Anyone else here naming Pokemon? I have to compulsively name everything I catch.
Also Klawf is my favourite new mon despite the terrible name
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i named my grass cat starter Zoots, my azumerill ORB in honour of my terrible but round beautiful game team, and the fuecoco a friend traded me Spicy Dave
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This time around I’m not naming any of them, I’ve flipped back and forth between those two choices for years.
Current squad:
- Fletchinder
- Ampharos
** Kind of remarkable how often Fletchlings and Mareeps become ride or die for me - Dugtrio
- Floragato
- Psyduck
- Stantler
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least horny redditor
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i showed this to @Caput_Mortuum and she immediately yelled “AWOOOGA”
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cursed with this knowledge, I have been running laps on top of a lighthouse by holding the control stick diagonally for several minutes
i think i now understand why so many npcs in this game are completely jacked
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would it be a hot take to say pokemon gyms are better than zelda dungeons?
maybe just because they’re shorter
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Powmo is now Powmot.
I don’t know what the deal is with it’s alleged evolution method, but for me it just finally evolved after a random trainer battle. (Maybe all that walking in circles did help, but it is impossible to know 
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Anyhow, with 12 hours of playtime on record I’ve barely made any progress with any of the main quests. It turns out my first instinct with any of these BotW-likes is to circumnavigate the map and activate as many warp points as possible as soon as I have the means to — the decades-old teambuilding RPG this is built on is just gravy in comparison.
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Yeah part of the problem is apparently it requires a regular evolution after hitting 1000 steps to evolve. I walked it all around the top of the mountain multiple times yesterday and still didn’t manage it!! Furious at this little hamster
Also I appreciate that folks find these bugs funny or whatever but I genuinely have not experienced any game affecting bugs or movement bugs. I can’t make people’s eyes big or delete my motorcycle horse or turn my body into spaghetti after like 20 hours. I dunno how these folks are even doing that, but after watching some of these videos I suspect they may be doing QA esque shit. I saw a video of someone smushing the olive roll ball into a corner until it began levitating into the air, and thought “this is why I am not smart enough to be a QA tester”
I’ve defeated all but three of the gym leaders and all but maybe… two?? of the titans. I find that I am worried about taking on new activities because I cannot tell if they will be too hard for me–I tried to kill Great Tusk a little too early and got my ass kicked. But now that my Pokémon are all nearing level 50 I should just have some courage and fight and kill everyone and everything I suppose
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i will give game freak credit for making an engine that mostly manages to hold itself together while people’s eyes are bugging out and all kinds of weird animations are going off. bethesda could never
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Random thoughts/reports from my journey:
- I don’t know why I derive specific pleasure from steamrolling a water-type gym but I do.
- I have like, 4 Growlithes with non-fire teratypes.
- God help me this Dugtrio is going to wind up being in my main party for the whole damn game.
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So far Team Star bosses are the only thing that’s been even mildly threatening and it’s always just the suped up Revarooms that seem quite overpowered for their levels. Just had to do a war of attrition against one and alternate healing/damage turns until it dropped.
Or maybe my Pokemon are just bad idk.
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Figured it out with some testing and with some help from a guides site: to get Pokémon who have to walk in the overworld with you to evolve, you have to walk with them about 5 minutes. I do 5 mins 30 seconds to be safe. I also do it only in cities and I do it at a run. The Pokémon that evolve this way need to do a normal level up after hitting their step count (about 1000) and won’t immediately change when you hit the goal.
Multiple Pokémon evolve this way.
I also evolved Tandemouse and that evolution is super weird and funny. The two mice hit their evolution level but do NOT do an evolution animation (unless they are the one fighting, some report?). Instead they quietly level up in your party when you are not looking. The reason they do this is that for them, leveling up involves having one or two children!!! Very very funny to me that this was thier solution for a Pokémon that evolves by fucking lmao. Thier signature move is called POPULATION BOMB
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Just defeated the four members of the elite four and had to drop the game and go do some chores before continuing on to whatever’s next. This collection of weirdoes you fight is extremely well characterized relative to other elite fours I can remember! In general it just reminds me that the character writing in this game is somewhat above normal for Pokemon, haha.
Thoughts: The Medali gym leader, Larry, shows back up using Flying type pokemon instead of Normal, and says something like “I prefer to use normal type because I think I have more similarities with them personally.” Then the final guy is a school professor who uses dragon types, and when you defeat him he starts sobbing wildly with joy with a lot of misspelled dialogue due to snot and tears coming out of his nose or whatever. There’s also a toddler you fight who wears a giant teething chew around her neck?? I also appreciate the extremely lesbian teen who acts as the group’s spokesperson. Great shit
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currently up to 11/18 of the main quests done, and yeah this is the first pokemon game to actually capture my attention long enough to get its hooks in. turns out the RPG half of the game becomes more interesting once the gym leaders start putting in effort (thanks Larry (I love Larry)) — I actually had to put in more effort than just spamming a weakness move three times with an unintentionally overleveled mon.
don’t have much to say about the other questlines rn, but somebody please tell me if im not the only one reading Penny as an autistic trans girl
other notes:
I found into a residential door in one town (Porto Marinada) that didn’t have any collision to it, unlike all the other un-enterable houses. Decided to take a selfie there (pretend I’m a ghost):
Obviously an oversight, but the door having no collision is consistent with some shop doors I’ve accidentally clipped into without triggering the entering animation (the shop interiors, just like this house, are just small boxes with a texture suggesting indoor lighting). It makes me wonder how late into development they realized they had to cut 90% of the game’s interiors to meet the project’s deadline.
Speaking of clipping, I ran into this female trainer NPC who I thought was neat — then I talked to her after battling and she clipped her arm straight through her torso:
they tried
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Just started playing Scarlett today, barely an hour in but so far it doesn’t seem too bad.
Honestly if anything kills this game for me it’ll be t he fact that for some stupid reason they decided to revert from the streamlined battle system in Arceus back to the agonizingly slow system of the previous games.
I finished the game’s main plot last night. More thoughts coming later but I do think this is the best/most successfully ambitious Pokemon game in the main series so far, w/r/t structure and storytelling particularly. This feels like it was a big reach for the studio and most of the stuff they tried works well. The writing is above average for recent mainline Pokemon games, too. The characters are a lot of fun and the ending uses those characters to get a bit dark, and to earn that darkness. (The ending also has Actual Narrative Design Gags, which is nothing special but very well executed and a huge surprise to see in a Pokemon game.)
I am gonna continue doing the postgame content! Having a great time so far. The bugs are pretty overblown IMO. There’s no chaos here that I wouldn’t also expect to see in an Elder Scrolls game and try as I could I was not able to replicate any of the funny ones from social media, lmao.
I cannot wait until this team is allowed to target a device more powerful than the Switch. If whatever they do next is exactly this fun but looks better, they’d be celebrated, haha.
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