Aaanyway, moving swiftly on...
Oh bugger! Does this guy feel the need to stop and talk to me every time I exit a gym nowadays?
But... I already went to the library! C'mon Plot, now you're just backtracking. This isn't Resident Evil, y'know!
Oh...? He actually
didn't force me to follow him there?
Ahahah, big mistake there sucker! FREEEEDOM!
Pshaw! As if I was actually going to go anywhere else once let free...
Now, MORE FREEEEDOM!
Yeah... turns out I had absolutely nowhere else to go.
Once again, the game reinforces that I am a prisoner to the side characters' wishes.
This is very serious business, dudes!
Oh wow, I've actually seen 'dude' so much now that it's both started looking like a real name and stopped looking like a regular word... geezus!
Hah, nice! Even the game itself doesn't expect the players to remember the major traits of the secondary characters! At least it's actually honest.
Oh hey, the first mention of a legendary Pokemon in this game so far! Outside of the passing comments, I mean.
Wait..
Please tell me that this means I actually get to catch them now?
YEEEEEES! OH THANK YOU PLOT! YOU ARE.... only slightly redeemed, actually. I still haven't forgiven you for claiming that Bidoof are too strong to let me just walk through long grass.
Oh, seriously? Wow, I think out of all the main series Pokemon games, you're the first Starting Trainer NOT to get a Pokedex! That's a brand new low, McPants; you should be ashamed of yourself!
Splitting up? When has that EVER been a good idea to do in a videogame?
Oh wait, it doesn't actually matter, does it? I mean, I'm able to take pretty much anyone by myself, after all.
Well, me, and my Hellcrowave.
Lake Valor is. That's the place with the cameramen always outside. Meaning they should be gone now.
Alright, that's it! Who let one off! C'mon, own up! I bet it was you, McPants! You had burritos last night, didn't you?
Imagine shouting that in the middle of a conversation.
"NO, WAIT, I MEAN, TV!"
Oh geez! Well whoever did pass wind
really had too much mexican food! I mean, you can actually
see the stench on camera!
Oh god, yeah; you never know when one step might actually be... A BIDOOF! Then we'd be in real trouble!
An explosion, you say? I bet it was Team Galactic! Yes, that's it; the Galactic Bomb must actually be a fat guy pepped up with baked beans!
Hm, yes, sure, noise. So there's a distinct explosion, followed by a large trail of smoke. Conclusion? Must be some noise making device!
But... but... I ALWAYS get in over my head! This game would be no fun if I played it cool and stuck to just beating up the bug trainers...
Staravia gets taken out AGAIN. She's nearly becoming a main character at this point!
I take the route from Pastoria city as opposed to the closer... Name city!
Why?
FOR A RIBBON, OF COURSE!
So lets check out Machineria's "footprints".
That's... what... Machineria's thinking?
Geez, I mean I knew it was evil and all that, but I didn't think it actually wanted me to be some sort of demon! Blargh!
I share a close bond with... a hell-infested microwave.
And yet, somewhere, someone would've already made a Rule34 about it!
Seriously? Still? C'mon man, how long does it take to switch to a backup generator?
Phew, finally got here! And-
Um, wasn't there supposed to be, y'know, a lake here?
Aw, the poor Magikarp! Its stranded and suffering and dying and...
Naah, I'm not sympathetic at all. Its a fucking Magikarp, for crepes sake!
Umm...
Yeah, actually! It looks pretty fun!
Charge... I never quite understood the point on Charge. It takes up a turn but your next electric attack does double damage... but what use has that?
Okay, I gotta ask: if they're so goddam worthless, why do you have them all stacked up in a heap there? Or are they just having... some sort of... Magikarp... orgy...
OH GOD! I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO GET THAT IMAGE OUT OF MY HEAD!
I, um, already defeated your boss y'know. Somehow, I have my doubts that you'll be able to take me down.
Helping Hand... boosts your ally's attack by 50%. Its sole use really comes from if you had to pair a hard-hitting Pokemon up with a relatively weak Pokemon. But since that's really not going to happen at all, especially with Gallade needing to be the weak one...
Well duh! Anything's more interesting than the Steel gym!
TIME! 5 Grunt encounters since the last one to reveal the next part of their new plan! That's a new record, guys!
There's a... cave in the middle of a bombed up lake. For whatever reason. Don't ask.
OH CRAP! ITS A SOCIALIST! I must defeat him!
OH CRAP! ITS A MIND READING SOCIALIST! We better get the president in here, stat!
OH CRAP! ITS A... bat.
Geez, man! You're the admin of an effing mafia! You just stole a Legendary Pokemon! You can get yourself a more formidable Pokemon than a flipping bat!
Oh now that is just unfair! That thing should be dead already!
AND HE CRITICAL HIT KO'S ME! UN FUCKING FAIR!
This bat is a fucking Deus Ex Machina!
TRY SURVIVE THIS ONE! BITCH!
He had a frog, but I fainted it.
Wootinary!
Do individual levels actually mean something to you guys anymore?
AW HELL NO! Not this again, geezus!
I'm wasting no time in trying to fight off this little bastard!
FUCK YEAH! MICROWAVE TO THE FACE!
Y'know, it just doesn't have quite the same ring to it...
Sure I do. Time seems to grind to a halt every time I diverge from the plot!
That sounds like a race! First to catch all the Legendary Pokemon wins!
Oh FUCK that's what legendaries can do?! Man, I just kept using them for battling, that's all!
And then he left.
And... I'm rather confused as to what to do now, actually.
*Sigh*, guess its back to more Plot Searching for me...
Also, I decided something: When Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver comes out in North America (expect it around the end of March or so), I'm going to try get a PC dump of the game and do a LetsPlay on that too! But starting off with a Pokemon I plan on getting from this thread. It'll be a low level Pokemon, not a game breaking one. Three cheers to the first person who can guess which one!