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I was intrigued. I opened my email to find a wall of text starting simply with "I hear you're in the market for creepy Pokemon things...here's one for you. Enjoy." And then, I began to read.
Being someone who isn't nearly as computer savvy as someone from this generation should be, I know very little about what technology is capable of. Aside from email, IM, and the occasional download of something otherwise unobtainable for me at the moment, I have about the same amount of knowledge an eighty-year-old might possess about the electronic world.
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It was here that I realized something wasn't quite right with the game. The normal intro involving a Professor introducing you to the world of Pokemon didn't play out. Rather, it went more like this:
It started out with a black screen, which was quite familiar considering that's how the Gold, Silver, and Crystal games begin. But, instead of the normal 'What time is it?' dialogue, I was met
……….. …… … Pokemon are nothing more than tools. Use them, and throw them away. ……..▼
The black screen faded away, revealing an empty area at night. It looked familiar; I vaguely remember it being a route in an earlier part of the game, but since I've been away from the game for so long, I couldn't place it.
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In the silence of this scene, the sprite of your rival –henceforth noted as Silver- walked in from the left; he moved a little slower than normal as if he were hesitant about something. Once he had moved to the middle of the screen, he stopped and turned back to look at where he came from, turned towards where he was going, and turned back towards where he had came once again.
For a moment, he stood there simply staring towards the left side of the screen before a dialogue box popped up beneath him saying nothing more than "
The scene faded away to be replaced with Silver standing in the place where you first officially see him, just outside Professor Elm's laboratory. It was clearly in a slightly later part of the game than normal as the professor and his assistants all exited the lab and went their separate ways; the assistants left the town, and Elm walked further downward off screen –which I assume that meant he left for his home and remained in town. The character of Gold was nowhere to be seen.
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After that small scene, it stayed on Silver. I thought the game had frozen for a minute, but I finally realized I was able to move him. Honestly I was a little excited, Silver was –and always has been- my favorite of the rivals, it was an interesting thing to be able to play has him.
I moved him a little further downward to see if I was able to explore, but it stopped me each time I moved one step away from the front of the lab. A dialogue box popped up that said, "I can't leave
Aside from the regular equipment -bookshelves, computers, trashcans, tables, all that- the lab was empty; which was to be expected since the employees had left just a moment ago. On the table was a single pokeball, being without one at the moment, I walked over and took it.
A dialogue box popped up and said 'Obtained TOTODILE' but no 'item get' music
"Don't name it! You'll only get attached. Don't love it, use it."
It was clearly the 'voice' of the same person who spoke in the very
The naming screen faded away leaving me in the empty lab, which I quickly tried to leave through the front door, but was stopped by Silver saying, "Not through
As if things weren't strange enough as they were, when I left New Bark Town to begin the adventure and stepped into the grass, it was nearly impossible to get a random battle to start. Normally, I go out of my way to avoid them later on in the game, but during the beginning, it was something I enjoyed to get my pokemon to level
After several minutes of walking back and forth in patches of grass, I finally encountered a pokemon. A Sentret, nothing out of the ordinary, but when I sent out my Totodile and chose the only presently useful move he had –Scratch-, the pokemon fled. I was rather confused, wild pokemon never
Just before I entered the city, I recognized the small area as the one Silver had walked through in the beginning. After entering the city, I bumped into Gold, who wordlessly challenged me to a battle.
His pokemon, a Cyndaquil, was already a slightly higher level than mine (I was still stuck at level five, he was already at level seven) and, even though I had the type advantage, he beat me. Before whiting out, his sprite switched out with the Cyndaquil'
After exiting the Cherrygrove Pokemon Center –I hadn't used it prior, but it was apparently the only option I had-, I walked back to the place he had challenged me only to find I was unable to battle him at this point again.
The game was getting a little annoying by now, I had no money, pokegear, or pokedex, and I was unable to battle wild pokemon. Fortunately, once I entered Route 30 onward, there were other pokemon trainers in which I could battle and easily
By the time I entered Violet City, my pokemon's level was still too low to take on the gym leader. But with the money I had won from the trainers I fought before, I was at least able to buy some potions, so I felt I was set.
The lesser trainers of the gym were easy enough, I was only forced to use two of my previously purchased potions and I leveled up once. Though, as I took on the gym leader, he proved to me too much and I lost yet again. Upon winning, he did the very same thing Gold had
When the battle ended, I didn't white out, rather I had to endure a lecture about treating pokemon correctly from the leader. Once he finished speaking, I received a one-worded option: 'Steal?'
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After that, I whited out.
This is how it continued on for the remainder of the game, while I was able to defeat lesser trainers on the paths to cities and in the gyms, I constantly lost to the leader and was forced to steal their badges. The 'steal' option also worked on people who would normally give you items in the game, this is how I was able to obtain key items such as the Itemfinder, the bicycle, the water pail, HMs, and many
Anyone I spoke to either refused to talk, greeting me only with "
Pokemon continued to avoid me as well, if I wanted to better my team I had to hope that the pokeballs I used worked the first time. What was stranger about random battles is that, even if I locked the pokemon in battle with Mean Look, the pokemon passed out. Literally. After my first attack of Mean Look –If I got to the first attack that is, sometimes the pokemon had a higher speed than mine-, before I was able to choose another, the pokemon would faint on its own.
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The rest of the game up until a certain point isn't entirely important. Aside from win, lose, and steal, everything was more or less normal. While my pokemon matured slowly due to frequent losses, they did grow to like me a little as I began giving them haircuts and other little things to boost our bond. The last I had checked, the person who rated their happiness –one of the very few people who spoke to me normally- said "It's quite cute."
I know you must be thinking that this isn't disturbing at all, that I should just accept the fact that this is simply a hack made to tell Silver's side of the
Once I had finally made it to Kanto -continuing the process of win, lose, and steal-, I ventured into Viridian City. The second I stepped foot into the city, the music cut off. I thought for certain that this was simply a glitch in the programming, that I was now to walk through a soundless game. But as a stood there for a moment, a very faint noise picked up and faded away.
I was now sure that the music had messed up, like it was trying to play, but couldn't. But as I stepped back into the route I had just come from, the music picked up
I was now curious, so I stepped back into the silent city and began to explore. There wasn't a person in
As I walked towards the gym, the sound grew a little louder. I figured the noise was coming from the inside, so I entered. There was no one there either, but that was to be expected, the gym was always empty until much later.
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The noise didn't play in here, but it was still dead silent.
I walked up to where the gym leader normally stood and, as I walked past the spot and into the brick wall –I do that sometimes, I like the noise- I was transported to another
This place was silent as
By this time, as you could well imagine, my heart was
Regardless of my pounding heart and shaking hands, I explored the
As I continued down the zigzagging hallways, I came across several disturbing images; sprites of NPCs without their heads, as well as heads without bodies. Anytime I tried to examine the bodies, Silver simply said "Don't
The bodies and heads became more frequent as I went on, clogging up the hallways and leaving only a small path for me to
The screen began to flicker as I walked, just like it would if one of my pokemon was
A dialogue box popped up and said "It won't have any effect."
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Now I was disturbed, I knew none of this was supposed to happen. Regardless, I continued on, hoping that if they all fainted from this, I'd be taken back to a pokemon center and things would return to normal.
I continued along the morbid path, the screen flickering in and out. I began to notice that Silver himself was beginning to move a little slower as
Finally, Silver stopped as the dialogue box popped up telling me that all my pokemon had
It said 'ALL DEAD'.
By now, I was read to cry, but I couldn't stop myself from trying to get to the end of this disturbing
Finally, I reached the center room, which was now tinted a deep
Gold's Typhlosion attacked the man's pokemon, but it was quickly struck down, its sprite first turning red, then grey, then
Silver's sprite stepped forward on its own and the man finally acknowledged he was there.
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GIOVANNI: Ah, son, you've made it. Come to see your rival's demise, have you?
This caused Gold to turn around to look at you; the only thing he said was "
Silver continued to move on his own; he approached the man and kicked him
GIOVANNI: You're going to help him? You've become just as weak as the others! If he seems worth saving to
Mewtwo obeyed his creator's command and approached Gold. I'm still uncertain of what it actually did, but it struck Gold, causing a scream much louder than before as the sprite of Silver's rival lost its head and faded to deep red to grey.
GIOVANNI: I told you long ago, Silver, either manipulate or be manipulated. Pokemon are nothing more than tools. People are nothing more than tools. After they've served your purpose, they're no longer
The Mewtwo didn't obey this time; Giovanni's words must have angered it. It turned to him and actually spoke.
MEWTWO:
It struck Giovanni just as it had done Gold and Typhlosion, but the scream Giovanni produced was much longer than any other I had
Finally, the scream faded away into nothingness and Giovanni's sprite did just as Gold's
MEWTWO:
It struck me, initiating a battle in which I was totally unable to participate. My sprite was in the place of any pokemon, my health had dwindled past the halfway point, but I knew it didn't matter either way. I chose to run, but I couldn'
Even with the sound turned to a low level, the 'scream' coming from Silver was disturbingly loud. Even as the battle screen faded away, the scream lingered until Silver's sprite turned from red to grey – which I now assume symbolizes the coldness of death-
The screen faded to black, all except for Mewtwo's sprite, which remain in the center of the screen. My paranoid mind immediately made me think he was somehow going to turn on me next, but the word 'END' simply faded in just underneath him and the screen cut to black, taking me back to the opening sequence.
I'm still unsure why this was made, why someone just shoved it into a box to sell, and why I happened to find
The game I just described has slipped out of my possession since that first play
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