BJWanlund

Glad to finally see you finish that! I just got White, and I hate to say it, but I think Black might be easier, slightly. That first gym is absolute murder, though. And no Sawk in White unless you either a) wanted to hang around the Pinwheel Forest forever and a day to try and find just that one patch of rustling grass that held Sawk, or b) traded with someone who had Black for it? Unacceptable. Although Throh is making itself extremely useful against the Normal gym and Team Plasma, but he had to learn Vital Throw to do so, as he only comes with Seismic Toss, which is NEVER super effective, even against normal types. BTW, every time I see Team Plasma, I cannot help but to yell "PURAAASUMA!" Those who played the first Goemon N64 game, or at least have seen footage from that game, understands what I'm talking about. And BTW, while I am not one to use ubers really early on normally, that Victini has really saved my butt so far, because I was really getting beaten left, right, and sideways before that by gyms, etc. BJ

I hate to admit it, but I hadn't really checked out Serebii.net for this generation yet. The fact that TMs are now unlimited-use, just like HMs, that I saw here made me yell "HALLELUJAH!" Seriously, it was such a gigantic pain in the rear end to have to go and either a) invest in an Action Replay so I could have all the TMs I needed for one particular move I wanted to teach to my Pokemon, or b) have to save that one TM for the one Pokemon who really needed me to teach it that one particular move. Either way, I'm SO glad Game Freak got rid of what turned out to be a significant annoyance. My friend Amy will also be quite thrilled, because she probably hasn't looked up anything related to Pokemon B&W yet, and she's probably going to say the exact same thing I did: HALLELUJAH! Also, I'm really intrigued by the whole self-referential humour thing, that sounds right up my alley. And I'm really surprised that the Pokemon trainers now have Pokemon from right around there at the levels you need to level up your Pokemon. Also, it looks like grinding isn't NEARLY as monotonous and often as it was in Platinum, and that's a very good thing indeed. All around great surprises, and btw BigKlingy, I really like what you're doing here, it's pretty great what you're doing. I'm really intrigued, especially since Game Freak really wants you to make a team from these games and level THEM up instead of just throwing a perfectly-leveled Pokemon from another Pokemon game and taking down the later gyms with them. It looks like they got wise to what we were doing in previous Pokemon games in a hurry. BJ