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The Little Fella in your CD-ROM Drive
The Little Fella in your CD-ROM Drive
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So, I’ve been looking to revisit a DS Pokémon game on a real DS Lite for a while now. After getting some feedback from the forum about backing up and reflashing my old save file, I set out on an adventure in Pokémon Black: the first time I had played this game since my first full playthrough back in the early to mid part of 2012 when I was 8 years old.
PART 1: Dobi: The Trans Queen of all Trash Cans
Our adventure begins with the introduction of our trainer: Dobi. The name actually originates from that time I found a copy of Pokémon Red at a garage sale for $2 (around 2018 btw. Probably one of my best garage sale finds ever). The save file that was still on the cartridge had the name “Dobi”, and ever since then I’ve been naming my trainer that. Dobi is usually a girl, but I accidentally clicked “Boy” when asked, so now Dobi is a transfem icon. She’s a relaxed trainer who’s going on an adventure with her two best friends, Cheren and Bianca, to help find herself in the world. She also has an obsession with checking every single trash can due to childhood trauma of her missing a Carbos in the trash (and everybody knows that you can’t buy that kind of thing in fifth Gen). She is the queen of trash cans.
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Pictured: Dobi, distraught by being unable to check trash cans, forming a lifelong hatred of Patrats
Part 2: Baja Blast
After a chance meeting with Professor Juniper at Dobi’s house, the three friends are given the chance to get their very first Pokémon. Snivy is my childhood favorite of the trio, and one of the very first Pokémon I remember forming a strong bond with, as I immediately knew I wanted to pick it as soon as I saw it on the back of the box of the game. This would be the ultimate runback, as my old Snivy save file never completed the game due to me having an awful team composition at the age of eight, forcing me to endure the childhood trauma of restarting my save file all over again to play the game in a better way and beat the elite four. This time, we would have the ultimate Snivy: Baja Blast.
A bashful Snivy with a bit of an impatient streak who lives and dies off his crippling addiction to Mountain Dew Baja Blast.
Thanks to the amazing power of Baja Blast, we level grinded on Route 1, as I wanted to get Minccino as our second party member (a decision I would soon regret), and I thought at the time it could be found on the route right after the first gym for some reason. As such, Baja Blast was level ten by the end of even reaching Route 1. Truly, the strongest starter ever.
After the dew carried us through the first route, we saw a strange congregation of Team Plasma, met the freaky trainer N, and made our way to Striaton City for our first Gym battle that we absolutely CRUSHED! We also met Fennel, the researcher behind the Dream World, which I would love to know if there’s a fan made revival for.
Part 3: A Severe and Continuous Lapse in my Judgement
So, remember when I said I hadn’t played this game since I was eight? Yeah, so, that comes massively into play here. I forgot that you’re blocked by an old man before you beat the first gym. I forgot that you’re forced into a double battle by literal toddlers. I forgot that Team Plasma is way lamer in practice than in concept because making a villain who asks valid questions about the pretty unethical core of Pokémon somewhat destroys the illusion of the world (they still look cool though, and they have an amazing battle theme, so perhaps that’s why I loved them as a kid). And, most importantly of all, I forgot how long it takes to get Minccino. We beat the first gym, but then we were in a pickle. For our forced fight against the preschoolers, I caught a sacrificial dog whom Baja Blast immediately back stabbed upon getting into the battle, then proceeded to whoop both the kids’ Pokémon.
Baja Blast is pretty high up in level. I don’t want to evolve him so soon after starting the game, and I plan to make it to the Bug type gym before evolution. That said, Snivy is now level 22. I’m currently in Nacrene City with only a Snivy in my party and it’s not looking so hot. That said, this is where the forum comes in:
I’m already set to get the gift Panpour back at the Dreamyard, but I’m stuck between Venipede or Timburr to be our other party member. I’m not worried about type matchups or playing the game super optimally. These are just the Pokémon I’d like to train for the first time ever. Which one should come home with us, and what should their nickname be? Tell me in a post below, and I’ll look at the average after I get home from work!
PART 1: Dobi: The Trans Queen of all Trash Cans
Our adventure begins with the introduction of our trainer: Dobi. The name actually originates from that time I found a copy of Pokémon Red at a garage sale for $2 (around 2018 btw. Probably one of my best garage sale finds ever). The save file that was still on the cartridge had the name “Dobi”, and ever since then I’ve been naming my trainer that. Dobi is usually a girl, but I accidentally clicked “Boy” when asked, so now Dobi is a transfem icon. She’s a relaxed trainer who’s going on an adventure with her two best friends, Cheren and Bianca, to help find herself in the world. She also has an obsession with checking every single trash can due to childhood trauma of her missing a Carbos in the trash (and everybody knows that you can’t buy that kind of thing in fifth Gen). She is the queen of trash cans.
^
Pictured: Dobi, distraught by being unable to check trash cans, forming a lifelong hatred of Patrats
Part 2: Baja Blast
After a chance meeting with Professor Juniper at Dobi’s house, the three friends are given the chance to get their very first Pokémon. Snivy is my childhood favorite of the trio, and one of the very first Pokémon I remember forming a strong bond with, as I immediately knew I wanted to pick it as soon as I saw it on the back of the box of the game. This would be the ultimate runback, as my old Snivy save file never completed the game due to me having an awful team composition at the age of eight, forcing me to endure the childhood trauma of restarting my save file all over again to play the game in a better way and beat the elite four. This time, we would have the ultimate Snivy: Baja Blast.
A bashful Snivy with a bit of an impatient streak who lives and dies off his crippling addiction to Mountain Dew Baja Blast.
Thanks to the amazing power of Baja Blast, we level grinded on Route 1, as I wanted to get Minccino as our second party member (a decision I would soon regret), and I thought at the time it could be found on the route right after the first gym for some reason. As such, Baja Blast was level ten by the end of even reaching Route 1. Truly, the strongest starter ever.
After the dew carried us through the first route, we saw a strange congregation of Team Plasma, met the freaky trainer N, and made our way to Striaton City for our first Gym battle that we absolutely CRUSHED! We also met Fennel, the researcher behind the Dream World, which I would love to know if there’s a fan made revival for.
Part 3: A Severe and Continuous Lapse in my Judgement
So, remember when I said I hadn’t played this game since I was eight? Yeah, so, that comes massively into play here. I forgot that you’re blocked by an old man before you beat the first gym. I forgot that you’re forced into a double battle by literal toddlers. I forgot that Team Plasma is way lamer in practice than in concept because making a villain who asks valid questions about the pretty unethical core of Pokémon somewhat destroys the illusion of the world (they still look cool though, and they have an amazing battle theme, so perhaps that’s why I loved them as a kid). And, most importantly of all, I forgot how long it takes to get Minccino. We beat the first gym, but then we were in a pickle. For our forced fight against the preschoolers, I caught a sacrificial dog whom Baja Blast immediately back stabbed upon getting into the battle, then proceeded to whoop both the kids’ Pokémon.
Baja Blast is pretty high up in level. I don’t want to evolve him so soon after starting the game, and I plan to make it to the Bug type gym before evolution. That said, Snivy is now level 22. I’m currently in Nacrene City with only a Snivy in my party and it’s not looking so hot. That said, this is where the forum comes in:
I’m already set to get the gift Panpour back at the Dreamyard, but I’m stuck between Venipede or Timburr to be our other party member. I’m not worried about type matchups or playing the game super optimally. These are just the Pokémon I’d like to train for the first time ever. Which one should come home with us, and what should their nickname be? Tell me in a post below, and I’ll look at the average after I get home from work!
