Dragon Quill

Well, let’s explore Lilycove before committing. (more…)

Well, time to head into Magma’s very secret base that they told me about. (more…)

So, I beat Magma with only two of my team fainted. Time to chase them! That’s my god monster, after all. (more…)

Time to set off! By the way, I really love the mangrove sort of trees the designers put in the shallow water areas. The water routes of Hoenn were way too huge and frustrating to fully comb through, but they’ve always been gorgeous.

Okay, diving time! (more…)

Right then, into the cave! The cave that turns out to defy physics, as exiting from one of the rooms of impossibly twisty currents midway in somehow puts you in front of the entrance to the cave and makes you walk back to try again. (more…)

No sooner do the Team-people head off than Steven flies over.

Lucki!
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Right. So – Sootopolis! It’s lovely looking.

Lucki! says Steven. He’s standing next to who osmosis tells me is Wallace. In fanfic, they are boyfriends more often than not. So you did come…

…why would that surprise you?

I have been waiting for you. … What terrible heat…

I’m a little unimpressed, actually. I mean, having it vaporize water attacks is all well and good, but I thought I remembered that first set of games, they actually had the water recede a little and I haven’t noticed that here. (more…)

Groudon is said to be the personification of the land itself. Legends tell of its many clashes against Kyogre, as each sought to gain the power of nature.


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Last time, I captured Groudon with a masterball and all of you forgot that I still have the QR code exploit so I can just get more if I really need to. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Never updating, Nintendo! Never updating ever! (more…)

Alright, to the pokemon league! (more…)

It is said that through meditation, Medicham heightens energy inside its body and sharpens its sixth sense. This Pokemon hides its presence by merging itself with fields and mountains.

Well, you didn’t do so great given hidden pokemon are actually more noticeable than regular ones. Hm. Hidden really is a bad term in general, isn’t it? It’s more like “distracted pokemon”.

Onwards! (more…)

So. My only surviving pokemon are Flare with twenty HP and Irin with one, but I’ve made it to the elitest of the elite!

Now to turn around and go buy some herbs, because we’re still doing the thing where the best healing items in the games are relegated to some random corner of the map and not the place next to your ultimate fight.

I think I’ll play through with my intended team, then if I lose I’ll pull out Groudon in a rage. I sacrifice my sceptile for this…and come to think of it, I think I’ve always been pretty unimpressed with my starters this region. I wrecked my swampert sticking HMs all over it, and I raised up my blaziken to evolution and then forgot it while evolving other pokemon. My sceptile actually seems pretty cool, so I’d take it, but, perfect Lucki team! Plus unless I kick off Saurius I’ll have two grass types.

L48 Silver
L41 Raiden
L44 Saurius
L46 Irin
L41 Flare
L47 DESTROYER OF LIFE

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So, when last we left off, it was time to charge back into the fray. Things went really well from the very start, with Saurius picking up two swaggers and proceeding to sweep the whole battle. Knowing what to expect, I keep Silver around to icebeam the flygons, and make it to Steven. My other pokemon do a little, and then, it’s Groudon time. One earthquake finishes the armaldo off. Steven sends out his L57 aggron. It endures my lava plume, however, and manages to strike back with an earthquake that halves Groudon’s HP. He then heals his aggeron and it’s brough back to 1 HP by the next earthquake, and his next turn he swaps for a L57 claydol. Lava plume halves its HP while it blows the turn on reflect, and a second lava plume removes it for good. He sends out the nearly dead aggron again. Mercilessly, I order another lava plume.

Metagross. L59.

Steven has a mega stickpin apparently, and the metagross mega evolves. A split second later, lava plume hits and it faints.

So I, the champion, fall in defeat…

It sure was anticlimactic, wasn’t it.

Know what’s more anticlimactic? (more…)

Last time, I beat Steven and there were cutscenes and end credits and Brendan challenged me to a battle but it was super late so I closed the 3DS instead.

Anyway, let’s jump back in time a minute:

Welcome back, Lucki. I just, uh, you know… We set out on this journey together, right? So maybe we should finish it together, too. D-don’t go trying to read anything into it, though! Now, come on! We’re going home! Back to Littleroot Town!

to compare that to May’s dialogue:

Welcome back, Name. I just thought, you know, that since we were both here and all…that I’d wait for you. We set out on this journey together, right? So maybe we should finish it together, too. Hee hee… So…come on! Let’s go back home! Back to Littleroot Town!

I think it’s simply that waiting for someone is submissive and therefore it’s super embarrassing for Brendan to find himself doing it, while for May it’s the glorious culmination of all her feminine dreams.

I do see what was intended here, but it’s just screwed up by how awful Brendan is and has been. I felt a lot more invested in Wally but the game wanted him to be the big surprise so he’s not around for most of it. Give Brendan’s stuff to Wally and I’d probably have liked the whole thing a lot more. (more…)

Delta time!

I have Lucki check out her room, where I find she still has only two adventure rules in her journal and all that. I head downstairs. (more…)