30 Days of Pokemon Challenge Page 14

Started by Sydian April 26th, 2011 6:38 PM
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Day 21: Game/Arc with the best story
Colosseum
- I love the darker story as compared to the main series and how different it was. It was a different formula, and props to it for that.
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Day 21: Game/Arc with the best story
B/W, as the Gym Leaders actually had a decent role in the story and for once the opposing team actually had secrets and mysteries that they kept hidden till the very end.

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Day 21: Game/Arc with the best story

Goin on the bandwagon with Black/White. Seriously... it took the handhelds in a direction I liked. It was a bit more serious in relation to the others. And N had world domination for a little bit Even though that wasn't his real intention. Take that Giovanni.

Okay I'm done now. XD

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Day 21: Best game/arc with the best story; I'm going to be predictable here and say B/W. Team Plasma got further than any of the past teams ever did... the story was very good for a handheld console game... and I felt it was well thought out.

'When you find an Escape Rope in a cave... you just know you're going to be in there for a while.'

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Day 20 - Favorite region
In terms of aesthetic appeal from the region it's self I would say Johto. It's got a mass of land, but a good deal of Water in the Whirl Islands region, and the right next to Goldenroad and south Johto. I love the areas of Lake Rage, Ice Path, Dragon's Den, Bug Catching(National Park) area, the area's surronding Ecruteak. The region just game me a classic Japanese style appeal. In terms of cities I like Sinnoh with awesome cities like Jubilife, Florma Town(I like the flower area in that towns surrounding area, Hearthome, Veilstone, Sunyshore.


Day 21 - Best Game/Arc with the Best Story
I was never too high on any of the stories to be honest. I did like the concept of them making Shadow pokemon and Shadow Lugia.

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Day 20: Favorite Region

I think Unova is the best. Granted, a lot of the cool stuff in Unova is only because of the much better capabilities of the DS, but that doesn't change my opinion. I think all the cities are really cool, and I like how there are less routes, but they're longer. I have yet to see White Forest, too, so I'm hoping that's good.

Day 21: Best Game/Arc with the best story

I'll jump on the BW BW and say BW. (And I STILL haven't finished it. Why am I so slow?) Liberating Pokemon....sounds like a very interesting concept. The characters seem more developed than those of other games. Plus it seems darker than the other storylines.
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Day 21 - Game/Arc with the best story
Easily BW. I remember always thinking, doesn't any one ever realize that they are taking pokemon from the wild, cramming them in balls, and making them fight until they faint? Then along came N. :P
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Day 22: A movie which disappointed you
Ummm everything after the first three I guess? I don't watch the anime anymore. But, I am looking forward to the Victini movies. :]
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Day 22: A movie which disappointed you
This one is hard. I hardly watch the Pokemon anime, more so the movies. :/
I'd say the Spell of the Unown disappointed me quite a bit. I didn't enjoy myself while watching. It was boring imo.

Then again, I have a weird movie standard....=p

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Yes the Fourth one was Pokemon 4Ever Celebi: Voice of the Forest. Which also included Suicune.

Day 22 - A movie which disappointed you
I wasn't to high on Pokemon 3: Spell of the Unknown. Was mah, mediocre at best. Definitely not to epic portions of it's predessors or movies with global catastrophic. Not to say that makes a good movie, but it seemed seemed to small scale to me, didn't like the story to much. Molly came off as a huge brat through out the movie.

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Day 23: Most interesting Pokemon sprite, in your opinion


What is this? What is this? Is this Charizard? What is he doing? Is he dying? His tail flame seems to be non-existent. But oh well. Interesting sprite...and always my favorite, just because it's funny.
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Day 23: Most interesting Pokemon sprite, in your opinion
This, of course! You have literally seen it all. xD
In all seriousness, I really think that RB sprite for Golbat is really interesting. I mean, just look at its tongue! It's sticking out!

Oh how I wish it was animated. =p

EDIT: Oh, and Cryogonal too.

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Day 20: Favorite region
I'd have to say Hoenn. It was a great region with lots of water to explore. It had a large variety of climates too.

Day 21 - Best Game/Arc with the Best Story
Any of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games had a wonderful story. The story always sucked me in, in those games.

Day 22 - A movie which disappointed you.
It is hard to choose one but Jirachi Wish Maker is probably the one. It was probably the least exciting out of all of them.

Day 23: Most interesting Pokemon sprite, in your opinion

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Day 23 - Most interesting Pokemon sprite:
Hydreigon's B/W sprite

The animation confused me at first, but after staring at it for a while, I finally understood its movement patterns. It looked interesting, to say the least.

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Day 22 - A movie which disappointed you.Any movie featuring Ash Ketc... wait, that's all of them, isn't it? Yeah, all of them were disappointing.

Day 23: Most interesting Pokemon sprite, in your opinion
RB Golbat. With that huge tongue sticking out, it's bordering between comical and terrifying :P

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I can't believe I haven't done this sooner. Out of all the 30 Days of _____ Challenges here at PC, this one just made me read through the whole thread. <3
I shall put the catching up parts in quotation and spoiler (since this'll be a long post for sure).
I'll still open the post with today's challenge, though.

Day 23 - Most interesting Pokemon sprite, in your opinion

I'm moving away from the odd looking Red/Green sprites and post a pair of sprites which wouldn't be as interesting without the other:

After my brother took note of it, I always found it fascinating how Onix's Gold sprite (left) looked like a rotated capital 'G' with his pose. But then I found out that his Silver sprite (right) looked like a flipped capital 'S' which means that they intentionally drew Onix's alternate sprites according to the first letter of their game! 8D
Too bad his Crystal sprite didn't follow suit, and simply animated and rehashed his Silver sprite. Still, the letter 'S' is present in Crystal...

Spoiler:
Day 01 - Your first Pokemon game
Pokemon Gold. I got to play Pokemon Yellow when I was younger, but Gold was the first one I actually owned and beat.

Day 02 - Your favourite Pokemon
It's a tie between Growlithe and Squirtle. They're both on top. :3

Day 03 - A Pokemon that is underrated
Flygon. Just because he isn't pseudo-legendary doesn't mean he can't kick butt. He was awesome in my Ruby, and I didn't feel guilty at all for raising him from a Trapinch.

Day 04 - Your favorite item
Moomoo Milk! I love saying it when I played Gold. Very nutritious and a feel-good drink for my beloved Pokemon. Lemonade/Soda Pop/Fresh Water get second place, too.

Day 05 - Character you feel you are most like (or wish you were)
Wally. I felt like a shy and sickly child during my childhood days, and I always had to gain my confidence from others. I felt like I've improved like Wally has in R/S/E now, though.

Day 06 - Most annoying character
I think every single NPC that talks excessively gets this award. Most have been mentioned in this thread, too.

Day 07 - Favourite couple
I can't think of an instance from the game for this, so I'll look at the anime/manga here. I think Ash X May is the best anime pairing, so far. But for the manga, I'd go with Silver X Blue, closely followed by Red X Yellow.

Day 08 - Best soundtrack
This one is HARD. The best most recent one would definitely be the DP Pokemon League Theme. It's surprising how I'm already getting nostalgic while listening to a relatively recent song. I love the first three generation's soundtracks equally (making me think of how hard picking out the best for me is), but I'll at least pick some of my favorites...that is, the GSC Surf Theme (other Surf Themes are good, too), Goldenrod City Theme, National Park Theme, Ecruteak/Cianwood Themes, All of the Bike Themes...argh this IS hard. I'll just stop, and listen happily to all of them. Still, I have to say, and I'm surprised that no one has spoken of this, that Verdanturf Town's music just gives me the chills with its awesome nostalgia and soothing melody. <3

Day 09 - Saddest scene
All PMD endings are equally the saddest scenes in the franchise. Each one made me really emotional. PMD2's ending even made me cry a little.

Day 10 - Best game innovation
Although my first thought would be the Physical/Special split, I think that it didn't help every Pokemon, because, for example, Alakazam lost the Elemental Punches and Sceptile lost his signature Leaf Blade. So I'd say the unlimited TM use was the better innovation.

1Day 11 - Favorite part of the franchise (games, manga, anime, etc.)
I'd say the games, of course. PMD + Main Series rocks. But the manga ain't bad, either. The anime was quite good at times, too.

Day 12 - An anime episode everyone should see
The first one, of course! But you should watch the whole first season if you plan to watch the first episode, because it's really nostalgic, fun and silly. XD The farewell episodes deserve to be watched too, or the character development-centric episodes (if you have a favourite character in the anime), if you don't have the time to watch whole seasons. :3

Day 13 - A Pokemon you've used more than five times
Arcanine! Thank goodness it was available in G/S/C. That gave me the opportunity to use it within all four Generations, including the remakes. What? You say that's not more than five? I've replayed these games for quite a number of times, and who says I can't play Yellow and Crystal after playing R/B and G/S? >:3

Day 14 - Current (or most recent) Pokemon wallpaper
Sigh, I'm afraid I haven't been using Pokemon wallpapers because I don't have a personal computer. I do remember trying out the PMD2 wallpapers from its launch site, as well as certain high quality Pokemon fan art I find in the internet. I just can't remember which one I tried out the latest, so I stated both. :P

Day 15 - Post your current team from a game of your choice
I can't remember my past teams that well so I'll go with my current one in White:
Excadrill, Mienfoo, Darmanitan, Jellicent and Fraxure. Wait, it's not full yet, because I'll soon put a Braviary I have yet to meet in the missing slot.

Day 16 - Favourite cut scene
PMD2 Ending beats all cutscenes in the main games. It always gets to me, and just takes the cake that's not a lie.

Day 17 - Favourite antagonist
Silver from PokeSpe. He's just awesome, and I think I liked PokeSpe because of him.

Day 18 - Favourite protagonist
Brock in the anime. He just made everything better when he was around. Cilan's a good replacement, though. :3

Day 19 - Picture of a Pokemon town/city you wish you lived in
Definitely Verdanturf Town! I love the calm music and the soothing atmosphere. :)

Day 20 - Favourite region
Hoenn! It just was the first to bring much needed variety to the main series.

Day 21 - Game/Arc with the best story
I haven't finished B/W, but I have high expectations based on what I've already played. And so far, it might actually be the best in the main series. GSC Arc of the manga was also awesome.

Day 22 - A movie which disappointed you
Destiny Deoxys could have used some main character development (I'm not referring to the star character that's only shown in one movie, I'm talking about Ash and co.). Rise of the Darkrai was also pretty bland when Darkrai wasn't on the screen.

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Whew...that took up more time than I expected.
Oh, and I'm sorry if some of the later challenge responses were short. I initially had long responses there (and actually almost finished the whole darn post...hey, I tried to recreate the responses anyway), but the fact is I got logged out while typing and I accidentally clicked Preview Post. T_T
Good thing I didn't have to start over...because I copied part of what I wrote from Notepad.
Lesson learned: never forget using Ctrl + A > Ctrl + C before clicking Preview Post. :\


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Day 21: Game/Arc with the best story
The RS arc of PokeSupe. I hated the games, loved the manga arc. The characters (except for Sapphire) are all awesome; the battles are awesome, the emotion put into it is amazing... Yeah, even though there was a change in mangaka or something like that they did good. The DP and BW arcs are also pretty damn awesome. I love the tsukkomi/boke acts (and how the translators manage to alter the puns a little to make them American puns AND explain the original pun in a side note), and Black is pretty cool, even if he is a bit like your typical shounen hero so far. Oh, and N is boss.

Day 22: A movie which disappointed you
Not really a movie unless you want to count it as one, but the Mirage Pokemon one, I guess? I just really didn't like it that much because the voice acting sucked (it was after the American voice actor switch, sob) and it just wasn't interesting.

Day 23: Most interesting Pokemon sprite, in your opinion
Cryogonal reminds me of a Final Fantasy Bomb morphed into an icicle. I mean seriously, how could you not see it in a Final Fantasy game?

A lot of the Green sprites are also pretty unusual. Then again, if you look at the silly translations, well...


It looks like Green Dratini's more detailed than the others, save for the lack of different shades of color. I mean, if it were real it seems like I could touch its belly and it would be slimy like a snake or something. Idk XD;
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