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gorematchala · 1 year
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With a little distance from the release of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, I feel like I can give a fair review without honeymooning it too much. My review of Pokémon Violet is that Breath of the Wild ruined video games.
My real objective stance on the game is that obviously it needed more time, but for what it is, the first run through the game is a very enjoyable experience. All the character and story stuff is really great, and this generation of Pokémon is honestly one of my favorites, and part of that is because their stats are all off the goop fucking insane. (except Spidops)
But my issue now is in the postgame. To be clear, everyone has been saying pokemon has no postgame since XY. This is a common whiny baby complaint from people who dont play other games. To date I have played 520 hours of Pokémon Shield, and almost 200 hours of PLA simply because I enjoy playing those games and hanging out with my little guys. This time around is a little different though.
The issue here is a problem with open world games that I've talked about in previous posts. Open world games are so gigantic that they cannot be curated the way a linear game can be. PLA escaped the open world curse by having multiple Monster Hunter Rise sized maps that feel like they were built more deliberately, and stay fresh for longer cuz when you get sick of one you can just move to another. There are 5 of them total. There's one big Paldea. So whats the issue with one big map vs a few little ones? Well the Paldea map is very impressive for its scale, and I do like it a lot, but the problem with big maps is that theres almost always nothing in them. They become so large that the only thing to do in them is see everything. So once you've seen everything there's nothing left to do. Pokémon held my attention for longer just by having Pokémon in the big map to find, but now that I've found them all traversing the map is tedious. And part of that is that Miraidon doesnt feel as good to control as the Noble Pokémon from PLA.
So with no map to explore, no items to find, no pokemon to track down, youre left with a few options. The Ace tournament, shiny hunting, or raids.
The Ace tournament is not difficult and it takes too long to be worth the money because you cant turn animations off. But the money would just be used to train Pokémon that I would only really need for raiding. Which we'll get to.
Shiny hunting requires too much attention because of the lack of a visual or sound effect. As a result it can be a little stressful, where in PLA I've found like actually 20 shinies in the past month, and half of them appeared behind me. I only knew they were there cuz they kept sparkling at me until I heard them. The more realistic lighting (coupled with lighting bugs) also makes telling certain shinies apart even more difficult. The other day I thought I saw a shiny Lumineon but it ended up just being the sunset turning it yellowish. And example of how games with art styles, again like PLA, are always better. The textured models of the Pokémon look really really good, but just adding scale textures and stuff in PLA and Snap was good enough as well.
So then you're left with raids. I actually like the active time raid idea, but much like my stance on open world games being inherently worse than less open world games, I think that FFXIII is the only game that ever had good ATB, and thats because in that game you can cancel the bar to use moves early. Youre not beholden to the flow of time. But its fine the raids are fun, EXCEPT, people are so unbelievably unfathomably incompetent that the raids are actually incompletable most of the time. People will bring Azumarill, or Iron Hands, or Sylveon to every single raid no matter what type the boss is. I had a group join me for a water Tera type Toxapex, a water POISON type, and our team consisted of me, two Azumarills, and a Sylveon. I went through 4 groups of people before doing it alone with computers and beating it. And thats how every single encounter has played out. But it takes so much longer solo that it isn't worth doing. This is an entire mechanic of the game that I expected to keep me playing which has now actively stopped me from playing because people online are so bad at video games.
But I wouldn't be relying on raids for content if the game didn't have to be Pokémon of the Wild. Just like I'd still be playing Elden Ring if it wasnt Breath of the Souls, and Sonic Frontiers couldve maybe focused on its plot and animations more if it didnt need to be Breath of the Sonic.
So in conclusion Pokémon Violet is a very good game that I will never replay. I'm excited for DLC to come and add more Pokémon because I do like the game and I love my Skeledirge and my Slither Wing, but I think I'm gonna mostly just keep playing PLA whenever I have a hankering for Pokémon in the future. I think for an open world game this is one of the best I've played, but I also really hope BotW2 bombs so we can get normal games out of Nintendo and Sega again
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aurantia-ignis · 2 years
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And is life ever yours
Moon's newest job sounds simple. Escort a human and a rare pokemon to the Altar of the Sunne, protecting them from hunters and assassins.
So why is she beginning to feel like she has absolutely no idea what's going on?
--- Day 1: King’s Shield - Bodyguard/Assassin/Target ---
As far as job requests went, this was definitely one of the most dangerous ones Moon had ever taken.
Normally, she was assigned to deal with wild pokemon, or handle deliveries. Occasionally, she was sent on rescue missions. Once in a while, she had to threaten and subdue bandits and robbers.
This time, however, Moon was beginning to wonder if she should ask for extra danger money. Within a single day, she had already fought three battles with armed hunters intent on capturing her client.
This was the fourth.
Manu, her decidueye, crashed to the ground as the lurantis struck him with another charged leaf blade. To the left, the castform tried to spew fire at him. Goldie grabbed it by the head and smashed it into a tree. The castform screeched, then fell still.
Now it was just the lurantis, Goldie, and Star.
"Goldie, stop it moving! Star, get ready!"
Obediently, her kommo-o sprang towards the lurantis. Behind him, her toxapex raised her front two arms threateningly.
"Leaf blade! Leaf blade!" shrieked the other trainer. She tried to rush towards her fainted castform, fumbling with her bag. In a flash, Moon blocked her path.
"I'm not letting you heal it," she said, pointing a razor-sharp dagger at her face. "Drop the bag."
As expected, the dark-haired woman had no combat skills herself, and could only glare helplessly as she obeyed. Moon lifted the bag with one hand, keeping the dagger trained on her target.
She smirked. There were a variety of healing potions, but no antidotes or full heals.
Amateur.
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--- Here it is, my extremely self-indulgent semi-realistic historical fantasy pokemon AU. I must warn any readers that that I’m still in the middle of writing it....... so there’s a very high chance I won’t be able to finish each chapter on time 8′D But we’ll see how it goes hahahahahaha
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Belly Drum Sweeper Ability: Ice Face (Has a protective barrier that protects against Physical Attacks once and will change form to Noice Face after breaking. Setting Hail or being sent out during hail will restore the Ice Face)   Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -Sp Atk) Item: Sitrus Berry (Restores 25% of the holder’s HP once they reach 50% HP or lower) Moves: Icicle Crash - Breed Liquidation - TR Zen Headbutt- TR Belly Drum - Breed EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Spe, 4 Sp Def I really, really hated Eiscue when I first saw it. Everything below the head is a realistic penguin and the head is an actual square. Everything about it seemed off. But when I saw it in-game it quickly started to grow on me. When it attacks in Ice Face form it nearly loses its balance due to being so top-heavy! It’s adorable. And the expression on Noice’s face is too goddamn endearing. This whole Pokemon is bizarre. Its unique Ability, Ice Face, works similarly to Mimikyu’s Disguise, but only with Physical Attacks. Eiscue can take a single Physical hit which then changes it to Noice form. However, Eiscue’s Noice form actually has different stats than its Ice Face form. Most notably 130 SPEED. If you’re up against a Physical Pokemon you’re practically guaranteed a free turn to Belly Drum up, heal back some HP with your Sitrus Berry, and if they were foolish enough to hit you now you’re rocking insane Attack and Speed.  Bring Liquidation for Fire types, and Zen Headbutt for Toxapex and Fighting types and you’re just about set. 
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Let’s Talk About Pokemon - Dracovish
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882: Dracovish
Our second to last Fossilmon takes the previous Fossilized Drake and sticks it together with the “Fossilized Fish”, aka, a Dunkleosteus. A HUGE fish with one hell of a bite. Which is MAYHAPS a little bittersweet that yet another extinct creature I've been really wanting to see get represented in Pokemon gets lumped into this whole mix-and-match-your-dinosaur gimmick. It's fun that it's there, but I'm gonna be hoping we can form a whole “Dunklovish” one of these days.
And the Vish half is almost just as cute as Zolt! It more or less is just the shape of a Dunkleosteus's skull, with some lovable fishy eyeballs and adorably chubby cheeks. And how the Dunk's bony-lookin teeth more or less look like a beak on Vish here. For being a big-time predator of its time, Vish is cute!
The way it gets attached to the Drake half is quite peculiar though. As I said a couple reviews ago, a poor plesiosaur got its head attached to its tail rather than its neck back in the proverbial Skeleton War. This mistake is probably what inspired Dracovish in particular, with the poor thing getting its head stuck onto Drake's tail as if it were a neck. Which is easily one of the more comical positions to be in for these Fossil Freaks. We even get a better look at the cartoony “meat bisection” on its bottom. Which of course, the “Realistic Pokemon” fanartists are having fun translating it into a gory mess.
Of course, as far as Cara is concerned, Dracovish was an apex predator on the land during its time. Despite how it can't breath out of water. This being supposedly why it went extinct. Oh silly Dracovish! Growing legs too quickly, I see!
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And of course, I gotta at least give a passing mention to the hilarity that is how Dracovish and jumped up to being one of the better new Pokemon introduced this Gen on the competitive scene. Its combination of Strong Jaw, STAB, and Fishious Rend doubling in power if Dracovish moves first is so god dang powerful, it's capable of one-hit-KOing the defensive terror that is Toxapex despite the type disadvantage. I don't really care about the metagame of just about any game that isn't League of Legends, but I always find it hilarious when an unassuming or weird creature/character like Dracovish is capable of wrecking an old meta's top tier picks like this. Like how Pichu of all things was one of the best characters in Smash Ultimate for a while.
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Personal Score: 9/10
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big-bad-skull-boss · 5 years
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James! if you could have a pokemon team, what pokemon would you have on it
Ooh, thanks for this! I can have a lot of fun with it.
Kanto: Alakazam, Machamp, Blastoise, Golem, Pinsir, Scizor
Johto: Meganium, Feraligatr, Typhlosion, Ariados, Fearow, Heracross
Hoenn: Dusclops, Tropius, Masquerain, Swampert, Ninjask/Shedinja, Hariyama
Sinnoh: Torterra, Staraptor, Spiritomb, Vespiquen, Roserade, Garchomp/Bastiodon
Unova (BW): Cryogonal/Vanilluxe, Scolipede, Serperior, Zekrom/Reshiram, Ferrothorn, Chandelure
Unova (BW2): Azumarill (huge power op), Arcanine, Magnezone, Stoutland, Gigalith, Crustle/Galvantula
Kalos: Simipour/Simisage/Simisear, Stunfisk, Furfrou, Aegislash, Lapras, Venusaur (Mega)
Alola: Golisopod, Decidueye, Incineroar, Cutiefly (ribombee’s design is awful), Toxapex (never used one before but I wanna), Volcarona/Araquanid
If I had to have a team that would revolve around a more “realistic” scenario (eg: the anime) and every Pokemon was available (a dream team), it would be:
Wimpod (later Golisopod), Joltik (later Galvantula), Lycanroc/Herdier, Venipede, (Later Scolipede), Masquerain, Tropius/Staraptor
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incaseofart · 7 years
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I was so happy with the Mareanie I wanted to post it by itself as well! In my draft this past weekend Mareanie (for evolving into Toxapex GX realistically) was a star player! So I wanted to draw it :)
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pokemocs · 7 years
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Poké MOCs #43 - Toxapex
Usual link to the instructions for this and the other 42
Toxapex! Scourge of OU! The tankiest tank who ever tanked! Toxapex is one of the best new pokemon out of Gen 7, and certainly the best non-legendary or Ultra Beast. Crazy defence stats, the Regenerator ability and a great typing all contribute to toxapex's success, though it's a shame its unique ability (Merciless) and move (Baneful Bunker) aren't more viable.
If you've been reading these posts you might have seen toxapex on my list for a while. I built one version that was a lot larger than this one which consisted only of the shell.arms without the top dome and body. After that, I realised that toxapex is a lot smaller than I thought, and I also found it difficult trying to match scales to finish the whole thing off. So I took the basic design idea (which you can also see in Mega Gardevoir) and shrunk it. And here we are!
Toxapex's colour palette doesn't lend itself well to Lego, though. I did the best I could with the colours available, but it's just ever so slightly off even with these relatively rare colour choices. For that reason, I doubt it's a realistic model to build IRL, though I haven't checked yet!
Next up: ??? (maybe I'll finish Celesteela)
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shinonart · 6 years
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POKEDDEX Your Choice! DAY 17 - Water Type: Toxapex
After the past polls Toxapex remained as the only water type so it filled this slot! It's a pretty interesting design, very unique in its own way. I based this one on mostly three different creatures: mimic octopus for its amazing ability to mimic things and this one mimics the crown-of-thorns-starfish, and also cockatoo octopus
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