OK, I’m not gonna lie here. I have grown up with and loved Pokemon (excuse me not spelling it "correctly" but I'm too lazy to figure out how to do the letter on my MacBook) since I was young. However, in recent times you have to feel that Nintendo have reached the end of the line with it. There’s only so many times that you can go round an area getting 8 badges and for no adequately explored reason beating a dangerous criminal gang that has decided to abandon using weapons to perform their dastardly deeds and instead use animals that are so much weaker than yours you’d think that not even a Rocky training montage would make them any better.
Yet, there is still always something about the games that draw you in…. I’m not entirely sure what, but there is. Maybe it’s the monsters. Erm, no. When I need to spend my time going round catching 600+ monsters where so many of them involve using a Wi-Fi event that if I’m on holiday that week I can never get because Nintendo don’t like to repeat themselves, which incidentally is something I find ironic considering this is the 5th time they’ve done this game idea, I can’t help but feel that my time would’ve been better spent just standing by my front door and head-butting everyone that walks past.
Well then, maybe it’s the online interactivity with other people. Well, it certainly isn’t for me. There are a lot of things that are broken within the Wi-Fi of Black and White. The one I really hate is when trading people leave their Pokemon floating in some cyberspace waiting for its new owner to come and give it a treat. However, the people who left them in cyberspace obviously didn’t like them because they leave it with no chance of them. Yes, I’m on about impossible trades. You know, when people ask for a level 9 legendary that you cannot get because the game only introduces it at 50 and of course they can’t breed so you can only get these Pokemon through hack… Which breaks the game and leads to another stupid glitch from Diamond and Pearl, which Nintendo should’ve fixed. I thought I’d get rid of my anger by challenging some random stranger and beating him with my supreme team of awesome malformed cats and dogs. Of course I can’t because I nickname my Pokemon to make them feel personal to me and Nintendo being the heartless dumbasses they are don’t like people connecting with their Pokemon and so don’t let them battle if nicknamed.
I guess it must be the story then. No. It’s the same story… It’s ALWAYS the same story. It’s like reading a book over and over again where each time you notice a little thing that’s different but at the end your still dissatisfied at the ending because you know you’ve wasted days of your precious life to just do the same thing you did over 10 years ago.
Despite all this, these games are better than the previous games (Diamond and Pearl)… Although that’s not saying much because the only that those games could’ve been any worse is if they came just literally came snapped in two, although would’ve done you a great favor. In short, if you are as old as I am and remember playing Pokemon Red on a black and white Game Boy, don’t bother trying to like it. Just accept it. If you didn’t play any Pokemon games until Game Boy advance, here you go, your Holy Grail is here, enjoy.
