thoughts on: Animal Crossing: New Leaf

For the past couple of days I've been spending a lot of time playing the new game in the "animal crossing" franchise, called "New Leaf". At first I was very sceptical about it, since I've never been a fan of Animal crossing, but since my brother and many other people have been praising it since its release date, I decided to give it a chance, and I can honestly say that this game was worth every penny! I love this game! :D The environment, the gameplay, and the characters are all so candy cute and exiting!

Although some reviewers have been pointing it out as a capitalistic game where you only make money to be better, while being covered by a candy cute "aura". My comment on that is that they are exaggerating a bit. I mean sure, the game has no direct goal, and the biggest part of the game is to pay off the loan on your house and the bills of adding new additions to your town, but you can do that in a matter of 2-3 weeks if you play it regularly, and the amount of money you earn by selling stuff like seashells, fish and insects is just silly!

But there is much more to this game than just earning money. You get to be creative, social with both NPCs and real people via spotpass and streetpass and you also learn about nature. There are a lot of different minigames as well, and you can play them all with your friends!

/Tenshi's out!

My first, favorite and most used Pokémon.

My journey into the pokemon universe started slightly before Pokémon Red & Blue were released in Europe. I accidentally stumbled upon a japanese rom for Pokémon Blue and decided to try it out. I remember enjoying the graphics, music and gameplay, but since it was in japanese, I had a hard time figuring out the controls. I'm not sure whether I picked Charizard or Blastoise as my first, and I mostly remember fighting a bunch of pidgeys and rattatas using only tackle, but I'm quite sure I never got to the first gym...
The game had left an impression on me though, and once I heard it had been released in Europe, I quickly bought a copy, which turned out to be Pokémon Red.

Charizard was probably my first favorite, and I really liked the look of both him and Blastoise on the cartridges. Charmander turned out to be my regular starter, and Charizard was my first pokémon to hit level 100 in Pokémon Red, so he's probably my "most used" pokémon in Pokémon Red, but I can't really say he's ever been a true favorite of mine. If I had to pick a favorite, it would stand between the following two:

Sandshrew. He was one of the first pokémon I received via trading with a link cable. I've always really liked Sandshrew. He's cute and cool at the same time, and he could use my favorite move: Dig! He's also unavailable in Pokémon Red, so I thought he was rare and very strong, but he remained my favorite even when I found out that he was very common and very weak. I also didn't quite like Sandslash as much, so I never evolved my first Sandshrew, which seemed like a great idea at the time, but once I started looking closely at the stats, Sandshrew was usually crammed into Bill's PC with the rest or given to the old man at the day care. I still kind of consider him my favorite, but he is quite weak, which is the main reason to why he isn't my most used pokémon.

Gengar is my second favorite, and possibly my favorite pokémon of all time. He also happens to be my most used pokémon, and I've used him all the way from Pokémon Red to Pokémon Black & White 2, but I'm not quite sure what I liked about him at first. I suppose he had an interesting look, was really fast, could use Psychic, and could only be obtained by trading a Haunter, which I thought was very cool back when trading was a more difficult process. He turned out to be my favorite pick in Pokémon Stadium for beating the lvl 50 restricted Poké Cup (which took me about four to eight years to complete), and as it turns out, he's also currently a top tier pick for professional tournaments, and I'll probably also include him in my team for Pokémon X & Y.

Who's your first "most used" Pokémon?

I'm a bit ashamed to admit, I got into Pokémon almost by accident. When I was little (I can't remember how old) I bought my very first gaming device, a GameBoy Color, and as I bought it from a boy who had had enough of it I got some games with it as well and one of them was Pokémon Yellow.
I remember this game as having a cuteish cool animal on the cartridge and I tried it out, since I wasn't that good at English I had a hard time understanding what happened in the game but the concept worked for me, I liked it, grew to love it
When I was a kid I loved animals and I loved collecting things (even as simple things as cool rocks) and here I got to combine those two things but to the point, who was my favorite Pokémon to use in battle in my first Pokémon game? The answer is... Hypno!
Well, I never expected that one either when I was young and loved cool and cute things but that was how it turned out.
I met Drowzee at route 11 (I think) and for some reason I liked how it looked and I loved the move "confusion". At this time I didn't have any idea what it'd come to look like but it didn't matter, I wanted confusion.
As it evolved into Hypno there were few things to complain about, it looked cool with it's humanoid shape and hypnotic coin.
I know now that psychic Pokémon were over powered at that time but at that time, he was just AWESOME!