i did this, although i feel like i might pick slightly different options depending on the day lol
@Lucy I find things like this to be reductive. Having to choose one item for each game and the excessive specificity removes the opportunity for nuance when games can fit into multiple boxes or when multiple games can fit in a category with room for only one game. And in the algorithm-driven world where art is carefully organized into categories so that we are regularly fed art that checks superficial boxes instead of being itself I have qualms about itemizing art this way. Also, here is my grid:
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@wallhackio @Lucy i second all that. also, here, have mine
@wallhackio @Lucy nobody has commented on scarlet appearing on ”biggest personal impact” and also “turn my brain off”, but i just want to let it be known that the latter was very much derogatory
@The_T @wallhackio @Lucy the short version is that playing through scarlet managed to tf me into a cat when i was already a cat, and also the starfall street storyline was great
what i mean by turn my brain off is that i do think scarlet is very effective at having a game loop that i can get lost fur literally hours. i do not find it terribly interesting gameplay, it’s just spamming you relentlessly with random little items and mons to farm, but i begrudgingly admit it works. the best way to capture why i dislike this about it though is very similar to the way super eyepatch wolf described the 29th and 30th seasons of the simpsons—it’s fine, j guess, but the way it feels like it’s despurrately trying to keep your attention at all times is kinda mind numbing and i don’t really respect it
@aescling @wallhackio @Lucy I wish that Penny was a more major part of the story.
So I fell in love with Carmine instead.
And yeah, I definitely avoided that part of Pokémon when I played, and I felt I was better off for it!
@aescling @wallhackio @Lucy ...and Pokémon Black probably got Best Story just cuz I fell in love with N...
@aescling @wallhackio @Lucy yeah, I don't follow either of those at all. I can't imagine a game that recent being a big personal impact...
My experience with every mainline (non-remake) Pokémon game from Gen 3 on was weird. I played them all for stream, so I played them in a very specific way: I didn't go out of my way to catch Pokémon, ever. I tried to beeline objectives when I could. I basically had an incredibly streamlined playthrough of all of them; and for all the early games, I planned my team ahead of time to make sure no gym leader gave me trouble. (for most of the later games this wasn't an issue, but for example in Scarlet I did stumble into Flamigo being one of the stars of my team...)
There's a lot of stuff in those games I skipped right over; most of the optional legendaries and other optional dungeons (unless they seemed genuinely interesting enough to look at). But I had a blast and I wouldn't change how I played those games at all.