You know what, I failed to consider that last part when I made my post because I’ve accepted that it’s fine to put down a series and say “this installment isn’t for me”. I failed to account for the Pokemon adults who still buy plushies and don’t hide their power levels.
I think a part of the two is that ever since the 2010s without awful things have gotten, people have begin to sort of retreat into established media for escapism and Pokemon is incredibly good about that.
It's been forever since I read about cut content and leaks about older gens, what was the original pitch?
SM was originally going to be open world. It had its own form of the past paradox Pokemon through these weird fossils where you could find ancestral Pokemon like a wingless Salamence acestor, there were over 200 side quests and even more that would have been added through dlc, the team Rainbow Rocket stuff would have been a part of the post game, there was a gigantic battle Cruise that was planned that was going to be similar to the Pokemon world tournament where it would have docked in specific all over the other six regions and you would fight various trainers from there.
I assume this came from teraleak. Do you know which documents this was confirmed from? I remember the cruise and Team Rocket being part of the game but not much else.
Someone at Nintendo/GF/TPC (not sure which) must resent the manchild demographic as there have been some pretty aggressive attempts to make the franchise more kid friendly, like introducing moves such as "Splishy Splash" and "Baddy Bad" in the Let's Go games or releasing shlock like Friends and Smile.
Yeah, I could see why this didn't make it into the games. They must've cut that back once they realized they wouldn't be able to get it done, especially on the 3DS.
I find Croconaw very memorable. I remember looking at that belly/chest pattern and thinking Croconaw looked like it came out of an episode of the Flinstones since it was visually similar to the style of that cartoons clothing. The only thing Croconaw is missing to complete that cavecroc look is a large club.I temporarily forgot what Totodile's first evolution is. Then later, as I was reaching to turn on the display for that N64 with Stadium 2 to find out, I suddenly remembered.
What a forgettable pocketmon Croconaw is.
I meant which document and which folder within the teraleaks was this information contained in. You can easily check this information for yourself if you have the files, and then we know the information is actually true. Plenty of people made things up during the teraleaks so you always ask where the information came from for proof.
IMO the caveman theme just makes it look ugly, good thing it loses it when it evolves.
BDSP still has the original Diamond/Pearl elite four if I recall correctly, along with no real fire types for the fire trainer. I think the only difference here is that enemy Pokemon have competitive items, but that is rendered null due to every single one of your Pokemon being artificially stronger due to the friendship mechanic from Sun and Moon being carried over, meaning that the more you use your Pokemon the more bonuses you get just by raising it's friendship(for example, being able to survive a hit that would KO or increasing critical chance).
I've brought this up before, but Voltorb and Electrode deserve a pass because they are a very clever twist on the classic RPG mimic even if they're underutilized. They can be encountered via overworld sprite and look identical to the sprite for items, their high base speed makes it possible they'll go first and use Self Destruct or Explosion before you can do anything.
Looks like I'm the only one who sees it that way (lol).What a forgettable pocketmon Croconaw is.
They're the Mimic of pocketmons...
Thank you for fully demonstrating in real time what everyone has been discussing for the past several pages about no one having the same criteria for what constitutes a good Pokemon game while simultaneously caring too much about said criteria.
This right here is why we're relegated to kanto slop and no innovation for the foreseeable future
It really isn't that bad. If you have something that can deal with Tentacool and something that can deal with Wingull then you're all set, nothing else will really surprise you. The section does drag on, but that's what repel is for if you can't be bothered. I don't know why people complain about this and not, say, Mt. Coronet, which I think is a much worse slog towards the end.
