Sunday, 4 March 2018

Perfection #2 - Pokemon Omega Ruby

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Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire are remakes of the classic Gameboy Advanced games of Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire. You start in the back of a moving truck, moving to your new house in Littleroot Town, you meet a new friend May/Brendan and then saving the Pokemon Professor from a wild Pokemon, and getting a starter Pokemon. You are then challenged with defeating all the Hoenn League Gyms and the Elite Four. You also run into the evil Team Magma who plan to cleanse the region with fire. Anyway, you defeat the Pokemon Gyms, Elite Four & Champion, defeat the evil criminal team and awaken and catch an Ancient Primal Pokemon, all the while collecting Pokemon and building a team of strong Pokemon to befriend.

There are 8 Gyms, 4 Member of the Elite Four + the Champion and a bunch of Pokemon to catch. I completed the Hoenn Pokedex to the best of my ability without restarting or buying the other game. Meaning I did no catch; Kyogre, Latias, Sableye, Lotad, Lombre, Ludicolo, Lunatina or Seviper; Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken, Treecko, Grovyle or Sceptile - this is because I chose Mudkip as my starter Pokemon.

Once the Elite Four has been defeat and you have been accepted into the Hall of Fame, the end begins - The Delta Episode is a short post-end game where you end up catching Mega Rayquaza & Deoxys. You can also go to the Battle Resort to defeat multiple trainers to become the very best that no one ever was. There are also a bunch of Legendary Pokemon you can catch from previous Pokemon games, some you need certain requirements other while soaring.

My Team:
Mega Swampert
Gardevoir
Mighyena
Hariyama
Probopass
Cradily

Difficulty: 4/10 (defeating the elite four) 7/10 (catching the Hoenn Pokedex)
Time to complete: 35 Hours to ~100% Hoenn Pokedex
Overall Enjoyment: 7/10

The real problem is catching all of the Pokemon in the Hoenn Pokedex. A large factor is that I ran out of evolutionary stones. But you can find coloured shards underwater and trade them for evolutionary stones at the Treasure Hunter's Shack on Route 124. In both Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire you can use the DexNav on the bottom screen, while shows you what Pokemon are in that route normally, so you can easily find out what you need to catch. Apart from that I believe that the games have got a lot easier from previous Pokemon generations, especially the Elite Four battles, I didn't have to grind at all for levels like previous games. Either way, I was really great to play a remake of one of my childhood classic video games.

My Pokemon Omega Ruby Trainer Card

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