Gone Platinum

In 2008 I pre-ordered the Japanese version of Pokémon Platinum and decided to keep up a little LiveJournal blog to share my progress and my thoughts on the new game. It updated... intermittently, to put it lightly, and hit a few "real life says no Platinum blog" snags, but I was able to keep it going all the way through conquering the Elite Four. I've since copied its content over here, just to take up space on my poor, empty website and in case anyone found it a little easier to deal with this way. I tried to make it entertaining, so hopefully it's a fun read, if nothing else.

Any spelling or grammatical errors are from the original and have been left intact for the time being--I'll clean it up later.

It will contain spoilers, for those of you who haven't played Platinum yet, but given the fact that the Japanese game has been out for over a year and the American game for at least half a year, there's certainly nothing in here that the internet won't have spoiled for you already.

If you want to see the entries in their original context, here's the blog. It has a few extra posts and comments in it, but those were stripped out here because they were really only relevant to the blog version.

Chapters:

Chapter One: In which our hero is thrust quite rudely into an adventure someplace where no one speaks English, dammit

Pokémon Trainer Miles sets out on his grand new foreign-language adventure for the first time. S'all downhill from here, folks!

Chapter Two: In which our hero's inability to understand Japanese nearly screws him over

Another simple entry, this one detailing my battle with Roark, some temporary team building and the first of many embarrassing mistakes I make before this blog draws to a close.

Chapter Three: In which Team Galactic and Handsome continue to be utterly useless

Struggling through Gardenia's gym and breezing through Team Galactic's Eterna Headquarters. Oh, and Rotom, too.

Chapter Four: In which there is a flashlight

Everyone made such a huge deal out of the "flashlight item" when it was announced. It turned out to be nothing more than a temporary part of Hearthome Gym's new puzzle, of course, and so I decided to poke fun at people's freak-outs with the title. Here I also meet a lone speaker of English in this cockamamie Japanese world, and start detailing my team in a nice little table at the end as well.

Chapter Five: In which our hero does housework for some lazy martial artists and remembers just how much Defog effing sucks

Defog does suck. It really, really does. I don't know that there's anything else I can say about this chapter. |<

Chapter Six: In which the next HM is significantly easier to find (but still not where it's supposed to be, dammit) several more stupid mistakes are made and the Nap Room makes a triumphant return

The blog went on a bit of a hiatus between chapters five and six, so this one was nice and juicy to make up for the lengthy delay. It even contains a nice chunk of obligatory immature sexual innuendo, woot.

Chapter Seven: In which our hero does a lot of backtracking and yelling at rocks and fairies but hey, it's all good because the music is kickass

Or, "Through the Torn World portal and what Miles found there". Like awesome battle music. That's one of the things he found there. And a sparkly vampire Team Galactic Boss. He found that, too.

Chapter Eight: In which Levi seriously is the best Vaporeon in the universe, no really, I mean it, he is

The last installment of the Platinum blog, covering my trip to the Elite Four. By the time I was able to start experimenting with other aspects of the postgame Platinum was already out in English, so I didn't see the point in continuing any further. Ah, well. If you aren't going to go all the way, at least you can't ask for a better stopping point, right?

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