Pokemon Evolutions

JustInCaseD Dec 31, 2021

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Recapture the Feeling of Playing Pokemon all Those Years Ago: Remember Pokemon Generations, the mini series that came out back in 2016? This is pretty much the sequel, driven to recreate it's massive success and popularity. Both series paint Pokemon in a different, much more detailed style of animation from that of the main series anime to bring some of the biggest events of the games across the generations every episode. Although they functionally are the same for the most part, there is notable differences between the two: Generations from a few years back focused heavily on the lore behind certain characters and events that aren't covered in the games or main anime. They are shorter, 4-5 minute episodes apiece compared to Evolutions' 7-8 minute episodes. But there was more episodes overall; covering 3 episodes per region as opposed to Evolutions' 1 per region. While they were more bite sized, they covered a lot more content and events per region in comparison to Evolutions.  Meanwhile Evolutions here focus is on bringing to life the events of the games to the screen instead. It did 1 episode per region and it covered events that happened in the main games, bringing them to life on screen. In short, it's almost strictly faithful to the games and is trying to capture nostolgia for the people who may remember playing them as a kid. There is some deeper lore to be found here within them, such as Barry's journey throughout Diamond/Pearl/Platinum being displayed as a building climax towards fighting his father, Battle Tycoon Palmer, was an incredibly interesting episode. But largely Evolutions' appeal is more so to the general audience that may vaguely remember playing the Pokemon games as a kid while Generations is generally more attractive to the hardcore fanbase who'd prefer to see pieces of the lore expanded upon.  Which would I say is better? Well tbh, I don't think I'd strictly say one is definitively better than the other here. They both have their perks. But as someone who still continues to play and follow Pokemon to this day, I'd stand by that Generations was far more interesting than Evolutions to me because it brought a lot of new content and expanded the lore of the games. But that doesn't mean Evolutions was bad, far from it. If you're a casual Pokemon fan who played the games as a kid, this is a nice lil' nostolgia trip made just for you that you can easily follow along to. Definitely not a mandatory watch by any means, but if you're feeling nostolgic and want to kill some time: Evolutions can give you an enjoyable time doing so.