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Takes me back to the bad old days when we had to grind for Corey in the grass outside the beryl ward gym

Like, I understand why people don't like Amaria, and I consider her arc with Titania to be one of the biggest barriers in me recommending reborn to people (leading off your pokemon game review with TW: suicide isn't exactly gonna persuade anyone), but despite that I still find their relationship...funny, almost?

Like, there's a sort of inherent comedy to two people having the worst breakup of their life. twice. while you're just trying to get the magic cd rom or shiny medal that lets you get back to worldsaving. 

Saphira I think is different to Tania in that she just has a family-centered morality. Her siblings, blood and otherwise, are the only thing with any real value to her.

Titania on the other hand is just. Chaotic Lawful. She has a massively complex moral code but nobody knows what the hell it is.

That said, she's definitely one of my favorite characters, even if she's a terrible person. Extremely compelling. I want to study her like a bug.

Taka...Taka I actually like a lot, but I can see why someone else wouldn't. Just kinda going along with your shitty parents and their shitty ideas because you don't think there's another choice is something I relate to.

Lin is hysterical. Team meteor has a leader who does zero actual leading because she's too busy flying around making her bizarre philosophical point. Her true nature is unknown. Anna can't see her. She's completely invincible. She skipped the elite 4 because she CBA to deal with them. She's Terra's friend. I'm very very excited to find out more about her but if she left the story after being beaten and vanished from the story without any answers I think that would be funny as hell.

I think it's extremely funny that taka scored lower than two of the purpose-built hatesinks in Fern and Blake.

And Bennet is exactly where he belongs.

I'm glad that pokemon is getting a variety of content that isn't just the same old same old. I wonder if they're actually going to make arceus available in this game, given how it's a mythical.

wait...how'd you have a clefable at Solaris I? I thought that was a circus exclusive. Well, fair play either way, I'm kind of sick of Magnezone after using it all through reborn as well.

RE: Saphira: I'm gonna use Stealth Rocks, Noivern, Mega Scep, and the next three fastest dragons I can get my hands on. With that massive 2x field boost to dragon moves, and +1 spAtk from the seed, all that matters is outspeeding and OHKO-ing everything. Granted, with the boosted levels of leaders these days, I may need tailwind/webs to pull all that off, but it should be worth it to just ignore whatever nonsense she has planned.

Man, I just cheesed this fight completely. Granted I knew what was coming, so I could EV train a spd/spdef scolipede before leaving for Agate, but I can't imagine how hard it would be to actually fight her straight up, instead of using speed boost protect baton pass Scolipede to pass +1 speed to Unaware Cosmic Power/Stored Power Clefable so I could set up and sweep.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Asking the real questions

The Priory of the Orange Tree is a massive fantasy epic with many connected threads and points of view. It's pretty much my favorite book ever.

Oh lovely! Minecraft is such a fun game for me as well, despite not having as much to do as the average AAA game, the very process of digging around and exploring overland is really fun, even before you get into the real "meat" of mining, fighting, and crafting.

Oh, sorry, didn't see this since I was burned out on this game for a month after all the grinding I did to get through the circus arc. My full party was:

Crobat/Klinklang as leads

Magnezone

Alolan Ninetales

Alolan Sandslash

Flygon

Thanks for the recommendation on Sandslash, he's still named after you. Ninetales is strong on her own and turns on slash like you wouldn't believe. The full plan used an air balloon on klinklang to block the initial earthquake while Crobat set Tailwind and Klinklang set Gear Shift. Field-boosted +1 Gear Grind is monstrous. A!Ninetales doesn't have SE STAB, but she does have Aurora Veil and Hail-boosted Blizzard. Hail also makes sandslash do a pretty decent Sonic the Hedgehog impression, and of course Iron Head deals great damage on this field. Flygon is here purely on the strength of her spread moves, and with the air balloon spam I could even use Earthquake a few times, which would be useful against Mawile. However, I ended up just burning Maw down with steel stab instead.

Thanks for asking!

GODDDDDD I agree with this so much. Least favorite bit is finding out you've lost something long after losing it because things you don't need immediately don't friggin exist to the adhd brain I guess

Yeah pretty much. There's like half the tempedia and 3 more islands still to go, but from what I've played it's incredibly well-made.

It hasn't released, it's still in early access. That was the alpha that just finished, not the beta. Half the game hasn't even been added yet!

Couldn't agree more. I can't think of a single bit of it that wasn't AMAZING. 

oh man....that's awesome!

oh nice!

The Final Day

Couldn't agree more. I also despise it's close cousin, "removing a source of suffering would be unfair to those who have already suffered".

Oh I know why, it's less "oh god why are these pokemon stuck here" and more "wait, wild pokemon are actually Good now, that's so weird" like it used to be you had to take a niche mon and just make it work but now I can start to train mons that'll take me even to the elite 4! I'm so very excited!

I'll definitely go try it, then Thanks!

What did you think of it?

It Crismas. Mer Crismas.

I used Alolan Muk and Marowak in my first run of Moon, where they both did fabulously. I am not going to buy sword or shield.