Gosh, let me inform you, fascinated by the truth that Pokemon Colosseum is 20 years previous is a little bit bit upsetting to the soul. I’m in my mid (soon-to-be-late) twenties, so it is not like I’m operating out of time on this mortal coil, however anniversaries actually do put issues into perspective, do not they? Especially an anniversary that signifies a recreation actually got here out 20 years in the past. Occasions like this one lead you to mirror upon the previous. In this specific case, I’m fascinated by how Pokemon Colosseum successfully outlined me as a coach, and subsequently, perhaps a little bit bit as an individual.
Do you bear in mind when gaming magazines used to return with free demo discs or DVDs displaying off upcoming video games? I cherished them as a child, I nonetheless have an entire bunch of my PS2 demo discs, a little bit treasure trove of snapshots of video games to return. There was one time I bought (I’m fairly positive) a problem of Cube Magazine, primarily based on a fast Google search I think about it might be subject 28. Every subject of Cube got here with a DVD of cheats, and a DVD with trailers and pictures of varied video games. This specific copy confirmed off Pokemon Colosseum.
I used to be, after all, extremely excited for such a recreation. You had a cool bike! You might steal different folks’s Pokemon, however you are a good man, form of! You had an Espeon and an Umbreon! It was clearly a recreation that might cement these two Eeveelutions as fan favourites for a lot of. But this DVD did one factor for me particularly: it gave me a reputation.
With the journal being known as Cube and all, it was a no brainer for them to call the sport’s playable coach precisely that. Cube. Boy did seven 12 months previous me suppose that was cool as heck. So, very similar to Wes, as he is canonically identified, I stole that identify for myself, and have used it in each single Pokemon recreation I’ve performed since.
Choosing a reputation like Cube for the Pokemon model of myself, you’d suppose I’d perhaps have found out I’m non-binary a little bit bit ahead of I did, however I suppose when you do not have the language for that kind of factor all you will be is a six-sided form of a human.
Since then, I’ve felt like all Pokemon coach I play as is an extension of myself, influenced by the form of recreation Colosseum was. It was a bit edgier, bolder, cooler than the principle video games, and funky was what chubby, nerdy little me strove to be. My favorite Pokemon as a child included creatures like Blaziken, Metagross, and Lucario. The ‘cool’ ones.
Pokemon Colosseum looks like such a wierd time limit for Pokemon. Aside from its sequel Gale of Darkness, we have probably not seen something fairly prefer it from The Pokemon Company. Legends Arceus virtually suits inside that bracket, nevertheless it’s nonetheless related sufficient to the principle method for Colosseum to face by itself as this particular factor.
Maybe that is why I latched on to the identify Cube, as a result of Colosseum opened my eyes to the potential way forward for Pokemon, a future it did not actually ship on. Regardless, I’ve saved that identify all through the years, as a result of it is who I’m in a method. I’ve additionally modified loads too, so typically I’m wondering if I need to strive a special identify for my subsequent Pokemon journey. Yet each time a brand new entry comes alongside, I get to that identify display screen and I simply suppose that going by every other identify could be incorrect.
So, every time I get round to an extended overdue Pokemon Colosseum replay following its twentieth anniversary, I do know precisely which identify I’ll be placing in.
