Pokemon FireRed

There may be some spoilers in this, viewer discretion is advised.

Probably one of the oldest pokemon games,it only has 151 pokemon(If you include Mew).Now there is over 70o. It is just like any other pokemon game but with lesser pokemon and graphics that are not as good. At the start of the game you pick either Squirtle, Bulbasaur or Charmander. There are multiple towns,cities and islands. There is Pallet Town the town you start in, Viridian City where you find the ground gym(that is closed), with the gym leader also the leader of team rocket. Than there is Pewter City, Cerulean City, Saffron City, Celadon City,Lavender Town,Vermillion City, Fuschia City,Cinnibar Island and Indigo Plateau.

There are lots of possible good teams in Fire Red just like in any other pokemon game.However many teams do not include legendary as although they may be strong they don’t have a great move set at the start unlike legendary in other games. Except Mew and Mewtwo. By the way mew can learn any move.Although mew is not in Fire Red, you can get it with codes.

In Fire Red you are the protagonist and your enemy is team rocket.You know the one that loses every fight because a lack of either good pokemon or a brain.

When you finish getting all 8 badges you can go to indigo plateau to challenge the elite four and champion to become champion yourself.The elite four members are Lorelei who specializes in ice pokemon, Bruno in fighting, Agatha in ghost, and lance in dragon.Finally Your rival unlike the others, has a diversity of different type pokemon, making him the most “difficult” to beat.

 

 

 

 

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Pokemon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby

Hoenn was always my favorite region since I was a small child. Many other Pokemon fans would also think that catching Rayquaza was their happiest moment in their childhood. I was really excited when Nintendo first announced the release of a remake of Ruby and Sapphire and I’m pretty sure any other Pokemon fans was excited regardless of their favorite region/game As I played the game memories of trainers returned. Especially the bug type trainers with 6 wurmple on their team.

It was truly a nostalgic journey which is one of the thing Nintendo hopes for whenever they make a remake. From a cute friendship with your rival to a touching ending. Touching not only because of the story, touching also as it’s the end of the game and there will most likely be no more ruby/sapphire/emerald remakes.

Pokemon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby offers really beautiful and detailed graphics like the wings of Beautifly. The graphics really showed how much games have changed over the past decade. The post game content is really huge. The number of legendaries have increased by a lot so once you defeat the Elite Four and the Champion, you can leave you champion duty to Steven and not have to carry out Champion duty and go around Hoenn trying to complete your pokedex and most importantly catching all the legendaries.

One thing that annoyed me throughout the game was the number of HMs. When a HM is learnt it is not easily unlearned. The only good HM I would say would be Surf. To beat the Elite Four and Champion all you need is a over leveled Swampert and just spam Surf. Most of the times before beating the Elite Four my team would have four of my Pokemon which I share a close relationship with and 2 other HM slaves.

Overall I think that more can be done to make the game better but no matter what, if you are a Pokemon fan, you should play this game.

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Touhou 10.5 – Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody is a Touhou fighting game. It is fairly in depth with various abilities that a character can use. Being a fan of the Touhou series, I was drawn into this game, especially since the game had a selection of various Touhou characters.

Like all other fighting games, there are different attacks and abilities one can use. There are certain combos one can use, such as pressing the back button and using the special ability key. There are also various cards that one can use, which is associated with the mana orbs given. Cards are given when a card slot at the bottom of the screen is filled up, and it fills up when one is attacked or attacks successfully. The mana orbs automatically refill after a given period of time. Some cards require the usage of mana, and a certain number of orbs would be depleted when an attack is done. Therefore, one has to have awareness to what attacks could come, and what is happening on the screen.

Besides that, the blocking system has been integrated into the game relatively well. Blocking reduces the mana one has each time a hit lands on them. When all the mana orbs are gone, the block breaks, and lives one at a significant disadvantage.

There is also a system allowing one to earn cards every time they finish a campaign battle. The cards would be only for the character they were using to win. There are also soundtracks which immerse you in the game and blends well with the different areas one is fighting at.

There is also a multiplayer system in which you could fight your friends in. It could be locally, or over the internet, and it’s an enjoyable experience, playing with your favourite character while competing with your friend.

This game has kept me enthralled for long hours on end, attempting to get all the cards possible, and finding out which characters suited me best, and each of their attacks. Overall, this game is one of the rare gems which not many people have known and everyone should give this game a shot, no matter if you’re a fighting game fan or not.

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