May 31
Relistened to the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (not darkness/time… well, not JUST those two; you’ll see why) soundtrack the other day and started tearing up when Star Cave started playing and then teared up even more when Fortune Ravine and Vast Ice Mountain came up because yeah, those special episodes were moving as all hell. Bidoof’s eagerness to prove himself… Igglybuff losing the first true friend he makes… Grovyle and Dusknoir being caught in distrust but needing to trust each other if they want to make it anywhere, and the dread and hopelessness slowly transforming into hope as the effects of the successful defeat of Dialga in the past free the future from paralysis…
#pokemon mystery dungeon#pmd explorers#explorer grovyle#and#Dusknoir#all the PMDs have good narratives#but EOS is very special for delivering so so amazingly in terms of execution and characters#Grovyle was having a rough go of it and they made sure we knew#Bidoof’s self-esteem issues were just so… painfully real#also don’t forget that the special episodes were written in a very special and fantastic way to make the player’s life harder!#WHY DO YOU WANT MY BIDOOF TO FIGHT A DAMN JIRACHI???#and that stupid mob fight right before the limestone quarry in here comes team charm?#and why would you make me fight primal dialga with three pokemon whose STABs are all resisted?#double resisted in the case of grovyle and celebi’s grass STAB???#also I have NOT forgotten the hell on earth that was spring cave#great expansion on Magma Cavern’s BGM but horrible dungeon to experience