An Indepth Look Into A Geek's Soul

The game is finally here folks!  Pokemon Black for the Nintendo DS has finally come to the United States and I was there to pick it up on day one.  I have only played it for about four hours or so, but I have to admit, I'm rather impressed with the game thus far.  The game is a real tribute to the original games.  You can see it in the way that developers designed the entire game.  A lot of the pokemon are updated versions of the originals that you would see, while still being completely new and fresh.  The battles have this intensity to them that has slowly been getting diminished in the last games.  This may have something to do with the fact that the battle screen moves now, but who knows.  All I know is that I love the game.

The coolest thing about the game in my opinion is the way they have revamped the TM system.  TMs are no longer one use items.  You can use them as many times as you would like, just like the old HMs used to be.  This is a most excellent idea.  No longer do I have to wait to my TMs in fear that I will miss out on giving a good TM to a stellar guy later in the game.  Once I get my Earthquake TM, I can totally have a team full of earth rattling pokemon, which is just an awesome feeling, let me tell you.  Makes me totally want to get into the competitive scene a whole lot more.

The current team is a fairly diverse once.  Right now I have a ruggenrola, a munna, snivy, lilipup, purrlion, and a panpour.  No overlapping types anymore!  It is pretty sweet.  I think my favorite new pokemon is ruggenrola, just cause of the sheer punness of the name.  Not totally positive that I'm spelling any of these names right though.  Oh well, they are new!  It will take me a little while.

So far in the game I have beaten the first gym battle, which was a pretty tough one becasue of Work Up, which raisese the attack and special attack of pokemon.  You would think a couple of sand attacks would cause a miss, but no, I got hit every time.  Damn pansear.  Oh well, I beat the gym leaders on my second try, getting myself the Tri Badge.  right now I'm working on Route 3 after just having saved a pokemon from the clutches of the nefarious (or perhaps righteous!) Team Plasma.  The whole team is between 11-12, just now learning some attacks that aren't tackle and leer.  We shall see how this plays out in the end.

Other than that, not a whole lot is going on.  I might add pictures to this later, or I might not, we'll see how I feel.  These blogs on Pokemon Black might get their own section on the website too, but again, not sure if I want to do the extra work for something like that.  I will play it by ear and see how it goes.  All I know is that I will keep playing, and watch some of Joel's Lets Play Pokemon White videos, just so I can know what is coming up.  Hopefully I can catch up to him, so we can duke it out, wi-fi style!

Peace Out.