AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I got Darkrai yesterday. It was pretty easy to catch.

BUT GUESS WHAT GUYS! YEAH ALL CAPS! YOU KNOW IT'S GONNA BE GOOD!

I was replaying FireRed because I was stupid enough to erase my first file like a year ago. This is my third file.

So I'm like in Mt. Moon training so that I can blow through the Cerulean Gym (I'm trying to get to the Sevii Islands to complete my Platinum Dex) when suddenly...

SHINY GEODUDE!

This will make my second Shiny Pokemon, my first being a shiny Psyduck from the Sea Foam Islands. It is currently in my Platinum.

I was gonna train the Shiny Geodude, then I remembered how much Geodude sucked!

BALLS TO YOU! I never got a Shiny Pokemon! I even have a japanese Ditto, for crying out loud!

Shiny Zubat!

My life was never more complete than when it finally became a hot PANK Crobat.

How do you guys play through Pokemon?
Personally I try and train everything up evenly at around the same levels as each other, and take on the pokemon league as soon as I get a chance, whereas some people that I know only use their starter for the whole game! This means by the time they take on the League, they only have one Lvl 80-somthing pokemon, and it's a breeze for them.
I just find that really cheap after all the effort I put into getting a really balanced team, but who am I to critisize the way others play a game?

I never tried playing without a balanced team of 6 in the end. Normally I pick which ones I want early on in the game, and only train those ones as I get them. It leads to a nice progression in the number of Pokemon you have.

FUCK YOU, POKEMON.

Seriously, what's the point in that? Would it be so much more difficult to make it available in Diamond and Pearl?

For some reason, they really like screwing over people who don't own Platinum. I understand that they want people to buy more games, but couldn't they do so in a manner that's less... dickish? I'm seriously disappointed with the way Creatures has handled the Mystery Gift in these games. What's the point in making these special items only available temporarily? Do they think that if they make it so that they're always available through Wi-Fi, people won't be interested? If anything, I'm less interested in Platinum because I've already let a few good chances pass me by.

Or, God forbid, why don't they just make this stuff available in the game? I suppose that's asking too much of a series that refuses to do anything different.

I'm so over this. Wake me when Heart Gold and Soul Silver come out.

Yes. Then it just becomes something like Cresselia: not an event at all. And nobody cares about Cresselia.

Wait, it wouldn't be available to everyone, it would be only there for people with a WiFi connection. That's even more dickish!


So... not having event-only content would make the series different from all the other games? Wut?
But since there's far too many points as to why GameFreak keep event-specific things to list, lets just summarise it into "Never gonna happen, bro". At least, not unless Japan becomes an extreme Communist country.

Maybe you're right. But you have to admit, it's unfair that they made it unavailable to owners of Diamond and Pearl. There's no point in it, aside from a very slim possibility of greater sales of Platinum.

I just think it would be nice to show a little love to the people who bought Diamond or Pearl way back when they came out.

(To be honest, I already got Darkrai from a Toys R Us event. It was a strange experience, to say the least, and instead of giving me the item that allows me to catch Darkrai, they just gave me the Pokemon. Kind of takes the fun out of it. Same with Shaymin, later. Anyway, I guess it isn't so bad that Darkrai isn't available to me, but it's a matter of pride, y'know? And what's everyone else supposed to do?)

Well for a start, its really more about showing a little love to the people who bought D/P and Platinum, since the large majority of Platinum owner obsessed enough with Pokemon to care so much about events did get Diamond or Pearl first. And they do deserve something a little more for their obsessed efforts.

Plus, Diamond and Pearl did get more events specific to them than Platinum did anyway, due to coming out before them. Well, maybe not so much for WiFi events, but still.

Hmm. I guess if that's the point then I'm not deserving, because I've never felt that obsessed. Still, it'd be nice if just once in a while, they'd throw something to the Diamond and Pearl owners. I mean, the Wi-Fi Mystery Gift feature is right there in the game, but right now it looks like it's never going to be used.

Yeah, I do it the same way usually...

Starter: Torterra
Route 202: Luxray
Route 205: Floatzel
Route 211: Rapidash
Sometime Later: Vespiquen
Route 216: Weavile

Vespiquen was... troublesome to get... 12.5% chance... which of course means I had to go through over 50 Combees to get a female.

Pshaa!
I have like ten Japanese Pokemon! And maybe some Korean and other countries.
Cranidos, Sudowoodo, Mime Jr., and some others I can't remember...

And those Pokemon, they sleep on imported Pokemon beds (as do I).

Ho ho ho, to be unshined and un-japaned.


But seriously, you can find some fair trades from the Japanese but only every once in a while.

That being said, there's absolutely no point on having a Pokemon from a different country except for Ditto.

Well, there's a slight point, but really small.

dick joke

You know what I discovered about tweaking?

It's pretty difficult.

Of course, I probably would have gotten it to work if I had tried for more than 30 seconds, but I don't have time for that!