Pokemon Leaf Green

On August 24th, 2024 I finally finished Pokemon Leaf green!

This the first Kanto game I finish (my Red playthru got corrupted back in 2011 or so...) and the first mainline Pokemon game I play in almost 10 years!

When I was little, I used to hate how barebones the story in main Pokemon games was, but this time around I appreciated it a lot.

Most of the games I have played in the past few years have been pretty long and/or text-heavy, sp the change of pace was welcome. It turned out to be a pretty short and sweet game.

Even shorter to me since I actually started playing it in 2022 but abandoned after 3 medals because I had to grind and got bored, so ever since I picked the game up I think I have only played around 15-20 hours.

I took for granted I wasn't gonna continue it ever because it has been years since I last was interested in a main Pokemon game, but I read this blog post & it made me want to pick it up again, glad I did!

Quick thougts

Yay	Nay
Story and battles are fast placed, no time to get bored Short and nice Exploring is fun Cute graphics	No day/night cycle Not a fan of the OST No Pokemon animations Pokemon's learnsets are a MESS

My babies

Adventures

I don't have too many as I only played the latter half of the game, but here are some memories!

The first one is the Pokemon Tower ghost!
I knew about it thanks to the manga, but it surprised me to see it, specially since you can't catch or attack it, plus it talks!

It was very cool, modern games don't have stuff like this. At first I thought it was a new pokemon lol
It made me sad to fight the Marowark tho, the game says you're letting it finally rest in peace, but beating a mourning mom doesn't sit well with me.

Then, the casino! It's the first time ever I manage to get a 777! (outside DPP Clefary bonus)
I didn't had such luck after, so I simply bought the coins to get the TMs/items I wanted

Then I looked for Blaine's gym. I didn't check the map and thought Cinnamon Island and Seafoam Island were one and the same.
...So I went to Seafoam as it was the nearest one and insted of that bald guy I found Articuno lmao

I had one problem though, and it was that all I was carrying were two (2) Ultra balls and no sleep/paralyz attacks

I had 2 tries per battle & couldn't damage her too much. But eventually, after 2 hours of soft reseting, I caught her 💪

The fossil Omanyte turned out a girl on my first try btw! I got a rule of only catching female pokemon, so that is very good.

The rest of the game went without incidents. The Tri-island event caught me by surprise! I had no idea about them. I wish you could do more stuff on them though (and let me play mini-games alone!)

Then, I trained a bit for the Leage, and here we are!!

Btw at the start of the game I put a Meowth at the daycare since I was curious about how many levels she would gain after playing the entire game (those are lots of steps!).

Turns out she only gained 27 levels :_3
I expected her to be around Lv.50 or so..... Give me my money back!

So in the end.... This was a fun game! Very basic, but sweet. Goes straight to the point about what Pokemon is. I don't think I will play another mainline in a long while, but it was a a good experience.

I also plan to make a living dex there someday (to the best of my habilities, as I can't trade). It's the first time I try one, it seems fun (^-^)

(Semi-related, I have started playing my first Digimon game!!
A shame the babies don't stay cute and turn into humans/american designs after evolving, it if weren't for that Digimon is all I wanted mainline Pokemon to be when I was little ;o;)