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Description
Gen 3 has gotten a lot of flak in the last ten years ("dumb story", "weird Pokemon", "too much water", I've heard it all) but honestly out of all the Pokemon games out there, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald still mean the most to me. Ruby was the first game I bought with my own money, as opposed to getting hand-me-downs from my brother. Ruby was the first game where I was old enough to complete the main story, and I got through most of the game using Pokemon I raised myself. And though I've never restarted my old Ruby (out of attachment to my Pokemon), I've played Emerald several times over.
It was in the days of Ruby and Sapphire that I used to get together with friends I made at school or at summer camp and trade Pokemon and secret bases via link cable. I still have many of the Pokemon I received from friends all those years ago, though their names and faces have faded away.
Something about these games is magic to me, even ten years later. For a kid growing up in landlocked Colorado, playing on the tropical island of Hoenn was like having a vacation spot in my back pocket. I could climb volcanoes, dive to the bottom of the ocean, visit the beach, explore tidal caves, and swim from one island town to the next without ever having to get on a plane. And the best part? I could do all that with cute, tough, cool Pokemon at my side.
Hoenn is my home, and I can't wait to head back for a new adventure.
See you tomorrow evening, ORAS!!
I wanted to draw something with both Mae and Laura for release day, haha. idk if it came out exactly how i wanted, but it got close enough.
Fun fact, Pokemon was actually what got me to get an N64 instead of a Playstation when I was six. I was really into the anime at the time and I saw a copy of Nintendo Power at the grocery store that had Pokemon Snap on the cover, and I ended up getting an N64 because of it. If I hadn't been into the anime at the time, I might not have ended up loving nintendo stuff as I do now.