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Diary of an NPC - Fourth Entry
Diary of an NPC - Fourth Entry
The series continues with the NPC, Nigel Phillip Charles, heading
over to Pokémon Fire Red to find food, a job and love.
By Andrew Duncan
I
n every game you play the
main character - the plot
revolves around your every
moment in the game like as
unto a god. Of course, this
means you ignore what’s going
on with the people around
who you’re controlling. The
people who drive around,
go in and out of stores and
generally live their lives. But did
you realise there are a limited
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number of so-called NPCs?
To do their jobs in all of these
games, especially the heavilypopulated ones, they need to
be able to come and go as they
please. These people don’t
think it’s odd to go from deep
space to a land of dinosaurs in
the space of a week - it’s their
way of life. In this series, we
follow one of these people -
Nigel Philip Charles. Attacked,
horrified and heartbroken,
he is taking some personal
time in the pet sanctuary
known as the Kanto region.
Day of Arrival I’ve been in the region for five
hours. In that time I’ve had
some old guy (Professor Tree?)
shove a talking Wikipedia device
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