Recent content by Suspicious Derivative

Let's see here. For me, Z-A is the best Pokémon game since OR/AS. It is my favorite Pokémon game on the Switch and my fifth favorite Pokémon game on the whole. I think Z-A is much better than Legends: Arceus. Those two games are total opposites for me, and I hope future Legends games will...

An Alpha Charizard as a Mystery Gift is a bit random... unless it is a hint towards Mega Charizard Z appearing in the DLC? I got the gift Charizard, not sure if I'll use it for anything though. Nice to see that the Hoenn starters are confirmed to be coming back! ...but their Mega Stones are...

Here are the details for the in-game teams I used in Legends: Z-A. Before I started playing the game, I had decided on three Pokémon that I was going to use, but not more. I wasn’t sure if I should use just one team or two. I decided to wait until I had started on the game and see how I should...

I did not expect Lucario to get a second Mega, but I guess it makes sense since it is a popular Pokémon. Design-wise, I think it looks a lot more different compared to regular Lucario than the regular Mega Lucario. Either way, I'm personally happy about it since I have trained a regular Mega...

Thanks for bumping this thread. My overall favorites and least favorites haven’t changed since my last post in this thread (five years ago!), but I might as well make a “Switch Edition” of this, because why not? Here we go! Least favorite things about my favorite Pokémon game on the Switch...

Here’s my review of Legends: Z-A. I wanted to get this done earlier, but for various reasons, it didn’t happen until now. I started playing the game on October 16th and I beat the main story on November 4th. It took me around 43 hours of playtime. I played slowly as usual, doing a lot of side...

Decided to make a slight update now that I have played through Z-A. It isn't my top favorite Pokémon game, but I still rank it very high. I decided to make a top 10 since I didn't do that in my last post. It looks like this: 1-2. B/W, B2/W2 3. X/Y 4. OR/AS 5. Legends: Z-A 6. US/UM 7. Violet...

I tried online (Ranked battles) for the first time today. I don't have any properly trained Pokémon on Z-A (yet), so I just went with some members of my in-game teams. They have good(?) movesets and Natures, but they are not Hyper Trained or properly EV-trained. My team consisted of a Xerneas...

Pinsir in Gen 1, it doesn't learn a single Bug-type move. In fact, all damaging moves it learns are either Normal or Fighting, making it auto-walled by Ghost-types. Edit: Actually, now that I look a little closer, Seismic Toss can hit Ghost-types in Gen 1. Didn't know that before.

Great to get some news on the Mega Dimension DLC! It releases on December 10th. I think that's a great date because it is quite soon after the main game, but not too soon, which gives slow players like myself some extra time to continue with the base game. I think I should be able to complete...

Today, I finally beat the main game and saw the credits roll. It took a while as usual since I'm a slow player. I'm planning to write a long review with more in-depth thoughts on the game, but for now, let me just summarize my thoughts on the game with a picture: This game was so much fun! I...

I partly agree. When I play Pokémon, I mainly want some fun and entertainment, not a super hard challenge. But I don’t fully agree that the earlier generations were more challenging. My experience is that as long as you know the basic gameplay mechanics, all Pokémon games are generally easy. If...

Here’s a new half-unpopular opinion. Nowadays, it seems like the general opinion within the fandom is that Gen 5 is the best generation. Which I agree with, as it is my personal favorite. However, unlike the popular opinion that every generation after Gen 5 is bad and that Pokémon “went...

Decided to post here instead of in the Z-A thread since it is about a shiny and this thread was way too far down, almost on page 2! I found my first random shiny in Z-A today.

Here's a thing I randomly thought about thanks to the release of Z-A. I like how, starting with Gen 4 (or the DS era of Pokémon), the date which you caught or obtained a Pokémon can be seen on its summary screen. All thanks to the DS, 3DS and Switch having a built-in clock and calendar, which...