Mystery Dungeon Explorers: Am I a joke to you?GOAT Spinoff and it's not even close.
Seriously, can we appreciate just how good Stadium 2 was?
But Stadium 2 is a very close second, I think.
Mystery Dungeon Explorers: Am I a joke to you?GOAT Spinoff and it's not even close.
Seriously, can we appreciate just how good Stadium 2 was?
That's... not really the same thing, no. I'm not saying anything against the Battle Frontier as a thing, I'm saying it doesn't support an entire full price game on its own.That kind of thinking is probably why the Battle Frontier was removed. There simply wasn’t enough player fan base for it, and the reception of being dedicated battle simulator really hurt it in the end since most players were not hardcore battlers, and did not want to dedicate hours for learning.
Well, I can tell you why I dislike PBR.Wait, PBR is heavily disliked? I had a ton of fun with that game!
Having barely played Stadium at friends', the fact that I could play Pokémon on a TV screen blew my mind. Each Colosseum has a distinct identity with fun challenges (especially fond of the one where you and your opponent pool your Pokémon and you get random ones).
The animations were kinda cool, as well! They should base the in-game animations off of those, even if you could massively improve them.
All in all, I'm still wishing for a Stadium 3/PBR 2 even today.
Go tell that to 90% of the people who say ORAS is worse than Emerald.That's... not really the same thing, no. I'm not saying anything against the Battle Frontier as a thing, I'm saying it doesn't support an entire full price game on its own.
Actually 6 passes, you can unlock more, but compared to pretty much all mons minus mythicals and big dog legendaries... yeah, that's another point for Stadium.Unlike in Stadium and Stadium 2, your rental team is rather limited to 2 rental passes. So unless you have the DS games with trained Pokemon, the game will get state pretty fast.
Being able to play a Pokemon game without being a literal kid was so good...- Character customization! PBR was way ahead of the main series games with this feature. Another interesting thing about it was how you could sort of choose the age for your character, IIRC they had three different "models" for both genders, with some being notably older. You could also decide on what your trainer should say before and after battle, which has never been possible in the main series games at all.
Let's not forget Pokemon Snap. That game was such a good way of taking what people like about Pokemon(the pokemon) and doing something different with them.Mystery Dungeon Explorers: Am I a joke to you?
But Stadium 2 is a very close second, I think.
Yesss, you're so right! I particularly enjoy the ones from RSE and DPPt for some reason. RSE probably due to nostalgia talking but DPPt because ironically the agonising slowness of those games unintentionally contributed to the build up of anticipation before a level up as the bar took so darn long to move forward that it really highlighted the sweet release of progressing to the next level.I know it's a strange small thing, but watching the experience bar fill up into a level up.
Similarly, the HP bar going down slowly for those "Is it gonna kill!?" moments.Yesss, you're so right! I particularly enjoy the ones from RSE and DPPt for some reason. RSE probably due to nostalgia talking but DPPt because ironically the agonising slowness of those games actually contributed to the build up of anticipation before a level up as the bar took so darn long to move forward that it really highlighted the sweet release of progressing to the next level.
It's also fun to watch the Exp. Bar go crazy when you use a low level Pokemon against a higher level or a Exp. Candy L/XL.I know it's a strange small thing, but watching the experience bar fill up into a level up.
That feeling when:Similarly, the HP bar going down slowly for those "Is it gonna kill!?" moments.
iirc that minccino is in her lab in BW1 and in bW2 it's a cinccino, so it probably is hersI like that Juniper uses a Cinccino in the intro of B2/W2. It's a small detail, but this Cinccino could very well be the evolved form of the Minccino she used in the opening of the original BW.
My only minor criticism was that Misdreavus was your only option for a Ghost type for the entire game. Wanted a Ghost type but did not like Misdreavus? You are out of luck.
I agreeI absolutely love that Guzma is a Bug-type trainer.
Guzma's whole deal is that he and his team are underdogs. They're the people who the Island Challenge left behind. The rejects. The "people who were told they had no future". Which type is widely considered to be the weakest type? Which type is so often associated with pathetic Pokemon that aren't expected to be used past the early game?
The Bug type.
In that case shouldn't he have been Grass? 5 weaknesses (typing with Rock) & resisted by 7 Types (the most).But also another part of me just goes "should have been the rock or ice type". I think the ice type is the only one in-universe to have a type specialist (Wulfric, iirc) go "yeah we have like a million weaknesses but!"