That would be nice, wouldn't it? [Sigh.] But I guess it's one of those games where level grinding is the point. Growing with your partners, balancing your team- and it works well enough in games, I guess, but in real life application, since battling can't simply sustain you- that's what throws it all off!

[Ashley shrugs.]

Like, in the games, you only had to pay for items relating to your Pokémon. Here, we have hotels and food to buy, transportation to worry about. Clothes- it's a completely different animal, and it's just different. It's not the kind of video game any of us are used to.

[y'all should've played jrpgs man]