Recent content by Lontra Assassina

Forgot to comment on this but it would be really funny if Z-A had a rudimentary PvP mode and it actually got a spot on Worlds for a few years

I'm actually pretty frustrated at how bad the marketing team has been showing off the new battle system. I can understand not wanting to bog trailers down with technical explanations, but c'mon! This is the hot new thing about the game! You have moves like Sandstorm and Whirlpool having a...

Bold of you to assume GF ever thinks about Colosseum

Give this girl a Ludicolo or we riot

Champions' approach to battle animations is pretty clearly based on SwSh and BDSP, but they have added a few extra flourishes: in the announcement trailer (1:07), we can see a little bit of follow-through (basically, overshooting an action because of inertia) after Dondozo uses Liquidation...

Dunno if this was posted already, but the Champions website confirmed that VP can't be purchased with money! The monetization will probably be restricted to outfits and things like that.

My predictions for the Presents (outside of the obvious mobile stuff) would be: -Release date for Pokémon XD on Switch Online (either August or September); -Announcement of a Switch 2 performance patch for either SwSh or PLA dropping before Legends Z-A. PLA deserves it more imo, but SwSh is...

From my understanding, the previous director has left the team after mentoring the new staff responsible for the game, which probably means the game is at a "finished" state and they're getting ready for future updates. Could be wrong tho!

Interestingly, this means we could see a release (or at least, an open beta) of Champions way sooner than expected.

Just speculating but I'd assume this is Unreal Engine 5, which gives devs a "shortcut" for realistic visuals Also this looks like a soulslike? Which tend to be far more linear than the recent Pokémon games, so they can give more attention to each individual area

I knew it was wishful thinking of my part but man, I really hoped they'd at least redo the textures so they'll actually tile seamlessly. There goes my hope of PLA with better clothing textures lol

Honestly, based???

I usually groan at the idea of turn-based combat series moving into action combat, but honestly? I'm pretty okay with, or excited even, at the idea of PLZA (and gen 10 maybe) going in that direction. Mainly because: -Champions exists now; -The combat in ZA seems to be able to preserve the...

...so a Switch 1?

Yeah, the ghost cartridges were already a thing with the original Switch, they just changed the branding. Gotta say tho, Squeenix are out of their minds to not include a 11GB game on a regular cartridge.