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We continue our savage romp through the Underground City as we beat up some more comically underpowered Dark Thugs.
Max Ether is nice. Imagine if Ethers were a buyable item in these games - it would take away the charm of finding these out in the open, but it'd be way more practical that way. I'd gladly welcome that change.
What the shit?
This one goon took the form of a present in order to fool Monica (and by extension me, the player). That's outright Snakewood shenanigans.
What are you going to do about it, tough guy?
Ah. You'll lightly tickle me with your team of pre-evolutions. How terrifying.
: "Love you too~
"
Oh hey, those things I don't need anymore. To think, in the vanilla games, these are incredibly valuable due to them actually being rare. In here, they're the most common tool I use just to catch up with the game.
Funny how life works, huh?
If only that were the case, huh? I wish.
Completely accurate to my feelings. If I could use Frustration, I'd be hitting for max damage right now.
You get some... okay stuff here. Monica puts the sunglasses on to look cool, but it's like... night right now. So whoops.
He talks about a plot macguffin Ruby and how a certain kid took it and ran
Personally, I just want an excuse to punch Kayo and his Pokemon in the face, so let's get on with it.
Weavile is a joke. See, they're good post-Generation 4 because of the Physical/Special split allowing their Attack-based moveset to shine, as both Dark and Ice were considered Special beforehand.
In Generation 3, though? Next to worthless, despite their cool designs.
: ("Ah! I don't envy Ambes having to deal with this. Goodness...")
And yet we still get frozen because my luck is abominable, apparently.
Reuniclus has a dopey sprite in this game. It has a perpetually open mouth and looks like it wants to hug you more than anything.
Zoroark wasn't much of a threat either, but he hit like a champ... so he had at least that going for him.
Meanwhile, Ignell cleans up the rest of the trash.
You're honestly surprised given our track record?
Kayo taunts you a bit regarding Pete and how he's in a "far worse situation than you can imagine."
Oh and have some extra cheese to go along with this.
I don't really care if this idiot tries to redeem himself - Monica is just going to punch him in the face and kick him in the ass if he does.
At the very least he knows what's up and leaves Monica alone before she goes on a rampage.
(By the way if you tried to talk to this guy before fighting Kayo, he would have no lines... which is kind of creepy given how he just stands there.)
But hey, we get Fly! That's pretty kickass, especially given how we have the completely required badge to use it. (wink, wink)
Monica and the B-Team take a small break from all of the madness.
: ("It feels like a lifetime of stress is washing away...")
: "I know, right? Man... It's a pretty crazy journey we're on. Little breaks like these are invaluable."
: ("You said it, sister.")
: ("It's certainly... an adventure, to say the least. This is just as relaxing as eating a good dream once in a while.")
[Sad Story]
: "Hey guys. Do you ever wonder what it would be like if we lived normal lives? As in, we didn't have to do all of this "chosen one destined to save the world" bullcrap?"
: ("We'd certainly be different people. Personally, with all we've gone through, peace and quiet is the only thing I want out of this.")
: ("You took the words right out of my mouth.")
: "I just feel like everybody's punching bag given how often we get into fights. That's sort of why I've been so pissy lately, you know? Like jeez, can we not get stringed along by these random people for once?"
[Monica leans against the wall and sighs]
: ("Yeah, it is pretty annoying... But hey. At least you have us!")
: ("Monica, dear, I understand how you feel. My own trainer had the same issue back where we lived, and I don't blame him either. Trust me when I say that this will all pass. Not now or even in the foreseeable future, but... you can't let any of this get to you.")
[Bellamine grabs Monica and holds her in a tender embrace]
: "... Ah. Don't worry about me, miss Bellamine. The fact you care about me this much is... kinda touching."
[Monica breaks into small tears. She notices them and wipes them away]
[voice breaks]: "... What a time to get sappy. Sheesh."
: ("So you do have a soft side after all. I'm glad to see you're not dead inside!")
: ("Indeed. Crying isn't a sign of weakness, Monica. You're just being honest with your feelings.")
[Still wiping away tears]: "Man, you guys are a bunch of dorks... But then again, that's why I love you."
: ("Now that we're refreshed, let's go. I have faith in all of you.")
: "Yeah... Let's rock."
Ahem.
Well, with that out of the way, let's go into this very original route. Back in Chapter 3 or so, I joked about areas looking a bit similar to the original game.
I mean, the new maps didn't look terrible at first... until the rest of the game happened. I didn't expect this to turn into a glorified Kanto reskin.
Also, poorly tiled grass that you can't avoid. Better have repels handy!
This guy has no flying type Pokemon, so I assume his original trainer class was a Bird Keeper.
Numassity sounds a gibberish word. Can someone tell me what it means if it's a real word? I'd appreciate it.
Oh boy, we're going to Not-Celadon today, are we?
Hey, it's Pete. What's the news, my man?
(Oh hey, text I'm not just summarizing for once!)
: "Pete! Are you okay?! I came to rescue you and -"
: "Rescue me?! I'm sick and tired of everyone coming to my rescue. Look at you. You're the big hero, huh? The savior of the world! You're not that special."
Ouch. Monica doesn't even want to be a hero anyway, but it still stings a bit.
(Okay, back to summarizing.)
: "Where is this coming from?"
: "I'm sick of everybody from Fells looking down at me, despite the fact I befriended a Pokemon way before all of you. You and Noah get all the glory."
In-Game Monica assumes it's Darugis controlling him, which is this game's universal cop-out for genuine character turmoil. To be fair, though, Pete says that these are his true feelings, so...
"My true potential is greater than yours!"
We'll just see about that. But oh man, I thought me and Pete were cool.
Okay, stop. No, you can't do this.
If it wasn't obvious that this game is trying too hard, we now have Dark EVIL Pete. It wasn't enough that he was called Dark Pete - we have to completely solidify him as an edgelord this way even when it's not necessary.
Subtlety, what's that?
Claydol tries to bulk itself up as a form of intimidation. It worked for a little bit until I realized a 1.5x boost to Defense and Special Defense isn't going to do much against Ignell's (actually pretty crazy) Special Attack.
: ("Not a fan of those strange... statue things, to be completely honest.")
Scrafty is still a pain with their crazy bulk. Even a tag-team effort between Hel and Ignell (hey they rhyme) could barely take him down.
The Excadrill, on the other hand, should have no excuse for surviving as long as it did.
I guess Feraligatr is my second favorite out of the Johto starters. Meganium isn't as cute as its pre-evolutions and Typhlosion just kicks ass.
Hyper Beam actually scared the shit out of me there, but I also figured it wouldn't be enough to kill Vera in one hit.
She gets too many close calls, I swear.
To think, as of Gen 6, any Dragon or Dark type that Bellamine fights is fucked without question unless they're either part
or Uber-levels of strong.
Sorry I had to do this to you, man, but you deserved it.
Believe it or not, the game tries to take the blame away from Pete by saying that he was possessed by some man clad in black clothes... so that character development went nowhere. In-Game Monica almost decides to leave Pete behind, but instead:
Yep, he's sure going to contribute a lot in the final battle.
At the very least he's going to be part of Team Somehow Badass from now on.
This better be good if the game has to stop me.
(Random thought: Oh shit we forgot about the Plume Fossil back in Mystic Falls. Ooops. Should we go get it?... Nah.)
Hey it's that guy from before. The dad of the white-haired Not-Steven guy from Iceland City.
He's here because he wants to give us the Master Ball, but he got awfully winded just from running a few paces to where we are now.
Would you look at that? We collectively forgot about the Master Ball thing because, honestly, we don't need to capture more Pokemon with how things are going. At the very least Monica has a reason for forgetting about it given all the crap that happens on an hourly basis.
Oh my god, can you not? Why is every single conflict in this stupid game resolved with a fight?
We're not missing much aside from the fact he has a primarily
type team. That's nice.
Why do people question Monica's worthiness after all of the stuff she's done? Like no, seriously, she's literally called the Chosen One and has helped out a ton of people (V notwithstanding because fuck that guy), complete with Arceus's blessing.
I mean, seriously. You know what it is? A crutch. The reason there's so many fights in such a short span of time is because DRG doesn't know how pacing works. This is why it feels so exhausting despite being half the length of Snakewood - it's time spent on grinding and fighting all of these random people that drags out the story, what little there actually is.
Oh yeah, by the way? This guy blocks the way from now on. I feel sorry for any person who didn't beat Not-Lucy (Serena) and got the badge that lets them learn Fly, because this is exactly what I was talking about.
See, you will be required to use Fly at one point to proceed with the story... but you can't without the badge and this guy will stop you from backtracking to Serena. The hopelessly incompetent coding deadgames you just because this one old man.
In some regards, I consider Kai's Father to be more heinous than Darugis despite being on our side.
I like to imagine there's a tiny note at the bottom of the sign that says "*Joy not included" just to complete the experience.
Can someone please explain to me what's with the pink and blue balls on the ground? You can walk over them and nobody references their existence... so I'm incredibly confused.
... You weren't even trying with this one.
How shameless can you get at this point?
That's the entire message, by the way. I'll let you fill in what he was going to say.
Since this place is a fusion between Celadon and Saffron, there's two gyms here. The Fighting gym isn't too terribly interesting. They give you either a Throh or a Sawk if you win.
Psychic is neat, but the only person of worth that can use it is Bellamine... who already knows it. At the very least it's here in case you want to deal with what's up ahead.
: "Who sent you?! ... Oh wait, you're just fans. Never mind."
Oh snap, people who know about Monica that don't want to beat her to a bloody pulp!
I don't know what causes them to fawn over you, but this is still very appreciated.
: "Oh snap! I've always wanted a bike ever since I was 12."
: "Rad. Childhood dreams do come true!"
(I heard there's a mistake where, even if you have the Bike Voucher, the game doesn't recognize it and denies you from getting the bike. I'm glad that didn't happen to me here.)
Sadly, as cool as the bike is, running is actually faster. Sigh.
Whoa, hey now - we're getting into fanfiction levels of plot.
Then again, this entire game is one bad fanfiction, so...
... This has to be the tackiest gym I've seen yet. Even the NPCs in the game think it looks horrible, which is hilarious.
Despite clearly being Sabrina's unedited gym, this place is a
type gym for some reason.
Hmmm... Where have I seen this before? A young pink-haired girl with a childish attitude that also runs a
-type gym, armed with insanely overpowered Pokemon. Oh, and to help prepare for her inevitable onslaught, the game throws a bunch of
-type Pokemon at you.
This isn't just a ripoff - it's straight up plagarism from the actual games. Replace Whitney with that one partner girl you get in Generation 4 that you'd have to go out of your way to meet and you're set. (Her name is Mira - I had to look her up because I actually forgot who she was)
Ambipom isn't much of a threat. They're fast and know Attract, but nothing Ignell can't handle.
... Ignell falling in love with a lady monkey is a hilarious mental image, though.
RETURN OF THE RUDE CRUDE DUDES ALERT
I never thought I would use this again, but damn is it necessary. Meloetta here (who is shiny, by the way - don't think you're slick) is brutal. She has crazy attack and speed (128 for both) to the point where she could sweep the entire team.
To make matters worse, she has a Lum Berry to recover from any status effect you throw at her, which makes things a joy to deal with.
Lumis, by virtue of being the B-Team's tank, is the only one that can stand up to her without getting horribly slaughtered. Surprisingly enough, the thing that tripped me up the most was their typing.
This is the Pirouette form for Meloetta, so they're
/
. I forgot that was a thing and assumed they were
/
like the singing form. As such, I didn't use any Psychic moves on them despite that being super-effective.
Way to go, player Dan, you somehow managed to screw up a simple fact regarding one of your favorite Gen 5 Pokemon.
: ("Ah! Her dreams taste like cotton candy. I'm glad you keep bringing me to these, because the legendaries have excellent dreams.")
Meloetta may be one of my favorites, but they still deserve to get the shit whapped out of them if they're going to play like that.
Porygon-Z tried to boost their strength with Nasty Plot, but Ignell shot them down in an instant.
Do I even like Lickilicky? I mean, they're a step up from Lickitung... who is just plain gross-looking.
She even has a Miltank like Whitney! What the hell, dude?!
I don't think the levels were ever meant to be scaled up this high for the badges, given how Bellamine is like level 80.
We beat up a young girl and got a badge for it, so that's a job well do--
That's a very good question, actually. Thank you for addressing that, In-Game Monica.
Not-Mira: "I don't claim Meloetta as mine, silly. Me and my dad Alder befriended it years ago."
: "Wow."
I can't tell if that's an amazed wow or a "this is super contrived" wow. I'm heavily leaning on the latter.
[She hands a Calm Mind TM over to Monica]
"Meloetta prefers to be in her dancing form."
Riiiiiiiight. She also just happens to be shiny, am I right? (Freakin' kids and their gamesharks...)
Anyway, we're done here. That's another gym down and I might tackle all of them soon enough.
... Uh. Hello, tall, dark and scary.
We can walk past the imposing giant of a man like he doesn't exist, but that'd be boring.
Not-Sephiroth here is called Adrian, and he's the Omni League Champion. He was apparently signing autographs while he was in Numassity, but Monica senses that he might be a tad off. You know, being a ten foot tall man clad in dark clothes.
The only things he needs are dark angel wings and a katana the size of his body so the shameless rip-off cycle can be complete.
... The ones that are good.
Okay, Ryu from Street Fighter.
She's not that hard aside from the Meloetta. Plus, she's a kid. It's a bit embarrassing to have a man your size and age obsess over something like that.
Anyway, we're at the latest town. I swear to god if there's any Spanish soap operas here, I'm going to chuck someone through a window.
There's just this house occupied by stuffed dolls. A girl outside of it says that it belongs to Not-Mira, which is uh... nice, I guess?
Scott, stop being an omnipresent creep.
This guy has to have the most expository dialogue out of any random trainer we've met.
He specifically mentions at least two new plot important areas (the No Man's Land desert and the Montage Fortress) and how they're so hardcore that they require all eight Core Region Badges to get through. Really, he's just in the way.
So have Ignell burning up another Excadrill just because.
Danny Iyelo? Why does that name sound so famili--
Oh my god, she went there. Context: Danny Aiello was an actor in several American movies, including but not limited to The Godfather: Part II. What a badly veiled version of him is doing in a Pokemon game, let alone a rom hack like Dark Rising, is so beyond me that it may as well be in a different dimension altogether.
This sounds vaguely meme-ish. Also, would you believe me that the Core Region has two Day Care centers because of this?
... No thanks, big man. (You get Body Slam from his brothers, but Monica doesn't want to get wrapped up in the labors of sweaty, shirtless men.)
There's also this large, imposing building that's totally not Silph Co. As much as I'd love to tackle it...
I have to cut it off for this chapter. Next time on Dark Rising... I have to step up my game a bit.
See you then.
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Team setup:
(Bellamine, level 83, has Sand Cloak,
,
) - "I definitely feel better after that hot spring visit. Monica looks happier too."
(Hel, level 75,
,
/
) - "See what I mean? All it takes is some pep talk."
(Lumis, level 72,
,
) - "I'm just glad Monica is feeling better. Oh, and would you look at that - the A-Team seems to be recovering!"
(Ignell, level 78,
,
/
) - "Excellent! Things are definitely looking up for us."
(Sathala, level 73,
,
) - "Pete was such an edgelord, oh my god."
(Vera, level 76,
,
) - "Pretty much. Personally, I'm convinced that anybody who's not a member of our team is crazy, stupid or both."
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Back up team:
(Corin, level 95, has Dragon Fang,
,
/
) - "Hey! My fever's gone! Sweet."
(Sigurd, level 96,
,
/
) - [Steadily wakes up] "Oh man... That was some crazy dream. It felt like a lost memory, actually..."
(Siegfried, level 93,
,
/
) - [Hops up from the hospital bed] "Hey! I don't have a splitting headache anymore. Oh, and you guys look better too! That's awesome!"
(Gale, level 90,
,
/
) - "Yeah, we're definitely not writhing in pain anymore. So that's good."
(Arthur, level 91,
,
/
) - "I'm not going to ask how or why, I'm just glad it's over!"
(Wave, level 91,
,
) - "We should be able to help Monica again... but it looks like the B-Team has it covered for now."
(Cinder, level 40,
,
) - [Nudges Arthur] "Uh, guys? The... things that happened? How about telling Sigurd and Siegfried about 'em?"
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Spoiler:
We continue our savage romp through the Underground City as we beat up some more comically underpowered Dark Thugs.
Max Ether is nice. Imagine if Ethers were a buyable item in these games - it would take away the charm of finding these out in the open, but it'd be way more practical that way. I'd gladly welcome that change.
What the shit?
This one goon took the form of a present in order to fool Monica (and by extension me, the player). That's outright Snakewood shenanigans.
What are you going to do about it, tough guy?
Ah. You'll lightly tickle me with your team of pre-evolutions. How terrifying.
Oh hey, those things I don't need anymore. To think, in the vanilla games, these are incredibly valuable due to them actually being rare. In here, they're the most common tool I use just to catch up with the game.
Funny how life works, huh?
If only that were the case, huh? I wish.
Completely accurate to my feelings. If I could use Frustration, I'd be hitting for max damage right now.
You get some... okay stuff here. Monica puts the sunglasses on to look cool, but it's like... night right now. So whoops.
He talks about a plot macguffin Ruby and how a certain kid took it and ran
Personally, I just want an excuse to punch Kayo and his Pokemon in the face, so let's get on with it.
Weavile is a joke. See, they're good post-Generation 4 because of the Physical/Special split allowing their Attack-based moveset to shine, as both Dark and Ice were considered Special beforehand.
In Generation 3, though? Next to worthless, despite their cool designs.
And yet we still get frozen because my luck is abominable, apparently.
Reuniclus has a dopey sprite in this game. It has a perpetually open mouth and looks like it wants to hug you more than anything.
Zoroark wasn't much of a threat either, but he hit like a champ... so he had at least that going for him.
Meanwhile, Ignell cleans up the rest of the trash.
You're honestly surprised given our track record?
Kayo taunts you a bit regarding Pete and how he's in a "far worse situation than you can imagine."
Oh and have some extra cheese to go along with this.
I don't really care if this idiot tries to redeem himself - Monica is just going to punch him in the face and kick him in the ass if he does.
At the very least he knows what's up and leaves Monica alone before she goes on a rampage.
(By the way if you tried to talk to this guy before fighting Kayo, he would have no lines... which is kind of creepy given how he just stands there.)
But hey, we get Fly! That's pretty kickass, especially given how we have the completely required badge to use it. (wink, wink)
Monica and the B-Team take a small break from all of the madness.
[Sad Story]
[Monica leans against the wall and sighs]
[Bellamine grabs Monica and holds her in a tender embrace]
[Monica breaks into small tears. She notices them and wipes them away]
Ahem.
Well, with that out of the way, let's go into this very original route. Back in Chapter 3 or so, I joked about areas looking a bit similar to the original game.
I mean, the new maps didn't look terrible at first... until the rest of the game happened. I didn't expect this to turn into a glorified Kanto reskin.
Also, poorly tiled grass that you can't avoid. Better have repels handy!
This guy has no flying type Pokemon, so I assume his original trainer class was a Bird Keeper.
Numassity sounds a gibberish word. Can someone tell me what it means if it's a real word? I'd appreciate it.
Oh boy, we're going to Not-Celadon today, are we?
Hey, it's Pete. What's the news, my man?
(Oh hey, text I'm not just summarizing for once!)
Ouch. Monica doesn't even want to be a hero anyway, but it still stings a bit.
(Okay, back to summarizing.)
In-Game Monica assumes it's Darugis controlling him, which is this game's universal cop-out for genuine character turmoil. To be fair, though, Pete says that these are his true feelings, so...
"My true potential is greater than yours!"
We'll just see about that. But oh man, I thought me and Pete were cool.
Okay, stop. No, you can't do this.
If it wasn't obvious that this game is trying too hard, we now have Dark EVIL Pete. It wasn't enough that he was called Dark Pete - we have to completely solidify him as an edgelord this way even when it's not necessary.
Subtlety, what's that?
Claydol tries to bulk itself up as a form of intimidation. It worked for a little bit until I realized a 1.5x boost to Defense and Special Defense isn't going to do much against Ignell's (actually pretty crazy) Special Attack.
Scrafty is still a pain with their crazy bulk. Even a tag-team effort between Hel and Ignell (hey they rhyme) could barely take him down.
The Excadrill, on the other hand, should have no excuse for surviving as long as it did.
I guess Feraligatr is my second favorite out of the Johto starters. Meganium isn't as cute as its pre-evolutions and Typhlosion just kicks ass.
Hyper Beam actually scared the shit out of me there, but I also figured it wouldn't be enough to kill Vera in one hit.
She gets too many close calls, I swear.
To think, as of Gen 6, any Dragon or Dark type that Bellamine fights is fucked without question unless they're either part
Sorry I had to do this to you, man, but you deserved it.
Believe it or not, the game tries to take the blame away from Pete by saying that he was possessed by some man clad in black clothes... so that character development went nowhere. In-Game Monica almost decides to leave Pete behind, but instead:
Yep, he's sure going to contribute a lot in the final battle.
At the very least he's going to be part of Team Somehow Badass from now on.
This better be good if the game has to stop me.
(Random thought: Oh shit we forgot about the Plume Fossil back in Mystic Falls. Ooops. Should we go get it?... Nah.)
Hey it's that guy from before. The dad of the white-haired Not-Steven guy from Iceland City.
He's here because he wants to give us the Master Ball, but he got awfully winded just from running a few paces to where we are now.
Would you look at that? We collectively forgot about the Master Ball thing because, honestly, we don't need to capture more Pokemon with how things are going. At the very least Monica has a reason for forgetting about it given all the crap that happens on an hourly basis.
Oh my god, can you not? Why is every single conflict in this stupid game resolved with a fight?
We're not missing much aside from the fact he has a primarily
Why do people question Monica's worthiness after all of the stuff she's done? Like no, seriously, she's literally called the Chosen One and has helped out a ton of people (V notwithstanding because fuck that guy), complete with Arceus's blessing.
I mean, seriously. You know what it is? A crutch. The reason there's so many fights in such a short span of time is because DRG doesn't know how pacing works. This is why it feels so exhausting despite being half the length of Snakewood - it's time spent on grinding and fighting all of these random people that drags out the story, what little there actually is.
Oh yeah, by the way? This guy blocks the way from now on. I feel sorry for any person who didn't beat Not-Lucy (Serena) and got the badge that lets them learn Fly, because this is exactly what I was talking about.
See, you will be required to use Fly at one point to proceed with the story... but you can't without the badge and this guy will stop you from backtracking to Serena. The hopelessly incompetent coding deadgames you just because this one old man.
In some regards, I consider Kai's Father to be more heinous than Darugis despite being on our side.
I like to imagine there's a tiny note at the bottom of the sign that says "*Joy not included" just to complete the experience.
Can someone please explain to me what's with the pink and blue balls on the ground? You can walk over them and nobody references their existence... so I'm incredibly confused.
... You weren't even trying with this one.
How shameless can you get at this point?
That's the entire message, by the way. I'll let you fill in what he was going to say.
Since this place is a fusion between Celadon and Saffron, there's two gyms here. The Fighting gym isn't too terribly interesting. They give you either a Throh or a Sawk if you win.
Psychic is neat, but the only person of worth that can use it is Bellamine... who already knows it. At the very least it's here in case you want to deal with what's up ahead.
Oh snap, people who know about Monica that don't want to beat her to a bloody pulp!
I don't know what causes them to fawn over you, but this is still very appreciated.
(I heard there's a mistake where, even if you have the Bike Voucher, the game doesn't recognize it and denies you from getting the bike. I'm glad that didn't happen to me here.)
Sadly, as cool as the bike is, running is actually faster. Sigh.
Whoa, hey now - we're getting into fanfiction levels of plot.
Then again, this entire game is one bad fanfiction, so...
... This has to be the tackiest gym I've seen yet. Even the NPCs in the game think it looks horrible, which is hilarious.
Despite clearly being Sabrina's unedited gym, this place is a
Hmmm... Where have I seen this before? A young pink-haired girl with a childish attitude that also runs a
This isn't just a ripoff - it's straight up plagarism from the actual games. Replace Whitney with that one partner girl you get in Generation 4 that you'd have to go out of your way to meet and you're set. (Her name is Mira - I had to look her up because I actually forgot who she was)
Ambipom isn't much of a threat. They're fast and know Attract, but nothing Ignell can't handle.
... Ignell falling in love with a lady monkey is a hilarious mental image, though.
I never thought I would use this again, but damn is it necessary. Meloetta here (who is shiny, by the way - don't think you're slick) is brutal. She has crazy attack and speed (128 for both) to the point where she could sweep the entire team.
To make matters worse, she has a Lum Berry to recover from any status effect you throw at her, which makes things a joy to deal with.
Lumis, by virtue of being the B-Team's tank, is the only one that can stand up to her without getting horribly slaughtered. Surprisingly enough, the thing that tripped me up the most was their typing.
This is the Pirouette form for Meloetta, so they're
Way to go, player Dan, you somehow managed to screw up a simple fact regarding one of your favorite Gen 5 Pokemon.
Meloetta may be one of my favorites, but they still deserve to get the shit whapped out of them if they're going to play like that.
Porygon-Z tried to boost their strength with Nasty Plot, but Ignell shot them down in an instant.
Do I even like Lickilicky? I mean, they're a step up from Lickitung... who is just plain gross-looking.
She even has a Miltank like Whitney! What the hell, dude?!
I don't think the levels were ever meant to be scaled up this high for the badges, given how Bellamine is like level 80.
We beat up a young girl and got a badge for it, so that's a job well do--
That's a very good question, actually. Thank you for addressing that, In-Game Monica.
Not-Mira: "I don't claim Meloetta as mine, silly. Me and my dad Alder befriended it years ago."
I can't tell if that's an amazed wow or a "this is super contrived" wow. I'm heavily leaning on the latter.
[She hands a Calm Mind TM over to Monica]
"Meloetta prefers to be in her dancing form."
Riiiiiiiight. She also just happens to be shiny, am I right? (Freakin' kids and their gamesharks...)
Anyway, we're done here. That's another gym down and I might tackle all of them soon enough.
... Uh. Hello, tall, dark and scary.
We can walk past the imposing giant of a man like he doesn't exist, but that'd be boring.
Not-Sephiroth here is called Adrian, and he's the Omni League Champion. He was apparently signing autographs while he was in Numassity, but Monica senses that he might be a tad off. You know, being a ten foot tall man clad in dark clothes.
The only things he needs are dark angel wings and a katana the size of his body so the shameless rip-off cycle can be complete.
... The ones that are good.
Okay, Ryu from Street Fighter.
She's not that hard aside from the Meloetta. Plus, she's a kid. It's a bit embarrassing to have a man your size and age obsess over something like that.
Anyway, we're at the latest town. I swear to god if there's any Spanish soap operas here, I'm going to chuck someone through a window.
There's just this house occupied by stuffed dolls. A girl outside of it says that it belongs to Not-Mira, which is uh... nice, I guess?
Scott, stop being an omnipresent creep.
This guy has to have the most expository dialogue out of any random trainer we've met.
He specifically mentions at least two new plot important areas (the No Man's Land desert and the Montage Fortress) and how they're so hardcore that they require all eight Core Region Badges to get through. Really, he's just in the way.
So have Ignell burning up another Excadrill just because.
Danny Iyelo? Why does that name sound so famili--
Oh my god, she went there. Context: Danny Aiello was an actor in several American movies, including but not limited to The Godfather: Part II. What a badly veiled version of him is doing in a Pokemon game, let alone a rom hack like Dark Rising, is so beyond me that it may as well be in a different dimension altogether.
This sounds vaguely meme-ish. Also, would you believe me that the Core Region has two Day Care centers because of this?
... No thanks, big man. (You get Body Slam from his brothers, but Monica doesn't want to get wrapped up in the labors of sweaty, shirtless men.)
There's also this large, imposing building that's totally not Silph Co. As much as I'd love to tackle it...
I have to cut it off for this chapter. Next time on Dark Rising... I have to step up my game a bit.
See you then.
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Team setup:
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Back up team: