Finished the main quest arc of Pokemon Coliseum - it's a remarkable FF VII knockoff, same protagonists/locations/events. The game felt clumsy and rushed in places, particularly the last parts. The music and scenery are much more influenced by Japanese gestalts than the main series games.
The game is interesting for its very conventional social/sexual roles - it is one of a very few Pokemon games with only a male protagonist; the female protagonist does nothing but literally follow you the player around the entire game. This is often obnoxious since she has collision and there are a lot of narrow corridors. The main antagonists include: a ghetto rapper (definitely one of the funniest villains ever I'd say); a Sephiroth knockoff with a male hourglass figure; a female ghetto idol; an ambiguously lesbian couple; and a Dr. Robotnik clone. Most of the supernumerary characters fit surprisingly conventional roles (flirting with the protagonist etc).
It's important to note that Japanese people consider silliness an antiheroic quality - they make the antagonists buffoons for good reason.
I guess it just seems weird after every game lately is filled with supergirls and PC characters. The game is interesting, at any rate; it's pathetic how even a FFVII knockoff suddenly seems super-original and interesting compared to the bland sewage that passes for gaming these days.
So, with Coliseum cleared, now working my way through Emerald while semi-afking IoC to level my freshly bought druid; I intend to buy full druid S1 for sexy bodysuit transmog.
Emerald is still as fun as it was a decade ago. Again, I think that's just a sad and pathetic commentary on how bad video games are these days. Things that stand out are:
-absence of bugs and glaring spelling/syntax errors
-colorful scenery
-relatively witty dialogue
-absence of bugs and glaring spelling/syntax errors
-natural game flow
-incredibly well-tuned difficulty-wise
-absence of bugs and glaring spelling/syntax errors
-intuitive and responsive controls
-interesting economic choices
Interesting quote from Emerald NPC
Quote:
It's embarrassing if you lose more often than you win...
Yeah GL seeing that in a modern "competitive" game...
So, I am working my way through the game in typical Aestu fashion. The first thing I did, of course, was recruit all three starter Pokemon and xfer them to Coliseum. I plan on playing through the games sequentially, xferring my Pokemon forward then selling each cartridge back to eBay after I'm done.
Oh, and question. Can Black City interface with Black City, or is it limited to Black City to White Forest? It looks like most of y'all got Black version - so, should I get White version?
