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TEEN Content Warning: Sparse strong language for emphasis. Discusses political themes both surrounding and within Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. Includes discussion of hospitalizing mental health issues experienced by the author.
Spoiler Warning: This is an analysis of Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. By it's nature, it contains spoilers for both Pokémon XD and its predecessor Pokémon: Colosseum. In addition, even though this is a sequential playthrough, parts of the game may be discussed before they happen for the sake of analysis. No knowledge of Pokémon XD is required to read this playthrough; however, if you have not played either Pokémon: Colosseum or Pokémon XD and would like to go into those games blind, do not read this analysis.
"They [ideologies] work most effectively when we are not aware that how we formulate and construct a statement about the world is underpinned by ideological premises; when our formations seem to be simply descriptive statements about how things are (i.e., must be), or of what we can 'take-for-granted.'"
—Stuart Hall, "The Whites of Their Eyes"
Remember that Pokémon game where a news executive tells you to meet a whistleblower, and you do it?
The whistleblower's name is Hordel. He contacts you through the region's leading news broadcaster, who you've been working with for a good half of the game at this point. So far, you've rescued reporters trying to uncover major criminal coverups, defended their headquarters from a literal raid due to a data leak that certain people really didn't want them reporting on, agreed to a missing persons request that was reported directly to one of the broadcaster's executives (when your ambiguously sentient pet goes missing, heck the police), and even participated in one of their environmentalist-focused reality TV shows.
Younger self, what were you playing?
Welcome to Battle With Me: Pokémon XD. I'm MC Snuggles, and I'm here to revisit my childhood. Like, really revisit my childhood. I'm going to be giving one of my favorite childhood games the deepest critical cut I can manage, in a pseudo-Let's Play style inspired by NYU Game Center Professor and freelance game designer Robert Yang's Level With Me series. Only I'm going to be completely disregarding any charade of objectivity and explain how Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness impacted me personally. I'll be drawing on patchwork knowledge of, well, everything: animations and cinematography, music and game feel, narrative and level design, industry politics and art style. Strap your interdisciplinary hat on, 'cause I'm dissecting all this game's got.
For transparency's sake/to prove I know what I'm talking about, I will be using citations to support statements of fact. You can view citations by clicking the carrots (this symbol: ^). I've made an effort to archive as many as my sources as possible using the Wayback Machine; however, some sites resist archiving. If any of my sources are broken, appears wrong, or are simply irrelevant, please comment! Your help is appreciated!
I have no idea.
I plan to take this playthrough as far as I can. However, there's a certain endgame location which I seriously doubt I can complete. Regardless, I will be playing to 100% completion the best I can.
In addition, updates are dependant on how fast I play the game and perform research. I will not be rushing, as I want my gameplay to be at least somewhat representative of a typical play experience/want to avoid the low quality of "crunch gameplay/writing". My informal target is bi-weekly updates; content will be posted as soon as it's publishing quality.
I plan to take this playthrough as far as I can. However, there's a certain endgame location which I seriously doubt I can complete. Regardless, I will be playing to 100% completion the best I can.
In addition, updates are dependant on how fast I play the game and perform research. I will not be rushing, as I want my gameplay to be at least somewhat representative of a typical play experience/want to avoid the low quality of "crunch gameplay/writing". My informal target is bi-weekly updates; content will be posted as soon as it's publishing quality.
Click up there!
July 7th, 2019: Today's news update was meaty enough to warrant its own post. Check it out if you haven't already; it's quite the tale. But long story short, CH7 is in the works and planned for release sometime this week. Huzzah!
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June 29th, 2019: It's very hot.
As I've previously mentioned in these here updates, my recording setup is stuck in an attic with a skylight. There is no screen for the skylight. Which, because of the heat, has been quarantined for most of the past week. I've gotten little-to-none progress; if this keeps up, I might need to restructure my updates. I don't have plans to call a hiatus, but I'm considering shortening my chapters to accommodate.
I've also set up a new subseries I can lean on: Reader FAHT CHEHKS! The first should be posted momentarily; I'm not sure if other rumors will come up during discussion, but if you know of any, let me know. It might take some time before I can fully assess a rumor, but as I go further and further into the plot I'll be able to test more internet rumors. Expect to see Reader FAHT CHEHKs interspersed with traditional analysis.
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June 20th, 2019: I'm still finding grammah errors in my earlier posts. In case you're wondering why the "Last Edited" data keeps shifting, that's why.
Otherwise, business as usual. I'm starting to settle into the groove of things, at least on the backend. I'm sticking to my plans better, I've had a nice string of cloudy days that've let me play longer sessions, though stopping every minute to take screenshots/adjust my draft is a pain. But there's a burning fire in me to show the good parts of Pokémon: XD, and as I progress I'm able to zoom the microscope out. Lower my wordcount, not describe every single NPC's dialogue. This analysis has been rougher than I've expected, but I'm finally on top the hill. I wrote half of CH6 in a day., and I'm framing screenshots now.
Break time over. Back to video games! Poor me.
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June 12th, 2018: Editing is finished and a draft of CH5 is in production! Sorry for the delay; I've had an unusually demanding couple of weeks (three birthdays, a wedding, and mounds of paperwork). I'm not completely out of the real life-o-sphere yet, but I've got a solid plan for CH5 that shouldn't require another draining research deep dive.
That said, I should temper expectations somewhat. My current play environment is an attic cubby with no AC, heavy insulation, and a skylight with no screen. And summer has hit. I can't currently play XD without sweating to death, so I'm limiting my play sessions to cool evenings and nights. This will absolutely slow the pace of updates until I get a permanent solution, which would be much easier if I owned this cubby. Instead, I have to consider a landlord before I start getting all DIY, which between some lingering real life whack-a-mole time sinks makes stabilizing my playspace harder than it sounds. I can still write during the day (I do my writing on my phone), but getting screenshots is holding this analysis up.
I've made a vow to myself to complete everything I start, and so I will be spending my fanfic time on Battle With Me: Pokémon XD. Unfortunately, there will be delays due to temperature. If I find myself unable to write at the moment, you can probably find me bumming around the Written Word as a means to stay attached to the community. Humorous PMs where you nag me about the next chapter are appreciated.
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June 4th, 2019: Been a while since I've posted some news. And I'm afraid it's not so good.
Real life for me has been getting extremely complicated and time consuming. It's looking like this too shall pass, but I need to make sure I keep food and shelter before I spend time writing anything non-commercial. I'm not calling hiatus as I still have free time, but I can't keep the current pace of updates up.
Instead, I'm going to do some polishing. I noticed quite a few blatant grammah errors rereading my fan-nonfic. Plus, my writing system's getting a little disorganized behind the scenes; my local copies don't match text with published copies, for example. Thus, I think now's the time to do some housekeeping.
I'm going to be making edits to my currently-published chapters to remove blatant unintended grammah errors. Spelling, missing words, etc. I won't be editing the fic beyond that; while I see flaws beyond basic grammah, I prefer not to edit my fic's content. It's a personal vow to avoid "publish now, fix later" mentality. Unfortunately, I've had to take hours off my sleep cycle to keep this fic going, and the blemishes show. It's to the point I feel an emergency after-publication edit is justified, and it happens to coincide with my personal life intruding on my free time. Until I weather what's looking to be a tempory storm, I'm going to halt publishing new chapters and instead spell check old ones.
Hopefully, this strategy will keep real life from derailing this project. I already have an admittedly-paltry draft of CH5 in the works, but expect a delay while I tidy house. I'll have an update about a week from now detailing my progress. Check this space!
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May 22nd, 2019: Another update to copyright notice, this time to make my intro post more readable and satisfy the lawyers. Got this formatting via a review by @unrepentantAuthor on another of my fics.
As for CH3: it's pretty deep into production. Due to attachment limits, I'm going to be splitting it into two posts. The first post will focus on the opening cutscene, while the second post will focus on the first bit of gameplay. There's a clever bit of player instruction hidden within an at-max 3-turn battle, plus I want to stuff in my first music analysis. Research has been slower than expected due to some dead ends, but I still think I can pull it off in time for the next Writer's Workshop weekly announcement. Fingers crossed!
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May 13th, 2019: Small update to copyright notice, most readers probably don't care. But the lawyers do, so I gotta pay attention to this stuff.
I'm also doing a revamp of my older fics so they all have consistent styling. I've finished KAIJUMON's, but Snuggle's Grand Poetry Grab Bag will take a while. I'm placing the revamps near the top of my priorities list due to copyright issues; once those are done, CH2 is likely to be posted soon after. Time estimate on CH2 is a couple days, revamp included.
Also, writing Battle With Me: Pokémon XD CH2 might have been the most surreal experience I've ever had as a writer. My research revealed...subtext. Much, much subtext. It's, uh...wow. I'm gonna take the time to really get the facts right here, because researching CH2 was like falling down the rabbit hole, except Wonderland is stitched from all your childhood memories. And the rapture. It's complicated. This paragraph needs to end.
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May 8th, 2019: CH1 is up, with all images hosted on Bulbagarden's servers! Long story short, I'm using BulbaBlogs as my "image host" after getting permission from that section's moderators. Thank you @Zachie and @Lillie for making this hodge-podge "fic" possible.
As a consequence, I'm going to be avoiding too-frequent Battle With Me updates so as to avoid spamming BulbaBlogs. I'll be watching the section over the next couple of days to see how quickly my "blog" falls off the front page. Ideally, I'll wait until my boring contentless blig falls to at least the second page, so actual bloggers don't get buried underneath my image repository. And I still don't have a rough draft for CH2 yet anyways, so the next chapter might take a bit. But regardless, Battle With Me is futureproofed the best I can manage. Writing should be much smoother, at least.
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May 7th, 2019: CH1 is complete and ready to be posted! And then I discovered Bulbaforum only allows ten attachments per post.
Ironically, I had exactly ten screenshots of actual gameplay. What put me over the limit was company logos I had touched up so they'd be readable no matter the background color (forum themes, yo). I'm looking into third-party image hosts and carefully considering reformatting. But getting third parties involved doesn't sit right with me after Photobucket's image cap started whiping away fora images across the 'tubes, and I made an effort to only use gameplay images,when absolutely necessary. I'm brainstorming ideas; I might have to get creative (.gif time?)
In the meantimes, I do have one image I can share with you. If you look at the top if this thread, you'll see a title card. The border around the title card is the same border I'll be using to frame screenshots. I have everything setup so native-resolution screenshots can be displayed professionally and quickly, which means future chapters will be faster to format. Expect more frequent updates once CH1 is sorted.
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May 4th, 2019: Let it be known that I, MC Snuggles, got the name of the game I'm playing wrong. The title is Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, not Pokémon XD: Gales of Darkness. It's almost like this fic wasn't quite ready for publication or something.
Also, April 38th is not a real date. I may have panicked a little. Expect more housekeeping; while I'm normally feel dishonest editing an already-published fic, I'm making an exception for Battle With Me due to the surprise rushed production and nonfiction subject matter. If you spot any errors, please let me know; I don't feel comfortable spreading misinformation.
In more positive news, I have a rough draft of CH1 completed! I'm currently getting all the attachments ready for a final draft, which includes a much larger amount of company logos than I was anticipating. And many of them have text over transparent backgrounds, which means manually inserting backgrounds for me! But CH1 should represent the last of my industry politics talk, which means future chapters will be easier to research and format. Here's hoping this here rocky start smooths itself out.
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April38th 28th, 2019: OH GOD I ACCIDENTALLY HIT POST THREAD THIS WASN'T MEANT TO BE PUBLISHED YET BUT I GUESS WERE DOING IT!
So, uh, yeah. I had the intro and prologue written in .txt files and I was testing to make sure the BBCode was formatted correctly, but my finger slipped and I posted the thread. So I guess this is going up! It wasn't supposed to be a final draft, I'm still bugswatting errors, but it should at least be readable. I don't have a Chapter 1 ready, but I guess we're in "write or die" mode now. What could possibly go wrong?
June 29th, 2019: It's very hot.
As I've previously mentioned in these here updates, my recording setup is stuck in an attic with a skylight. There is no screen for the skylight. Which, because of the heat, has been quarantined for most of the past week. I've gotten little-to-none progress; if this keeps up, I might need to restructure my updates. I don't have plans to call a hiatus, but I'm considering shortening my chapters to accommodate.
I've also set up a new subseries I can lean on: Reader FAHT CHEHKS! The first should be posted momentarily; I'm not sure if other rumors will come up during discussion, but if you know of any, let me know. It might take some time before I can fully assess a rumor, but as I go further and further into the plot I'll be able to test more internet rumors. Expect to see Reader FAHT CHEHKs interspersed with traditional analysis.
June 20th, 2019: I'm still finding grammah errors in my earlier posts. In case you're wondering why the "Last Edited" data keeps shifting, that's why.
Otherwise, business as usual. I'm starting to settle into the groove of things, at least on the backend. I'm sticking to my plans better, I've had a nice string of cloudy days that've let me play longer sessions, though stopping every minute to take screenshots/adjust my draft is a pain. But there's a burning fire in me to show the good parts of Pokémon: XD, and as I progress I'm able to zoom the microscope out. Lower my wordcount, not describe every single NPC's dialogue. This analysis has been rougher than I've expected, but I'm finally on top the hill. I wrote half of CH6 in a day., and I'm framing screenshots now.
Break time over. Back to video games! Poor me.
June 12th, 2018: Editing is finished and a draft of CH5 is in production! Sorry for the delay; I've had an unusually demanding couple of weeks (three birthdays, a wedding, and mounds of paperwork). I'm not completely out of the real life-o-sphere yet, but I've got a solid plan for CH5 that shouldn't require another draining research deep dive.
That said, I should temper expectations somewhat. My current play environment is an attic cubby with no AC, heavy insulation, and a skylight with no screen. And summer has hit. I can't currently play XD without sweating to death, so I'm limiting my play sessions to cool evenings and nights. This will absolutely slow the pace of updates until I get a permanent solution, which would be much easier if I owned this cubby. Instead, I have to consider a landlord before I start getting all DIY, which between some lingering real life whack-a-mole time sinks makes stabilizing my playspace harder than it sounds. I can still write during the day (I do my writing on my phone), but getting screenshots is holding this analysis up.
I've made a vow to myself to complete everything I start, and so I will be spending my fanfic time on Battle With Me: Pokémon XD. Unfortunately, there will be delays due to temperature. If I find myself unable to write at the moment, you can probably find me bumming around the Written Word as a means to stay attached to the community. Humorous PMs where you nag me about the next chapter are appreciated.
June 4th, 2019: Been a while since I've posted some news. And I'm afraid it's not so good.
Real life for me has been getting extremely complicated and time consuming. It's looking like this too shall pass, but I need to make sure I keep food and shelter before I spend time writing anything non-commercial. I'm not calling hiatus as I still have free time, but I can't keep the current pace of updates up.
Instead, I'm going to do some polishing. I noticed quite a few blatant grammah errors rereading my fan-nonfic. Plus, my writing system's getting a little disorganized behind the scenes; my local copies don't match text with published copies, for example. Thus, I think now's the time to do some housekeeping.
I'm going to be making edits to my currently-published chapters to remove blatant unintended grammah errors. Spelling, missing words, etc. I won't be editing the fic beyond that; while I see flaws beyond basic grammah, I prefer not to edit my fic's content. It's a personal vow to avoid "publish now, fix later" mentality. Unfortunately, I've had to take hours off my sleep cycle to keep this fic going, and the blemishes show. It's to the point I feel an emergency after-publication edit is justified, and it happens to coincide with my personal life intruding on my free time. Until I weather what's looking to be a tempory storm, I'm going to halt publishing new chapters and instead spell check old ones.
Hopefully, this strategy will keep real life from derailing this project. I already have an admittedly-paltry draft of CH5 in the works, but expect a delay while I tidy house. I'll have an update about a week from now detailing my progress. Check this space!
May 22nd, 2019: Another update to copyright notice, this time to make my intro post more readable and satisfy the lawyers. Got this formatting via a review by @unrepentantAuthor on another of my fics.
As for CH3: it's pretty deep into production. Due to attachment limits, I'm going to be splitting it into two posts. The first post will focus on the opening cutscene, while the second post will focus on the first bit of gameplay. There's a clever bit of player instruction hidden within an at-max 3-turn battle, plus I want to stuff in my first music analysis. Research has been slower than expected due to some dead ends, but I still think I can pull it off in time for the next Writer's Workshop weekly announcement. Fingers crossed!
May 13th, 2019: Small update to copyright notice, most readers probably don't care. But the lawyers do, so I gotta pay attention to this stuff.
I'm also doing a revamp of my older fics so they all have consistent styling. I've finished KAIJUMON's, but Snuggle's Grand Poetry Grab Bag will take a while. I'm placing the revamps near the top of my priorities list due to copyright issues; once those are done, CH2 is likely to be posted soon after. Time estimate on CH2 is a couple days, revamp included.
Also, writing Battle With Me: Pokémon XD CH2 might have been the most surreal experience I've ever had as a writer. My research revealed...subtext. Much, much subtext. It's, uh...wow. I'm gonna take the time to really get the facts right here, because researching CH2 was like falling down the rabbit hole, except Wonderland is stitched from all your childhood memories. And the rapture. It's complicated. This paragraph needs to end.
May 8th, 2019: CH1 is up, with all images hosted on Bulbagarden's servers! Long story short, I'm using BulbaBlogs as my "image host" after getting permission from that section's moderators. Thank you @Zachie and @Lillie for making this hodge-podge "fic" possible.
As a consequence, I'm going to be avoiding too-frequent Battle With Me updates so as to avoid spamming BulbaBlogs. I'll be watching the section over the next couple of days to see how quickly my "blog" falls off the front page. Ideally, I'll wait until my boring contentless blig falls to at least the second page, so actual bloggers don't get buried underneath my image repository. And I still don't have a rough draft for CH2 yet anyways, so the next chapter might take a bit. But regardless, Battle With Me is futureproofed the best I can manage. Writing should be much smoother, at least.
May 7th, 2019: CH1 is complete and ready to be posted! And then I discovered Bulbaforum only allows ten attachments per post.
Ironically, I had exactly ten screenshots of actual gameplay. What put me over the limit was company logos I had touched up so they'd be readable no matter the background color (forum themes, yo). I'm looking into third-party image hosts and carefully considering reformatting. But getting third parties involved doesn't sit right with me after Photobucket's image cap started whiping away fora images across the 'tubes, and I made an effort to only use gameplay images,when absolutely necessary. I'm brainstorming ideas; I might have to get creative (.gif time?)
In the meantimes, I do have one image I can share with you. If you look at the top if this thread, you'll see a title card. The border around the title card is the same border I'll be using to frame screenshots. I have everything setup so native-resolution screenshots can be displayed professionally and quickly, which means future chapters will be faster to format. Expect more frequent updates once CH1 is sorted.
May 4th, 2019: Let it be known that I, MC Snuggles, got the name of the game I'm playing wrong. The title is Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, not Pokémon XD: Gales of Darkness. It's almost like this fic wasn't quite ready for publication or something.
Also, April 38th is not a real date. I may have panicked a little. Expect more housekeeping; while I'm normally feel dishonest editing an already-published fic, I'm making an exception for Battle With Me due to the surprise rushed production and nonfiction subject matter. If you spot any errors, please let me know; I don't feel comfortable spreading misinformation.
In more positive news, I have a rough draft of CH1 completed! I'm currently getting all the attachments ready for a final draft, which includes a much larger amount of company logos than I was anticipating. And many of them have text over transparent backgrounds, which means manually inserting backgrounds for me! But CH1 should represent the last of my industry politics talk, which means future chapters will be easier to research and format. Here's hoping this here rocky start smooths itself out.
April
So, uh, yeah. I had the intro and prologue written in .txt files and I was testing to make sure the BBCode was formatted correctly, but my finger slipped and I posted the thread. So I guess this is going up! It wasn't supposed to be a final draft, I'm still bugswatting errors, but it should at least be readable. I don't have a Chapter 1 ready, but I guess we're in "write or die" mode now. What could possibly go wrong?
Special Thanks:
@Nitro Indigo
@Lillie
@Zachie
@InfiniteBakuphoon
And everyone that comments or reviews!
@Nitro Indigo
@Lillie
@Zachie
@InfiniteBakuphoon
And everyone that comments or reviews!
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