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I was 15.
Hyped for the return is day/night, which was oh so improved with morning, evening and mid night.
I was a member of a Pokémon forum that doesn't exist anymore. (Spanish and Latinos may remember pkpidgeot?) I remember people hating on the 4th gen evos as soon as they were leaked. All of them, specially Probopass. I also remember everyone complaining for the high amount of legendaries. And people were excited for the new female protagonist and asking if Dawn (Hikari) would win the Ash.
I still call Turtwig Naetle because of these leak days and Pilpup Poochama because of the anime. People were also excited because they thought the anime was becoming more mature and adult (lol), the reason for this being how the first Sinnoh anime episodes nearly showed an Ariados eating Pikachu. kek.
Anyway, I didn't have a DS so I had to poorly emulate. The game was mediocre but I forced myself to like it. I also played in secret, nobody I knew liked Pokémon anymore.
Finally bought a DS the day HGSS were announced, around the time Pokémon suddenly became popular again for some reason and liking vidya was cool and retro. With it I bought Platinum and definitely accepted how shitty gen IV (Sinnoh) was after all.
