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Pokémon Games
Here's a gallery of all the Pokémon games I have, sorted by console and how I got them. I was gifted the physical games, usually for Christmas, and of course I've had to downlode some games. I hate that the eShop has been shut down on the 3DS, because I still had a shit ton of games I wanted to get for that system.
(Also I have no idea what the fuck is going on why the images aren't showing because yes I typed the file names correctly even copied and pasted but I'm working on other stuff rn so I'm not gonna spend much time trying to fix this shit...)
Nintendo 3DS
Physical games
Downloaded Games
Nintendo Switch
Physical games
Downloaded Games
History and Opinions
AlphaSapphire
This was the first ever Pokémon game I ever got to play. For Christmas 2015 I got this game and Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, and Goosebumps at home. Then we went to my grandparents house and I got my New Nintendo 3DS xl. This was the game which taught me a lot about how to play the games. I chose to play as Brendan, the male player character, but I named him Sapphire (I thought back then that in Pokémon Adventures Ruby and Sapphire, Ruby was the girl and Sapphire was the boy, since I figured based on the cartoon "Max and Ruby" that Ruby is a girl's name, but honestly a lot of those names - Ruby, Sapphire, Diamond, and Pearl - are more girl than boy names). It took me a long time to figur out how to change up my team, so for much of my first playthrugh my team was my female Swampert "Splash", Mightyena "Black", Linoone "ZigZag", female Gardevoir "Psychic", female Breloom "ShroomLoom", and Dustox "Wurm". Splash ended up being an HM slave, knowing Surf, Rock Smash, Waterfall, and Dive. I also had a Swellow named "Taillon" (Taillow + Talon) off an on, but I mainly used in the Pokemon Contests, especially the Coolness category; I also remember, after getting the national Poke Dex, battling Cobalion with him, and my character's dialogue being "Go on, Taillon! I know you can do it!" When the time came to add Latias to my team after the fifth Gym, she replaced Breloom. I should have had her replace Linoone instead. As you can see, my first playthrugh was full of rooky mistakes. I accidently fainted Kyogre when trying to catch it. I was friends with the pastor's grandson at Church (back when I used to go). He play Pokémon long before I was. He told me that now I could never get Kyogre without trading for it. In earlier games that was true, but at some point long after the postgame, I decided to return to the Hall of Origin, and I found Kyorge, just sat there in the water in the room you battle it in. I would pay for my mistakes at the Pokémon League. I didn't know back then that Dark-type Pokémon are weak to Bug-Type attacks, so I only had Wurm use Bug Buzz on Cacturne and Shiftry, and Splash just Rock Smashed the rest of Sydney's team. Black of course was good against Phoebe, but I didn't have any good Pokémon to fight Glacia's Ice-types, so I was lucky to even make it as far as Drake, who's Dragon-types of course beat Latias. And maybe they also beat Psychic (the Gardevoir) somehow. IDK, Gardevoir is a Fairy-type so she shuld have helped me against the Dragon-types, but I was even luckier to get to Steven. Also IDK how many damn times I went through the League before it ocured to me to heal up my team in between battles... Well, I finally learned what the PC is, and I changed up my team. I ended up winning with Swampert, Latias, Aggron, Magcargo, Torkoal, and Rapidash. Yeah, not the best, but, you know... Anyway, I eventualy became Champion, played the post-game, and accidently one-shotted Deoxys. But I at least got to rematch it at the top of Sky Pillar.
Eventually I decided to restart the game. Half the time I'd choose Mudkip, half the time I'd start with Treecko. I tried one playthrugh with Torchic, but I got bored and started over before I made it to the fifth Gym. My Champion teams varied slightly, but usually it was Swampert or Sceptile, Absol, Salamence (replaced by Rayquaza after the post game), Aggron (replaced by Metagross), Absol, and some other Pokémon which tended to be not my favrit, mainly becas I tried too hard to have the Grass, Water, Ground, Fire and Fighting types regardless of my starter, as well as a team where all 6 members can Mega evolve. My latest playthrugh was an atempt at playing all the way thrugh with my original team, but with two difrenses: Latias replaced Linoone and I kept Breloom, and every one had better moves (Splash was not an HM slave). If I could play AlphaSapphire again, my team would Be Sceptile, Manectric, Absol, Sharpedo (replaced by Kyorge), Aggron (replaced by Metagross), and Salamence (replaced by Rayquaza).
Super Mystery Dungeon
Never finished the game. Culdn't even get past the first boss Gabite. Still have the box, but lost the game card somewhere. I would be interested in playing a Mystery Dungeon game thrugh, tho I dont think there my thing.
Sun and Moon
A lot of peple give these games flack for I don't really know what reason. I for one loved these these games. My grandma bought both of them for me the year they came out. She let me choose one to play as an early Christmas gift (I chose Sun) and the other I would get on Christmas day. I've played both, but for some reason I've always gravitated toward Sun more. And after I downloaded the demo I've always sent Greninja to the full game, for one because I've always loved Greninja (even though Water Shuriken is disappointingly weak), and for role-playing reasons that I'll get into when I get the page developed about my own Pokémon manga. But anyway Sun was my second Pokémon game, so I felt more like an experienced player when starting it up for the first time. I was watching some JPR videos a few days ago and when I heard the one particular music piece from Sun and Moon, it brought back memories of answering Professor Kukui's questions in the intro in order to customize my character. It felt awsome that I was exploring a new region with everyone else, rather than exploring a region that many others were just revisiting, although I expect there were plenty of Pokémon fans who joined in after gen 3, even if ORAS weren't their first games, so they probably were also exploring Hoenn for the first time. Still it was exciting to go to a brand new region after having a League championship and post game under my belt. I have a lot of memories of raising Rowlet, Grubbin, Crabrawler, Rockruff, and others across the four islands, and replacing Crabrawler with Jingmo-o in the Vast Poni Canyon and spending time with it to evolve it into Kommo-o, a psuedo legendary that a lot of peple dislike, and yeah sometimes its huge scales are off-putting if I think about it too long, but while it's not the coolest-looking Dragon-type mon, I still think it's really. I mean its Fighting type makes it a more useful Dragon than some others, like Baxicalibur. I love Baxcalibur but as a Dragon/Ice dual-type, sending it into battle is a huge gamble. I'll have to elaborate in the page about my opinions of the Pokémon themselves. But Kommo-o can be good against the trial Kommo-o if you've got a way of pulling it off, and it's definitely helpful against Hala (or Molaine in the Ultra games) and Olivia in the Pokémon game. Solgaleo is too but if you want to play like you're expecting to battle Nanu (since the Elite Four are supposed to be the Island Kahunas and in-game your character doesn't know that's not entirely true until you enter the room and see Acerola), then Kommo-o is a realistic team member (though I guess that's what Vikavolt is for) It's also helpful against Kukui's Incineroar if you choose Rowlet as your starter, since Incineroar has Cross Chop which always one-shots my Lycanroc and Greninja, and obviously Decidueye, Vikavolt, and Solgaleo/Lunala don't stand a chance against it. I even remember at one point using an Alolan Muk in a playthrough, because I remember using one against Solgaleo
But while I loved these games and think they're overhated, I do understand some of why people didn't like Gen 7. For one I didn't like the story with Lusamine being the villain. I just don't understand how after seeing Nihilego, which doesn't even have a face, she could become so obsessed with beauty that she would start verbally absuing her daughter Lilly, who is a very pretty girl. I also hate the lack of expressions the developers gave the player character. Like the player character just sits there and smiles during the scene where Lusamine calls Lillie ugly. I mean fucking hell at least in ORAS I remember my character looking very pissed in the Delta Episode when Zinnia realizes she fucked up when she went through all the trouble of stealing Key Stones and Rayquaza doesn't mega evolve. And then there's those Pokémon that Lusamine has cryogenicly frozen. You're only ever in that room for the one scene and can never access it again, so those Pokémon are never released.
And there's that girl who's the fourth member of the Elite Four. Where the fuck did she come from? I mean yeah she likes golf and if I remember right her dad has something to do with the beach resort on Akala Island where you can get paid to chuck beached Pyukumuku back into the water. But that's about all the story she gets. The rival Hau is kind of annoying. I know he's not the first rival to choose the starter that's weak to yours, but he was my first. And as you'll see when I talk about Sword and Violet, the rivals get more and more annoying because they choose the starter weak to yours, and are always surprised and impressed when you beat them. But as for Hau, really the only time I didn't wipe the floor with him was the first battle where he uses Flareon (or Vapereon or Jolteon depending on your starter), because he realizes he should have had a Pokémon with a type-advantage over yours from the start. And obviously I don't use Dartrix/Decidueye against Flareon, but still it somehow hits harder than his others until he gets a Komala which was stronger than it has any right to be. No Pokémon that small has any right to know an attack like EARTHQUAKE!
I also don't like Acerola. I can't stand her cat-like mouth that for some reason exists in anime. And I hate how she holds her mouth open in a perfect circle when she's surprised. I mean when she walks away after talking to you after you beat the Ghost trial, she just holds her face like like for no reason. And I don't the motions that characters have. The repeating side-to-side motion when looking around, the jumping they do when happy, or the infamous motion Hau does when he's scared that got reused for Hop in Sword and Shield. They're all very annoying. And why is Mina, a Fairy-type specialist, a trial captain for a Dragon-type trial? And she tells you there is no trial on Poni Island, but then you go traversing Vast Poni Canyon, find the Dragon-type Z-Crystal, and surpise surprise, you get jumped by Kommo-o. And there were three Type: Null created. Gladion has one of them, you get to take another, what happens to the third one? I like to think Lillie took it when she left for Kanto. Also why does Lillie not show up in the Let's Go games? Alolan variants show up in that game so I think she could have too.
Still, the overall story was fun. I like that Gamefreak decided to try something different and had trials instead of Gyms, and they were just starting their own Pokémon League, so you got to be the first champion and take on challenges to your title from other characters, some familiar like Hop and others not so much. Except you have to rebattle the Elite Four before you take on challenges, for some reason. I doubt that champions of other games had to do that when they were already champion. But still it was cool that in the Alola games your champion battle in your League rematch was always against someone different. And since you go right to battling Tapu Koko without a chance to prepare, like in buying Poké balls or whatever, I bet that my Mo-o was very glad that Koko's only Fairy-type attack had fixed damage with no regard to weaknesses. I know some fans don't like the mechanic where if a Pokémon is very affectionate towards you, they might dodge attacks ("Kommo-o heard your cry and avoided the attack" or something like that), endure an attack ("Decidueye is in a bit of a pinch. It looks like it's about to cry."), or recover from their status condition ("Lycanroc shook off its paralysis so you wouldn't worry!"), because they say it feels like cheating, but personally, I rather like them. I think they're really sweet and reinforce the idea that trainers become successful when they share a bond with their Pokémon. Plus this mechanic doesn't work in PvP or in the Battle facilities (Maison, Tree, Tower, etc.), they only work in the story battles, so I don't see it as cheating.
Another thing people didn't like was that Team Skull wasn't all that evil. All they really did was steal Pokémon and mistreat them, and even though they seemed like the opposite of the Aether Foundation, they turned out to be working together when Aether was revealed to be more malishous than Skull. But honestly I don't have a problem with Team Skull. Not every evil team has to have goals for a world-ending calamity. Hell they're really just OG Team Rocket but occupied by punks and juvenile delinquents. My only problem is Gamefreak seems to be running with this new tradition a bit too long, with Sword and Shield and Scarlet and Violet, where the "evil team" is just petty criminals and the real bad guy was supposed to be a good guy. I think how evil teams are written now and how they had been written are both valid, they need to just change it up once in a while. As for the post game, I think it was fine. Maybe some peple don't like it, but I have nothing to complain about.
And I'd like to end by saying Sun and Moon definitely gave me a warm...fuzzy feeling, a sense of family and community that I've never really gotten from any game since.