Sunday 26 April 2015

Pokemon Crystal (2000): Part 6

When you arrive at Goldenrod City, you are enticed by the bright lights of the casino. Encouraged to spend all of your money on gambling, you are told that you first need to acquire an official coin case, and you learn that one has been lost in the underground passage. With a sinking feeling, you head down, and are not overly surprised to be attacked. After one battle, one man tries to reassure you:


The hiker in question is the man who attacked you after declaring that he had 'plenty of energy' and who called you cold when you refused to give him your number. A good guy? Certainly not.

You decide that on second thoughts, the casino might also have some creepy people hanging around, so you swiftly beat the gym leader and leave, but not before she teaches you another move:


Now you have three ways to attract even more attention to yourself. These just make you feel worse. Is this really your new life, to 'attract' and 'lure' and 'entice' in order to be exploited? With a heavy heart, you leave the city.

On your way through the city gates, the guard asks you to do him a favour:


Already carrying two strange eggs, you don't want to get involved with yet another unknown package. At least you can refuse this request to be a runner.

Carrying on north past the city, one man decides to use you to impress his girlfirend:

 

Showing that he's hot stuff by attacking a child... the screen going black certainly doesn't help, and it's left to the imagination what exactly he did to you to demonstrate his 'hot stuff'.

A little later you find another police officer, who proves to be more unsympathetic than the first even as he can see you being attacked in front of him. :


You give up trying to talk to the police any more. Clearly they only hear what they want to hear.

Perhaps aware that the police officer can see you, the person who most recently attacked you asks to exchange numbers, claiming that he wants to know everything that you do and attempts to reassure you that it's safe:



Unconvinced, you flee north into the park, where a young woman is surprised that you weren't ogling her. Is she so twisted that she was hoping that a child would be sexualising her?

 

You run through the park, and find the way blocked by a 'wiggly tree'. A young girl watching the tree tells you that it 'jumps up' when it is wet, and you realise that you can only get past by squirting the tree. A clear metaphor for ejaculation. The girl is unable to squirt at it, but her sister will lend her the ability to do so if she can defeat the town gym leader.
 
 
You find the girl's adult sister, who lends you her squirtbottle after telling her sister that approaching the tree is dangerous. She's naturally unwilling to let her younger sister be violated, but seems to have no qualms about sending you.



On leaving the city to return to the 'wiggly tree', your 'friend' Liz phones to see how you are. Before you can attempt to tell her what's going on, she rubs in your face how much she enjoys the physical contact with her animal:


Nauseated by the thought of being nuzzled by anything, you run to the tree, squirt it, attack it as it comes alive, and are thanked by a nearby hiker who gives you a gift. Clear allegories for ejaculation, erection, and voyeurism.



At the crossroads you could turn to Violet City, but that would only take you back to the creepy Professor Elm and Mr Pokemon, and your unsympathetic mother. Instead you head further north towards the next city.

As you approach Ekruteak City, you hear a cracking noise. You pull out the egg that Professor Elm's assistant gave you, and watch as it hatches:
 

You hold this baby creature in your arms, and wonder how simple your life would be if you hadn't forcibly been given this in the first place.

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