#imagine you get 4th degree burns while you jog to the side with your Bayleef trying to avoid a Flamethrower lmao

[burningcheese-merchant]

screw the setting, legends ZA could be set entirely in a white padded cell in an asylum for all I care, but holy fucking shit. those battles. look. NAUSEATING. gamefreak, buddy, can we try not to re-invent the fucking wheel every few years or so? you have been shoving new cheap battle mechanics down our throats every new generation, and now I gotta jog circles around my rival's tepig so I can make sure my totodile doesn't miss his water gun? WHAT!?!? 😨

I was interested for 5 seconds and then reality clocked me in the nose and landed me in the ER lol. You're right, the battles look irritating as fuck. I gotta run all around the damn place for my pokémon to dodge? Why can't they just keep the old dodge mechanic where they'll do it on their own, but randomly and not often? What was wrong with that? And what was that about different moves having different ranges??? So I have to take THAT shit into account, too? So much extra hassle for no reason. "Hurr durr it's like the anime now" fuck that I don't give a fuck about the anime. I never did. The games are not the fucking anime. This shit is fucking annoying as fuck

Also, am I the only one who's not happy that they seem to be doing away with turn-based battles? That is literally the foundation of a Pokémon battle. I understand wanting to do something new, this franchise NEEDS to do that shit's gotten stale, but not like this. Change too much and you'll lose your identity. What else will they take away? Completing a Pokédex? Oh God if they don't have a National Dex in this game I swear...

The only mechanic I'm happy to see is Mega Evolution. That's still the coolest gimmick so far, outside of regional variants (I also like Z-moves and Terrastalizing is an interesting concept. I don't care about Dynamaxing, you literally just make Pokémon extra large). But the trailer made it look like it'll be on a short timer instead of lasting the whole battle like in XY, so I guess they're gonna ruin that, too