Okay, so after about three weeks of owning Pokémon X, I
finally got through the main game and beat the champion, and did some of the
post-game content. Overall I’d say the game was pretty good, but I do have one
major complaint. So, there are these new things called Sky Battles where flying
and levitating Pokémon are used. They’re not super different from regular
battles, but the part of it I find truly disappointing is that to catch Pokémon
for these battles there’s no Sky Ball in the game, and…I really wanted to write
that Adele parody. Those of you that know me know that I like to write song
parodies, and I wanted to write one for this new generation, so when I heard
about Sky Battles, I started to get some ideas on what I could do for a “Skyfall”
parody. Prior to the game’s release, I bought the song and started listening to
it to see how I could transform the lyrics. I won’t share everything I came up
with, but here’s a brief outline:
So, the original song starts with a 25-30 second
instrumental passage. In a parody there needs to be some indication that this
is not the original song, so rather than leave it as is, I planned on putting in
a conversation between two people that goes something like, “Did you hear about
the new Pokémon games?”, “No, what are they called this time?”, “X and Y”, “What,
did they run out of colors?”, you know, stuff like that, then towards the end
it’s, “They’ve got this new thing called ‘Sky Battles’”, “Lemme guess, is there
a new Sky Ball you can use to catch Pokémon?”. That would serve as sort of the
opening to the piece.
Then the actual song would start with, “There
is no end. Hold your breath here comes 6th gen.” Throughout the
first verse the theme was going to be, “Here comes more Pokémon-there’s nothing
you can do about it-I’ve come to dread this moment-I love it and I loathe it”, which
leads into the chorus, “here’s a Sky Ball, for your trouble, we will stand
tall, and catch ‘em all-together”, and so on.
The second verse was going to focus on the singer adjusting
to the new game’s features and such. I didn’t have too many ideas here-“so why
is Honedge weak to dark?” was one of them, but leading into the second chorus I
was thinking of using something like, “here’s my charge card number, you can
take my cash, ‘cuz we’ll never grow apart!” As if the singer was giving in to
their love of Pokémon and buying the game.
After the second chorus, the original song goes into this
mostly quiet portion for about 20-25 seconds. I was planning on using it for
more exposition-most likely another conversation between the characters from
the beginning. After that you have the bridge and the final chorus, and my plan
there was to wrap up and have the singer express how they liked the game and
how it made them feel as a Pokémon fan, but by this time I really was pretty
sure there was no Sky Ball in the game and I put this parody on the back burner,
and to be honest, unless the TCG bails me out with a Sky Ball card in one of
the first few XY sets it’s just not going to happen.
So, that’s “Sky Ball”, a parody you’ll probably never hear. On
a happier note, be sure to check out my interview with Jess Domain from last
week if you haven’t already. Thanks.
