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Replaying gen 4 Sinnoh. Grew up with Diamond, played Platinum a few years ago, so decided to play Pearl as I wanted to try Glameow / Shieldon
Holy shit
>Try Budew and Chingling, as I've never used Roserade or Chimecho
>They both take until level fucking 30 to evolve
>Budew misses Giga Drain as a result
>use TM, okay now for a shiny stone...
>it's fucking postgame
>Glameow isn't available until the fucking 6th gym, and when it evolves if you don't have thick fat it's just a fucking low stat cat with mid moves
>have to go out of my way to not seek out every game's power mons that have been added to this region for some reason
>have now defeated more Gyarados than Magikarp in a game with MULTIPLE "lol 6x Magikarp" fisherman (yes, I know this is supposed to be "fun" when vs seeker rematches makes them all Gyarados, but holy shit how tedious)
>Slot 6 is always a Bibarel with 4x HMs or a Starly with Fly+Defog
I'm still feeling comfy from how much exploration is baked in, and I see what they were going for with HMs making each route take 2-3 laps to get everything, but they just...tried to do too much, and it's really annoying to build a team because everything that isn't turbo-charged has bad stats, terrible move pools, or has significant options for power locked to post game.
Plat addresses some issues, but really it only does so by making right what should have been present in the first place.
A frustrating experience.
