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But you could just use a status healer to get rid of those, right? Right? WRONG
You are only allowed to use one (1) item per battle, and that item has to be determined by manually going into your bag and assigning it. You cannot use ANY item other than that one in battle, and you're only allowed to use 6 items per battle total. This means that if you want any HP healing (which you definitely do considering how fucking long these things take), you're sacrificing any kind of status healer just for a fucking potion or two. No matter what. If you run out, too bad; you cannot assign a new one and are basically on your own for the rest of the battle.
The dialogue isn't great, either; the author being ESL really really shows, and the rival/professor have the personality of stale bread at best. All the trainer dialogue is useless fluff, which is fine, but half of it makes no sense and the other half is useless info. The story is non-existent (granted I only got to the first gym, but regardless; you're not even given a task beyond "go beat league"). The most i've seen is getting your starter (Riolu, Eevee, or Pikachu are your choices btw- I chose Eevee since I wanted a Jolteon), beating up some kids at a school, getting one of them to stalk you for some fuckin reason, and then watching that kid get chewed out. Your rival disappears after the first fight, the professor doesn't even give you his number (I can't remember his name), and for some fucking reason there's two of them (Professor Rowan is in the first city, god knows why).
The music is atrocious; the title screen is just anime rips, which is fine, but the actual GAME has nothing but the worst midis I've ever heard. Either straight-up stolen copyrighted songs (Nickelback's Photograph is the first route's theme, a Gorillaz song I can't remember is for one of the route gates) or ATROCIOUS gen 3 remixes- you can switch the soundtrack between either the stolen music or "Pokémon" music.
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