However--and I knew this already--the Generation III Pokémon designs are complete suck. It looks like the designers got drunk, smoked pot, and did ecstasy... and then designed them during their hangovers the next day. Take a look at Mawile and tell me that isn't the case. Seriously, what the hell is Castform? It looks like Casper the slutty ghost wearing a bra over his eyes while his nutsackboobs hang below. Speaking of bras, maybe the devs were sex-starved in addition to hung over, as Medicham looks like nothing more than a brassiere on a hanger. And someone might want to call Akira Toriyama, because I'm pretty sure that Makuhita's resemblance to DBZ's Buu is not a coincidence.
I'm exaggerating, as I do like some of the Generation III designs... but seriously, the first time I saw them way back when, it made me give up interest in owning a GBA. It's difficult to be enthusiastic when your Pokémon looks like a giant suppository.
Perhaps most distressing were the evolution designs, which would often take a cute or cool Pokémon and transform them into something ridiculous or fugly. For example, Lotad was acceptable, but then it turns into emo racial-slur Lombre, and progresses to the absurd in Ludicolo. Seedot → Nuzleaf are okay, but Shiftry looks like someone took the leprechaun from that Ernest movie and beat him with the Miak stick. Shroomish is acceptable if unoriginal, but then it evolves into Breloom, which looks like the misfigured offspring of an Oddish and that man-chicken from Zelda. Electrike → Manectric, Numel → Camerupt, Swablu → Altaria, Baltoy → Claydol, Snorunt → Glalie, Bagon → Shelgon... all perfectly cute Pokémon ruined by a stupid-looking evolution.
And I know there are a lot of Absol fans out there, but... it looks like someone doodled circles on a bar napkin until they could see shapes in it. I get the whole Yin-Yang thing, but isn't that about about, you know, balance? Instead, it looks like someone shoved a sickle in one ear and a bat up its ass.
But! Despite all the atrocities of Generation III, owning Pokémon Emerald does allow for much easier access to Generation I and II Pokémon. I have committed myself to collecting them all, and collect them all, I shall.
There are only two problems: Since I dislike most of the Generation III designs, I've been forced to try and beat the game using only a Torchic. This provides some problems, since the main villains in the game use FIRE and WATER types. I only do ineffective damage to anything, and am weak to half the enemies. And the second problem: You can only transfer 6 Pokémon per day from Emerald to Diamond. This could make collecting everything into one Pokédex a bit problematic...
IN ANY CASE, for simplicity's sake, I am only going to list catches that have been properly transferred over to my Pokémon Diamond cartridge. Without further adieu...
Pokémon evolved since last update:
- Tartar : Turtwig → Grotle
- Stax : Pikachu → Raichu
- Cascoon : CASCOON
- Feebas : Hinbasu
- Magnemite : Commlink
- Diglett : Whackamole
- Carvanha : Grok
- Drowzee : Annie
- Corphish : Hanako
- Poliwhirl : Keremet
- Loudred : ******
- Abomasnow : Seveti
- Delibird : Bernadette
- Spearow : Raptor
- Fearow : Tori
- Nidoran♀ : Sharona
- Wailmer : T.K.
- Corsola : Mochichigo
- Remoraid : Eli
- Smoochum : Almond
- Teddiursa : Pooh
- Wobbuffet : Censorman
- Plusle : Moto
- Surskit : Rhonda
- Paras : Tasha
- Makuhita : JLo
- Ralts : Eiko
- Electrike : Remulus
- Spinda : Etcha
- Minun : Mina
- Taillow : Courage
- Zigzagoon : Maine
- Torchic : Rambos
- Treecko : Geico
- Lotad : Lily
- Solrock : Moneypit
- Poochyena : Diana
- Drowzee : Pattie
- Carnivine : Oscar
- Golduck : Thrash
- Magnemite : Spanner
- Whiscash : Shen
- Ralts : Paige
- Poochyena : Fenrir
- Poochyena : POOCHYENA
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