Alola, Alola!

In terms of alola and the alola anime, the meme game was kind of incredible. People initially HATED Ash on reveal because he was making funny faces but I'd like to thank the anime for a gold mine of reaction images even if the league win was bollocks.

I really hate when an NPC I like vanishes forever, like Lillie did in the original SUMO. I liked the narrative and how wildly dysfunctional the aether family was in the OG, which makes it kind of a shame most stuff after OG SUMO immediately downplay's Lusamine's behavior which in turn affects what Gladion and Lillie are like as well. I kind of find it a bit sad we're never going to actually see the original story conclude since subsequent stuff like Masters pretty much goes with USUM as the canon pick.

But Lusamine is wildly misunderstood regardless so it's like... No she wasn’t just poisoned by an evil jellyfish, she was also trying to find her husband but got sidetracked by the evil jellyfish since it was the only lead she had and became obsessed with preserving the past which is why she started freezing pokemon for her collection. Like they kind of just brush it off and she’s still kind of an awful person in USUM but since it’s halfhazardly thrown out for the Necrozma plot the whole thing falls apart and like they go back right to living with their terrible mom and her recovery isn’t talked about unlike with sumo where she’s poisoned. Okayyyy…

Moon Mini Revisit

For my OC page, I wanted to give Lani a few more outfits outside of the one I pretty much used majority of the game. Coming off of XY, the fashion items in alola certainly do feel a bit more limited. Another thing: I really genuinely do not recall any of these places in Alola like said in my XY Journal (if I do a replay, I hope to change that). The 12 hour time difference between sun and moon was an interesting gimmick that only really applied for me having my eyes hurt because the only time I could play the game was night which meant instead of nice relaxing night music I got blasted by the day. I didn’t know about the time difference because I didn’t watch all the trailers. I bought moon because I like the moon.

The other reason for this mini visit aside from outfit purchases? Even though I knew about them… I apparently never actually got to the battle tree to fight red or green? The map wasn’t lit at all. Damn, I must’ve really just dropped the game immediately after the ending and ultra beast hunting. Oh well, one last run with my team before I wipe this save for my next rerun, unless I just do ultra sun instead. Ah, I wrote that and poni gauntlet turned out to be like 5 fights since Mina’s skippable and I passed the backpack lady. Goddamn, the double battle in the gauntlet lagged like crazy though. My 3ds couldn’t take it. Couldn’t imagine what a triple battle or rotation battle would be like this way.

I got so used to important battles healing me in late gens before they started so getting launched straight into fighting rival and red without my Pokémon being healed was :) Bad. I got cooked. I got so frazzled that I forgot I had revives on me and Green was doing that 👯‍♀️💃 pose like the whole battle and the only thing keeping me from totally flatlining were the Amie bonuses kicking in and even then I still lost. I saved but it feels like even if I was fully healed I’d lose. Those kanto boys are built different. Figures the one battle that would kick my ass would be from the game that took me off guard as a kid and kicked my ass.