#I have a handful of Pokemon board games and we got decorations and stuff - just a cute little thing

[sysig]

The world keeps spinning regardless

[prof-peach]

If you could cross over two of your favorite games, which would you choose? Please explain, why that crossover would be a good match.

Oh you’re going to regret asking this one, I’m bout to GET SERIOUS.

So Pokemon, obvs, I love the whole world it’s built in, but the games imo are REALLY boring, I haven’t enjoyed one a lot since gale of darkness, the main ones just are a little too linear obvious plots, pretty standard setups for story and style. Speaking of style, the games lack personality, the models aren’t animated well, moves have no dynamic energy or visual difference at times, and the turn based battle style just feels kind of, I don’t know, old? Slow? Just doesn’t suit what I enjoy personally, gives me a FInal Fantasy vibe and I just cannot stand the speed at which things happen in those games, plus not into 3rd person ‘let’s build a team of people’ much, but that’s a problem for another time. With this all in mind, the game I wish would happen is like gen20 Pokemon, far future sadly, I doubt I’d see it in my lifetime but god I’d be happy if I did!

Ok so take the newest Zelda graphics, the visual treat that was BOTW, open world, puzzles, not JUST combat, you got side missions, hunt the chickens, find missing pets, parcels, items, whatever. Love it! The horse taming?! Amazing you funky little game. Now take the bad guys and beasts from that. And put Pokemon in instead. Give them the diversity, the life and believable natures that BOTW gave the animals, I followed a frog in BOTW for 15 minutes, and it was a great experience, it felt like it was believable. Above world spawning, ACTUAL difficult gameplay, rare spawn rates, make dragons hard to get again, cmon, it’s too easy now, make it so we need a certain set of Pokemon for certain tasks. Water types big enough to carry you will be able to get you to new areas, rock types that can help you climb mountains faster, or break through blocking boulders. Actual towns with more than 4 houses in them, shops, barns, farms, homes. Like little link with the heat, maybe ice types would struggle in volcano areas, or bug Pokemon not be so comfortable in gale force winds. Give the weather more of an effect on your partners. Mounts, don’t even get me started that Pokemon Let’s go had you able to ride any of the larger species, but swsh did not???? Bitch please, give me my rideable Pokemon. The wild area too was far too closed, limited, online was laggy and a mess, camping is limited, let me do more with my team. Pokemon for me is all about the actual creatures, how they live with humans, and the many wonderful things they’re capable of. Yes of course it’s cool they can fight, but like what else you know?

I’d love a game that lets me buy a plot of land, maybe plant things, custom build things. I’m a sucker for the fallout4 settlement builds when they’re modded to hell and back, they’re fun! It can be a really calm and creative process. If I could do that and skip the main campaign and all the battles for a bit? Amazing, it sound perfect for me. I am that distracted hoe collecting flowers while the kingdom burns in the background. Side quests are everything to me. Let me give homeless people enough money to get them in a home? Let me adopt Pokemon that are stray around the town? Plz oh plz bring me a Pokemon game that allows me to work WITH my team to do more than KO other species. I want to save and buy a plow for my buddy gogoat, and grow amazing foods to sell to get currency to spend in decorations, to spoil my team. Give me actual game consequence, if I ignore that sick and injured Pokemon I find in the wild, later maybe it’s family don’t want to help me out with a different problem, too stricken from grief. I am all about the average bits, the old women who need help, the lost pets board in town, the general day to day stuff. Let me get cosmetic items for the Pokemon I keep, cute outfits, special gemstone items, let me actually live with them, or even feel remotely like they’re realistic.

Ok so in game, if it’s looking like BOTW it’s pretty beautiful but also stylised, I’d have it so you can send out a maximum of 3 Pokemon from your 6, using bumpers and such to throw them out. If you hit the trigger you switch from controlling the human trainer, to the Pokemon you’ve targeted with a standard lock on targeting system. You then can be the leader, but be the Pokemon. You could technically defeat the game without a human if you wanted, which incorporates the mystery dungeon games I think, and caters to that crowd. I’d love to see the use of attacks out of battle, things like using water gun to grow plants, using ember to start a campfire faster and stave off the cold. There’s no consequence to Pokemon anymore, and I think that’s where it’s lost me. I have to admit I miss the days of a poisoned pokemon fainting if you don’t heal them soon enough, I miss gym battles that were actually tough, damn, try picking charmander in red and beating brock without grinding in viridian forest first, it’s not easy. And I loved that. Yes it’s a child’s game, it will never be difficult again, but god it’d be nice to have a bit of a challenge, or maybe a difficulty setting, so some could play it with hostility turned off, great for kids, or you can be n adult like I know so many Pokemon fans are, and play it on expert mode and ACTUALLY have to work hard to beat the game. Alternate skill trees anyone? Train gun a fire type to ACUTALLy combat water moves?? Please! Cmon! It frustrated me that every challenger has pretty much a systematic set of moves to use to win. Grass opponent? Fire attack spam until you win. It’s dull, so at least with very difficult tricks to either find or learn in game would make it more achievable if you can send that fire type in and I don’t know, train them so much the heat evaporates the water mid-battle and you suddenly have a shot at winning. Pokemon has taught me that if you work hard enough you can achieve something, but the games just have such strict ways to win. Feels wrong.

In terms of battling, let us BE the Pokemon, let us learn to dodge, train our speed, train our defence, make a team of truly tough Pokemon instead of just, average? Some species have a cap on their skills, a squirtle has lower stat points than a Charizard, but you can’t ever change that? Let me choose the Pokemon I believe in, and let me work with them until they’re just as good, if not better than the game tanks. This would also make online battles more interesting. Everyone picks the top trio. Fairy, dragon, legendaries. And yknow what? It’s boring. That one IRL fight with the monster Pacharisu that won in the world tournament with follow me and the situs Berry? Unbelievable, I love that little rat so much because of this, so let us all have a chance to build a team that’s strategically viable, strong, and potentially a winner formula, even if they aren’t fully evolved, or the biggest Pokemon in the world. Yeah maybe you have to grind way harder with your unevolved Pokemon, but you get to the end game and win, because you put love and time into species that you enjoy, not just good fighters.

Unfortunately I am beholdent to Todd-idiot-Howard, and I love the Eldrescrolls and fallout games (before they got dumb, not that I don’t play the new ones. 76 I’m looking at you, you big asshole game.) honestly I hate online games, so none of that junk, just a good old fashioned open world sandbox game is plenty. Games for me are an escape from others, not an invitation to socialise. To each their own of course, and I do play online games sometimes, just pretty short lived ones, over watch and rdr2 for example. Would they be sometimes better on private servers? Yes of course, fallout76? Want to play with others? No. I do not. Please leave me alone. And if you buy a private server you’re feeding the monster that is Todd Howard, the man the myth the asshole, then we’ll get more bad games like 76. I just so desperately want the Pokemon company to see what a beautiful potential game they’ve got on their hands, that could be suitable for far greater audiences, but instead they’ve focused on the kids. It’s fine, it’s functional, but it’s lost to the fans from day 1, that are all 20+ years old now and want something meatier to play, something far more broad and inclusive. I also hate that there’s no wheelchair option in any Pokemon game. Like cmon, it’s not hard to include that.

In short, BOTW + Pokemon, with a sprinkle of open world sandbox to it, less fighting, more fun. Or, at least both options. Sure, go fight everything, great, but I want to farm carrots over here with 6sunflora, plz let me have some peace.

Edit: I forgot about harvest moon, chuck some of that in there too.

SECOND EDIT: someone in the comments mentioned to put this in Unova? Plz love yourselves, this game would be ALL MAPS. Stuff one singular location, this is the ideal game, put every map in it, join them, put islands in, make them more explorable, more detailed!

[rhodirachel]

Ribbons | 8 | An Undertale Fanfiction

Chapters

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |

Summary

                                                                                                                Formerly known as “New Years Present”

Frisk deals with battles time and time again- her PTSD from the Underground, the constant hate between Humans and Monsters, and more. What will happen if she sinks too deep in something she cannot grasp?

Part of my/an original Undertale AU, REMTale.

Rating: M

Words:   3,265

Relationships: Papyton, Frans, Alphyne

Warnings: Possession, PTSD, Schizophrenia, Borderline Personality Disorder

I try to overcome the dizziness that has seemed to permanently affect me as I change from my hospital clothes to my regular clothes. Sans and Alphys were both waiting outside the door for me, and Asgore had promised me that when he saw Toriel this afternoon he would go and talk to her. We sat down after Sans and Alphys walked out of the room, and Asgore told me that I shouldn't worry about what I had done. I was just protecting the people that I care about; there was nothing wrong with doing that. I give him a smile and a nod, but deep down it was eating me to the core. it wasn't me. There was no other way to put it. I try to shake it off of my mind as best as I can, for now at least. I just want to be able to get to Alphys' house in one piece.

I get out of the room, and apparently Alphys had already signed a few papers that would let me out of the hospital. We head down to her car and we make our way over to Toriel's house so I can grab some things before I spend time at Alphys' house. It is a short drive, but it felt like it was an eternity in the car. Everything was silent, and it wasn't a comfortable silence, either. I could tell that the whole situation right now was awkward. I rest my head against the window of the car, wondering about what's going to happen when I get to Toriel's house. Would she even be there? If she was, would she even say anything to me? What would she even say? It's not like I could explain everything to her. I could barely do that with Sans; how am I supposed to believe she would believe something like that? She would probably just scoff at me and start yelling at me more for making up 'such a terrible lie'. I try and close my eyes to just drift away from it all, but that's stopped short when the car suddenly stops.

"Alright, Frisk. You go on ahead and get your stuff, Sans and I will be waiting in the living room for you when you finish, alright?"

I open my eyes and nod to Alphys. I get out of the car and run inside the house. I look around the place rather quickly, but I soon notice that Toriel is nowhere to be seen here. I was relieved as I was saddened, walking up the staircase to my room. I grab a suitcase I had in my closet, and I start picking out clothes to bring with me and some other things. I made sure to bring some books and manga, and I also brought a few old Pokemon games with me on a whim. I made sure to get all of the other essentials, and I started my way down the living room where Sans and Alphys were waiting. I stop in the middle of the hallway when I start to look over all of the pictures that Toriel and I had taken. We had pictures from all of our trips, from me just getting out of the Underground to where I am now. I can't stop staring, even if I don't want to. How could just a matter of, who knows- five, ten minutes, change something so much about how you perceive something, or someone. She probably is so furious at me still. I close my eyes to stop myself from tearing up. What if something like this happens again? What if something even worse happens? I didn't want to think about it; it made me sick to my stomach. I drag myself down the staircase to where Alphys and Sans were, and we left the house. We all made our way into the car, and we started driving over to Alphys' house. It was probably about twenty to thirty minutes away, and so I tried to pass the time by playing the games I had brought. I had no idea how to start a conversation with the too at the moment, and I couldn't let my mind wander anymore. It depressed me too much.

A little bit later we get to Alphys' house. It was a classic Colonial right behind the sidewalk, lined up with other countless houses that went down the road and up the hill. The Colonial was red, but there were abundant amounts of white highlighting. The whole house was covered in flowers and various greenery, making the whole scene come to life. We got out of the car and made our way to the door. The house had a beautiful wrap-around porch that had beautiful decorum. The whole piece looked like it belonged in a movie.

"Alphys, this is a great work that you’ve done on this house. It’s really beautiful.” I give her a polite smile.

“Oh, actually, I wasn’t the one who had made all of this.” Alphys leans over towards us, “Truth be told, Undyne has a really big knack for decorating. She loves it.

Alphys had knocked on the door to their house, and we waited there for a moment that carried on to quite the awkward silence. Just when it was about to get even worse, Undyne opens the door with a whoosh of excitement and pulls me into a hug.

“Hey, Punk! I haven’t seen you in a while!” she is really excited.

I giggle and I hug her back. She was right, we hadn’t even seen each other since the party on New years. That must have been at least a month ago, I’m sure of it. We hug for just a little bit longer until she lets me back down so I can bring my suitcase into the house. I ended up just leaving my suitcase by the door for now, and Undyne led us into the living room so she could make some tea for us and we could hang out. For a Colonial, the room seemed very spacious. Well, that’s probably because of the fact that their living room and their kitchen were basically the same room. It was more of like a walk-in kitchen, but it looked really nice. I also thought it was really cool that even though they added their modern touches, they relatively followed the theme of the house. Traditional, but with a pop that just made you feel happier when you walked into the house. I know it made me feel better when I walked in. Honestly, though, my SOUL couldn’t be hurting any worse. It was throbbing, like it was just slit open by a million blades, and left to lie there while it bled out of its own control. I tried to shrug it off and be casual, but it was getting harder and harder. I’d do it for them, though. I always will.

“So Alphys tells me that you’re going to be staying with us for a little bit?”

I look over to see it’s Undyne who's asking me the question, and I smile back. “Yeah, I’m going to be staying for a while. I really hope it’s not an inconvenience.”

Undyne gives me a groan, and I scoff. “Why would you be an inconvenience? C’mon, it’s going to be so fun! Like an extended sleepover! We can horse around, we can- oh my God, we can binge watch anime.”

Now that gets me to laugh, and Undyne sits down next to me with a tray of tea that she had pulled out of the fridge. Undyne was always known to make the best tea in town; even to the point where she was starting to make a little bit of extra money off of it. With this knowledge, naturally I am the first to grab a cup of her sweet tea. Undyne turns on the television and starts asking us what we want to watch, but Undyne and Alphys already agree on an anime that they really wanted to watch. I look over to see how Sans is doing, and I see him smiling at me. Not that smile that gives you butterflies, and not that smile where you know they have butterflies. It’s a smile that wants you to be okay. It’s a smile that hopes that you’ll be okay.

It’s a smile that would do anything to make sure that you’ll be okay.

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“Hey Sweetheart, I need to talk to you about something.”

I turn around from washing the dishes to see Sans staring at me. He has sort of a weird look in his eyes, but I don't know what it means.

“Oh? Okay, what do you need?”

“Um, I think we should tell Alphys about what is going on.”

My heart thumps in my chest. “W-wait, what do you mean?”

He walks up closer to me, and I slowly go back to doing the dishes. "You know, the thing about the dreams... this- this person-"

"Sans, do you know how much of a bad idea that is? She'd probably just call me crazy. Even if she did believe me, what can anyone even do about it? It's not like they can just give me a cure that will make it all better again. It seems... too real for that, I guess."

Sans sighs and reaches out to hold my now shaking hands, clutching the plate I’ve been washing.

“Frisk.”

I turn to look at him, and his eyes are dead on me.

“We are your family. We all love you. Even if there is nothing we can do to help you, you need to at least tell them so they can at least know why you’ve been acting so different. Otherwise, nothing is going to change, Frisk.”

He lets go of my hands and shrugs. “I’m telling Alphys. It’s your decision if you want to go and tell Undyne.”

I look over my shoulder and watch Sans walk off and up the stairs. I finish doing the dishes from the tea that we all had for the afternoon, and later Undyne had started to make Mexican food for dinner as she had promised us earlier in the day. Undyne had finished up a little later, and Alphys, Sans and I had to practically drag ourselves from the anime we had started watching earlier just to eat some food. Undyne eventually said, though, that we could eat at the couch so we could all continue the anime. It was pretty obvious that everyone was on board with the idea.

Undyne had made these beautiful burritos with chicken, steak, and shrimp. It was all mixed together with onions and green peppers, and even some mushrooms. There was no other word to describe it but absolutely delicious. We all had a laugh-fest though, because as I was trying to make my burrito it all pour out onto the plate from the tortilla wrapping.

“Guys, it’s not my fault! I’m terrible at gift wrapping, you expect me to be good at this?!”

It was all over the place, and what I had said only made everyone laugh even more. I giggled with them, and we had all sat down to continue watching the anime that we were watching.

“So how are you guys liking the anime?” asked Undyne.

“It is so good,” I said. I had never seen anything like it. The art was absolutely beautiful, some of the scenery alone could bring you to tears. The story was so good, and you just absolutely fell in love with the characters. It was so easy to connect to it all; it was so easy for it to inspire you. It was absolutely breathtaking.

Later during the night, Alphys had gotten a call from the facility that she worked at saying that she needed to come in for a late night shift. With that, we sort of had to end the night early. Everyone cleaned up, and we had turned off the anime that we were watching. Undyne wanted to put on a show that we had at least all seen, and so she decided to put on none other than Teen Titans.

“Oh my goodness, Undyne. Even before falling into the Underground, one of my only memories is this show. When there’s trouble you know who to call…”

Undyne cackles and chips up. “Teen Titans!”

Undyne and I kept singing the theme song for the show until there was a noise from upstairs. I told Undyne I’d go see what it was, and I brought my suitcase along with me as well. My spare room was just down the hall, so I didn’t see any harm with knocking two birds with one stone.

I notice that the first door upstairs is cracked slightly, and that it was where the noise was coming from. I stand next to the door frame, trying to keep myself out of the way of the door in case something happens. I can overhear a conversation.

“Oh, give me a break, Sans. How do you even know if what she is saying is true? Even if she wasn't “lying” to you, how do you know that she isn't even just seeing these things or something?”

“Alphys, I honestly don’t think that that’s what it is…”

“Then what is it then, huh? How can someone who isn’t even real just magically do this to someone?”

I open the door and I walk in on them both. Sans and Alphys quickly turn around, and they both look paler than ever at the sight of me.

“Oh, h-hey, Frisk. How are you doing?”

I didn’t really know why I barged in here in the first place, but there’s no turning back now. Even though my throat feels like it’s about to shut tight forever, I’m able to get some air together to at least say something to them. I don’t know whether or not to be mad, sad, or shocked.

“Oh, well, I don’t know. I’ve been feeling a little bit like shit lately,” I brought a hand up to my mouth dramatically and gasped, “but- oh, wait! I bet I’m just making that up, too. You know, with another piece of my SOUL missing and all.”

I was terrible at giving comebacks, but it felt good to at least give some kind of one. I stormed out of the room they were in and went straight to mine. I wanted to think that I couldn’t believe that Alphys wouldn’t believe me, but of course I couldn’t think that. It was obvious that there was a possibility she wouldn’t. I even told Sans that. I decided to just go ahead and start unpacking my bag, if anything to at least get my mind off of stuff. Hours had past and I was long done with unpacking, so I decided to play my games that I was playing earlier in the day. I didn’t want to think anymore about what was going on with me, and I didn’t want to think anymore about what the other thought about it.

“Hey, kid.”

I turn around from the wall I was facing while playing my game, and I see Sans standing in the middle of my room, looking down at me.

“Hi.” I go back to facing the wall I was at, continuing my game.

A deep silence permeated the air, only for a moment.

“I’m sorry you had to hear all that.”

I stand up and turn around to face him.

“Who do you even believe, Sans?”

Sans looked down at the ground, trying his best not to stare back at me.

“Are you going to believe someone who doesn’t even know what’s really going on with me, or are you going to believe the person who loves you-”

“How are you sure you  even know what’s going on, Frisk? Oh wait, that’s right. You don’t know what’s going on with you. No one does.”

“So you’re just going to believe Alphys because she is apparently the ‘almighty genius’? Last time I checked, Sans, she wasn’t the one who was having these dreams. Or these freaky take-overs.”

Sans lets out a deep scoff, and turns away from me. “Whatever you say, sweetheart.”

Sans disappears without a trace. I go over to sit back on my bed, and I put my head in my hands. Not even Sans seems to believe me.

I look over at the clock that lays on my bedroom nightstand. It’s just struck midnight. I lay back on my bed, and continue playing my game. I’m tired of dreams for now.

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