Hey guys! Guess who's been playing Heart Gold over the weekend? And who's been recording my thoughts about it all that time(in a bullet-point form rarely seen outside of my anime episode commentaries)? Their raw, unedited conent will be pasted here as I feel like slogging through the forums to post them.
-For reasons unbeknownst to mankind, I have acquired Pokemon Heart Gold. In a language I cannot read. Exciting adventures await! I haven't read a whole lot of the info from the past few days(aside from front-page level news), so expect me to be more surprised at certain things than I should be.
-The intro credits are already supplying the appropriate "dun...dun...DUN"s.
-Why hi 3D Ho-oh. And silly revamped GSC characters. And...are those DISTINCT TR ADMINS? Well I'll be. (Team Galactic is still better)
-Now this is some pumped-up title screen stuff! The camera angle of Ho-oh even moves around!
-Oh right, Ho-oh has the same lousy garbly cry it's had since 2001 or whenever the hell GS first came out.
-Moon speak menus? When in doubt, pick the option with the exclaimation point.
-Priority 1:Find the "fast" text speed option once I'm allowed to delve into menus.
-For some reason you can only touch the corner of the touch screen to advance text, since of you being able to poke it ANYWHERE. Well, I'm not going to question it since I use the actual buttons for my dialog-advancement anyway.
-Whoa! Oak changed his clothes for the first time in 307 years!
-Why yes, that IS a Pokemon. Why isn't there an option to skip this stupid crap by now? I'VE SEEN IT ENOUGH SINCE RBY.
-I'm going to be a boy, because HGSS Chick looks weird. And she has terrible taste in hats.
-My name will be Jupu(in english letters, thank you!) so I can tell when people are talking about me.
-And now to BEGIN THE GAME.
-In the same old room you see twice in the entire game.
-I must be blind, for I cannot seem to find the "change text speed" menu in this touch screen menu. And there is no menu that pops up for any of the buttons.
-Hello...touch screen mailbox?
-Apparently you can use the A-analogue on the touch screen as a substitute for pressing A in *any* situation. I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, but you can.
-Mom decides to give me the gift of MENUS.
-Good to see we still have some saves that take FOREVER. Okay, this is only the FIRST save, but I do hate how this gen of games decided to make random saves take a minute longer just because you did something or other.
-Having returned to the game after stopping RIGHT WHEN I GOT THE ABILITY TO USE MENUS(hey, I wanted to get in my 3 minutes of Heart Gold before I had to run off somewhere, okay?)...ooh, the title screen menu is also touch-screen now. Kinda pointless since it starts on the option you usually want to pick, but whatever. Let's continue, eh? When we left off I...had just gotten menus! Yay! Now I have a BAG and a TRAINER CARD and a SAVE OPTION...and an OPTIONS MENU! Horray for fast text, the "set" battle style, and turning battle animations off! And customized text box borders. A few recycled ones(or ones that are basically recycled even though they're SLIGHTLY different), a few shiny new ones. I went with option 20, a nice
patterned blue border.
-You can sign your trainer card right from the trainer card screen now. Makes sense.
-Time to leave the house...and a Marril runs into me, giving Female MC an excuse to show up, but not talk to me. Whatever.
-The rival still shoves you away when you first talk to him. Yay!
-Hi lamest Pokemon Professor. Gimme my Pokemon so I can stop remembering you exist. PS:Your lab music sucks.
-I shall go with...TOTODILE! Its evo line rocks and it gives me an excuse to ignore Johto's pathetic excuses for water types. Totodile shall be named Liver, because I have suddenly decided to name the members of my team after bodily organs.
-And now I have a small crocodile following me. Wonderful. Now nobody will dare rob me as I go about my journeys!
-Elm? Seriously, shut up. SHUT UP. I just want to go out and kill things with my mini-crocodile, and your Japanese blabbering is holding me up.
-Liver's mood is:"..." Makes sense, I just stole it away from the only life it had known until now.
-Hey, there's an actual button to swap around skill order! Too bad the touch screen battle commands make the order of your attack list a non-issue.
-One of the aides gave me 5 potions before I left. Man, remember when you actually had to remember to look in your item box & talk to a guy representing the Pokemart to get your free start-of-the-game potions? Of course, there's not an item box anymore, is there? (they really should put that back in. Hell knows I don't need half the stuff in my medicine and main item pockets at any given time.)
-Hello Soul/Kotosomething/whatever. I see you are deigning to talk to me now that I have a Pokemon...oh, I apparently am supposed to know you? Whatever. At least you didn't drag me into a battle tutorial or capture tutorial or anything like that.
-Time to leave this dump...oh, what is it, lady? Do I have to tell Mommy I'm leaving? Fine. She had better have running shoes or something waiting for me.
-Pokegear. Pokegear is acceptable, although I swear you got it earlier in the original GSC.
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I CAN GIVE MY POKEGEAR A TEAM ROCKET SKIN. THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER. (other options include:The colors that the other gender player defaults to, some fancy design with a golden outline of a Pokeball surrounded by stars, a very Japanese looking skin, and some generic white/blue thing. All of them change the way the clock font looks as well as the various background colors. I wasn't expecting ANY option to change the Pokegear's colors, so...this is FANTASTIC news! Now I can be a girl in English HGSS without worrying about PINK POKEGEAR FOREVER.)
-Let's try leaving town again, with my criminal organization branded Pokegear in tow...ELM. SHUT UP. LET ME GO. Oh he...did...something? I dunno, I wasn't really paying attention, but I heard fanfare...ohhhh, he gave me his phone number. Riiiiight.
-Goddamn this game has the ugliest tall grass I've ever seen. Sure, it's more realistic in some ways, but damn is it UGLY.
-OH MAN WILD POKEMON BATTLE. AGAINST:SENTRET! Its new sprite receives an "E" for "Eh".
-I am loving the aesthetics of the various battle screen elements. They're so...sleek.
-Pidgey. Not even the HGSS remakes can make Johto not terribly watered down by too much Kanto. Also its new sprite is kinda blah. I think they gave it too fat of a head. And its pose is the opposite of interesting. Yes, I will be critiqueing most of the new sprites like this. Until I get bored with it, anyway.
-I sorely want the running shoes already. Or the bike. The bike would be nice.
-The berry tree won't let me pick it? What?
-Yawn, Cherrygrove. Old man forcing me to take the tour(I distinctly remember that being optional in GSC!), and...giving me running shoes! Okay, I'll stop whining about you now, old man.
-Jeez, even the yes/no menu for the Pokecenter is on the touch screen.
-All healed up, so let's get out of town...WHAT IS IT NOW, OLD MAN? >( ...I apparently got a phone number from him? Well, okay then!
-Yeah, I'm basically never going to toggle the running shoes off. Ever. Not sure what the point of them is now that you could go that speed ALL THE TIME without any effort, but heeeeey.
-Another potion just lying on the ground. It's not in a spot where there was a potion in GSC, either.
-Apparently the guy who USED to just give you a Berry in GSC now gives you whatever you need to pick berry trees...oh, these are APRICORNS, aren't they? Huh. Didn't expect to see any this early.
-The kids blocking the path to Violet at first are now clearly pitting Rattata against Pidgey. Details!
-Rattata looks eh. The early route fodders' new sprites are all looking pretty lame, to be honest.
-Liver is now Lv.6! Hurrah! And...did it learn water gun already? By gum, it did!
-Hoothoot isn't anything special. Strangely I didn't hear a cry from the one I found...or was I just not paying attention? >>
-Liver's Lv.7 already. They level up so quickly when they're young. *sniff*
I had even more written, but I figure that posting too much at once will make you commit suicide. I'll be taking HG at a slow-ish pace anyway, since I do have classes and crap I should be more concerned with right now.
