So a lot of stuff to talk about this time. I'll skip all the bullshit days where you do nothing and focus on the actual plot.
Waterfall Cave happened in between the last update and now but that is literally the least interesting mission in the game, since it's literally only there to establish how much of a douchebag Wigglytuff is and what exactly the Dimensional Scream does.
Another morning, this time Chatot gathers us all together to talk about the big expedition the guild is planning. Then I go upstairs to pick up some missions and team Skull shows up. Skuntank just saunters down the ladders (how does that fat thing with no arms climb a ladder) and one hit kills me from super far away. (OMG SKUNTANK FOR UBERS NAO)
Inconsistencies in this scene:
Let's say you had Bulbasaur as your player character. Why would the poison breath one hit KO you if you were poison type? I was Phanpy, a ground type, so the cloud would also be not very effective on me....
Why do none of the 5+ pokemon in the room notice what's happening? Well...not entirely true, they do notice when the cloud drifts their way, but they still don't intervene even after seeing Bulbasaur getting shoved into a corner by three intimidating-looking poison types and another pokemon lying dead/unconscious/wishing they had a gas mask on the floor. Verdict: the guild pokemon really don't give a shit if you get hurt.
So they get out of the way and let me access the board after a lengthy conversation about how I was giving Bulbasaur courage and what not. I actually thought this kind of cutscene was really touching the first time I played through, but this time I'm just embarassed and look away from the screen and frantically mash the A button through it.
That's why you don't complement me-because when you do I scroll as fast as I can through them because for some perverse reason I hate people telling me that I did a good job.
No, Bulbasaur, I'm not giving you courage. You found it for yourself after watching me throw rocks with the power of my mind (i think that's what ancientpower is?), sacrifice my physical health for you (take down ftw), and throw that Oran Berry at you in a bounty fight because you were too damn stupid cowardly to grab the damn thing out of our explorer bag on your turn.
But I digress.
Two days of missions later and I get the call to go to Apple Woods. I pretty much just facerolled my way to the end of this dungeon with Take Down. Halfway through I picked up Rollout, which I deleted Take Down for. Multi hit moves are simply godly in PMD and I feel blessed to have both a hero and a partner who can abuse multi hit moves.
And I have Ancientpower. So yeah Phanpy is easy mode.
End of the dungeon, I find the tree with the perfect apples. Skuntank kindly shows me how to retrieve the perfect apples before teaming up with Koffing to instantly kill ME, MY PARTNER, THE ZUBAT THAT'S SUPPOSEDLY ON THEIR TEAM, AND THE TWO POISON TYPES I RECRUITED IN APPLE WOODS.
Skuntank for Ubers.
I go back and Chatot tells me that there's no hope of us making it onto the expedition thanks to this failure, no dinner tonight, AND we have to face Wigglytuff and explain the whole damn thing ourselves.
Another inconsistency here: Bulbasaur can photosynthesise, why the hell is he A. eating with us and B. hungry at all? Just plug him into a bowl of water and leave him in the sun for 10 minutes and he's good to go.
But that doesn't matter now. Wigglytuff hears that he won't have his Perfect Apples for a while, then begins his transformation into Super Saiyan Wigglytuff. Chatot tells us all to cover our ears (maybe he has choice specs hyper voice or something?) Then Skuntank shows up and bails us out with a perfect apple. And I have to apologize for accusing him of messing with us.
Skuntank for ubers.