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I think I made a Gravity a bit high there

I quite like Ghost Hunt mode. I'm not hopelessly unaware of my spatial awareness. After this, we'll try a few matches with some silly modifiers.

Nope, I'm just going off of the reveal trailer.

Yeah, I do, but my connection can normally run Smash, so I'm not sure why that is.

OK, @RedShell, I'm heading online now. @Sofiz, because you're using a PC, you'll have to let me know when you've booted the game up, so I can invite you. Any particular modes you want to play? EDIT: Never mind, you're already on, I've sent an invite.

Yeah, I remember seeing him show up in the original Necrodancer. So it's not too surprising.

Nominations are now closed 18 games got at least 2 nominations and make up our Gamecube shortlist. It wasn't quite as close as the GBA nominations, but this one isn't completely clear cut. It's funny how as time goes on, our choices of games vary more. Just goes to show how good we have it, I suppose. Voting must be done via Private Messages sent to me. This will help to prevent any possible tactical voting. You must choose 3 games and order them from your favourite to least favourite. It'd be great if you could explain why you chose a game in the PM. I can then use these in the article that will go up on the N-Europe front page. I will abstain from these votes and act as a tiebreaker. If two games tie, I'll decide which game comes out on top. Voting closes on the 22nd of June

Is anyone up for some games with @Sofiz and me tonight at 8pm?

Speaking of... Most of these are from last week. But some of them are from yesterday.

Can you guys, like, STOP HITTING ME WITH EVERY FINAL SMASH!?

Well, I was going to go online now. I just assumed everyone knew when @RedShell said so. I did Stock last week, so this time it's Stamina. Room's open, and don't worry, custom stages are on.

You and me both...

Can you believe that some people think Dragon Quest isn't a big deal in Japan? That's always funny. Anyway, I'm looking forward to Hero. Those menu mechanics look fun. And if my guess is right, that means he'll effectively have 7 different Specials! Snooze looks like it can be devestating for delivering finishing blows. Fair warning, I will try and put someone to sleep and then use Kamikazee on them. Because it'll be really funny. Speaking of that, how mad is it that he has a move that kills himself? He's gonna be scary to approach when he's at high damage! I hope you'll be able to cancel it though, accidently using that move would be a real bummer otherwise. We didn't see much of the DQ stage. I hope it's hilarious.

Last day for nominations.

Welly well well, looks like you lot had fun. Yeah, I can't host Smash nights for another 6 weeks or so. If anyone is up for it tonight, I'll be available.

Yeah, Wii speak was definitely more effective than the Switch mobile app.

I found Bard Mode (Fixed Beat in Cadence of Hyrule) to be perfect for learning enemy patterns, and then I switched to rhythm mode because my rhythm is impeccable! It does make the game a lot easier though. The challenge from Necrodancer comes from thinking on your feet while moving to the beat. 4 hours sounds about right for Cadence of Hyrule, I imagine Necrodancer is harder, so I'm not surprised. Could someone ask @Hero-of-Time if the game tracks progress for Link/Zelda/Cadence separately? I liked playing through Necrodancer multiple times because the game tracks different characters progress separately. I'm never beating Aria on that. Bloody impossible!

You know what? @Julius puts my point across much clearer than I did. I get that things have to be cut back, especially when you're a development group as small as Game Freak. I normally get annoyed by stuff getting cut in a new Pokémon game, but I can mostly look past it, because the main point of the game was still intact, collecting and battling Pokémon. But with some Pokémon being cut, collecting them all is no longer possible. That's half of the selling point gone. You ever wonder why Ruby and Sapphire were nowhere near as successful as the previous games? Because not being able to transfer Pokémon was probably the main reason. Creatures took great pains to model all 649 (Julius was right about that, but it's worth noting that some Pokémon have multiple forms, like Unown and Kyurem. As well as Pokémon with tweaked models due to gender differences, like Cacturne, so that's definitely near the 800-ish mark) Pokémon, ready for HD consoles, only to trip at the first hurdle due to not enough manpower. Pokémon Company needs to pump some money into Game Freak so they can outsource to a company that can handle something like world design, so they can focus on other stuff. Oh man, I completely forgot about that one-way trip! Seeing as I don't use Bank for the storage and only when I need to transfer stuff, I'm going to have to be careful about which Pokémon I send to Home, lest they be trapped there.

Mobile site really needs those align options... So, it's looking likely that I won't be able to make it to N-E League for the next 7 weeks. So I'll have to ask @BowserBasher to to send the results my way. Remember, if CPU's are turned on, you'll need to send me the results of each of the 12 races.

Why do I even bother?

Nope, that's not gonna fly. They were totally ready for the jump. I'll take a quote from ResetEra. Because it puts it across quite clearly. I watched that Treehouse segment, and not a single one of the older Pokémon had a new animation. They literally did just transfer the files over. They did that for Sun and Moon. They did it for Let's GO. (Apart from Pikachu and Eevee, obviously) It worked because they planned ahead for it! Online tournaments have restricted the Pokémon that can be used to only those in the latest region's Pokédex. So they already had a workaround for any "balance issues"

Then what is the bloody point of making sure that when they created the 3D models for every Pokémon, they were designed in a way that they were ready for HD consoles? A lot of the legwork was done!

The second best thing about Smash Bros. character reveals is the onslaught of fanart that follows.

I would put money on Let's GO! being a reason for this influence. As if I couldn't hate that game anymore. They tried to use the "Battle Balance" reasoning, but that's bull, because since Gen 6, they just restricted the Pokemon you could use in online battles. No, I guarantee this is due to stupid whiners complaining about how there's too many Pokémon. This has gone from a day 1 purchase to me considering skipping it, or at least waiting in the hope that Game Freak see sense and backtrack on this idiotic choice. What's the bloody point of futureproofing the Pokémon models if you're not gonna let people catch them all!? Man, I'm legit angry. EDIT: As expected, the Pokémon Twitter account is getting battered by complaints about this. And for the first time ever, I joined in. It's unacceptable, and this needs to be heard.

If a Pokémon cannot be caught in Sword and Shield. You will NOT be able to transfer them from previous games using Pokémon Home. Devastating news for me... Why does Game Freak seem to hate people who collect Pokemon these days?