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Pokemon Crystal was the first time where you could choose to be a boy or a girl for my game play time line. While I don't identify as either boy or girl- at the time it was huge to just have the option to choose. And the story where you were running in to Suicune and bonding with this mythic creature in your journey across the pokemon world. It just felt so magical and epic at the time. It was a bitter sweet game for me at the time as well, since it was the first game where I played it 'alone'. Previously, my brother would get the mirrored copy of a game so we could play together (IE: red blue, we both got yellow, and silver gold)- and that was mostly due to Crystal not having a mirror copy for it. He would later came back to play Sapphire/Ruby with me, which was our ture pokemon-journey end. Anyhow, just having this mythic dog be my 'gaming buddy' as a child navigating gaming that I had previously played with a sibling-- in a truely alone feeling- made the game impact more on me.