picked oshawott as my starter because hisuan samurott looks so cool to me <3 i love the dark type as well

cleared purity forest with a lv. 4 alakazam! i think i’m done with this game for now and in the near future at least. i didn’t recruit all legendaries or pokemon because it’s too exhausting but i completed the row of legendaries that appear on the save file in the menu screen. aka i got all the mini side-stories from postgame and the entire main story finished!

i loooove the watercolor artwork in the menu the old pokemon artstyle has its charm.
got chikorita as a starter which will be awful because i think most of these game’s bosses are flying types?? hopefully my smokescreen-knower cyndaquil saves my ass in these clutch moments

i lied actually. i did try a new fire emblem after really disliking what i played of sov.

finally got all of the 7 treasures! also only evolved my main characters once because i prefer how they look in the middle stage both visually and thematically. i also got up to the 3 star expert rank, missing only the guildmaster rank but i just don't have the patience to get all those points LOL
in terms of actual stuff to do, i didn't finish any of the Zero Isle challenges or recruit all the legendaries. optional fan challenges like recruiting every single pokémon and kecleon are too much for me so i won't even try
also: i never used wonder mail codes during my entire playthrough. i felt tempted, but chose not to :-)