Pokemon Letter part 4
The games are also often too battle-oriented. In an interview I read online, the director of Game Freak said that battling is for boys and contests are for girls. Firstly, I know many skilled girl battlers. Secondly, if this were true, shouldn’t there be the option of defeating gym leaders through contests? Even after you beat the game, there is nothing for you to do but endlessly battle at the battle tower or breed strong pokemon to battle against other players. There is little replay value in the games—little reason to keep playing after you have beaten the games. I believe the reason Pokemon Gold and Silver were so popular was that after you beat the game, you had another game to enjoy. In effect, Pokemon Gold and Silver were two games in one. There are also too few mini-games in those times you want to play the games without battling.
As for the pokemon themselves, there are problems to solve. For one thing, there are too many running pokemon to chase down. This is not quite as fun as the game designers may have originally imagined. There were at least five running pokemon in Platinum, and I found it annoying having to hunt down each one.
Then there is the fact that there are sometimes legendary pokemon from one game thrown haphazardly into another game without any reason for those pokemon to be present. With this I’m referring to the inclusion of the major legendaries of Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum being included in the new HeartGold and SoulSilver games. As the game has not yet debuted in America, I can only hope there is a story reason why they are included. Otherwise it would make little sense for them to be present. I have heard little or nothing of legendary pokemon that belong in those games such as Mewtwo. I find the foreign pokemon confusing.
As for battling, it is frustrating to sometimes find that a pokemon’s available moves don’t suit the pokemon’s attributes. For instance, the pokemon Flareon is a very strong physical attacker, but most of its strong moves are not physical attacks. Most of its physical attacks are
