VGCulture - Music - Pokémon Catchatronic

Mix Creator Youtube Channel: Nick "Pogo" Bertke Source: Youtube Channel Pokemon

I don't keep up with Pokémon much nowadays because of various reasons.  I stopped playing the game because it was way too hard to keep up with and it took a lot of time.  Every time I play a game that required grinding, I'm reminded of playing Pokémon.  I've only truly completed the original Pokémon game and have not really played any of the main series games since then (though I do have Poké Gold/Silver and SoulSilver, just never beat them).  With the upcoming Pokémon X/Y, I'm considering trying it out since it seems a lot of changes to the game will be made for this iteration.  For the Pokémon cards, it was just too expensive of a hobby to keep collecting them and there were too many.  Did you know people still collect Pokémon cards?  It's crazy!  And finally, I stopped watching the show shortly after they changed all the voice actors.  It also bugged me that Ash never got smarter and always ends up doing the same mistakes he did in previous seasons.  So it's a bit of surprise for me that after seeing this little music video/dance mix made by Pogo, I have the urge to watch the show now.  The mix is pretty catchy and makes good uses of sampling (though, that's mainly what Pogo is known for).  I also see a bunch of first generation and 2nd generation Pokémon in the video.  There's even a small snippet of Ash in his original character design, hat and all, holding a gym badge that doesn't look familiar.  So much has happened in the world of Pokémon that I'm oblivious to it now.  Mike Fahey of Kotaku didn't seem to like the mix or video as much as he points out Pogo's other works such as the one he did for Alice in Wonderland.  Perhaps my expectations before watching the video was low that I ended up liking it a lot and reminded me how much I miss Pokémon.  Pogo has a lot of great works you can check out at his channel (top link).

Source:
-Kotaku - Pokemon Brings Back "Gotta Catch 'Em All" With A Bad Music Video

VGCulture - Filler with Pokemon

I just spent several hours writing a review for Terraria only to realize that I already did one back in July.  I was confused when I couldn't find it on my own blog and thought "wow, the game I spent the most time on this year doesn't have my review yet?"  Well, I found it...a bit too late and now I'm too tired to do another post.  I have a lot of reviews to do the next few weeks, but I'm done for today.  Enjoy this Pokemon Parody and be mindful that it's NSFW.  Created by Egoraptor:

Source: Youtube Channel egoraptor

VGCulture - Pokémon Black and White New Starters

Source: http://kotaku.com/5696937/smugleaf-is-a-better-name-than-snivy

My goodness, what has our childhood memories evolved into...I read an article from Kotaku on the new starter Pokémon the player gets to choose from in Pokémon Black & White (They are running out of colors).  The Pokémon are getting weirder and uglier with each new generation (except for the one on the left, what's his name...Smugface?).  Hmm, apparently they were going to name one of them "Smugleaf" but decided on Snivy instead.  It's so strange to talk about Pokémon now since it still continues, but not much has changed.  When I think of Pokémon, I think of the ones we grew up with and all the memories we had and shared with others who were into it too.  All the old jokes and references to things like naming your rival with some stupid name or spending hours walking back and forth in the Viridian forest just to catch a Pikachu.

Source: http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=1

It's also reasonable to say that most Pokémon fans from the original grew out of it.

Source: http://nerfnow.com/comic/302

And some of you got back into it (admittedly, I bought the remake SoulSilver just so I can get the Poké walker.  I haven't touched it since I beat the first gym leader, I need to finish it...).

Source: http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=032910

Here's the pattern that I (and plenty of other people) see:
-They'll continue to make Pokémon games
-The Pokémon will change, but not the game
-Pokémon will continue to get stranger as ideas will dry out (how many legendaries do we have now?)

How long will this cycle last?

And as a ending note, I really encourage everyone to take a look at the comics I used references:
-VGCats/Super Effective by Scott Ramsoomair
-Nerf NOW! by Josué Pereira
-Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich