22 04 2022
Yellow: Caught Mewtwo. A few others. Cerulean cave wasn’t too hard to navigate. Didn’t bother grabbing items. DONE.
Moon: Moon? Not Ultra Moon! I booted up the other 3DS games to inventory my boxes and check things. I think I know what happened now. I played Y so much I didn’t put much effort into Omega Ruby and Moon. I checked a post-game guide and I didn’t rematch E4 in OR… and I still don’t feel like it. It’ll take a while to grind up to it. Maybe I’ll sub to bank, move some pokes over, and do that. In Moon it looks like I did do the UB stuff, but it seems I never went and got cosmog. Going to double check those games later when I revisit Ultra Moon now. Going through things I’d want as to not be tied to hoping events and special post-game stuff happen when I feel like playing, I need to find a way to get Ultra Beasts and other things from Sun. Alolan forms too.
Crystal: Leveling things up, especially Wooper. I went to the Kimono Girls stage and fought them. Some of their Eeveelutions hit like trucks. Those pokemon are close in level, too. My Bellsprout was holding up better and doing more damage somehow. Going to evolve it in the hope it bulks up. Maybe funny GBC era stats are not kind to the Wooper line here? I’ll truck on with what I’m getting. Caught a magnemite but I don’t know if I’m going to use it yet. Still haven’t remembered to boot up Crystal during the daytime to catch a fire type yet. Though, as before… what if I really did catch Entei early. Can I get Suicune early too? Probably not since it’s technically a box legend here.
Been looking at how the Mobile Adapter GB worked, it’s so interesting to think that Pokemon Crystal in Japan was online connected. Online Trading. Etc. I have a cart of Japanese Crystal, but I think most people digging into it have rigged up online stuff. Thankful the VC NA version has the GS ball rigged up, but would’ve been nice if we got more of the features and events surrounding it implemented. Goldenrod City had a redesigned PokeCenter we missed out on. Perhaps fueled by nostalgia a little bit, but there’s something charming and immersive about the pixel art in GSC. Fancier buildings that Crystal got feel (late 90’s) contemporary and futuristic at the same time. Despite the simple blocks in the game, the manga and anime have large buildings with interesting designs and I sometimes wonder if we could get some of that if Game Freak went back to a Japan-based region. A part of me wants to have expectations but also doesn’t want to get too hopeful. GF and a few other big 2nd party devs have weird graphic targets, in my opinion, for the Switch. I don’t think Pokemon needs modern Bloom, depth of field, dynamic lighting.
Omega Ruby: Cosplay Pikachu needs to be re-implemented in every game. And maybe even make an actual Lucha Pika electric fighting (or electric with moveset). Lucha Pika was one of the fun things about Pokken Tournament. Oh. I should revisit that later too. I have a Pokken pad. Cosplay Pikachu had unique flags in ORAS to prevent evolution, but I think it’d be fun as a pokemon-to-use if it got more unique things. Movesets or abilities could be interesting. I know it’s hellish to add more features to pokemon, but I’ve always wanted an actual Ribbon/Outfit system. I don’t think the full costumes of that Pokemon MOBA will work in a main game, but if I could put a ribbon or a cool hat on a charizard that’d be cool. I’m sure reducing the spec to contest focused pokemon, starters, and other ones like that would help. Also could help in making Ash/Satoshi hat Pikachus continue into future titles.
