Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire remakes announced!

It's about time this happened. Seriously! We get a (in retrospect, completely unneccessary) fifth generation, then a SIXTH generation, and now, finally, these remakes have been announced!



Some of you may know that I refused to have anything to do with Generation 6 until Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire remakes were announced. I must admit, I'm really looking forward to November. I wonder if the games will come out before or after my birthday?

I CANNOT wait for these to come out! Pokemon Ruby is still to this day my favorite Pokemon game. I loved the Pokemon introduced in Generation 3, Hoenn is my favorite region, and I really liked the soundtrack. I'm anticipating any tracks getting leaked in advance! I also look forward to seeing the character art get released; the visual style changed the most between Generation 3 and 4, so I'm looking forward to seeing the characters drawn in the new style. I'm also excited for the return of Secret Bases. Those were so much fun; I was sad when that feature got downgraded in Generation 4 and completely eliminated in Generation 5. I also hope they bring back the Pokemon Contests; I thought Generation 3 was the only generation to do this really well; it literally was like a different type of battling rather than feeling like a mini-game, like the contests in Generation 4.

The only bad news? The names "Omega Ruby" and "Alpha Sapphire". I really hope those are only beta names.

Regardless, it's like receiving a birthday cake, but the cake sloshed around in the box. Even though some of the frosting is smeared against the top and sides of the box and the "Happy Birthday" isn't readable any more, the cake still tastes just as delicious.