#also hire me pls game freak i have ideas lol

[jisuto]

On the topic of game reception, what are your thoughts on the current state of pokemon?

OK THIS ASK WAS SENT BEFORE THE HUGE LEAK LOL but I have a lot to say:

I watched VHS tapes, played the games, and owned merch since a young age so the series is very special to me. But I don't like the current direction at all and it's not because of the designs or nostalgia. The quality and game performance plummeted so how can I enjoy playing when there's mad lag or low frame rate that hinders my progress and worsen the experience??

It took too many years for them to realize they need to put quality over quantity after the SWSH mess, seeing that they can get away with pretty much ANYTHING and still make huge profit. You see people say that Pokemon should've never went 3D and stay 2D but tbh, it's a series that improves it's graphics as technology advances so it's not a surprise for them to finally go 3D and personally I think that's fine but just keep it looking good and fun (though I would love a 2D/3D hybrid). XY introduced a lot of new features but still lacked in some aspects that still haven't really been solved or added.

Reusing assets is common in the industry but only to a certain extent. They claimed that SWSH was taking a while to make because they were making brand new models which turned out to be a lie and they look like bootleg figures with the new lighting. The 3DS models were ripped from Pokepark, including some animations, but a lot of them still barely have any character. They have their own in-house team (Creatures Inc) so they made the decision NOT to have pokemon properly animated or look alive.... Also they made spin-offs like Ranger, Colosseum, Pokepark, and Pokken which look AMAZING

FRLG took only one year while HGSS was being developed at the same time as Platinum and took 3 years to finish that turned into one of the best games and remakes ever made. As the franchise expands, the team also needs to add more manpower but Game Freak can definitely afford to get more resources to help them?? They can't continue having a ragtag team of like 20 people to make a game back then and do the same now then expect good results... Hire more people who know how create with current gen consoles IT'S COMMON SENSE PLS also I can't believe they had a different company create BDSP knowing how beloved and groundbreaking DPPT was?? No redesigns like the previous remakes and thought it was a good idea to keep it looking a carbon copy to the DS style...

Also it's shocking to see how fan reception can change how the devs direct the next gen ESPECIALLY when it's not even real constructive criticism?? When Unova came out, I remember seeing all the online outcry about "OH THEY HAVE AN ICE CREAM CONE POKEMON AND A TRASH BAG, THEY'RE RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS EW" then actually hear it being repeated at school.... I WAS TRYING TO SURVIVE SINCE DAY 1 IN THE TRENCHES DEFENDING THIS GAME IT WAS ALWAYS GOOD AND DIDN'T NEED 10 YEARS TO AGE WELL. It's crazy how these are the same people who want another Kanto when Trubbish is Grimer (garbage waste) and Vanillite is Voltorb (based on literal items) then you could not catch any other pokemon from different regions in the main game. And the leak confirmed that the disgruntled hate from the west made the devs not release new pokemon in B2W2 and move them over to XY instead AND NOT GIVE A SINGLE GEN 5 MEGA EVOLUTION. So we were robbed because of genwunners who were fixated on the wrong things and ignored all the great content Unova brought us. It's strange how players keep complaining they want a different and fresh game, but want it to continue being super formulaic and binary like wtf do you want make up your mind

None of the switch titles really got me invested and I always end up replaying the older games but hopefully PLZA will break the curse and finally give us a nice game. Also why don't we have more spin-offs on the switch if there's so many of them floating around like the DS had a bunch??? STOP BEING COWARDS I WANT A POKEMON NINTENDOGS GAME OR THAT FIRE EMBLEM CROSSOVER WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET. I JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN AGAIN ;w;

[iloveschiaparelli]

@sweetsoona To elaborate, basically, the Maze Runner movies were what got me through high school. I probably have watched Scorch Trials alone like 30-40 times since I first saw it in February 2017. My obsessive indulgence into what little BTS content I was able to get my hands on is what led to me deciding I wanted to work on 1 film, then multiple films, and now I want to work on MANY. As most of you probably know, Wes Ball is the director of all 3 movies, they're his first feature film work (Although he was originally hired by Fox straight out of college to develop a feature film based on his college thesis, Ruin. There is even an abandoned facebook page for the feature film. You can actually see a lot of influence from Ruin present in KOTPOTA and throughout the Maze Runner Movies, which I love. But I digress.

As a 17 year old who was freaking obsessed with the Maze Runner and the OST by John Paesano (who also did KOTPOTA btw), who had also recently discovered how to download Ren'Py and make visual novels with it (shitty ones, only one of which made it to release and which I will take to my grave with me because it was Very Cringe and I mean apocalyptically so.) I also am a 2D digital artist.

So in February 2020, in one afternoon I learned about the Mouse Guard feature film dir. Wes Ball and in the very same afternoon 20 minutes later learned about it being cancelled in the Disney Fox acquisition. TO THIS DAY I am still bitter about it, especially now that I've read some of the comics and realized how badly we have been burned by the cancellation. If I ever win the lottery I am giving Wes Ball full funding and unconditional artistic freedom to make it happen. Just let me be a PA 👉👈.

Anyway this all came together, with the first several weeks of quarantine, to create the perfect storm. I decided I was going to make an otome where you go on a date with Wes Ball and get married, and the game would be filled with BTS content for whatever movie was being made (i hadn't learnt it yet but it would have been KOTPOTA lol) and my idea is that it would be one of a series of games about my fav directors. In hindsight, as someone who has now been in film a bit, CRINGE!!!!!!! Filmmakers are real people too. Can't believe I did this. But anyway I drew my own BGs and CGs and started making the script from scratch. it was barely any content but here is the kiss CG I had put together for when he kisses you over dinner at a fancy restaurant while wearing that RATTY HAT that Wes Ball wore in LITERALLY EVERY ON SET INTERVIEW UNTIL KOTPOTA at which point I assume it was just too thoroughly in rags to keep wearing.

And here is a screen recording of the entire irredeemably embarassing 2 minutes of content I made. Unedited. It's been 4 years since I made this and I legitimately forgot it existed until 2 weeks ago when I found my old ren'py project files on a thumb drive in my bedroom. Also, in hindsight, I really should have dreamed bigger and made the player character like, part of the crew or something. A magazine journalist is so much less believable. Also Wes Ball if you see this I am in film school dropout limbo due to economic disaster in a city with no film activity pls help <3

On my hands and knees begging you to elaborate because What

— @sweetsoona

This is the original tag anon is referring to

[near-seth-experience]

I know everyone clamors about wanting a Sinnoh remake, and while that’s something I’d love to see, I think they are capable of doing more/better.

this is a long post, so read more:

If I remember right, the excuse for not having every Pokemon in Sword/Shield was the amount of resources or something, right? Well, I was thinking about how they could potentially work around some of the more demanding technical aspects of the game, and an idea popped into my head when I was considering possible ways to simplify.

I was remembering how battles looked back in the day. I pulled up some gifs like this:

and I compared them with modern Pokemon, which can be anywhere from simple to the over-the-top Gigantamax moves:

Comparing the two, I cannot imagine Scorbunny’s Double Kick animation in 2019 took any more relative effort than the leaf blade in 2003. The main things that catch my eye in the Scorbunny gif are the weather, the background, and the idle animations of each pokemon. Back in the day, the pokemon were static images. At most, they would slide to signify movement. The backgrounds were a texture underfoot with a color scheme relative to the surroundings in the overworld. The weather would only show up between turns to remind the player of the ongoing effect.

If we dumb a new game down and bring battles back to 2D, that would cut down a significant amount. Enough, I’d wager, to make a full dex (and more) much more than viable. And if we’re going to downgrade the look of battles, we would have to adjust the rest of the game as well so that it isn’t jarring or out-of-place, which would cut down even more. 

The surroundings in recent Switch Pokemon games, especially outside, is pretty active and responsive. The vegetation, like bushes and flowers, sway in the breeze, and you push apart tall grass as you walk through. 

Back in the day, not so much. (this is a still image, but you know what I mean. it might as well be a gif. Shush)

In Let’s Go and SwSh, they animated a walk cycle for every available pokemon, they animated fainting, they animated getting hit, and they each have an animation for interacting with the trainer. 

In the scene below from HGSS, Dragonite’s overworld animation is like a two-frame sprite that they slid across the room. The wings are either up or down. If you interact with your partner Pokemon as it follows you in the overworld, it might do a little spin or hop at most.

If all ~900 (I think Calyrex puts us at 898) were to be included in a modern game, they would each need animations for battle, overworld sprites, movement animations, trainer interactions, expressions, and other stuff I’m probably not thinking about, with shiny variants on top of all of that. But, if all of the pokemon were in a game like HGSS, all that’s required would be the effort needed to make new assets. Tech limitations would be a non-issue.

But, it’s almost 2021. People nowadays would expect something of Nintendo DS quality or lower to be free in the app store. They would need to simultaneously dumb it down and improve the visuals to make something that would sell. It took a long way for me to circle back to it, but the idea that popped into my head that I mentioned at the beginning of the post was in regards to this conundrum.

I think a surefire way to breathe new life into Pokemon would be if they created a massive return-to-form and took stylistic notes from Square Enix.

Specifically,if they took inspiration from the look of Octopath Traveler:

Imagine this at night, with a Spiritomb or Gastly in front of the center tombstone.

Imagine a Pokemon Center and Mart in place of some of the houses. Modernize the architecture.

Angle the perspective of the battle in the classic Pokemon style, with your sprites in the bottom left, and the opposing ones in the top right. Imagine the traditional Pokemon battle Names & Health/EXP bars in their respective locations, and the interface in the bottom: fight / bag / poké / run.

And then, imagine the size of the game. Pokemon Platinum, for example, was (according to a few google results, unit conversion, and rounding up) somewhere close to 0.1-0.12 gigabytes. Pokemon Sword/Shield was something like 10gb, with another few gb on top for the two expansions.

Octopath Traveler is (again, google) 2.9gb

If you weigh all of the new assets required to make a Pokemon game in a similar style, (that’s all 900 Pokemon, all of the visual effects/lighting/shading, all of the textures in the world, all of the buildings, characters, animations, attacks, backgrounds, etc) against those in a modern 3D Pokemon title like SwSh, it would be incredibly lightweight, but an undertaking like this would still require a lot of time.

If you’re already keeping the fans waiting, and technical limitations cease being an issue, I say go big. It needs to be a labor of love. We’ll need more than one region to show off the entire dex. Pull a trick out of Gen 2′s book. Let us beat the Sinnoh League and then tell us to Surf and Waterfall our way to another region. Don’t just give us Sinnoh. Give us Sinnoh, Unova, and Kalos.

Or, better yet, if you really want to flex the creative muscles, give us Sinnoh, and then go crazy. Rework spinoff regions and write new stories. Redesign the Orre region from Colosseum & XD or show us Fiore & Almia from the Ranger games. There’s tons of untapped potential that can be brought into the canon of mainline titles.

[ii-kanjiiiii]

A Crazy Day at Miku Expo

A Vocaloid shitpost story

Warnings: swearing, contains Kaito x Meiko

Chapter 1

It was a normal day in the Cryptonloid household, like always. It was 12pm and Meiko was already up because she’s a normal person.

“GET UP YOU IDIOTS WE HAVE TO LEAVE FOR MIKU EXPOOO!!!!” she woke the rest of the Cryptonloids up as she was a thoughtful person.

“OH SHIT I FORGOT!!” Miku screamed. Her hair looked like Chuckie Finster from Rugrats but had a much larger mass.

“WAIT WHAT THE FUCK WE’RE PERFORMING TONIGHT?!!? PLS NOOOOO I HAVE A PIMPLE!!!” Len cried.

Miraculously, all of them had somehow forgotten that they had a Miku Expo concert in the mystical country of Hajarputa that night. Except for Meiko, because she was a responsible person.

Once they were done packing and getting ready, they went into their private Miku jet which was covered with Miku faces and had big words that said “HATSUNE MIKU” because Miku is the best and owns the world.

Inside, ‘World is Mine’ was playing on loop and the wall was covered in Miku wallpaper and posters. Meiko sat on a Miku couch at the front, because Meiko is queen and is obviously the sexiest one. Kaito, being the simp that he is, sat next to her.

Luka went all the way to the back of the Miku jet and sat in a Miku chair in the corner, away from everyone else as she was tired of everyone’s bullshit.

Miku and the demonic twins were in the middle, just jumping around and throwing shit everywhere as they were still high as fUCK from the FRUIT loops they ate for breakfast.

Suddenly, ‘World is Mine’ stopped playing, and the pilot made an announcement through the plane intercom. Or whatever it’s called lmao I don’t know.

“Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome onboard Flight Miku. We will be taking off from Sapporo to Hajarputa. I am Sonic the Hedgehog and I am your pilot for today. Just kidding bitch, my name is actually うんち(‘Jonathan Harris’ in Japanese). We are expected to reach Hajarputa in about 22 hours. I swear to God, PLEASE put on your seatbelts or you’re gonna fucking die. We also ask that you ensure your seats are in the upright position for take-off, if not you’ll fucking die. Please turn off all personal electronic devices, if not you’ll fucking die as well. Don’t smoke too, cause you’ll get lung cancer and fucking die. Thank you for choosing Miku Airlines. Enjoy your flight. I definitely will not crash this plane. I swear.”

'World is Mine’ was back playing on loop again.

“Well that was comforting,” Meiko said, being a sarcastic piece of shit.

“Lol what? I don’t remember hiring this man,” Miku said. “Lol, whatever,” she shrugged.

Some time after the Miku Jet took off, Kaito and Meiko started fighting over what they would name their non-existent kid that they would never have.

“If she’s a girl, Sakura is the best name!! It represents beauty and optimism,” Kaito said.

“It also represents death,” Meiko argued. “And who the fuck names their kid after a plant? Enaado is the best name!!”

“The fuck kinda name is Enaado?” Len, who was seated far away from them, muttered to himself. Meiko, who was somehow able to hear him, pulled a super soaker gun out of nowhere and squirted him all the way from the other end of the plane.

Some hours later, the vocaloids were bored as heck and ‘World is Mine’ playing on loop was driving them to insanity(except for Miku of course).

“Can you turn that shit off, Miku? I swear to God, if I hear “sekai de ichiban ohime-sama” one more damn time, my internal organs are going to explode,” Luka said, smashing her head against the wall.

“Geez, fine, Luka! You don’t have to be so mean about it, it’s not my fault you don’t know how to appreciate good art,” Miku rolled her eyes, then she changed the song to ‘Popipo’ on loop, which was probably 100x worse.

“YOU’RE my sekai de ichiban ohime-sama, Me-chan~<3” Kaito UwU-ed. She smacked him with a magazine.

Another time skip, Miku wanted to play truth or dare lmao. Luka, Miku and the twins sat in a circle and started playing.

“Oh yeah, by the way, Mei-nee and Kai-nii are in the game too,” Miku said.

“Wtf no thanks,” Meiko immediately said, not looking up from her magazine about self control & anger management.

“No, you can’t escape, Mei-nee,” Miku replied, staring intensely into her soul. She then got a piece of rope out of nowhere and tied Meiko and Kaito to their chairs.

“TRUTH OR DARE, MEI-NEE?” Miku asked, her eye twitching.

“Ugh, fine. Truth,” Meiko replied, as she had no other choice.

Meanwhile, Kaito was having Vietnam war flashbacks as Miku tying him to the chair reminded him of that one time he got kidnapped by Sonic the Hedgehog. (An event that happened in my other fanfic that I’m not going to post.)

“Do you want to make out with Kai-nii?” Miku asked with a stupid shitty grin on her face.

“What the fuck? Oh, HELL NO. I think I already know how this is gonna go,” Meiko muttered.

“AnSwEr tHe qUeStiOn!!!” Miku yelled impatiently, flipping the fucking table.

“Dare!” Meiko quickly said, sweating.

“I dare you to make out with Kai-nii,” Miku said, raising her eyebrows up and down like fucking Mr. Bean.

Upon hearing this, Kaito’s attention was caught and he snapped out of his Vietnam war flashbacks.

“GODDAMN IT!!” Meiko cursed.

“Oh my GOD, Kaito. Don’t give me THAT look,” Meiko said, terrified for her life as she noticed Kaito looking at her with considerable interest.

“Why the hell did you give that dare, Miku? Literally NO ONE wants to see that shit,” Len said, staring judgingly at Miku. He definitely did not have to see his parents smashing their faces together.

“Yeah, Len’s right,” Luka said. “Aight, Imma head out. Bye bitches,” she flipped her fabulous long hair and strolled out elegantly. Once she reached her seat at the far corner of the plane, she opened her laptop and looked at images of the Gingerbread Man from Shrek.

“Shut up Len and just watch the show!” Rin, who was just as delusional as Miku, scolded.

“MEIKOUT MEIKOUT MEIKOUT MEIKOUT MEIKOUT” the crazy girls started chanting.

I’m so sorry

I really have no idea where this shitty fanfic is going

TIME SKIP LOL

It was nighttime and the Cryptonloids were sleeping in their beds with Miku blankets and ‘Popipo’ was still playing on loop. Suddenly, the Miku Jet started shaking really hard, then everyone flew out of their beds and hit their heads on the ceiling. After a few seconds, the Miku Jet stopped shaking and everyone fell back to the ground.

“Heh heh, sorry folks. Just a little air turbulence is all,” Pilot うんち announced.

“What the actual FUCK?? “A ‘liTtLE’ aIR tUrBuLeNcE” he said!! I don’t think we should be entrusting that guy with our LIVES!!” Meiko seethed. “I’m going to have a word with him.” she stormed off to the Pilot’s cabin.

“Wait Me-chan, I’ll come too,” Kaito said, and tagged along with her for extra support because he was a good boyfriend.

Once they reached the Pilot’s cabin, she slid open the door and shouted “LISTEN UP, MISTER, DO YOUR DAMN JOB PROPERLY!!”

“Oh, Meiko-san, hello!” the pilot spun his chair around and smiled. “Oh, Kaito, you’re here too! How’s it going, buddy? Has Sonic been bothering you any more?”

Meiko and Kaito’s eyes widened as they realised who the pilot was.

“FUKASE??!!!!” they screamed in shock. His Ronald Mcdonald hair was unmistakable.

“No, I’m うんち. Who the hell is Fukase?” うんち/Fukase said.

“WHY ARE YOU FLYING A PLANE, FUKASE??!! AREN’T YOU LIKE, FOURTEEN?!??!!!” Meiko screamed.

“Uh, no, I’m fifteen. Also, the age of consent in Japan is thirteen, sooo I don’t see any problem with it,” he replied.

“WHAT THE HELL DOES AGE OF CONSENT HAVE TO DO WITH FLYING A PLANE???!!” Meiko screamed, ripping her hair out. I really need to stop using scream.

"Umm… with all due respect, Fukase, are you even qualified for this?” Kaito spoke up.

“Yeah, DUH. I’ve had years worth of flight experience from Microsoft Flight Simulator on the Xbox!” he replied. “What kinda dumb shit would hire someone who ISN’T qualified??”

“oH mAN OH GOD OUR LIVES ARE IN THE HANDS OF THAT DUMB KID OH MAN OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD-“ Meiko was hyperventilating in the corner and hugging her legs, sweat pouring down her face. It was unlike her to freak out like this, she was usually calm and kept her cool. However, this is Fukase we’re talking about, and any rational person would be freaking out and fearing for their lives.

“Breathe, Me-chan, breathe,” Kaito attempted to calm her down. “Don’t worry, okay? Everything’s gonna be just fine. Nothing bad will happen. Everything is okay,” he assured her, hugging her tightly.

“How would YOU know that???” she asked.

“I don’t,” he replied. “When things get rough, denial is all we have,” he said, giving his Stupid Bakaito Grin™.

TO BE CONTINUED MAYBE???1??1