PokГ©mon omega ruby and alpha sapphire review

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IвЂ™m sure people exist whose nostalgia for the original Ruby & Sapphire would fuel some outrage if Nintendo had altered the story significantly, but everybody else would have appreciated it.ДЄfter pushing through the story, getting my bike and clearing the first few gyms (which feel more like part of the tutorial than a challenge, another let-down), PokГ©mon ORAS started to open up to me. ItвЂ™s barely touched, replaced with the out-of-the-box story of beating gym leaders, stopping bad guys from getting the legendary PokГ©mon before itвЂ™s too late. The stiff, impersonal writing thatвЂ™s typical of older games makes dad feel distant when read today-he comes off as a real jerk whoвЂ™s got more encouragement for some nerd named Wally than his own kid. ThereвЂ™s also a strange bit of the story where my characterвЂ™s father is a Gym Leader. With those characters so fresh in my mind, talking to her felt like watching the house band at Showbiz Pizza the night after seeing my favorite band.

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The colorful gang of friends which included my rival were fully realized characters in X & Y, and it really hit how much of an advancement that was for the series any time I had to interact with my wooden, personality free rival in PokГ©mon ORAS. Everything looked very charming, but from the way towns and roads were laid out, to the dialog, to being forced to run back-and-forth between the first few locations just to get that first PokГ©monвЂ¦ most of the smoothness of X & Y was gone, seemingly beholden to the way the original Ruby & Sapphire began. Once IвЂ™d stepped into the world of PokГ©mon ORAS, everything I had to do for the first few hours felt strangely out of date. PokГ©mon ORAS showing me the beauty of the Hoenn region I was about to explore felt like the promise of a modern experience, but once I started into the game, I quickly realized it was more of an unintentional tease. ItвЂ™s sweeping and beautiful and a real improvement from the intro in previous games, which typically are unmoored from the story and consist of a PokГ©mon professor breaking down the premise of the world in a bit of blunt exposition. The game features a nod to its GBA origins wrapped up in the surprisingly cinematic opening sequence. PokГ©mon ORAS exists as a gold-plated version of the Game Boy Advance games PokГ©mon Ruby & Sapphire, with the setting, story, list of PokГ©mon and mechanics of those games dipped in the molten goodness of last yearвЂ™s PokГ©mon X & Y.

Even odder, then, that Nintendo would release PokГ©mon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire ( PokГ©mon ORAS) as their follow-up, a game so firmly rooted in the past.Дў003, to be specific.

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With that massive technological upgrade came the removal of some of the vestigial RPG speed bumps meant to stretch the experience out, and PokГ©mon was finally ready to join us all here in the future.

I found it easy to forget, having that game in my hands, that the series was still full of blocky, barely animated sprites as recently as 2012-I honestly had to Google to remind myself exactly how rough it actually was.

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