You don't get to see the pokemon, you just pick the pokeball

Pokemon blue on my gold Gameboy pocket is far and a way the video game I've spent the most hours playing. It was the only Nintendo anything I've ever owned until I bought a Switch and Zelda TOTK last year and it blew me away. Just got Let's Go Eevee last week.

This game is amazing for what it is. It's very faithful to the 1st gen, while making a lot of improvements. I appreciate that as an old head. I think the reason I never bought the second generation was that even when I was 9, I was already an old man about it, ready to die on that hill the the proper number of pokemon is 151.

The fact that all pokemon share XP from winning battles or catching other pokemon is a huge improvement. In gen 1, my starter pokemon was always 10 or more levels about any other pokemon. This keeps the squad balanced.

Not getting to battle wild pokemon disappointed me at first until I realized the shared XP mechanic more than makes up for it. It also shortens the time needed to catch a pokemon, and making it less frustrating to level up.

That was the most challenging part of the first gen, and when you're not even 10 years old, challenging is frustrating (still can be). I still to this day have never caught a Toros, and I've burned plenty of AAA batteries trying.

Getting some kind of poke ball as a reward for beating a trainer helps too. Pic related.

On the other hand I wish there was a "lazy mode" that didn't require a physical throwing motion to catch pokemon while using the joycons when plugged into the TV. I want to be a lazy Sunday person laying on the couch for 6 hours, not sitting up on the couch. Handheld mode seems better, but battery life is shorter.

My biggest complaint is that I can't figure out a comfortable way to use both hands with joycons in the grip or just a single joycon. Plenty of threads about that already.

My only other complaint is that this is a 7 year old game that they're still charging $60 for. But all other companies do this too. It's full price until a direct sequel comes out.

All in all, spending $60 for this game is worth the price, especially if it keeps me absolutely binge playing for 3 days, 4 times year like all the other games I own.

Had for a while, kinda just sitting there

I recently came across these tools to calculate the CP for pokemon’s in Pokemon GO. I found these tools to be most accurate and updated with latest pokemon.

Evolution calculator gives you CP of evolutions of your pokemon and CP Calculator gives you the HP and CP of any pokemon you enter based on it’s IVs. I think both tools are useful to calculate the CP for any pokemon’s evolution.

Check them out:

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pokemon/pokemon-go-evolution-calculator https://www.sportskeeda.com/pokemon/pokemon-go-cp-calculator

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I did 2 raids cus I wasn't able to play yesterday, (2 free raid passes) and somehow both of them have the same ivs, i mean they are good and fuck yeha I'll take it, and these raids happened like 2 stops away.... Depending on the mechanics of bottle caps, this could be useful and use less