How do you play Pokemon?

Everyone has they're own style of how they become Pokemon Masters, so how do you do it? Everyone here at the Nintendo Blog will have to make a post in response to this.

I usually pick the water starter Pokemon, but not as a rule, and make sure he is the highest level of any Pokemon I have because the starter Pokemon have very high stats. I normally do water so I can teach him surf. I then catch the basic flying Pokemon (Pidgey, Starly, Taillow whatever) so he can learn fly. I will catch either one or two more Pokemon that balance out my starter and flying guy (I try to have a fire type and either a grass type, or electric type) I'll also catch some guys who I dump my HM's on so I don't have to give any of my better guys Rock Smash or Cut. I also catch the game's main legendary and the three that usually accompany it. But that's it. I find the less Pokemon you have, the better, because you then have to spread out you exp over each Pokemon. (It helps to get an exp share)


Example: I have, in my new game of fire red, gotten Blastoise, Pidgeot, Raichu, Meowth (as my HM) guy and Snorlax. I also have a Hitmonlee in Day Care.


That's how I do it, what about you?

Excited for Ocarina 3DS

At first, I wasn't all that keen about a 3DS, even with Ocarina of Time coming out, but recently, I've had a change of heart. I already have the game on Wii through the Shop channel, but I think I would actually prefer to have it on a handheld. For a couple of reasons. Well, first off, the game's been remastered, which means the graphics and music has been re-done for this generation...it looks gorgeous! The other main reasons are that I already play lots of other Wii games like Brawl, Galaxy and New Super Mario Bros Wii and I have to lose time on those if I want to play Ocarina of Time on the Wii, but the other thing is the Temples. You know in Zelda if you save and turn off the console you return to the start of the Temple or location when you boot up the game? Well, unless I'm playing a GBA game on it, I rarely turn my DS off. I usually just leave it on and connected to the charger. So, instead of having to turn it off and start at a location I'm not fond of, I can just put the console to sleep and pick it up later. 
There are also a few bonuses in the game. Once you beat the 3DS version of Ocarina of Time, you can do a boss run. You can choose to fight any Boss whenever you want, or fight them all in a row to the bitter end. All these things are drawing me to the 3DS and the re-release of the greatest game of all time. My nintendo senses tell me that The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time 3DS will be released on June 30 2011 in Australia. Not sure if I will actually get it, but this is tempting, oh so tempting...

OVER 5000!

Whoa, where did this come from? I think is was...maybe a week ago that we had 4000 views, and now we have over half of 10,000. I think that's pretty cool.

Oh, right, I have to make a Charlie Sheen reference every time we reach another thousand views. Ta Daaa!

Nintendo means buisness

As everyone should know nintendo released their new hand held console the 3ds vaguely recently. Something that i only just heard about was that nintendo can do something to your 3ds known as bricking, though im not sure if this is necessarily true. Nintendo claims it has the power to brick your 3ds if it thinks that you have been hacking or using third party modifications and flash carts. None of us here at the nintendo blog are haxors, but this news is a little alarming. What would happen is that when you update your 3ds over the internet, the 3ds would become completely unresponsive. This cannot be fixed, even by nintendo themselves. I guess that if nintendo could fix it then hackers could too. If your 3ds is bricked then it will become completely useless and you will have to buy a new one. The internet says that it is just a bluff because no one has been bricked yet, but it would just assume that nintendo is playing it smart and letting everyone get comfortable before it does what it plans to do. It is still hard to determine whether or not bricking is legal, nintendo only have legal power over services not goods, so they could cut your 3ds off from the internet with no legal ramifications, but would destroying your device be something that they could be sued over? No one really knows what will happen yet, but time will tell.

Tefle

Is Pokemon timeless, or has it never evolved?

One night, I did something and I still don't know why I did. I picked up Pokemon FireRed Version and inserted it into my DS and started playing. At first, I was a bit underwhelmed at the game, even though I'd had it since it came out. So much was missing and yet...something kept me playing. Soon enough, I was no longer aware of the missing Poketch and X and Y buttons. This was Pokemon, and I was loving it all over again. But it then made me think. If I can play a game made 7 years ago and play Pokemon Platinum and have the same amount of fun, has Pokemon evolved at all, or had Nintendo's charm lasted all these years?

100 Stars!

YES! I've reached 100 stars in Super Mario Galaxy! I'm so close! And I havn't even beaten Bowser yet! To the space traveling plumber in red, thank you.

Hardstyle and Metal, because i can

While roaming the internet i found this, a dubstep/hardstyle remix (whatever you want to call it) of the zelda them 'Lost Woods'. Make sure you listen to at least 45 sec.




I also found this metal version of Gourmet race, the kirby theme.




Woah, there are actually heaps of these if you start looking, here is a rock version of gerudo valley, a theme from Ocarina of time.

Terfle