[Battle Tower V1.0]

On 11/20/2019 at 2:02 AM, Fiasom said:

Question:

Why not just release the final episode? I wanna see how the story ends. The post game could be released incrementally as things develop?

 

Comment:

I never played any of the battle tower or its spin offs because once there are no new pokemon, story or maps to discover, the whole thing boils down to mindless grinding (which, to my horror, I have discovered is the single defining characteristic of Reborn - once you know what the story is, the amount of grinding necessary to beat the rather frequent bosses simply aint worth its time - and I have had to come to terms with giving up on replaying the game). No rewarding discovery for massive loss of time. I just wanna see how the story ends. Perhaps catch the legendaries as there seems to be some story in it, but I don't care one bit for the nightclub. I'll check it out, get my ass kicked invariably in the first battle (cause I can't be f*ed to master competitive strats) and never visit it again.

 

Ciel was one of the hardest bosses to beat for me (till an inner focus crobat occurred to me), but beating her wasn't the high point of the game (arguably it was one of the lowest points), it was the shock of seeing Ame's head getting ripped off. What made reborn great in the first place was its story, not its difficulty. Make Reborn great again. Please?

They completed EP19 early because if the big N discovered Reborn they could still be able to release it quickly and hand out a "complete" game of sorts, but I think it's a good idea not to just release it and the postgame separatedly because, well, postgame also has its lore, its story and sidequests (like every legendary ever), and also places like the nightclub people might be discouraged to wait to if they already had the game up until Elite 4.

 

Plus, yeah, the story is great, but without its difficulty Reborn wouldn't be Reborn. And it IS great.

[Important Idea: Internally Inflicting Indignity]

I'm thinking something with Misty Field and Wish and an insane amount of defense. So you either have an insanely strong steel move to knock it out before it sets up, or it's useless. And the steel-ghost weakness can be dealt with by Filter, which could leave it affected by weather and other hazards...