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pokémon scarlet & pokémon violet 

and it’s not like they COULDN’T have pulled this off with the open-world design because they were successful with it in Legends: Arceus. it really feels instead like their vision of Paldea is one where people have mostly conquered nature instead of harmonizing with it and investing it with mystery

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pokémon scarlet & pokémon violet 

it's not that paldea doesn't have interesting ecological design or you can't come up with storytelling around it but it really feels like the PALDEANS don’t care. in all the other pokémon games people have a relationship to nature and ecology and they give things names and build routes and shrines and histories regarding them. in scarlet & violet it’s like they don’t even bother

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pokémon scarlet & pokémon violet 

and i’d just rather read the story where you get lost in eterna forest and night falls and all the misdreavus come out than the story where you travel to this one spot in this nameless part of the region along a nameless route to look at the waterfalls

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pokémon scarlet & pokémon violet 

every other pokémon game has creepy forests, haunted mansions, spooky towers, sacred shrines, perilous caves… paldea has scenery

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pokémon scarlet & pokémon violet 

i don't want to read stories set in paldea there aren’t even routes

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pokémon scarlet & pokémon violet 

why is this, you ask? because the worldbuilding of scarlet & violet fucking sucks

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pokémon scarlet & pokémon violet 

honestly it’s a testament how they were able to develop one of the best and most interesting plotlines in contemporary pokémon with phenomenal characters and a blatant lesbian rivalry ship front and center and yet i have absolutely ZERO interest in any fanfiction of the game

re: when bulbapedia claims buizel has a 35% chance on Route 205 N and pachirisu only has a 10% chance and you encounter 4 pachirisu and 0 buizel 

i switched the order of my pokémon and i caught a buizel

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re: when bulbapedia claims buizel has a 35% chance on Route 205 N and pachirisu only has a 10% chance and you encounter 4 pachirisu and 0 buizel 

OH FUCK IT’S BECAUSE MY PICHU HAS STATIC

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when bulbapedia claims buizel has a 35% chance on Route 205 N and pachirisu only has a 10% chance and you encounter 4 pachirisu and 0 buizel 

look i appreciate that i am getting “good luck” here but i just wanted the buizel

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when bulbapedia claims that wurmple has 20% odds in eterna forest but you are extremely not encountering them 20% of the time 

that’s it that’s the post

from an old Iwata Asks 

Iwata
I see. (laughs) When you're developing it, and you're working so hard on it, and worrying over it, and you finally find the perfect way to do something, you hear that sound in your head.

Aonuma
Oh, we do. (laughs)

Iwamoto
It does. (laughs)

Aonuma
When things are really tough, and we come up with an answer right at the last minute, and we decide, "Hey, this is pretty good!", then we all...

Iwata
...hear that sound in our heads. (laughs)

All
(laugh)

Iwata
You know, that "The Legend of Zelda sound" might have left its mark in gaming history.

Aonuma
It sticks in your head.

Iwata
It really does.

spirit tracks 

remember when the plot of zelda was link and zelda travel and face countless challenges together and through teamwork form an inseparable bond also trains are cool

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spirit tracks 

just going to watch all 30 minutes of this instead of sleeping because this is how you end a fucking zelda game

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spirit tracks 

god i forgot that at the end of the game you literally control both link and zelda in a tag-team battle which ends with them both shoving the sword through malladus’s brain crystal together what a fucking good game

opposing A·I 

this is a joke but no seriously listening to A·I is like asking for help on your history homework from a cop

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opposing A·I 

for the sole reason that it promotes revisionist analyses of important Marxist theory

re: end otw racism: the action is officially concluded 

i was going to and then i saw the kudos and comment counts and noped the fuck out because if zelda fandom likes something that much i can guarantee it is not worth my time

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