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You know what I've noticed? About the people who complain about there being more and more Pokemon after every generation? =/ I mean, I like that there's more Pokemon since you get more variety and what not, as well as a wider decision making. Newer strategies were born from unique Pokemon, and many other things were created on it's way with these new Pokemon. But.. yeah. There's still those people who still complain about them.

I've noticed that they complain about them because it's harder to "catch them all". =/ Sure, there's more to get, some harder to achieve than others, so it's hard to catch them all. But who cares? Is that your only initiative to play Pokemon? Is that the only goal there is to Pokemon? Heck no! >P There's lots of goals that Pokemon has indirectly that you can achieve, and if you're not interested in one goal or the other, you don't have to do them! Do whatever you want to do! This is another case I'd like to say is where you are given a choice. But what are these people doing that makes them complain about it? =/ They're stripping away all other possibilities they can have with it and think only about completing the PokeDex.

Honestly though, even if you had all versions of the games, it's still very difficult to catch them all, due to those legendaries only given at events like Deoxys and Celebi and all of those things. @.@ Surely the creators of the game do not expect all of you Pokemon Trainers to catch them all. So don't even bother if you're not interested. Just enjoy what there is in the game that you can enjoy. There's competitive Pokemon Battles against other trainers. There's Pokemon Contests. There's the Battle Frontier which has been proven to me a perfect challenge for me at the moment, and there's lots of other things. Use your creativity and do something new with it. Designing Secret Bases, collecting items, and lots of other things you can do with RPGs. Low level game, single (battling) Pokemon game, etc.

When you can create your own challenges and make the game fun, people just completely forget about all those stuff and think about catching all the Pokemon, and complaining about how there's too many Pokemon to catch.. It's just sad when they do that. Here's my motive to any video game I buy. "Play it to the fullest." That doesn't mean get every single thing in the game. No. It means, get as much fun out of the game as you can.

This long rant is my hopes of changing those single-minded trainers' thoughts, and bring them joy for what they do have instead of what they don't. And for those trainers to look forward to Diamond and Pearl as well, not to catch even more Pokemon, but to see what new fun Nintendo is making for us.

- Locke Trufeld