Wow, I can’t believe it’s been over two weeks since I updated this blog. I am really sorry about that. But see, the thing is, if I don’t have time to play the game, there’s really no way for me to update. And the past two weeks for me have been nothing but work and school. I haven’t had any time to play the game at all—until this weekend. This weekend, I got a break from school, so I had some free time. But let me start from the beginning.
I love the preorder system at GameStop since it allowed me to pick up my copy of Black the day it was released. Since that was over two weeks ago, I do not really remember everything, but I can tell you my initial thoughts on the game. I was originally very annoyed by the battle system. Everything seemed too flashy for me and there didn’t seem to be as much flow between the commands being given and then watching the turn play out. But it was just different. I’m used to it now and the battle system now works for me instead of aggravating me at every turn. Haha…the irony of that saying, I didn’t mean turn like in the game, but that works as well. Ahem, back to the matter at hand though.
I do like that there are more rival battles. I always run out of people to battle, and so the introduction of not one but as far as I can tell three rivals is pretty sweet. It gives me a chance to test my skills with trainers who follow my levels pretty well as opposed to when I would go to re-battle the people in my Pokégear in previous games and they would be significantly lower in level than I was. I just wish I had time to play as much as I wanted to. Several of my friends are already finished with the main storyline of the game, and I am still stuck around the second badge--I'm currently exploring Pinwheel Forest.
One thing I will say regarding the game, I do not feel the same connection to the Pokémon as I have in previous games. In the past, if I encountered a Pokémon I really liked, I would feel a connection to it and I would know that I wanted him in my party. But so far, in this game, none of the Pokémon I have encountered have really resonated with my spirit yet. I find myself thinking—if I just had my Noctowl or Bulbasaur could do such and such to help me here. At the moment, my team consists of the following and they're all around level 15:
- Blitzel (Zeus)
- Pidove (Feather)
- Panpour (Uhhhh)
- Roggenrola (Teardrop)
- Purrloin (Skitty)
- Snivy (Nessy)
The only Pokémon in my team that I think will stay on even after I get others are Skitty and possibly Zeus and Nessy. And as the people in my battle thread didn’t understand the reasoning behind Skitty’s name, I shall explain. Skitty is NOT named after the Pokémon Skitty. When I was a child, I had a tomcat named Scat Cat, but we called him Skitty. I was actually really annoyed and sort of surprised when I discovered they had come up with a Pokémon named Skitty. I felt that my name had been stolen, even though I know it is impossible that they stole that name from me. I still came up with it first, years before they had given that I got Skitty when I was in the second grade, which was in 1996. But back to the matter at hand. As I said, I doubt that these Pokémon will stay with me as I progress further into the game. I’m hoping to run into some other Pokémon that I will really love soon, but that doesn’t seem forthcoming at this point.
Originally, I thought I would post a play by play of this game, but now I think it would be more interesting for me to just tell the interesting things that happen to me and my opinion on the game as a whole. And I have come to this conclusion mainly because I know that I get bored reading someone else’s adventures when I am in the middle of my own. So, from this point on, I will be telling the interesting things that happen to me, not giving a play by play—unless the battle is really interesting or epic in nature.
Alright, so to bring this to a close, I am really enjoying this game so far. It is interesting and seems to have brought a fresh idea without having disrupted the realm of Pokémon beyond its well formed ideals and principles. However, that being said, I know that just like generations three and four, this game will not be within my favorites. My favorite game will still be Silver version with Blue coming in close behind it. The newer games simply just don’t suck me in and make me feel like I'm really within their world. Even after I picked up my copy of Black, I wanted nothing more than to continue play my SoulSilver. And I did play it some this weekend. I traded a few of my Pokémon to my brother’s friend. He’s playing through Diamond right now and there were a few of my Pokémon that he wanted, so I helped him out. My brother has asked to play my Black version when I get through with it, but at the moment, I don’t think that will be anytime soon, given what I am planning to do within the parameters of this blog.
Well, I’m off to work. Once again, I apologize for the lack of posting. I will try to update this blog at least once a week. After I get out of school, I will probably be able to update more frequently, but until then I will just to do the best I can to get my posts up on a regular basis. Until next time!
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