Pokemon

[Contents] Music Player; A Brief Introduction; My Pokemon Teams; Pokemon X; Legends Arceus; Submas

pokemon needs no introduction. i'm still sad about the shaymin i lost in pokemon diamond.

Have you heard of "pokeloid"? it is very fun. Arce-ish. And another: FavPokeLoid SV.

In the games, I make an effort to use different pokemon for a series of signature teams

My ideal pokemon team.

pokemon blue (emulator)

pokemon diamond

pokemon x

pokemon moon

pokemon legends arceus

pokemon scarlet

Pokemon X is my favorite game in the series, although that is probably only because it happened to be my first introduction into the Pokemon franchise as a whole. It never bothered me how the game rested a lot on nostalgia for the first generation as a way to make it safer during the switch from 2d to 3d; I played X and Y at a time when I knew nearly nothing about the series as a whole. Regardless of the game's overall quality (there are many many flaws and many many good aspects), Pokemon X was charming and easy to fall in love with.

Even though the story is heavily flawed, I find the ideas lurking behind the scenes intriguing. I want to like the protagonist's friends, but their personalities don't have much depth. (The manga made a lot of improvements in this regard). I wish they had explored more into the themes of life and death through Xerneas and Yvetal, or that there were more to the gym leaders, or that the story felt more intense throughout the game (it doesn't feel like it has much impact to the game world while you play).

My favorite parts of Pokemon X came either from the Looker after-game story or my own imagination which has formed its own storylines since I first played it as a child. That's not great. I suppose different beats for different people, but my main interests for Pokemon are in the story and the cute/cool Pokemon designs, and the stories in Pokemon recently have been lacking, to say the least.

As of the time of writing this, the new Pokemon Legends: A-Z has yet to be released. In all honesty, I am not very excited about it. I do not want to overhype the game in my head, but if I see anything interesting about the story online, then I may consider paying more attention to it--at this point, I care more about individual characters and stories than actually playing the game; however, if the gameplay is more like Legends: Arceus than the other mainline games, then I will become very excited.

AAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Playing this game was so fun! It is my favorite Pokemon game in terms of gameplay because it is so different. I love that its faster, in that you can move around during the fight to view it from different angles or run away from a battle without waiting for text to scroll on a static screen. Catching Pokemon is also a lot faster, I love sneaking around and throwing pokeballs from a distance to catch an entire hoarde of Pokemon. The concept of catching a lot of the same Pokemon or seeing the Pokemon use certain moves multiple times is also a new and interesting way to fill out the Pokedex; I think it fixes the issue of the completing the Pokedex not feeling like an accomplishment because you only have to catch a certain Pokemon once and then you immediately have all of its info--in Legends Arceus, it actually feels like you are doing research on them.

I also love the battle system a lot more, Pokemon games are very easy and you do not ever really need strategy unless you put heavy restrictions on yourself. Pokemon is not a good strategy game (unless you go competetive). This means that battles usually feel tedious to me, but in Arceus I at least get to consider whether I should use the stronger, slow attack or the weaker, fast attack while looking at the turn order and planning ahead (granted, I also lowered myself to a four-pokemon team with a middle-stage evolution and no xp grinding, so...).

This game is what introduced me to submas (the Pokemon Black and White battle subway twins: Ingo and Emmet). In Pokemon Legends Arceus, I mostly cared about Ingo, Volo, the game's aesthetic, and the legendaries. The main story passed by in a blur and I really do not care about the clans, but that does not bother me because the gameplay loop was so fun--I enjoyed myself while playing enough to not care too much that the story was lackluster.

Short for Subway Masters, the submas community has aa cult following mainly in Japan after Black and White were released, but the addition of Ingo into Legends Arceus caused a major resurgence of the submas fandom as a new audience of people found out about the twins, and this interest was helped immensely by the implications involved of one brother in a pair known for how close they are being lost through space and time--leaving the other behind. Add amnesia to the story, and the creative potential for stories the fans can tell is huge. Blah blah blah black and white contrast, opposites, legendaries of the games, extremely talkative vs blunt, frown vs smile, etc. As well as that, Legends Arceus adds in Hisuian Zoroark, a good demonstration of the constrast between the two as fans often pair Ingo with the normal version and Emmet with the Hisuian version. People go bonkers for these guys. Autism deluxe btw. This is very important that you know. And trains, yeah. Trains are good. Choo choo

my personal favorite aus

• blaiddraws' ghost worm au (ingo dies and turns into a pokemon--frightrail)
• peachdelta's emmetropia (volo is immortal and finds emmet, telling him that he knows where ingo is; discontinued as a linear format, but content might still be made casually methinks)
• hoofpet's replacement ingo au (with ingo missing, emmet is given a zoroark to take his place--the relationship between them is tumultuous at first, but then emmet starts to see the zoroark beyond its role as ingo's replacement and as its own being