Talk:Prevention of Evolution/@comment-35051855-20200731053439

Ouch, this does not hold up that great. Having "Kill" blatantly be a move is pretty stupid, for example. The narration of this story is done well, though, and I do hope this author has moved on to other projects. However, that doesn't mean the whole time I wasn't silently yelling "JUST EVOLVE HIM, THIS WOULD ALL BE OVER IF YOU JUST EVOLVED HIM". It's particularly painful here, because the Eevee was hacked. You could've just gotten another Eevee easily, as shown IN THE STORY. Could you not have found an easy way to get a Fire Stone for EEeEE, since you are missing Flareon? And if the answer is no, would having two Shiny Espeons really be the worst thing in the world? Me personally, if my game started acting weird, and my Pokemon demanded to evolve, I'd just do as it asked, because it's certainly not worth all this trouble. This is a perfect example of the "Sienfield is Unfunny" trope, where the cliches this Pokepasta uses have been used so much by other authors (sometimes they're even used better than they are here) that the story feels stale. It's hard to get too angry at this Pokepasta for it, since I don't think the author imagined this Pokepasta would be as influential as it was.

All in all, 4/10. It didn't age that great, but you can't deny it's still a classic cautionary tale about hacking in Shiny Pokemon instead of putting in the effort to just hunt the damn things yourself.