No seriously guys, are they growing them in each gym?
So it seems that the story of this game is going to be of me violently hating every single time I see :
X USED A HYPER POTION!
But lets start at the beginning shall we?
I got the game in Nintendo’s Saturday event, so as of 3/7/11 I’ve had it for two days.
First things first, the opening movie is gorgeous. The animation is great and I actually want to pay attention to the story for once since it seems it’ll be a step above the usual “HELLO WE ARE TEAM X GRUNTS LET US FIGHT YOU FOR NO DISCERNABLE REASON OH SHIT I LOST K BYE I WON’T JUST SMASH YOUR FACE IN WITH MY POKEBALL CUZ THAT’S HOW WE ROLL OH GOD I NEED TO LEAVE DON’T FOLLOW ME NO SERIOUSLY BYE.”
Anyway, I decided to keep my tradition of using the water starter and picked the stupidly named Oshawott. I kept the name because I couldn’t think of anything more ridiculous. Bianca picks the pokemon weaker then you, and Cheren picks the type stronger than you. Unfortunately I didn’t have the chance to rename my rival or else Cheren would walk around being called Ishida because seriously.
Bianca proceeds to wreck my room in a fight, and Cheren finishes it off because hey, what’s one more hole in the wall? Your mom is surprisingly cool about it and you do the usual “HERE’S HOW YOU CATCH POKEMON EVEN THOUGH I NOW THAT 80% OF THE PEOPLE PLAYING THIS HAVE PLAYED ALL 4 OTHER GENS”, although they seem to rush through it because instead of running back and forth between the first and second towns, they give you everything then kick you the hell out. You get your running shoes quickly after your mom trolls the shit out of you and stalks you into the middle of a forest. I think its pretty bad when my first reaction was “MOM WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT OF THE KITCHEN? ARE YOU ALLOWED TO DO THAT?!”
The first gym you come across is the not the rock type like usual, but a gym where they pick the element opposite to your starter. This would prove an interesting (and trollish) challenge if they didn’t literally give you a pokemon to sweep the gym with in some shady back alley in the woods.
Since I’m doing this after 5 gyms, I’m not going to comment much on when N shows up because I honestly don’t remember. I will say that I worship the shit out of this kid he’s so boss.
In Nacrene you get the Basic Badge from Lenora, the random Black Gym leader who seems like she’ll kick your ass in a fistfight if she has to.
Then I got to Castelia.
First of all, Castelia is a beautiful city. The graphics were AMAZING and I loved how the camera moved while you walked around the city.
But Burgh.
Fucking Burgh man.
This guy uses hyper potions like he has a slave Pokemart in his gym or something. I spent a whole night, and the next morning before I finally whooped his ass after level grinding my two fire types, Pansear and Darumaka. Seriously though I was raging EVERY TWO SECONDS. I could not understand how Leavanny kept getting down to like 1 hp, and then he would be like “LOL JK” and heal it. EVERY TIME. ALL OF IT. ALL OF IT. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY I SPENT ON SUPER POTIONS UNTIL I FOUND THE VENDING MACHINE? After FINALLY lucking out and beating his ass I moved down to Nimbasa for Electric who I sweeped with Gurdurr (Which sounds suspiciously like HURR DURR *drool* and is making me think that Pokemon of America is running out of translations for the Pokemon games)
And finally to Driftveil where I sweeped with Dewott against his ground types. Also. WHAT THE FUCK IS A WATER TYPE DOING IN THAT GYM. After a fight with Bianca, I forgot where I was supposed to meet Clay and am now, lost as fuck. Lets see what happens tomorrow.
After this, posts will be more coherent because I’m not trying to cover 5 gyms in one post.
