Less “broke into” and more “walked into”. Seriously, a switch? You can’t have like a number pad or something? Or even a guard that doesn’t pick a fight, then walk off after losing?
Why would you do that.
…actually, yeah, I guess just casually wandering around and then trying to walk right past him probably does fit the bill there.
Curse you, door!
Man, if only there’d been one of these up top I’d never even have found the place.
Team Rocket are to guards as stormtroopers are to shooting.
For some reason, half of the basement floors are taken up with these arrow puzzles. Step on one, and you’re spun around as you shoot off in that direction until you hit an arrow going a different way or a stopper pad. I loved these puzzles, although playing it now it’s pretty easy.
Why are there random items lying around? Either to entice trainers in, knowing they’ve been trained to assume puzzle dungeons have cool stuff and figuring it’s a good way to distract them from the actual beating up Team Rocket thing, or because the poor grunts who go in there for whatever reason get dizzy and drop stuff.
Huh, that’s convenient. Why do you guys want it?
See, that’s hardly “a basement”. Lots of places have “a basement”. Few places have a four level dungeon with puzzles.
This sort of thing is the only sign you get that Team Rocket has any level of competence. Sure, apparently guys just stand around after you beat them, but somehow they’re sending a message along.
They really need to look into hiring mutes.
Honestly, just because it was open and I like wandering around. But while I was down here it seems you guys seem to have the McGuffin I need to wander around some other place, so I guess that’s a reason too. Plus you’re like little experience point pinatas!
Yup, really sure now that raticate’s minimum level was changed.
Always found this odd when I played, because just because I won didn’t mean they needed to tell me anything. But since the character does talk, I just can’t see it, it makes sense for this to be a response to something he said, in which case wow, he’s intimidating grown criminals.
Has anyone ever written a novelization that was just trying to make sense of canon? I’m starting to want to read about the adventures of Blue the psycho tot.
Another pokemon that manages to learn an attack post-evolution. Maybe the butterfree and beedrill lines were coded first, before they figured out how to do this, and no one thought to fix it?
One of the things that disappoints me about fic is how no one writes stories taking into account the various statements we get about how only certain people can handle some pokemon.
Anyway, now that I have the pokedex entry done I’m kicking it off my team again.
So, looks like I’ve figured out what question I should be asking. Look upon my restraint – the man still lives after failing to answer me, despite my mighty power.
The moral of all this is to put your faith in machines, not people. People are dumb, they challenge children to battles they’ll inevitably lose. Machines don’t have pokemon, so they can’t lose pokemon battles. They stop heroes in their tracks.
More Japanese villains should consider this kind of thing. If you want to beat someone, don’t challenge him to a children’s card game! Invest in poison.
I’m not meddling in your affairs! You’re meddling in mine! I just want to catch a gastly and complete the next plot point in the hopes it makes those dumb pokemon get off the path already!
And here’s a rattata that hasn’t evolved. Weird. This guy probably gets made fun of by all the other grunts.
Why’d he steal it anyway? I never really thought about it back then, although now I’m guessing it has something to do with what they’re doing in Lavender. But still, he’s a LEGITIMATE BUSINESSMAN, right? Couldn’t he have just bought it?
Locked door, unique sprite, final floor. Hm…
The correct answer was “Oh yeah, that thing’s broken, sorry.”
I get the impression some of them take a secret delight in this. Giovanni probably doesn’t pay very well.
And then he just stands there, staring at the “accidentally dropped” key.
And now I can use the elevator, which, because Giovanni doesn’t understand what safety regulations are for, is the only way to reach the chunk of the fourth floor he has his office in.
First, let’s check out the first floor.
Again the preteen powerhouse is stopped by the locked door.
“Oh no! You could just walk out and I wouldn’t be able to do anything! How could this have happened! I sure hope you don’t take this chance to go away, scary little kid with angry pokemon!”
People actually looking like they’re guarding something! I’ll leave them be for now.
There’s a lot of stuff like this just sitting around. I guess this means that they’re augmenting their pokemon with vitamins, but if they’re doing that, why don’t they just get better pokemon?
These guys may look sharp but they don’t pay any attention unless you talk to them.
I…did? You guys kept attacking me, as I recall. Maybe if you weren’t so dumb nothing would have happened.
As much as I enjoy being told I’ve accomplished something, the Mt. Moon thing was always kind of vague. I suppose this gets back to the way they keep trying to say people move on even though we see them just standing there forever. Maybe because I beat them, they had to leave to heal their pokemon and got caught.
Doesn’t it look freaky?
No, you guys are the best team!
Although sometimes you’re just weird.
Wow that’s a lot of attack.
I always thought arbok looked cool, although its body is all weird and lumpy.
I think he cares less about the losing and more about why you opened the door. He wasn’t expecting you guys to stop me, he was expecting the door to do it!
Not too injured. I’ve taken him on in worse condition.
Uh…hello?
You need to invest more in pokemon. I guess you’re selling all the good stuff and trust me, it really shows. If your guys had some decent pokemon, I’d still have won obviously but it’d have taken longer, at least.
Another way that the game is easier if you avoid picking a charmander.
Whether or not he’s a challenge really boils down to whether or not you’re set up to deal with rock pokemon, as they tend to be either extremely difficult or absurdly easy.
His kangaskhan is pretty tough, though.
It knows comet punch, which functions the same as the other multi-hit moves, but comes off as impressive because kangaskhan have good attack, particularly at this stage of the game when a lot of your pokemon aren’t fully evolved.
Pin missile! That’s why I raised a jolteon! I’d forgotten about that. See, jolteon also learn pin missile, which is a bug type move, and everyone was always trying to find a bug move to defeat the other guy’s mewtwo.
Pin missile has the distinction of having the lowest power of any of the multi-hit moves, because they really hated bug pokemon.
Speaking of that, this is the second to last move beedrill learn, and the last direct attacking move. All that’s left is the useless agility – beedrill is already speedy, and it’s so fragile it really can’t afford to set up any stat modifiers anyway.
Inconceivable!
He either means he wants to kick my ass when we meet again or that he hopes to try to hire me when I’m older and more interested in his usual offer of hookers and blow.
Why’d he leave it? I guess he overestimates my competence and figures I’d just chase him down, but I don’t see why the game doesn’t have him hand it to me. This would make more sense if it was on the table and I just couldn’t reach it with him in the way, but as it is he presumably already had it safely in a pocket.
He’s gone, buddy.