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I'm not disputing that it makes sense. But it still looks really weird. Being more realistic is something Pokémon doesn't really need.

This is why Grovyle is awesome.

You're damn right!

I'm always up for shenanigans! Provided I have access to games.

And then be disappointed when it evolves into Blastoise.

Pokkén Tournament is a fighting game that released in arcades in 2015 (Not in Europe though). It's created by Bandai Namco, the makers of Tekken, and thus, has some similarlities to that series. Yep, it's another Pokémon cross-over! A port for the WiiU came out in 2016 worldwide. The game plays like a traditional arcade fighting game but has a unique selling point (That isn't playing as Pokémon) in that gameplay can transition between a 3D field-of-play and a more 2D perspective (Like Tekken). Landing certain attacks on your opponent will change the perspective of the fight, changing the attacks that are available to you. As well as this, the game has a sort of "Rock-Paper-Scissors" thing going as well. Each attack is classified as either "Normal Attacks", "Grab Attacks" or "Counter Attacks". Each one is highly effective against another, so good prediction can give you an advantage in fights. As well as this, each player can use "Support Pokémon" to provide, well... Support. You can choose a group of 2 Pokémon that each have different effects. There is also a "Synergy Gauge" which fills up as the battle progresses. When it's full, you can activate a "Synergy Boost" which temporarily boosts the power of your Pokémon (Pokémon that can mega evolve also change to reflect that form) and can use a "Burst Attack" once, a devastatingly powerful attack. There's a few tweaked modes you can play, but the basic gameplay remains the same. The arcade version periodically received updates over it's life that added playable characters and the like, but the WiiU version never got these updates, which was... something. The more cynical of fans were saying that Bandai Namco were saving it as a selling point for a possible Switch port. But they wouldn't be that blatant, would it? Ah... Pokkén Tournament DX is a port of the original game for the Switch. It includes all the previously arcade exclusive characters (along with a few new ones) and a mode that simulates battles from the mainline series by having 3-on-3 battles where health carries over between battles. That's about it. It's a deluxe port, what can I say? The WiiU version sold 1.37 million copies. The Switch port sold 1.57 million, which says volumes about how much of a success the WiiU was. What do I think of it? Eh, it's OK. I don't particularly enjoy traditional arcade fighting games, so my enjoyment of this was very limited. But it does what it sets out to do well enough. I will however lambaste it to hell and back for it's Pokémon models, which don't really gel well with the more cartoony Pokémon designs that feature. Pokémon with fur/feathers don't look good at all and more scaly ones look way too shiny. It all just looks off. Also... I still can't get over Charizard having pecs! It'll forever be weird! Still, I can't talk about weird Pokémon models without bringing this up. Notice how I didn't say "worst"... Bloody hell! That's clearly a bloke in a Blastoise costume! Anyway, enough griping. Even if best Mexican wrestler bird, Hawlucha, got utterly robbed by a Pikachu in a costume. That wraps up Gen 6. We're almost done. Gen 7 is the last one and that means I'm inevitably gonna have to talk about a particular spin-off that I'm not particularly fond of soon. Maybe I'll spontaneously combust mid-post? Who knows?

OK, new month. I'm gonna give vote host duty to @S.C.G this time. Because he plays Monster Hunter with me. So there!

OK, sit down guys, this one needs a bit of explanation. Next League Night: 6th December 8pm Room 1: @BowserBasher is host @Glen-i @BowserBasher @viceview51 @martinist @RedShell If you've been paying attention, you'll know that it's really bloody close between the top two racers. There's only 2 weeks left and it's anyone's game! So it's time to settle this! Unfortunately, Smash Ultimate isn't out until the day after, so this will have to do. I call this theme... Red Turtles Vs Blue Chameleons I'm gonna send everyone a Private Message with further instructions. So get your declarations IN! as soon as you can. Sign up Now!

Fly to Fuschia City, there's a guy with a surfboard near a Lapras, speak to him.

You need to get to Fuschia City. That's where the GO Park is. The Pokémon GO account then needs to give you a Pokémon and you have to catch it at the GO park. The GO account should then get notified of receiving a Mystery Box, which will make Meltan appear there for 30 minutes. They will have to wait a week to use it again. I'm not exactly sure if you're able to connect more than one Pokémon GO account to Let's GO though...

Well, I wouldn't count it out quite yet. If the movie is a success, then it might make the idea of a sequel more appealing.

Had to look that up... ...Really?

Note: @viceview51 got a score of 18 in GP1. Scores displayed are before recalculation. Scores shown after a + symbol are your points from the Co-op Grand Prix and oh bugger, there's that dreaded question mark again... Yep, @Vileplume2000 got a different task to everyone else. But it's a little different than the other times... Here's what I sent him And here's who he chose. So let me break this down, if he predicted you'd win in a GP and you came 1st in that specific GP, he'd steal 10 points. If you came second, he steals 6 points. Coming third will make you lose 3 points to him. In GP1, I came second. In GP2, @BowserBasher came second and in GP3, @RedShell came third. So taking that into account, here's the actual scores in GP3. @viceview51 is this week's Player who made no bloody difference. Clearly, those connection issues were just you gunning for that award. Kudos! @martinist pulls off his 10th GP win this week and I manage to close the gap between @RedShell and me. Next week's theme is still under preparation, but I can tell you this. Keep an eye on this thread. The final two weeks are going to be a little different and it would be wise to declare yourself IN! as soon as possible.

The final update is live now! Time to go make new friends! EDIT: OK, this boss is totally ridiculous! I can barely get half way before getting utterly owned! DOUBLE EDIT: There's a new Ultimate Choice difficulty... I got to fight 4... Of 14... This one might just be hopeless...

@viceview51 after the recalculation, your score for GP1 is 31 and for GP3, it's 22. Your average right now is 31.3, do you want to keep those scores?

Detective Pikachu first released as a Japan-only digital title in 2016 before releasing worldwide as a full retail title 2 years later. It's created by Creatures Inc. and is a Cinematic Adventure game. No, I'm not gonna talk about the upcoming movie, that's not what this thread is about, calm your britches. Tim Goodman's dad has gone missing. Apparently, he and his Pikachu got into a car accident while investigating a case. That happened two months ago. One day, Tim stumbles across the Pikachu his dad was with and for some reason, can fully understand what the Pikachu says. This Pikachu is no good at battling, but fancies himself as quite the detective, unfortunately, the Pikachu has no memory of what could have happened to Tim's dad. After solving a case involving an Aipom stealing a necklace, Tim and the Pikachu decide to work together in order to find out what happened to Tim's dad. On the sliding scale of spin-off weirdness, Detective Pikachu is definitely up there in the weird scale. I mean, who would have thought we'd get what is effectively a visual novel? Because of that, the gameplay is pretty light, focusing more on the fully voiced cutscenes. You guide Tim around various "crime scenes", gathering clues, talking to people and Pokémon in order to figure out what's going on. The digital version that originally released was only a small part of the game. Comprised of three chapters, (There's 9 in the final game) the game ends with a "To Be Continued" screen. Unfortunately, the problem with describing games like this is that I can't really say much about it without giving away spoilers and this game is still relatively new. And seeing as I've not played it yet, I'm gonna have to finish this post here. Detective Pikachu has sold 0.34 million copies so far. It's a pretty late entry for the 3DS and visual novels tend to not do that well anyway. Strangely enough, Europe is where this sold the most. It's probably a safe bet that the movie is what's gonna be more well known. At least this game has better looking Pokémon. Did anyone here end up playing this? Genuinely curious...

Well, here's my handful of Battle highlights.

Right, gonna finish this KFC meal, boost those stats up and then open a room. Yes, it arrived during Mario Kart, because of course it did.

Actually that happened to me once. I can explain it though. Lag, on your side an item connected with something, but on the recipients side, they barely avoided it. When this happens, it looks like they hit something, but they keep going at full speed.

Geez guys, no need to hit me 12 times in the last match there!

What the hell, @viceview51!? I saw that barrage of fire at the end! You're a meanie!

Oh man, I've ordered KFC and it's taking longer than expected... Watch it arrive at the worst time...

So who's up for some post-kart hunting tonight?

New Generation, new batch of smaller titles to trudge through. They all have something in common that means there's no sales figures. Pokémon Bank is a storage system application for the 3DS made by Game Freak that released in 2013. It's a pretty simple utility system that allows players of the 3DS mainline titles to store up to 3,000 box in cloud storage. Yes, it's bloody Pokémon Box again! But hey, at least this one let's you easily transfer a large amount of Pokémon between different games, which was always a pain to do before this. It's a subscription service that costs just under 5 quid for a year of use. This title also comes with an accompanying application called Pokémon Transporter which lets you transfer your Pokémon from the Gen 5 games and the Virtual Console versions of the Gen 1 and 2 games. The Band of Thieves & 1000 Pokémon is a free 3DS title that was only released in Japan. It's developed by Marvelous AQL and was released in 2014. It's loosely based on the Movie "Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction" You play as a Chespin, Fennekin and a Froakie that have to retrieve stolen treasures from a group of thieves. You do this using the 3DS StreetPass feature to gather more Pokémon to help you beat other armies of Pokémon. If you think that sounds a lot like StreetPass Battle, you'd be right. It's very similar. Why didn't it come out over here? Probably because it was discontinued and removed from the eShop only 4 months after it was released. It was most likely just a marketing tool for the latest Pokémon movie at the time, seeing as bringing this game there got you special bonuses. Pokémon Shuffle and Pokémon Shuffle Mobile are games that came out for the 3DS and Mobiles in 2015. They're developed by Genius Sonority. Yeah, gotta come clean. This is basically Pokémon Trozei. I didn't realise at the time that there was another one of those. So I'm not gonna cover this one, except to tell you that this is one of those free-to-play games littered with microtransactions. Pokémon Picross is a puzzle game created by Jupiter for the 3DS that was released in 2015. It's a spin-off of the Picross series, which focus on picture logic puzzles called nonograms. I'm not gonna go into how it works, because I don't think I can explain it well. But this is another game that is free-to-play and has microtransactions. You need Jewels to progress and while you can get them by completing puzzles, you can buy them with real money. Finally, there's Pokémon Duel. A Strategy Board Game based on the Pokémon Trading Figure Game. It's developed by HEROZ and was released for mobile devices in 2016. Which means it's another game full of microtransactions! The basic goal is to get one of your figures to the opponent's goal space first. You can get a pack of figures using in-game currency (Which you can buy with real money) as well as items to help you win. This game still gets updates to this day, so I guess it's still going. And that wraps up this post. You can see a trend with these games, can't you? You can also tell that I've played barely any of these. I might have played Pokémon Duel if it was more in the vein of the Game Boy TCG Game. But The Pokémon Company started getting a real thing for microtransactions here. Next up, something that won't nickel and dime you at every opportunity.

It's about time someone got that! 5 months!