EricLimaa

good for u lol

I'll be honest, I don't mind being forced to grind levels to be able to finish the game... especially when all the new Pokemon games hold your hand and can be completed in a day. But I'm four badges in in the Sinnoh region on my first playthrough of Pokemmo and when it takes me over three real days to get through Route 210 North its just like..... too much. Running back and forth to the poke center after every single trainer battle is a lot. I know that this version of Pokemon Platinum is not supposed to be the same as the original, but there are just some serious balance issues in this game. Every single trainer I battle has Pokemon that shouldn't know the moves they use at the level they are, and they shouldn't be evolved to the Pokemon they are at the level they are at. Maybe its just the mid-game that is so difficult as the first half's difficulty was just right; the perfect balance of grinding and training. But when I have to spend literal days grinding to just beat the trainers on a route, I really think thats too far. Perhaps it is because all these trainers have Pokemon that have evolved before they actually are able to... like the level 35 Rapidash's I had to fight on Route 210 South with extreme boosted stats while my level 30 Ponyta cant actually evolve until level 40, suffering from its very poor base stats compared to Rapidash's. (This is just a comparison of two equal Pokemon, obviously I would use type advantages to fight the Rapidash instead but with the level disparity even type advantages do not match...) Bottom line is this game is more difficult purely just based on the amount of time needed to invest into it, rather than the actual difficulty of movesets and type advantages which I think doesn't make too much sense. Mid-game should be mid-game difficulty, these impossible trainers should be left for victory road, at least...... I think that the beauty of the original games is that there were many different ways to complete the game. It seems like here my only options are to spend literal days and weeks grinding in tall grass so I can battle trainers, or spend money on high leveled Pokemon in the GTS to balance it myself, which personally, just isn't my style of gameplay. If you don't share any of these thoughts that's fine, keep scrolling. We are all entitled to our own gameplay. I was just curious if anyone felt the same way??