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 About Sunyshore City!・ナギサシティーについて>
 Sunyshore City is a
coastal city - it's so coastal that it passes the coast and half of it
is built overwater and on little islands. It's so coastal that in
Japanese it's simply called Nagisa City - ナギサシティ. 渚 （なぎさ、nagisa) MEANS "the coast"... so
it's easy to figure this thing out,eh?
Well, no worries about getting
around - everything is connected by walkways in the sky. The town not
only features a beautiful beach with great surfing, a historical
lighthouse, the Munchlax Rock, but its residents hold keys to the past of some of the
region's prominant characters. Not to mention it's also the gateway to
the Pokemon League, the last city to stop at before you go! Sounds
great, huh? You wanna go as soon as possible? TOO BAD! If you try to
enter before you've saved the region/world, a man in Valor Lakefront
will chase you down before you can even get to Route 222, the only path
to Sunyshore:
"Stop, stop!
Yes, you!
Sunyshore
City, which is down this road, has had a major blackout!
Crews are
working on restoring power, but the road's closed now."
Too bad, so sad. So, let's
skip to the good part where you HAVE saved Sinnoh and CAN go inside the
city of solar power! Inside the gate, talk to the two guys for some really intelligent banter.
"Sunyshore's Gym Leader has been bored
lately, I hear. Apparently,
there's been a lack of worthwhile challengers."
"If I had to describe Sunyshore Gym in a
word, it'd be... Shockingly
Electric!"
All I have to say is....
that's a good word. Now INSIDE! BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! Before you can
even go buy some sunscreen, a tiny
sprite of a guy with a
huge-ass red afro approaches you...!
"Yo! Fellow Trainer!
Your Pokemon are secure inside their Poke Balls, but there's no masking
that aura of serious toughness! Oops, sorry, I should introduce myself.
The name's Flint! I am one of the Pokemon League's Elite Four!" (here
he turns and shows off his 'fro to you). "I just had this idea. Maybe
you can pull it off. It's about this town's Gym Leader. He's really lost his enthusiam lately because
there've been so few good challengers worth his time. He's been so bored, he spends all his time
renovating the Gym. And then the blackout happened... that sure didn't
help lift his mood. You kn ow
where I'm going with this, don't you? I need you to give him a battle
that's so hot, it will
reignite his passion for
battling. I'm counting on you, hotshot!"
Well, thanks for all
the firey (or
flaming?) vocabulary and great way to make it sound like you aren't
getting any lately and are really desperate for some attention from
your special little pal best friend. Anyway, all
awkwardness aside, this is the first idea we get about Volkner in the
Diamond/Pearl Pokemon game. That idea being that he's some sort of
angst muffin. Moving along, we meet some more people, a couple of
ladies, who inform us that:
"This is a major port town. And...
it's the gateway to the Pokemon League."
"This city uses a lot of electricity, especially the lighthouse and the
Gym. They finally decided to turn all the roads inside the city into
giant solar panels.
Sunyshore is the Sunshine City (たいようが てらす まち
), so the system works perfectly."
It really wasn't
working perfectly a few days ago, when you had a major blackout? Eh? Oh well, ladies
don't know nuffin'. You pass the Sunyshore
Pokemart, which is of course, where yours truly works (um, this
isn't canon information, so just ignore me) but seriously folks, the
Sunyshore Pokemart sells Luxury Balls. Those are like,  special!!....yeah......... and to your
left is a little house, real great location, just a hop skip and a jump
from the beach - typical that one of them
is completely full of people who are obsessed with the Underground.
Let's call them the Underground
Fanclub,
because there's like, tons of them inside and all they can talk about
is tips for going Underground. Why not go outside and enjoy the
sunshine or the beautiful view or SOMETHING? Yet one of them has this
interesting little tidbit:
"The Underground Man in Eterna and Byron of Canalave City are related.
Add Byron's son Roark, and you
have a trio of dedicated diggers."
So what you're saying is that Roark and Byron are related to that guy
who's in a million places at once in the Underground? And Byron is also
best buds with Riley? Who in this game is this family NOT connected to?
No really! It's some sort of conspiracy and they all want to take over
all of Sinnoh's Gyms (I made that up too. Just ignore anything I say
ever).
So right above that is the Sunyshore Market... "Sunyshore Market: A Selection of the
World's Seals" says the sign! And inside they let you know that
"Sunyshore Market is best known for its big selection of seals." Wow...
that's information that I totally couldn't have figured out from the
sign! Here you can buy stickers to make your Pokeballs more gaudy and
sparkling. Also, a woman inside will give you a ribbon if your Pokemon
have super-high (maxed out?) effort values. So, yeah, get a ribbon,
yay. Also, the Seals they sell change depending on the day of the week,
so stock up!
So, keep heading to the beach. There's a
random sailor, who will tell you his deep thoughts.
"Whatever
the enviroment, people and Pokemon adapt to live there. That's what we
all do to survive."
Suuuuuure, man, whatever you say, I mean, that's not what I'd say, but
that's what you say. Well,
doo dee doo, towards the beach... and... oh! It's a hot babe waiting for you. Actually,
she's probably underage, so let's not call her a hot babe again. She
looks familiar though, almost like something that fans will be able to
take as a hint that Nintendo is considering a remake of the
Gold/Silver/Crystal games.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not the Gym Leader of
this town... I'm a Gym Leader
in the Johto Region... ...Er...um... It
would be nice if you knew about
the Johto Region... Oh, if you don't have the Gym Badge,
you'll be forced to turn back. "
Look, Jasmine of Olivine City,
I never thought you WERE the Gym Leader, although we are looking for
him, and this region's Gym Leaders do tend to be sitting around in
random places, rather than DOING THEIR JOBS AT THEIR GYMS. Especially
Fantina... can't she get her act together? Well, I guess she does in
Platinum... BTW, Jasmine gives you HM07, Waterfall, after you beat
Volkner, so come back to see her again. So... now we can stop rambling and move
along on our journey for the Gym Leader. I wonder who it is and where he is. PS: It's Volkner and he's in the lighthouse.
Just letting you know in case you weren't paying attention. BTW,
spoilers. Oh, too late.
Let's go up, because there's no other way
to get to the rest of Sunyshore. Don't even bother trying the Sunyshore Gym on the left side...
Flint is waiting there to inform you that,
"Yo!
Hiya! He hasn't come back yet. When he does, you know what you gotta
do. Give him a battle that's so hot, it will reignite his passion for
battling! I'm counting on you, hotshot!"
Thanks, okay, well. Yeah. I wonder how many times he's gonna say that
same line? Sure. Well, you can at least check out the sign... from
which you learn that Volkner is "The
Shining, Shocking Star!". How interesting. On the right, there's
two houses with a great ocean view - so like most resort towns one of
them has an elderly retired couple living inside. And boy do they have
some shocking information for you! Get it... shocking information... in Sunyshore
City... hahahahaha meh.
"I'd
heard that Team Galactic was up to no good. But here in Sunyshore,
we've never even seen any of them around."
"A long
time ago, there was a boy named Cyrus who lived here. He seemed
to shun others, and preferred the company of machines. He was
a brilliant student I recall. I often wonder what became of him."
Yeah man, they almost took out the entire world! Don't you watch the
news? .... didn't you see me on the news ruining their plans? Doesn't
anybody know how I risked my life to save yours? Meh. Whatever. In the
house next to them lives Julia, who is lonely as all hell and will give
you ribbons, one for each day of the week (this seems to be a Sunyshore
theme). Well, thanks for the random ribbons! What other free stuff can
I nab here?
Head down past MUNCHLAX ROCK...
just in case you don't see the resemblence to a Munchlax, don't worry.
Why not stand around like the Sailor nearby and wonder about it?
"That
giant rock... isn't it really a Pokemon?"
Sure, honey. Anyway, head down the stairs for a THUNDERSTONE! Now who to use it on,
Eevee or Raichu? HMMMMM? If you're in Platium, Volkner's about to try
to kick your butt using both Jolteon and
Raichu, so you can make your
choice then on who is the sexier Pokemon if you don't already know.
Rock Climb up the wall, and head into the house to get a Poketch
application from a dude! Thanks dude! I love more and more free stuff!
By now you've seen all of the city except for Vista Lighthouse. The worker outside
seems to be really upset that he's not as good looking as Volkner.
"The
Gym Leader uses too much electricity! He needs to think about the
city's power needs, too!"
What, are you pissed you couldn't make toast last week? Didn't you
realize the world was ending? Maybe THAT'S what blacked out the city,
ever think of THAT? No, you didn't, did you, it's always the Gym
Leader's fault, always. Well, let's go on inside, and an elevator takes
us up. Inside is what might be a father and son?
"I love
how far away you can see with the binoculars! I'm going to go
that far away with my Pokemon one day."
"The
Vista Lighthouse represents safety and protection to us Sailors."
How nice! What nice people. Yet here in the lighthouse sits Volkner.
And with that, your tour of the city is over. Go battle him, brave
soldier! And you can read everything he's got to say continuing onto
the Diamond and Pearl page!
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