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I think I might be able to stomach the female character's HGSS sprite. It's just that hat.
Several things. First, concerning the "Chosen One" plot, it was specifically mentioned that only the one in whose hands the spheres glow can bring harmony again (or something along those lines). This may only be in the dub, since I haven’t watched the subtitled Japanese to compare. Ironically, considering the amount of people who helped Ash out, the message "one person can make all the difference" is rather amusing to breakdown. The commercials seemed to imply this person was Ash, when in fact the movie seemed to play it more along the lines of “any contribution, no matter how small, helps.”
I'm rather biased toward this movie. All the legendary birds from the first generation plus Lugia were my favorite at the time (still are, now that I think about it…). I enjoyed seeing them on the silver screen, and that was what really made the experience great for me. Yeah, it’s a pretty pathetic reason in retrospect, but it worked when I was . . . eleven? That, and the way the screen jerked when Lugia used Hyper Beam the first time appealed such to the scope and power of the attack it made my mouth drop with a quite “wow…”.
I’m surprised you didn’t review the music. Lugia’s theme is one of my favorites, and the giant orchestra at the end was phenomenal. I also got the same impression as Fox McCloud – that the flying arch of water was the current Lugia used to get to the islands. However, I thought Lugia just brought it up to dissipate it, since he used it to get there. The dub was very poor in explaining the purpose of it. And if it was the current, what was the point of bringing it up (besides being a spectacular visual for the final scenes)?
Anyway, good review, if a little harsh. But my opinion is likely colored by nostalgia, so hard to think I can be objective about this.
@Emerald: Well, I don't think there is any good Fire/Water types before Vermilion, but if you're looking to smack St. Lurge in a battle, go to the Diglett cave and get a diglett (or Dugtrio if yor're lucky). Hehe, I'm not sure. I haven't played FR in almost a year.
Hope it helps anyhow ^.^
NOOOOOOOO! Phoenix Wright lost in round 1 of the Gamespot poll! This is a travesty! OBJECTION!
I randomly picked up Pokémon LeafGreen two nights ago and restarted it because I was bored…but I'm having a hard time getting a Water- or Fire-type Pokémon on my team since I started with Bulbasaur. Does anyone know any good ones you can get near the beginning of the game…I'm almost at Vermillion City? Besides Magikarp, I really don't have the patience to train one…
Yeah, I didn't get why Pikachu was in either, actually. I eliminated him in round 2.
Quote of the day:
"Hey! You've got Zack's pants!"
Oh no. There are others. *coughmecough*
Wow, love the TVTropes references in the (rather excellent) film reviews. I thought that I was the only one addicted to that website…
(From the 4th movie.)
I love how a few months after some weird glitch ruined my absolutely terrible movie reviews from my site, Butterfree makes some awesome ones that make me love her even more.
:D
I've always thought that the huge dust beast type thing looked distantly like Darkrai…Am I the only one whose ever thought this?
LINK! VOTE LINK!!! >_O
Bob- xD I know exactly how you feel.
Yay Jirachi! *goes to read*
For some reason, whenever I leave TV Tropes, I feel like I just finished a maze. @_@
…that doesn't really make sense, considering Pikachu isn't a "game hero". o.O Well, I mean, it's in Smash Bros., and you have a Pikachu in Yellow, but Pikachu isn't the actual "hero" of any Pokémon game unless I missed something big.
Oh, and Gamespot is doing an All Time Time Greatest Game Hero Contest! Pikachu is one of the 64 competitors! Vote… Vote NOW!!! It was difficult for me to decide who would go on. I had to eliminate so many wonderful competitors… *Sniff*
One of my favorite parts about the games are the trainer fan clubs, which weren't brought back in D/P/P.
I just turned on one of my Emerald cartridges (Long story, but I have two) and I hadn't even got Groudon yet. I mean, I've had it for a year and beaten the Elite Four and I still had to get Beldum. Plus all my Pokemon are like level 50. That's more or less what I dislike about Hoenn- there's nowhere to train. Really the best thing is cloning Rare Candies, once you get to level 80 or so.
Also I now love Rhythm Heaven. Especially Fan Club. And Built to Scale. And… you have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?
Nice review, your squeaking rant made me laugh XD
