Pokemon Y - A Cave To Reflect Upon
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xyzzysqrlIt has been a lazy, low-key day here, punctuated by OMG GIRL SCOUT COOKIES and stuff. I spent most of today lounging around being conversational on IMs, and occasionally playing with Pokemon-Amie.
(When Kain the Absol is happy you see tiny tiny fangs. It is the cutest damn thing. Also, you can pet Aerodactyl on the tongue to make it happier. TONGUEPETTING.)
I also experimented some with the "Dousing Rod", yet another dingus you're just ... HANDED by a random NPC. (There are a LOT of those!) It points the way to hidden treasures, which basically mean I'm saving tons of money on consumable items that I -could- be spending on more clothing. Bless you, dousing rod. Bless you indeed.
Plus, back in the Zubat Caves there were a couple of blocks to shove around with Strength. With those pushed, Xao can get around a LOT easier, without long walks through tall grass full of pokemon.
Eventually I picked up the game to play properly.
Let's see... I think the next logical path is up Route 10, so let's head that way. It's raining on Route 10, and in a touch of visual neatness my command interface keeps getting splattered with rain as I wander on.
Catches on Route 10: Historia (Nosepass), Shinra (Electrike) Bum Rush (Hawlucha), Mini (Emolga), Lucrecia (Eevee)
Great moments in NPC Dialogue: "You and your Pokemon's power levels are incredible! They're over 9000 for sure!" Ahahaha it's funny 'cause Dragon Ball exists. *fixed grin* ... *huck 3DS out window*
Enormous standing stones, all in a row! What do they mean? Various NPCs talk about the "Energy" here, or posit that they're just... rocks, y'know? Heck, I dunno. Maybe there's a rock legendary around. Maybe there isn't. I am blissfully ignorant. So are Team Flare... well, maybe they're just stupid. Either way, the Team Flare grunts hanging around the stones notice me and attack. They let slip there's a "legend from 3000 years ago", so I guess... plot is happening!
Team Flare is really bad at plot. I'm just sayin'. They also keep going on about how AWESOME the Holo Caster is, so I turn that on. The Holo Caster is basically a device that recieves ... advertisements for more Pokemon stuff. I'm not all that impressed somehow.
Team Flare is in fact REALLY BAD at everything. "Get out of the way, kid, adults are at work!" one shouts as he attacks. Then when I kick his ass: "Well FINE THEN, I just won't work! ... Is discovering the secret of these stones really a job for adults?" No. Get out of the way and let the thirteen year old solve the ancient mysteries. That's how it works in this series.
It is then that I encounter an Eevee, and realize you can CATCH WILD EEVEES in this. I spend the next several HOURS sitting around trying to get a female Eevee. With an Eevee girl, I can breed oodles of Eevees and turn them into an elemental fighting force of EXTRAORDINARY MAGNITUDE. Also I'm thinking about an Espeon or a Jolteon for my team. Sadly there is only a 12% chance of girleevee. Everyone wants one, I guess, so there's low supply. That's how it works I think.
Eventually, Lucrecia the Eevee is caught. I backtrack to the Day Care to start the egg process. It takes me a bit to work out that no, you cannot viably breed two girls together, before returning through the field of rocks to Geosenge Town.
Geosenge Town's music is AGGRESSIVELY new-agey. Piano noodling, away! I kinda like it. Team Flare is here too though, so anything good can't last long. Xao tracks them around for a bit, but the grunt vanishes down a dead end road. So, instead I stop and pose for a selfie in front of the local monument.
That's better. Okay, plot proceeds.
Down the dead-end road is a ... really obvious pile of rocks that are clearly hiding a building of some kind. The game describes it as an "ancient artifact of some kind?" and does not let me shove the obvious "Door" out of the way and go in. Goddamn it. OH WELL LET'S GO SOME OTHER DIRECTION.
As I try to leave town, I encounter a trainer named Korrina with a pair of lucario. I'd apparently met her back on Route 5 and didn't care enough to write about it? I barely care enough now. We battle, Azumarill and Necrofiend rather humiliate the poor lucario, and we move on to Route 11.
As I'm headed down Route 11, I get a holo-call from the Professor. He wants to tell me about a Mega Evolution Guru in the next city. Then he hangs up. ... ... ... Okaaaaaay I guess he just told me? Kinda? Uhm. A name would be nice.
I'm also nearly wiped out by a "Brains and Brawn" double-battle. Two pokemon at a time, one psychic and one fighting. After the battle, the black belt starts sobbing, while the psychic sheepishly admits that he gets overly-emotional about pokemon battling. ... I just want to hug the big guy and tell him it was a damn good fight and he nearly beat me. That practice was not in vain! You will someday carry the world on your shoulders!
Catches on Route 11: Galka (Throh), Chappu (Hariyama), Osafune (Dedenne), Zorn and Thorn (Nidoran M and F)
To get anywhere else I need to pass through "Reflection Cave", so I head in there.
Incidentally, inside Reflection Cave I encounter my first Mr. Mime. Holy SHIT these are TERRIFYING this generation. A pale clownish figure that starts the battle by doing the "invisible wall" gimmick with its head twisted at an odd angle, and he looks like he's PUSHED RIGHT UP AGAINST YOUR 3DS SCREEN TRYING TO GET OUT aaaugh I AM NEVER CATCHING ONE OF THESE.
Catches in Reflection Cave: Pas de Seul (Solosis), Craydall (Sableye)
Great moments in NPC dialogue: "My wife on one side and my Pokemon on the other! Life doesn't get much better than this!"
Reflection Cave is a long and harrowing ordeal of a hike, the first really DIFFICULT "dungeon" of the adventure. Random encounters with strong pokemon every few steps, lots of enemy trainers to battle, a gimmick where often the path ahead is only reflected in mirrors along the wall (so you have to NOTICE there's a door below you, since the camera doesn't show it... ah, forced perspective) and of course it's hard to get back out and recover.
It's a very, very ragged party that stumbles into Shalour City and saves for the night.
Hmm. I really am thinking about replacing Star Marmot with one of the Eevee evolutions. I'm just not sure which one. Espeon, Jolteon and Glaceon are all valid choices, strong Special Attack pokemon. I'm just not sure which to pick...
(When Kain the Absol is happy you see tiny tiny fangs. It is the cutest damn thing. Also, you can pet Aerodactyl on the tongue to make it happier. TONGUEPETTING.)
I also experimented some with the "Dousing Rod", yet another dingus you're just ... HANDED by a random NPC. (There are a LOT of those!) It points the way to hidden treasures, which basically mean I'm saving tons of money on consumable items that I -could- be spending on more clothing. Bless you, dousing rod. Bless you indeed.
Plus, back in the Zubat Caves there were a couple of blocks to shove around with Strength. With those pushed, Xao can get around a LOT easier, without long walks through tall grass full of pokemon.
Eventually I picked up the game to play properly.
Let's see... I think the next logical path is up Route 10, so let's head that way. It's raining on Route 10, and in a touch of visual neatness my command interface keeps getting splattered with rain as I wander on.
Catches on Route 10: Historia (Nosepass), Shinra (Electrike) Bum Rush (Hawlucha), Mini (Emolga), Lucrecia (Eevee)
Great moments in NPC Dialogue: "You and your Pokemon's power levels are incredible! They're over 9000 for sure!" Ahahaha it's funny 'cause Dragon Ball exists. *fixed grin* ... *huck 3DS out window*
Enormous standing stones, all in a row! What do they mean? Various NPCs talk about the "Energy" here, or posit that they're just... rocks, y'know? Heck, I dunno. Maybe there's a rock legendary around. Maybe there isn't. I am blissfully ignorant. So are Team Flare... well, maybe they're just stupid. Either way, the Team Flare grunts hanging around the stones notice me and attack. They let slip there's a "legend from 3000 years ago", so I guess... plot is happening!
Team Flare is really bad at plot. I'm just sayin'. They also keep going on about how AWESOME the Holo Caster is, so I turn that on. The Holo Caster is basically a device that recieves ... advertisements for more Pokemon stuff. I'm not all that impressed somehow.
Team Flare is in fact REALLY BAD at everything. "Get out of the way, kid, adults are at work!" one shouts as he attacks. Then when I kick his ass: "Well FINE THEN, I just won't work! ... Is discovering the secret of these stones really a job for adults?" No. Get out of the way and let the thirteen year old solve the ancient mysteries. That's how it works in this series.
It is then that I encounter an Eevee, and realize you can CATCH WILD EEVEES in this. I spend the next several HOURS sitting around trying to get a female Eevee. With an Eevee girl, I can breed oodles of Eevees and turn them into an elemental fighting force of EXTRAORDINARY MAGNITUDE. Also I'm thinking about an Espeon or a Jolteon for my team. Sadly there is only a 12% chance of girleevee. Everyone wants one, I guess, so there's low supply. That's how it works I think.
Eventually, Lucrecia the Eevee is caught. I backtrack to the Day Care to start the egg process. It takes me a bit to work out that no, you cannot viably breed two girls together, before returning through the field of rocks to Geosenge Town.
Geosenge Town's music is AGGRESSIVELY new-agey. Piano noodling, away! I kinda like it. Team Flare is here too though, so anything good can't last long. Xao tracks them around for a bit, but the grunt vanishes down a dead end road. So, instead I stop and pose for a selfie in front of the local monument.
That's better. Okay, plot proceeds.
Down the dead-end road is a ... really obvious pile of rocks that are clearly hiding a building of some kind. The game describes it as an "ancient artifact of some kind?" and does not let me shove the obvious "Door" out of the way and go in. Goddamn it. OH WELL LET'S GO SOME OTHER DIRECTION.
As I try to leave town, I encounter a trainer named Korrina with a pair of lucario. I'd apparently met her back on Route 5 and didn't care enough to write about it? I barely care enough now. We battle, Azumarill and Necrofiend rather humiliate the poor lucario, and we move on to Route 11.
As I'm headed down Route 11, I get a holo-call from the Professor. He wants to tell me about a Mega Evolution Guru in the next city. Then he hangs up. ... ... ... Okaaaaaay I guess he just told me? Kinda? Uhm. A name would be nice.
I'm also nearly wiped out by a "Brains and Brawn" double-battle. Two pokemon at a time, one psychic and one fighting. After the battle, the black belt starts sobbing, while the psychic sheepishly admits that he gets overly-emotional about pokemon battling. ... I just want to hug the big guy and tell him it was a damn good fight and he nearly beat me. That practice was not in vain! You will someday carry the world on your shoulders!
Catches on Route 11: Galka (Throh), Chappu (Hariyama), Osafune (Dedenne), Zorn and Thorn (Nidoran M and F)
To get anywhere else I need to pass through "Reflection Cave", so I head in there.
Incidentally, inside Reflection Cave I encounter my first Mr. Mime. Holy SHIT these are TERRIFYING this generation. A pale clownish figure that starts the battle by doing the "invisible wall" gimmick with its head twisted at an odd angle, and he looks like he's PUSHED RIGHT UP AGAINST YOUR 3DS SCREEN TRYING TO GET OUT aaaugh I AM NEVER CATCHING ONE OF THESE.
Catches in Reflection Cave: Pas de Seul (Solosis), Craydall (Sableye)
Great moments in NPC dialogue: "My wife on one side and my Pokemon on the other! Life doesn't get much better than this!"
Reflection Cave is a long and harrowing ordeal of a hike, the first really DIFFICULT "dungeon" of the adventure. Random encounters with strong pokemon every few steps, lots of enemy trainers to battle, a gimmick where often the path ahead is only reflected in mirrors along the wall (so you have to NOTICE there's a door below you, since the camera doesn't show it... ah, forced perspective) and of course it's hard to get back out and recover.
It's a very, very ragged party that stumbles into Shalour City and saves for the night.
Hmm. I really am thinking about replacing Star Marmot with one of the Eevee evolutions. I'm just not sure which one. Espeon, Jolteon and Glaceon are all valid choices, strong Special Attack pokemon. I'm just not sure which to pick...
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