My book of randomness.

Blitz Vs Diamond and Pearl the Ultimate Extravaganza!

Yep, these games again. Every time I criticize them I get a lynch mob but you know what? It's my book and if you don't like that I have genuine problems with Gen 4 then leave me out of it. I'm allowed to not like something, I don't care if you love Gen 4 and think it's perfect. I don't like these games, I think they are flawed in many places and made terrible choices.

I'm all about debating and will gladly do so, just don't be a dick. And please don't triple team me. If you all have something wrong with what I have to say can you at least make your own comments so I don't have to worry about the character count! 

With that out of the way let's just do this. And Difficulty in Pokemon is coming... eventually.

Diamond and Pearl, what do I not like about these games? The story, the pacing, the Pokemon, the Pokemon, I hate the Pokemon, fuck Probopass, what idiot made surfing slower than in Gen 1, and the characters.

Now keep in mind before I get called a nostalgia blind fanboy for liking Gen 5 because I know it'll come up let's address something. While White was my first Pokemon game I didn't understand the story and I still wonder how I even beat it. I never listened to anything, as a matter of fact I only knew that Team Plasma was bad and wanted to take Pokemon from people. I didn't know about Ghetsis's smart evil plan until I went online and heard everyone talk about it! 

No it wasn't until I replayed the games years later I could fully appreciate the story. As for Gen 4 I remember even as a young tyke playing his second Pokemon game that it was kinda stupid. I always hated the long ass drop offs between badges and couldn't remember the gym leaders outside of the anime renditions for the life of me. I still think that Candice has a Medicham sometimes because that's how I remember her!

So for the record I've had these opinions for a long time, I don't want to hear crap that I'm a biased Gen 5er or whatever the name is. If you can't debate like a normal person then I will kindly ask you to fuck off. And no that's not me being unable to take a different opinion or criticism. If you find a genuine problem with one of my points and present your argument in a respectful way then props to you. I don't want people just trolling around pretending 'ur wrong.' is an argument. 

Ah the story, this is Diamond and Pearl's story, not Platinum. And I did play Diamond. And it was miserable. So Diamond and Pearl have a very strange story. The Grunts constantly talk about how they are gathering energy for some reason which is odd but I was intrigued. Then Cyrus is like 'lolnope.' and for some reason we're now resetting the universe. We get no reason why he's doing this, how this relates to energy, or what any of this has to do with those Galactic Grunts attacking Rowan in their INTRODUCTION for his research. It almost seems like they saw how it worked in Ruby and Sapphire and tried copying it. But at least in Ruby and Sapphire the introduction actually worked because they have a reason for wanting the Devon Parts and it matters.

Then there's their infamous Honey Holdup where they try to get honey from a man..? Can't they just buy it I mean it's really cheap. Maybe if it was some rare valuable but that's not true. Why do they even take over Windworks other than to be a roadblock and to introduce forgettable admin number 1? Again the energy isn't a reason because that's just some shit they threw at the wall so they could call Cyrus's actual plan a 'twist.' 

You can make the same argument with Team Plasma but their plans actually intersected in an intelligent way! Ghetsis knew that if he got people to actually question the ethics of Pokemon he could win over followers and have more trainers release their Pokemon. Thus making their cause look more just and causing more people to follow it until they win, Ghetsis plot twists everyone, stabs N in the back, and takes over the world with a legendary!

But energy has nothing to do with Palkia or Dialga, they use the lake plot devices to summon them. What if the energy was needed to open the portal using a machine or better yet create the new universe, and as it's activated the legendary swoops in to stop Cyrus because he's tearing a hole in their dimension? One small tweak cuts out hours of lake filler and makes the plot fucking work!