there’s the Gigantamax Snorlax event in Pokemon Go. Considering the massive HP that Snorlax (a gym hog alongside Chansey and co) normally has, I can see this one possibly being a bit of a fight. Luckily, we’ve got a great community in our town, and I’ve been powering up some of my other Dynamaxes and Giagantamaxes, so I should be able to hold my own with it.

A short one for me this week: Wittle Defender and Hello Kitty Friends Match are on my list this weekend, thanks to the joys of regional launches! Here’s hoping Habby won’t disappoint with the former, and that my beloved Gudetama will magically pop up in the latter somehow, despite him not being in any of the game’s online screenshots so far. Justice for Sanrio’s lazy egg, I say!

This weekend is Easter weekend, which is always a weekend full of visiting family. This means I will likely play a lot of Heads Up, which is a fantastic way to engage your entire family. It’s a sort of guessing game where you select a category (we tend to do food) and then hold your phone to your head. Others shout out clues to what the word is, and you guess! I will also be playing Pokemon Go on Saturday, as it’s Snorlax Gigantamax day.

While it may be Easter weekend, I’ve got a flight ahead of me, so Vampire Survivors is once again on my to-do list. However, I still have ambitions to have a go at Retro Bowl and learn how it works, so maybe a long layover is a good time to learn about it?

Either way, one of the joys of mobile gaming is that I don’t need to worry about being bored. As long as my battery holds out, that is.