Pokemon Black and White

[A Forgotten Legend]

I am waiting until level 40 to use the stone.  I have been worried about my lack of flying for when I get fly, but my team is pretty diverse now.

[coasterkrazy]

Oh my... I flew through most of D/P's gyms.  These ones I'm getting beat left and right.  It took me 7 tries to beat the bug gym.  I'm at the western gym leader guy.  I currently have:
L.V. 24 Vanillite
L.V. 25 Deerling
L.V. 31 Boldore
L.V. 27 Pansear
L.V. 29 Zebstrika
L.V. 27 Dewott

I've also got a L.V. 25 Herdier and a L.V. 26 Gurdurr

Interesting. It was actually the opposite for me. I had a hard time with D/P's gyms and especially the D/P Elite Four, but in B/W I flew through everything, including the Elite Four. I actually even managed to beat the 5th and 6th gyms without letting them getting a single attack in. And I didn't do any level grinding; I just didn't use all 6 party slots. I got my 6th on Victory Road.

But anyway, I think this might be my favorite generation. Up until now, it was Gen III, but this whole generation was just amazing. I was so hooked I played through the whole main game last week and beat the main story on Saturday.

I don't know my levels off the top of my head, but my main party right now, in the order I got them, is:
Samurott (first time I didn't pick fire because I'm so sick of fire/fighting...)
Swoobat
Simisage
Galvantula
Chandelure
Zweilous

Also, I waited until level 43 to evolve Pansage. It wasn't worth missing out on crunch to me.

[Valiere]

Hopefully the third version of BW follows in Platinum's footsteps. The layout of these gyms are so cool that they deserve to be a lot more of a challenge.

[SaiKar]

Platinum's gyms = Earthquake earthquake earthquake LAWL

[Prpl_Mage]

Platinum's gyms = Earthquake earthquake earthquake LAWL

Entire Colosseum / X.D = Earthquake earthquake earthquake.

Anyway- I beat the game last night, liked what they did. Gonna head out on my post-game soon. No clue what's waiting for me there.

Also, anyone else encountered Thundurous(or whatever)? Met that guy at Route 7 and then he appeared all over. Bastard's typical roamer that won't get caught.

[drenrin2120]

Yeah, I think I caught thunderous in white. But uh, the extra routes after the E4 are the best part, imo. Some crazy awesome pokes in shaking grass on those routes. Level of difficulty jumps up a notch too.

How did you feel about the last fight?

[Valiere]

I'm starting to get annoyed by the seemingly arbitrary gender ratios of Pokemon. Basically, the rule of the thumb seems to be "cool looking Pokemon are usually male; pink girly ones are female," in total defiance of the biology of the animals Pokemon were based on.

Why does an ant have a 50/50 gender ratio, when almost all the ants in a colony are female, and certainly all of the "warrior" ants?

Why is the semi-racist vulture all-female? Why is the super cool eagle all-male? This is especially stupid when you consider that real female eagles are larger than males and hunt larger prey! And California condors (what the vulture is based on) are one of the few birds of prey where the female is smaller than the male. They shouldn't be one gender only in the first place, but if we're going by size (and, theoretically, fighting ability), they got the genders mixed up!

But duhhhhh, screw biology, pink is for girls.

[Archem]

Because being politically-correct is for pussies.

[Valiere]

Dude, it's blackface. They changed it for a reason.

[Prpl_Mage]

Why is the semi-racist vulture all-female? Why is the super cool eagle all-male? This is especially stupid when you consider that real female eagles are larger than males and hunt larger prey! And California condors (what the vulture is based on) are one of the few birds of prey where the female is smaller than the male. They shouldn't be one gender only in the first place, but if we're going by size (and, theoretically, fighting ability), they got the genders mixed up!

I'm curious, how is the vulture racism?

And also, don't the eagle represent the US,  airforce or something? Their pokédex entrance makes it sound like they are a bunch of patriotic stout warriors at least. With their coop with americans for this game it wouldn't surprise me if some of those people wanted the eagle to be all male.

Anyway, pure gender pokés are kinda silly. Like the Nidorans, for some reason a Nidoqueen can't breed. I get that the cow is all female, cuz male things with milk are kinda worrying.

[Archem]

It's a cultural change, something that is far from uncommon in video games.

[Valiere]

No, it isn't. Jynx is based on a ganguro. Not a black person.
(I'm ignoring the fact that ganguro translates as blackface, because its something else entirely)

Read this.

I'm curious, how is the vulture racism?

African "savages" are commonly depicted with a bone in their hair. Like so.

[Prpl_Mage]

Oh, I thougth of it more as a caveman thingy. It wears a skull as diaper in pre-evolve, then the evolved version seem to be wearing some kind of fur. All my impressions were connected to the BC. NPCs in Chrono Trigger.

[Robotam Plus]

Luke's right. When there's 649 Pokemon some are inevitably going to look like racial stereotypes to easily offended overanalytic people.

In other news; I'm back and HOLYSHIT I have POKERUS.

[Valiere]

I don't know Val, seems okay to me. Ludicolo has a mexican hat and likes to dance, but I don't see people complaining about it being racist. I could probably name a bunch of other examples if I tried a little harder.

Also, really, who the **** cares if Jynx is black. I'm tired of this.  Sure, it's a black stereotype. But really, so what. If people weren't so racist they wouldn't give a damn either. It's a child game, for god's sake. Jynx is not portrayed as an evil pokémon who robs people in dark alleys. It's a pretty cool psychic pokémon that lives in ice caves.  It has a funny face. It's a cool pokémon. Real black people don't even look like that. The whole thing is just a joke, if anything, and should not be seen as "Nintendo hates black people".

People have complained about Ludicolo, although most don't consider it as offensive as Jynx.

And you're yapping on, but all I really hear is "Well, I'm not offended, so why should anyone else be?"