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In transitioning from GSC to HGSS they also added two levels to everything on Lance's team other than his level 50 Dragonite...while they kept the levels static for every other Johto Elite Four member. It's just amazing to me that they looked at that fight and thought to themselves that was a...

This is the only one that's a little surprising from your post. I would've thought B tier. By running Gliscor you're already planning to invest the Earthquake TM, and it might be the best candidate for it in the game aside from Garchomp. Plus Faint Attack right before Fantina, Razor Fang &...

We can agree to disagree on the OoT vs. Platinum thing because it's just circling the drain at this point. But this point I actually agree with and is supported well by your subsequent post (assuming the 80% is an exaggeration obviously). I made a similar point years ago that Gen 5 seemed to...

The DP point is a bit of a red herring for reasons I've already covered, so refocusing on Platinum - There's obviously a difference between "comparing" and analogizing as I was in this post. Zelda as a video game franchise is in a different class compared to Pokemon. The former has produced...

Yeah, credit where credit is due. Even Ruby & Sapphire were quite fluid for being on a new hardware. I thought those were remarkably well made games for their time actually and set a good foundation for Emerald to build upon. Unlike Diamond & Pearl, which is the first time I thought the series...

This is why I like this forum. Because it challenges and lends perspective to my pre-conceived notions. I wrote here about my criteria for judging Pokemon games. But I forgot about one - technical prowess. And this is unfortunately where Platinum falters. As a Zelda fan too, the OoT analogies...

As a Platinum fan, this is an excellent post. It almost makes Platinum's case as much as it detracts from it (the map design is explained brilliantly well). Not much else to say other than I appreciate this balanced, comprehensive critique of my favorite game in the series.

Appreciate the response, I'll expand on what I can. I'll preface this by saying - I'm not a fan of the Sinnoh games, I'm a fan of Platinum very specifically. The original DP might be my least favorite game(s) in the series with a host of problems ranging from AI, to regional dex, to art style...

My top 6 Pokemon games in order are: 1. Platinum 2. BW2 3. HGSS 4. BW 5. Emerald 6. FRLG 6 is pretty firmly FRLG. 2-5 are a bit more fluid. But 1 has been for a while and probably always will be Platinum. It just has great bones to it. It's first or second in the series in all the following...

This commercial is brilliant. To be honest Pokemon does appeal to me largely due to nostalgia, which sometimes undeservedly gets a bad connotation. But the truth is as a full grown adult, I don't play video games that necessarily appeal to adults only because as an adult I just have too many...

Shout out to Lance's Dragonites in GSC trying to whirl you away with their mighty Twisters. Headbutt absolutely would be more powerful (hell even Swift). The Johto games consistently produce some of the worst boss fights in the series to me, mainly due to poor Pokemon selection and moveset...

I agree with N probably being the most interesting part of BW1's story in concept, but badly botched in execution for the reasons you cited. Your proposed execution is a good thought as well. The more I think of it, the more I think BW1's story is astoundingly overrated to me (my unpopular...

You bring up some interesting points, a lot of them boiling down to essentially judging a "good" level curve through the lens of a casual Pokemon gamer. However, I'd actually view this question in almost the opposite way. Most if not all Pokemon games are quite simple to work your way through...

Topic is in the title. Too lazy to find screenshots but I'll nominate three: 1. Platinum Cyrus Distortion World - Just a gorgeous deep blue against the cracked red ground of the platforms. Perfectly fits the atmosphere along with his foreboding theme and menacing team. Aesthetically perfect...

Previously I wrote about Elekid, who from changing its availability to before the fifth gym instead of the eighth, vaults it at least two tiers in my opinion, possibly even three. Now let's take another Platinum example where I don't quite see that happening. Take this statement in Snorunt's...

Yeah, it's the main reason I prefer the Gen 4 Frontier to the Gen 3 one actually. The Silver Prints feel a little less gate kept than the Silver Symbols, which can feel oppressively difficult to get in a casual run.

Generally, Emerald's gym battles and Platinum's villain and elite four + champion battles were some of my favorite in the series, due to their reasonable challenge and solid design. However, I'll provide a couple that haven't been stated yet. Barry's last battle in Platinum - a nice capstone to...

Fair on both. Though the latter group of moves still speaks to the overall point of Gen 4 introducing 70-100 BP moves to shore up types which lacked viable, consistent attacking options - now across the physical & special spectrum. I don't think QuentinQuonce's point was super stringently about...

Not this, but not even mentioning: Aura Sphere, Dragon Pulse, Seed Bomb, Energy Ball, Signal Beam, Shadow Claw, and Psycho Cut. And breathing life into the elemental punches and Waterfall as the physical variants of their specially inclined elemental counterparts. Gen 4 hit a sweet spot for me...

Experience and stats feel like two numerical systems within Pokemon that are flawed due to their overall saturated execution. Experience doesn't need separate groups to denote a Pokemon's "legendaryness" or lack there of. This can, and already is, handled through other ways like late evolution...