Friday, September 10, 2010

The hunt for Entei goes on, and a BW rant

Have gone Entei-hunting in FR most every night this week, to no avail. 

The process is basically this:  Use a Max Repel with a lvl 30 Snorlax in the lead, then run around the grass between Celadon and Saffron until the Repel gives out.  Dodge into one of the towns and back out again to make Entei change routes.  Rinse, lather, repeat.  If all Max Repels are used up, turn game off.

You'd think that if there's 23 routes in Kanto, he'd go roaming in the grass of Rt. 7 at least ONCE, out of 25 Max Repels.  >_<  But nooooo.

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Haven't picked up Emerald or SS this week, other than to transfer in stuff from the Pokewalker.  Despite the whole company walking program thing, I haven't managed to get enough steps for a Skitty off Hoenn field, so I decided to be more realistic and try the Warm Beach.  Hmmm.  Maybe if I go for new tires/brakes tomorrow, I can do some walking up and down Rt. 40?  It's supposed to be lovely this weekend.

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Okay, so about Black/White.  Today, Serebii posted the count of Pokemon in the new Isshu region, along with how many legendaries there'd be.  For the sake of spoilers I won't repeat the total amount but, holy crap, 9 in-game and 3 event legendaries??   That makes a total of 47 legendary Pokemon in the total 'Dex!

Not to sound like one of the old-gen diehards, but...really, Nintendo?  The more legendaries they add, the less "legendary" they get, and the more they seem like excuses to make players scramble after yet more stuff.  There's already too many to fit in a single PC box (not even counting forms), and given the gimmicky nature of many legendaries, that's where most of 'em end up staying.   Especially since most legendaries have high levels but no EVs when caught, making them actually WEAKER than a trainer's carefully raised core team -- some fairly intensive training is needed before they're even really usable.

Aren't two version mascots, one trio, one uber, and one event legendary enough per generation?  Am I the only one who thought the Regis were extraneous in Hoenn, or that Heatran was just one more 'Dex chore in Sinnoh?   Am I the only one who thinks most legendaries aren't worth much but to fill up box space?

1 comment:

Ruinwen Dagorielle said...

I agree...there are a lot of Legendaries each game and most of them I don't give a second glance. I mean yes they're pretty and all but they can't stand on their own at the E4. It's too bad we can't get them as eggs and level them up. At least their EVs and stats would be more acceptable. *sending catch Eneti vibes*

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