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INUH's impressions on Pokemon (Black and Ruby)
2011-07-25 14:31:12
edited 2011-08-02 21:25:34 in Liveblogging
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Since the thing I was doing with describing my impressions of Pokemon Black turned into a liveblog by accident, I thought I'd give it its own thread in the Liveblogging category.
Impressions of Black so far (i.e. not having finished the first conversation): these games keep getting more and more 3d. I wonder if gen 6 or 7 will just outright be 3d.
Impression 2: YES. The battle system is more streamlined now. FINALLY.
Impression 3: Heh, the only thing in your room that isn't damaged is the Wii. Gotta love Nintendium.
Impression 4: This game is making me do an unintentional liveblog. Interesting..
Impression 5: GIMME THE DAMN RUNNING SHOES ALREADY. Seriously, they really just need to give you the ability to run to start with.
Impression 6: As always, I take forever to name my Pokemon. Introducing Opheo the Snivy.
Impression 7: The new Pokedex design is pretty cool.
Impression 8: Caught a Lillipup. Named him Yorick.
Impression 9: Caught a Patrat. Named her Cyna.
Impression 10: They really redid the Pokemon Center this time. Or maybe it's just the camera angle that makes me think that.
Impression 11: The store is in the Pokemon center? Awesome.
Impression 12: Ghetsis would seem pretty nice in his first scene if it weren't for the ominous music, weird outfit and stuff.
Impression 13: N's intro did a pretty good job of catching my attention.
Impression 14: I should've mentioned this earlier, but I'm kinda disappointed they didn't keep the whole "your Pokemon follows you around" thing Heartgold and Soulsilver had.
Impression 15: Fuck yeah, running shoes. This generation has the most useful mom so far.
Impression 16: No autorun? That's another feature removed that HG/SS had...
Impression 17: The strength boulders look like they're actually hard to move for once.
Impression 18:Whoa, XP distribution if multiple Pokemon fight changed.
Impression 19:They changed the annoying beeping into a music change. YES.
Impression 20: As expected, the feature where criticals only happen when I'm trying to capture something has not been removed.
Impression 21:Well, I found another Purrloin...and it happened again. Fortunately, I was deliberately using an ineffective move, so it had 1 HP left. Introducing Priona the Purrloin.
Impression 22:Ew, Unburden's a really crappy ability.
Impression 23:I like the little notification you get when Pickup activates during a battle. Also, the fact that you can use the item during the battle. Almost makes me want to not evolve my Lillipup. Almost.
Impression 24:So, the first gym is...a restaurant that's obsessed with teaching people about type effectiveness? Um, okay...
Impression 25:Some chick just gave me a Panpour for no reason. Okay. I named him Ahu.
Impression 26:The Gym Leader always uses the type effective against you. That's kinda cool. Glad I got the Panpour.
Impression 27:His level 12 non-fire Pokemon was harder than his level 14 fire Pokemon...
Impression 28: Team Plasma? Do Pokemon villains just pick these out at random or what?
Impression 29: So they're kicking a Pokemon because they want to help Pokemon? LOGIC!
Impression 30:Ghetsis is pretty creepy when pissed.
Impression 31:Finally saw rustling grass. Caught Lepo the Audino.
Impression 32: Caught a Munna. Named him Baku.
Impression 33: I has wi-fi. Nice.
Impression 34: The day care sure showed up early this time around.
Impression 35:The second set of Team Plasma grunts I ran into are significantly less asinine than the first.
Impression 36:Oh, hey, sleeping Pokemon actually close their eyes when they fall asleep.
Impression 37:Holy crap, you guys weren't kidding about Audino.
Impression 39:Caught Chris the Pidove.
Impression 40:And a Blitzle just proved that the "try to catch it and you'll crit" rule still holds.
Impression 41:And the one after that, too...
Impression 42:And the third one I encountered demonstrated that those attacks didn't need to crit to OHKO.
Impression 43:Actually caught a Blitzle. Named her Bronta.
Impression 44:I just had my Pidove fight an Audino. It levelled five times, taking it directly from being my weakest Pokemon to being my second strongest.
Impression 45:There are ledges that let you jump North now. Always bugged me that there weren't any before.
Impression 46:Caught Gelba the Roggenrola.
Impression 47:Caught Talp the Drilbur.
Impression 48:Bulbapedia's claims that Woobat has a 50% encounter rate in Wellspring Cave are bullshit.
Impression 49: Finally caught a Woobat. Named her Alba, from the scientific name of one of the cutest animals on the planet.
Impression 50:The game just told me it'd be good to have a Fighting type. Is that even possible at this point? I didn't think I'd missed anything obtainable up to here...
Impression 51:Caught Tympole, named her Serena.
Impression 52:Just because the odds of your Pokemon hurting itself in confusion are 50/50, that doesn't mean it won't do so five times in a row.
Impression 53:Yorick evolved into Herdier! Yay!
Impression 54:Holy fuck, the new evolution screen is epic.
Impression 55:Caught a Timburr. Named him Magog.
Impression 56: Blitzle's defense is so low I can hardly use it. Irritating.
Impression 57: Caught a Sawk. Named him Aoni.
Impression 58: Demolished N. That was really, really easy.
Impression 59:Stupid gym leaders and their stupid super potions.
Impression 60:Hell yeah, Opheo evolved into Servine.
Impression 61:Screw it, I'll find Throh later. Going to challenge the gym again.
Impression 62:Just realized the Pokemon Center nurses are back to saying "We hope to see you again." Fuck you; I hope your Pokemon all get injured too.
Impression 63: Timburr's animation does not work in slow-mo at all.
Impression 64:Heh, Lenora's Herdier KOs itself if you stall.
Impression 65:That grinding really payed off.
Impression 66:Caught a Cottonee. Named her Tara.
Impression 67:I haven't the slightest clue why I'm still calling these "Impressions" when they're basically a twittery liveblog.
Impression 68:Caught a Venipede. Named him Scolo.
Impression 69:Heh, 69.
Impression 70:Chris evolved into Tranquill. Awesome.
Impression 71:Caught a Sewaddle, named her Chloe.
Impression 72:Caught another Cottonee. Didn't name him, as I caught him for trading purposes.
Impression 73:So...the skull was completely useless. Did they just grab it because it looked cool or something?
Impression 74:Skyarrow Bridge...wow. I don't know what sort of crazy mind it took to decide that Pokemon really needed scenery porn, but whoever thought of it is awesome.
Impression 75:So...I know that there's a lot of stuff on Unova that isn't on its counterpart of Manhattan Island, but this first bit on the island corresponds to the real world pretty nicely.
Impression 76:Some guy gave me a water stone. Thanks, some guy!
Impression 77:OH GOD CAMERA SCREW. It was handling 3D so well up until there!
Impression 78:Got the Eviolite. Looks pretty awesome.
Impression 79:I get to the gym, and the leader immediately leaves it. Really?
Impression 80:Team Plasma are being assholes again. Seriously? They were off to such a good start with that first speech (ominous music aside), and now they're basically pickpockets/kidnappers.
Impression 81:"The world that I -- I mean, Team Plasma--desires." So...basically, Cyrus. N had better be more interesting than Ghetsis.
Impression 82:Walking through walls...Unova gyms are weird.
Impression 83:Burgh was pathetically easy.
Impression 84:Caught a Darumaka. Named him Darunia because I'm a Zelda fanboy.
Impression 85:Caught a Sandile. Named him Gustave.
Impression 86:Caught a Scraggy. Named him Agamin.
Impression 87:Caught a Sigiliph. Named him Nazca.
Impression 88:Caught a Dwebble. Named him Pagu.
Impression 89:I just noticed that they finally did away with capitalizing all Pokemon names.
Impression 90:Caught a Maractus. Named her Opa.
Impression 91:Caught a Yamask. Named him Menes.
Impression 92:Just realized I missed the Exp. Share. Backtracking time!
Impression 93:Was expecting to have to battle the fossil guy, so I hit A at an inopportune moment and got the Cover Fossil whether I want it or not. Fortunately, I did want it.
Impression 94:Backtracked; got the Exp. Share. This should be useful.
Impression 95:I has Ultra Balls! Professor Juniper is generous.
Impression 96:"We are taking Pokemon away from people." Such astounding dialogue.
Impression 97:I has a bike! 
Impression 98:Battle subway. Battle...subway. How the hell is that supposed to get insurance?
Impression 99:Some guy gave me Strength. And the last boulder I saw was, what, on route 2? Yeah, I don't really wanna backtrack that far.
Impression 100:Did...did N just ask me out?
Impression 98:Battle subway. Battle...subway. How the hell is that supposed to get insurance?
Impression 99:Some guy gave me Strength. And the last boulder I saw was, what, on route 2? Yeah, I don't really wanna backtrack that far.
Impression 100:Did...did N just ask me out?
Comments
@INUH: Gothita for Solosis, Vullaby for Rufflet, and anything for Zorua.
evil incarnateMomo.Also what do you want the Solosis, Rufflet, and Zorua to be named?
Also I gave you the wrong code, my real FC is: 4684 9588 9178
I'm in the Union Room.