[spoiler=Rising above the Luster Town Gym!]<br>
Before we begin, I just wanna say I restarted my save file because I lost the old one. So yeah some things might be different.<br>
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Also I had a Update 3 planned originally but uh. Those got lost too.<br>
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Before we leave Snow Soft, I noticed that we can skate across this frozen puddle (that probably isn&apos;t safe, but whatever.) Here, we can pick up an Ether (the item closest to me), and...<br>
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Yeah, we can get a freakin&apos; MAX REVIVE this early. I dunno either.<br>
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So uh, Green Path. It&apos;s a Route 102 reskin, and as such we&apos;ll be fighting trainers here. But first we have some new Pokémon to encounter! There&apos;s Zigzagoon and Poochyena here...<br>
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As well as Electrike and Oddish. As the gym leader is Flying-type (OOPS SPOILERS) and Josepine is a Grass-type, we&apos;ll probably end up catching one.<br>
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The trainers here aren&apos;t really changed from Ruby so I won&apos;t screenshot them unless something notable happens. Beating this kid gets Josepine another level! <br>
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Ignore his dialogue, there indeed is a bug here! The encounter theme for this Bug Catcher seems to be the news report theme! This isn&apos;t the only occurence of messed up trainer encounter themes--the Youngster had the Pokémaniac theme.<br>
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[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/9NOcQaq.png[/IMG]<br>
This Youngster has a Torchic, but without Ember it&apos;s a nonissue. It just takes a few more Pounds to take down.<br>
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Leave no stone unturned and no berry unreaped.<br>
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With another level gained, here we are in Luster Town! It&apos;s just Oldale Town with a gym.<br>
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oh yeah the cutter is here instead of rustboro<br>
You&apos;re going to want to get this now, you need it to get to Rentelbud City.<br>
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freebies yay<br>
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So do these wings fly of their own volition, or...<br>
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We can&apos;t go in and challenge the Gym Leader because he&apos;s out to lunch right now. Well, okay..,<br>
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Let&apos;s go on to Pass Path. Not really new wilds here except for Wingull (even though there&apos;s no body of water here anymore..)<br>
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[i]You will regret challenging Josepine and I.[/img]<br>
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As stated before, she has a Pikachu. It&apos;s nothing too threatening for any of the starters. :v<br>
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Tell me something I didn&apos;t know.<br>
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You will hold that L and you will like it!!<br>
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Only because &quot;it&apos;s just favor&quot;. :/<br>
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[i]Back in Sun Ford Town[/i]<br>
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yee<br>
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Wait, you&apos;re telling me that you didn&apos;t reprogram them or anything? It only records Hoenn Pokédex mons?<br>
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That&apos;s incredibly lazy. :/<br>
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[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/0XhbySk.png[/IMG]<br>
Okay, let&apos;s talk about the pacing so far. In vanilla Ruby, you wouldn&apos;t have even fought trainers yet and your starter might be level 8 at worst if you don&apos;t grind. It takes about 10-20 minutes for this to happen. Meanwhile, here in this game, it took us about 30-40 minutes to dp everything thus far, and our starter is level 12, and I&apos;ve already fought trainers.<br>
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This will cause problems, as you will see later in this update.<br>
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