Today, and yesterday, and the day before, and more than likely the day tomorrow – I spent the day patiently waiting for the release of the Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver ROMs. I had been expecting an early release, before the street date of the 12th of September, since previous releases were five (Japanese Platinum) and three (American Platinum) days early respectively. Now with the news that 2channers have the game early and are already posting screens, videos and details – is making my fucking blood boil.

In case some of you haven’t already gathered from some previous posts, I still like the video game series. The anime has started to falter and is now falling into the "meh" category, but the game are still a large pick-me-up. One of the things that I would like to do is to get my hands on the game as early as possible and then start a blind LP of it, before any of those bigshots with more subscribers than sense start claiming to have the best video coverage of the game around when all they do is some crappy post-production and acting. </end Marriland rant>

Unfortunately it seems that my usual reliable ROM grabbers have been a little slow on the uptake of the latest batch of games and some lucky Japanese folk have already started playing and divulging the details. Which means that now everywhere is filled with every single new detail about how the plot, storyline, Gym Leader rosters, catchable Poké’s, events etc. have changed from the original. And quite frankly, I’m a little pissed off that I have to learn about the games from other websites rather than first-hand experience with it loaded onto my DS, with me plonked in front of it, stylus in hand.

Now to go back to my waiting.

Hopefully this eye twitch will go away soon.

*twitch*

And in case you really do want to know, I haven’t exactly made a rock-solid decision on what sort of team I will be using during the LP. Feraligatr is certain; Crobat will be used if Togekiss is unavailable or if it’s too much effort (see current Platinum LP for reasons why not to bother with it); Ampharos is considered, if Mareep is available; Arcanine is likely, although since a Level 5 Eevee is available, that could prove useful as Flareon or Jolteon; Sudowoodo is highly likely. The sixth spot, I really have no idea what to put there. Maybe I could spend literally hours off-camera looking for Heracross in the trees…