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Someone lost 20 years worth of Pokemon when trying to transfer data from Switch 1 to Switch 2 (web.archive.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/datahoarder@lemmy.world
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I've never transferred Pokemon between gens and I've never used Pokemon Home, but it seems wild to me to be so invested into such a fickle storage system. Thoughts and prayers for the guy affected

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Pokémon kinda lost its magic when I found the tools to edit saves to get whatever Pokémon I wanted. Want it shiny? Just tick the box! etc..

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Pokemon is already extremely easy when you're not a kid anymore. It's not challenging if you know what to do.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That wasn't really what I was getting at.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm talking about "the magic" that is lost because of editing save files and say that even the original experience loses its magic.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Huh? You talked about the difficulty of the game. Now whilst I will admit that "magic" is pretty bloody vague it's not usually a synonym for "challenging". I played Pokémon as an adult and it wasn't until I found I could edit a save file that things changed. Difficulty had no bearing on my experience.

    We may well be talking about the same thing from different angles but I don't really understand your point in relation to my point.

    I was trying to suggest that the Pokémon one comes across and plays with have an emotional attachment angle. They've travelled along with the player, had adventures, etc..

    Being able to cheat to get an instance of a specific Pokémon would be one thing but being able to use a convenient utility to create exactly the Pokémon one wants to the finest detail was very much another. The former is a Snorlax but the latter is one functionally indistinguishable from my Snorlax.

    Shades of "being able to see through the Matrix", if you catch my meaning.

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