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Little things you like about Pokémon
- Thread starter Kurona
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Cool thoughts, but I actually prefer the HG/SS version in this case. While the HG/SS soundtrack was a bit hit or miss on the whole, I think the Dark Cave/Ice Path track is among the ones they changed for the better. I think the icy bell sounds just make the atmosphere better for the Ice Path. While it sounds a bit happier than the original, I wouldn't say it is too happy (unlike certain other tracks... looking at you Goldenrod, way to ruin one of the best tracks from the originals). Still, the original track for Dark Cave/Ice Path has its charm and I think it gives a more somber atmosphere, which I also like. That said, maybe my opinion will change if I get around to playing through Crystal again now that I have it on the 3DS.
I forgot about the puzzles. I remember the first time I got to Ice Path and made it through the first room, arriving at the part with the Strength puzzle... only to realize I hadn't brought a Strength user with me! Which meant I had to go back outside again...
As for the ice puzzles, one thing I remember from my childhood is this: a friend of mine had so much trouble with them that he had to ask his big sister for help with completing them! She was apparently much better at those types of puzzles. Personally, I always managed to complete them on my own IIRC, they gave me a bit of trouble for sure but they weren't impossible to solve.
Mostly echoing what R_N said, I don't think I ever noticed this until reading your post. Or if I did see it in the games, I guess I either didn't think of it or just thought it was because of the Sky Drop glitch. Don't remember the teams I used for the PWT main tournaments, but I know for sure that none of them featured Sky Drop.
Not sure if my opinion counts here though since I didn't exactly play B2/W2 growing up, they were released when I was in my early 20s.
Epic. This is yet another reason as for why I love Tinkaton.
I thought about saying something new for the thread as well... but it is hard since I haven't played any Pokémon games in over a month.
Anyway, one thing I came up with is this: I like when other video games reference Pokémon, as long as it is done in a good way. One of my favorite Switch games is NEO: The World Ends With You, and it has one obvious Pokémon reference. In the game, there's a phone game named FantasyGo, which some of the main characters play. It seems to work the same way as Pokémon Go, but it features monsters from the Final Fantasy series instead of Pokémon. For those that don't know, both Final Fantasy and TWEWY are made by Square Enix. Either way, I thought it was really fun reference when I played the game.
There's also one thing I noticed about the music in the game. The beginning of Rockin' Rockin' is very similar to the beginning of Pyrite Town from the Orre games.
Probably just a big coincidence, but I think it is really cool.
The World Ends With You and Pokemon do share some similar songs/beats, my guess is that it's from shared music hardware used.
So despite being, well, no getting around it, a mess
I legitimately like Tera Raids.
I think enough about it works such that I don't mind doing a bunch of them, either for fun or to build up some cash. I actually look forward to every 7* Raid, even if they can vary wildly in enjoyability, because it's interesting to see what they bring to the table and how the community comes together to figure out the best ways to handle it both online and solo.
The AI, while scattershot, has relatively competent Pokemon that generally work in your favor. The shield is significantly more possible to deal with without feeling like a total pain every single time it shows up. The fact the timer works differently solo is such a boon for you.
Compared to SWSH raids where (with the exception of the Den Exploration mode, which functioned differently) I was so disinterested I barely did any of them, much less any of the event ones (and saw like no real discussion of them outside the Mewtwo & Zeraora raids), for various reasons better suited to the other thread.
Tera raids are like the prime example of "SV are a complete mess of a game that I love it and cannot stop playing" sentiments
e: In general it is nice that GameFreak clearly saw the issues people had with SWSH raids and worked to rectify them in SV.
I legitimately like Tera Raids.
I think enough about it works such that I don't mind doing a bunch of them, either for fun or to build up some cash. I actually look forward to every 7* Raid, even if they can vary wildly in enjoyability, because it's interesting to see what they bring to the table and how the community comes together to figure out the best ways to handle it both online and solo.
The AI, while scattershot, has relatively competent Pokemon that generally work in your favor. The shield is significantly more possible to deal with without feeling like a total pain every single time it shows up. The fact the timer works differently solo is such a boon for you.
Compared to SWSH raids where (with the exception of the Den Exploration mode, which functioned differently) I was so disinterested I barely did any of them, much less any of the event ones (and saw like no real discussion of them outside the Mewtwo & Zeraora raids), for various reasons better suited to the other thread.
Tera raids are like the prime example of "SV are a complete mess of a game that I love it and cannot stop playing" sentiments
e: In general it is nice that GameFreak clearly saw the issues people had with SWSH raids and worked to rectify them in SV.
If only now they would change the penalty for "bringing a useless mon" to not punish the entire group, they'd be (almost) perfect.
As is, they kinda created a bad "meta" where as you probably are familiar with, people will just dodge lobbies as soon as someone with a "non-meta" pokemon locks in, and I do understand them as expecially with the more difficult ones, having a deadweight mon that will just reduce your timer is just a waste of time.
I never see someone drop out of my lobbies so I actually haven't seen that show up.
That said it's kind of unfortunate but there's really no way to prevent that unless everyone had their own specific timer. Which I guess would be interesting but feels like it would need a full rebalancing again and they probably like the idea of everyone putting in effort equally. Maybe next gen's raids.
Oh and one thing I do like is that different Pokemon seem to have different behaviors. not just the 7* raids which obviously have very customized behaviors, but 5* & 6* too (4* likely also have them but it's 4*s those are whatever). They'll throw up shields differently, do their own actions at certain points during their HP or Timer bar, or favor certain actions over others even across similar Pokemon (Glimmora seems to love stealing tera charge compared to other Pokemon in my experience). I assume they probably just assigned a personality type or only did it to some of the raids but not all of them, but it helps add extra variety.
I only just realized today how Clawitzer is pronounced (like “howitzer”). The game has been out for a decade.
Curious, how were you previously pronouncing it?
Yeah I mean it took me a few years to make the howitzer connection but that discovery didn't change my pronunciation at all
QuentinQuonce
formerly green_typhlosion
Wait which are the new high quality ones?
The one with less saturated colors; in this case it's the Diglett that still has parts of the Japanese guidebook not edited out
Stress on the second syllable.
That's awesome
So, who would the Crobat Master have been? Kilmer? Clooney? Bale? Personally I would chosen Conroy.
Cla WIT zer?
Conroy is the obvious choice but you could also go with the underrated Diedrich Bader (voice of Batman in Batman: Brave and the Bold).
(Bold might not have the mature legacy of TAS but it had way more identity than whatever The Batman (2004 TV series) was trying to do lmao (granted Rino Romano was a fine voice, but that was perhaps the most wonderbread / shallow superhero show I've seen in my life that just could not make up its mind on what it wanted to be or where to go with its characters outside Hugo Strange)