Casual Pokémon FAQ

Casual Pokémon FAQ

Q. What are you doing?
A. There's a lot of main series Pokémon games that I never played, so I wanted to go through and play them.  Depending on how I like them, it may influence my speedrunning in the future

Q. What games are on that list?
A. I haven't played any Gen 3-6 games except ORAS, so basically that.  I do want to limit it to games I own, so at the moment the list includes:

Ruby or Sapphire
Emerald
Pearl
Platinum
SoulSilver
Black
Y

Type !poll in chat to get a link to vote for the next one I'm playing

Q. Are you doing a fake speedrun?
A. Nope, I am purely going through the games "blind" as I would have when I was a kid.  I'll probably look things up as I go, but there will be no speedrun strats involved here

Q. What's your team?
A. Probably the starter plus a few extra Pokémon to be HM slaves... yes this is how I played as a kid

Q. <insert spoilers here>
A. I don't want to know.  I want to try and figure the games out by myself, so I ask for no hints.  It's very possible that I ask chat a question, especially in the games I know NOTHING about (looking at you Sinnoh and Unova...), but unless I do I'd like to keep the spoilers to a minimum

Q. When are you going back to speedruns?
A. I never quit speedruns!  I'm doing this because of a number of reasons.  First, I've never played these games so I'd really like to experience them, and doing it on stream is a good way to force me to do it.  Second, a lot of these games I have been interested in learning the speedrun for, so this is a good way to familiarize myself with the game (mechanics, story, etc).  Third, with my current schedule, weekdays aren't great for doing resets (especially of ORAS) so I think this is a good weekday and end of the stream kind of game