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Violet catchall
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Time to journey to the center of Paldea in search of Professor DILF
lucineblue
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awww Penny
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She is very skeptical of this
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so like, why does he have everyone's biological information
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I get that they're going for an otherwordly effect but I dislike how everything is washed out in this area
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Arceus was like that in several areas, too, and it's hard to see things
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Oh hey, wild Espeon
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Oh shit, there's another Miraidon??
lucineblue
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prepare your nards for some spoops and weirdness, area zero effing slaps
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It's so shiny
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phew, totally got lost wandering around that cavern
lucineblue
shiny pretty
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lol welp, Professor DILF is a clone
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Or something like that
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And he's going to kick my ass with his very first Pokemon
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Phew, I barely won that one
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Even with type advantages he always seemed to have a counter for me
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miraidon with his li'l dragon hat
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booooom
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the flash frame before the PARADISE PROTOCOL, you see 'AI Turo is no longer willing to fight'
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Wow, that was a great story
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And now it's time for Ed Sheeran
lucineblue
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OK, so I really enjoyed this game, tbh
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I'm not without criticisms but I had a pretty good time
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The characters and world had a lot more depth than SwSh and everyone is hella queer
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"But there was a bunch of anime I missed that I was just gonna... binge..." jngfkjfng PENNY
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Looking forward to fighting all the Gym Leaders again
lucineblue
we love Penny in this house
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I tried the Judge function on my team and I kinda wish I hadn't because they're all just OK stats-wise but I'm kind of amused, too
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World's Okayest Champion
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D'Artagnan is the only one with a "Best" for his Sp. Attack stat
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OK, some more organized thoughts about the game as a whole
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Things I disliked first:
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-The graphical jank is a given. I don't mind not having super-detailed graphics, but the lag and stuttering character models/blankness in the distance was distracting.
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-The fact that they really pushed the idea that the game was supposedly an open world where you could do anything in any order and it... really wasn't.
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There was some leeway with the Gyms, but for the most part the story was still pretty linear.
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And you had to complete all 3 storylines in order to unlock Area Zero and the actual ending.
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-The world is plenty open, but for me it was hard to navigate at times.
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A lot of the landscapes are same-y, and while having fly points and being able to set certain points as a destination helps a lot, I frequently got lost trying to find my next destination.
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Arceus did this a lot better, where you were able to set a marker anywhere and got shown how many steps you had left to get there.
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-Very few of the new Pokemon jumped out at me. I liked the starters and Ceruledge, and some of the future Pokemon were cool, but I'm also a little ??? at the idea that Pokemon of the future will all be "the same as Pokemon today except they're robots".
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Things I liked:
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-The characters. They all had personality and many of them were memorable, and it's easy to interpret several of them as being some flavor of queer. (Penny is a trans girl, I will not be accepting feedback at this time.)
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I wouldn't say that Larry and Geeta are a couple as much as they have an understanding, if you will, and she bosses him around and he loves it
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-The 3-story system, even if it was linear. It added a lot of variety, and some of the Gym and Star battles were legitimately challenging.
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As I've said before, I loved Team Star's "misfits find each other and stick up for each other" story and how Clavell worked toward forgiveness instead of punishment.
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-The way the world actually feels inhabited by Pokemon. You can see them in groups and in their natural habitats on the map.
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Yedongs peacefully paddling in a lake, a pride of Pyroar on a prairie, Ice-types hanging out in the snow... it all adds up to them feeling like a natural part of the world.
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I feel like their behavior could stand to be a bit more varied, but I also liked less "run for your life" like there was in Arceus.
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Terrastilizing was a fun gimmick, and I spent way too much time just finding raid dens to see what sort of fun type combos came up. It also gave the Gyms more of a chance against you, since their final Pokemon was always a Tera Pokemon of their speciality type, but made to counter supereffective moves.
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Overall I had a fun time. Some of the criticisms of the game are very valid, some of them are a little overblown, but it was a Pokemon game and I enjoyed myself.
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