Pokemon Soul Silver: Just got to Golden Rod.
Curren team:
Quilava: Starter! played Gen 2 twice, once with Cynda, the other with Chikorita. So I decided to go with the Fire starter cause I like Fire types and finding them is harder than Grass types generally. Yes, there are only two starters in Gen 2.
Onix: Decided to use one for once since you can get him early and he's a nice Jeigan; plan on getting him to Steelix so he's competent the entire way through (will just trade with little sister once I get Metal Coat.) Giving him Rock Smash helps him deal with Rock types and beat up other Normal types faster than before, and Rock THrow = yay Zubat Counter!
Gastly: Got him early as well, but he really sucks early game; Lick is bad damage and misses half the early game Pokemon since they're all damned Normal types. Hypnosis is cool, and he just got Curse, so he can kill things a little faster now providing he's not nearly dead. Should get better later when he gets ACTUAL MOVES, evolves into Haunter, etc.
Bellsprout: Early game Grass type, can use Flash and Cut, which helps out a decent amount. He also butchers Rock types.
Magikarp: HE JUST LEARNED TACKLE! Ok, more seriously, yeah, finally gonna use a Gyarados since Gen 4 Gyara is pretty cool, and if I replay Diamond, I'm gonna use Piplup as my starter, which means "no" to using Gyara there (don't like using more than one of the same type unless its something like Flying that's ludicrously common to find dual typed.) AMUSINGLY, he managed to "kill" a Gym Leader's Pokemon and get full EXP! Specifically, Bugsy's Kakuna. How? Gastly used Curse on a turn when Scyther U-turned it, he BARELY survived (he got Critted), used Curse, the Kakuna got the "Status" and Gastly fainted in the process. Magikarp just tanked it from there.
Hoothoot: I've used Pidgey and Spearow plenty, figured I'd actually use him for once. He has Hypnosis which is cool...except that Bellsprout has Sleep Powder and Gastly ALSO has Hypnosis, so I'm not sure how useful that's going to be! Though, Noctowl fails less in Gen 4 from what I remember, so figured I'd give him a go now, since if not now, then its never really seeing use!
...I might just ditch it entirely once I get a slightly more competent flying type that's interesting. Like I hear this thing called "Lugia" is pretty good, maybe he's better than Noctowl.
So far, the game is nicely polished and what not, a respectable remake to Gen 2. Lacks Gen 4's issues too, at least relative to DP (heard Platinum fixes a lot of DP's issues); battles don't take forever, for example, as animations were changed, pretty much all of them simplified to go faster, though still pretty enough to not look like they're just being half assed.
ALSO...
God of War 2: Finally started this. So far it...feels pretty much exactly like the first game. Same general combat system, Quick Time events galore, same gimmick climbing nonsense, etc. Meh, a lot of the stuff that I didn't like; I hear this game does a few things the first one didn't like "hey look, more weapons!" which could help...and the addition of Kratos getting a Bow for some ranged combat was certainly nice (even if it uses Magic), since hey, why not do something that isn't just melee or big AoE Magical nukings for once?
