Recent content by CryoGyro

Most Pokemon bosses are not very good bosses, and that has little to do with how their teams match people's notion of 'good' Pokemon sets. A single player RPG and competitive PvP are as different as contexts can get. In an RPG meant to get people acquainted with the mechanics and possibilities...

I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo is taking a two-pronged approach over the next few years, more so than a usual launch year; the great tech race in video games is long over, people have their Switch 1s and are still happy with them, and 2 is deliberately premium, so they aren't as antsy to...

Tauros is still absolutely a beast, why wouldn't it be?. The big three all just have the small issue of requiring the premium coverage TMs.

Even calling Pachirisu 'defensive' might be a stretch going by its raw stats, but it's a deceptively solid Pokemon in the context of DPP. You've probably noticed when battling it that it's miles ahead of most Pokemon at Valley Windworks in bulk and Speed; the Eterna Forest Lass's Pachirisu kills...

Avoidable enemies is a pretty inevitable "issue" in games that give you any amount of freedom, but you could definitely argue Silksong doesn't reward you enough for fighting them; shards are a self-justifying system of use the weapon to fuel the weapon, and rosaries are for combat-irrelevant...

Jimothy Cool has some of the best educational Pokemon videos on YouTube, and fabricated replays (that make their fabrication no secret) are a large part of that, helping illustrate whatever concept is being described. In general, his stuff puts entry level Smogon resources to shame; I encourage...

clauncher is also a gun, and what is bug backwards? yea that's right

At that rate, be bolder like with DK and overhaul the eyes entirely. Looks like he got a toothpick or stick of plastic between em.

My run is still ongoing, but I've executed the strategy and want to share my results ASAP. Turns out you can only buy X items from Veilstone Dept Store, so I played Eevee as normal until that point. After training it up some while holding Soothe Bell to test against Rival 3, it entered Veilstone...

I'm done now, personally. Early on I was hoping the designers were taking a more deliberate approach to cards than the core game, but it's become clear they have just as much contempt for the restrictions the rules impose and any strategy that isn't slamming big ex attackers into each other. One...

I've enjoyed killing time by reading these threads at school or work for a couple years now and want to give back. I've rolled Noctowl, Umbreon, Gliscor, and Mantine for Platinum. I have a few questions: What is our policy for raising friendship evolutions? In my experience trying Budew, it's...

I forgot the Gastly line wasn't given decent Special Defense. However, my point was moreso that it's a fairly common enemy Pokemon Ground-types can't hit without very specific moves. My brain got ahead of my fingers, I typed Haunter when I meant Gastly. Yes, you can easily get a functional move...

FRLG doesn't even improve much from a game design lens, in fact removing much of Gen 1 Kanto's mechanical depth: Kanto's inherent design mean Psychic-types and special attackers in general as overpowered as before. Psychic is the only busted TM from Gen 1 that wasn't replaced, and Dark and...

I think the problem is 'open world' doesn't do much for a game in the long term, and especially not within Nintendo's philosophies. One of the big pluses is that you're, well, building a world to live in and learn about. But if there's one thing Mario directors loathe, it's continuity. We're...

Sharing thoughts via Disocrd caps on the Treehouse Metroid Prime 4 gameplay. I'm increasingly concerned they're taking cues from the wrong places in the past trilogy. Prime is not about 'cinema' and shooting aliens in arenas. It's about exploring a world.