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I checked Serebii's site, and there's no hard evidence of this. It's possible that it's just a placebo effect. I've not noticed any difference with their spawn rate.

I think so? The more popular ones get added to the game, as far as I'm aware.

Terranigma is a great little game. Localised horribly, but still great! If Itoi is talking about it, then I'm certain EarthBound or EarthBound Beginnings or both is finally happening!

A lot of people saying that Majora's Mask shadow drop will happen, but I'm not so sure. I expect it to show up though. It's only been 2 weeks since Banjo-Kazooie.

There we go. Easy mistake to make, the numbering in these sequels has always been weird. You're welcome.

Pffft! That's actually quite funny. As long as she says her TV catchphrase, "Warm up your heart with the touch of a button" then that's cool. Tiki=Waifu is the in-game online username of a random NPC who shows up in a couple of sidequests. You don't ever find out her actual name, so the game refers to her as that. She's basically a mega fan of the Tiki vocaloid software. The general public don't actually realise Tiki is real, but the songs they make on that software give Tiki a somewhat physical form. TMS is a weird game. My guess is that people are trying to force her through as TMS's answer to the Gatekeeper from Three Houses. But she's nowhere near as entertaining and accidentally memetastic as the Gatekeeper. You can't force memes.

OK, I'm going to make this very plain. 99% of people complaining about Fire Emblem characters in Smash are people who don't like Fire Emblem as a series. They couldn't give a toss about whether the character is cool or not. They would get rid of everyone, including Marth, if they could. I like Chrom, he's cool.

Don't worry, I'm here to fill in your TMS blind spot! He's one of the two characters who can use the best debuff in the game (The other character requires a lot of effort to get it, where Touma just needs a Dark Knight Class Change). He's got the best offensive buff too! An offensive buff that he doesn't need to waste any skill slots on. Others would need to use up three skill slots to have the same thing and they wouldn't be able to use them as efficiently. Buffs and debuffs are amazing in TMS. That same buff, combined with him being the only one who has the Penetrate skill (Makes his physical attacks ignore resistances and immunities) also makes him the best damage dealer in the game. He also gets two Power Ranger-esque outfits. (Three in the Switch version). Quite frankly, even with his horseslayer weakness, Touma's a competitior for best character in the game. Mamori, the Knight, is the only one who's as useful, but she's much more defensive, so she syncs up really well with him (Itsuki makes for a great third character for the final party member). Then again, I also see Tsubasa there on that least, and she's easily the least useful. So unless TMS only has three reps in FE Heroes, I have to question the iffy choice for female characters there. Mamori is a million times better!

3rd area, near water.

Way to beautifully prove my point.

I'd probably be more sympathetic if this game didn't give out shinies so often.

Yeah, Pokémon is definitely one of the better ways to have a progress indicator.

Sounds like you're basically siccing 6 Felynes on it while you do nothing.

Add me to the people who have thrown a tantrum and ran away from home. Got my first success after 16 attempts. Cursed Slash is awesome!

I can dream, damn it! It is starting to get around that time though, so I expect at least an announcement some time this year.

OK, now that Legends: Arceus is out... Gimme that Explorers DX! It's starting to get to the point where I'm jonesing for another Mystery Dungeon. People need to see where Legends nicked a lot of its ideas from. A completely new entry would also be acceptable.

I used a mod of Metroid Dread to make the EMMIs harmless, if I can do it, anyone can. If you get spotted, just hop on Wyrdeer and leg it until you lose them, then go back and try again. If you crouch in long grass, or use a smoke bomb, you're effectively invisible. So it's just a waiting game.

I pretty much catch every alpha without fighting them, why bother fighting when it's so much easier to just hide in grass until they turn around, and then lob an Ultra Ball/Heavy Ball? I don't really like how brain dead it is. There's no risk, and I think it would've been better if the player was forced to fight alphas if they want to catch them, especially seeing as they tend to be 20 levels higher then everything else in the area.

As much as I think Black 2/White 2 gets a hell of a lot right, one of the two big open goals it misses is that it had a feature that let you transfer some data from the first Gen 5 games, but didn't use it to stage a battle between the two playable trainers, with the CPU using whatever Pokémon your latest Hall of Fame entry in the first game has. Instead, you're just told that they went off somewhere since the first game, which corroborates your theory that they just go to other regions when they become Champion nicely. Actually, yes. Granted, I'm going off of Pokémon Puzzle League, which uses the anime voices of both Nidos, but it is almost 22 years old at this point. Still, I'm confident they haven't changed it to actual spoken lines since then. Why bother? Nidoqueen sounds kinda like a truck horn in that game. I think we're just gonna have to accept that as a more acceptable segregation for gameplay purposes. Regional Pokédexes are just easier to deduce where a Pokémon you're missing might be if they're in order of when you find them. (Legendaries are normally an exception, since they almost always appear at the end of the Dex)

The official names of Rei/Akari apply to the gender of the trainer you don't choose. But the one you choose comes from modern day Pokémon, so that would have to be Lucas/Dawn, wouldn't it? Unless you're suggesting that there's another person called Rei in modern times who happens to look exactly like Lucas? Because that's less believable to me. Of course, these days, the official names matter even less compared to the DS era, because you have more options for skin tone and so on. Apart from Red, who's developed into his own character, the playable trainers mostly don't need it. Then again, Pokémon Masters uses them, so it's hard to tell. For the majority of Pokémon, sure. But not every Pokémon says their own name. Charizard being the most obvious example, Nidoqueen is also one that pops off the top of my head. These days, Regional Pokédex numbers are mostly sorted by how early you can find the Pokémon. This appears to be the case with Legends.

The only thing that makes any sense is that Lucas/Dawn, being used to the League's rule of 6 Pokémon, simply enforced it on themselves through muscle memory, and everyone else ends up following suit. Yeah, I know. Why would that NPC mention it? But I think that's an acceptable break from sense in order to tell newcomers that 6 is the limit. It's a bit clumsy, but given the setting, I can't think of a better way...

Yeah, this bugs me as well. It doesn't make much sense. The thing is, no matter how you slice it, wild Pokémon don't apply any sort of strategy, they just pick moves at random. And it's easy to win because you'll likely have 6 Pokemon. The trainer battles in this game are purely there to check if the player is ready to go to whatever place they're going to next so they don't get battered. Maybe they migrated? That would also be an explanation as to why no Pokémon from the Unova games onward show up in Diamond/Pearl. Now, this is just me spitballing, because nothing in the game supports this as far as I'm aware, but maybe the main character, who is likely the playable trainer from Gen 4, simply told the professor the names of Pokémon? Because they would know already. It's kind of a paradox though. I've just started the fourth area (Why is it so effing massive!?) and a character from there supports this a bit.

Take the number underneath Research Level and add the number of unreported tasks (These are coloured green). If any of these unreported tasks are on the same row as a task with a double chevron, add 2 instead of 1. If the total is 10 or more, then it's completed and all you need to do is show the professor to get the full Dex entry.

Spoilers, @killthenet. Some people prefer to discover new Pokémon themselves. @Ashley. The double Chevrons indicate that you get 2 research points for each milestone in that specific task.

Yeah, outbreaks make shinies appear stupidly easy. Got a Shiny Happiny from one and I only looked for a minute.