Pokemon Y - Day 2 With Screenshot
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xyzzysqrlToday's post has a screenshot at the end! YAY!
I open the day by doing some inventory management and trading with my pokemon. I've transfered all my weird giveaway pokemon and such out of Pokemon Black to the bank (which I will probably sign up for, at $5 a year). In addition to my egg, I've decided to allow myself to raise a level one larvitar.
Larvitar are adorable little cranky lizard things that eventually grow up, enter a pupa stage, and then become Godzilla. I love the little things, but I've always been too impatient to raise one. Getting one in at the start of the game should make that easier. Plus, past-me who bred a bunch of these even named the larvitar in accordance with BOTH our theme naming schemes. Past-me had a celestial bodies kick going on. So "Meteor" the larvitar fits nicely in my party and I work to make sure she's caught up with the EXP Share.
I also spend some time trading with a friend, and I get a Bunnelby (named "Dreamhare") and an Azurill (simply named Azurill) out of the deal. The azurill goes straight in my party, because ooh. My first Fairy type, and soon to be my first water type.
After some skating around between the towns, the egg I got yesterday hatched and out came a... "Pumpkaboo". A ghost pumpkin. After a few minutes of staring in bafflement I dub her "Necrofiend". The party is really taking shape now and I'm kinda delighted.
Anyway once leveling those a bit is done, I get hijacked by the professor's assistants. They are named Dexio and Sina, because THAT IS A NAMING SCHEME THAT HASN'T BEEN DONE. These two did the "get a Pokedex, go fill it out" trip two years ago, which is cool because that means my journey is over... oh, okay, we're gonna go all SCIENCE and collect MULTIPLE DATA POINTS. They drag me off to the professor's lab, but not before giving me Return. Return is a move that gets stronger when the pokemon using it likes you more. This plus the Poke-mon-Amie system means I can power up my attacks by fondling my pokemon adoringly.
This is really the best generation yet.
Lumiose City. The City of Light. This place is FREAKIN' HUGE OKAY. Let me just...
Ah. Here's a map.
Sina leads me to the lab, which is good because I would have gotten lost on my own. It's a three story lab! They are SRS BSNSS about pokemon research here! As I meet Professor Sycamore it starts playing this MAJESTIC THEME SONG that makes me feel like I'm playing Romancing SaGa or something. The BF says it reminds him more of the Layton games. Either way, DUDE IS FABULOUS.
As it happens, Sycamore is a TREASURE TROVE OF AWESOME. First, one of his assistants hands me False Swipe, a valuable pokemon-catching move. (Leaves pokemon with at least one HP.) THEN, he battles me with the original starter trio: Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander. THEN he asks me to take one.
AWKFLUGRICKLE HELL YEAH I GET A CHARMANDER. "Fafnir" the Charmander joins the group. My squee is legendary. SPEAKING OF LEGENDARIES. Professor Sycamore hands me a Megastone, which unlocks Mega Evolution on my new Charmander once it gets to Charizard levels. This makes it all huge and powerful and big and sexy. (Okay, I get Mega Charizard Y. Mega Charizard X might/might not be sexier but I AM NOT BIASED.)
Then he gives a speech to the assembled kids about how you have to accept ways of living and thinking that conflict with your own, and find your own path to success. You wanna research Mega Evolution? DO THAT. You feel like you could be a better trainer by completing the pokedex? ALSO VALID. It's like the game is directly saying "Your goals are only the end point, the MEANS have to be fun too." Which is something I enormously respect in a game like this.
It reminds me of the Black/White games, where the bouncy bubbly neighbor girl of that generation wanted to be a Pokemon Trainer and her father was all "grr grr no grr", so one of the gym leaders gave an epic speech about "being who you truly are" and whatnot that came off a lot LESS like "Your daughter's gonna be a pokemon trainer" and a lot MORE like "Your daughter's a lesbian now and I'm taking her under my skirt for training".
I wholeheartedly approve of the direction Pokemon games are moving in, is what I'm saying.
On my way out there's a guy with ENORMOUS hair named Lysandre who is completely obsessed with beauty and making the world beautiful! I bump into him around town a couple times, where he's still going on about how if he could he would STOP THE WORLD so everything would stay beautiful and not get ugly and OKAY I AM PRETTY SURE THIS DUDE IS THE BAD GUY OKAY.
Lots of wandering around the city follows, except there's a power outage and big chunks are inaccessable. Still, I love doing this in Pokemon games. Roaming around everywhere, doin' neat stuff... I even cut a ten-second trailer for MYSELF. They let you do this now! You can make a promotional video about how awesome you are! I love it. It's only ten seconds long but I spent like three hours making it.
Anyway, on to Route 5.
Catches on Route 5: Sabin (Pancham), Aldgoat (Skiddo)
While I'm on Route 5, Fafnir evolves to a Charmeleon. CHARMELEON FUCK YES. Eeeee. I am shamefully excited.
It is on Route 5 also that I discover "Swarms". Previously this just meant "You can catch a lot of this type of pokemon right now". In this generation though, Swarms are "Here, do a five-on-one battle against a bunch of weird, out of location pokemon!" At first I am like "AWESOME!" and then I am like "OH GOD HELP AAAA" as a solid wave of level 5 pokemon spam accuracy-down, strength-down and defense-down moves at my poor three-times-their-level pokemon and proceed to beat them senseless.
Actual in-battle footage.
I accidentally swerve off a cliff on Route 5 and end up in Camphrier Town. Oops. I don't even know what this place is. It's a quaint little village? I explore. "A town where you can taste the ages." I DON'T WANT TO LICK OLD PEOPLE.
There is a castle though. And Shauna's there! Hi Shauna! Let's see. The owners of the castle gave all their stuff away, so it's pretty empty. The end.
... That is a fascinating lesson in ancient history. I feel enlightened. And then the guide gets dragged off to Route 7 because "it's happening again". Nothing about Mega Evolution, which is why Shauna's here. She wants to follow the guide to Route 7, and I don't have a "Ignore Plot" button so let's go do that.
But first, an hour of Pokemon-Amie, or "The story of why Charmeleon now weighs 300 pounds". Just one more fancy cakepuff, Fafnir! This one has MINT icing! Nomnomnom! It'll fit! *stuff stuff*
As I head out to Route 7, I get hijacked by a DIFFERENT plot thread. Hey! You! YOU! YOU'RE A FARMER! Whoashit, Harvest Moon is invading. Wait, no. They want me to plant a bunch of berries and ... harvest them to plant more berries? Okay that's cool but no. Bye! ... oh all right I plant a couple berries and THEN leave. Maybe I'll remember to check on that one day.
...Oh. A snorlax has fallen asleep across a bridge. REMEMBER WHEN THAT HAPPENED IN PREVIOUS GAMES? No? Well it did. Anyway, go get a pokeflute and blow. It's at "Parfum Palace" off Route 6. GO BACK TO DOING THE ROUTES IN ORDER, PEON!
So I head out to Parfum Palace and discover an interesting sign. "Photo Spot"? Oh HEY. SCREENSHOT PLACE.
JUS ME SNAPPIN A SELFIE IN FRONT OF SOME OLD BUILDING LOL #NOFLASH #GREATHAIR #DUCKLIPS
Okay that's enough of that for today.
I open the day by doing some inventory management and trading with my pokemon. I've transfered all my weird giveaway pokemon and such out of Pokemon Black to the bank (which I will probably sign up for, at $5 a year). In addition to my egg, I've decided to allow myself to raise a level one larvitar.
Larvitar are adorable little cranky lizard things that eventually grow up, enter a pupa stage, and then become Godzilla. I love the little things, but I've always been too impatient to raise one. Getting one in at the start of the game should make that easier. Plus, past-me who bred a bunch of these even named the larvitar in accordance with BOTH our theme naming schemes. Past-me had a celestial bodies kick going on. So "Meteor" the larvitar fits nicely in my party and I work to make sure she's caught up with the EXP Share.
I also spend some time trading with a friend, and I get a Bunnelby (named "Dreamhare") and an Azurill (simply named Azurill) out of the deal. The azurill goes straight in my party, because ooh. My first Fairy type, and soon to be my first water type.
After some skating around between the towns, the egg I got yesterday hatched and out came a... "Pumpkaboo". A ghost pumpkin. After a few minutes of staring in bafflement I dub her "Necrofiend". The party is really taking shape now and I'm kinda delighted.
Anyway once leveling those a bit is done, I get hijacked by the professor's assistants. They are named Dexio and Sina, because THAT IS A NAMING SCHEME THAT HASN'T BEEN DONE. These two did the "get a Pokedex, go fill it out" trip two years ago, which is cool because that means my journey is over... oh, okay, we're gonna go all SCIENCE and collect MULTIPLE DATA POINTS. They drag me off to the professor's lab, but not before giving me Return. Return is a move that gets stronger when the pokemon using it likes you more. This plus the Poke-mon-Amie system means I can power up my attacks by fondling my pokemon adoringly.
This is really the best generation yet.
Lumiose City. The City of Light. This place is FREAKIN' HUGE OKAY. Let me just...
Ah. Here's a map.
Sina leads me to the lab, which is good because I would have gotten lost on my own. It's a three story lab! They are SRS BSNSS about pokemon research here! As I meet Professor Sycamore it starts playing this MAJESTIC THEME SONG that makes me feel like I'm playing Romancing SaGa or something. The BF says it reminds him more of the Layton games. Either way, DUDE IS FABULOUS.
As it happens, Sycamore is a TREASURE TROVE OF AWESOME. First, one of his assistants hands me False Swipe, a valuable pokemon-catching move. (Leaves pokemon with at least one HP.) THEN, he battles me with the original starter trio: Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander. THEN he asks me to take one.
AWKFLUGRICKLE HELL YEAH I GET A CHARMANDER. "Fafnir" the Charmander joins the group. My squee is legendary. SPEAKING OF LEGENDARIES. Professor Sycamore hands me a Megastone, which unlocks Mega Evolution on my new Charmander once it gets to Charizard levels. This makes it all huge and powerful and big and sexy. (Okay, I get Mega Charizard Y. Mega Charizard X might/might not be sexier but I AM NOT BIASED.)
Then he gives a speech to the assembled kids about how you have to accept ways of living and thinking that conflict with your own, and find your own path to success. You wanna research Mega Evolution? DO THAT. You feel like you could be a better trainer by completing the pokedex? ALSO VALID. It's like the game is directly saying "Your goals are only the end point, the MEANS have to be fun too." Which is something I enormously respect in a game like this.
It reminds me of the Black/White games, where the bouncy bubbly neighbor girl of that generation wanted to be a Pokemon Trainer and her father was all "grr grr no grr", so one of the gym leaders gave an epic speech about "being who you truly are" and whatnot that came off a lot LESS like "Your daughter's gonna be a pokemon trainer" and a lot MORE like "Your daughter's a lesbian now and I'm taking her under my skirt for training".
I wholeheartedly approve of the direction Pokemon games are moving in, is what I'm saying.
On my way out there's a guy with ENORMOUS hair named Lysandre who is completely obsessed with beauty and making the world beautiful! I bump into him around town a couple times, where he's still going on about how if he could he would STOP THE WORLD so everything would stay beautiful and not get ugly and OKAY I AM PRETTY SURE THIS DUDE IS THE BAD GUY OKAY.
Lots of wandering around the city follows, except there's a power outage and big chunks are inaccessable. Still, I love doing this in Pokemon games. Roaming around everywhere, doin' neat stuff... I even cut a ten-second trailer for MYSELF. They let you do this now! You can make a promotional video about how awesome you are! I love it. It's only ten seconds long but I spent like three hours making it.
Anyway, on to Route 5.
Catches on Route 5: Sabin (Pancham), Aldgoat (Skiddo)
While I'm on Route 5, Fafnir evolves to a Charmeleon. CHARMELEON FUCK YES. Eeeee. I am shamefully excited.
It is on Route 5 also that I discover "Swarms". Previously this just meant "You can catch a lot of this type of pokemon right now". In this generation though, Swarms are "Here, do a five-on-one battle against a bunch of weird, out of location pokemon!" At first I am like "AWESOME!" and then I am like "OH GOD HELP AAAA" as a solid wave of level 5 pokemon spam accuracy-down, strength-down and defense-down moves at my poor three-times-their-level pokemon and proceed to beat them senseless.
Actual in-battle footage.
I accidentally swerve off a cliff on Route 5 and end up in Camphrier Town. Oops. I don't even know what this place is. It's a quaint little village? I explore. "A town where you can taste the ages." I DON'T WANT TO LICK OLD PEOPLE.
There is a castle though. And Shauna's there! Hi Shauna! Let's see. The owners of the castle gave all their stuff away, so it's pretty empty. The end.
... That is a fascinating lesson in ancient history. I feel enlightened. And then the guide gets dragged off to Route 7 because "it's happening again". Nothing about Mega Evolution, which is why Shauna's here. She wants to follow the guide to Route 7, and I don't have a "Ignore Plot" button so let's go do that.
But first, an hour of Pokemon-Amie, or "The story of why Charmeleon now weighs 300 pounds". Just one more fancy cakepuff, Fafnir! This one has MINT icing! Nomnomnom! It'll fit! *stuff stuff*
As I head out to Route 7, I get hijacked by a DIFFERENT plot thread. Hey! You! YOU! YOU'RE A FARMER! Whoashit, Harvest Moon is invading. Wait, no. They want me to plant a bunch of berries and ... harvest them to plant more berries? Okay that's cool but no. Bye! ... oh all right I plant a couple berries and THEN leave. Maybe I'll remember to check on that one day.
...Oh. A snorlax has fallen asleep across a bridge. REMEMBER WHEN THAT HAPPENED IN PREVIOUS GAMES? No? Well it did. Anyway, go get a pokeflute and blow. It's at "Parfum Palace" off Route 6. GO BACK TO DOING THE ROUTES IN ORDER, PEON!
So I head out to Parfum Palace and discover an interesting sign. "Photo Spot"? Oh HEY. SCREENSHOT PLACE.
JUS ME SNAPPIN A SELFIE IN FRONT OF SOME OLD BUILDING LOL #NOFLASH #GREATHAIR #DUCKLIPS
Okay that's enough of that for today.
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Date: 2014-02-25 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-24 11:53 pm (UTC)...that's probably what I spent the most time on.
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Date: 2014-02-25 12:25 am (UTC)Will I? ... sadly I probably won't... but I absolutely WANT to.
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Date: 2014-02-25 12:10 pm (UTC)Also I'm trying to find clothing shops in Lumiose City. I found one, but they kicked me out immediately for not being stylish enough. Yup, if there was any doubt, this IS Paris.
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Date: 2014-02-25 04:15 pm (UTC)Glad to hear you're doing well though, gamewise. And yay, bulbasaur!
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Date: 2014-02-25 01:02 pm (UTC)In what might be the most obscure joke I've ever made, I named him Teddy Salad.
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Date: 2014-02-25 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-07-17 03:24 am (UTC)I never finished this game, but one thing I really liked about it so far was the way it gave you an entire like five or ten rival kids instead of just the one, just so Prof. Sycamore can teach his lesson about No Wrong Way to Pokemon. Girl who's obsessed with Mega Evolution? Go you! Nerdy kid who wants to fill out the Pokedex? Hey great, good luck with that. That one kid who just wants to dance? You dance your heart out, buddy. Anyone can be anything... well, except you the player character, you still have to challenge the gyms and the Elite Four and the local mafia because (like you said) there is no Ignore Plot button.
But other than that.
"But first, an hour of Pokemon-Amie, or "The story of why Charmeleon now weighs 300 pounds". Just one more fancy cakepuff, Fafnir! This one has MINT icing! Nomnomnom! It'll fit! *stuff stuff*"
... *Eyes Fur Affinity* you know....
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Date: 2017-07-17 03:27 am (UTC)...
I guess we do still need a Pokemon DDR clone but uh are we still doing those here in 2017?