With very little hope of finding our actual goal, we venture into what appears to be a public park dotted with chicken topiary. Yes, next question. The gym leader was not in the great ball. The old man won’t let us go any further. Sin-kun attempts to physically push him out of the way, but…

Alright, what’s all this, then. We are immediately beset on by a random stranger. We are? After declaring that we’re training, she attacks, sending out… a purrloin. Sin-kun is kind of getting sick of purrloin already which is a bad sign. Our purrloin is faster than theirs, but they are doing like no damage to…

We walk into the grass and we immediately run into a level 7 patrat, reminding us that we uh, we need to level our team some more. Chloe gained a level just from being in the battle with that one patrat and getting immediately switched out. She learns “Odor Sleuth” which at this point we…

Something’s happening in the plaza! Time to rubberneck! Huh that’s quite the crowd actually! What happened, did somebody die? … What’s with this line up of goons? Hey, what gives? You look like that guy from the throne room in the opening movie! Ahhhh, of course, you’re a villain. In pokemon, any “team” is guaranteed…

Before we head out on the open road the first time it’s time to take care of some things like saving the game, and checking on our dear little piggy’s stats.   Ganon has a “timid” nature, and likes to run (which makes sense since his nature increases speed and decreases attack). Maybe we should…

After we finally get to nickname our adorable little piglet, Juniper goes right back to the prepared speech, and Cheren goes right back to hurrying her up. I’m starting to become very suspicious that he is also a fellow isekai truck non-survivor. Bianca, meanwhile, doesn’t know wtf a pokedex is and I have no idea…

It had fucking better not be! Okay, we’d better go after Bianca and Cheren before they get too far ahead of us, who know’s what they’ll say to mom. We come down to find Bianca begging for forgiveness as she should be. Strangely, unlike our mother from before our encounter with Truck-kun this woman is…

Buckle up kids, because we are doing this in the style of a classic Something Awful forums Let’s Play thread! So right away I notice a tone difference on starting Black. We’re thrown into an opening cutscene, very somber, with some guy with green hair being crowned, and there’s a throne and onlooking crowds, and…