#electrabuzz

[dramaticpokemonpictures]

[gemlikrogue1996akaexsurget]

"Electric Pokèmon saved my life." -Surge (?) Parody card.

This isn't really new or post-worthy, but this was funny in my head. I used to have this card as kid, but they've stolen it in primary school.

[nthn-nomad]

Two custom Pokemon fusion designs I've done this week. Lugia's not entirely a fusion, more of a custom Lugia, but I loved the thought of doing a big beasty Lugia. ;o;

[formallyaskplushponies]

Some more 3D Pokemon cards I've made.

Got over +100 made of these things.

Think I have a problem.

[glitchdexdaily]

[kanaeink]

Electrabuzz

Bzzzztttt ! It’s #Electrabuzz Gen 1 Pokémon rulezz ⚡️✌️ . Fanart by Kanae ink (Wilson Pikachu)

[depressedhatakekakashi]

Gai’s Sinnoh Adventure Pt. 12

It’s a week before Kakashi is released from the hospital. During that time Gai tries to occupy himself by training with his Pokemon, but it’s hard when he’s worried about his best friend.

One thing he does get done is a trade with Rin. A temperaty exchange of their Pokemon, allowing Gai’s electabuzz to finally evolve using the Electirizer. When arin receives his electrabuzz it immediately evolves into electavire. A large Pokemon that exudes more power than Electabuzz, but is just as cheerful and hugs Gai as soon as it finishes evolving.

Once Kakashi’s out of hospital Gai sort of assumes they’ll continue their journey, but it doesn’t quite happen as he expected.

Kakashi’s more closed off than he ever was before. He still talks to Rin and Gai, but he uses shorter sentences. The three friends still head out as soon as Kakashi’s clear to travel again, but he’s not as open to Gai’s challenges or friendly banter, and he won’t entertain any conversation surrounding his injury.

It’s a very quiet trip, but the friends soon make it back to Veilstone where Mifune told them Yua was headed. There they find Kakashi’s mother shortly after she has dealt with the root grunts in the area.

The first thing Yua does when she see’s the three is hug her son.

The second thing she does is fill them in, which surprises Rin and Gai because most adults wouldn’t do that. When Gai asks about it, Yua simply states that they deserve to know after everything they have done to fight against Root.

She goes on to explain that she’s headed to Mt. Coronet next, where she believes the head operatives of root are going in hopes of using the red chain they built to capture on of Sinnoh legendaries, though she’s not certain which one they are attempting to get.

Gai’s about to suggest they accompany her, but Kakashi beats him to the punch. Yua, naturally, says no and that they have other things to do, but Kakashi insists and his Jolteon seems just as determined as him.

When Rin and Gai join in, assuring Yua that they can be of help and will protect each other since they’ll all be together this time, she agrees. Though she does make sure to ask Gai and Rin to help her ensure no more harm comes to her son.

A request that earns her a grumbled scolding for Kakashi.

[pixelgrotto]

Sweet Nightingale

One of the neat side effects about my job writing guides for Rock Paper Shotgun is getting exposed to stuff that I don't typically touch. For example, the survival/crafting genre, which blew up in the 2010s when I was living in Asia and too busy trying to survive in real life. I was aware of games like The Long Dark, of course, and I thought Valheim looked okay when it came out. But as someone who's never been thrilled with the idea of chopping down digital trees for wood (except for maintaining my farm in Harvest Moon 64), survival games have mostly fallen off my radar.

Obviously, that's no longer the case thanks to work. Survival games are perhaps one of the few video game genres out there that remain opaque as hell, therefore making them perfect fodder for guide writing. And this year has already seen several big survival games released, with Palworld taking up far more of my mental space than I ever would've imagined for much of January and February. (My lukewarm take is that Palworld is okay. Not really my thing, but I get why people like it as both a meme game and a "I can't believe Nintendo isn't suing, because that Electrabuzz ripoff is equipped with a GUN, somebody stop him!")

But this post is not about Palworld. It is, rather, about Nightingale, an enchanting survival title made by Inflexion Games that unfortunately launched into Early Access only a few weeks after Palworld probably stole some of its potential player base. I had the chance to consume a fair bit of Nightingale prior to its release, and I also wrote a few guides on it for work. I'm not sure if it's actually going to take off - its current player numbers aren't as high as expected, and the game bristles with a special degree of enrapturing jank that's definitely not going to appeal to everyone. Case in point: half of my colleagues hated the pre-Early Access UI, which made several unusual decisions, including flipping the usual hotbar configuration present in these sorts of games. This has since been rectified, and now the UI is more streamlined and accessible, though also a bit more boring, in my eyes.

I think Nightingale sticks with me precisely because it boasts an aesthetic and setting that are very much not boring. We're talking about a gaslight fantasy atmosphere that feels a tad Neil Gaiman, if he were channeling the same stuff that inspired Alan Moore to write The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Apparently, Nightingale's concept was based on the novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I have not read but now want to, and the game starts by placing you as an inhabitant of a late 1800s reality inextricably linked with Fae beings. A big calamity happens, and folks exploring the Faewilds are tossed into disparate realms and separated from their magical hub city, dubbed Nightingale. You have to help your character survive in these bizarre biomes, which are filled with Wonderland-style beasts and floating sculptures in the sky. Hopefully by constructing your own estate in these magical outposts and allying with other Realmswalkers, all of you will one day reach the city of Nightingale once more.

I am an absolute pervert for this sort of alternate history Victorian stuff, and if I'm going to be very frank, my initial reaction when playing Nightingale was wondering if its enchanting setting was "wasted" on a survival/crafting game. It's the sort of thing I'd expect to see in a tabletop RPG (which I would gladly play), not a game where you need to construct a sewing table and then kill 5 hippos so you can skin their hides and put those hides on the aforementioned sewing table and wait a minute so you can craft a little cape for yourself.

I'm not the only one to have this thought, and there's a whole calvacade of commentators who posted similar things on every Rock Paper Shotgun article devoted to the game. In a nutshell, it seems to come down to the fact that many outspoken individuals don't like the survival gameplay loop of running around chopping down trees so you can craft a better axe to chop down more trees, but thus far they've safely been able to ignore most crafting games because they typically take place in forests or post-apocalyptic environments that are usually pretty samey. Nightingale is not samey, which makes people want to play it and then lament that it's not in their ideal genre of choice.

Once again, I really need to expoud upon how much charm this game has. Your guide through the tutorial is a smooth talking fey with a poncy vocabulary named Puck. Umbrellas serve as in-game gliders to make you descend from great heights like Mary Poppins. And even though the basic survival loop is there - yes, you've still got to farm those damn hippos - there is a nifty tarot card system in place that procedurally generates the worlds your intrepid Realmswalker is forced to confront. It's a mishmash of ideas that really feels like it's ripped from the pages of some Game Master's steampunk world (there I go again, going off on how much I'd like to play a Nightingale TTRPG), and even though it's largely busywork, eventually you can get a rifle that shoots ice ammo and a legendary set of "armor" that's really just a Victorian tweed suit. By damnation, it's appealing.

It's this sense of originality that makes me want to play Nightingale more, and injects within me the strength to overlook the jankiness in the combat and UI that make me ocasionally feel like I'm playing a game from the late 2000s. (The first Witcher, are ya there? I'm reminded of you.) And I daresay it's unfair to say that Nightingale's eclectic setting is "wasted" on a survival/crafting experience, which is a harsh statement that probably does a disservice to both Inflexion Games and to the entire genre. While these sorts of games might not be my automatic cuppa, Nightingale actually makes me want to play more of them, and I plan on purchasing V Rising next month, which I missed out on back when it came out.

All this is a roundabout way of saying that there's power in a good setting and a striking coat of paint. Sometimes that's all we need to overlook gameplay loops that do not initially appeal to us, and I'm sure there's a whole audience out there that cared little for crafting in the wilderness but loved monster collecting. Palworld was the honeypot that probably encouraged them to look deeper into what survival games had to offer. For me, Nightingale performs a similar function.

There's also the fact that I appreciate it when games take risks and dare to step outside of the cornerstones of what's considered safe and sellable in their respective genres. Nightingale probably wouldn't have stood out nearly as much as a CRPG, for instance. There are already gaslight fantasy RPGs out there, and you can still buy Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura on Steam. But there's nothing quite like this in the survival space, and thus we have something brave and bold, unique and odd - a potent combination that compels me to stay a while in its mysterious Fae red room. I certainly hope that Nightingale survives its turbulent Early Access period, because while chopping down trees and building houses might not be what I'm immediately looking for when I sit down to play a game, stick a tophat on me and say I'm doing it in the realm of A Midsummer Night's Dream and my mind has the potential to change. It's all about the flavor, in other words, and Nightingale has that in spades.

[atvbs]

hi jun😎 there was an event in pokemon go today bith me and my brother caught a shiny uxie which rocks. i also got a shiny origin form dialga which rocks too. it was sinnoh based which made me think of the time u were trying to name all pokemon without internet id never be able to do it i have never heard some of these bitches names before. specifically the aipom and electrabuzz evolutions i do not believe thats what theyve been named all this time i have not heard that in my life

OHHH thats so cool congrats on the epic shinies!!! origin dialga is really neat even tho the guy looks a little funny

honestly. Yeah. ive been into pkmn for 15+yrs and. some of those names just go over my head LOL.

ambipom and electivire are their respective names i believe? i should try to test my knowledge with all the pkmn names again. it really tests ones sanity

[kingcrane8]

Electrabuzz (Pokemon Series) as Tentacles the Hun (The Patrick Star Show)

[shysideho]

Youre telling me the whole time it was actually named electabuzz and no electRabuzz. What is he a politician

[dramaticpokemonpictures]

[gamegenders]

[ID 1: A flag with 7 horizontal stripes, each with thin white lines between them. The stripes from top to bottom are dark faded brown, brown-grey, pastel brown, yellow-brown, pastel brown, brown-grey, dark faded brown. In the center of the flag is the pokemon Pidove.]

[ID 2: A flag with 11 horizontal stripes. The stripes from top to bottom are medium red-orange, pastel yellow-orange, medium red-orange, muted gold, medium red-orange, muted gold, medium red-orange, muted gold, medium red-orange pastel yellow-orange, medium red-orange. In the center of the flag is the pokemon Pansear.]

[ID 3: A flag with 9 horizontal stripes. The stripes from top to bottom are pale grey, pastel blue-cyan, dark teal, pale grey, pale red-pink, pale grey, dark teal, pastel blue-cyan, pale grey. In the center of the flag is the pokemon Metang.]

[ID 4: A flag with 3 horizontal stripes. The stripes from top to bottom are dark brown, pastel yellow, muted yellow, brown, muted yellow, pastel yellow, dark brown. In the center of the flag is the pokemon Electabuzz.]

[PT: Assorted Pokeics! (Part 2!)

Top Left - Pidovic! A Pokeic Term relating to the Pokemon Pidove!

Top Right - Pansearic! A Pokeic Term relating to the Pokemon Pansear!

Bottom Left - Metangic! A Pokeic Term relating to the Pokemon Metang!

Bottom Right - Electrabuzzic! A Pokeic Term relating to the Pokemon Electrabuzz!]

Assorted Pokeics! (Part 2!)

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Top Left - Pidovic! A Pokeic Term relating to the Pokemon Pidove!

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Top Right - Pansearic! A Pokeic Term relating to the Pokemon Pansear!

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Botton Left - Metangic! A Pokeic Term relating to the Pokemon Metang!

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Botton Right - Electrabuzzic! A Pokeic Term relating to the Pokemon Electrabuzz!

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[depressedhatakekakashi]

Gai’s Kanto Adventures pt. 6

After acquiring electrabuzz in the power plants and meeting a giant electric bird that Kakashi offered treats to without a hint of fear, Gai insisted on heading back to Vermillion city

The reason? He’d heard that there were polywag’s in the area and now that he had the ability to surf on water he was determined to get one.

The adventure took all of five minutes and finally, after searching out every single fighting type pokemon in the region Gai has completed his team.

This is the team of Champions and no he will not be taking criticism.

With his team finally complete, Gai, Kakashi, and Rin decided to check out the silph co building where they spoted root operatives hanging around. It only took stepping into the building to realize there was a problem.

The problem didn’t take too long to fix, though. Splitting up the three of them defeated every root operative that got in their and ultimately located Danzo’s second in Command who put up a good fight, but ultimately ended up dropping the key to the office their boss was in (trying to manipulate the silph co boss into doing what he wanted)

On their way to face Danzo the three were stopped by Danzo’s second in command. Pushing the other two to move on ahead, Kakashi stayed back to take care of the second in command on his own.

Down one, Gai and Rin headed to the top of the building and promptly interrupted danzo’s very important manipulation meeting.

There was some big words about ‘teaching these kids respect’ from Dabzo, but they held little weight after Gai crushed his entire Pokemon team. They held even less weight when Danzo tried to attack Gai only to get kicked in the stomach by his Hitmonlee.

With Silph co saved from Root, the three decided to make use of their presence in Saffron and battle they gym leader.

This was arguably the toughest gym for Gai because the gym leader was quick witted and very determined to put every single one of his pokemon to sleep, but with the power of youth Gai achieved victory snd gained his fifth gym badge!

Kakashi, Gai and Rin then discussed their next course of action. The three of them had skipped a gym in their adventures and knew they needed to go back at some point, but they didn’t know if they wanted to go back quite yet.

After some debate, the three decided to head to cinnabar island instead to see what kind of Pokemon were in the area, but more importantly to face the gym leader, Fugaku. The fire type specialist.

[lots-o-doodles]

Some Pokemon scribbles because I'm excited for Scarlet and Violet

[bunnyhologram]

electric themed guyz ⚡️⚡️⚡️