#and go around paldea collecting them together

[wildflowercryptid]

thinking about kieran carrying on his family's craft of mask-making in the future... i think that'd be really cute.

[yamujiburo]

Got a few asks about what Pokemon I think Jessie and James would have if 1. they didn't just have the gacha machine and only caught Galarian Pokemon and 2. if they had the chance to go to Paldea

GALAR

Jessie: Sandaconda, Snom➡️Frosmoth, Impidimp➡️Morgrem

Sandaconda is a snake Pokemon. Jessie should be allowed to have all snake Pokemon. Period. Love the idea of her finding it and being unsure of what the hell she's looking at because it's all coiled up but upon it briefly uncoiling she falls in love.

Jessie should have had an Ice Type Pokemon at some point for real. Snow and ice play two big roles in her backstory (eating snow/growing up in a snowy location and her mother disappearing in an avalanche). Her having a lil Snom that's not particularly useful but that she grows to love would be so CUTE. They eat snow together!! Then I love the idea of her going from not thinking much of it to getting more and more attached to it over the series and then having it evolve to Frosmoth after some time (it'd remind her of her old friend Dustox)

Okay this one's gonna take a little explaining but I think it'd be so funny if at the same time, Jessie catches a Hatenna and James catches an Impidimp (mostly because Jessie wants the cute one). BUT Impidimp starts gravitating to Jessie because of her negative energy, which it feeds off of. She's much easier to prank and irritate than James, who's too much of a sweetheart and a little less susceptible to pranks. Jessie never finds out that Impidimp is the one pranking her but notices that it's taken a liking to her for some reason so she and James end up trading their Hattena and Impidimp with each other. It later evolves into Moregrem

James: Polteageist, Toxel, Hatenna➡️Hattrem

I think James is a tea lover, and enjoyed fancy teas when he was a child. Since he's a collector of bottlecaps and Pokeballs, I could see him also collecting teapots/teacups. Maybe they're in a haunted mansion one day and he grabs a teapot thinking it's a rare find but it's actually a Pokemon to his surprise. Also I think he deserves to have an Antique form, so it IS a rare find.

James having another baby Pokemon to fawn over like Mime Jr. would be so cute. It's an egg that the trio find but Jessie's too lazy to take care of it and Meowth's traumatized after the Togepi situation, not wanting to go through all that again. Toxel is born and it's James' everything. It's a bit bratty and constantly vying for his attention, usually by shocking and poisoning him but luckily James has built up an immunity to both those things thanks to Pikachu and Mareanie.

As stated before, James catches Impidimp initially but trades it for Jessie's Hatenna. Hatenna was NOT okay with the amount of emotions Jessie brought to the table and couldn't stand to be around her, often going to James who's much calmer between the two of them. Annoyed by it not liking her and finding that Impidimp DID like her, Jessie demands suggests a trade, which James is okay with as he's been growing attached to Hatenna. After it evolves into Hattrem, it starts (affectionately) smacking him whenever he shows too much emotion, carrying on the "James' Pokemon beat the shit out of him" legacy.

PALDEA

Jessie: Flittle➡️Espathra

Flittle just seems fitting for Jessie. She's always wanting a cute little baby Pokemon but funnily enough, never really gets one in the show. She absolutely pampers it and dresses it up. It eventually evolves into Espathra. Still being Jessie's mini-me, it often mimics her, particularly when Jessie's angry

James: Arboliva

Arboliva just feels like a Pokemon James would have LMAO. I think it'd be really sweet if after a particularly bad blast off, Arboliva finds Team Rocket and helps nurse them back to health even though they're mostly okay. They're grateful to it, James captures it and it continues to try mother all of them (in a less aggressive way than Bewear).

Shared: Scovillain

Listen. It'd be SO funny if Jessie and James shared a Pokemon. They see two Pokemon in the tall grass one day. A Pokemon with a red head and a Pokemon with a green head. Only having one Pokemon each at this time, they decide it's a good idea to catch another each. They throw their Pokeballs at the same time and the catch is successful! Just one problem. They find out the two Pokemon they tried to catch was actually just one Pokemon and they don't know which of the Pokeballs they threw was the one that actually caught it. They argue about it for quite a while but then agree to share custody. Leads to some funny scenarios where they're both trying to direct it in a battle. The red head prefers Jessie and the green head prefers James.

[cherrirui-official]

Friendlocke Violet Gijinkas (Part 1/7)

Since the edited episodes are starting to come out, I figured that bc of that and the fact that I've been keeping this in the back burner for a loooong while now, might as well complete all my friendlocke violet gijinkas!! Some are gonna stay the same while others are gonna have slight/ complete redesigns, so please keep that in mind!

I plan on posting them in order by groups of three, so there's gonna be seven parts in total, all of which I'll be linking here when done vvv

(Part Two) (Part Three) (Part Four) (Part Five) (Part Six) (Part Seven)

!! These will contain personal headcanons I have for the cast, little fun facts, and also spoilers for Friendlocke Violet (for both the edited vids and the streams) !!

@saltydkart-reblogs

And that's pretty much it, designs under the cut!

LARK:

HUGE nerd. spent most of his time during the Uva Academy studying different kinds of pokemon as well as different fighting styles he can utilize once he is able to go out on his own journey with his very own trainer! Too bad that didn't really help in the long run...

His entire wardrobe consists of McDonald's related outfits. It's fucking insane. He even has some from long LONG ago that aren't available anywhere else.

The bubble pattern on his hair is able to move and change. Nobody knows how this is possible, not even Lark himself. All Lark knows is that his hair looks incredibly stylish!

Speaking of bubbles, he has the ability to blow bubbles whenever and wherever he pleases!

Often keeps himself extremely clean and gets upset if even a small speck of dirt gets on him, despite this he somehow smells like McDonald's food and axe body spray. Disgusting. He's so cool!

Even after death he still likes to hang around the other team members as a ghost, often getting to know the newer members as well as reuniting with the old ones. Sometimes they see him, sometimes they don't. It usually depends.

SARA:

Due to being a human in her past life, Sara is able to actually speak with the other humans in the pokemon world. However she usually doesn't due to it being seen as extremely weird and out of place. She did slip up once while talking in the presence of Arven, who thought it was the weed making him hear things.

Oinkologne are usually unable to do much with their hooves but Sara spent nights practicing how to knit with her new hooves and now she's able to do it flawlessly. I don't know how she managed to do that but go queen!

When first joining the team she'd often have the urge to eat her food related companions. It was a strange time for Sara, but she managed to overcome it.

When Peppy gets sick, she usually is the one who nurses him back to health. She was a human once so she often is able to figure out whatever sickness Peppy has and treat it properly. I suppose she's like a second mother to him.

The bag she carries with her is full of thread that she collected from various Tarountula she encountered on the journey, as well as little things she knits together in her spare time.

For the most part, Sara forgives... but NEVER forgets.

Did you guys know that Sara has a new YouTube channel? Check it out!

Pastey:

Before joining the team, Pastey was a nameless wanderer. He's been down every road in Paldea and knows almost the entire region (except for Area Zero) like the back of his hand.

He's gotten hurt pretty badly throughout the run (ie. the Mikey fight, the Atticus fight, and ESPECIALLY the final battle), however, he does not gain any (physical) scars from those fights. This is bc he's basically an axolotl, and axolotls are usually able to heal without scarring.

Pastey's "arms" are, to put it simply, mud prosthetics. More info here vvv

Pastey HAS met Mall Bingo once before the run, however, he doesn't recognize her. The only reason he does not recognize her is bc she wears glasses. (You know how people somehow aren't able to recognize Superman bc he wears glasses in his civilian attire even tho his face remains the same? It's basically like that lmao)

Unlike the lightbulbs he eats, the gasoline he drinks isn't really mandatory to his diet. Gasoline is like alcohol to him and he drinks it like an absolute CHAMP.

He goes fishing when there's nothing else to do or when he can't sleep at night. He doesn't do this bc he thinks it's fun or anything, only bc it's a "good time passer" or so he claims. Other members of the team will often sit with him and vent out anything that's troubling them at the moment, and Pastey is always there to listen to them.

And that's pretty much it. Next is Joe, Hannah Ü, and Mykyie!

[mudboy-eliot]

Heya! Eliot reporting from Gateon Port!

Finally caved in to social pressure and made a Rotomblr blog.

My name is Eliot [they/them], I’m a Ground type specialist by choice and a Poison type specialist by accident.

I recently moved to a small ranch house in Orre, just outside of Gateon. My home region is just south of Orre, but I’ve actually been living in Hoenn for the last few years, so it’s taken me a while to get used to the dry hot weather again.

I love walking through nature, taking pictures and sketching what I see, so expect to see some pictures and sketches from my hikes around here. I often just post my Pokémon sightings to poryNaturalist, so make sure to look there if you’re interested in my wildlife photography. Orre seems to be such an interesting region and I’m really looking forward to explore it.

Feel free to send asks! I’d love to interact with other Pokémon enthusiasts.

Pelipper Mail, Musharna Mail and Union Circle are on

Malice, Unmails and Magic Anons are off

Battle Team:

Kipp [Swampert | Male]: My beloved starter. He is very playful and loyal, he looks out for me and I look out for him. He is as adventurous as I am, so we go out into the wilderness together a lot. He believes he is still lap dog sized despite being almost as tall as me when on all fours.

Nettle [Sandslash | Female | Poison Tera]: Found her on 113 while collecting some ash for a flute. She has gotten us out of many sticky situations, both in and outside of battle. She is very athletic and so very proud of her skills. She has quite a couple poison type moves in her arsenal, but we actually didn’t find out she had a poison tera type until our trip to Paldea.

Flan [Clodsire | Female]: Speaking of my trip to Paldea, that’s where I found this lovely gal. She is such a foodie, I always take her to market so we can try some new berries and regional treats.

Grub [Piloswine | Male]: Got him as an egg from a daycare. Grub is so sweet and clingy you could get cavities. He always wants to play, cuddle or just hang out near you and he will bring to you things he things you’ll like (which are mostly cool rocks and sticks).

Ankles [Flygon | Male]: Caught him in 111 as a Trapinch and my ankles suffered the consequences. I thankfully managed to train him to stop biting and now he just gives soft, playful nips. Despite not being an active threat to everyone’s feet anymore, he is still very sassy and will let you know when he’s displeased in the pettiest of way. Let’s say my shoes have mysteriously disappeared more than once, but it’s all in good fun.

Non-Battlers:

Lily [Glameow | Female]: She’s an old lady, used to be really active and adventurous, but now she just loafs around the house. She’s really sweet, a real cuddle bug. Another Pokémon scratched off the cornea of her left eye before she decided to stay with my family, so now she is half blind.

Katy [Nincada | Female]: One of the first Pokémon I caught. Found her just off of Rustboro while I was running some errands. There was a connection at first sight and I knew I had to catch her. She’s such a little mischievous little imp, always hiding in the greenery or beneath the ground, playing pranks on me and my other Pokémon.

Sephie [Phanpy | Female]: This safari zone cutie has won so many contests. She’s just delightful. She has a knack for theatrics and acrobatics so she basically choreographs her routines herself, I’m mostly just here to help her shine.

Worm [Barboach | Male]: Caught him while fishing near Mauville. He doesn’t really do much, kinda just hangs around in the pond or his tank. He is very cuddly, tho.

Suri [Rockruff | Male]: Such a silly little guy. Raised him since he was a hatchling. He is really rambunctious and very prone to zoomies. When he was very young, he would stand on his hind legs and look around, just like a Watchog.

Nook [Venomoth | Male]: He just kinda appeared one day inside my house as a Venonat. He is very chill, just kinda hanging out in the greenery.

Varo [Grafaiai | Female]: Also caught her on my trip to Paldea. As an artist, I consider her a kindred spirit. She’s the perfect museum partner. She really enjoys surrealist paintings and always tries to replicate them in her murals.

Jack [Clobbopus | Male | Ghost Tera | Anhilape genes]: He came in from Clay’s Pokemon Ranch on Sinnoh and is still trying to adjust. He is very timid, so for now he is living in a box he found on my living room.

Doozy [Skitty | Female | Fiorean variant] Newest arrival! Rescue from Alola.

// Hello! I’m Eddie [he/they], the actual person behind the blog. If you enjoy my art, you can find more at @reimagining-johto for pokemon redesigns and @eddies-silly-art-gallery for other art!

I also run @prof-nuytsia where I’ll be talking about Pokémon biology and making adoptables.

Tag glossary:

#rotomblr, #pokemon irl, #pokeblogging, etc: these are your standard RP tags

#mudboy eliot: original content tag

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#asks: ask tag

#poryNaturalist: in-universe nature photography

#snaps: in-universe general photography

#sketchbook: in-universe sketchbook drawings

[bearimba]

I would love to get into language stuff for the ✨️bearimba pokeverse✨️ but the more I look into it the more I confuse myself?? Like. It feels like I've opened a huge can of worms here. Sure, I could be overthinking it, but if I didn't overthink things, then this blog literally wouldn't exist, so.

Quick warning for a long, probably quite boring, and highly speculative rant:

To start out with, I would love for each region to have its own language, more or less---regions that are geographically close are likely to have similar languages possibly due to a common ancestor (like how Spanish and Italian are both Romantic languages that came from Vulgar Latin), but otherwise, each language would be distinct. But then there's the matter of how exactly these languages evolved to be distinct from one another, or even more confoundingly, how these languages had a shared ancestor in the first place. Take Kalos and Paldea, for example: both are based off of Romantic-speaking countries. France and Spain, respectively. In the ✨️bearimba pokeverse ✨️, these regions are nowhere near each other, but somehow, they speak similar languages (assuming the pokeverse languages are like or the same as their real-life equivalents). How does that work exactly?? The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that at one point in time, people from one of these regions emigrated away to go live in the other region. but. if you think about it, the people that moved away would've had to leave long enough ago that the region would have time to develop from nothing into the state it is in modern times. Obviously that's going to take quite a long time---take the USA for example, which from the point of its conception as a collection of colonies (and I am specifically talking about America as it was founded by Europeans and not the collection of Native American cultures) has been around for over 200 years, and American English has changed drastically during that time. Yes, it hasn't quite evolved into a new language, but it is different enough to be distinguished from British English. Keep in mind that 200 years is (to my knowledge) a remarkably short time for a country to be considered developed, not to mention that England and its colonies had constant communication that kept the languages from deviating too far. My point is, two countries that are geographically separated for multiple centuries without regular consistant contact are likely to develop very different languages, but since Kalos and Paldea are based off of countries with similar languages, this doesn't really sit right with me. Theoretically, I could just place them closer together physically, but that would make travel between them much more feasible which would result in more cultural similarities than are present in the games, so then I'd probably have to do an overhaul of both regions' cultures, and I'd like to keep them as unique as possible. Do you see my problem here????

That's not even to mention my issue with multilinguisim. If every single region has their own language, then there has to be some sort of lingua franca so that everyone can actually communicate. However! Believe it or not, this comes with its own set of issues! The first of which being, how did this lingua franca come into existence? The most obvious answer is that it's a pidgin or creole language, but a language made of bits and pieces from 9+ other languages is going to get complicated real quick. The only other origin for a lingua franca I've come across so far is colonial languages. and, uh. that is just not an option I'm going to pick. so.

Besides the origin of this lingua franca, there's also the matter of how it spreads. Lingua francas are created and used to share information between linguistically separated parties, typically during business or academic exchanges. But not everyone is going to talk to people from other regions in that type of circumstance! Someone might specifically learn the lingua franca so that they can communicate while traveling to other regions, but that won't necessarily make it widely user, and this supposed to be a universal language. My solution: have it be taught in schools! It's like how English is taught in many Asian countries in order to enable participation in international circles. However, it's entirely possible that not every school will have the funding (how pokemon schools even get funding is its own separate thing that I have yet to even consider) to teach the lingua franca. There's other ways to learn, of course, like being taught by family/friends or even teaching yourself, but those methods aren't necessarily standardized. Then again, neither is getting taught at school---it's like learning textbook Spanish in class then traveling to Spain and realizing that you're woefully unprepared. Whatever method is used, it's best to start learning at an young age, as the earlier you start, the easier it is to pick up a new language. Again though, that's not going to be accessible to everyone, so it's entirely possible that some people will just be limited to one language unless they take it upon themselves to learn.

Long story short, linguistics is hard. At least to me. And everything I've mentioned is mostly about figuring things out on a practical level---there's still more cultural stuff to consider like code-switching, global/regional slang, and other things that I haven't even thought of. I'm not really linguistics enthusiast, nor am I especially ready and raring to do deep research at the moment, but looking into some of this stuff really has been quite interesting! Anyways, I don't really have a good way to end all this, so I guess if you actually read all this, congrats? And thank you? And that either way, I hope you have a good day? Yep.

[the-feral-one]

Chester and Wo go north. They spend several days on the road before reaching Kitakami.

When they get there, they see that a very small town had began to take shape, and a town hall had been built on top of the neighboring hill.

The two mons take time to explore. Wo decides to spend a lot of that time foraging, eventually getting to know that Kitakami was the best place for doing so, as there were items found everywhere.

The next day, they decide to explore separately after going completely around the new region together. Chester goes one way, and Wo goes the other. Upon reaching the apple orchards, Wo ends up seeing someone who he would end up becoming very close to.

It was a time in Kitakami where the ogre, the man, and the 'loyal mons' weren't present, but Oki was.

Wo offers to help the dog with his apple picking duties. Oki, happy with the suggestion, lets Wo do so. As they carry out said duties, they get to know each other.

After a week or so, Chester decides to leave Kitakami, saying that he had found the need to hurry back to Paldea in order to tell the human population about the king and how he wasn't found in Area Zero, and that he may have gone off-region instead. Wo tells him that he wants to stay behind, and, after Chester agrees, he wishes him a good journey back to Paldea.

As the weeks turn into months, Wo and Oki become quite close. Eventually, the two mons find themselves falling for each other. Under the full moon, as they overlooked the glowing crystals in the pond on top of Oni Mountain, they shared their first kiss.

Oki then takes Wo down to show him something special in Paradise Barrens. There, Wo gets to see Oki's hideaway, which was full of different items and trinkets that the dog had collected.

Oki lets Wo pick out a few items to keep. Wo is reluctant at first, but eventually chooses some of them. Oki then invites Wo to spend the night in the hideaway with him - a request that Wo couldn't bring himself to refuse.

After another week or so, Wo says that he wanted to go back to Paldea, mainly to begin tending to his shrine, as it was still in quite a messy state. He bids farewell to Oki, sharing another kiss with him, and promising to come back when the time is right, before parting ways and beginning to travel back to Paldea.

It wouldn't be until several years go by before Wo would be able to go back to Kitakami. During those years, the man and the ogre would arrive, along with Fez and Munki.

When Wo does return, he would find Oki in quite a bad state, and he would work to get him accepted back into Kitakami society. While he does that, he gets to know about the relationship between him and Ogerpon, and he helps to banish Fez and Munki.

In the present day, Wo is working to get him and his shrine ready for Halloween, and he hopes to invite his found family to Paldea to celebrate it with him.

[polandspringz]

Pokesona/OC Post

Just going making a write up of info/lore about my own ocs since I keep trying to keep track of this in a discord server with Primal and I need to like ORGANIZE THIS. Two characters will be discussed here, Lee Marie, the real Pokesona, and then we’ve got Yolanda who is just an OC who I put into every story because it’s funny.

Lee Marie:

Originally I made her as a Rymesona/Detective Pikachu verse, but I’ve adjusted her story to be more around the games and just because I am in LOVE with N from BW.

Current lore is that she was born in Unova, but her family moved to Sinnoh when she was young. She began a Pokemon journey at age 10 like most kids, with Chimchar as her starter. She failed early on at the Elite Four and lost heart, abandoning her journey and returning home and starting a “normal” life. She hid her depression overtime by throwing herself into studying to become a fashion designer, and became a young celebrity before she was twenty. She always longed to go back to adventuring though, and one day her old team reminded her of this and she decided to go back to Unova to restart her life. She’s a celebrity though so she dyes her hair/dons a disguise while on her adventure, and from there she basically takes the place of the protagonist in BW1, getting involved in the Team Plasma plot. N connects to her because he sees that she “truly understands/can communicate with your Pokemon” (since they called her out of her depression). She obtains Zekrom, and after N’s farewell,

After obtaining Zekrom and N’s farewell, she leaves Unova to travel to another region to continue her journey, which makes her absent for the events of BW2. N’s trouble of trying to locate the player from BW1 is continued with Lee Marie since she was “disguised” in Unova and so tabloids were always like “Sinnoh Designer who went missing spotted in Unova?” and N is just like “WHO IS THIS PERSON”.

Her original Sinnoh team was: Chimchar, Croagunk, Dustox, and Roselia

When she starts over in Unova, she brings her Chimchar/Monferno, Dustox, and catches Audino and Mareep/Flaafy. By the end of her Unova journey, she has Infernape, Audino, Ampharos, Volcarona, Solrock & Lunatone, and then Zekrom she can call upon when needed.

Lore break for some images of Lee Marie using this picrew:

Her Sinnoh look/younger

After becoming a designer:

Return to Unova (Meant to resemble Hilda, since i always kinned Hilda when I was like 8 and the game came out LOL)

After Unova she goes to Kalos, where she meets my friend Primal’s sona, who is collecting the Zygrade cells. They become rivals and mainly all that’s been discussed is that Lee would KICK HER ASS because Primal’s sona is a steel type trainer while I have fire types.

Lee starts Kalos with Volcarona, Infernape, Audino and Ampharos, and ends it with Gallade, Vivillon, and Milotic. (Her Pokemon are all rather fashionable ones or beautiful to match her image). Lee and her rival travel together to the next few regions, in Alola she catches Muk and Tsareena, and then in Galar she catches Snom/Frosmoth, Centiskorch, and Gyarados. (Her teams starts to move towards bug types since she discovers that’s her favorite type).

Eventually we reach Paldea, where she enrolls in Uva Academy so she can participate in the Treasure Hunt, and that’s how we get back to game accurate story lore. She brings Vivillon, Centiskorch, Frosmoth, Ampharos, and Tsareena to Paldea, and catches Ceruledge, Azumaril, Girafaiai, and a Mabosstiff.

Yolanda:

As mentioned in previous posts, Yolanda is just an OC who is basically my evil sona who I can’t help but insert into stories because it’s funny to me. In the Pokemon universe, she’s Lee’s cousin from Paldea who is enrolled in Uva as well. She’s jealous of Lee’s fame and the fact that she threw it away, and not so subtly copies Lee in appearance and a few of her Pokemon, although she has trouble evolving them.

Like Lee, Yolanda focuses on Pokemon’s appearance, although much more CONSCIOUSLY she picks her teammates based on how they look aesthetically.

She caught a Steenee because she wanted a Tsareena like Lee, but has failed to get it to evolve, and the two are constantly arguing (because I think the image of cute little Steenee turned into a bitch yelling at her trainer is funny). She has more ghost/fairy types, so she also has a Gothorita/Gothielle, Tinkaton, Misdreavous, Kirlia, and Frillish/Jellicent.

Yolanda exists in this universe mainly because she is is pursuing a lot of the adult male characters LOL. One idea I’ve thought of is after Lee beats Larry, Yolanda appears at the Treasure Eatery the next day and startles him by her similar appearance, but explains who she is and they have a one night stand, but Yolanda keeps pursuing him and eventually catches feelings. (Don’t worry she gets happiness eventually despite being the worst)

[gertlushgaming]

Pokemon Violet Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

 For our Pokemon Violet Review, Adventure awaits in the Paldea region, a sprawling land of vast open spaces dotted with lakes, towering peaks, wastelands, and perilous mountain ranges. Go freely back and forth between three grand stories as you follow your own path. Beat the eight Gyms spread across the region – in any order – to prove your strength and aim for the Champion Rank!

Pokemon Violet Review Pros:

- Decent graphics. - 6.7GB download size. - Game settings - text speed, skip move learning, send to boxes automatically, autosave, skip cutscenes, rumble, and help functions. - Controller settings - Invert axis. - Classic Pokemon gameplay. - Third-person action adventure. - Character creator - name, avatar, hairstyle, and coloring. - Choice of three starter Pokemon. - Tutorials are doled out as you play. - You can throw your Pokemon and they will follow you, auto-battle other wild Pokemon, and collect any materials. - Gather materials from Pokemon and the world to craft TMs (new attacks/abilities). - Throw your Pokeball to initiate fights, this allows you to get at high-up or hidden Pokemon. - All new Pokedex where each caught Pokemon is a book with the Pokedex shown as a bookshelf. - Pole Battle options - Union circle, Tera Raid battle, surprise trade, link battle, battle stadium, and mystery gift. - Online Co-op to take on raids and just explore together. - You can ride certain Pokemon (story spoiler). - Fights with characters in the game are triggered by your interactions with them this time around. - Transfer Pokemon from your boxes to your Party lineup within the menu. - Save when you want. - Open world. - Fast travel points can be found and activated from the map. - Place your own map markers. - Terastalize is the new evolution turning your Pokemon into a huge crystallized version of the self with powerful attacks. - Turn-based combat. - Pokemon earn exp and level up to increase stats then at a certain level they evolve and become a new stronger version of the self. - Pokedex is where you store all information on caught Pokemon. - Poke centers are now open shops with quicker healing stations, Co-op circles, shop, and a TM terminal for crafting. - Rotom phone keeps all your inventory, maps, and Pokedex parts in one place and it also helps you float from great heights. - Ask at Poke centers for what to do next if lost. - Notifications are more abundant and common telling you about auto battle results, any area info, or if school lessons are available. - League reps will issue challenges (optional) in areas for unique rewards. - Same easy-to-learn controls. - Pokemon and their Pokedex entry have a number assigned to them to make them easier to complete. - You see the Pokemon roaming around. - No matter who actually fights in a battle, all party members get EXP, it's just the Fighters get more. - A mini-map in the corner helps but if you set a destination a handy arrow pops up to show you the way. - When fighting a Pokemon, you can either kill it or capture it to use it and fill in your Pokedex. - Fighting and not capturing a Pokemon you don't have will partially fill in their Pokedex entry. - Click on a Pokedex entry to get all their stats and features but also where they tend to hang out. - Offline and online modes are supported. - Wild Tera pokemon roam the world and can be captured after breaking through their transformation. - Bes of light will shoot up to show Tera Pokemon and raids. - Raids can be done offline and solo as three Ai trainers will join you. - The raids allow you to catch the boss Pokemon and you get a lot of rewards. - Lock on to wild pokemon to help throw balls and also get a glimpse of their level. - Cheer in raids to heal or make friends stronger. - Gym battles are back except this time you play an almost mini-game scenario to get the offer of fighting the gym leader. These can be things like hide and seek and find the guy moments. - Buy and eat food to temporarily change stats. - The Pokémon news segment online allows you to refresh the land and add any temporary or timed raids for exclusive or rare rewards and Pokémon. Pokemon Violet Review Cons: - The performance is horrendous from slowdown to pop-in, pop-up, stuttering animations, and missing textures. - No touchscreen support. - It's a slow start as previous players of the series are forced to once again relive the same opening to the game all over again. - No option to turn off move/attack/ability animations. - You need the Nintendo Switch Online service for anything online except code redemption and any free gifts. - So easy to just fall into fights. - Food shops will just be a screen with items on it and it feels empty. - The fight times are a lot longer and unskippable. - The pop-up of Pokemon is terrible. Related Post: Tad The Lost Explorer Review (PlayStation 4) Pokemon Violet: Official website. Developer: Game Freak Publisher: Nintendo Store Links - Nintendo Read the full article

[silvermuffins]

Pokemon Scarlet Liveblog!!! Part 3

We left off, I was starting my treasure hunt. After several hours of gameplay. Woopdedoop.

I'd gone back south so I gotta get back to the big city.

!!! I can JUMP on Koraidon maybe I can get back to Excalibur or whatever the fuck that was.

Hm, nope, not a jump I can make. Okay then, onward. We are going east first, I think... I'd prefer to go to the area to the west first, but. The Path of Titans calls.

ACK I went west bc I doubled back thinking Nemona would talk to me too but nope. Time to go back east then.

OH stumbled into a new Pokemon! Nacli! ....NaCl...it. It's salt. And I accidentally oneshotted it. Oh well, at least we have Balto the Rookidee. Cinda the Shinx. Found a new Nacli, you can be Sotero. Pouch the Makuhita.

god there is SO MUCH stuff on the ground does Paldea have a serious littering problem??? am i just really good at scavenging?

i see another excalibur over there so that's some kinda collectible or some such....

Waha! Oingo the Spoink!

sets my first picnic OH MY GOD PINKLE FUSSED WITH MY HAT. THIS IS DELIGHTFUL. Scolio and Koraidon are taking a nap together. Pinkle is twirling. Everyone is playing soccer. OKAY im gonna leave them playing while I put my dinner dishes away-- oh now we have company. Will the world please let me play my game?

pause to get a few sentences done on a fanfic because I owe that one post that goes around three sentences. They're run-ons but it's fine.

anyway company is talking politics and i would rather play pokemon soooo. time to make a sammich. "Pokemon with titles"??? What are thooooose. ....oh my first sandwich was a disaster and a half visually. ...apparently worked out okay gustatorily, though. Three stars, at least.

*pterodactyl screeches in Distraction*

okay we are back we're fine nothing is on fire nobody turned into anything unnatural no one is staring at me with baleful eyes full of betrayal

found a cave! ....oh that's a little cliff guess im not going back that way. where am i now???

oh god im never gonna get ANYWHERE

!!! I FOUND A LITTLE DUDE get over ere little dude OKAY Charcadet your name will be... Koris. Oooh and more pokemon down here, and they're of a level to fight Daya on equal footing. Litleo, you can be Kaenina. Here's a Skiddo, you're Derry from now on. And Stantler, you're-- causing first KO of the game, okay, uh. Hm. Wasn't expecting that. And I killed it. Okay need a new deer.

STOP PUTTING MY POKEMON TO SLEEP

is this Etrian Odyssey or something was i supposed to fear the deer

anyway she's mine now and she's gonna be Fork because I'm salty.

Scoots is evolving! Nice! Oh, double nice, there's an Axew! Get over here- ofuck i forgot to wake up Daya and Sirea. Anyway, Vivert the Axew get.

Skillfully slides down a cliff and narrowly avoids drowning-- oh what are YOU, Tadbulb? Electric, tadpole....you evolve into Bellibolt don't you. Your name will be Avocado.

Random water tera jigglypuff!!! yeah sure you can be Jonesy. And Sirea is evolving! I am starting to get the hang of autobattling.

Kinda wish there weren't signs telling me how to get to Artazon every ten feet. Grabs an item from between a Hariyama's legs and runs. Where the fuck am I???

THere's another excalibur thing over there... I need to find more Spoink, Scolio is lagging behind in EXP and they're just about the only things it can beat....

Game's struggling to render shadows...flawed though it is, I'm enjoying the game.

ANYWAY I JUST REMEMEBERED TO CHECK SOMETHING IMPORTANT AND YES YOU CAN STILL TWIRL

oooh apparently I've found where the Stony Cliff Titan hangs out. Arven you are contradicting yourself, you said it hangs out high up on cliffs but now you say it wouldn't be anywhere that tricky. I am going to fall off a cliff and like it.

No titan yet but I found a Mankey so I'll just name her Titan. ....Except she burned herself on my bird and died. Okay, next one. Meanwhile, Scolio is evolving, finally! Spidops! That looks fully evolved, I think? Time to grab something else from my box, then! Leeeet's go wiiith....an old mon we'll know when it's done evolving, maybe.

Actually no screw that let's pick a new one and see some new Pokemon. Okay. Coverage, coverage... I have flying out the wazoo, a fire/water/grass core even if only a temporary one, and Lechonk. I know I don't have anything to deal with fairies. Get over here Chomper. And stay in the back until your level's on par.

Back to looking for the Titan and also a Mankey to name Titan. Goddammit I keep killing Mankeys. Ooh, a Shroomish, I'll take that. You can be Vicci.

I'm sorry??? Toedscool??? That's a mushroom tentacool!!! Okay I found a Mankey let's be gentle with this one. Ooh, Murkrow...and I killed it. But hey, Charlie is evolving into... Oinkologne. Huh. And that's fully evolved so time to swap out for a new friend. Got the Murkrow! It was very stubborn, had to bust out a Dusk Ball. You can be Gatsby. There's a Deerling here, too, oh wait I've caught Deerling before.

Anyway I might need a Ground-user to replace Charlie, my team is half Flying right now....get over here Teach. Found a Stunky, you'll be Louis. Pawniard, oh these are high level, you're gonna be Wessle.

I couldn't find the Titan so I went south instead. Might be making good on that disappearing into the wildernss never to be seen again thing. oooh seviper. took a lot of balls to catch, you can be Naga.

!!! Found my way to the excalibur thing! It's an....ominous black stake, oh that is SURELY normal. Crumbled when I removed it. hmmmm.

Dunsparce! oh shit, rollout. Gotcha, your name is Funky now. I don/t need a vigoroth, I'll catch a slakoth at some point. Zangoose I'll take tho. Crud I forgot to heal. Oh that was too close, okay, Paul,

i am flying back to the pokemon center to hal and resume searching for the titan. including by asking the nurse where the fuck to go.

oh hey the map has flavor text about my goals! ...wait a tic....these numbers.... Oh, I see. Also, I hope I get to learn about all of these characters?!

FOUND A KLAWF get over here you're gonna be Barricade

I am however getting very very tired, might be getting sick but I hope not. We'll see? Anyway I think I am done for the night, having accomplished nothing of note but having gotten lost several times. Which 100% tracks, I could probably find my way out of a paper bag.....given a bit of time.