Man, Brock looked like a little punk back in the day. Super generic, just a no-fun-allowed sort of asshole. Moving right the hell along.
In the remakes, Brock apparently decided to spruce up his wardrobe a little. Look how reinforced those knees are, that's a man who knows he's going to be kneeling in the gravel looking for rocks and shit all day. way to plan ahead. Nice grey/brown/orange color scheme, looks solid. Nothing exciting, but he's the freaking ROCK trainer, what do you expect?
But for the remakes of Gold/Silver, Brock again changed it up. Now he's sporting more of a "wise college Junior" sort of look, as opposed to the "I hike in mountains" look. maybe he even lost some weight? kept the colors, though, that's good. I think I kinda liked the other one better, though. This is almost TOO plain.
Now, our friend Brock is a fan of Rocks. Which means he can get beat down by 2/3rd of your potential starters without much hurry, especially since he lives in Kanto, which means he is also a fan of Ground by default. Because every Rock-type in Kanto was also Rock/Ground, which means 4x weakness to getting splashed or throwing leaves at it.
makes him a minimal challenge, appropriate for the first boss. Even his big Pokemon, Onix, looks cool but has sucky stats. maybe Brock's just such a nice guy he goes easy on all the little tykes, who knows.
That gen III design is the sweet spot of subdued design yet sticks with his theme and placement in the game, but the first is just awful and the latest falls a bit short as well. Also his gym is as boring as, well, a rock. I'm gonna go ahead and give him a baseline score to set the standards. Anyone who is cooler than Brock will score higher, and anyone who doesn't even match up to Brock will score lower. I think that makes a lot of sense.
Overall: 5/10
ps - I guess he's in the anime too but I don't even want to open that kettle of fish with this. The anime is pretty much fanfiction for the games in my opinion, and I'd only be able to use it as argument points for like 5 characters anyway. I'm just not going to even bring it up, okay?
Benchmark Brock.
ReplyDeleteHe's like a good, solid foundation of Bedrock.
DeleteHe's the Elementary basis for our Sedimentary grading.
I always thought that he was bare chested based on his RB sprite. I guess the game developers thought to at least give him a shirt in the official art.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I like his most recent look, you are right about this Gen3 look. That design matches more of his specialty which is a dude that likes rocks.
The shirt version is yellow I think
DeleteKinda funny, I always thought of him as a smartass in the game.
ReplyDeleteStrange that you left out his original version (barechest) from Red and blue.
But then again, you might have not found some Art of him. (tried to google it and toio much testosterone)
Forgot to add:
ReplyDeleteLanguage-Trivia from germany!
Brocks name is Rocko...for obvious reasons...
The title:
Der steinharte Pokemon Trainer
[The rockhard Pokemon Trainer]
Even his Title that you find on the Sign next to the gym is dull.