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Why I Love the Pokémon Games 

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The sheer joy that comes from the Pokémon games can’t be replicated anywhere else, they are simple, engaging and thoroughly entertaining adventures. My love for Pokémon goes back to my childhood as the Black and White series of games were some of the first games I truly fell in love with.

I used to exclusively play Pokémon Black and White, refusing to play any other game because I found myself completely engrossed in the world of pocket monsters.

The simplicity of the mid-generation games is what truly made the games so captivating for the younger me. There’s a fairly linear path you’d follow but there was plenty of time to be spent exploring the vast Routes the games offered as well as the surprisingly layered construction of the towns.

Pokémon Black and White opened my eyes to what games could do when I was a child and every entry into the mainline game series since then has continued to blow me away with the sheer amount of content that is packed into every game.

Though the series has stumbled in the last few years, with the commercially panned release of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet being the lowest point the series has seen in decades, the games have remained incredibly successful as another entry into the series, Pokémon Z/A, releases at the end of the year.

I haven’t fully engaged with the series since Pokémon Sword and Shield as the last release, Legends Arceus was a big change to the series that I was unsure about.

I plan on playing the new games when I get the chance, but what’s really stopped me from playing anything other than the Pokémon games I own right now is the fact that the Pokémon games are incredibly re-playable.

Even though you have to delete your current save to replay any of the Pokémon games, you can save any of the Pokémon you have collected by putting them in the Pokémon Home app.

It’s always a shame to delete all your progress but with the amount of freedom and different ways to play through the Nintendo Switch-era games, that sad feeling doesn’t stick around for too long. I’ve loved Pokémon since I was five and it fully believe I’ll love the series for many more years to come, even if I don’t play every new game, I still appreciate the fact that the series has been going on for almost three decades and that’s a feat very few video game series can conquer.

Featured image credit: GameFreak

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