Gaming!
This covers GAMEPLAY thoughts only. If you want the days out or the actual story supercut then they're on seperate pages.
I had been playing on/off again but only really thought to myself "hey maybe I could get more characterization for certain characters by playing the gacha instead of going "my headcanons...""
I have Sync Suit Green/Blue on my JP account so naturally I had to get Red
I have Green/Blue and Red on my ENG account so I get sync suit Leaf to make up for it
Note: this was before I randomly yolo summoned base leaf on my alt
Said I’d do this, recall? I’ll make a page for it too once I have enough photos.
In total, main story has 30 chapters, villain arc has 10, legendary adventures is its own thing with 8 chapters, and mysterious stone story is still going. My main priority is the main story and its lore for pokemon, not so much characters outside of a few. I don’t know how this gameplay works. I am just hitting things.
The story so far is basically just “okay everyone, let’s get people for the tournament! That Lear’s a real shithead.” He kind of reminds me of like, the Digimon emperor from 02. Apparently canonically Red beat up Lear (in a battle) and Lear got so mad he wanted a salty run back but Red so far hasn’t given a single shit and is too busy doing jackshit on the island, showing up to troll his rival, and beating everyone up like a chaotic force of nature. So you know, typical Red behavior. Maybe what I’m looking for is in the events or villain arc or something. I haven’t seen anything yet but I might rewatch earlier ones after I get further in or since I’m only on chapter 7 I could spare a few rewatches or use my other account to refresh and see if there’s anything noteworthy. I’ll likely just end up summarizing every chapter as I go. I mostly spent session 1 doing “day with” stories on my ENG and JP account with characters I had btwn accounts. The game doesn’t really expect you to know who everyone is so it’s more or less just like you’re a newbie trainer and everyone wants to be on your team because… gacha game. Honestly this is more or less just a game where you’re getting their phone numbers for the tournament.
At the end of Lt.surge’s day out you blow up. In the JP dub he has English phrases. I had no clue how the Evo shards worked until I saw it was in the same side area thing.
I am now forcibly hanging out with Will because his bird saw us have a future together. Dude really said “I need you”, take me out to lunch first man.
Jasmine has the phrase of “Clang!” Also, she polishes her pokemon to be all shiny and stuff.
Noland fist fought his Pinsir.
Brendan has dad problems.
It’s so bizzare seeing a normal Brendan and his dad relationship after recently reading the Pokespe RS chapter where Norman fights his son with dramatic lightning and rain
and then is like "you could've just TOLD me you were leaving, I am in support of you doing contests and stuff and I will love you even if you are different but you should've called your mom"
and then it turns out his son is straight and then Norman also dies. He comes back though.
Brawly taught his pokemon to surf. Everyone really likes raising the protagonist, huh, like I am the unbreakable fighting spirit calm cool collected person and meanwhile I’m like “thanks I guess.”
Oh, Brawly and Bruno are interacting, which is cool. (Thinking about the RS chapter again where Brawly was buddies with Bruno. Turns out that him and Bruno have trained together in game but no clue when that’s said unless it was NPC dialogue or rematch exclusive. ) he said bodacious.
Ran out of evolution stones for Hoenn though, tried getting more at the shop and left confused. That’s a lot of random junk to parse through…. I guess I’ll have to return to people who need evolutions later. I’ll label those with the filter.
Somehow the red leaf siblings thing got even more rooted into my brain as leaf is basically
with red at all times and my headcanon is twins but the pokemas interpretation reads to me
like a younger sister hanging out with her older brother and being semi-jealous of all his feats
while she says “I’m gonna catch up!”
She is the potential girl (deragatory) of Kanto, if and when but never is.
(others following this logic would be yellow pokespe since she hasn't done anything noteworthy since emerald and Koharu of Journeys based on what little I know about her.)
Girl, you need a rival or mayhaps an enemy that is not green or red. I would’ve suggested Misty but she is hanging out with Brock so uh, Erika. And her personality which I previously mentioned in the headcanons page as me not knowing it because I didn’t want to play another gacha game.
Well, she is nice.
Anything else?
She likes pokemon.
It kinda looks like she does the hat brim thing red does or maybe I just screenshotted at the wrong time.
I also looked at some of her hangout events. She uh. Really likes flower picking. It’s kinda funny that I wrote life’s a gift in like 2022 but somehow managed to align
lea’s logic with leaf’s logic on evolving eevee (but my in game logic was that I couldn’t figure out what to evolve eevee into since I had no need for Flareon by the time
I got to e4 so I took advantage of the fact eevee wouldn’t be able to be hit by Agatha’s ghost types.)
I looked at her lodge pairing stuff and it’s mostly harmless personality traits I could add where her best 10 point things are like, adventure, flowers,
nature, bustling places, bags, sporty clothes, fame checkers, love for pokemon, grass and normal types, there’s a mention of misty, and …pewter crunchies?
Apparently in the lodge conversation in other translations Blue/Green/Rival mentions that Leaf was seen sniffing her pokemon.
I guess grass pokemon smell pretty nice. Zero comment on the Blue/Leaf/Green/Unused Girl debacle because I feel like Masters is implying they’re the same girl
but not giving her the same name which raises more questions than it answers.
I’m being fairly neutral on this to be honest. I mean,
follow my child logic for the red leaf sibling thing for a minute.
First game was emerald, Brendan and May were established as both players and
also simultaneously existed at the same time no matter what gender you picked in a story role.
Therefore, in my mind, all the player characters existed at the same time and had to have some level of connection and this was not contradicted when my next game was
Diamond, and then Black, which also featured the other protag in a role even if it was minor.
So when I bought leafgreen and opened the manual which you can see on the manual page, I thought “oh, these two kids are siblings, because they kind of look similar.”
The idea kind of died in my head when I was online and saw that people didn’t really think the same way as me but it kinda resurfaced in my mind during my headcanon
brainstorming session. I think the chronological order of things must’ve been my siblings hand me down VHS tapes with some anime episodes, hand me down Emerald,
Best Buy leafgreen, and then Pokespe Yellow which meant I had the most confusing interaction of Red as the character and concept because the next time
I had any pokemon related content was brawl, which had Red labeled as Pokemon Trainer, so it must’ve been pretty weird but there’s no shot I’m remembering it right since I was
7… maybe it’s in a diary entry somewhere. But I also stopped keeping diaries after my sibling started reading them out
loud to snitch on me, which might be a contributing factor to my trust issues. Doesn’t stop me from now venting online i guess lol.
It won't be the case for everything I write though and it's definitely not the case for like canon interactions but I'm probably reading it with the wrong lens. If I write about them though, I'll specify which particular headcanon I'm going with (usually if there's a particular guy named Fire, then chances are that I'm going with the siblings thing. Yeah, sorry, I have a seperate headcanon where there are two distinct versions of Red in spite of the fact they're the same person.
It started through a timeline thing and then kinda turned into it's own thing.)
Personally I think the concept of a pokemon protag who has a sibling is interesting, but only rangers 2 has ever done that
Unfortunately this runs the issue of “I need to make sure that I mention every single time which AU I’m going
with if my headcanon siblings are siblings in it or not because I use the names of characters interchangeably between
the Red and Fire and Blue and Leaf designs and the headcanon doesn’t apply to every single fic I write and if I don’t specify there will be problems for ME keeping track of who’s who”
This runs another issue of something like cross canon where I have to specify in my notes like “That’s Origins Red talking to Y2K Leaf, if she calls him Fire she has to explain that and Leaf doesn’t exist in the files verse since she’s Blue but Origins Red hasn’t met Blue yet” and my notes are full of stuff like that because the multiverse is a confusing concept by itself and I only make it worse for myself.
Hey, check this out. In Japanese Fire Red and Leaf Green you have a famicom instead of a NES.
Writing oak has been difficult for me in some areas because he’s a quirked up grandpa in the anime,
a neglectful grandfather in gen 1 depending on how you read it, and most fics and fangames
tend to swing moral pendulums of “he’s the best!” Or “he’s the worst and sucks so bad.”
So the hanging out with Oak episode where he just finds mew is kinda crazy.
He seems to be more of the quirked up grandpa type in this game.
I really wish there was a back button in this game so I don’t have to rewatch entire bits of dialogue
if I see something I accidentally press over.
FGO let’s you reread messages with the log…
Green was just hanging out casually with Agatha which also ties into my other theory that Oak and Agatha divorced/had a terrible break up but Agatha still hangs out with her grandkids.
I still think it’s kinda messed up that people started referring to Green as the phantom champion after
losing to Red, like, way to rub salt into the wound. He didn’t even last long enough to be registered in the hall of fame unless thats a fanon thing I picked up again.
They really do NOT want you saying starter pokemon, the amount of times I’ve seen partner is kinda crazy. I like how sync pairs and partners sounds like a serious thing but in JP they’re just called buddies and sync suits are called costumes…. I also read through the new UB event and Elio and Selene also carry sibling energy to me. I think they need to not have player characters have hair colors that are so similar to each other and/or let them exist in the story proper so that way people don’t go crazy with their headcanons like I did for Leaf. Oh well, guess that’s what happens when you basically neglect characters for years and then bring them back into a Gacha game. The event also seems to hard confirm to me that USUM is the canon one because there’s no way that they’d be like “UBs can be our friends” after witnessing Lusamine attempt to harm them by fusing with Nihilego.
Also did the Arven N event.
Is that roger Craig smith as arven or just a guy who sounds like his sonic
You know arven is right to be terrified, some dude just brought out a whole lightning dragon.
N has zero sense of social skills whatsoever which you know, makes sense because of the plot of BW but boy howdy is it awkward to watch but then it just gets funny as hell when he starts getting chased down
Sometimes I think about that old concept art of N because he’s got a lot of those.
Yo, Hilbert is a short king.
They do have reruns but in a seperate spot…? Weird? Okay. No event compendium though… that sucks. I wonder how often reruns happen.
Basically the whole time my amount of work for pokemasters lore is probably just taking screenshots of dialogue and cropping and going "Green (Rival/Blue) I love you so
much you are incredible don't let the haters get you down. Hi red."
Whenever he says something. The summon rates are so bad I feel like I’m going to have to look at people’s YouTube videos for other outfits and units to see if there’s anything interesting.
I still want a Bill unit in the game. Quite frankly my dream Pokemas would probably be a bunch of impossible picks like , Spinoff guys (ranger characters, conquest characters, anyone from pokemon duel, mangas) or joke units like Lord Helix but they’d never go for that kind of acknowledgement of fan content lest they open up a bizzare Pandora’s box. And deep cuts like that are unnecessary when they’d make far less money when you could just shove a more popular character into another costume.
For the hangout event supercuts, check this link:Days Out
For the story supercut, check This Link: Story Mode
They're asking Grant why he has rocks in his hair
He just does?
In pokemon, having an interest in something gives you powers.
