Playing pokemon red for the first time. Cuz I'm bored. and I'm new to Pokemon as a series (I know way too much about it for not touching a game in any meaningful way). Five hours in and:
- my team feels unbalanced, but it works as long as I have potions.
- leveling up my pokemons is hard, long, and boring. but, its an early rpg so I was expecting a grind anyway.
- I named my Caterpie "gwub". Yes, I'm mentally ill, how did you know?
- surprisingly, I have only died three times so far. Once to Brock, and twice in Mt Moon. I have no idea how I'm gonna fight Misty since my starter is a candle with claws and the rest of my pokemon don't have floatation devices.
-the game is helping a lot with pixel art for me. Mostly because I can compare it to other games. It's definitely not my style, but it's always good to have more refs. (maybe I should play FireRed...)
- music slaps. this isn't news to anyone, I just like hearing the songs in context.














