I said I was gonna talk about both the anime and the games. But I realized, I don't think I have a hot take on the anime? Girlfriend and I are watching through the whole series right now, and we're in the black and white anime. And it's bad, but that seems to be the consensus. Iris is annoying, Cilan is a pale imitation of Brock. Ash is ash. Think my biggest gripe about the anime is I still vastly prefer Veronica Taylor over Stephanie natocheny. 4kids dub may not have been great, but I think it's better than the PCI dub.
But the games. Imma talk about the games. I semi recently played through every gen back to back to back in a genlocke, which is basically a mega nuzlocke, going through multiple generations. I started with first gen, and went all the way through sun and moon. Now as someone who's old enough to have been playing pokemon since RBY, I definitely have a bias to older games. But that said, the OG RBY, does not hold up, and plays like shit. But RBY isn't the point of this post. Tons of people don't like those games anymore. I'm here to talk about:
Black and White and Black and White 2. I'll start with a complement. Visually, those games hold up very well. I'm actually concerned about what GF is going to do when the duology is inevitably remade, especially after BDSP. Now, I didn't hate these games. I honestly like all the mainline games to an extent. With gens 2 and 4 being my favorites. And with all that said, I also like a lot of the Pokémon. N and Ghetsis are good challenges. Hell, the whole elite 4 in general is a challenge. And Dewott? Cool as fuck. Fave from that gen. But the game just feels... Lacking to me. That's pretty much it for BW/BW2.
Then got SM/USUM. At least as far as the nuzlocke community, people seem to like those games, and as I stated previously, I like all the mainline games. But the beginning of the game is so long and drawn out, it's unfun. And then I tried to go into USUM after beating SM, not knowing it was essentially the same game. So I can't really judge it fairly.
But that's all. These may have been more warm takes than hot.
Oh actually, to add to this, I've put it on pause, mostly due to Tears of the Kingdom, but I've been playing through the original Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team. And I don't like it. It's not fun, it's grundy, the boss fights are hard, unless you. Ya know. Grind. I don't really have a lot to say about this one, other than I don't find it fun. I can appreciate a game that's hard. I love the souls games. But mystery dungeon makes me upset.
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