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larryhammerI’m coming late to this, and typing this out to try to get this straight.
The Pokémon franchise started as a pair of role-playing video games for Nintendo’s Game Boy, where the player catches pocket monsters aka pokémon and use them to level up by having them battle other characters’ pokémon. This was a huge hit, and spawned multiple sequel and spin-off video games, a long-running anime franchise (hereafter ignored), and a real-world adaptation, the trading card game. This latter iteration is a card-collecting and deck-building game, where a player assembles a playing deck and goes rounds against other players, using gameplay modeled on and expanding the combat in the video games.
So far so good.
One of those spin-off video games is Pokémon Trading Card Game, released for the Game Boy Color (then remade for 3DS, then again last year, with more changes, as a mobile app). It’s another role-playing game, in which instead of collecting pokémon, the player assembles a playing deck of pokémon cards and goes rounds against other players, using gameplay modeled on and simplifying the trading card game.
Playing the card game, wrapped with an RPG story, on-screen.
The meta is kinda bending me here.
(It doesn’t help that I know the card game better—Eaglet no longer plays, and indeed has recently started selling their more valuable cards for extra money, but in years past I went many a round with them. I didn’t touch any of the video games until last year—I skipped Pokémon Go entirely. My favorite so far is FireRed/LeafGreen.)
---L.
Subject quote from Good Luck, Babe!, Chappell Roan.
The Pokémon franchise started as a pair of role-playing video games for Nintendo’s Game Boy, where the player catches pocket monsters aka pokémon and use them to level up by having them battle other characters’ pokémon. This was a huge hit, and spawned multiple sequel and spin-off video games, a long-running anime franchise (hereafter ignored), and a real-world adaptation, the trading card game. This latter iteration is a card-collecting and deck-building game, where a player assembles a playing deck and goes rounds against other players, using gameplay modeled on and expanding the combat in the video games.
So far so good.
One of those spin-off video games is Pokémon Trading Card Game, released for the Game Boy Color (then remade for 3DS, then again last year, with more changes, as a mobile app). It’s another role-playing game, in which instead of collecting pokémon, the player assembles a playing deck of pokémon cards and goes rounds against other players, using gameplay modeled on and simplifying the trading card game.
Playing the card game, wrapped with an RPG story, on-screen.
The meta is kinda bending me here.
(It doesn’t help that I know the card game better—Eaglet no longer plays, and indeed has recently started selling their more valuable cards for extra money, but in years past I went many a round with them. I didn’t touch any of the video games until last year—I skipped Pokémon Go entirely. My favorite so far is FireRed/LeafGreen.)
---L.
Subject quote from Good Luck, Babe!, Chappell Roan.