Pokemon Crystal - Against the Elements

FINALLY. Midterm week is OVER.
And after a week of trying to balance my studying with thinking of what to post first, I have experienced hardships that should never be experienced again. These hardships include, but are not at all limited to:
- dropping my SP and freezing the game after a 2-hour period of playing without saving and getting reeeeeeeally pissed off
- putting the still-on game in my bag and forgetting about it for about half an hour as a fire forced me out of my dorm for a bit, also freezing it after a 2-or-so-hour period without saving and nearly giving up on hope
- having the game randomly glitch up after I had just beaten the 3rd gym leader and was unable to exit the gym and was unable to pull up the start menu to save. I'M NOT KIDDING, PEOPLE.
So, the moral of the story? Save your game - a lot. I'm really hoping that this glitch doesn't reappear when I get to the 3rd gym again...

Anyway, welcome to my favorite generation of Pokemon. This, I will admit, is not my favorite game of the three, as it features less Pokemon, I think. Still, it has a more involved storyline, and is the third release of the generation, so I think I'll stick to it.

Say hello to my new team:

Cora (Zubat) ♀ - L11
Venus (Bellsprout) ♂ - L12
Clipper (Totodile) ♂ - L13

As a side note - from here on out, I nickname my Pokemon. It just seemed a bit too bold in the previous generation. Anyway...
Aside from the fact that this generation introduced 100 new Pokemon into the light, lots of changes began to happen. It really blew my mind as a child. Let's call this, for my own personal aspect, the building block generation of Pokemon today. The old Pokemon will forever be the original building block, but it was very simple. There was very little that it had in common with generation 2. With that said, I didn't remember it as much. 

Today I'll talk briefly about one of the new aspects that excited me the most: 2 new elements.

Dark Type

(From Bulbapedia)

I LOVED this type. There were only a select few Pokemon released in this generation to go with this debut type, but I wanted ALL OF THEM, regardless how difficult to me it seemed to catch them at the tender age of less-than-10.

Dark type brought spice into the Pokemon realm. The dark type Pokemon were always the most shadowy-looking, yet in battle, their move set was the most strategic and powerful to me. From the debut, forward, I wanted a Pokemon in my team that if it wasn't Dark, it would at least be able to know dark type moves. Thus, I came to respect Zubat, regardless of how many buggers are still out there in the games.

Steel Type

(From Bulbapedia)

This type, unlike Dark, was one of those that I FEARED. Like, the fear that your afraid of, not the fear that you respect. It took me ages to figure out what took steel type creatures down. It was bad enough having to learn what type of Pokemon to use against a Rock type. Now you have a gym leader who uses Steel as well to worry about. Not only that, but a particular Pokemon I had known just to be an Electric Pokemon (Magnemite) was now part Steel, part Electric.
Even today, now that I've known and have gotten used to Steel, I don't like this one. It's irritable...but great when you have a steel type Pokemon.

Next time I'll be focusing my attention to the Pokemon themselves - they've changed quite a bit, too, my friends. Thanks for reading!

- Cheryl-Buddy