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Jan. 1st, 2009 04:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedYesterday, I noticed Brian's KinderEgg on the floor (still wrapped) by my footstool, and I asked him if he wanted it. I told him it had a hole in it, and he said I could have it. Quite by coincidence, he would've gotten something in the same toy group I got, but I don't know exactly what he and I got. I'm gonna have to post a photo of them. (Marie later tattled that I ate Brian's Kinder Egg, but Brian told her that he offered it to me.)
Last night, me and Brian shoveled snow off the driveway. As we were finishing, Phyllis came down and offered Mom a present, and then got into her car to drive to her brother's house. While we were waiting for her to leave, Brian asked me what game I was playing (Pokemon Ruby), and we had a conversation about video games, although we did have to speak up as we continued shoveling the driveway.
Brian said that he doesn't like Pokemon games because each game is basically a repeat of the previous game, and they never really focus on the plot, even though Nintendo does add more and more content and gimmicks to each new game. He had asked me what happens at the end of the GBA games, and I explained what happens at the end of RBY, GSC, Ruby/Sapphire, FRLG, Emerald, and DPP. Even though he said it's cool that you get to find Mewtwo at the end of RBY, or challenge Ash/Red at the end of GSC, he described having all this other post-game stuff in later games (such as the Battle Tower) as rather anticlimactic.
On a side note, Brian asked what the other version to FireRed is, and guessed that it was something related to Earth. I told him it was LeafGreen, but here's an interesting thing that came to my mind before: You know how common it is to see Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind in one grouping, and sometimes with a fifth element? Well, here, each Pokemon game for the Game Boy Advance could be represented by one of those elements:
Ruby: Earth
Sapphire: Water
Emerald: Wind
FireRed: Fire
LeafGreen: Life
(Curiously enough, unlike with RBY, GSC, and DPP, the game paks for those games don't have the representing Pokemon, just some patterns. However, said Pokemon (Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza, Charizard, and Venusaur) do appear on the box art and the player's guide covers.)
Brian also described the ending of Super Mario Galaxy as disappointing, and mentioned that he and his friends had played that game for weeks. However, he really liked Earthbound, and made mention of the fan translations of the other two EB/Mother games that never made it here. (Speaking of which, I should note how ironic it is that he hated it, back when I was obsessed with it during 4th grade.) He also wants me to try out Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, because he's curious to see what that's like but never has time for gaming. I probably won't get to that immediately, but he'll be home for half a year, so I'll have time to do while he's home.
And finally, he also brought up my translation project of Makeruna! Makendou Z, as we finished up and got back inside. He suggested that I document my translation, so that it doesn't become wasted work, but it turns out that I've already been doing that. I also showed him volume 1 of Japanese in Mangaland, and he asked if I was doing the exercises, but I told him that I was just following along. He suggested that I do the exercises, so that I can remember how to conjugate works.
While me and Brian were shoveling the driveway, Mom baked a devil's food cake with two layers of icing. I had a slice at some time after dinner, but I didn't really like the icing. (The Entemann's kind is actually better, somehow.) Brian offered to eat what was left of my slice, and Mom suggested that we give the cake to Scott, since he'll eat anything.
Last night, me and Brian shoveled snow off the driveway. As we were finishing, Phyllis came down and offered Mom a present, and then got into her car to drive to her brother's house. While we were waiting for her to leave, Brian asked me what game I was playing (Pokemon Ruby), and we had a conversation about video games, although we did have to speak up as we continued shoveling the driveway.
Brian said that he doesn't like Pokemon games because each game is basically a repeat of the previous game, and they never really focus on the plot, even though Nintendo does add more and more content and gimmicks to each new game. He had asked me what happens at the end of the GBA games, and I explained what happens at the end of RBY, GSC, Ruby/Sapphire, FRLG, Emerald, and DPP. Even though he said it's cool that you get to find Mewtwo at the end of RBY, or challenge Ash/Red at the end of GSC, he described having all this other post-game stuff in later games (such as the Battle Tower) as rather anticlimactic.
On a side note, Brian asked what the other version to FireRed is, and guessed that it was something related to Earth. I told him it was LeafGreen, but here's an interesting thing that came to my mind before: You know how common it is to see Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind in one grouping, and sometimes with a fifth element? Well, here, each Pokemon game for the Game Boy Advance could be represented by one of those elements:
Ruby: Earth
Sapphire: Water
Emerald: Wind
FireRed: Fire
LeafGreen: Life
(Curiously enough, unlike with RBY, GSC, and DPP, the game paks for those games don't have the representing Pokemon, just some patterns. However, said Pokemon (Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza, Charizard, and Venusaur) do appear on the box art and the player's guide covers.)
Brian also described the ending of Super Mario Galaxy as disappointing, and mentioned that he and his friends had played that game for weeks. However, he really liked Earthbound, and made mention of the fan translations of the other two EB/Mother games that never made it here. (Speaking of which, I should note how ironic it is that he hated it, back when I was obsessed with it during 4th grade.) He also wants me to try out Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, because he's curious to see what that's like but never has time for gaming. I probably won't get to that immediately, but he'll be home for half a year, so I'll have time to do while he's home.
And finally, he also brought up my translation project of Makeruna! Makendou Z, as we finished up and got back inside. He suggested that I document my translation, so that it doesn't become wasted work, but it turns out that I've already been doing that. I also showed him volume 1 of Japanese in Mangaland, and he asked if I was doing the exercises, but I told him that I was just following along. He suggested that I do the exercises, so that I can remember how to conjugate works.
While me and Brian were shoveling the driveway, Mom baked a devil's food cake with two layers of icing. I had a slice at some time after dinner, but I didn't really like the icing. (The Entemann's kind is actually better, somehow.) Brian offered to eat what was left of my slice, and Mom suggested that we give the cake to Scott, since he'll eat anything.