final team:
L48 Kadabra (Jorts)
L50 Clefable (bladee)
L53 Venusaur (Uh-oh! he)
L51 Golduck (Mewtwo)
L52 Articuno (NOrbert)
L53 Zapdos (Zap Those)
Hm. Everybody's gotta start somewhere, I guess?
A lot of people who are total dorks about Pokemon will tell you Gen 1 is pretty much held together by toothpaste and spiderwebs, and if you take the time to actually complete it it really shows. There's far too many head-scratching inconsistencies and design choices for me to even count, and if you look around online you can find videos of people reducing the game to a glitchy mess by doing menial bullshit like walking in a certain spot too many times.
The core gameplay itself is also horribly tedious here, even more so than other installments. Since there's no color yet, just about everything looks exactly the same and it's super easy to get lost in your back and forth shenanigans you're urged to go on. A lot of sessions started with me loading a savestate and not knowing which fucking town I was in and having to spend a few minutes catching my bearings. Around what turned out to be the halfway point was when I decided I just wanted this to be over as soon as possible, and so even for my standards I used a ridiculous amount of savestates to power through it faster (hence the underleveled team).
I've attempted to complete Gen 2 many times when I was younger, and although I've not quite managed yet, a large amount of the issues present here are either mitigated or gone by then. But most of all, the sights and sounds make it so much less tedious than this game. Gen 1 is the embodiment of tedious. It could be worse, but I'd never play it again, nor will I spend time catching the 120 or so Pokemon that I didn't catch in this playthrough. If you google what your reward for doing so is anyway, all it is is some shitty paper from Professor Oak. Thanks, man.
L48 Kadabra (Jorts)
L50 Clefable (bladee)
L53 Venusaur (Uh-oh! he)
L51 Golduck (Mewtwo)
L52 Articuno (NOrbert)
L53 Zapdos (Zap Those)
Hm. Everybody's gotta start somewhere, I guess?
A lot of people who are total dorks about Pokemon will tell you Gen 1 is pretty much held together by toothpaste and spiderwebs, and if you take the time to actually complete it it really shows. There's far too many head-scratching inconsistencies and design choices for me to even count, and if you look around online you can find videos of people reducing the game to a glitchy mess by doing menial bullshit like walking in a certain spot too many times.
The core gameplay itself is also horribly tedious here, even more so than other installments. Since there's no color yet, just about everything looks exactly the same and it's super easy to get lost in your back and forth shenanigans you're urged to go on. A lot of sessions started with me loading a savestate and not knowing which fucking town I was in and having to spend a few minutes catching my bearings. Around what turned out to be the halfway point was when I decided I just wanted this to be over as soon as possible, and so even for my standards I used a ridiculous amount of savestates to power through it faster (hence the underleveled team).
I've attempted to complete Gen 2 many times when I was younger, and although I've not quite managed yet, a large amount of the issues present here are either mitigated or gone by then. But most of all, the sights and sounds make it so much less tedious than this game. Gen 1 is the embodiment of tedious. It could be worse, but I'd never play it again, nor will I spend time catching the 120 or so Pokemon that I didn't catch in this playthrough. If you google what your reward for doing so is anyway, all it is is some shitty paper from Professor Oak. Thanks, man.
2 Comments
Zapdos nuts
...sorry.
...sorry.
Weatherby
1 year ago