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I just finished playing HG, took me about 70 hours over roughly 2 months to beat, and holy shit I feel like I've finally remembered why I've loved playing pokemon through all these years.
I had just played shield (Yes I bought it, kill me, it's my money, I'm free to waste it) and I honestly just felt so fucking tired with this series, I had been on and off for years, all the new games just weren't doing it for me and I couldn't find another game that filled the niche that pokemon had for me. I honestly felt depressed and was questioning why I loved the games at all. I had agreed with all the criticisms of the past games in a lot of threads, and the games that I like the most on paper, RSE, weren't really doing it for me either, they just didn't make me feel the same anymore, maybe pokemon was really never good.
I had all but quit but I saw a dude selling a cartridge of HG for 5 bucks at a yard sale and decided to give it a shot, and I'm glad I did. I won't tell people their criticisms of the games are wrong, because they aren't, they're completely true, but I must say, I really couldn't care less about a level curve or pokemon availability or a time consuming safari zone, or any of that shit. Playing this fucking game just gave me that feeling in my heart that I thought was lost to time, playing it under a blanket, with the lights dimmed and some hot chocolate and snacks by my side as I caught a new bro, trained him up, gave him a hair cut, fed him some apricorn juice, won the pokeathelon with him, and finally, went on a walk around national park at dusk.
Everyone has their standards and reasons for playing the game, for many they want tough battles like they get in competitive, and I had thought i was the same, but I've realized that, for me, it's more about the escapism. I don't care if I'm stomping braindead AI, because I'm doing it with my bros that I've bonded with, as they helped me forget about life for a little while.
Does anyone have any similar stories?
