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Welcome to one of the most successful game in the history of gaming !
Pokemon it will soon be retro itself so many editions so many Pokemon generations but what is your story and experience with this game ? Tell your Pokemon story !
Pokemon has basically been something I've known about or been a fan of for as long as I've been alive.
I actually wrote about my own experience with pokemon on my wordpress, but I'll paraphrase it here since it's always nice to reminisce.
I watched the anime a bunch, especially Diamond and Pearl, the only time I ever woke up early in my life on purpose and felt good about it was as a kid when I woke up at 5am to sneak downstairs and watch the pokemon movies I had recorded on the family TV and I'd do that until my parents woke up.
I couldn't afford any of the games initially, so my first game was actually Pokemon Ranger, which I played on my DS. I knew nothing about Gen 3, so I thought all these pokemon only existed for this one entry for a while lol. Eventually though, on my 10th birthday, I got my first mainline game, Pokemon White. Unova is still my favourite generation to this day, and I remember playing so much of it, it's the only one of the games I actually completed. Sadly I never got to experience any of the Mystery gift stuff because I think the game was like a year or so old when I got it, and I couldn't access the internet at that age on my DS.
After that, I got Platinum and Soulsilver, the latter being my 2nd favourite of the games, I loved the little tamagotchi thing that you got with it, and having ur pokemon actually follow you behind you felt so nice! It felt even more like I was on an adventure with something that was both a pet and a friend.
Sadly, I've never been able to properly get into or enjoy the 3D games, the art style of the 2D pokemon, especially Gen 5 was a huge appeal for me, and those games are just, not as nice looking to me. Despite that, it's a franchise that's near and dear to my heart.