Let's Play Pokémon HeartGold, Episode 1: The Generic-ness Begins!

Day 1 - Friday, March 26th 2010
WARNING: LOTS OF MISSPELLINGS AND JUNK IN THIS ONE THAT IWAS TOO LAZY TO FIX!


And so begins my adventure! It begins at the wonderful location of Target, where I buy the game on sale for $40 after waiting for twenty minutes for my mom to stop looking at shirts and give me my effing gift cards (not sure why I couldn't just hold 'em, but whatevers). During this time, we engage in a not-colorful and playful argument about whether SoulSilver or HeartGold is better. He says SS is, but I just got this one because the version exclusives are better, though I am upset that I'm giving up Meowth and Persian.

So, anyways, we get home from Target (and Kohl's), and I open up the game... except I don't. I wait for three hours because I'm dumb like that. So, at around eight 'o' clock, I start slashing at the thick government plastic that covers the game (funny how with video games it's government plastic and with lightbulbs it's thin cardboard. I guess because they're more urgent?), then read the mile-long Pokewalker instruction manual, all of which I totally disregard, since I won't be using it in my travels for today anyways.

So, anyways, I start up my DS and click on HeartGold, and the year-long intro begins. There's some weird bell tolls during the seven hundred copyright notices, then we watch some people battle it out with Gengars and Suicunes. Afterwards, the title screen FINALLY appears, and guess how you start the game? You touch Ho-oh with your stylus. Yeah, whatever sexual thought you had in your head, you're right.

So... after about fifteen minutes, the game starts. And we get to talk to... not Oak. We get to talk to Professor Elm instead. Hurrayz. So, Elm has a Marill (he's such an avid Pokemon collector, haawwh!). So, he wants to see us, and so I talk to my mommeh, and get my bag and my trainer card. My ID number is 63148. Not sure if this matters or not yet, but I'm soon we'll find out soon enough anyhow. I get an e-mail from my psycho friend Lyra (who ALSO has a Marill and was apparently playing hide and seek with it... ew), who just says she loves Pokemon or whatever. Then, I leave and I go over to Prof. Elm's place (isn't it ironic how his lab is RIGHT near my house?), and he gets an e-mail from Mr. Pokemon. He humps the computer, then says that he has some beautiful discovery, and that he can be found on Route 30 above Cherrygrove City.

He says I should bring a Pokemon with me, so I go over to the Pokemon refridgerator or whatever the crap it is, and I have to pick between a Totodile, Cyndaquil, and Chikorita. I pick Cyndaquil, and it's a male, so I name it Bernard, because I always thought Cyndaquil was very much related to St. Bernard. It was either that or Judas. It's a level 5 and has tackle and leer - pretty standard stuff. It's Quirky and "somewhat of a clown". Good enough. So, I actually start my adventure. An afro guy stops me in front of the door and gives me potions. And I get raped by a Marill on my way out. Yay.

I sign my trainer card with my full name (Tim Toohey), and I go over to some chick, thinking she'll be of some importance. Nope, she just says, "I like your bag!" Avoiding her stupidity and the fact that Elm said "People catch Pokemon in Pokeballs these days" ("these days"? like, since the 90's?), I go over to my mommy, and I show her my "rare" Cyndaquil, and she gives me my Pokegear, which for right now only contains a tellyfone. "It's so wasy to make a phone call these days!" Mom says. Where have these people been the last two generations? So, I get out of mah hauz, and Elm comes out and gives me his tellyfone number, so he can call me when danger threats (or when he feels like hearing my voice).

On my way to Cherrygrove City, I bump into my first wild Pokemon encounter - a Level 3 Sentret. I use my generic Tackle once, then it criticals, and it faints. Hooray for stupid victory. I pass a random guy and think he'll most likely just give me a potion or something, but I don't wanna take the risk that he's a randomly-placed early game trainer, I ignore him. My second encounter is a Level 3 Pidgey. Even with Leer decreasing its accuracy, its Tackles do a buttload of damage. I'm left with 6 of my 18 HP, and the Pidgey faints. Though very damaged, Bernard reaches Level 6, and learns smokescreen - a defense-dropping move. After getting through the enormous patch of grass with only 6 HP, I realize there's a thingus to the right. It's... another effing potion! Hooray! Totally don't already have 5 of those or anything.

I go through a random place where people tell me nothing to see Route 46, but I'm easily intimidated by the oddly large amount of grass, so I go back and head to Cherrygrove. Once there, I'm stopped my a pedophi-- I mean, old man. Apparently, he can tell I'm a rookie trainer? So, he realizes I don't have the Running Shoes yet, so he says he will walk "as slow as possible", meaning he runs really fast, then stops for one second when the camera edge is too close to his gorgeous wrinkly old man face.

Apparently, his name is Guide Gent (who the poop names their kid Gent?), and he gives me a tour of Cherrygrove - the Pokemart, the Pokemon Center, his house, all that good stuff. He explains fishing and junk, then gives me his "still warm" running shoes. Nah, just kidding, they're brand-new... sort of. So, yayz, now I can run.He also gives me the Town Map, then I head up to Route 30, just north of Cherrygrove. I run through some grass and encounter a Caterpie and a Metapod, both of which I ignore, find another potion, and an antedote, then when I go near a house, some dude stops me and gives me the Apricorn Box, where I can store so many apricorns. That'll be useful in due time.

After sailing my way through the millions of Pidgeys and Metapods, I finally reach Mr. frigging Pokemon. Professor Oak is there, and he gives me the Mystery Egg! Owsum! Oak walks VERY SLOWLY around the table and gives me the Pokedex, and his tellyfone number. As I leave, Mr. Pokemon says to bring the Egg to Elm, who calls, gasps, then... dies? On my way out of Cherrygrove, I encounter an emo red-headed dude, who flips me off, then battles me with his Level 5 Totodile. We have a Leer/Tackle shenanigan fest, and I whoop his emo butt within a minute and he pushes me away and goes home to cut himself over his picture of Robert Pattinson. Apparently, I had his trainer card... somehow, so I SAW HIS NAME, HAAAWWWH!, and also, Bernard reaches Level 7 during the fight. I go to Elm's lab, and a cop is there, along with Lyra, and I tell him that the culprit of a missing Pokemon case is that red-headed dude, who I name Derrick (not sure why, just fits his picture). When the police officer and Lyra leave, I give the Mystery Egg to Elm, and he craps his pants after seeing it. He takes and humps it into his refridgerator, then he tells me to leave after I show him my high-tech encyclopedia.

I go outside, and Lyra stops me, and tells me about balls. Pokeballs, you pervert. She gives me an example by using her Marill (because EVERYONE has a Marill in this game), and she fights a Level 2 Rattata. She catches it with one of her 20 friggin' Pokeballs, and gives me 5 of 'em. Cheapskate.

So, I decide to put my bawlz to good use, so I find a Hoothoot in the grass. It's a Level 3, and seems to have a good move... thing, so I catch it and name it Howl-Owl (if it were a female, I would've named it Hedwig), because it sounds funny. It is Serious with "good endurance", which seem to be good qualities if he's gonna be helpful. It has tackle, growl, and foresight. Foresight has definitely been showing its usefulness to me with some of the Pokemon I fought in the grass, so I dunno how it's gonna pan out.

I figured at that point, I made a pretty decent amount of progress, so I decided to stop playing there and save my game.

That's the end of Episode 1! See ya next time for training Hoothoot, and maybe catching some other stuff!

Game Time so far: 0 hrs, 44 mins
Thanks for reading!

In Which I Further Explain the Pokemon Journal

I mentioned in yesterday's entry that I would be making a sort of blog journal of my first 30 days of playing one of the two new Pokemon games. I think I'm going with HeartGold, but I'm very tempted to get SoulSilver, because my favorite Let's Player is doing something similar (except he's actually doing the whole game), so I might be able to use his for reference of what's to come. While I'm sure there's already seventeen LPs of HeartGold and SoulSilver up on YouTube, I'm still gonna let other people decipher it for me.

I've asked people on Twitter and everything, and no one at school has played Pokemon in sixty-two and a half years, so I've gotten very little (no) responses. So, I'm still not sure.

Either way, I would like to start the journal blog thing on Saturday, since I am most likely getting these games tomorrow. I'll be posting the day AFTER I play, so even if Blogger says it's been posted on April 3rd, I'll put "Day something - April 2nd".

iN oThEr NeWs... I'd like to update here more often, even though the majority of the updates will be for the Pokemon games. There's a good chance that'll be dropped, since I'm an incomplete douche, but whatever. I do have something planned that I'd like to start in May, but I'm not sure if I'll be doing.

Until next time, see ya later!

Would You Like to Nickname Your Pokemon?

Why, yes, I would. Thank you very much.

I like games where you get to name stuff. That's one of the only reasons I can stand RPGs slightly more than the average non-Chrono Trigger player. One of the most famous RPGs of all-time is Pokemon. In fact, Pokemon is so popular, it's not underlined in red when I type this (but Chrono is).

The thing I think most people overlook about Pokemon games is the ability to nickname your Pokemon! I don't know about you, but that's my favorite part! Naming Pokemon is so much. It's a bit of relief in a game that's not all about creativity. In fact, I think I'll show some examples of Pokemon names I've used / want to use...

Sunflora - Molly, Daisy, or Violet
Magcargo - Gary
Squirtle - Fludd
Teddiursa - Winnie
Growlithe - Tigger
Shuppett - Peeves
Geodude - Dwayne
Politoad - HypnoToad
Venomoth - Luna
Meowth - Turbulence
Mr. Mime - Mimien, Peach
Raikou - Meowmix
Wooper - Upaaa

Gary is because Magcargo evolves from Slugma, which is a snail, and SpongeBob's pet snail is named Gary.
The ones for Sunflora are obvious, because they're flower-related names.
Fludd is what I named my Squirtle in Pokemon Diamond, the first Pokemon game I've ever played. The name just made sense to me.
Teddiursa is a teddy bear, and so is Winnie the Pooh, so therefore, Winnie.
Growlithe is Tigger. That's it.

All the other ones have stories behind them.

I'm not a big Pokemon fan, but I am a Pokemon fan. So much, I'd like to buy either HeartGold or SoulSilver this Friday. For those who are skeptics or just know these things, which one should I get? Like, which one is better?

Either way, on both my website (www.timothytoohey.webs.com) and here, I'd like to post a 30-day Blog of my HeartGold and/or SoulSilver adventures, whichever one I get! Just the first 30 days. I think it'd be fun and interesting to see.

So, thanks for reading this Blog, and if you like, send me some funny Pokemon names. I may use them in my 30-day Blog!

In Which Information About the Video Quiz Is Revealed

Back in January, I talked about the Super Mario Sunshine video quiz, a thing I'm making similar to the Mario 64 video quiz on GameFAQs, except with... Mario Sunshine, of course. Well, I've made some task ideas. Actually, a lot of them. But I shan't reveal any.

There are 10 levels to the quiz - Biancoo Hills, Ricco Harbor, Gelato Beach, Pinna Park, Sirena Beach, Noki Bay, Pianta Village, Delfino Airstrip, Delfino Plaza, and Corona Mountain - in that order.

First, let me explain the intricacies of the quiz. Bianco Hills has 6 tasks, Ricco Harbor has 10, Gelato Beach has 12, Pinna Park has 9, Sirena Beach has 15, Noki Bay has 13, Pianta Village has 7, Delfino Airstrip has 4, Delfino Plaza has 20, and Corona Mountain has the Finals - 3 tasks, worth 1,000 points each.

The Finals are deviously challenging, and some other tasks require you to do some pretty insane stuff. For instance, in Pinna Park, you must do the Red Coins of the Pirate Ship task - but you can't get hurt by anything except for falls. Another is in Noki Bay where you must get all the coins in the Red Coin Fish in less than two break-aparts.

There are a few that are pretty easy. Such as collect five coins in Mission 1 of Pianta Village in less than 15 seconds. Or in Delfino Plaza where you must simply squirt all the birds (not including the gold bird on the island).

So, it should be interesting. I wanna start getting word out around April, so I hope I can work some stuff out soon.

Until then, see ya next time for another Gaming Blog!

In Which I Return

Okay, I've been gone for awhile, and for no particular reason, too, and I kinda feel bad about it. Though, in the few weeks I have been gone, I will announce that I do have some crap I'd like to talk about, and I wanna try and update at least every other day for the next week or two.

So, like with my website, updates here might be a bit sporatic, but I will try and do my best to post interesting things. Until then, thanks!

Super Mario Sunshine Video Quiz

You know how I've been itching to get a YouTube account? Well, if I ever do, I'm gonna be talking with BikdipOnABus, and some other YouTube-ers about a little thing I've been thinking about - a Super Mario Sunshine video quiz.

For those who don't know where the idea came from, there was a Super Mario 64 video quiz that Bikdip got in second place for. I'll be talking with him, Myles (the first place winner), Quate32 (one of the contestants), and any other people who'd like to help to make it.

Just like with the Mario 64 video quiz, it'd be done on GameFAQs. I have to be 13 to be a member on GameFAQs, so it'll have to be sometime in March. Also, I am willing to make a website for it, so we can show all the entries.

There are two things you can do for this quiz:

1. Send in ideas for tasks.

2. If you know Bikdip on YouTube, PM him about it, and tell him to visit this website.

Preferably the second one, considering I have many task ideas already figured out.

If you'd like to help with the quiz and have a YouTube account, go to www.youtube.com/bikdiponabus and send him a Private Message, giving him a link to this Blog, and tell him about it. Anyone who'd like to help can!

Thanks for your support!

(This Blog was copy and pasted from my website Blog. To see the original Blog, go to www.timothytoohey.webs.com/apps/blog).

Stupid Gamers on Neoseeker

This Blog is about stupid people on a website I belong to called Neoseeker. Neoseeker is a site where people can talk about video games. Help threads are usually not welcome, yet there are still thousands of them. Of course, when I make a help thread, everyone craps their pants over it, but when there are just a few hundred by other people, it doesn't matter at all.

Anyways, for the most part, the people on Neoseeker aren't that bad. There are two classes of "the bad kind" of Neoseeker...ers. One of them I don't really care about, yet they still get on my nerves.
The Overreacters. These ones I don't particularly have a problem with. These are the people who regard anything that involves anger as flaming. Making a thread like, "I Hate How This Happens", as an example. They just freaking explode and go ballistic about it and are like, "If you don't like something in a game, then don't waste your time playing it, and don't ruin our threads about how you hate it. We just wanna have nice conversations!", while like two threads under that, they started a thread about something even worse. However, my main problem is with...
The people that apparently don't know how to use search engines. These guys are so stupid I can't even think of a short name for them to describe them! Mostly on SpongeBob games, people always ask how to do stuff, and that they've "tried everything", but still can't figure something out. I always say to them that they can just search for a walkthrough. Now I just get mad and go "Look for a freaking walkthrough, people!!!", and then the thread is closed due to "over-flaming" (see top). One person even said for Battle for Bikini Bottom that, and I quote, "a walkthrough for this game is one of the most sought-after things in the world." Unquote.

*long pause* Uh, no! The Hope Diamond is one of most sought-after things in the world, dummy. I have a walkthrough for that game right on my freaking website!

Anyways, let me leave you with this statement - If you go on Neoseeker... don't be dumb.

*says nothing else*