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I stand with you. Your good taste will not be alone! How Banjo-Tooie gets lambasted to hell and back for being too sprawling, when this exists is beyond me! It also has far better mini games! When this eventually comes to NSO, I will do the bare minimum to unlock the multiplayer things, and then bail. Cannot stand the idea of doing all that again.

Somehow, Mega Blastoise could've been stupider! Silver linings, and all that. This one speaks to me, can't possibly guess why... But yeah, you're gonna see a lot of scrapped designs that are clearly finished designs from here on out. Apart from Gen 7, each generation since 6 has marked a massive shift in some way that no doubt affected development. Looking forward to Gen 8, that has the best new Pokémon designs ever, so I can't wait to see the many Megas that were planned before the mechanic got cut. Sounds like they repurposed this as the Secret Bases in OR/AS. Not as in-depth, but it did get salvaged.

No Boo falling off a platform? Utter fail! Send it back!

Mythical Pokémon pretty much never have legal shinies. Seriously, you can count them on one hand. I actually like that there's a tangible reward for completing the Pokédex. Home did this before with a Poké Ball style Magearna. It's neat, and I can't help but feel the kind of person who cares about collecting shinies would've already caught them all anyway. But my stance hasn't changed, I'm not paying to play more of this crummy game, even if I could bulldoze it with my Speedy Groudon.

There we go, fixed that typo for them.

Lizalfos, always. Especially the higher level ones that can jump. Lock on to an enemy and their attack is near instantaneous. Repeat locking on and summoning until everything is dead.

Yup, me too. Completely unaware. Now I wanna try it. @Dcubed, remind me. How's Ubisoft's track record for licensing games for NSO?

It's this. We've seen it already. Other "leakers" are trying to mix in some fake stuff so that not all eyes are on the actual leak.

Why not leverage that hatred into bait? It's good business!

Funnily enough, @Jonnas. You left out the one Sun/Moon remix whose original song I actually like (VS Island Kahuna). The rest of the soundtrack ranges from eh to forgettable. Battle of the Summit is especially egregious, because that's the Champion battle. And it's a remix of the main series theme? Laaame! Blatant nostalgia baiting that sums up the 3DS games very well. When Pokémon games remix a battle song, it usually has a good reason, normally they only remix a song when you fight a character from a previous game. Because of that, Sun/Moon's Champion effectively has no theme.

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Why would you ever choose anything else!? OK, there are a couple of entries where setting the healer to act automatically has them actually react to sudden health drops in the middle of a turn. Seeing as most DQ's have you input everyone's actions before the turn starts, the player can't do that. One of the rare cases where "The Computer is a cheating *******" can work in your favour. It's a very niche boss-only use, mind. And some entries AI isn't smart enough to do that, so yeah. Follow Orders 99% of the time! Anyway, I'm buying it immediately, but when I get around to playing it depends on how long M&L takes me.

I'd buy the hell out of that! I love it when a game has concept art hidden in-game. It's the best kind of collectible. Because it's endlessly fascinating, and I love seeing ideas form and change over time before we get to the final product. And yeah, I do have a right giggle at some of the really early-in-development designs, but I do so because the actual used monster designs in Pokémon are so excellent, and it's great to see what could've been. OK, beta Hydreigon was never ever gonna look like that in the final game. But now I'm tempted to draw actual final design Hydreigon wearing bright red pyjamas. The mental image is just so funny to me!

Hell, we saw this with the online gaming community once Palworld's plagiarism flared up. People deemed it was fine, because it was Game Freak and they deserve it because they make successful games, and are "lazy" and such. Hell, a couple of people here said as much.

Ah, great! I was hoping there'd be some of that here. Far more exciting! That beta Lickilicky is wild! EDIT: Wow, some of the scrapped designs in the Gen 5 section look downright horrifying!

I mean with how much the two latest games have been deemphasising battles, I'll take it at this point. Although, then again, with how much of a bloody grind Scarlet/Violet is to get TM's, I don't think I'd bother getting a team ready if the mainline series doubled down on boring grinding for crafting purposes. God, it absolutely killed my motivation to keep up with the meta. Massive regression from how easy Sword/Shield made things. Not to mention how the series seems to be slowly disincentivising actual battles. Watch any speedrun of Scarlet and Violet, and marvel at how easy it is to do the bare minimum of trainer battles and still end up overleveled.

"What the hell is Mother 3!? This kid looks like someone from that EarthBound thing!" - Me playing Smash Bros. Brawl.

I think the stage where I was Lucas and couldn't wake up in time was my favourite.

Ah, but now you can play them online. Including stupid custom stages. Seriously, the GBA app alone is an absolute treasure trove of 4 player nonsense, add on N64 (Mostly Perfect Dark and Mario Party) and yeah, NSO Fridays has become a staple for us for good reason.

I think I'd be reasonable in guessing that he was busy making custom stages in a different game, a game that might have been the reason he suddenly renewed his subscription.

Oh, that is more then enough notice! OK, @BowserBasher, and @S.C.G. Heads up, slight change of plan. Custom Stages from 7:30pm. Normal stages from 8pm.

I must give my thoughts on this very important subject. I mostly agree with that list, but I would swap "But...Why?" and "Fweet!". I would also bump "There it is!" up a tier. Other then that, yeah, pretty accurate, exciting times coming though. Hopefully, a whole bunch of Boo stickers are incoming!

Just a heads up, "Disaster Relief Done Quick" started a few hours ago. A shorter GDQ event to raise money for relief from the recent Hurricanes that hit America. You can find it here. Some of the highlights are, but not limited to; Saturday Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge Resident Evil Survivor Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 Final Fantasy XVI Diddy Kong Racing Sayonara Mario World The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Octopath Traveler II Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow Sunday Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster F-Zero AX Star Fox 64 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Super Mario Galaxy Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition Super Metroid The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Echoes of Wisdom is a pleasant surprise with how recent it is, that game has potential for some mad speedruns! Lightmatter is up next, with TMNT (2 player, Arcade Mode) in about an hour at time of posting this.

Bandai Namco? That's the closest we're ever getting to a Digimon and Pokémon crossover, huh?

Catching up on some speedruns from the Games Done Quick channel, and man, while I do think it's a pretty lame soundtrack as far as Pokémon games go, Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon gave us some absolute great remixes! And yes, the fact that I think these are the better songs of the game goes to show how much I dislike Sun/Moon's soundtrack.