Pokemon Uranium: My Worst Mistake Ep. 1

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Need something to kill time before AGDQ starts? Enjoy watching people on the internet suffer? Want to get mad about game design practices? LOOK NO FURTHER, FRIENDS!

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
god

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
why this again

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Well, to be fair this is a youtube upload of his old streams so if you went and watched those on Hitbox...

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
i tried and i couldn't get far before i quit from cringe

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Uranium is a very cringey game.

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
yeah i got to the uh

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
stalker at the first gym

連続犬
you mean the stalker at the first gym in the town which a bad pun based on the fact that the town has a stalker plot?


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that stalker at the first gym, hannah




ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
why must you remind me

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
oh yeah and kevlar town. because it's edgy.

連続犬
because you didn't get to the elite 4 and that's like

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a whole other level of WHO DESIGNED THIS

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
like, i feel bad at shitting all over something that they put 9 years of work into, but also

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
it's so bad

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DID ANYONE PLAYTEST THIS GAME

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like

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anyone ever told you what the elite 4 in uranium is, hannah

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Man how do you get to the Elite 4 when every single fucking random joe trainer has some combination set to not only kill you but do it slowly via sleep and paralysis and whatnot?

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Just slowly chokehold every single fight out.

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
i know that they're bullshit and like... a gym leader has a deoxys-tier speed thing with STAB on priority moves

連続犬
okay, so, hannah

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i don't mean to want to make you induce frothing but.

連続犬
uraniums elite 4 is a trainer roulette random gauntlet.

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no items allowed.

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This game has a built-in Nuzlocke mode.

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
why

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so not ONLY

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CAN YOU NOT USE ITEMS IN BATTLE

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
IF IT'S A RANDOM ROULETTE GAUNTLET THEN IT'S HARDLY ELITE FOUR NOW IS IT

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YOU CAN'T FUNCTIONALLY PREPARE

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FOR WHO IN WHAT ORDER

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BECAUSE IT'S RANDOM

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
like, did the person look at all the worst parts of competitive play adn go 'yeah, i want that'

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Not to mention the bullshit "mega evolutions"

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
oh god i remember that

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Which were clearly implemented when someone during the 9 year dev cycle saw them announced and went "OH GOD WE HAVE TO INCLUDE THESE (nevermind we have no idea how they work)"

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
and how they didn't rebalance the starters to be a two-stage so they're worthless

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Yeeaahh.

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Your starter stops being of any use after like.

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The second gym?

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
THAT THING STRAIGHT-UP HAD A ZUBAT'S CRY

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i mean

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there's tons of asset ripping wholesale, so

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
IT'S A BAT, IN A CAVE, WITH ZUBAT'S CRY

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
I HATE IT AUTOMATICALLY

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
current mood


ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
okay yeah i got to the stalker and quit again

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Get out of here Stalker.

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Also Loon sums it up well. "Ah, the second gym, Blighttown."

thetaClysm
Uranium uses midi music and I can never forgive it on that basis alone

thetaClysm
Everything else is gravy on the shit pile

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It uses .oggs of midis, bafflingly enough.

thetaClysm
surely 9 years is enough to put some time into sound design

thetaClysm
... What

thetaClysm
That's

thetaClysm
I can't even respond to that, that's so

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Yeah I feel like that sums up a lot of Uranium.

thetaClysm


thetaClysm
That is just. An ouroboros of bad decision-making.

thetaClysm
Fuck, just ripping off the music wholesale would be less effort than that, and give better results

thetaClysm
What little I played of it just used music from the real games, so...

Axe Goth Real?
Oh there's some of that too. Like ripped from YouTube by the file names

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I'd have preferred that tbh. The note bent bells in the trainer battle theme sends me into fits.