i don ' t think i ever had a run trying to fill esper bar where she didn ' t do 4 genesis in a row . i think you just have to expect it and play through . esper bar was super frustrating , and i beat it with a lot of luck <| sep |> Fair enough . I think poliwrath and slowbro are pretty solid . <| sep |> I have had a similar thought . Now i want to go back and play battletoads . Took me about a year to realize there were 13 levels although i never saw most of them . A more recent game that younger guardians could relate to is borderlands 2 where people would spend 150 hours of play time grinding for a specific weapon with the right parts . Or boss fights that took hours fighting a single enemy . Granted there was a lot of content it was mostly the same levels over and over and over 100 times to max out a character , then do it over for the next character .