I’ve been replaying though the Pokémon games for the first time since they came out.

I just finished Gold and started Emerald last week. I was really looking forward to it as I always hear great things about emerald.

But I have not been enjoying it. I feel like I’m constantly under leveled and even when I have a higher level than other Pokémon, I feel weaker.

The map has been a bit annoying going in circles for the first half of the game. I am at the 5th gym now, and decided to drop it and move to gen 4.

I also have not been happy with the team I built. It seems that the move sets I have are not really that good. I’m at level 20-30 and I’m just getting my first good moves for some of my team.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I think not having good Pokémon has been my problem. I’m hesitant to replace them due to having trouble finding a good alternative and I don’t really care to grind for levels. I didn’t need to do that in the previous games.

    I think I’m going to drop it and give it another try after finishing x and Y when I play omega ruby

    • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Shroomish, or more accurately breloom from the first forest is amazing.

      Aron gets good but takes a while. Same with lotad.

      Plus mudkip is a beast. Treeko kinda sucks and torchic is good but so much of the game being water really puts fire in a bad position.

      But yeah, there are a lot of bad mons especially early game.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      If you aren’t having fun there is no shame in that. I feel the same way about Sun and Moon.

      I am sure that there is a lot those games do right, like the island challenge instead of gyms and a different kind of elite 4 and other things but the early game is so boring that I don’t care to get that far.