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It also looks a lot more like an actual Persian cat than the original Persian.

@Yorumi Some people do care about aesthetics. I wanted to put Serperior into my team and like Serperior's shiny colors so decided to breed one. Only one I got in acceptable time of me watching Youtube while riding back and forth got me one with Overgrow instead of Contrary. Meanwhile, I have 3 completely legit shiny Roserades, because RNG. I'd much rather spend that time building/equipping a daycare and playing minigames with my Pokemon to get the few shinies I actually want.

@Yorumi The thing is, when somebody tells me how they had to farm 20 hours for their shiny, I'm not impressed by how special that Pokemon is, I'm only thinking about how much time they wasted.

How about a method of reliably getting shinies fast, if you know what you're doing? Like buying food for Pokemon and equipment for the Daycare that drastically rise the chances. Also, hatch eggs en masse with minigames. Riding a bike endlessly on a route is not my image of fun.

It's a nice little tease, although I'm not sure if I would buy my first Pokemon game based on it, if I were a first time player.

I don't mind the leaks personally. When I first played Red, I too already more or less knew all the monsters, because of all the kids at school trading Pokemon cards and stickers + seeing the anime first.

@Rexx What the actual...

Did Grimer eat a jar of mustard or is that brown and yellow color scheme supposed to be toilet humor?

I'd like to see a third game, just hoping they can make this a good franchise overall. I liked Second, but not as much as Default. Default had that fairy tale feeling for me. The "evil one" was an impactful and threatening villain, I personally liked Revo's music in Default more. Meanwhile, Second felt kinda like a direct to video Disney sequel. Also some of the puns almost caused me physical pain (madam Goldiga, Gho Ghettar, Swetti Tracksute...) :/

No, but you see, the chart says that the audience's feeble little brains wouldn't be able to handle if a game weren't taking place in the US.

Seriously though, the 4th case of Spirit of Justice had me laughing hard. Is it me or does each installment try to deny the obvious Japanese setting harder and harder?

Used it only to get some free - but not that great - 3DS themes, that's about it.

@CrazedCavalier It was referring to Google using dark magic to pull the moon into the Earth, to which panic would be the appropriate response

So with Poke Pelago, basically, Pokemon can go somewhere where they are well taken care of (like at prof. Oak's in the anime) instead of being stuck as digital data in the PC. Nice touch.

Those evolutions are really good. I hope that they do indeed share the Rockruff thing of having two final evolution designs.

Unless the Google CEO starts dancing on top of the Big Ben Clock Tower, there is no reason to panic

Is that the same guy as the one who said Vita failed because people only want mobile gaming on their phones now?

I'll take all the fanservice I can get, but the animation in this one is... unfinished. Especially visible at 1:31

He's still a cartoon character so the age doesn't change much.

It's a tiny miracle that Mario's design does not come across more weird or creepy. A blue collar mustached adult man drawn as a cute cartoon character is not exactly the first idea that comes to your mind if you were creating a kid-friendly mascot today. Cool how they rolled with the design originating from the technical limitations of the NES and can make it work even today.

Oh, so Nintendo could hold a Nintendo Direct about the NX? monocle pops Whaaaat? Most unorthodox!

It could point to the actual price, or it could not, so I won't speculate. If I'm getting the NX, it probably won't be in 2017 anyway, unless it comes out with SMT5 and an HD Fire Emblem or something...

@Xaessya Maybe, since the skull is on the outside, it's not actually anatomically a skull but rather some kind of exoskeletal shell that they shed as they grow?

@Royalblues The silent protagonist fits Persona well because it's a game about forming bonds between the characters and you, the player. The stoic expression doesn't set anything in stone, the protagonist in both 3 and 4 has a plenty of silly dialogue choices. If anything, I'd welcome some slight customization. A protagonist like, let's say Shulk, would ruin it in my opinion.

Gimme gimme gimme

Just thinking about this game, Persona 5 and Etrian Odyssey 5 physically makes me squee like a little girl. ....Good thing I can control it in public.

European release can't come soon enough.

@AlexSora89 Yeah well, I was mostly talking about online, so it isn't immediately full of Scizor and Talonflame. It does kinda suck for taking away that option in single-player playthrough, for those who would want it that way right away. I don't mind it that much, since I want my first playthrough of Moon to be with the Pokemon available in the game as Gamefreak designed it (exploring the world as when I first played Red). Maybe sometime later I'll try it again with a pre-designed team (I did that in X with Delphox, Skarmory, Flygon, Togekiss, Galvantula and Mienshao)

Does Passimian rip off Exeggutor heads and use them as weapons?

Is Eevee Captain Planet?

How do I fit 50 Pokemon into a team of 6?

#therealquestions

Good. This way we can have a fresh start and an authentic experience of everyone only using Pokemon native to Alola online for a few months.

I'm curious whether you will be able to use Pokemon caught in previous games on battle spot/competitions later. Not like XY, which required all the Pokemon to have that little blue pentagon on them. Otherwise, that would mean only the Kalos forms being usable.

@Allspice Oh right, I remembered wrong. Must have been with something saying how Digimon was brought to the US first.

@Noelemahc Digimon is also older than Pokemon. I never said anything about Pokemon being the first collectible monster fictional world or anything.

@AlexSora89 I didn't ever have a Nintendo home console and none of my friends did either, so I only knew Crash racing games when I was a kid. The last one I played and enjoyed was Crash Tag Team Racing, if I remember correctly

Not sure how many people used to buy consoles because of these racing games, so either way, I wouldn't call them "killer" of each other, just similar titles.

@AlexSora89 You're right. We don't have to even have to stray too far from Pokemon. Many people like Yokai Watch, which is also a mon game aimed at kids. But... I can see how that style of game naturally fits the Level 5 style. There are enough differences from Pokemon. They also had some monster battling elements in Ni no Kuni and that worked well. Similarly, the Crash characters also lend themselves well to a crazy cart racing game.

I just think you can make a better game by doing your own thing and just looking at similar things for inspiration, instead of cynically trying to copy them because of what's popular and is currently making money. I don't think Crash Team Racing was supposed to be a "Mario Kart killer".

Because the best games are always made by trying to copy something that is already successful in that area.

So it was the Beauty Ultra Beast that killed the... wait...

@hieveryone Indeed. I beat the Naoya path (because it's the best :3), the Amane path immediately after (because I still wanted more), and I still plan to finish other paths someday in the future.

@Mr_Zurkon @yannah21

Well, I'd recommend playing SMT4 before SMT4A, since Apocalypse is more of a direct sequel, seems to continue the story immediately after the events of 4 and previous characters remain as major players in the story. Plus, it's also on the 3DS.

Other than that, as someone who has yet to play Nocturne, I can say you don't need to play the games before it to understand anything.

@MrSeitaro Dunno man, why would it be "forced"?

In SMT4, Walter and Jonathan were basically humanoid personifications of the Law and Chaos paths. I had major difficulty seeing them as actual characters, especially when compared to some other games from the franchise like Devil Survivor, not even mentioning Persona. From the promotional materials that I've seen so far, the characters in this one could be acting like actual characters, so at least the story should be more enjoyable.

The game should also be a bit less dreary, since it takes place after the events of the SMT4 Neutral path. The demons slaughtering people should now at least be taking place in daylight and in more color Each time I turned off SMT4, I felt like climbing out of a cellar.

Also, they improved the overworld.

I will probably support this eventually, if nothing else, because of the story of how it almost got no localization and to show Square Enix execs we still like turn-based RPGs.

Possible chance to see a BW protagonist vs. N, Reshiram vs. Zekrom? Sold!

Don't install it. It will make the 3DS so stable, even the movements of the Earth, Solar System and the Milky Way won't apply to it and it will fly right into the sky. Or through the planet's core, depending on your location.

Well yes, this is a natural phenomenon of what happens when something is released with enough mass exposure. There is an initial spike of users which then just as quickly dies down, but provided they provide a good service, the numbers can then keep steadily rising again, this time with more loyal user base.

(If anyone knows how this phenomenon is called, please remind me )

Chinese leaks were right again (the werewolf)

Since the original Donkey Kong was supposed to be a licensed Popeye game, that pipe seems oddly fitting.

Quelle surprise.

Hmm, this means cheaper non-Pro PS4, which I'm down with since I don't have some mega television monitor anyway. I'm curious how Nintendo will try to beat that.

I was expecting this to happen sooner or later, seems like the obvious move.

Although my dream would be eventually have an actual big budget Fire Emblem / Zelda on PC, but that is probably far away from reality for now.

Hi Lillie. Why so jelly-fishy?

I like the new Raticate, but since it's not an evolution or a mega evolution, it will probably be about as useful in multiplayer as a regular Raticate, which is not very much. As someone who would like for all Pokemon to be equally usable online against other players, this saddens me.

Also, Snap features in main games, yay.

The Type: Null thing reminds me of how I nickname my Reuniclus, Code:LILITH Sounds like a result of some experiment.

resist... the... cuteness... ngaaahh...

So what, God of War AR?

Although, speaking of a franchise that single-handledly made me buy a Vita, if Atlus were to do an AR Persona, so that people could build Social Links by spending time with real people, that could be quite interesting.

These creatures look a lot like something from Yokai Watch.

Time to wait for what the reviews have to say about Spirit of Justice and to dodge spoilers everywhere. Last time I accidentally got the Dual Destinies final villain spoiled for me, not wanna let that happen again.