{"id":279,"date":"2008-01-06T02:08:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T07:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/279"},"modified":"2016-07-15T12:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:58:42","slug":"pokemon-full-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/279","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon: Full Heal"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an item in Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> called “Full Heal”. You can buy it at several of the stores in the game. What would you guess it does? If you said “Restores all of a pok\u00e9mon’s lost hit points”, then you think like me. You’re also wrong. That’s what “Max Potion” does. “Full Heal” is Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>‘s equivalent of the Final Fantasy<\/em> “Esuna” spell: it removes all status effects (such as “poisoned” and “paralyzed”) from a single pok\u00e9mon. And this made me realize something: I have a strong preference about the terminology for these things. Wounds are “healed”, status effects are “cured”. Doing it the other way around sounds wrong to me, even though the words are almost completely interchangeable in normal English usage.<\/p>\n

Even in the context of games, my preferences aren’t completely industry-standard: consider the “Cure Light Wounds” family of spells in D&D, and all the games that have similarly-named spells in imitation. Are my terminological expectations completely groundless? I don’t think so; the various Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> FAQs and hint sheets I’ve been looking at tend to favor my usage, even if the game itself doesn’t. Still, this is something worth bearing in mind as I look at other games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an item in Pok\u00e9mon called “Full Heal”. You can buy it at several of the stores in the game. What would you guess it does? If you said “Restores all of a pok\u00e9mon’s lost hit points”, then you think like me. You’re also wrong. That’s what “Max Potion” does. “Full Heal” is Pok\u00e9mon‘s equivalent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rpg","tag-pokemon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3697,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}