Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

oof the character interactions here do not flow logically at all

if something has a 1 in 2 probability, you might think that the odds of getting the thing 🆚 not should break even after trying it twice. but actually, you have 1:1 odds when trying it just one (1) time!

ones i like :—

• 0052 Galarian Meowth / 0863 Perrserker
• 0081 Magnemite / 0082 Magneton / 0462 Magnezone [Electric/⁓]
• 0205 Forretress [Bug/⁓]
• 0208 Steelix [⁓/Ground]
• 0212 Scizor [Bug/⁓]
• 0227 Skarmory [⁓/Flying]
• 0303 Mawile [⁓/Fairy]
• 0379 Registeel
• 0385 Jirachi [⁓/Psychic]
• 0485 Heatran [Fire/⁓]
• 0599 Klink / 0600 Klang / 0601 Klingklang
• 0618 Galarian Stunfisk [Ground/⁓]
• 0707 Klefki [⁓/Fairy]
• 0777 Togedemaru [Electric/⁓]
• 0957 Tinkatink / 0958 Tinkatuff / 0959 Tinkaton [Fairy/⁓]

i’m very divided on Steel types some of them i like and some i wouldn't be caught dead using

ok

i realize that “link is being slowly but surely possessed by an evil demon” is absolutely impossible to translate into gameplay but it is much more narratively interesting

thinking about how ‘Make A Wish, Make It Count’ ran the plotline of Link having an arm possessed by malice five full years before TotK and didn’t do the cop-out of having it be replaced by a magic goat man either

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OH FUCK IT’S BECAUSE MY PICHU HAS STATIC

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

that’s it that’s the post

with a hammer

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.