I understand the devotion thing as we had similar situations, I was working as a forum staff for a foreign and non-Pokémon forum! {XD} Since they were shutting the forum at that time, I left the said forum . After roughly 2 years, I became a Facebook page Admin. Lol It was a whole new experience, haha. Nevertheless still fun. :) As for other Pokémon forums, I tried to experience it as I had the intention of creating branches of my Trade Shop and in fact it happened just this year. Sadly my first attempt failed, as the forum is shutting down next month! :(
I'm on MC, haha. :P You should play MC when you got the time to. :) Does that mean you started from the Mario franchise before Pokémon? :o I stumbled across Superstar when I was looking for some new titles to play with! During that time I didn't expect the Mario franchise to have a RPG series and I was caught in surprised! {XD} I had the suspicion of the said game for being a hack game, haha.
Love that battle theme, it fits perfectly the tropical to greens and as well as the aquatic battle scene. :D Probably I should give the series a try again someday. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtkgYXYCnwY
Yes or no? :P