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br264's Pokemon Red (GB)
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Pokémon Red
Description:
In a world full of creatures called Pokémon, it is your job to go out, catch and train these monsters. As you travel on your way, you face tougher trainers who are training their own Pokémon. It is your objective to collect, train and become the very best (like no one ever has). You are first sent to Professor Oak who gives you and his nephew, your rival, the choice between three initial Pokémon. Your new rival will challenge you periodically throughout the game. As you go along your travels discovering Pokémon and honing your skills, you find out there is a trial versus the best trainers called the Elite Four. To face the Elite Four, you must battle the eight gym leaders and gain their badges. Through traveling to compete versus the gym leaders, to collect your badges, you face an evil force called Team Rocket. They use Pokémon for stealing, robbing and anything else they want. Once you beat the Elite Four, you have technically beaten the game but you can continue so you can collect all 150 Pokémon and complete any of the remaining side missions.
Player/Game Mechanics:
The main character is preteen boy whose goal is to become the best Pokémon trainer his world has ever seen. He must use Poké balls to capture new Pokémon and train them to become strong. It is a turn based game which means that every move must be picked and then you must wait till your opponent has gone, rinse and repeat. Every type of Pokémon has an advantage and disadvantage to other types of Pokémon. It makes it so that it is like rock, paper, scissors in the fact that you must train multiple Pokémon so you can beat different opponents, when they might have an advantage over one of your Pokémon.
Graphics/ Music:
The graphics are not that amazing but they really are not bad if you remember this game came out in 1996 on the original Gameboy. Some of the sprites can look a little funny and not really match the Pokémon’s image but once you start battling the Pokémon look pretty good in their green and red tints. I started playing with the sound and started remember some of the sounds from when I first played the game many years ago. Some of the sounds are amusing and fun to listen to but after playing for a few hours the repeating of the background music gets quite annoying. There is a volume button on the Gameboy for a reason and I just turned it down and only tuned into the music when I enjoyed it.
World:
The Pokémon world is made up of ten towns that your character must travel through. Between the towns there are routes, forests and even dungeons that player will encounter opponents and Pokémon. Within each town there are Poké Marts, Poké Centers and gyms. In the poke centers a player can get his Pokémon healed and take advantage of the pc in which he can store items or Pokémon. In the Poké Marts, a player can buy items that can help him along his journey. At the gym a player can battle the gym leaders and gain badges for his overall goal.
Game Session 1:
I have beaten Pokémon red before but it has been quite a few years since I have pulled out my Gameboy, so I decided that it was only appropriate to start fresh. I created a new game and was off into the world of Pokémon. I went straight to professor oak to get my first Pokémon and decided that I would start out with Bublasaur. My rival of course chose Charmander and the first battle started. I was able to defeat him, the NPCs like to use a few moves seem to do very little, giving my Pokémon plenty of time to beat his Pokémon down. After beating the rival I head out of Pallet town and onward on my adventure. On my way to Viridian City, I had to walk through the tall grass, which is where the Pokémon will attack. The first few fights were exciting and I knew that they would be no match for me. Taking more steps I start to remember some of the monotonous aspects of the game. To level you must fight players or wild Pokémon and these fights can happen often. Depending on the zone all you want to be able to do is keep running and never battle anyone. After arriving at Viridian City a NPC asks you to deliver items back to Professor Oak and once there you receive a Pokédex so you can keep track of all the Pokémon you encounter. You also obtain a town map that will help you figure out what direction you need to head in next. Now it is time to head over towards Pewter City to fight your first gym battle. The only way to get there is to go through Viridian City, Route 2 and then through Viridian Forest. It is smart to attempt to catch Pokémon and start to train them so you have different options while fighting enemies. Viridian Forest can be quite annoying since one faces a lot of poisonous creatures and since you are just starting out you will probably die a few times. Once you finally make it to Pewter City it is time to heal up your Pokémon and face the gym leader. The leader of this gym is Brock and his Pokémon are all of the rock type. This was an easy fight for me because I have a grass Pokémon and Vine Whip is very effective against rock Pokémon. Leaving the town you get to face your rival and he has leveled his Pokémon and gathered a few more. This fight I lost because I did not heal up my Pokémon before I left the city. After having a blackout, in which you are returned to the closest Poké Center, I decided to take a different route to the next city. On your way to Cerulean City you must pass through Mountain Moon. It is here where you first encounter team rocket and you begin your trails against them. Dungeons can be annoying to travel through, because Pokémon will attack you anywhere inside. Again like earlier depending on if you need to level up your Pokémon, it can be rather annoying to fight all the wild Pokémon.
Game Session 2:
A few days go by and I am able to pick up the Gameboy again. I finish making my way to Cerulean City and I make my way to heal up. At this point I’ve caught a Piggey, Rattata and bought myself a Magikarp. All healed and ready to go I head over to the gym to face Misty. Misty only trains water type Pokémon. I had no big advantages or disadvantages against water Pokémon so the fights were a little slow but I end up winning my badge. Before leaving town I like to explore all the buildings and I find a store that sells bike but they are way over priced and I can’t afford one. I wasn’t too disappointed because I remember that I could get a free one, I just kind of forgot since the last time I played when I would get it. While all my Pokémon are leveling nicely, Magikarp is leveling pretty slowly but that is because he doesn’t actually have an attack and all he can do is splash a target. I find on my way out of town that there is a day care where I can leave my Magikarp and he will slowly level as I’m away. I now begin my journey to Vermillion City. While there I’m able to get a bunch of goodies. I begin to explore the town, I see that the gym is blocked by a strange bush, I find a guy that gives me a fishing pole, I find the guy that gives me a bike voucher just by chatting with him about his Pokémon fan club, and lastly I board the S.S. Anne. There are a lot of trainers and items around the boat, I fight a few and get bored and start to avoid fights. As I make my way to the captain of the shit I have to face my rival again and of course win. Once reaching the captain he shares the HM 01, which is cut. Now with cut I figure I can manage to get past that strange tree in front of the gym. Once inside the gym you get to face Lt. Surge and his Pokémon type is Electric. Again it was like with the water Pokémon and it wasn’t anything to difficult. I head back to the previous town and got my free bike. Heading forward I now move a lot faster on my bike and travel time is now slightly less boring. I make my way towards Pewter City. The issue with getting to Pewter City is that there is a sleeping Pokémon in the pathway, so you must head into a tunnel to get to the town. If you train your Pokémon with flash you can see within the tunnel but I had to Pokémon available to teach flash to and I had to go in blind. I spent a good hour running around the different levels of the tunnel facing opens and wild Pokémon. I became really annoyed the longer I spent my time being lost within the cave. I blacked out a few times and had to start my journey over and over again but finally after a lot of running from wild Pokémon I find the exit. At this point I make it to the City save and turn the game off.
Overall:
Overall it was pretty fun replaying Pokémon Red after so many years. It was kind of annoying fighting many of the wild Pokémon and the trainers when they were under my Pokémon’s level. Gym battles and fighting your rival were more enjoyable though. I have become slightly addicted to Pokémon games again and I’ll probably keep my Gameboy in my book bag for any down time I encounter. I will make sure to go back into my closet and find my other Pokémon games and replay them.
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br264's Pokemon Red (GB)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Saturday 19 March, 2011
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