Brain Full of Games

I caught Suicune!

It has been so long since I played Crystal (and, more importantly, Gold, which was my real Gen 2 500+ hour game), that I actually forgot how and when the legendaries come into play. I think that Suicune was like the other dogs in that it was let lose after the Burned Tower encounter in Gold and Silver, but was pleasantly surprised by how early and easily you meet your first special Pokemon. And not just special: the pretty girl on the box!

This week my long spell of not catching any new Pokémon was broken by the Ice Path, which I remember being longer when I was a kid… possibly because the boulder/ice skating puzzle tripped me up slightly as a child. I can say with some arrogance now that I am much smarter than my 8 year old self and completed this puzzle in just a few minutes. Can you believe it? I hardly can. Anyway, I had to jump into my emulator during work (sorry to my boss, who I assume is reading this) to catch a few daytime-only Pokémon like Swinub, Jynx, and Lickitung, which I had skipped on the route leading from Mahogany to the Ice Path entrance. In other news, I have still not been able to evolve Meepy into Espeon or Silas into Umbreon (oh ‘it’s quite cute’? Are they? Huh? I KNOW THEY ARE CUTE I WANT THEM TO BE GROWN UP AND CUTE BUT ALSO POWERFUL whatever okay).

I ended up grinding by accident as I looked for some of these lower encounter chance Pokémon, which was good because god damn it the dragons in Blackthorn are not easy to deal with. I grabbed my Gyarados and a Shellder I found in one of my PC boxes that happens to know Aurora Beam, but things are not going well in the gym right now. This weekend I am going to rest and play The Long Dark, and hopefully get around to testing Outward 2, so my eighth badge is going to have to wait.