I have to wonder why Nintendo didn't keep the cool clock feature from Gold/Silver in the Advance generation of poke-games. It made those games all the more compelling to know that you could only enter the Bug Catching Contest on Saturdays, or that you have to be at a certain place during the morning, or whatever. The real-life clock really elevated Gold/Silver, and it is keenly missed in Ruby/Sapphire and FireRed/LeafGreen.
Speaking of bug catching, are there any sadder trainers in Kanto than the Bug Catcher boys? They insist on fielding Kakunas and/or Metapods that have no aggressive attacks, only defensive ones. It's an easy way to level up some lowly lv3 pokemon: against a lv9 Metapod that refuses to do damage to you. I suppose the Bug Catchers are placed here in the beginning of the game for just that purpose: painless experience-farming.
I've already evolved up both a Beedrill and a Butterfree, but I doubt I'll hold on to both for long. Two bug-types seems a bit much. I'm trying to actively pursue pokemon I tended to avoid back in Pokemon Yellow, so the Beedrill might win out. These bug types are all about short-term gratification since they evolve so quickly. What fun is it when they reach their highest stage at level 10? There's nothing left to look forward to but fresh attacks. You can see why Ash himself had no trouble releasing his Butterfree to the wild back in the first season.
For every bit of script that I recall exactly from the original game, there's something I have wholly forgotten, like the Museum in Pewter City. I paid my $50 to get in, but I don't remember what eventually happens there. I'm sure the plot points will reveal themselves in time. I love the spooky reconstructed skeletons of prehistoric pokemon Aerodactyl and Kabutops, though.
Brock, Brock, Brock. Pewter City must not have much of a legacy in pokemon training if the best you can swing is a lv14 Onix. My Squirtle's Bubble attack pretty much rocked the Pewter Gym single handedly.
I did not find any Pikachu in Viridian Forest (maybe later), but I did catch a Jigglypuff down in the grass below the entrance to Mt. Moon. And that's where I am now; it's bigger than I remember it, with cute little water puddles and sand patches. And tons of Zubat, which is irrelevant because you could find those in Sapphire so I could always trade one over for 'dex completion.
Time: 2:52
Badges: 1
Pokedex: 12
Party: Rattata lv11, Butterfree lv10, Squirtle lv14, Beedrill lv11, Pidgey lv14, NidoranF lv7
