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Tabh's Pokemon Red (GB)
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| [March 6, 2008 02:46:22 AM]
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Play Time #2:
Once I got to the next town I explored the multi player aspects of the game. This time I choose to battle against my friend Sam, who is also playing through the game now. We hooked our game boys together with a link cable and began the fight. Pokemon battle one at a time, players can switch which pokemon are battling, and can run from their opponent however they cannot use items. Sam discovered this when his items that he had bought especially for this fight could not be used and I ended up winning without losing four of my guys.
Design:
Pokemon takes the aspects of a regular RPG such as stats levels items etc and makes it such that you have 6+ things that you need to level up, and then adds the extra aspect of “gotta catch ‘em all” which has the player on a wild chase to get every pokemon and additionally is a nice marketing gimmick because it forces the players to purchase an extra game and the extra hardware of a link cable. The game remains interesting however because of it’s frequent reward system. Pokemon level up quickly, learn new attacks quickly and kill each other quickly. All in all it’s a good game to take 20-30 minutes at a time until you are bored of it forever (or at least ‘till the next 150 come out…).
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| [March 6, 2008 02:46:09 AM]
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Summary:
Pokemon red is an RPG for the Nintendo Game Boy in which the player plays as a pokemon trainer and catches pokemon, battle-ready creatures which beat the crap out of each other for money and or items and experience! In other words its glorified Japanese dog fighting and to be honest… its fun as hell! The player can have a party of 6 pokemon who do battle against wild and trainer-owned pokemon with the ultimate goal of becoming a pokemon master (aka beat the last boss or last 5 bosses at it is in pokemon, the elite 4 (yes, 4)).
Play Time #1:
For this session of gaming I was traveling between cities. In pokemon you need to gather 8 badges before you can face the Elite 4, and I had just gotten my first on my way to get my second. I battled many pokemon on my way through Mt. Moon. Pokemon battles are determined on the random encounter system and often times you end up battling the same weak pokemon many times over on your way through a particular zone, this can be obnoxious if you don’t have a pokemon with attacks that the best is weak against. Alternativly the player can simply run from fights, but that doesn’t always work. I found the trek through Mt. Moon less than awesome but my pokemon leveled up nicely so in the end it was worth it.
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Tabh's Pokemon Red (GB)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Thursday 6 March, 2008
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