Shaded Hearts

Zitat von »Axel«

Ach, ich mag doch normalerweise auch die komischen Charaktere am meisten. :'3
Ich wollte nur irgendetwas dazu schreiben, weil ich gerade mit Folge 17 fertig geworden war. Zumal Mashiro in letzter Zeit eh immer lieber wird. Und ich hoffe ernsthaft, dass die beiden jetzt endlich Fortschritte machen und das nicht einfach eine Ausnahme für die Valentinstagsepisode war. :'<

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Pokémon as a series is well known for its slogan: "Gotta catch 'em all!" From the 151 of the original games, to 649 in the fifth generation, with a sixth starting this October, we've got a lot more on our hands regarding catching every Pokémon. Frankly, this means you've got to play every mainstream "Version" and others released after 2003 - Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen, XD: Gale of Darkness, Colosseum, Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver, Black, White, Black 2, and White 2. Those alone can easily amount to 640 hours (40 per playthrough), and that's not including the Pokémon found after beating the Elite Four. It can quickly amount to 1,000 hours or more, just trying to catch those rare Chanseys that appear 1% of the time or getting every starter Pokémon in every region, and then you have to satisfy a number of conditions to make these Pokémon all evolve.

But there's more. Not only are you shelling out around $500 for a huge number of video games and $100 for a working Nintendo DS/DS Lite at minimum, not to mention $150 ~ $200 for a 3DS with Pokémon X/Y Versions in the fall of this year, but then there's traveling to all of the Nintendo Events to get special, rare Pokémon like Deoxys, Arceus, and Genesect that aren't otherwise available. Then you've got to complete those short events. Chalk up a few hundred more dollars and twenty more hours, unless you're lucky to get enough trades.

But Pokémon B/W and the sequels finally broke the time counters on this one... The Pokédex includes different Pokémon forms. So, to truly complete the Pokédex, you need to catch every form of every Pokémon that has one that differs. (You're lucky in the case of Spinda, who has over eight billion of them, I think.) That means you need to abuse the RNG to get Shiny Legendaries (1/8192 chance most of the time) and Shiny starters, then get Shinies of everything. Then you need to get the 3DS for the Dream Radar for the Therian Formes of the elemental trio in Black and White Versions, and the differing formes of various gender-based Pokémon and... Well, you get the idea. All in all, with the base quest easily amounting to 1,000 hours or more, plus the true completionism of the Pokédex in the rare formes, you could easily see 2,500+-hour quests and $1,000+ debts. I doubt people will give away Shiny legendaries, after all, and it does take time to turn off, turn on, load, and try again - it took me several weeks just to get my Shiny Rayquaza. Pokémon, as a series, definitely has spawned time-burning sidequests, hasn't it? (Not to mention money-burning...)