I don't get why they keep trying to push multiplayer since aside from Gen 6 it has always felt so half baked or is pure dog shit on a fundamental level like festival plaza was.
Festival Plaza was awful. It was big, confusing, and really, really gimmicky. It was nothing some nice looking menus couldn't have done.
Yep, this is how I feel. I'll revisit the old games when I feel the itch to do so, but I have no interest in any new Pokemon games further if this is what it's gonna be from now on.
I actually liked Joint Avenue. I also loved the "Magnemite coil" system many people used to get others to visit their games.
The game in general kind of feels like that at points, as even by Game Freak's standards SWSH has more bugs and exploits than normal. They didn't even program the nicknaming censors correctly ffs (if you put a regular word in front of a bad one you can name your mons just about any crude thing that comes to mind). They also didn't safeguard against clock manipulation like they always did before so you can exploit the weather and raid systems to hell and back.
Well, to be more fair to GF they do have protections against clock manipulation, it's just for some reason those protections cease to work when you are in a lobby looking for more people for max raids. That said, most Pokemon games that have some incentive to glitch the clock have also had protections against people changing the time and have had people exploit some glitch to get around it. So this is more of a "GF still hasn't figured out to stop this behavior" thing then a sudden bout of laziness.
Ah yes, I remember the gender bending Marill glitch
Well, if you really think about it, mental illnesses could be considered glitches in the brain's programming. So, they wouldn't be entirely off with that implication. Fetishes though, I'm not sure where they would fall.
There's an interesting story behind that - it appears that they copy-pasted Cleffa's data when encoding Azurill, making it the only pokemon to have a different gender ratio than its evolution. It's also the only pokemon to have a harder catch rate than its evo, and it could also explain why it's Normal instead of Water.
If anything it makes past games look, off. Here you are, going head to head against the strongest, most notable trainer of an entire region, yet there's literally nobody else there. Considering how battling is a universal concept one would think there's be grandstands for the big matches like that everywhere. Though it was always like that in the anime so, guess that made up for it...?
This tbh.
