Chapter 1 - ~What Is Love? Baby Don't Hurt Me, Don't Hurt Me, No More~
Hello everyone and welcome to my regular playthrough of Pokémon Full Moon! Nothing new happening here except for 2 things.
1. I’m gonna try to use Pokémon I don’t really use.
2. Unlike my last run of this game, I’m going to be talking about how I feel about the plot, characters, etc. You all get the drill. So, let’s get started, shall we?
Let’s start with the Main Character Luna. And yes. She’s the ONLY main character you can play as. As well as her name only staying as Luna. In one way, I don’t mind it because I’m playing for the story and she’s involved with the story heavily. But in the other way, I wish there could be at least 2 main characters to choose from. But that’s honestly small nitpicking. Luna has run away from home/her school and has been living in a cave for 2 years because of her parents… Alrighty then. At least we know she can fend for herself. Then again, she has a freaking ARCANINE as her starter! But again, it’s the ONLY starter you can have no matter how many times you replay this. And since I’m not the hugest fan of Arcanine (please not murdering me for saying that), it somewhat sucks. (Btw, I may or may not use pictures sometimes so sorry if you get confused with what I say without visual presentation) So let’s take a look at our… Home? Now much really to see. Couple of rocks, a Dratini doll and a… A bed?! Where the fuck did she get a bed from?! Yes, again nitpicking but still. When you see where the cave is, you would wonder the same thing.
Anyways, enough of that. Get the Arcanine, put it in its Pokeball, walk out of the cave and ohh hey. Look. Evil Villain Team Commander at the doorstep. Wonderful. He demands to know stuff and of course she doesn’t know. So it’s BATTLE TIME! Aaannnddd yea. 2 Fire Fangs later and his Seviper is down. And with that, he scurries away in defeat. Ohh yea. His name is Redi and that’s all I shall say for now.
Great. He’s left. So lets go on an adven- Ohh. Hi Chan. You’re here. Apparently used to be a popular kid in school and bullied Luna cus the people he was with were forcing him to be a bully to her. Well alrighty then. And now he’s telling her he loved her and still does and wants us to go to his house. Aww. Isn’t that sweet. Well it’s time to tell him no because we’re obviously mad at him and go on our… I said no… I SAID NO! Ugh. This is the problem I have with the beginning of the game. The love angle is rushed. We just met this person and he’s already proclaiming to the main character his feelings and asking her to come with him to his house and even if you say no, she changes her mind in a line or 2. What’s the point of giving us a yes or no option if it doesn’t matter. And the funny thing is that this happens again in the matter of minutes! Anyways, he leaves and we can finally start the adventure! I obtain a single Pokeball inside the game and spend sometime looking for a specific Pokemon. AHA! We have found her at last! Gulpin AKA Cake Gulp! (FYI, I screenshotted this after I was at Chan’s house so both this and the other Pokemon I captured are at the same level thanks to some training.)
After capturing that little blob, we make our way outside. Yay! The outdoors! And a beach! This is a lovely place to hide out for 2 years. After using the bird Pokemon to level up our Gulpin and taking on some of the trainers on the beach, it’s time to go with Chan and ride on his… God damn Dragonite. Well damn. Hopefully we won’t have to fight him anytime soon. As both of us are flying through the air, he asks us if we love him. So I choose for her to say no and… And… Like I said! Matter of minutes! She’ll say no but in a line or 2 AGAIN, she changes her mind and is all loveydovey with him. WHY give us an option to say yes or no if there’s no change except for a couple of lines?
We make it to his place and honestly, I like the area… Although isn’t that a bit weird of a place to live. The house is surrounded by flowers, trees and a lake but… The mountains are blocking it off from antry and the only way to get there is to go through a long, freezing cave? Well whatever floats his parents boat. So we explore the area and find that 4 flowers, when activated, reveal a cave entrance. I have no clue how anyone did that but props to them for that. In the cave is just basically water and ice type Pokemon but we do in fact obtain our next team member. Say hello to Cubchoo AKA Papa Sniff!
After training him some, its time to continue with the story. We ask him for a drink of water and the question the whereabouts of his parents… Ahh. They’re dead. Lets pretend I didn’t say anything about them before. Forgot about it? Good. Anyways, he informs us that his brother is trying to become a doctor and his sister is the Champion! I wonder if he’d hate us for whooping her ass for the title of Champion. Haha. Anyways, now that we’re done talking to him, time to explore the house. Lets see. Food to eat, beer to drink, dig through the trash and find Leftovers, go upst- Wait. Leftovers? Already?! THIS EARLY?!!! Well… Whatever. Go upstairs and explore the bedrooms and the library I’m guessing it is. Ooo! A journal! Lets invade other peoples privacy! It’s Chan’s little brother Nello’s journal. So turns out Chan was sick, then really sick and then he cured him. Well that’s good. And apparently, some dude told them that their parents died in an earthquake… And nothing else. Yeeeaaa. I’m with Nello on this one. I wouldn’t believe him either.
And then Chan comes in and we’re busted because I guess we weren’t supposed to be here. I really don’t want to talk about this anymore! A distraction! We need a distraction! Ohh… Would you look at that. A distraction. We both go down and are greeted with 2 new characters: Kain and Dinor. They are both close friends with Chan and since they know we’re dating now, they’re cool with us. That’s good I guess? Really weird though. And then they tell us the real reason they’re here. They need help to get rid of Team Lightning from their academy! We bravely accept the challenge and run off to the academy! But this is where we stop for now.
Here’s the team as of now!
The love angle is shoved in our face so early and no matter what you choose, you just end up falling in love with Chan. It’s like flipping on a light switch. Also the fact that there’s just one Main Character and one “starter” Pokemon kinda sucks. The graphics look nice though. The cave, the beach, Chan’s house area, even the air looks nice. And I like the touch of different colored texts to represent other characters. Next time, we shall travel through the cave and reach our destination. The Academy!