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shadowonwater · 1 year

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My 2nd post about playing Pokemon Scarlet (just got to the school)

In this post I marvel about how big the world is and talk a bit about Team Star.

I've only just gotten to the school, but decided to stop to post again. I'm having a great time! Could really use a bike though, lol. But I guess I'm going to get to ride Koraidon soon.

I really love exploring so I spent so much time just wondering off and looking around so it took me awhile to continue the story. I picked up so many items and caught a whole bunch of Pokemon! I think Box 1 is getting close to full :D

The city the academy is at is SO big! It took awhile to explore all of it, bought a whole bunch of sandwich ingredients and a few other things. Excited to try the picnic feature, I'm prepared for it!

The city really feels like a city. It's interesting how cities have evolved overtime in Pokemon games. Before Pokemon games couldn't really do nearly as much to emphasize scale, buildings were pretty small looking because of that top down view. But now the world feels truly big, seeing Pokemon out in the wild emphasized that too.

Reminds me of seeing my cat inside vs outside. Inside she seems to be a pretty normal size, albeit a bit on the small side. But the times my cat has gotten outside, she just seems tiny compared to the outside world. Seeing how small Pokemon can be when they're just hanging around outside really shows how big the land is.

Oh yeah and what's-his-name the son of the professor was interesting to run into. I kind of forgot about it because I spent so much time exploring. I find it funny that his first interaction with you is pretty much telling you to fuck off. And then he just dumps the giant lizard on you and doesn't really explain anything. It really feels like he's hiding something.

Anyway the Eevee backpack girl is cute, excited to get to know her more! And I continue to love Nemona, I love how much she loves battling. Love her comment about the stairs, if this wasn't a video game, indeed, those stairs would be a bitch to climb. It feels like complaining about the stairs is like an in-joke among the students.

Love my first interaction with Team Star. Pokemon really has been leaning into these antagonist teams as being non-evil. Like trouble makers but not evil unlike a lot of earlier generations.

I always can't help but wonder what the implication of the use of the word "Team" means to those who live in the Pokemon world. Like there's the infamous Team Rocket which is a mafia. And then you got Team Skull which are more like petty criminals, but still criminals.

Like doesn't calling something a "Team" send off red flags or something? Or are there others "Teams" out there who are chill? Then again maybe Team Star like the use of the word "Team" to sound tough? Like a kid calling themselves a gangster? I guess if they called themselves a gang, they world be Gang Stars.

Anyway I guess they are a bunch of trouble makers in school who like to play hooky. So far they don't really seem that bad though. Although it's rude to be pushy about getting someone to join something.

I find it funny that you beat that one girl and the other guy is like "I don't really want to fight, there's no way I'm winning" but then Nemona is like "It's either let them practice terralizing on you, or you fight me" And the guy was like "ok fine" and he went in there fully knowing he wasn't going to win.

What a refreshing character interaction I'm so used to Pokemon grunts being like "I'm totally going to win!" right after seeing someone else get creamed by me. Fun seeing them have more situational awareness. Looking forward to more Team Star in the future.

Something kind of funny is that I've already evolved my starter already. To end this post off here's my current Team (The shiny Scatterbug I caught isn't on it right now because I want to focus on new Pokemon):

Floragato (Cutie) [my starter]

Axelle (Lechonk)

YarnBall (Tarountula)

Wowza (Flamigo) [I find it funny that's literally just a Flamingo]

Jimin (Wooper)

Wiggles (Wiglett)

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