Talk:One Year Later/@comment-25021327-20150509021757

I felt that this was a well written, well paced and descriptive take on the old Pokémon creepypasta. Not being much of a Pokémon player myself, I was still able to follow along well. I like that the story stays plausible, in that it just deals with a ROM hack as opposed to some kind of ill gotten cartridge that starts saying the player's name.

I guess my only real complaint is that this feel very similar to the many other Pokémon pastas I've read. So many of them seem to deal with some kind of aftermath of some mysterious event which leaves many of the in game characters upset with the protagonist. Most of the time we never find out what has transpired, and they just come off kind of hackneyed.

I was hoping that this one would take a cue from that formula and build upon it. I like a sense of mystery, but it can also be satisfying to put the pieces together. The following lines had me a bit confused:

'' After thinking on my way through the Indigo Plateau, it all made sense. The odd messages, the rubble, everyone hating Jeff, and the trainer whom I had tried so hard to figure out, it all became clear.''

Maybe I'm missing something here (it happens!) but although the narrator seems to have it all figured out, I'm still scratching my head. What exactly became clear? Maybe this is a reference to some Pokémon lore that I'm not familiar with.

In any case, I thought this was a very good execution of a very familiar idea. I was just hoping for a little more from it I guess.