Well, here we are again. Back at the beginning… There’s just one last bit of business left before we can close the book on this chapter of our lives…
Author: scwiba
Pokemon Silver — Chapter 20: What We Do In PokéLife Echoes in PokÉternity
Previously, on A Series of Terrible Life Choices…
Pokemon Silver — Chapter 19: Lame It Out 2: Lame Harder
Moments later, inside the Pokemon League… Nice try, Will, but not nice enough. Bartz? Yes, master? Huh. You’re a lot more articulate than your predecessor was. Anywho, finish this loser.
Pokemon Silver — Chapter 18: There Has Never Been a More Timely Time Than This
Here we are — locked in with the Elite Four. It would seem that in the world of Pokemon, holding a kid against his will is not frowned upon nearly as much as it is in other civilized societies.
Pokemon Silver — Chapter 17: Sins of the Game Freak
It doesn’t look like any amount of protesting is going to change Clair’s mind; she’s too butthurt to surrender the badge. You’d think top-level gym leaders would have grown out of this kind of pettiness. The townsfolk know about Clair’s defeat, at least, even if she doesn’t.
Pokemon Silver — Chapter 16: Just Lame It Out
Back at Mahogany Town, that jerkwad trying to scam us into buying ragecandy is finally gone. What actually caused him to leave? Who knows. All I care about is that he left. And that means we’re on to Route 44, Mahogany to Blackthorn. Where, presumably, the gym is run by a shotgun-wielding biker.
Pokemon Silver — Chapter 15: Legendary Smegendary
We’re on the scene in less than five. After Elm’s call, all we need is a minute at the PokeCenter, and then Kain flies us to Goldenrod. Rocket is none too pleased to see us. Make me. Have I introduced you to my sea draon here? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Y-yeah, okay. Right. Go on in.
Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the second WAD I’ve reviewed by a creator who is no longer with us. And that’s two too many. Just this past Sunday, news made it to Doomworld that Ty Halderman, one of the most prolific and beloved members of our community, had died on July 31st. I never knew Ty myself, but everyone knows just how vital he was to Doom’s legacy — and to the longevity of its modding scene. If not for his efforts to archive and catalog Doom WADs over the last twenty years, who knows where we would be now? I almost certainly
Pokemon Silver — Chapter 14: Rocket Radio!
Taking stock on our progress… We have six of the eight badges. The east end of the north road — from Cianwood to Ecruteak — is behind us. Two towns left… and two badges. We find ourselves back at the Lake of Rage, north of Mahogany, where we were thwarted last time.
Pokemon Silver — Chapter 13: 500 Years of Elton John
Every path seems to lead nowhere. I seem to recall a similar point in Pokemon Blue, where the game stops giving you any direction about where you should be going next, and if you happened to miss a critical HM, your only option is to go back and comb the entire game world for it. Which is what we’ve been doing for over a day now, and it hasn’t really gotten us anywhere. Aside from finding Flash (currently useless to us) and a new eevee, we keep coming up empty. Surprisingly, it actually falls within my limited knowledge of Pokemon