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It's been like that for a few days. It's a bug in the game, also happened in the days up to Turtwig CD.

Golden enemy spawn? Never seen one in muy 36 hours with the game! They must be rather rare. And then finding and capturing 250 familiars? That's insane - some of them take hours to just try to catch! I'm glad there is no trophy on Switch. I'm at the part where I need to collect a new instrument for finally taking on Shadar.

I think this is very true. I don't think anyone in the world cares about this concept and thinks it's cool or beneficial. The raids in the game are a good idea and something I think the game will benefit from, but this is just... useless and unnecessary. I think that everyone would have loved the game if it were like Pokémon Stadium regarding battles. No tricks, no gimmicks, just plain battling in beautiful 3D environments on the big screen. And yes, the gen 1 love is just getting too much. We just had a remake of that generation, let it be for ... sake! There ARE other generations, Game Freak! I would be very surprised if any Pokémon from Gen 1 were missing from the National Dex.

Awful.... Just awful.

I don't really do raids and would love to just get the Special Research but nope, I'm not paying (that much) just to get a Pokémon that will just be stashed in the bag because it's not useable for anything.

But haven't we said this for like, 15 years? And there are still great games released alongside those AAAAAAA games. The industry needs the big sellers to make a profit so they can make what they want.

Well, number 31 isn't great but considering the mass appeal of the game combined with the plethora of other releases these weeks, I wouldn't say it's that bad. Remember that only four* third party games have achieved to sell more than 500,000 copies on Switch (this was revealed last week) while several games coming out at the time will achieve that on other platforms, I believe. * Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy, Starfew Valley, Mario + Rabbids and Minecraft.

Oh, wow, yeah, then you should be fine, I guess! I still have to evolve a few to their final form but I only grind when I need to.

Until you have to metamorph them to their final stage... I don't quite like how that resets the level completely.

What, how do you do that? I recently got 9000 from one battle and was stunned - I thought it was because I killed a special familiar but is there a way to make them spawn?

Now confirmed for Europe

I would find a Pegasus-like Pokémon pseudo-legendary material.. I think it's a good idea to have a third evolution of Ponyta, that would be kind of cool. And they could always nerf Rapidash a little.

Oh... Golett.. Forgot about that. I guess that'll come in an egg at some point while I'm collecting candy for the others. I'm at 66 Candy for Klink which is the only one I've had as a buddy. I got one of the others so haven't got much candy for those. But good call with Litwick at the halloween event, that's almost guaranteed. I have one Unova stone that I got through a Research Breakthrough. Also finally caught the last Psychic Pokémon I needed for the A Thousand Year Slumber research. On to the next step!

Wow, a Deino just spawned very much near me! So.. Deino get! So as for Gen V, I only need to get a Snivy and an Oshawott to get all base evolutions. Now to get candy for all those that need 125 Candy before evolving... That'll take some time.

I watched Joker last night and well, it's a good movie but not perfect, and had it not been about the Joker but just some random guy going insane, I probably wouldn't have watched it. Joaquin Phoenix was very good in the movie and the story was excellent, with some very intense scenes.

I watched Season 1 of Mr. Robot and wasn't really convinced that I needed to watch more of it afterwards.

I'm now 32 hours in and have just got the third magic stone. I really like the game, the story is really good as is the pace. I have spent a lot of time trying to catch certain familiars, though (I found a place telling me what to get) and training them to a good point. I have come to terms with the battle mechanics but I still find them a bit off as I often don't have time to guard and heal properly because I have to switch characters and find the right menu item without the game pausing.

It's Psychic, not Poison / Fairy!

Galarian Ponyta is Shield exclusive. And there's now a full trailer showing it off:

I think this is new information: His Dark Materials premiers on November 4th. Really looking forward to that! And in relevant news, the second book in The Book of Dust-series - set around HDM - has also just been released. Good times.

Well, I just went to the library, read the first book (top left, if I remember correctly), thought the books were just tutorials and tales and left again, never saw the black book. Or I could also have forgotten about it completely because 12-15 hours and several days passed from starting the game and getting to the point where I needed to find that books again. That's on me, I know. But I noticed the phone guy giving hints and I used that to progress as much as I could, never returning to the library. It's fair enough, I didn't know that the library held an important book that you needed to read in order to complete the very last puzzle, but I just gave up at that point and read a guide, the game was just frustrating me more than I wanted it to. I am sad that I didn't enjoy my playthrough as I had looked very much forward to the game, and I do love Zelda-games. The puzzles in them are mostly really good, I enjoyed the Shrines of BotW very much because of the quality of the puzzles (but I missed traditional temples in the game), so it made me sad when I found that especially the three or four last dungeons didn't have very interesting puzzles. I mostly recall them being "bomb the walls" or "move this block a little", along with "find the switches" and I found that both frustrating and boring.

Doesn't it tell you to go here and get the instrument that is located around here?

I don't necessarily complete side-quests before completing a game, no. But yes, I did end up completing this one before reaching the end of the game but I had never noticed that small, black book in the library and thus, never got that hint. I only found the trading quest because of a guide telling me that I should do it), I had seen the Yoshi-doll, didn't catch it in a couple of attempts and moved on, forgetting about it. It was the same with the Ocarina, I didn't know it was in the game before accidentally finding it. I found some place speaking of an Ocarina afterwards and it is needed for waking up that darn whale but I found no reference as to where it actually was. You just had to remember that there was that house in early stages of the game. I don't like too much hand-holding in games, I want to experiment and get better at the mechanics of the game but games should at least tell you in some way how to complete the main quest. Several people have complained about this game having moments where you are utterly lost and the game doesn't help you in any way - thus needing to resort to guides. This game has some design flaws that make you wander about aimlessly which a lot of people dislike because games should not waste your time. To most of us, time is precious as it's the only resource we haven't got enough of by now (contrary to when we were kids and could spend days doing nothing in a game, accidentally solving side-quests or something like that) so if a game makes you feel like it wants you to get lost, people complain, because it's not fun. And this game does that several times, especially in the latter half of it. And that's what made me not really enjoy or like the game. Others like that aspect, that's fine. Btw. I have a feeling that without any changes, the first Zelda-game would definitely also have these issues. It's just that Zelda and modern games have changed a lot and some things are just expected from them. So remaking a 26 year old GameBoy-game 1:1 with only some GUI QoL improvement is going to be hit and miss for some people. The GameBoy mechanics and restraints of this game were just too obvious. Also, I don't really do retro gaming. I don't enjoy older games that much. Maybe that's also a part of it?

Yeah, the library. But only after you've found some random item that you don't know that you have to find... or even exists!

My OnePlus 6 that I got about a year ago started having some screen issues - it would flicker green and white before turning on and off, like seen here. I googled it and it seemed like it was a common error with the screen type (amoled) so I need to get my screen replaced. It's a phone I got from work so they take care of it for me but they only had a Samsung Galaxy S6 lying around for me to borrow in the meantime. It's battery is totally fucked so I can't really use it outside. It's really frustrating me - mainly because I play Pokémon Go and not being able to do that outside is just... hard... and irritating. Also went for a run with the phone - I use Google fit to track distance and time - and it just didn't measure anything at all. I miss my phone. Will probably have to wait a couple of weeks for it to return.