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dmxratedWe just got back from Old Westbury Garden several hours ago, but I'll talk about that tomorrow when I post a regular lj-entry. What I'm about to bring up here is way off topic.
Anyway, it just occurred to me that one could compare a certain, Japan-exclusive game that was released in a certain year to any Pokemon that can (or could) only be obtained legitimately in a Nintendo-sponsored event. Or, at least I could. The Pokemon I'm gonna use as the example is Celebi, and the game I'm gonna compare it to is...
Getter Love!!
-Released on December 4, 1998, which was relatively early in my 7th Grade year.
-Only released in Japan, meaning that you have to import it if you want a copy. (Of course, I couldn't do this because my family didn't have the Internet back then.)
-Released on the Nintendo 64, which was my second permanent video game console (first permanent one being the Super NES; first one before that, not counting PCs, being the Game Gear, which we discarded shortly before getting the SNES.)
-Even though I had never even heard of this one back in 7th, let alone played it, this was one of the major factors that inspired me to continue working on Chronicles of 7th Grade half a year ago. Therefore, when it's time to proofread the document section by section, I'm gonna play each game that I played back in 7th, in the order that I played them, as I go along with the proofreading phase, and then top it all off with Getter Love!!
Celebi:
-Lives in Ilex Forest, which is passable after obtaining the second of eight (or sixteen) badges in the game.
-Not legitimately accessible unless you participate in a Nintendo-sponsored event. In this Pokemon's case, you also need to be playing Crystal (not Gold or Silver, according to Bulbapedia), and you need to have access to events in Japan, as no such events were ever held in North America.
-Debuted during the second generation of Pokemon, which is owned by the same company that made the SNES and the N64 (even though Getter Love!! was published by Hudson Soft).
-Fourth item in the pattern? Well, it's pretty long and contains spoilers for the ficseries that I've been planning. Click the lj-cut if you wanna know:
For now, unless I get a better idea in the future, I've decided that Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi* will be the ones who choose Ellen, Jamie, and May. Being as they are nearly impossible to get legitimately, I've decided that the other five E.O.s (Deoxys, Manaphy, Arceus, Shaymin, and Darkrai), along with the items required to obtain them, would only be obtainable if they have any role in the plot, rather than simply being another Pokemon in the trainers' collections. These three function differently even from regular Legendaries, as they have all moves learnable (instead of just four) and don't need to be placed in PC boxes, but can only fight if their partner is embarrassed and had already stored psychic energy earlier.
(While Mew and Celebi will probably have the same personalities as Uxie and Mesprit respectively, Jirachi will have the same child-like personality that he had in the movie Jirachi Wish Maker. Rather than trying to get personal enjoyment from May's embarrassment, his act of absorbing her clothes when not necessary would be more of a playful act. Kinda like when, in the movie, he stole Max's glasses at a rather inopportune time.)
After the last battle with Team Galactic ends, Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi return home. Before they do, though, Mew tells Ellen that in order to find him ever again, she needs a map of the sea surrounding Faraway Island; Celebi tells Jamie that even though she lives conveniently somewhere in his home region, he needs to find a golden and silver Pokeball; and Jirachi, before returning to Space, simply tells May that he hopes to meet with her again in the future.
If there is a fifth generation of Pokemon games, I might continue the ficseries, following the path of the new main characters, while featuring the original three mains on the sidelines. It would take place years after the events at Sinnoh, and at this time, each of the three original mains might have claimed at least one E.O., this time as regular Pokemon but also overriding the prerequisites formerly required for them to battle. However they disencrypted the Pokemon's powers has not been confirmed yet.
Most E.O.s, rather than being transplanted into the game themselves, require an item (in this case, the GS Ball) that you have to obtain at the respective event. Seeing as these items can be obtained at any point in the game whatsoever (provided you got the regular Pokedex), one could say that getting the GS Ball before reaching the Ilex Forest would be the equivalent of pre-ordering Getter Love!! during the last few months of 1998.
Anyway, it just occurred to me that one could compare a certain, Japan-exclusive game that was released in a certain year to any Pokemon that can (or could) only be obtained legitimately in a Nintendo-sponsored event. Or, at least I could. The Pokemon I'm gonna use as the example is Celebi, and the game I'm gonna compare it to is...
Getter Love!!
-Released on December 4, 1998, which was relatively early in my 7th Grade year.
-Only released in Japan, meaning that you have to import it if you want a copy. (Of course, I couldn't do this because my family didn't have the Internet back then.)
-Released on the Nintendo 64, which was my second permanent video game console (first permanent one being the Super NES; first one before that, not counting PCs, being the Game Gear, which we discarded shortly before getting the SNES.)
-Even though I had never even heard of this one back in 7th, let alone played it, this was one of the major factors that inspired me to continue working on Chronicles of 7th Grade half a year ago. Therefore, when it's time to proofread the document section by section, I'm gonna play each game that I played back in 7th, in the order that I played them, as I go along with the proofreading phase, and then top it all off with Getter Love!!
Celebi:
-Lives in Ilex Forest, which is passable after obtaining the second of eight (or sixteen) badges in the game.
-Not legitimately accessible unless you participate in a Nintendo-sponsored event. In this Pokemon's case, you also need to be playing Crystal (not Gold or Silver, according to Bulbapedia), and you need to have access to events in Japan, as no such events were ever held in North America.
-Debuted during the second generation of Pokemon, which is owned by the same company that made the SNES and the N64 (even though Getter Love!! was published by Hudson Soft).
-Fourth item in the pattern? Well, it's pretty long and contains spoilers for the ficseries that I've been planning. Click the lj-cut if you wanna know:
For now, unless I get a better idea in the future, I've decided that Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi* will be the ones who choose Ellen, Jamie, and May. Being as they are nearly impossible to get legitimately, I've decided that the other five E.O.s (Deoxys, Manaphy, Arceus, Shaymin, and Darkrai), along with the items required to obtain them, would only be obtainable if they have any role in the plot, rather than simply being another Pokemon in the trainers' collections. These three function differently even from regular Legendaries, as they have all moves learnable (instead of just four) and don't need to be placed in PC boxes, but can only fight if their partner is embarrassed and had already stored psychic energy earlier.
(While Mew and Celebi will probably have the same personalities as Uxie and Mesprit respectively, Jirachi will have the same child-like personality that he had in the movie Jirachi Wish Maker. Rather than trying to get personal enjoyment from May's embarrassment, his act of absorbing her clothes when not necessary would be more of a playful act. Kinda like when, in the movie, he stole Max's glasses at a rather inopportune time.)
After the last battle with Team Galactic ends, Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi return home. Before they do, though, Mew tells Ellen that in order to find him ever again, she needs a map of the sea surrounding Faraway Island; Celebi tells Jamie that even though she lives conveniently somewhere in his home region, he needs to find a golden and silver Pokeball; and Jirachi, before returning to Space, simply tells May that he hopes to meet with her again in the future.
If there is a fifth generation of Pokemon games, I might continue the ficseries, following the path of the new main characters, while featuring the original three mains on the sidelines. It would take place years after the events at Sinnoh, and at this time, each of the three original mains might have claimed at least one E.O., this time as regular Pokemon but also overriding the prerequisites formerly required for them to battle. However they disencrypted the Pokemon's powers has not been confirmed yet.
Most E.O.s, rather than being transplanted into the game themselves, require an item (in this case, the GS Ball) that you have to obtain at the respective event. Seeing as these items can be obtained at any point in the game whatsoever (provided you got the regular Pokedex), one could say that getting the GS Ball before reaching the Ilex Forest would be the equivalent of pre-ordering Getter Love!! during the last few months of 1998.