PokeWalker and PokeAthlon
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It's been a while since I've last posted anything about my HeartGold game. I haven't been playing as predicted by the last post, and I don't really intend on playing a lot until around April when I start a new game. Then will be the time for the life of this journey.
Until then, though, I am walking my PokeWalker to school each day with the red Gyarados, Gariet. The PokeWalker is a neat tool, and I can get about 10,000 steps each day from walking around places. If I cheat by attaching the walker to my shoe and tapping my feet in class, I can get about 30,000 steps. Hey, maybe if I'm bored, I could write a PokeWalker guide for this site someday!
I've noticed a theme of athletics through HeartGold. Your lead Pokemon follows you; who knows if a Pokemon gets more exercise outside a ball or inside a ball? But, of course, the PokeWalker reinforces the theme of walking Pokemon while encouraging trainers to go "take a stroll." (Or find the nearest hyperactive little sibling. )
The PokeAthlon, though, is another neat addition to the Pokemon genre that most directly reinforces the theme. I played a few PokeAthlon games for the first time today with an uneffort-earning team of Lugia, Ho-oh, and Zapdos. Regardless, the jumping of hurdles and capturing of pennants were engaging activities. Kudos to the makers of Pokemon for PokeAthlon!
I've noticed a theme of athletics through HeartGold. Your lead Pokemon follows you; who knows if a Pokemon gets more exercise outside a ball or inside a ball? But, of course, the PokeWalker reinforces the theme of walking Pokemon while encouraging trainers to go "take a stroll." (Or find the nearest hyperactive little sibling. )
The PokeAthlon, though, is another neat addition to the Pokemon genre that most directly reinforces the theme. I played a few PokeAthlon games for the first time today with an uneffort-earning team of Lugia, Ho-oh, and Zapdos. Regardless, the jumping of hurdles and capturing of pennants were engaging activities. Kudos to the makers of Pokemon for PokeAthlon!
In celebration of the open-air athletic spirit of the HeartGold and SoulSilver, I would like to write another poem:
Leaning over a back-lit DS screen,
Pushing buttons, blinking a bit.
Cramped in a Pokeball, a world unseen,
Til battle, this Pokemon will sit.
This trainer and Pokemon alike
Could benefit from riding a bike.
So the trainer lets his partner
Run free and breath a little more.
But come before the battle of greatest
Is the glorious dome built latest.
Dashing, jumping, breaking blocks,
Pokemon come running in flocks
To battle their power and speed
For a true competition indeed.
Posted by Shadow Files on Wed, 24 March 2010 00:35:29 MDT in Tiff's HeartGold Adventure
