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Literally just Slurpuff again. Is this why they deleted half the Pokemon? So they could just make half the Pokemon over again and hope no one notices? Well screw that. Slurpuff is my man and this means he probably didn't make the cut. EDIT: I'm dumb, the Slurpuff line was in a trailer so he hasn't been deleted yet. I hope this new guy's an evolution of Slurpuff, that'd be dope.

UPDATE 93: THE WORST PART OF THE GAME, PART 3 So, a recap of all my suggestions:

I understand, and as you'll see I had a much easier time overall than in my first playthrough. But I still feel like this sequence is bad design, and for more reasons than being hard. UPDATE 92: THE WORST PART OF THE GAME, PART 2

UPDATE 91: THE WORST PART OF THE GAME, PART 1

UPDATE 90: A STORM APPROACHES...

The presence of all 3 of the Aether family almost certainly means that the "ultra" timeline is cannon. How disappointing. The "ultra" timeline ruined all three of their character arcs. Especially Lillie's. As for the game itself... eh? If it's free I'll certainly play it sooner than Sword and Shield.

Literally "I don't care, you're gonna buy the game anyway" You gonna prove him right? Angry internet comments won't change his mind, but a lack of sales will.

UPDATE 89: THE CASUALTIES OF MY RULESET

UPDATE 88: THE Z-RING QUEST

UPDATE 87: ONE MOVE MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

UPDATE 86: GYM BATTLE DOUBLE SPECIAL

UPDATE 85: THE REST OF TOURMALINE

Holy crap you're right. I remembered seeing it one in the Teknite Ridge and just assumed that was the only place to find it without consulting the Pokemon Location Guide or even the in-game Pokedex. I'm an idiot.

UPDATE 84: THE NEW WORST POKEMON

UPDATE 83: IT'S BEEN 3,000 YEARS...

How has no one posted "wingull.gif" yet? https://streamable.com/frva6 HIGH QUALITY ANIMATIONS WE DELETED YOUR FAVORITE POKEMON(S) FOR THIS

Haha, no. More like setting things up for if I return in the future to do the entire rest of the game. I still have a mono-gen-6 run that I started long ago and never finished, I at least want to do that first. PART 11: AN EPILOGUE, AT LEAST FOR NOW P.S. Even with the Oval Charm, even with Slugma, even with the fast-forward key Ame programmed in, Breeding without a bike SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS

PART 10: THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM?

PART 9: I ALMOST DON'T GO GAMBLING BUT THEN DO Sorry it's been a while, I was busy IRL. It didn't help that the Pokemon fandom is going down in flames right now either.

Masuda did another statement on the subject after the big backlash, I won't bother posting it because it basically says the same thing with even more PR bullshit language than the last time. What's notable is that he doubled down on the "we didn't have enough time to make the high quality models and animations for every Pokemon" thing despite the fact that it's a blatant lie, that the models are clearly copy-pasted from the last five games. This guy thinks you're stupid, and will buy the game anyway no matter what kinda crap he pulls. You gonna prove him right?

Here's the quote from Masuda on the subject. Translating PR drivel to English, he's saying that his poor little indie company (that's sarcasm, in case you couldn't tell) didn't have the time or the manpower to actually code all 900-ish Pokemon into the game before the deadline. It's not like this is one of the most successful media franchises ever or anything. First of all, I don't believe this for a second. They're recycling the 3DS engine, which already has the models and code for all the Pokemon. I am 95% sure that when the game comes out, hackers will discover that all 900-ish are in fact, coded into the game with models and animations and everything, and it'll turn out Gamefreak was just gonna sell it all back to us as paid DLC, or an "incentive" to buy Ultra Sword and Ultra Shield. And if this actually IS true, well, it's just pathetic. What was that famous quote from Miyamoto again? That a delayed game is eventually good but a rushed one is bad forever?