[twillight]

Zelda... I thought I'll revitalise my interrest in this franchise, so I downloaded A Link To The Past.
I couldn't make myself to play it, so opened up a Let's Play to get motivation.
I realised what this franchise is. A skill-based maze-runner. I need more story, sorry.


I also re-played Pokemon gen 1 and 2 with literaly just 1 pokemon. So no HM-slaves. The experience teached me i don't like 2D pokemon. But let me explain.


Gen 1 is horribly buggy. Not that it really would effect me, as I usualy don't bother with non-damaging moves. But these are only really good if you are plaing blind, doing all the backtracking, figuring out the puzzles for yourself. And the party-building (why would anyone play with a party) is just broken. You can barely do anything, because there are no moves for certain types, or certain type of pokemon simply don ot exist.
Like there are 2 grass-type pokemon in the game you actualy can use: bulbasaur (a starter), and vileploom. That's it. And there are 2 psychic pokemon too: the overpovered Alakazam, and the "free" version of it: Hypno. There are no ghost-moves, no bug-moöves, and the list goes on.


Gen 2 has a horrible colour-palette, and there's no meaningful differences between its games, wether the original release, or the remakes. The remakes at least look tolerable. But it is full of real-life-luck scenarios, prime example is the battle with Silver (the rival) in the Burnt Tower. You either overlevel to the point of oneshotting everything, or suffer from not being able to do anything in the fight and die. Oh, and let's mention the ever-present olimited inventory. This one at least seems to let you have all the TMs, unlike Gen1.



Gen 3 still has limited inventory, and still not have all the features in it. The movepools are still horrible, and the game still trolls you with real life luck mandatory encounters. the leading man here is the 3rd, electric-type gym with its resisting-everything, everything paralyzes you crap. Plus confusion and suicide-bombing on top of that. It's just the worst.
On the positive side the Evil Groups are present, so it kinda gets your attention. Still a horrible game.


Gen 4 only worth with Platinum, which is slow, and way too linear for its own good, PLUS it softlocks you easily in the Giratina-Dimension. If you go in, you MUST win, because you are stuck. And if you did not have an archive-save, you are softlocked. "Great" game-design.


Gen 5 is entirely bland and forgettable. nothing helps on it, not even the very hard to access difficulty setting in BW2.


It's just why would you go back? I wish that Gen 4 chibi-style remake had been done on Platinum.


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Not that the later pokemon-games are flawless. Heck, Gen 8-9 are simply a broken buggy mess, and you can do nothing about it. They just don't worth your investment.


Gen 6 is way too easy to pose any challenge, but is a great casual game. So I give it that.


From Gen 7 only the ultra-games worthz anything aside hentai-Lusamin's design. The story does not worth your time, skip all dialogue, you'll catch what's important anyway. The battles are though, and the vvarious pokemons worth soloing it through multiple times.
So that's it.