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Pokémon Review: Sandshrew and Sandslash
If last review wasn’t enough adorable little rodents for you, we now have Sandshrew. Sandshrew is a simply delightful little guy with a nice brick laid pattern for its back armour that effectively communicates its Ground typing and looks good when it rolls around in a ball. I love its sandy colour scheme, beady black
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Pokémon Review: Pichu, Pikachu, and Raichu
Welp, it’s time for the big cheese. The mascot of all Pokémon and most likely one of the most recognisable fictional characters on the entire planet. However, before that we’ve got to make a little stop at the Day Care to pick up Pikachu’s child: Pichu. The first of a small handful of Baby Pokemon
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Pokémon Review: Ekans and Arbok
Another of Kanto’s forgotten few and our first of many pure Poison types in Generation 1, Ekans is a fairly simple, archetypal snake design. For what it’s worth, I really like the strong gold and purple colour scheme, and the absence of teeth due to it being based on snakes that just consume eggs whole
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Pokémon Review: Spearow and Fearow
So the Fearow family is the first of only a small handful of Generation 1 Pokémon that doesn’t have any sorts of added bells and whistles from more recent generations, which will leave this as a shorter review than the past few. Spearow is another simple early game bird, cast as a more aggressive foil
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Pokémon Review: Rattata and Raticate
Rattata is another of those regular Route 1 Pokemon that’s been iterated on countless times in the generations since, and at the very least this time there’s a distinct purple colour scheme to it to make it stand out more. Honestly Rattata does a pretty good job of giving a subtle hint at being more
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Pokémon Review: Pidgey, Pidgeotto, and Pidgeot
Continuing the trend of early game Kanto Pokémon, we have Pidgey. While many of the early game Pokemon in any generation are often fairly archetypal animals with a small twist, Pidgey can barely even achieve that. It’s absolutely a trendsetter, inspiring many “regional birds” after it to fill its niche, but really it’s just such
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Pokémon Review: Weedle, Kakuna, and Beedrill
Hey there, sorry for the long absence. I took some time away from this for a bit because life got in the way. However I’m hoping to get back on with posting these and maintain some better regularity going forwards. Anyway, without further ado, it’s time to rattle on with the second of the two
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Pokémon Review: Caterpie, Metapod, and Butterfree
The core of Pokémon’s fantasy was inspired by bug catching, so it only makes sense to have a whole bunch of funny little bugs. The fact that Bug is defined as a unique elemental type in Pokemon is honestly such a phenomenally unique and interesting design choice that by itself I think goes underappreciated. There
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Pokémon Review: Squirtle, Wartortle, and Blastoise
Now we move onto the last of the three Kanto starters: Squirtle. Squirtle is, simply put, absolutely adorable. Turtles and tortoises are some of my favourite animals ever, and Squirtle’s sheer cuteness made it appeal to me so much. While Bulbasaur is my favourite now and Charmander was my pick when I first played the
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Pokémon Review: Charmander, Charmeleon, and Charizard
Okay, time for easily the most popular starter Pokemon ever. The Charizard family has an impossible level of hype to live up to already, but to be quite honest I don’t think the first two stages of the family even come close. Charmander is, all things considered, a cute Pokemon and fun design. However, it’s
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