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Gen 5, circa 2012
>Wake up
>Get accosted by eighty lines of dialog form an NPC before you can even move your character around
>You should go inside
>Go inside
>Accosted by two other side characters with another eighty lines of text, locking you down
>Here take this single pokeball haha
>You should go look for a lady in a green hat!
>Finally free to walk arou--
>Hey!
>Accosted by another trainer
>Im sure the person you're looking for is right over this way, lets walk together
>Back on fucking rails
>Oh you're the person that we've all been lookcing for for no reason
>Here take a free pokemon from this plot-case
>There you go
>Finally fucking free to--
>Wait up!
>More NPCs and characters with more lines of dialog
>This is a poke center, let's go inside!
>Here's where you do the thing
>Over here is where you can do the other thing
>Oh and this is a mart, I'll show you what a pokeball is in just a moment, so don't think you're off the hook yet :^)
>Dialogue stops
>A-am I free to move outside?
>Walk outside the pokecenter
>Quiet
>Soft theme music wafting through the city streets
>Walk around for a minute
>See another side character waiting at the edge of the screen
>Fucking not aga--
>HEY!
>every house door currently in frame opens in unison
>Music doubles in volume
>Hundreds of NPCs pour out of their homes and block me in from all sides
>HEY
>ARE YOU THE NEW--
>WAIT UP--
>YOU HOW TO CATCH A
>THIS IS A PARALYZE HEAL
>VE YOUR POKEMON A BER
>OUTE HAS INDIVIDUAL
>DARK GRASS WILL
>RUSTLING GRASS THOUGH
>IN YOUR BAG
>C-GEAR REAL QUICK
>IF YOU JSUT SIGN HERE
>CAN GET YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
>My character disappears under the pile of them
>Dialogue boxes pile up over top of the screen
>Multiple songs are all playing at the same time
>Someone else is trying to get me to pick another starter
>close DS
>walk downstairs and open my drawer
>only batteries, dish soap, and some plasticware inside
