3D was always in the cards as soon as a handheld was powerful enough to reasonably support it. Pokémon fans (i.e. the people most responsible for reinforcing the steady decline in the franchise’s quality) were clamoring for 3D mainline games as early as Pokémon Stadium, which only got more pronounced as said fans got older. Gen V looking as good as it did was entirely a consequence of the DS’s longevity necessitating a second generation on the console.It'd never happen but if they went back to sprites everything would look so much better.
If the 3DS' marketing gimmic wasn't 3D we might still have sprites.
Crystal 251 might be up your alley. It's just base Crystal with added static encounters and optional gift Pokémon for the sole purpose of solo completing the Pokédex. You can get all three Johto starters via wild encounters, and Larvitar as early as Celadon, iirc.
Really enjoying the patch.
Slugma, right up until i tried to use it in a nuzlocke.
Crystal is at least equally fun as Yellow, I'd play the original first. It's not difficult unless you want it to be. I did a sort of challenge run last year to see how far I could get without any grinding or exploration, my only experience coming from going from point A to point B and fighting whatever I ran into, actively avoiding trainer fights. I beat the 3rd gym leader but stopped after that.
I like the Slugma line on principle because snails are some of my favorite animals, but man, Magcargo really sucks. Its stats suck, its typing sucks, its movepool's not that great either. Even before the power creep of the latest gens it was pretty bad. If Megas were actually balanced instead of a popularity contest, Magcargo would be one of the top contenders alongside mons like Ledian or Lumineon.Slugma, right up until i tried to use it in a nuzlocke.
I still really enjoy the slugma line's design, but they are absolutely trash when using them early in a playthrough. I'm fully convinced if Magcargo gets a regional variant they're going to make it part ice. I have no hope left for good regionals or modern mon, for the most part. Maybe they'll give it a good regional for once?
Dunno if it counts, but I used to consider Mew my favorite because "it was objectively the best one." I've never been one for favorites in general I could wake up tomorrow and have a new favorite, the only consistency in my favorites is that my favorites all tend to be from the same pool of ~50-odd designs but I felt like I needed to have one as a kid, so I'd always just say Mew.
oh god, tell me about it. I still like it, but I was so much more enthusiastic about it until I had to suffer through using it in Heart Gold. Never again, dear god. I shudder to think of how much worse it was in gens 2-3.
Mew's pretty bland, but then that's kind of the point, to be the "blank slate" that all other Pokemon evolved from (in the Darwinian sense, not Pokemon sense).
Glad to know I'm not the only one lol. I got a Wii before getting my 3DS, so it was PBR and PokePark that introduced me to Pokemon.
I just imagine Mew is using some telekinesis or manipulation of air for that, though I assume it's related to Transform in that Mew can just become any Pokémon and therefore have access to those moves without issue regardless if the Pokémon in front of it knows those moves at that moment.
Typically if I like a Pokémon, it takes a lot to "dethrone" it. I'm not into Lucario as much anymore like I was in the past, and honestly, I couldn't tell you why. I recognize he's cool and all, and the eighth movie helped a lot, but for some reason I'm just all "meh" about the line at this point.
I thought of some candidates, and I can feel myself instinctively liking them more as some sort of defense mechanism. I could never betray my guys by acknowledging this about them, or even by letting it be true.
That depends on what you value most in a Pokémon game.
