[Gen 8] erik plays shield

hello, welcome to my journey in galar as i play through pokémon shield! i'm picking up a copy of the game from GameStop in about 8 hours, but I'm going to go ahead and get my thread situated. most of the time, i start with the first game (Red, Gold, Ruby, Diamond, X, Sun) but I've decided to go with Shield because the exclusives (pokémon & gym leaders) seem better! (i think i'll likely leave pika up and update the rest in a second post) please do not be harsh @ css i have no idea what im doing

PART 1​

i went to pick up my preorder from GameStop! I had no idea I needed to have a yellow sticker or something in advance on a receipt to be in a group, so I was at the end of the line, but it's not a big deal to me :coolcat: i got home, took this photo, and ate some chicken and sausage gumbo (and y'all it was good) my cat, smoky, has decided to watch me play! why not include photos of my cats they're cute

FIRST IMPRESSIONS​

• why isn't there voice acting?? it's 2019!!!
• omg elephant pokémon is so cute i need it on my team???
• is the chairman a bad guy
• the npcs reacting to the gigantamax was cute lmao
• WOOLOO
• that sleeping munchlax was so cute im cry?
  
• it's our dad's bag???? is he dead
• how are we neighbors with hop/leon but we've never actually met him
• getting your starter is so cute??
  
• this forest's music is a+
• ok the fog scene = sinnoh confirmed, right???
• i luv sonia
• it made me happy the pokedex is an app??? idk, it's also almost 2am and ive had 5hrs of sleep in the past 24ish hours or so?
• PC ROTOM AHHHHHH
  
• ok im tired here's a pic of Jasper being grumpy because I didn't go to bed on time
  

CURRENT TEAM​

• IT TOOK ME LIKE 234243424 BATTLES TO REALIZE I COULD CATCH POKEMON BY USING X. i was grumpily going through the bag each time to do it and then i noticed it lmao..,,
• i stayed up later than expected last night and caught a few more Yamper
• I didn't check the first Yamper I caught, so I didn't realize the nature was actually good (Modest)
  
  so i wound up releasing the extra ones I caught, and then went back to level up my Yamper (Elle Woods)
• sorry erica lmao
• also i released Rhonda the Rookidee and caught Booboo the Rookidee instead.
• i opened up the Y Comm and for some reason it was set to a bald old man by default which is RUDE
  
• i just wanna say the train was cute
  
  i do hope we can battle people on it later on? :thonk:
• also CAMPING Is ADORABLE look at Bing Bong
  
  
• also now that i'm in the wild area for the first time, i did my first dynamax battle against a hoothoot. very dramatic, but giant yamper was adorable
  
• I still can't shake the feeling that the little floaty clouds kinda look like poo..,,,that's neither here nor their i suppose :s
• a highlight from discord courtesy of Erica:

  Cherrim Today at 4:14 PM FHD?jshfs yamper is evolving Cherrim Today at 4:15 PM oh oh i hate it a lot ok reset game

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CURRENT TEAM​

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