Tag: Gen 1 Pokémon
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Pokémon Review: Meowth, Persian, and Perrserker
Meowth holds the distinction of being the only Pokemon to have received regional forms in two separate generations, so as such there’s quite a lot of ground to cover here for something so plain. Meowth is kind of hard to talk about as a Pokemon, in my view. This is largely because its presence in…
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Pokémon Review: Diglett and Dugtrio
Welp, time to figure out how to say different things about each of these four incredibly repetitive and bland designs that have done the same concept to death. Yaaaaaaay. Of all the designs in Generation 1, many of whom are unfairly dismissed as too simple, Diglett is easily the least complex visual design of the…
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Pokémon Review: Venonat and Venomoth
Hey there, sorry for the week off. Ended up being busy travelling for a few days but I’m ready to kick things back off again with another nice little family of Bug Pokemon and our first of quite a few moth Pokemon: the Venonat family. Venonat is whole other kind of juvenile bug distinct from…
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Pokémon Review: Paras and Parasect
Continuing the other day’s trend of nature being really quite grim sometimes, we move onto one of the most ominous Pokemon of the entire generation. Paras starts out an innocent enough looking design, as an orange cicada nymph with a couple of mushrooms on its back, which if you didn’t know better would just look…
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Pokémon Review: Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, and Bellossom
Today’s review looks at another of Kanto’s Grass/Poison lines and one of the first branching evolution families the series introduced outside of the Eevee family, with a pretty staggering contrast between the original end result and the later introduced one. While Bulbasaur had a little legwork to do to make itself into a proper starter…
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Pokémon Review: Zubat, Golbat, and Crobat
It’s baffling to me that 26 years on, Poison/Flying is still a unique type combination. Zubat is so ubiquitous and common in this series that it’s very easy to forget that fact since it’s not like it “feels” unique when the type combination can be acquired in almost every game. Nevertheless, it remains unique to…
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Pokémon Review: Igglybuff, Jigglypuff, and Wigglytuff
Onto another family of Pokemon that had a Baby Pokemon crudely sellotaped onto it, Jigglypuff’s family is very much a mirror of Clefairy’s in many way, right down to being a much bigger deal in early Pokemon than it is nowadays and both evolving via Moon Stone. Unfortunately, one of the ways in which it’s…
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Pokémon Review: Vulpix and Ninetales
This review is one I’ve been excited to do for a while, but for whatever reason I just haven’t found the right words for it, possibly in part due to there being quite a wide range of emotional response for things here. We’re going from a nice enough design I think ticks a lot of…
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Pokémon Review: Cleffa, Clefairy, and Clefable
We now come to the neglected planned mascot for the series and our first proper Fairy type family with Clefairy’s little moonlit dance troupe. Honestly the concept of Clefairy being an intended mascot for the franchise is still a pretty wild concept and it feels very ill-fitting for the job compared to Pikachu, so I…
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Pokémon Review: The Nidoqueen and Nidoking Families
Okay so this could maybe have been split into two articles but I felt it was better to write together to compare the separate evolution lines with a back and forth between them, especially since two of them are basically the exact same Pokemon, so strap in for a longer one. Maybe I’m just getting…
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