>>36526826Nice story anon, shit brought back memories of my own. I was around 8 or 9 when I saw the trailer for PMD Explorers of Time/Darkness on TV and I was like "damn, this looks fun as fuck", so I asked my mom to get it for me. About a month or so later when it released, it was a rather cold September day and I had a really bad throat ache, but I went out to the store with my mom and got the game anyway.
Came home and remember getting Turtwig and Torchic and I was excited to dive into the game, although I was a little saddened that I didn't get Piplup since I thought it would have been cooler that way, as it was on the box art. Since it was my first PMD game I was confused with the mechanics and got the whole guide book a day later.
When I couldn't bring my DS with me to school, during break periods I'd bust out the guide and look through all the dungeons, getting excited at the Pokemon I could recruit. I shed a real tear or two when Grovyle went to the Future, and got my ass kicked a good number of times fighting Primal Dialga. Good ass times man, I want to go back.