Haha! Why is the big water snake burning itself? What an idiot! Take Cynthia for example - to the untrained eye, her Milotic’s Flame Orb might seem like a bug. There are a few reasons for why the Elite Four becomes so tough after your first run, but the main one is that all of the members get teams that, despite being tied to a single type, are designed with competitive viability in mind. You thought Cynthia’s Garchomp was tough in the originals? Mate, wait until you see this lad now - man’s Earthquake was responsible for breaking up Pangaea. While you don’t have the option to rerun the game with more obstacles and less concessions, there is one aspect of BDSP that becomes almost absurdly hard right after you roll credits: the Elite Four. Surprisingly, this is where Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl come in. Related: I Couldn’t Time Travel To Drifloon And I’m Mad I’d like to think Pokemon Black & White 2 already found the solution for this with an optional hard mode, although we’ve yet to see that reimplemented since, so maybe I’m wrong. On the other, there are plenty of 20-somethings out there like myself who just want a bit of a challenge every now and then. If a three-year-old can’t complete it, Game Freak has failed.
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On one hand, Pokemon is a kids’ game designed for kids. I watched my Infernape drop from 2HP to 1HP after a super-effective Earthquake from a Garchomp eight levels higher than it because it apparently “didn’t want to make me feel sad.” I mean, come on - that’s more difficult to believe than the fact I’m ordering a monkey with fire for hair to launch itself headfirst at a shark made of rocks.īasically, I get it. There is some merit to this argument - just last week, I spoke about how disappointingly simplistic certain aspects of Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl are in my review of the latter. For as long as I can remember, feral internet users who take inordinate amounts of pride in how Extremely Online they are have complained about Pokemon becoming too easy.