It’s been exactly 10 years since I started something… at least on the day this post goes live. I think this is a good any time as any to have a review and retrospective about Pokémon Diamond and Pearl and the 4th Generation of Pokémon. Continue reading “Pokémon Diamond and Pearl 20 years on”

Those who don’t know, I like games. I played quite a few of them in the last year. So here is my Top 10 games that I’ve played in 2016. Continue reading “Top 10 Games of 2016”

Last few weeks, I got to play and beat the one half of the latest Pokémon game pair: Pokémon Sun. I fought familiar faces, the oldest happened to be 20 years ago. Some of my own Pokémon are now 10 years old, starting life on Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. During the Battle with Anabel, who previously appeared in Emerald as the “Salon Maiden” of the … Continue reading Recognising your old Pokémon?

Pokémon Global Link has been announced to shut down on November 1st 2016, and the access to obtain certain items also disappears. This is not the first time this has happened. Pokémon’s 5th Generation was slowly shut down over the fourth Quarter of 2013, with the Doors being completely shut by January 2014. (The 5th Generation is Fan term for collective name for Pokémon Black, White, Black 2 and White 2 games for the DS.)

In Generation 5, You lost access to a huge amount of Pokémon that was only available over the PGL website. While all the Pokémon that where found usually could be found in the other games, they had something about them that couldn’t be gotten in the older games. Hidden Abilities. Every Pokémon species in the game has would have an ability that affected them regardless of the move their moves. For example: Kyogre’s unique ability Drizzle made it rain once you brought it out. A Pokémon with a hidden ability, could only be found in certain places. Most of these places happened to be in the Pokémon Dream World, which was attached to the PGL site. For example: A Hidden Ability Politoed would have Drizzle, instead of the Water Absorb. Continue reading “The Great Loss of Pokémon Global Link”