Fossilized Nerd (Jesse)

Wow, that sounded very good for a midi lol

Never too late to learn sax! I quit back in the 6th grade due to playing with braces but would love to get back into it someday

Wait, question for you - if you didn't play sax for the Later Alligator OST, who did?

And if this low number is to "avoid people using Champions as additional storage," I ask you one question:

Why?
Why is that bad? lmao

These numbers are so low that competitive players will only exclusively use it to compete, storing their rosters in the main titles and the bank itself, and will not generate any revenue at all. There's no way on earth you can monetize this with the competitive audience. Best you get is casuals.

HOWEVER - this franchise has its competitive base making new Pokémon for each individual competition, often retooling all EVs, natures, and moves to match current meta. You CANNOT come CLOSE to accommodating how players use the systems of the series by limiting the paid expansion to a mere 30-80.

If I were the developers, 100 should be base, 200 should be paid. That sounds reasonable enough to not be treated as a storage box. You might think "aren't those numbers rather high?" at the jump, which, sure - if you only use a total 30 guys and constantly use the exact same ones, I can see that.

Shouldn't be too bold to say: This is crippling.

I'm a former competitive Pokémon player, and dabbled in both Smogon and VGC formats. The COST isn't the issue, it's the NUMBERS. ONLY 30 is insanely low for a franchise with 1000+ creatures. Raising it to 80 IS NOT EVEN CLOSE to what it needs at base

(for the record I do want it to keep Grass/Flying this time)

Oh and because I'm a maniac I gotta do typing predictions for evos

BROWT - If it doesn't keep Grass/Flying like Rowlet, I could see Fighting based solely on vibes

POMBON - Call me crazy but I'm feeling Fire/Ground with substantial speed by the end

GECQUA - Water/Psychic feels right here (Poison?)

yeah that hadn't dropped at the time I posted this lol, that's exciting though

I am so glad we're not going to be trapped in the dorkiest, least adult looking child protagonists in the universe this time lol

Looks like we're park rangers, almost

More than anything I am most glad the release is 2027 so that this thing sits in the oven as long as humanly possible following the disastrous reception of Gen 9 despite it having a great plotline. Please make sure it's the best it can be, and THEN release. Might be naive but also please no gimmicks

Overall thoughts:
IT SEEMS TO ACTUALLY RUN THIS TIME
Style looks good! I grew up on Hoenn and am more than willing to return to the tropics, looks like Diving is coming back too. That will be very fun.
Starters... ok, so none of them is surging out as my choice, but they look very good. Enjoy all 3.

I was ok with Gen 7 but once we hit Gen 8 the biped starters felt... so off to me. Skeledirge was an incredible breath of fresh air and I live for designs that feel truly monstrous like that. Would also be up for a unique type combo but we won't get that revealed immediately anyway

Crazy to think we might be in for a new generation of Pokemon announced tomorrow, but that's where things stand...

Above all else, please just have more of an art style and run smoothly. Doesn't need to look phenomenal, just needs to look clean. (And the more animal-like starters the better)

One of these days I'll make a map for our game, get started on the area, and finish it without having discovered a single deficiency or error in the set

Yep. Totally happening

As someone who hadn't seen Lanturn coming and predicted Mantine, the only other flying type I thought you would go for is Skarmory, so it was a nice surprise to see that mentality confirmed lol. Plus it's a fun callback to your Rescue Team LP unintentionally, that's an important early boss after all

What do you think reparations for... basically everything we as a country have caused our people and the world between 2016-20 and 25-now, will look like? Where's the "starting point" for that?

You do not develop this mentality without carrying an oppressively strong hatred of your own existence and everything other human being around you, good god. Someone get this man a fucking therapist

3... is brutal, I'm stuck between handing it to Ocarina, Skyward, and Minish Cap... so I'll just say all of them have sat with me for very different reasons. Ocarina connected with me at the best time, Skyward sold me on dungeon designs, Minish was maximum vibes & I quite enjoy alternate antagonists

2. Gotta hand it to Link's Awakening, an extremely important game to my teenage years. I had never thought about the world of a game and my connection directly to it before then. *The moment* in the Face Shrine was so critical and I love Koholint as a world so much, and such a wonderfully goofy game

I'm not a bandwagon person, but for Zelda... yeah.

1. A Link Between Worlds, my beloved. What starts as a tribute to LTTP quickly shifts perspective and rewards your puzzlesolving brain so, so rapidly. Great music, INCREDIBLE dungeons, and the only Zelda I'll ever 100% complete more than one time

Blue Prince (Steam) is $16.24 on Fanatical w/ code OMENVIP buff.ly/o1zFa3J #ad

Deck playable

also on PS+ Extra/Game Pass Premium

Crazy walking away from this form having not listed a single Kanto starter despite FRLG being my second game and enjoying it a lot...

We thought we were embarking on a normal Blue Prince run tonight and stumbled upon the fattest lore dump of all time thanks to a random choice of an archived Pump Room and god damn it was magical

Edmund McMillen game moment
I expect no less from the creator of MeatBoy and Binding of Isaac and FINGERED! lmao

she follows me here, I don't post about my followers without mentioning them by name lol. And she's giving me visual feedback on these anyway, I'm referring to when people get their hands on this eventually

The worst part of gamedev is having no idea whether people will actually notice the work you put into menus or just act like it's the same as before / not acknowledge it lmao

Just casually dropping this down here for peoples' benefit... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...