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[thedarlingone]

have not been playing brilliant diamond for a few days, leia is going through some shit and i'm also having trouble getting the food stamps renewal people to talk to me. but a friend of mine did link me a gameboy emulator for android and send me a copy of pokemon crystal to put into it, so i've been playing that a little bit this evening. apparently it introduced concepts such as "play as girl" to the pokeverse. it's also a unified version without version exclusives, which they used to do apparently -- i don't know why, and they stopped after about gen4, presumably because they realized people would just wait to buy one unified version instead of two versions with exclusives? i don't know, i was never even on the periphery of the pokemon phenomenon once it stopped being absolutely unavoidable.

anyway it's interesting. somehow the 16bit style gives it a completely different feel than 3D pokeymans. i haven't gone anywhere near the first gym yet (it makes you do a fair amount of trekking around before you even get pokeballs) so we'll see how i continue to feel about it. at least this time i know going in that gym 3 traumatized a generation, so i have slightly less expectation of not getting my ass kicked