Medic

Medic, also known as Arkay, a former death god of a small pocket universe, is the chief editor and main writer of the Daily SPUF, producing most of this site's articles and also just randomly writing stuff.

My Very Early Thoughts on Soulframe

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Wilderness - taken from the Soulframe website

So it looks like Digital Extremes are making another game. At Tennocon 2022, a brand new game, built on the same engine as Warframe, was released at the end of the show. Dubbed Soulframe, while it had the same artistic style, what little we saw definitely set it apart from Warframe. This is high fantasy, a stark contrast to Warframe’s high sci-fi. And what we’ve seen so far as been… interesting. Curious even. But also rather vague. In the trailer, we see a new land, some new people and a lot of fog. There’s story in there somewhere, hidden behind… [Continue Reading]

Starly Community Day and Staravia Raids

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A Shadow Staraptor

I’ll be honest. I barely bothered with the Starly Community Day. It just wasn’t particularly interesting. We got one of the many bird-like Pokemon, and the day just was… boring, even if I did have nearby spawns. Somehow though, Starly Community Day was boring enough that I’m actually writing an article about it. Not even bothering to try and live up to Deino day Okay, sure, not every Community Day can be as good as the Deino Community Day. That event was a ton of fun, we got a cool Pokemon and it got a good move. We also had… [Continue Reading]

Veil Voyages For A Cool Hat

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Sailing on Ghostly Seas

When it comes to what you actually do in Sea of Thieves, a big chunk of the game is unlocking better cosmetics. One of Sea of Thieves’ big draw is actually fashion, where you make yourself as awesome and badass as possible. However, a lot of the better gear is locked behind quests, voyages and more. And many others are locked behind doing the same sort of mission over and over. But one hat in particular was locked away behind a tedious grind, doing Veil Voyages over and over. And over. Basically, we needed to do 50 of these Veil… [Continue Reading]

So Much Loot that it Caused Performance Issues

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SO. MUCH. LOOT.

The nice thing about Sea of Thieves is that every single outing has something different going on. The previous time I played, we had a sloop following us for several miles, playing a game of cat and mouse. This time however, we had, well, insanity on our hands. What started out as a normal Veil mission ended up in… Well… Uh… I don’t know. It’s hard to describe. We’d just finished our first Veil quest when this happened. The plan was to spend our day doing Veil voyages, getting progress towards one of the best hats in the game. And,… [Continue Reading]

Dynamax Raids are Weird

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The team stop a Dynamax'd Gyarados

Funnily enough, the one thing I find closest to Pokemon GO in Pokemon Shield is the raid battle system. As in, both games have raids. That similarity is in name only though, because raid work differently in both games, and you can only solo some raids in Pokemon GO, not the majority of them in Pokemon Shield, and GO raids require a lot of tapping, while Shield/Sword raids require taking turns. You also have a timer on both. Pokemon GO has an obvious timer that ticks down, but Shield has a limited number of turns before you are kicked out.… [Continue Reading]

My Thoughts on Dynamaxing

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Charizard Gigantamaxes itself

I never really got around to trying Mega Evolutions and Z-Moves. As far as I was always concerned, Z-Moves seemed boring to me, while Mega Evolutions looked fun and stupidly powerful. Then we have Dynamax, which, when I originally first saw it, looked like Mega Evolutions but worse. Your Pokemon gets all big, grows extra features and gets some cool moves in the process. The whole system is introduced in the first cutscene of the game, by a Gigantamax Charizard with wings made of fire. If you had shown me a picture of either of Charizard’s Mega forms alongside its… [Continue Reading]

The Worst Research Tasks in Pokemon GO

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Pokemon spawning in the middle of a desert

Research tasks in Pokemon GO are quite simple. You spin a Pokestop, you get given a task and you do that task for a reward. Rewards can be almost anything, from Pokemon encounters to balls and berries, and, after 7 days of doing tasks, you can get a cool research reward from Professor Willow or the strange robot girl who has replaced him. But not all research tasks are made equal. Some are alright. Some are utterly pointless. And some tasks are not even worth your time at all. Difficulty is all over the place The tasks required can vary… [Continue Reading]

Medic Plays A Real Pokemon Game for the First Time – Part 21 – Finale

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Celebration after winning

Hop wants a fight, but I want to rest up and improve my team. After all, I’m still using the same team I used to beat Leon, and half my Pokemon needed a pick-me-up. But now I’ve healed up and switched a few Pokemon around, I’m happy to go. Time to head back to the Slumbering Weald, where Hop has been looking around, playing with his new Legendary buddy. So I head back to the Slumbering Weald and forget that Galarian Weezing hide in the grass around there. Luckily, to save walking through it all, Sonia is waiting for me,… [Continue Reading]

Tennocon 2022 Felt Kinda Rushed

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Well, Tennocon has been and gone, and frankly, I feel a tad disappointed. It fall felt kinda rushed and thrown together last minute. But it also felt like I had seen most of this before. It all felt a bit like Tennocon 2021, with honestly not a lot going on. At least we started with a brand new release. Khora Prime has been released and she is utterly beautiful. And, speaking of beautiful, Titania just got a brand new deluxe skin, which looks amazing. To the point that I want to play Titania. There was also some sort of weird… [Continue Reading]

More Adventures on the Stormcloud – Sea of Thieves

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Sailing on the Sea of Thieves

It’s funny what some people do for cosmetics. I once spent ages doing a boss fight in Warframe to get Shocking Step, an ephemera. But some cosmetics are insanely out of reach, particularly in the Sea of Thieves. Lately, my adventures in the Sea of Thieves has mostly involved doing Veil missions. If I do enough of them, then I get a cool hat. By enough, I mean like 50 of this mission, which can easily take an hour or so. But alas, Bacxaber and his crew really, really want this hat. And I don’t blame them, it’s a cool… [Continue Reading]