i am simply adding this to my logs as a mark of respect to the first pokemon game i played, this post is HUGE, so TLDR; you can play this for historic purposes or to see where mega evolutions began
i haven't played this game since i was like 11 or something but i would be lying if i said i did not have the most splendid vibrant wonderful amazing memories of it
the day i discovered wifi on pokemon was a truly fun & inspirational day (i was a slow kid ok it took me a while to figure out how to use the 3ds wifi i'm so smart)
anyways when it comes to if this game still holds up, imo i would have to play it again to see but i have really fond memories of it. warning that its super easy i would not suggest it if you want an actual challenge but i was a stubborn child so you know what it was perfect at the time
decent if you want to see where mega evolutions came from, i unfortunately am not the best for objective opinions here i just really like this game because of when i played it, that experience was definitely 5 so i am giving it 5
so anyways i will part with 2 stories i really like, no these are not relevant to the game's objective quality;
story 1;
so i got a dratini from wonder trade & i showed my dad like 'look i got a dratini' (he had no clue what that was) but i was flexing how it was 'from another player across the world' (yes i discovered 3ds had wifi at this time how did you know?) & i freakin loved that dratini. i didn't know about restaurant grinding at the time (HOW????? I PLAYED THE GAME SO MUCH) so i literally maxed out my battle chateau. i became the richest Y player ever. & i trained my dratini from 1 to 100 all the way into a dragonite; i also on the side had a crazy berry farm going on, with like a ton of sitrus & leppa berries so i'd 'never need pp ups again' (i had like 900 it was crazy) (i remember that route being my favourite, since it had a town nearby with a pokemon centre + battle chateau + grass + cool view + daycare) anyways that's irrelevant & i finally did it. maxed out dragonite. when i put him on offer on a trade? i got my first ever arceus. wow i was STUNNED ( but i gave away my goat D: ) so that was cool
anyways now dragonite is my favourite pokemon, his shiny is good stop lying to yourself, & i still have a dragonite plush from when i was that age :) he has seen better days tho lmao (same for a pikachu plushie i have)
so i REALLY wanted a shiny. i was CRAZY about the idea of getting a shiny. i did EVERYTHING to get one... i could not get one. but finally, i found a shiny............ what was it? was it an amazing masuda method starter? an exciting strong one? no it was a freaking flabebe because i was farming on the route i liked. and i was SO EXCITED LIKE I WENT INSANE I NAMED IT 'SHINY?!!?!!?!?!?!?!?1111!???' <---- forgot the exact distribution of ! ? 1
also i got jumpscared by zapdos when i did that & my heart started pounding sooo that's how i learned the legendary birds were in the game! unpopular opinion zapdos is my favourite one :) he is cool
but every time i tried to trade the flabebe for something epic & cool, we didn't have chat during trades back then. they added this later on thank god. but before you had to catch & nickname pokemon to tell the person what you were looking for oh my goodness i miss the stone age... so because my flabebe, which just so you know, literally the only way you could see it was shiny at a glance were its super tiny blue eyes, so people kept flashing me with the '?' or 'NO' or 'DON'T HAVE' nicknames (why did everyone have caps) because they did not have any shinies to offer me. while i tried offering them MY shiny.
it only registered to me YEARS later why nobody saw my flabebe as shiny... i could've just evolved it into florges its a more obvious shiny lmao
i have way more stories of this game, but i'll cap it off there for now. play it if you;
- want to see where 3D pokemon began
- want to experience mega evolutions in their rawest form
- has some of the better music in pokemon games imo
- want to make your own judgement on if this is where pokemon had its downfall
imo that started in gen 7, but was propelled hugely in g8. but hey, i'm biased, thanks for reading all of this
...god, my nintendogs review will be biblically long
i haven't played this game since i was like 11 or something but i would be lying if i said i did not have the most splendid vibrant wonderful amazing memories of it
the day i discovered wifi on pokemon was a truly fun & inspirational day (i was a slow kid ok it took me a while to figure out how to use the 3ds wifi i'm so smart)
anyways when it comes to if this game still holds up, imo i would have to play it again to see but i have really fond memories of it. warning that its super easy i would not suggest it if you want an actual challenge but i was a stubborn child so you know what it was perfect at the time
decent if you want to see where mega evolutions came from, i unfortunately am not the best for objective opinions here i just really like this game because of when i played it, that experience was definitely 5 so i am giving it 5
so anyways i will part with 2 stories i really like, no these are not relevant to the game's objective quality;
story 1;
so i got a dratini from wonder trade & i showed my dad like 'look i got a dratini' (he had no clue what that was) but i was flexing how it was 'from another player across the world' (yes i discovered 3ds had wifi at this time how did you know?) & i freakin loved that dratini. i didn't know about restaurant grinding at the time (HOW????? I PLAYED THE GAME SO MUCH) so i literally maxed out my battle chateau. i became the richest Y player ever. & i trained my dratini from 1 to 100 all the way into a dragonite; i also on the side had a crazy berry farm going on, with like a ton of sitrus & leppa berries so i'd 'never need pp ups again' (i had like 900 it was crazy) (i remember that route being my favourite, since it had a town nearby with a pokemon centre + battle chateau + grass + cool view + daycare) anyways that's irrelevant & i finally did it. maxed out dragonite. when i put him on offer on a trade? i got my first ever arceus. wow i was STUNNED ( but i gave away my goat D: ) so that was cool
anyways now dragonite is my favourite pokemon, his shiny is good stop lying to yourself, & i still have a dragonite plush from when i was that age :) he has seen better days tho lmao (same for a pikachu plushie i have)
so i REALLY wanted a shiny. i was CRAZY about the idea of getting a shiny. i did EVERYTHING to get one... i could not get one. but finally, i found a shiny............ what was it? was it an amazing masuda method starter? an exciting strong one? no it was a freaking flabebe because i was farming on the route i liked. and i was SO EXCITED LIKE I WENT INSANE I NAMED IT 'SHINY?!!?!!?!?!?!?!?1111!???' <---- forgot the exact distribution of ! ? 1
also i got jumpscared by zapdos when i did that & my heart started pounding sooo that's how i learned the legendary birds were in the game! unpopular opinion zapdos is my favourite one :) he is cool
but every time i tried to trade the flabebe for something epic & cool, we didn't have chat during trades back then. they added this later on thank god. but before you had to catch & nickname pokemon to tell the person what you were looking for oh my goodness i miss the stone age... so because my flabebe, which just so you know, literally the only way you could see it was shiny at a glance were its super tiny blue eyes, so people kept flashing me with the '?' or 'NO' or 'DON'T HAVE' nicknames (why did everyone have caps) because they did not have any shinies to offer me. while i tried offering them MY shiny.
it only registered to me YEARS later why nobody saw my flabebe as shiny... i could've just evolved it into florges its a more obvious shiny lmao
i have way more stories of this game, but i'll cap it off there for now. play it if you;
- want to see where 3D pokemon began
- want to experience mega evolutions in their rawest form
- has some of the better music in pokemon games imo
- want to make your own judgement on if this is where pokemon had its downfall
imo that started in gen 7, but was propelled hugely in g8. but hey, i'm biased, thanks for reading all of this
...god, my nintendogs review will be biblically long