Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 day agoI’m planning to do something similar where I just trade them up game by game. So I take my Gen 3 Living Dex over to Gen 4, then add Gen 4 into that metaphorical “pool”. Then go to Gen 5, once I get to Gen 6 though I think I’m done with a living Dex because that’s kind of all I need to fill out Pokemon Home. Anything niche I’m missing I’m sure I can catch.
I’m with you on Pearl (or, well, in my case platinum). I love gen 4 but I can only play it once, with a second play through being hard to stomach.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 day ago
I have never played platinum, but from what I gathered it is significantly improved compared to Pearl/Diamond. Those are really painful to play.
They’re really clunky and repetitve, but the worst part is mon distribution. There are barely any fire types in the games, to the point the Fire-Type elite 4 has only 2 in his 5 mon team. And one of them is the evolved fire starter. There is literally no other fire type obtainable at that point.
They decided to keep most of the diversity in the post game (lots of old species that get a new evolution mostly) so until you get there it feels like you’re meeting the same twenty different pokémon over and over again.
Bonus : Diamond has one dark-type easily accessible before psychic gym (which is already well into the game). Pearl doesn’t. Its only dark-type comes in very late game. It’s like nobody checked these games’ balance.
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Now that you point out the balance i can really see it. It never really occurred to me, especially the lack of fire types