LEGObrionicle
Found this for a handful of dollars at a game store in an area near me and Cubix was a show from my childhood so I snagged it. I’d played another top-down GBC racer as a kid (LEGO Racers, I think) and they’re so funny. Really show how the jump from Game Boy to GBC and then to GBA is actually a bigger improvement than one would think. Think about playing this and then being handed F-Zero for GBA, lol.
Recently replayed my very first Pokémon game. Though that makes me sound younger than I am, I actually wasn't allowed to play Pokémon until I was 8-years-old, which, isn't that old, but it felt like I was playing video games for a while up until that point, and loved Pokémon for longer.
I hadn't played this game for a while, though, because after playing it for over 15 years, I thought I had exhausted every team I was interested in using and would be bored doing another Kanto team. Though, I gave it a try, found some Pokémon I was interested in using, and had an absolute blast.
There's something about the Kanto region that I love a lot. I think it's really interesting going back to this game and exploring the first Pokémon region after eight generations of different worlds and regions being available to explore. I love Kanto for its urban-ness. It's basically the real world, there are just Pokemon there. There are normal looking apartment buildings, houses, but there's also a casino, a zoo. I don't know, it felt very drab, and not mystical or whimsical at all, missing all of the vast landscapes and flourishing, natural areas. And, that made me love it? Kanto is a dangerous place to live, too; there's not only the organized crime of Team Rocket, but those bikers that are roaming around are also petty thieves and muggers! I think what makes Kanto such an interesting region is a lot more subtle than future installments. When you get to talking to all of the NPCs, you learn more about everything that's going on in this world. There's something so different about newer regions, and how they're designed, and how they look, and how people and Pokémon occupy the environment. Playing this game helped me realize that there is more missing to the feel of newer Pokémon games than I originally thought, though I still don't have all of the words to explain just what it is.
It might be nostalgia, or it might be this is just my perfect Pokémon game, but it's now my favorite Pokémon, and with that, my favorite game, too. This playthrough, I used Venusaur, Clefable, Dodrio, Flareon, Dewgong, and Nidoqueen. Four of which I've never used before. Flareon, the poor bastard, was very good before they split physical and special attacks. Love this game to bits, and makes me really want to play Crystal, again.
I hadn't played this game for a while, though, because after playing it for over 15 years, I thought I had exhausted every team I was interested in using and would be bored doing another Kanto team. Though, I gave it a try, found some Pokémon I was interested in using, and had an absolute blast.
There's something about the Kanto region that I love a lot. I think it's really interesting going back to this game and exploring the first Pokémon region after eight generations of different worlds and regions being available to explore. I love Kanto for its urban-ness. It's basically the real world, there are just Pokemon there. There are normal looking apartment buildings, houses, but there's also a casino, a zoo. I don't know, it felt very drab, and not mystical or whimsical at all, missing all of the vast landscapes and flourishing, natural areas. And, that made me love it? Kanto is a dangerous place to live, too; there's not only the organized crime of Team Rocket, but those bikers that are roaming around are also petty thieves and muggers! I think what makes Kanto such an interesting region is a lot more subtle than future installments. When you get to talking to all of the NPCs, you learn more about everything that's going on in this world. There's something so different about newer regions, and how they're designed, and how they look, and how people and Pokémon occupy the environment. Playing this game helped me realize that there is more missing to the feel of newer Pokémon games than I originally thought, though I still don't have all of the words to explain just what it is.
It might be nostalgia, or it might be this is just my perfect Pokémon game, but it's now my favorite Pokémon, and with that, my favorite game, too. This playthrough, I used Venusaur, Clefable, Dodrio, Flareon, Dewgong, and Nidoqueen. Four of which I've never used before. Flareon, the poor bastard, was very good before they split physical and special attacks. Love this game to bits, and makes me really want to play Crystal, again.