Been playing tons more Pokemon, to a point where I am almost ignoring school stuff (almost XD). So far I've gotten four badges and about 67 pokemon and I am a very happy fishy, because I now have a Houndoom, my absolute favorite pokemon (houdour/houndoom). I've also gotten a Jirachi and Pichu from Nintendo events and a Spiritomb with the help of a friend from school. I am really, really enjoying the game, as it's probably the most challenging Pokemon game I've played.

The gym leaders are hard, Gardenia, not so much, but even the first gym had fairly high level pokemon with some killer moves. I'm currently fighting against the water gym leader in Pastoria (Mexican wrestler FTW!)and getting the floor wiped with me. That Gyrados is *insane*, it just has to use Waterfall twice and my strongest electric type is toast. I have a lvl 33 Luxray and the thing can't even make a dent.

It's not just the gym leaders, it's also catching the pokemon. In Red/Blue the legendaries were pretty easy to get: they were standing right there, and if you hucked enough ultraballs (or did the infinite masterball cheat like smart people did) voila, you got the legendaries. The toughest pokemon to get was probably Porygon, because you have to have all those game coins to get one. Then in Gold/Silver they upped the ante because you had to chase the suckers down and track some items. Ruby/Sapphire was already insane in trying to track down the Regis, and you had to chase Latios/Latias.

But in Platinum it's just stupid. Spiritomb requires talking to 32 people underground, the pixies, Giritina, Dialga, the legendary birds *headdesk* The amount you have to do is just mind numbing.

Still, this game is amazing.