- I can appreciate more than ever the back-to-basics approach they're taking with this one
- Galar looks pretty
- James Turner seems pretty based, hopefully he didn't just spoil his best designs
- Wooloo is pretty cute, I might like it more than Mareep strictly in terms of design
- Gossifleur is even cuter, but Eldegoss is bit of a downgrade and reminds me of Jumpluff
- Drednaw is great, we have MANY turtles as it is but we've needed a snapping turtle
- Corviknight might be my favorite, idk, it's between it and Drednaw
- I'm glad they're sticking with a mixed generation pool of mons to catch, which is the best system
- The Wild Area is a welcome idea, open world concepts without being an open world game?
- Not really about this Dynamax thing, like CMD said it's a lazy substitute for megas, why not just bring megas back?
- Those legendaries are BAD
- those case covers are AWFUL, and i can't believe i still don't know which one to get
- November 15 is a good release date
- the Double Pack intrigues me, but it's probably gonna be $100 and i'm not sure if that's worth

overall good impressions, but there's a few iffy things

the fact that no villainous organizations were mentioned is interesting as well

Grookey would be lower than Sobble, because we have WAY too many monkeys at this point, but I decided to look at it from a vacuum instead. I've also changed my mind on Eldegoss; it's not a downgrade, I was just expecting Gossifleur to evolve into something else, rather than something we've already been shown previously in the Direct.

and in other news

i lost against guzma the first time around in aether paradise.

i also lost against lusamine but i guess they expected you to lose

i dont think these games deserve to be called piss easy,  ive had plenty of tough and/or  exhilarating battles

or maybe im just bad

These Raid battles look a bit more interesting than I thought they would.

Also looks like you can catch KOed Pokémon (at least in raid battles)

30 minutes of gameplay

haven't watched it myself so not sure if worth, but yeah

yea ive been hearing that too, about no nat dex

that is very lame indeed, but i guess thats what happens when youre about to have almost 1000 pokemon

we got a couple new pokemon revealed in this E3 demo



Yamper, an Electric-type corgi (whose mere existence confirms a big leak)



Impidimp, the first Fairy/Dark-type

idk, i like em both

i think impidimp is sure to evolve into something cool

so, after seeing a lotta people complain about the whole "no nat dex" thing, ive realized im kinda in the unpopular opinion camp

i dont think it's the end of the world

yes, it is questionable that they advertised Home as a place where all your pokemon can be transferred (and im sure they realized about the potential limbo some pokemon can be in, since it's a one way trip for all games except SwSh)

ive seen a lotta people complain about not being able to transfer or even see their favorite pokemon, and i think they should move on? im sure they have sentimental value but it's silly to play the game with old pokemon rather than trying something new. thats, of course, just my opinion

ive seen a lot of people claim theyre not gonna buy the game anymore because of this. while i can understand not wanting to support GF, i just kinda think people are overreacting a teensy bit...

i can see where you're coming from

i'm definitely not angry about it, just disappointed, since "catching 'em all" is the original tagline for the series, and completing that dex is what makes the games fun for a lot of people

"remember that thing you've always wanted to do as a kid? NOPE, you can't do that here, not anymore"

i'm okay with trying new things (i always try to train an entire team of newly introduced pokemon every generation), but knowing my all-time favorite since gen 1 probably isn't going to be in the game because it's not popular enough kinda sucks

it's not the end of the world, just a kind of a bummer, you know

after 75 hours, ive finally finished UM’s main story

gotta say, i had an absolute blast playing this game. i went in not expecting much, yes its not THAT much different from SM but i dont care. i think i have a new found appreciation for alola (i never really liked it in Moon, tbh)

but yea, ive forgotten how much i enjoyed playing pokemon. ive played it pretty much the 20 years ive been alive and i hope the memories of this game & my team stays... alright no more sappiness 

after a few days of putting it off, i just completed the RR episode

it was cool to see all the boss villains again, but oh god what did they do to their battle themes

i kinda only liked cyrus’ & lysandre’s and what they did to maxie/archie is a crime

but ig giovannis theme made up for them. super cool. this is the first time in the series hes actually gotten a unique battle theme, no?

whoa, you know what i just realized?

black, white, gold & silver are the only paired games in the series whose mascots dont revolve around the colors red and blue

like, dialga and palkia? blue & pink (close enough)

xerneas and yveltal? blue & red

it could be argued that solgaleo and lunala dont fit, but theyre orange & purple which is basically the same thing

i think b/w and g/s still fit if you think of it more as warm vs. cool rather than red vs. blue

gold and black are warmer colors, and silver and white are cooler colors, so they still fit the scheme

or at least, that's always how i saw it

But this? Just a small amount of all pokemon available and having to pay to transfer a bunch of your older ones? Yeah, fuck that.

the galar dex could be huge for all we know, but i see where you're coming from regardless