Well, not the Nuzlocke challenge, because I would not be able to handle having a load of effort put into a Pokémon that I'd have to perma-box when something goes wrong. But normally when I play a Pokémon game, I link it to all of the other ones I've played: no training something too high if there's already a fully-trained member of that species on another version, take advantage of trading as much as possible even and especially when it could provide low-leveled versions of powerful Pokémon early on, and other various little guidelines of that sort. I've not actually just played through the game, picked up whatever I think looks good, and based my team around what I liked instead of coverages and typeadvantages, since back when I first got Ruby Version in 2003. Well, my Diamond Version sort of followed Ruby's pattern, but my Diamond Version was pretty haphazard in general and I had to share it with my brother for a while(he traded away my Entei over Wi-Fi!), so it doesn't really count.

I was considering buying SoulSilver from someplace to set my new isolationist file in, since the only region's story I'm unfamiliar with is Johto's, but after the Hoenn remake announcement a few days back I'm tempted to just wait for AlphaSapphire to roll around. I'll probably just pick up SoulSilver, though. Gap-filling is always nice, and since it's been out for years it'll probably be at a low price somewhere, not to mention the fact that places will have more of them in stock since the hardcore supporters will have already bought their copies years ago. I swear I saw a HeartGold Version at a Barnes & Noble once, and if you'll be able to pick up the game at a bookstore, imagine how easy they'll be to find at a regular store! Yes, i know that's faulty logic, but I'm holding out hope that it won't be the other way around and the stores all just decided not to restock the games after X and Y came out.