>>45932397I love hating her. In case we need some prophetic archives I’m going to say it now.
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Girl woman lady npc trader tradable at in Snowpoint City Sinnoh trading trades traded you a her Haunter Everstone with holding that held had gives given Medicham gen 4 generation Diamond and Pearl DP DPPt Platinum original game games version versions 2006
Should the remakes give you a Gengar instead of a Haunter, know this. It is not “more convenient”, it is not “more honest”, and is sure as hell isn’t “what you were expecting in the originals” either. The point of the trade is a joke. If GF takes it out and gives you a sincere high-tier pokemon it only proves that they have no backbone anymore. They have become afraid to make the player’s journey anything but a stroll in the neighborhood. The omission of the trade as it is originally spells the death of pokemon. If they can’t bother to include a small one-off interaction like that then how can you expect them to do anything ballsier? Innovation dies when risks are cast aside and the pavement is favored over the sod-trodden path. Changing this npc is a sign of change in the franchise and the minds behind it. Really think about it for a sec. This is the single most important tell we can have of whether GF still remembers their roots. If they can’t bother to understand why they had it as such in the first place, how can they know the same about other aspects of the franchise? This little bitch Mindy, this bitch RIGHT FUCKING HERE holds the future of pokemon in her hand. If she fails to give an Everstone to her Haunter, she fails to give one to the franchise, because like a Haunter to a Gengar, once evolved, Pokemon can never go back and be what they once were.
