Recent content by Esserise

1. Yes 2. We really shouldn’t assume anything about what will ultimately be available in Champions. 3. That’s as much as we know right now, and even in regards to IVs, we don’t yet have a clear picture of what’s changed. 4. None have been revealed. 5. In Champions or in Z-A? Either way we...

Well, it is only idle speculation on my end. I have no idea if that was a factor in the process for Mega Greninja or not, I just know it’s what resulted in that Eeveelution being scrapped. For all we know, upside-down Greninja might’ve been their very first idea, or maybe it was part of a slate...

I can’t think of any specific examples off the top of my head but I feel like it’s kind of a common ninja trope to be able to hang from the ceiling through some means or another. So I think it’s that + the sticky frogs thing. I do wonder if maybe GF’s artists might have been forced to come up...

I may be a filthy dirty leak freak who huffs spoilers like gasoline fumes, but I really don’t think it’s that hard to be considerate of people who aren’t. Unfortunately YouTube is particularly bad for this since spoilers in the thumbnail and title = clicks, and clout-chasers always want to be...

In that case, then as you noted you can always wait, but that’d be true of any game. Both MKW and Z-A have Switch 2 bundles if I recall correctly, so I think it really does come down to whichever one you think you’ll have more fun with. That’s fundamentally what games are for, so I’d argue that...

Probably, but also, just looking at it, I’m not really sure what other type it would be without being equally as nebulous. Water? I guess if you’re thinking that “crab” = “marine animal,” but that isn’t always the case. Ground? That would be just about as vibes-based for Klawf as Rock is...

What part of this situation exactly are you asking for opinions on? Whether you should buy Z-A? Or how you should manage your friendships? To be clear, I’m not saying this with any hostility or judgment toward you. Rather, I’m trying to cut to the core of the situation. Are you looking to the...

I can see where they’re coming from too, it’s just that “where they’re coming from” is a paranoid and irrational fear and disdain of any ideas or ways of life that exist outside of their own insular delusions, coupled with a complete and total ignorance as to how the world actually works, so...

The exact statement Serebii’s site is “Alas, I was unable to find a Shiny Pokémon in it but have a third-hand account of it. Unfortunately I can’t confirm first hand if there are sparkles or sound but word is that we may be very happy.” That reads to me more as him being unable to say due to a...

This is just an aside, but I don’t think they ever marketed Legends: Arceus this way at all. Like Bakugames said, I don’t think this issue is causally linked to Shiny Pokémon in particular. Take USUM for example. The game has three distinct battle facilities, and a minigame to help grind BP...

If we take “it’s a video game” to its logical extreme, then everything begins to break down. Why can’t infinite Arceus spawn in the wild on Route 4? Why can’t the professor offer you a choice between Kubfu, Darkrai, and Scream Tail? There is, strictly speaking, no reason why Game Freak couldn’t...

It’s not really a matter of them “not being able to figure it out,” given that there already are Pokémon that can evolve into different forms. While I’m really not a fan of it either, it’s clearly a deliberate choice to have regional forms work as they do. Only if you’re operating under the...

Oh I know, but I was trying to use the term a bit loosely because I do think the colloquial definition of generation is still demonstrably relevant to Game Freak’s procedure to at least some extent — while they clearly don’t consider hardware itself to be a limiting factor, and are even willing...

On a similar note, I had to pop back into Alpha Sapphire for something yesterday after not having played any of the Gen 6 games for several years, and the clunkiness of the PC having three separate functions — Withdraw Pokémon, Deposit Pokémon, and Organize Boxes (which just cuts to the chase...

I kind of feel like, ever since LGPE, “generations” have become a less useful concept in the context of transferring. Starting from that point, mid-generation games have gotten a lot more experimental and a lot less beholden to iterating on the base pair. That’s only gotten more pronounced with...