Pokémon NEO-A-LIFE

[MegaAbsolOfDespair]

I’m reviewing the first chapter of this fic for our review exchange! (I will be reading more of it soon, don’t worry.)

We start with a first person pov, belonging to a scientist named Cassandra. While I’m more familiar with third person pov due to it being more common in fics, I do like first person a lot as well.

Cassandra receives a message from her rival Antoine, warning her of the dangers that can be associated with artificial pokemon. I completely understand Antoine’s worries, especially considering the mention of the Aether Foundation.

She then receives another message, this time from a sender called Neo-A-Life. It seems we know what the fic’s title means now, neat! The message tells about the possibility of creating her own Porygon. Considering the mention of Celadon City, I have a suspicion that Emily may be a member of Team Rocket. My suspicion is this way because of the members of Team Rocket residing in Celadon City’s game corner in the games.

We then meet Cassandra’s partner pokemon, Magnezone! Magnezone is introduced pretty well, I enjoyed the descriptions of his mechanical body.

Cassandra then arrives at the Celadon Department Store. This makes me believe that Cassandra’s home seems to be somewhere in the Kanto region, possibly in Saffron City as it is located close to Celadon City.

Overall, I liked this chapter! It gives the reader interest to read more of the fic. I also enjoyed how we get to see Cassandra’s motivations to create her own Porygon.

 

[MegaAbsolOfDespair]

I will now be reviewing the second chapter for our review exchange!

This time, we start with Emily’s point of view. Emily seems to be intrigued by Cassandra and her interest in researching Porygon. Also, it is made clear that Porygon research isn’t something most people are interested in, except for Cassandra and Emily.

Emily meets Cassandra, and the two have a small conversation where they introduce themselves to each other and discuss Porygon research.

Emily then introduces the idea of customized Porygon that can be any type, which I find quite interesting. She then reveals that she has access to the source code of Porygon, apparently obtained from a former scientist who was a friend of hers.

I do have suspicion of this somehow being connected to Team Rocket. I do completely understand that I am making assumptions about something I don’t yet know for sure, but I do feel like it’s a possibility.

Emily also mentions her dad Michael LeVant, who I predict might have a role in the story. Though I understand that it might be too early to assume things.

We then have a scene of Emily and Cassandra going shopping. It is also shown that Emily has a Clefable as her pokemon.

I also enjoy the detail of Porygon2 being originally planned to go to space, it’s a nice detail mentioned in the pokedex entries!

Overall, the chapter was a fun introduction to Emily in a way that also showed more of the duo’s motivations!

 

[GGOAP]

I really enjoyed this fic, it really conveys well a person living in the pokemon world, where having a pokemon and interacting with them is the most normal thing.

Also, lowkey they all have mad scientist Vibes lol