(Un)finished Business

I was supposed to make this post closer to the release of Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, but other things got away from me and I couldn't quite address the matter, even though it meant that I could address other Pokémon things on this blog and elsewhere. No matter - now is a good time as any to address it.

On a few past posts on this blog, I had hinted that there might have been something else that hindered my play on Pokémon Sun, the previous seventh-generation game that I got, and that I wanted to resolve it before I discuss about it. And there is. The fact of the matter is that I didn't finish the game through the main storyline all this time, in the one year that I've had the game. And yes, this includes the one and only tournament I attended earlier this year. Given the efforts I took to obtain the game, this result is in contrast to that. For that, I feel very shameful. I'm sorry.

I did, however, just barely manage to finish the main storyline a few days prior to the release of Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. I felt that it wouldn't do to not finish the game's main storyline before moving on to the Ultra games and that I would have a better conscience playing the Ultra games with that being the case. And so I did.

The screen that I had hoped to see in way less than a year.

I am still snooping around in the post-game and will continue for a little bit before moving on, but I am otherwise prepared.

The experience still constitutes a learning one in that I was able to construct a VGC 2017 team with the constraints of what I had, but it was severely limited. It's a challenge that is surely not recommended, no matter how interesting it might be. In any case my teams are still seemingly problematic anyhow given past experiences, but at least I know a good deal now than when I started to delve into competitive battling years ago. I can stand to know a few more things with progress.

So that is my shameful experience, one I'm not too proud of. All kinds of things have happened, and this is the result. Yet I intend to make up as much of this as I can with my progress on Ultra Moon, which is the only right thing to do. Wish me luck.