INUH's impressions on Pokemon (Black and Ruby)

ClockworkUniverse

Impression 166: Cannons? What the hell, Unova.

Impression 167: Beat the flying gym leader while taking only 16 damage in the process. I think I may have overgrinded.

Impression 168: Opheo evolved into Serperior.

Impression 169: Team Plasma are headed for the next city I'm visiting. What a shock.

Impression 170: Holy crap, N showing up out of nowhere. That was a bit more of a surprise.

Impression 171: My Excadrill likes me, so N awarded me with an infodump.

Impression 172: The Champion just casually hopped off a 30 foot cliff. Apparently, his Pokemon aren't the only strong ones.

Impression 173: Surf get. Backtracking time.

Impression 174: Stoutland can learn Surf. Unexpected, but pretty cool.

Impression 176: Not enough Gen V Pokemon learn False Swipe.

Impression 177: Resurrected a Tirtouga. Named him Tu'i.

Impression 178: Restructured my party. Current lineup: Opheo the Serperior, Talp the Drillbur, Magog the Gurdurr, Nazca the Sigiliph, Menes the Yamask and Leda the Ducklett.

Impression 179: Caught a Cubchoo. Named him Chuck.

Impression 180: Team Plasma start talking about the tower where their plans will be completed, then someone walks up to me and starts talking about a tower that's important to the region's mythology. Subtle, writers. Very subtle.

ClockworkUniverse

Impression 181: Caught a Shelmet. Named him Ninus.

Impression 182: Caught a Stunfisk. Named her Nacine.

Impression 183: Two XP shares? They're really serious about reducing grind...

Impression 184: Caught a Mienfoo. Named him Sven.

Impression 185: Ice sliding puzzle? It's kinda weird that this is the most normal Unova gym thus far.

Impression 186: Excadrill is making this pretty easy...wait, fuck, levitating enemies.

Impression 187: The physics behind this puzzle are...odd.

Impression 188: The gym is apparently built on some sort of...grey...void. Okay.

Crimson

You want to give trading another go?

ClockworkUniverse

Sure. Gimme a minute to switch Pokemon around in the box and stuff.

Impression 189: Menes evolved into "Co***rigus."

ClockworkUniverse

Okay, I'm in the wifi room thing.

Crimson

*Notices that it's an hour later.*

OHSHITSORRY.

Crimson

Yeah I'm in the Wi-Fi room now too.

ClockworkUniverse

Damn, we have shitty luck.

ClockworkUniverse

I decided to post a bunch of stuff at once instead of editing as I play this time.

Impression 190: Took Deerling to the Seasonal Research Facility since tomorrow will be winter.

Impression 191: Brycen is...really, really easy. Maybe I really did overgrind Excadrill.

Impression 192: Holy crap ninjas.

Impression 193: So I'm heading to the Dragonspiral Tower for reasons related to the plot of the game with the Dragon legendaries. I think things are about to get interesting.

Impression 194: Why won't anything but Mienfoo show up? I want a damn Druddigon.

Impression 195: After quite a bit of time, caught a Druddigon. Named him Gregory.

Impression 196:Wait, so they literally just smashed a hole in the wall?

Impression 197:Dammit, Basculin, stop fainting.

Impression 198:Caught a red-striped Basculin. Named her Betty.

Impression 199:Caught a Golett. Named it Emmett.

Impression 200: I'm guessing it's not good that the tower's shaking?

Impression 201: There should really be a doctor in here.

Impression 202: The floor with all the rings is pretty cool.

Impression 203: 3D scene. Fancy.

Impression 204: Zekrom's pretty cool.

Impression 205: And...N still wants me to stop him. What the hell?

Impression 206: I finally learn about the plot coupon I already knew about because I got spoiled.

Impression 207: Ohai Alder.

Impression 208: Lots of infodumping of stuff I already knew, plus being told Zekrom's type.

Impression 209: Heading to Relic Castle? But I already know the stone's in the museum! Can't I just go there? Please?

Impression 210: Leda evolved into Swanna.

Impression 211: I'm guessing Ghetsis just wants Reshiram, otherwise he wouldn't be encouraging this.

Impression 212: Waitaminute...what was I even there for?!

Impression 213:And now I'm going to the museum. Why didn't I go there in the first place?

Impression 214: The Champion apparently has at least one Pokemon that can learn Fly. Good to know.

Impression 215: Okay, so I've got a handwave, but that still seems kinda dumb, especially since N outright said to go find the light stone.

Impression 216: I can has Reshiram now?

Impression 217: No. No, I can't. I have to go get my last badge first because...nobody knows what to do next, and because he uses Dragon pokemon, he obviously knows how to resurrect quasi-divine entities that happen to be dragons.

Crimson

Yeah, about this trading thing. How about we set up a time over PM or something?

ClockworkUniverse

Sure. I can't actually do it right this second (I took Black out and put Ace Attorney: Justice for All in), but we really do need to get it done at some point.

Of course, we could wait until I have Vullaby, which should be tomorrow.

Nova

Impression 211: I'm guessing Ghetsis just wants Reshiram, otherwise he wouldn't be encouraging this.

He wants N and Zekrom/Reshiram as a figurehead.

AHR

Oh N. I wish he was still fightable after the game ended.

ClockworkUniverse

Impression 218:Huh? Why didn't Deerling change forms for Winter? 

Impression 219:Cryogonal is hard to find. 

Impression 220:Found one, but they have a really low catch rate... 

Impression 221:NOOO! Why did that attack have to crit? 

Impression 222:Caught a Cryogonal. Named it Hrimthurs. 

Impression 223:Whoa, Bianca was not that hard last time. 

Impression 224:Ghetsis revealed that he's actually been a douchebag this whole time. I'm shocked. 

Impression 225:Ghetsis gave another speech, only this time I'm supposed to know it's insincere. 

Impression 226:Iris and Drayden actually know about the legendary dragons. That's good, because it didn't really seem to be anything but a random guess and if they didn't, we'd be screwed. 

Impression 227:The portal on their house is some sort of weird portaley thing. 

Impression 228:So I represent truth, which, because I'm the main character and am going to win, is better than ideals. Had I chosen to buy White, I'd represent ideals, which would be better than truth. Ummm...so morality is determined by your favorite color? 

Impression 229:Annd...they don't know how to wake up Reshiram. Lovely. I don't suppose I could just use an Awakening on the light orb? 

Impression 230:Did Drayden just imply that he was going to throw the match? 

Impression 231:All of the gyms thus far have had designs based on some sort of existing facility. This one, however, chooses to simply be a what the fuck. 

Impression 232:I...can't get out? What. 

Impression 233:And...still no exit route in sight. Worst gym design in Unova, by far. 

Impression 234:Just won a battle entirely because my opponent decided to keep using False Swipe rather than, say, Dragon Claw. 

Impression 235:Leader Drayden sent out Haxorus! INUH used Oh Crap! It's not very effective... 

Impression 236:Actually, that was pretty easy. 

Impression 237:8/8 badges. Awesome. 

Impression 238:So...Reshiram hasn't woken up because it thinks I suck, apparently. 

Impression 239:Almost said “yes” to “do you regret starting out on your journey?” That really shouldn't be the default option. 

Impression 240:FUCK YEAH MASTER BALL. And apparently Tornadus is about to appear. Time to do some legendary collecting...in the morning.

DYRE

224:Ghetsis revealed that he's actually been a douchebag this whole
time. I'm shocked.

This one made me lol.

Nova

And...still no exit route in sight. Worst gym design in Unova, by

far.

?

You can get out of there easy...

ClockworkUniverse

When I tried to backtrack after the halfway point, there was a guy standing on the path back.

Or maybe I'm just tired and got lost.

Nova

I think you got lost...

ClockworkUniverse

Right. There's a reason why I decided to quit playing and go to bed rather than doing the legendary hunting now.

I should probably actually do that now. Night.

Nova

Night.

ClockworkUniverse

So my Colosseum bonus disc arrived today, which means I can get the berry glitch on my copy of Ruby sorted out and start a file. Should I liveblog it too?

ClockworkUniverse

Impression 241: Went to the gate north of Opeleucid and found out about the storm. Awesome. 

Impression 242: An old lady told me about Tornadus. 

Impression 243: And...there he is. He's not going to stick around, though. 

Impression 244: Roamers are harder to track down in Gen. V. 

Impression 245: Found him on Route 5. Threw a master ball. Enough said. 

Impression 246: Entered Mistralton Cave and...yep, this is the obligatory single area you need Flash for. Fun. 

Impression 247: Woobats are now appearing at their intended rate, i.e. a lot. 

Impression 248: Caught an Axew. Named him Hadro. 

Impression 249: Reached the “Guidance Chamber.” A guy told me about Cobalion, Terrakion and Virizion. I have to show them that people are trustworthy by beating them to a pulp and kidnapping them. 

Impression 250: That is an awesome battle transition. And good music, too. 

Impression 251: Crap. Got greedy, let him faint. Reset time! 

Impression 252: Fucking catch rate 3 mons...  

Impression 253: Ha! Caught him on the last Dusk Ball! 

Impression 254: Time to go find the other two. 

Impression 255: You know how my Deerling didn't change forms yesterday? Well, it did today...what. Well, I took it by the Seasonal Research place. 

Impression 256: The fact that most Pokemon evidently have overworld sprites just makes me more annoyed that they removed the “following” mechanic from HG/SS. 

Impression 257: Hmmm...it's easier to catch stuff at night. I think I'll wait until then to go fight Virizion. For now, I suppose I'll start that Ruby file and grab Jirachi.

ClockworkUniverse

Well, I got started on Ruby, and I decided that rather than making a separate thread, I'd do both here.

Impression 1: “The internal battery has run dry. The game can be played. However, clock-based events will no longer occur.” Lovely. Well, I'll get that fixed up in a moment. I'd been planning to buy the bonus disc anyway. 

Impression 2: I feel the need to preserve some record of the guy who had this before me: “Player: Ash; Pokedex: 40; Time: 36:01 Badges: 8” 

Impression 3: The professor this time is Birch. They should really throw us a curveball sometime and name the professor “Bob.” 

Impression 4: Whoa, this isn't a bedroom. That's different. 

Impression 5: Set the clock, for what good that will do. 

Impression 6: Met MAY. Because this is an older-gen game, her name is ENTIRELY CAPITALIZED. 

Impression 7: Professor Birch is kinda pathetic. 

Impression 8: Picked Torchic because I have the Treecko line from Heartgold. 

Impression 9: That was the easiest first battle in the entire series. 

Impression 10: Torchic shall be known as Horus. 

Impression 11: Have access to the Pokemon Center. Now would be a good time to grab Jirachi. 

Impression 12: Wait, no, gotta get the Pokedex first. 

Impression 13: Kicked Mudkip's ass and leveled. Yay. 

Impression 14: Got the Pokedex. Now I'll get Jirachi. 

Impression 15: “Unable to update Berry Program.”  

Impression 16: On the other hand, I have Jirachi, so at least there's that. That's a pretty awesome upside. 

Impression 17: Mom gave me the Running Shoes. Is this the earliest you can get them in any of the games? 

Impression 18: Caught a Zigzagoon. Named him Tanu. 

Impression 19: Some guy made me follow him to the Pokemart. But he gave me a potion, so it's okay. 

Impression 20: Ran into a Poochyena, but given that I have one on Heartgold already and it could barely hurt a Zigzagoon a level below it, I'll pass. 

Impression 21: Something this guy said to me implies that Pokemon trainers are legally obligated to accept all challenges. That...makes a lot of sense, actually, given that the game won't let you decline. 

Impression 22: Forgot Jirachi couldn't hurt Poochyena. How embarrassing. 

 Impression 23: Arrived in Petalbug. Good time to take a break.

Nova

Ran into a Poochyena

I'll pass.

>

ClockworkUniverse

It was level 4 and could barely damage my level 3 Zigzagoon. I think it might have had really crappy IVs or something.

Tachikaze

Also Poochyena's terrible in Gen 3. >.>

Crimson

Ah shit, I forgot about the trade thing again. How about tomorrow at 8 PM?

ClockworkUniverse

Ah, I guess you missed my second comment on the wall-post-thingy. My parents took me out to dinner tonight, so I couldn't be there. But yeah, tomorrow should be good.

Nova

Mightyena's fairly good.

Absol is better, I'll give it that.

Tachikaze

Yeah, but Houndoom was the only dark type with enough special attack to make any real use of dark type moves before 4th gen.