#may post what I have of the early route pokemon I've already designed later.

[pokemonxhyperfixation]

So, in my mind, I’m conceptualizing a Touhou based Pokemon Region, so I’mma post the starters (in their unevolved forms) to see what people think.

As a quick baseline thing, I decided against doing a fire/water/grass trio in favor of a flying/fighting/rock trio since that felt more interesting. Also they’re all at least mostly based on Touhou characters, obviously.

First

Brellapole

The Tadpole Pokemon

Flying type

Dex entry: Brellapole are creatures with a natural buoyant body, similar to a balloon, which they use to float around the region. They steer themselves using the umbrella like horn on their head. They catch prey using their long tongue which is covered in a sticky saliva. Brellapole are known for their habit of trying to scare passersby’s for fun, though they aren’t very good at it.

Abilities: Intimidate/Jumpscare (which is just special intimidate).

Hidden Ability: Sticky Hold

Rough Stat concept: Fast Hp tank. Good defenses, Really high HP (Like base 90 in this stage), and unreasonably high speed for a tanky starter.

Next

Maskimote

The Masking Pokemon

Fighting Type

Dex Entry: A strange species of bird like pokemon that hangs around towns in the Gensokai region. Maskimote always wear masks over their face, to the point that nobody has ever seen a Maskimote without their mask. Given the mask, Maskimote are not very expressive facially, but rather express themselves through dance. Maskimote are very anti-social animals, not liking crouds. Their tail is tipped with a long blade they use for hunting prey and self defence. Despite the wings on their body, they lack any form of flight.

Abilities: Oblivious/Long Reach

Hidden Ability: Own Tempo

Rough Stat Concept: Fast mixed attacker. Higher Physical attack then special, though they are very close.

Finally

Jiprentice (I spelled the name wrong on the drawing lol)

The Statue Pokemon

Rock Type

Dex Entry: Jiprentice are a Pokemon known for hanging around frequently used forest roads and trails. People of the Gensokai region frequently make offering of food and money to Jiprentice they find in the wild, due to the belief that these offerings will bring them good fortune. While Jiprentice are very sedentary creatures that move from their position very infrequently, they are far from inactive, practicing their magic day and night in order to improve.

Abilities: Solid Rock/Sap Sipper

Hidden Ability: Stall (Thankfully all these starters have their hidden abilities change on evolution lol)

Rough Stat Concept: It's a rock type. High Defenses, Low speed, the only real stand out thing is that it's a special attacker rather than physical. (It's physical attack isn't BAD per say, but it is worse than its special.)

So yeah, there's the starters! Based (loosely) off Kogasa, Kokoro, and Narumi respectively. Maskimote also takes loose inspiration from Yippees/Austism Creatures for no reason other than my inability to think of a better way to make the collection of 66 masks into a creature. I have actually designed the evolution to Bellapole (that was actually the first pokemon I drew for the whole dex), but I'll not post it now.

Kinda curious about which of these three idiots y'all would pick.

[quetzlepretzel]

Videos Games #1, 7/30-8/5

I've always wanted a place to blab about whatever random game I'm playing. Livetweeting didn't work out, but maybe something like this will? If you don't want to see these posts, please block/filter the tag: #quetzlegaming

Games from this week: Pokemon Polished Crystal, Fool's Gold, Infinite Fusion. Palia MMO, and House Flipper (I fucking LOVE Johto)

Pokemon Polished Crystal

I've got two badges and I just hit Goldenrod! Been loving all the upgrades this hack added to the main game: most HGSS stuff like Lyra, Proton, etc, mild "alt colors" for pokemon based on their DVs (you can see it most clearly in my slightly green Furret there), expanded route maps and hidden grottos... Oh there's in game wonder trade too! That's how I got Skarmory and Clefairy. The last egg there is the Odd Egg, still wondering what 'mon I'm gonna get from it. Pokemon Fool's Gold

Wild looking, ain't it? Fool's Gold is a bit like... if every pokemon in Johto was a "regional form", including its OG cast. From left to right, that's Pidgeotto, Jolteon, Wartortle, Quilava, Corsola, and Houndoom. (Pidgeotto and Quilava are shiny, too.) (Yes I'm playing with the built in shiny code active). They're a pretty great team, have carried me through six badges. 🥰 Literally every pokemon is different, and I've loved playing through the game and seeing familiar faces with a fresh coat of pixels. Pokemon Infinite Fusion

I went with a bit of a theme, obviously. Can you guess it? Can you guess all my favorite pokemons just from looking at one image? Jokes aside, I kind of loved how this team turned out in the end. Two witches and their familiars uwu. I played on the most chaotic randomizer settings, and I lucked out with it being generous with the eeveelutions. I beat IF this week, clearing Mt. Silver on Thursday. I know there's still some postgame stuff to do and I may get back to it eventually, but I think I'm ready to shelve the game for now. Some of the route design got hecka frustrating by the end. Man, I love Johto. Palia MMO

I got in on the open beta this week! Just finished building my starter home last night. Really love the art style and environment design in this one, and goooosh the townsfolk are so cute. I already want to marry Jel. It's really scratching that farmer game itch, and I'm sure once they implement more minigames and areas to explore, I'm gonna get totally obsessed. Hopefully they'll have controller config set up for PC by full release, cuz my wrists are BEGGING me to play less KB+M games. Speaking of... House Flipper No pics for this one. I'm still in the early stages of the game where I only fix homes, not buy and flip 'em for sale, so I ain't got shit to show off. But GOSH it's like if they took AC's happy home paradise, mashed it with powerwash sim, and made a game *just* for me. It's so cathartic- at least when I'm not yelling at my customers for making TERRIBLE decisions that strip away any and all character in the home (yes, I'm complaining about the Michael B. job, you're a MONSTER sir/ma'am/they'm). Looking forward to making my first barbie dreamhouse at a later date.