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Feb. 25th, 2014 06:33 amBought a player's guide for Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 on Ebay yesterday. Even though I don't plan on playing the actual games anymore due to how flawed they are, everything each game has to offer is still unique, including the Pokemon introduced with each generation, the places you visit, concepts such as Mega Evolution, and so on, enough that I might just start a second ficseries if I ever complete Parasitic Trio. In fact, I even did ask Mom if she'd be able to get me that one for Christmas more than a year ago, but dropped it due to how expensive something more important already was.
Yeah, there have been times when I asked myself what exactly sets Pokemon as a franchise apart from other mons franchises such as Digimon or Yu-Gi-Oh, or from other games in general, including other long-running series such as Mega Man or Angry Birds.
In truth, it wasn't always anything special, sure as hell not when I first got Pokemon Red for Christmas of 1999, only a year after it got released here. Even when I started over with that game as criteria for starting a new game in Crystal late in 2005, it still wasn't anything more special than Grandia II, Digimon World 3, or Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars. The lists I used to make on this blog were the result of a certain disaster involving my first copy of Pokemon Sapphire, which eventually turned out to be bootlegged, and before I even bought my first Game Boy Advance for that, I had considered using an emulator to play it on instead, but decided against that for certain reasons. Ellen, Jamie, and May, the main characters of Parasitic Trio, weren't simply chosen by virtue of being the games' canon protagonists; those three in particular had been the mains of certain unrelated and unwritten fanfics discussed between me and Jake. And during the summer of 2008, I had already been toying with the idea of embarrassment as Metaphysical Fuel and an abundance of fanservice in something Pokemon-related (the latter which owes its inspiration to Pokesho) before finalizing what I would eventually dub Parasitic Trio.
In short, Pokemon had taken its time to grow onto me over the years, and I already had enough material to work creatively with before establishing the ficseries' plot.
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On a similar note, I do find myself wondering what exactly was special enough about Lucky Star that I'd begin a fanfic of that. Mon Colle Knights had a basis of being the only thing worth looking back to during the latter half of 10th grade, and being pulled off the air and leaving me in a desperate search for DVD copies for two and a half years. Makeruna! Makendou and Wonder Project J2 were two games I discovered in Nintendo Power, in issues dating to a time when anime and anime-style games weren't very common in North America. Getter Love!! relates to Chronicles of 7th Grade, having been released in December of the year that story takes place. And the old Digimon project I had thought up late in 2005 was half the product of Digidex, which I found out about in the opening notes of In the Shadow of Chaos, part due to nostalgia from when I was watching it (particularly the Digimon Emperor arc that begins Adventure 02), and certain ideas I had borrowed from various Sonic the Hedgehog games such as Sonic Adventure and Shadow the Hedgehog (some of which I toyed with even back when I was actually watching A02).
So, what sets Lucky Star apart from other moe series I happen to like, including Kanon, A Little Snow Fairy Sugar, Galaxy Angel, and Azumanga Daioh? Really, only a few things that are rather mundane themselves. One, the fact that the characters are in high school but are designed to look like preteens. Also true with Nichijou and Kill Me Baby, but this was the first series I ever watched to have that gimmick. Two, the fact that three of the four core characters, along with others in the franchise, have such long hair that would look epic done up into beehives. Of course, that only began to interest me months after I started watching it, and given how many characters have similarly long hair in Rosenkreuzstilette, I would surely enjoy seeing images of them with their hair updone. And finally, Tsukasa and Kagami's family name, Hiiragi, which also belongs to Rokuna in Mon Colle Knights.
That's all I can think of, really. Nothing particularly special about a certain anime that I eventually became obsessed with. Kinda ironic, isn't it...
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Anyway, called GameStop yesterday to see if they have player's guides for Pokemon X and Y. The person answering me told me that they were sold out but are expecting more copies soon. Will probably call back soon as my BW2 guide arrives.
I'm also putting Candy Crush aside once again, in order to focus on Parasitic Trio. As far as it goes, I've completed 485 of the regular levels, am awaiting one more ticket in order to move on, and have gotten as far as level 87 in the Dreamworld. If I ever decide to play anything on Facebook at some point, I'll probably find myself a different game to play via RandomInteger, since this one had accumulated thirty new levels (not even counting the Dreamworld) between the first and second times I looked ahead and thirty more still between then and a third time.
Yeah, there have been times when I asked myself what exactly sets Pokemon as a franchise apart from other mons franchises such as Digimon or Yu-Gi-Oh, or from other games in general, including other long-running series such as Mega Man or Angry Birds.
In truth, it wasn't always anything special, sure as hell not when I first got Pokemon Red for Christmas of 1999, only a year after it got released here. Even when I started over with that game as criteria for starting a new game in Crystal late in 2005, it still wasn't anything more special than Grandia II, Digimon World 3, or Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars. The lists I used to make on this blog were the result of a certain disaster involving my first copy of Pokemon Sapphire, which eventually turned out to be bootlegged, and before I even bought my first Game Boy Advance for that, I had considered using an emulator to play it on instead, but decided against that for certain reasons. Ellen, Jamie, and May, the main characters of Parasitic Trio, weren't simply chosen by virtue of being the games' canon protagonists; those three in particular had been the mains of certain unrelated and unwritten fanfics discussed between me and Jake. And during the summer of 2008, I had already been toying with the idea of embarrassment as Metaphysical Fuel and an abundance of fanservice in something Pokemon-related (the latter which owes its inspiration to Pokesho) before finalizing what I would eventually dub Parasitic Trio.
In short, Pokemon had taken its time to grow onto me over the years, and I already had enough material to work creatively with before establishing the ficseries' plot.
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On a similar note, I do find myself wondering what exactly was special enough about Lucky Star that I'd begin a fanfic of that. Mon Colle Knights had a basis of being the only thing worth looking back to during the latter half of 10th grade, and being pulled off the air and leaving me in a desperate search for DVD copies for two and a half years. Makeruna! Makendou and Wonder Project J2 were two games I discovered in Nintendo Power, in issues dating to a time when anime and anime-style games weren't very common in North America. Getter Love!! relates to Chronicles of 7th Grade, having been released in December of the year that story takes place. And the old Digimon project I had thought up late in 2005 was half the product of Digidex, which I found out about in the opening notes of In the Shadow of Chaos, part due to nostalgia from when I was watching it (particularly the Digimon Emperor arc that begins Adventure 02), and certain ideas I had borrowed from various Sonic the Hedgehog games such as Sonic Adventure and Shadow the Hedgehog (some of which I toyed with even back when I was actually watching A02).
So, what sets Lucky Star apart from other moe series I happen to like, including Kanon, A Little Snow Fairy Sugar, Galaxy Angel, and Azumanga Daioh? Really, only a few things that are rather mundane themselves. One, the fact that the characters are in high school but are designed to look like preteens. Also true with Nichijou and Kill Me Baby, but this was the first series I ever watched to have that gimmick. Two, the fact that three of the four core characters, along with others in the franchise, have such long hair that would look epic done up into beehives. Of course, that only began to interest me months after I started watching it, and given how many characters have similarly long hair in Rosenkreuzstilette, I would surely enjoy seeing images of them with their hair updone. And finally, Tsukasa and Kagami's family name, Hiiragi, which also belongs to Rokuna in Mon Colle Knights.
That's all I can think of, really. Nothing particularly special about a certain anime that I eventually became obsessed with. Kinda ironic, isn't it...
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Anyway, called GameStop yesterday to see if they have player's guides for Pokemon X and Y. The person answering me told me that they were sold out but are expecting more copies soon. Will probably call back soon as my BW2 guide arrives.
I'm also putting Candy Crush aside once again, in order to focus on Parasitic Trio. As far as it goes, I've completed 485 of the regular levels, am awaiting one more ticket in order to move on, and have gotten as far as level 87 in the Dreamworld. If I ever decide to play anything on Facebook at some point, I'll probably find myself a different game to play via RandomInteger, since this one had accumulated thirty new levels (not even counting the Dreamworld) between the first and second times I looked ahead and thirty more still between then and a third time.