Me. Want. Siiiiiilver. *squeal* Disregarding the fact that silver and green is the BEST color combination EVER (yeah, I know, I kind of didn't like the way J.K. Rowling dressed slimy Slytherin in such colors), I really want SoulSilver for nostalgic reasons. Ya know, looking back at all those childhood days when I played so ardently on my Silver version...

But I don't think the remakes will ever feel the same as the originals. For some reason, the graphics in the original version look softer and a bit more-- homey? comforting?-- than in the sneak peeks. Chikorita looks like it's drawn with pastels in Silver and it's sooooo much more adorable than Turtwig. Also, the music itself-- gah! It's just so hard to explain the nostalgia that comes to me whenever I think of my Gold and Silver version.

Sentret pawns Bidoof on the cuteness scale. I must say that Platinum had "cooler" features-- however, for some reason, I don't want to play through the game again; however, I do want to reset my Gold and play through that again. Also, you fairly want to poke Cyndaquil in the sides until it giggles or turns over onto its peach-colored stomach in Silver, whereas Chimchar gets some getting used to. And come on, Bronzong? Wingull? Aren't you forgetting awesomely cool Pokemon like Poliwag/Poliwhirl and Bellosum? They should have been available earlier in those games, not those hideous concoctions like Carnivine.

But that doesn't matter much, I guess-- because I have a pretty good hunch that I'm going to buy SoulSilver as soon as it comes out here.

You know, I'm not that much of an advanced gamer. So during the nearly 10 years of my life that I've spent with the Pokemon games, I've beaten the Elite Four once. Only once.

And that was on this current story.

Now I've beaten Red, whoot! And it's kind of funny how I beat him using Pokemon leveled at 60 or below. My level 57 Piloswine totally pawned Red's level 81 Pikachu. :P

The question is... now what? ^^;;

Who knew I was a gamer at heart?