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...I mean I literally said "shortly after badge 9", but there was probably a gap between reading it and recording so he probably forgot the specifics

Well, Rejuvenation currently has 14 badges, and is 12/16 in terms of version releases, so it's got a bit further to go but there's plenty there. I'm definitely going to recommend he play Rejuvenation eventually, but I'll make sure he understands both the scope and current completeness of the game, along with the different difficulties. And who knows, I might lose the connection I do have when Reborn finishes anyway.

No it's its own seperate story/game that's self-contained. It does have several references/cameos from Reborn though, some of which could spoil things slightly

After such a long period of silence, it was very validating to see him using it again

=( We must spread the message for him to return to the embrace of knowledge

Sidenote: the description says "the rules are changing next episode" or something to that effect, so the roulette might be dead

Seems like he's got the little 'mystery' mostly sussed. Assuming gardevoir is being manipulated by El is pretty normal and not far off. ...Even if he has some trouble actually identifying people. I think that's the first time I've seen someone think radomus was a woman

It's Nyu's 'full' name in the pikachu house in the woods I know Nyu was an actual community member back in the day who (iirc) hosted some of the servers for the old online league stuff, but I couldn't say whether the long version of the name came from them or not.

It's delicious how much he dislikes Fern.

Even if Bewear had been dead, any other normal type with a neutral matchup to dark should've been picked over girafarig. As for the Ace things, I wonder if it's possible for some trainers to have two aces set? probably not but could be neat. Stuff like decidu/roserade for Fern and primarina/nidoking for Cain, or something

I think it's the other way around where siding with Radomus requires you to beat it. One interesting thing I noticed: Noel perfectly demonstrated the "switch-reversal bug" that Ame talked about here by U-turning into Girafarig against mightyena.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0du81W1Cg He got an ability capsule from in the forest, and might have another from other hidden items.

Not really, he said he can only do that because he used them for the whole episode, so he had to take on extra challenge to do that protection. plus there's still a 50% chance it hits a good pokemon anyway.

God I am just constantly blown away by gorgeous the tilesets/sprites are now. It's a big step up from a few versions ago or even (dare I say it) Reborn. Huge props as always to Jan, Zumi and anyone else involved with this

Well, the difficulty of all fights is team dependant, and his team got noticeably worse with the loss of Belly. Plus as he's said (and is obvious) he's playing much more recklessly, and with fewer swaps/heals. Also, he did get some pretty crazy freeze luck against Aya, and beat both Bennett and Serra with only 3 proper pokemon

The information is available to him, but I haven't heard from him in a while, so not certain he's been reading it recently

Aya instantly showing that he made the right decision because his team's kinda bad. nice. In other news, guess the death tracker is getting a bit less serious

I think he already said in-episode that revives in battle were still a no-go. The roulette swap seems decent overall for team variety, but it still makes battles zero-stake, so I think I'd slightly prefer team wipe = random death, but we'll see if that'd actually happen often enough to be significant. It's just nice to see it back though

And with that, Nuzlocke mode is officially dead. Cycling out a team member every few episodes sounds alright. Also Arcanine was finally revealed. Sounds like he probably installed it before Sword, and then forgot about it lol.

He said with a cut-in at the start that this was basically recorded just after the last episode was, so before the tweet.

Props to him for actually working out how to beat it with his current team. I think despite the episode name and setting a goal for it to continue, from some of the closing words of sword (and the fact that this was uploaded at all) he already fully plans to continue lol. Supposedly the rules might be a bit different for S2 too so that could be neat.