Sorry for the posting gap, I got distracted by Dirge of Cerberus. Anyways, I’ve decided to take a break from my Black game. I’m currently working on my SoulSilver game and I must say, I love this game. I love the way that it sticks to the plot of the original Silver game, with the exception of the little tiny advancements that have been added, all of which to me are very welcome. When I turned on my game, it was so refreshing to see my Bulbasaur sitting behind me. Which—to go off on a tangent for just a second—is something I really wish they had made available in Black/White. It is so cool to be able to turn around and talk to my Pokémon and see what they are feeling. We were discussing it in my Pokémon thread on the ACC and we think it should have been an option in Unova as well. One of the ideas that was suggested was maybe that it could be a reward for becoming friends with your Pokémon. You know, as the Pokémon grew to like you, he would eventually come out of his Pokéball and follow you. Wouldn’t that be cool? It would also provide incentive to become friends with your Pokémon to those who might not really bother with it as much.
Well, to get back on track, I opened my SoulSilver to find myself in the Pokécenter Celadon City. I wandered around for a few minutes and went inside all the buildings within Celadon to make sure I’d talked to everyone—I had already gotten the badge previously—before making my way to the bike route and down to Fuschia City. I somehow remember the bike route being much longer, but it might just be that it seems less long now that I am older. Anyways, I caught a couple cool Pokémon and had a fun time battling all the trainers, nothing worth explaining though.
When I reached Fuschia City, I was a little bummed that the Safari Zone was gone, but I know that it simply moved to Johto. I do wish they’d kept one in Kanto too though. It would have been nice to have a place to catch lots of Kanto Pokémon. Maybe they could have done it so that you could only catch Generation II Pokémon in the Johto Safari Zone and left the Kanto zone for the Generation I Pokémon. However, I quickly recovered from my disappointment and began roaming aimlessly around the city discovering what had been changed and what had been kept the same. When I went into the house in front of the pond towards the bottom of the city, I smiled as remembered the man who had lost his teeth in the previous game. I always thought that was hilarious that he lost his teeth in the Safari Zone. You would think he would have noticed that before he got home.
After I’d explored every inch of Fuschia City—including the blocked route to Cinnabar, which annoyed me a little because I’d been planning to go down to Sea Foam Islands after I defeated Janine—I made my way finally to the gym. As I maneuvered my way past the invisible walls, I thought back to the first time I’d entered this gym. I’d been completely baffled by the walls and it wasn’t until I’d consulted my guide that I realized what I had to do to reach Koga. Speaking of Koga, I don’t know why I didn’t make the connection, but for some reason, it wasn’t until a girl in town told me that Janine had taken over the gym once her father had gone to join the Elite Four that I made the connection that Koga had moved. I have no clue why it didn’t dawn on me sooner. But anyways, the battles with Janine’s trainers and the gym leader herself didn’t take too long. I returned Rapidash to my party—he’d been staying with Professor Oak while I trained some of the other Pokémon in my computer—and he made short work of all the opponents Pokémon. I did have to return to the Pokécenter after each battle, but that was just because I am too cheap to use my Potions to heal my Pokémon whenever I’m close to a Pokécenter. I remember struggling to get money in the early games where once you defeated the Elite Four, there was almost no where to get money except by rebattling the Elite Four.
Anyways, now I am debating on if I want to travel back to Celadon and then up to Cerulean City or if I want to go up the waterfront to Lavender town. I’m leaning towards Lavendar town at the moment because I want to see how they arranged the music—the original music from Generation I has always been my favorite town theme. But I don’t know. I’ll pick something. Well, it’s off to work for me now. I’ll try to update again before the end of the week. Till then!
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