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In Cyrus' case it just seemed that he had such a god complex that he felt he didn't need to do more. On the above, though, one angle I always kind of wanted to see the villains take was to wrestle control of some fundamental aspect of the game world and really wreck how it plays out for the...

Is Giovanni the most underwhelming gym leader of all time? Ground is one of the least optimal types that a gym leader can specialize in for gen 1, and it becomes even less optimal for a late-game boss specifically. It's disadvantaged against all 3 starters. (Venusaur and Blastoise shred it...

Is there a way to get an Enigma Berry into (English) Emerald or Fire Red? Was thumbing over the Bulbapedia pages for e-Reader berries and I still don't think I'm fully straight on how they work.

Speaking of. Why is Mach/Acro Bike even a choice in RSE? Like, what is gained from forcing the player to return to the store to exchange them rather than always having access to two different modes (as in gen 4's gear shift)? Did they alter this at all for ORAS?

I love that route for precisely these reasons. Sometimes I want to feel like I'm actually exploring and not just being railroaded to the next plot point. The Regi chamber being obscured this much plus the fact that they're not emphasized in the story at all makes it more rewarding to actually...

Frame rate has absolutely nothing to do with battle speed.

BW looks neither good nor impressive. 2D sprites on 3D backgrounds almost always clash, and locations like Castelia City where they really try to lean into it come off even worse for it. It's like a textbook case of "you're trying to do too much." Very few Pokemon games actually look or...

It's always bothered me that Ghost is a physical attack type in gens 1-3, and I assume that it was only made that way because Lick was basically* the only Ghost type attack in RBY. *Confuse Ray and Night Shade exist, but the former is a non-damaging move and the latter doesn't follow typical...

How much value do you guys put on single-stage boost moves like Growth in a run, anyway? My general thought has always been that "if a move's effect can be wholly substituted by a common item, then it's a useless move." Like I'd never use up a slot for Growth when X Special can be bought over...

Flash is the funniest HM. Like they're just taunting you by making it not technically required, but trying to go without it is often miserable, but it's also a total waste in battle, especially with its 70% accuracy in the earlier games.

The thing takes up so much of the map and has obvious blocked passages during your early trips that do a good enough job of getting the point across that you're going to be scaling it eventually. I also used to be the sort of player who would revisit locations right away after receiving a new HM...

So, I'm playing FRLG and have come across a really tiny thing that stands out to me. When you beat Bruno and after he says "go face your next challenge," his sprite turns to the side to look away from you. Talk to him again, from any side, and he'll turn 90 degrees away from you after talking...

Yeah, one thing that D/P was really good at in comparison to a lot of other Pokemon games was demonstrating the player character's growth, both as an explorer and as a battler. As bloated as the HM system was in gen 4, it was also the closest this series ever got to scratching the sort of...

Internet access was already commonplace. RBY really was a special breeding ground for rumors, though. MissingNo's existence and the myriad of abusable glitches made just about any half-baked theory sound plausible.

Back when Plat was current, I inadvertently built a mono-ice team that was tailored for this glitch. Abomasnow sets up weather; Weavile activates the glitch via Pursuit. Activating the glitch off of Snow Warning causes more simultaneous weather conditions to happen than it does when it's...

You're right. So I guess we can add a couple dozen cities to the list, on one specific day each. Kind of surprised I forgot about this in retrospect, as I'm certain that I have a Celebi with a 10ANIV trainer ID sitting in one of my boxes somewhere that I'm pretty sure was cloned from somebody...

Japan only, and it also seems to have required a completed Colosseum save file. US version had Jirachi instead.

If we're talking about the availability specifically for competitions, then the one saving grace of this mess is that Deoxys and other Pokemon of its specific class were never permitted in official tournaments anyway, so they can at least be excluded from any "pay2win" argument. But man. I do...

Rayquaza also had Outrage in 3rd gen, which brings with it a self-confusion risk.

I think your argument is off by about 10 years. The Legend of Zelda on the NES hailed from an era where you weren't even remotely expected to beat the majority of the video games that you owned. Pokemon Red & Blue absolutely did not belong to that same era. I also think it's too reductive to...