Pokemon, I choose you!

Today's blog is about a longtime favorite of mine, Pokemon. Well, the games have long stood as some of my favorites. When you're a little kid, who didn't enjoy leveling up your cute little stuffed animals into killing machines? From Typhlosion to Gyarados, I've always liked the pokemon who look more like monsters. Move over Pikachu...

I've been half playing Pokemon Sun Version for upwards of 3 months now. I say half playing because I have barely through the second island. Grinding my pokemons out has gotten fairly dull. It was fine when I was 10, but now it's meh. Oh well, at least the battling part this time around is actually pretty good. Or, at least it seems better than prior entries.

Today, I ran into Salandit. Here's a bunch of google pics of it. These things have been popping up at around levels 16-19, and much to my surprise actually know a good attack; Dragon Rage. The attack always dishes out 40 damage, which many pokemon around it's level don't even have. That's a pretty neat attack to have at early levels. Certainly better than Sonic Boom (which only ever deals 20 damage). After beating down about 3 or 4 of these, and a whole crapload of Cubones, I managed to snatch one up. I don't know how many pokemon I lost trying to capture it (since you can't capture a 'mon you defeat). Even my water starter (who is conservatively level 24) was no match for back to back Dragon Rages.

As someone who started from Gold Version, I can't beleive how much money you get in this game. I do get that you are supposed to customize your trainer with Clothes and Hairdos (I bought a nice Trilby Hat), but I haven't had money troubles in this game. In earlier games you started with $3,000 and in this one you start off with $30,000. That's a huge difference! It's ok though, at least I don't have to feel particularly challenged playing a kid's game.