Today’s game is Pokemon Emerald. I’ll give Metal Gear Delta just a little bit longer as I’m making really quick progress on this, plus it’s easy to do in bite size pieces. I have a geology exam coming up so being able to just pick up for like 5 minutes is really appreciated.

I’ve been going around exploring trying to find niche stuff to do after getting stuck on the twin’s gym battle. I found this guy who wanted me to teach him something to make his daughter laugh. I made him say Liam, which is a personal reference too in my friend group (one of my friend’s cracked up at something unrelated when one of us said the name, it’s been a joke ever since).

I also met this guy who wanted me to teach him a new phrase. I taught him the phrase “Damp Swallow”. I hope one day to see this phrase take off.

I’ve reorganized my party a little bit too.

Why am I sharing this screenshot cropped? Well. It’s the only one I have that makes reference to Kenneth the Blaziken and I had to fish it from Discord. Kenneth was the named I picked because I had the R.E.M. song stuck in my head.

There’s also Iyu, the Gardevoir I caught at the start. The name was suggested by a friend from a show they were watching.

The final thing I wanted to mention was the humor of older Pokemon games. I feel like a lot of the older games nail implied humor. I seem to have lost the screenshot I was going to use as reference, but there’s a house with a man who mentions thinking you need a bunch of birds to fly instead of the Move. Okay, weird guess but not that weird. You go in his house though and there’s a fuckton of birds all over the place. There’s no line directly stating it. It’s great. It got a laugh out of me I feel like I haven’t felt in a while. Conversely, while I’ve enjoyed my time with all the newer Pokemon, as I think they’re mechanically fine. Their presentation leaves a lot to be desired, including Humor.

Tomorrow I plan to try and beat the E4, and then work on filling out the Dex. Hopefully with the Battle Frontier and an EXP share it should be easy. Then I’ll start prepping my 3DS for the save move.