Pokemon turned 30 this year! Having been a card carrying Pokemon Fan for every on of those glorious years, I have a particular fondness, nay, nostalgia, for the year Blue Red.
(It will always be Blue Red to me as Blue is obviously the superior color and I will die on this hill.)
With the rerelease of the Gen 3 – afied version of Blue, aka Green, I have surrendered completely to the nostalgic glory of replaying this iconic game. (Side note – thank you to the Pokemon Company for changing this version back to Green. The original was called Blue for us dummies in the USA. Maybe I should die on the Green hill.)
Thirty years of playing Pokemon games have paid off as I am finding myself to be rather good at traversing this once slow and confusing game. No longer must I look up each Pokemon and which elements are best counters and most effective. I even caught Zapdos on my first tenth 48th try. Hey, at least I caught it!
Almost seventy hours into the game, I find myself enjoying even the grind of catching the uncatchable Zapdos. (I looked it up, even with a sliver of life and asleep, an Ultraball only had about a 3% catch rate.)
Gen 1 was such a good game, with excellent pacing which gives the player solid progress without overwhelming them. It is certainly a game that needed a guide (back in the day) but 30 years later, as a person who has played almost every Pokemon game released, it feels easy to pick up.
Feels like coming home after a long day and putting on some cozy PJs.
<3
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I’m only 8 hours into the game but it really is just super cozy. I found myself having muscle memory of so much of it .
Also omg I just read about Blue Version being named that because it was “familiar” to Americans. I cant. LOL.