>>55783735>23>first saw the end of Battle Frontier and start of DP anime around 2006, tried Pearl in 2008 on a whim while skimming an R4 I got at a local market; TECHNICALLY got proper into it on a different R4 in 2011 with SS and copy of White with the 0xp failsafe, which I covered with a proper cart 6 months later when I remembered Pokemon was a thingLoved the characters and music (especially to beat my dick) since 2009, but I fluctuate in terms of the games every few years or so. Tried all the games on launch since SM since I didn't get a 3DS until 2015 on a whim except Brilliant Diamond and Scarlet
The former I'd try by January on another whim to see if no HMs would make vanilla Sinnoh feel better
not having a HM slave at all times is nice, but not by that much; having a place to get Ribbons for other Pokemon is cool thoughFor the latter, I simply did not give a shit about Gen IX after Sword's quality, not liking what I saw besides a couple music tracks and some select few mons (plus the base 400 Pokedex being spectacular), ended up getting it and the DLC after my last digital voucher was gonna expire at the end of a month where nothing I was interested in was coming out and also got a Switch gift card from my younger sister. Still not great, performance makes TotK look flawless, but it's so much better than SwSh that the only reason I could ever go back is Ribbons, the odd curry I want to cook since camping was great, and maybe Dynamax Adventures should that ever interest me or I find other people IRL playing these shit games. God, for all the designs I actually like, that game is abhorrent compared to, even BDSP, everything that came after it.
kek I forgot LGPE entirely. Got the Eevee one a month ago second hand, is fun so far (just beat Misty). First time actually trying to finish a Kanto game, so I might fucking know where everything is now. 
