Little things you like about Pokémon

This all comes from a student's experience as crazy as it sounds but I want to get to the point.

Mirage spots in ORAS are, looking back at it...fucking awesome. I have no idea why I never appreciated them as much as they deserve despite praising how you get the Mythicals in the Switch games.

If these games had came out before the Internet, I'm confident Pokemon's popularity would have gone crazy. Let me elaborate: they are the perfect playground rumour.

Take the Lake Guardians for example. Relatively easy to bump into them. But you can only catch one depending on the time of day. Kids may figure that out. It wouldn't be that easy, at least for the ones who didn't play the Sinnoh games, but nothing crazy. What would be a way more difficult task would be finding Giratina, since it requires trading extremely rare Legendaries. Still, just think about how "playground rumor-y" it gets: 《you need to be friends with 3 Pokemon in your team, then you have to catch 3 special little elfs at different days of the week, then you get a cool dragon who controls time or space, and if you have the two dragons from both games a cooler spooky dragon appears!》

But it gets crazier. For Tornadus and Thundurus, you need to have Castform in your team. Who would do that!? (I mean as a kid I did try in RSE because the form changing was wild to me, but the novelty didn't last long and ORAS already has Megas) and Landorus is another Giratina situation.

But then we get to the crowning point, the peak. Needing a level 100 Pokemon for Reshiram or Zekrom. THAT'S LITERALLY A PLAYGROUND RUMOR FUELED BY CHILD WONDER!" Children were obsessed with level 100 Pokemon supposedly unlocking stuff even as late as in Gen 4 days. This time it would actually be true.

As an adult, I find the whole system archaic and needessly complicated, just as I did as a teenager. But trying to look at it from a child's eyes...it must have been so awesome to play ORAS blind, specially as your first game. All these mysterious, strange Pokemon with their own music themes and obscure ways of getting them. Sure, you can argue that, as always, GF was late to the party and most players didn't have this experience, but the idea of it being a possibility is amusing to me.
 
okay I know this one is kind of cheating but it's awesome so

do you remember Boomerang, that offshoot of Cartoon Network that showed their backlog?
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When they reran Pokemon in the 2000s, for whatever reason, they decided to go absolutely hard with the background music for the promos with some drum and bass going crazy as a total power move and it's like


GUYS IT WAS JUST POKEMON
 
R_N said:
I was thinking about it and I kind of like how this applies to the Pokemon themselves

Namely: they all kind of feel like weird dogs

In the anime, mangas and so on they trend to only be treated like animals if it services a logical demand (they're animals so obviously they all eat from dog bowls and often sleep on the floor even if they're a walking mime) or a plot demand (any time there's a wild Pokemon in need of care or they need to be more unknowable) and are otherwise treated like people. Which is fine. These are often central characters, so you need them to be more anthropomorphic. But the games uuuuusually trend towards treating them like really weird pets. Some are smart, some are less so.
So you get Pokopia which has all of them talk and they all feel like if slightly-smarter-dogs and cats could talk. They don't get anything that's going on, they like just hanging around dirt or a favorite item, they don't understand how anything works and even the smartest of the regular bunch can only remember how to create elevators can't tell you what anything it recognizes does or understand human speech or read. Tinkamaster is probably the most capable of the regular cast and most of that is built on being a critter that builds things as part of its nature and still has big gaps. The legends seem to be a tier above everyone else just in terms of how they speak & what they know, which also usually carries on from the games, but even then.

it's interesting!
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So I mentioned this before and stick by it but also I like speaking with the legendary Pokemon because most of them speak Eloquently Like Such As Befitting Their Station and then Raikou & Kyogre are speaking with ya'll, you hears and are one cowboy hat from maybe saying a yeehaw. (Volcanion similarly speaks casually but in a very "cranky (but endearing) old man" tone)

Ho-oh is probably my favorite, since it's too big to recruit properly so all its dialog is unique if you talk to it. It also speaks very politely but it also throws out lines like "I'd love to speak with everyone here, but the dearies are all scared of me!" Which aside from being a cute bit of flavor on its own I love that it throws out dearies. What a charming word for Ho-oh of all Pokemon to use.
 
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