Or, to quote one sore loser I vanquished not so long ago: smell ya later! New gaming shores await! As for blogging, I'll be cut from internet during the next two weeks, so don't worry if you don't hear a peep from me. And with that, dear fellow gamers, the 2019 Pokemon Summer Season comes to an end.

I'm now itching to replay the Gen I remakes with Squirtle and see if he falls perfectly in the middle. Not only is his design top-notch and totally cohesive with his slow growth, but said slow growth also perfectly complements Charmander's lightning fast one. Oh, well.Īt any rate, I'm now done with the Kanto Starters, and I understand better Bulbasaur's enduring popularity. Was that part always that irritating? I guess it was, although I failed to remember it. First, I was forced to cross the darn tedious Pokemon Mansion before I was allowed to tackle the Fire Gym then, before I could Fly back to the mainland and the next Gym as I planned, I was kidnapped by Bill and sent on a unskippable fetch quest while he chilled out with Celio. What had failed to imprint in my memory, on the other hand, was the annoying segment on the south islands. Since I'm mentioning Kanto, that region was even more impossibly grindy than in my memories - which, as you may imagine, totally delighted me and soon put me in the sweetest trance.

Venusaur moves fire red