UPDATE 03: Real Interpol Agents Don’t Tell Every Preteen They’re Agents
Where last we left off our young hero needed to actually tell his mom that he was going on an adventure that would probably involve crossing the entire region.
Gotta say that I am a fan of Anorith’s big compound looking everywhere eyes.
But there’s only so long that the plot can be put off.
(Dawn doesn’t let you go any further to the next town if you haven’t spoken to mom yet.)
Yay!
“Well…
“RowangavemeabunchofnewPokemonsothisisCastelliaandAnomaloandSidandDoguandReinaandInamedtheMareepWilhelminaandthenhegavemeaPokedexandaskedmetotraveleverywhereinSinnohtoseePokemonandhelphimoutinreturnforthesePokemonsoImightbegoneforawhile.”
Hooray for support.
I liked this feature of Gen IV. Not so much seeing random battles but it was nice coming back to the game and seeing the game acknowledge you beat a Gym.
Read: Now that mom doesn’t have to take care of us any more that means no more watching Contests on TV. She’s getting her Kangaskhan back and Fantina is going to be eating dirt by the time mom finishes terrorizing the Contest circuit.
What’s this? Has Barry gone missing?
Of course Barry wouldn’t stop for dinner when there’s adventure on the line.
“ I will?”
“ The glare that I can feel piercing my spine tells me that I will.”
It’s been a weird couple of days, internet.
Dawn does the catching tutorial here, despite the fact that you could already have caught Pokemon by now.
There’s really not much to this early route except me trying to drag my team out of the start. Might as well be trying to get any XP on Sid now before Wrap rapidly reduces in effectiveness in approximately… one level. It’s mostly boring except for…
THE ULTIMATE BAGWORM BATTLE!
CASTELLIA SHALL RULE THIS MORTAL WORLD FROM INSIDE HER INPENETRABLE FORTRESS!
Ahem.
Upon our hero’s entry into Jubilife, Dawn feels the need to remind him how new he still is at this.
Thanks Dawn.
But on their way to make Spamigo feel worse, they run into someone darting between streetlamps!
I choose to imagine it’s like all those times in Yakuza 0 when Majima’s leaning out from behind a lamppost like he’s totally hidden.
You heard me.
I’m pretty there’s no rule that says you have to tell everyone that you’re a member of Interpol if they ask you. Or catch you. Or look at you.
When you think about it, it does sound like a superpower when you start talking about how you can sense photons being reflected off of objects and thus learn their position and distance.
Looker also makes me laugh so you get extra Looker.
Oh come on this isn’t Kanto where some mob boss gets a cushy Gym position to protect himself while having an army of goons out stealing Pokemon until all his goons and himself are beaten by a girl with a walrus.
Probably my second-most favorite text box in the game.
Inside the game continues to heap guilt upon me for losing the babby’s first rival battle.
Anyway the thing that Barry’s Mom wanted us to deliver was a map and in grand Pokemon tradition there are two maps so you both get one. Now that he knows vaguely where it is, Barry yells about how he’s going to go challenge the first Gym.
Some people luck into getting a random starter that at level 5 already knows a STAB move that’s supereffective against the rival’s. Some lose. Both are fine. So I keep telling myself.
Also there’s clowns that ask you basic questions so you can get the Poketch, a.k.a. “That thing that we use the bottom screen for.”
Oh, don’t mind my friend Chekov over there setting his gun on the mantle.
Well that’s not so bad. That’s like what, two squares? I already walked like five squares just to get here. I guess we can go see what this Gym challenge thing is all about.
Would you walk everywhere in the Pokemon world? I’ll be honest, if I could set a lawn chair on the back of a Torterra and cruise along I probably would.
NEXT TIME: Nobody calls him that.