30/05/2016

Play in Progress: Pokemon run reports


My recent Pokemon addiction is still roaring and shows no signs of abating. On top of polishing off Blue, I've been trying to tie up a couple of loose ends in other Pokemon entries these last days—with more or less success. Without further ado, here's a round-up of my late Pokemon activities:

Pokemon Blue: My run ended as quietly as it had started, after an anticlimatic final showdown with newly anointed League Champion Red. As I didn't mention in my last post, my run of Blue was a Squirtle solo run, and it was too ridiculously easy to be truly entertaining. Nobody could resist the massive blows of my overleveled Squirtle and the fact that Gym Leaders nearly never resorted to potions made my progression even more boringly effortless. I have nothing interesting to add about that run, so I'm going to explain the reasoning behind my Squirtle's nickname instead: I'm playing the French version of the game, and Squirtle's french name is "Carapuce", which is a pun on the words "carapace" (shell) and "puce" (flea). I decided to extract the last part of the name and to transform it into "pupuce", which is a lovely nickname that can be translated into "honey bee", "pumpkin", "sweetie" and the like. Hence a delicious irony when my lovely Pupuce evolved into an enormous monster of an fortified turtle. Now that's Poke-linguistics for you!

 —Pokemon Black: I learnt some time ago that unbeknownst to me, I had accomplished a feat of sorts by clearing solo runs of Black and White with two 'Mons belonging to the Neverused Tier, i.e. Liepard and Samurott. Or rather nearly cleared in the case of Black, since I stopped playing after the first encounter with the Elite Four; however, knowing that I had managed to make my way through Unova with two 'Mons deemed as crappy fighters filled me with pride and prompted me to pick up Black again and finish the job. I leveled up my Purry all the way to Lv.100 and I'm now trying to tackle the Elite Four a second time around. It's not working too well so far—especially against the Figthting Champion, as you may imagine—and I may have to allow fainting&reviving if I want to overcome that hurdle; but I'm quite convinced that beating the Elite Four with my Liepard is an attainable feat. I'll keep trying, I promise!

Pokemon Heart Gold: After polishing off Blue, I decided to wrap up my interrupted run of Heart Gold by exploring revamped Kantoh. I progressed without a hitch through a much more lovely and colourful version of the mother of all Pokemon regions; however, I got bored after a while and ditched the game yet again after beating the Fuschia City Gym Leader. Kantoh is overall a pretty dull and uninspired region—especially compared to regions from latter entries—and extra colours and details cannot work miracles and single-handedly make it breathtakingly interesting.

That's all for this play-in-progress report, dear fellow gamers. A bit heavy on the Pokemon side, maybe—but that is bound to change, as I'm currently pondering several games belonging to others franchises for immediate playthroughs. Thanks for reading, and be my guest anytime!

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