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    A Reflection On Reborn

    in Reborn City

    Posted

    First up, this may or may not be the wrong place to post this, I thought that it would fit in here better than in team showcase actually (since this is me moreso sharing my experiences overall rather than talking about my playthrough hope this won't get deleted for being in the wrong spot).  This morning, I have finally completed Episode 18 of Reborn, which was quite a journey for me. Before playing this game I hadn't played too many pokemon games actually. I have played or, sun, and ultra moon. And for rom hacks I have played a solid amount (around 7-10). Notabilly Insurgence, a game I had played last year around November-December. Before I played Insurgence, I haven't had a pokemon game that really challenged me to the point where I had to take the time to strategize and build a team for a battle. I used to Brute-force my way through battles, only really focusing on type advantage , and generally wasn't good at battling. When I played Reborn I got a bit better at battling, but I still used to only really use like 10 Pokemon through my entire run. I started to play Reborn (around in early april), after watching Thammil's playthrough of the game, up until around 

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    The part where you travel through the Underground Railnet

    I decided to install the game around the time I started watching his playthrough, I myself prefer playing through games rather than watching someone play them, and one day I decided to do just that! At first I thought it would't be as fun through the first bit of the game because i've already seen how it plays out. But I actually really enjoyed it! First thing I noticed was the fact that the game was wayyyy more of a challenge than what I was used to, Insurgence wasn't a very easy game don't get me wrong but it wasn't too difficult thinking back (I was just quite shit at battling so it took more difficulty than it should have). First of all the early game, boy that was dreadful. You really didn't make much money back then so you had to be very careful with how you spent your money, which caused me not to rely on items in the early game for the most part. This game changed me as a player. The battles? Yeah good luck brute forcing through them without a strategy. Gym leaders were M E N A C I N G!!! of course you have the field effects, which are a big part of Reborn, a feature that totally changed how I battled, I really had to build my teams around the fields sometimes I had to get myself a new mon for a gym battle, sometimes 3, one time 5! I also often just sat in front of my laptop thinking up strategies I could use which was A LOT of fun. Sometimes, I would just spend like 5 hours grinding up my team and battling to find things that could give me an advantage against the leader. And when I got those W's (I didn't struggle with every gym leder, but when I did) I felt accomplished, I finally won! 

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    Especially against Solaris recently, bloody bastard with his illegal Mega Garchomp that shit took like 5 hours between grinding up 3 pokemon, grinding evs and finding that fucking razor claw to eveolve sneasel which took like 1,5 hours by itself. could have taken like 1/3 of that time but alas. AAAAAAAAAAAA

    While I loved the battles and strategizing, there was something I loved even more. The Story. It was one of the best stories I have ever had the chance to see unfold. The characters all have such interesting personalities, and are very likeable. You could really understand why a character made a certain descision, and the farther you got into the game, the better you got to know them. A feature of the game I very much liked was the 

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    Friendship point system, the fact that making certain descisions really influenced how much a character likes you is rare to see in games. Often you would have to side with one character over the other, and those were moments where I really had to think about who I agreed with more. You ultimately had to make sacrifices, even though the game didn't change too much most of the time, aside from dialogue changes, but there were moments where a choice you made has a big influence in the long run.

    This is a game where I shall remember most of the characters, when I return to playing it, it'll be like I just played yesterday when hopping back in. I am in no hurry to see Episode 19 release, when it happens it happens. The devs can take as much time as they need. All I will say is that I will be jumping out of my seat when that day arrives!

    Finally I have one more thing to say.

    I want to thank all of the people who have worked on Reborn, as well as all of the forum members, discord server members and everyone else who have build this community. Thank you for giving me a game I could enjoy to this extent, and thank you for giving me the oppurtunity to get to know these great people.

    P.S: I don't expect anyone to be reading all of this, but if you really took all that time, I want to thank you as well, I really appreciate it. 

    PP.S: Also I'm really out here pushing down the brim of the hat i'm wearing thinking of something to add looking like an idiot

    Oh well I'll see you guys on the server/forum, have a good one! 

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    Resolved.

    in Online Play

    Posted · Edited by Grunter The Lucky

    3 hours ago, oxxxy said:

    Hey, i'm abit hindered by tm's not being breedable anymore. Would any1 be able to learn my toxapex scald, as i've yet to defeat the water emblem and would like to use a toxapex with scald before i get that far.

     

    Thanks for your time and stay safe out there.

    yeah sure mate, i got the tm for it not too long ago just dm me on discord (nickname: Lucky, but not actually lucky) and i'm in the reborn server so finding me shouldn't be difficult

    Do you think Field Effects are going to become a thing in the main series?

    in Pokémon Fan Club

    Posted

    On 8/17/2020 at 7:37 PM, Between Life and Death said:

    Not sure if this belongs here or in a Reborn topic, but here goes.

     

    Anyway, the games seem to be going in that direction already. Terrains are becoming more and more salient (spoilers for the isle of armor)

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    especially with the IoA move tutors. The effects of Misty Explosion, Rising Voltage, Expanding Force and Grassy Glide all change on their respective terrain. Terrain Pulse changes power and type based on the terrain, while Steel Roller "breaks the field."


    The next thing for Pokemon to do would be to expand the "terrains" to include natural backgrounds, such as snow or caves. And given Nature Power's continued existence, this seems plausible. Who knows, maybe by Gen 9 we'll have full-blown field effects.

    I'd sure like field effects to play a bigger role in the main games yeah, it adds a lot more depth to battling and just really enhances the experience for me. Sadly i never used terrain moves in us/um but if i ever play the game again i'll definitely try to go for a way more fun experience and try a lot of stuff out, reborn really made me force to not battle in the rather simple way i used to and opened my eyes to how fun battling can really be, i also became a much better player competitively because of reborn.

    Let's reccomend each other some anime

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Grunter The Lucky

    On 8/26/2020 at 3:18 PM, Chickens said:

    Anime recommendations: Planetes, Ergo Proxy, Zankyou no terror, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Re Creator, Gankutsuou

     

    And while I'm at it, have some mangas too : Blue Period, Pluto, Monster, Helck, Veritas, Ares, Mahou Shoujo site(theres an anime but do yourself a favour and read the manga), Bartender

     

     

    that's a looooot of reccomendations, guess they're all going onto the list then, i remember lotgh being a real old show so should be interesting, and blue period looks nice as well and oh yeah i remember mahou shoujo site, saw around half of the anime and didn't like it too much 5/10 but from what you're saying the manga should be a lot better

    Let's reccomend each other some anime

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 8/26/2020 at 2:46 PM, Raion said:

    Animes I'd recommend are: My Hero Academia, Rent A Girlfriend, Re:Zero and Date A Live.

    saw mha, but i'll add rag and dal to mal. i don't remember liking dal too much, but maybe i will when i give it a second chance, saw around 18 episodes of re:zero actually so should continue that as well

    Let's reccomend each other some anime

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 8/26/2020 at 1:30 PM, Masyba said:

    Ah I was talking more about reading but in terms of watching; Tsuredure Children, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san.

    I've seen takagi-san pop up quite a bit and saw a short scene on netflix, it seems quite interesting, just added it and the other two shows you reccomended to mal

    Let's reccomend each other some anime

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, Marcsun said:

    Ehhh, I've gotten burned out of reading stuff like Solo Leveling, Auto Hunting, Kill The Hero, I Am The Sorcerer King.

     

    If its what's yer into tho, then I just named all the stuff I can remember fro the top of me head that all fall into that archetype of IRL Dungeon Crawler with OP MC. 

     

    Personally I prefer some chill Rom/Com Slice of life sorta reads. The Clueless Transfer Student Is Assertive, My Roommate Isn't From This World, Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai!, Kuno Chiyo the Precog. 

     

    On a side note, can we talk about how bloody long these titles are getting, swear. 

    yeah lol these titles are literally full sentences now, i'm a big fan of slice of life anime as well, and also like rom/coms to an extent so the anime you listed seem worth watching

    Let's reccomend each other some anime

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    In these times it's hard to find things to spend all this free time on (well for me at least). I've been watching One Piece but right now I want to watch some shorter anime. I thought i'd ask for reccomendations here since it would be a fun topic to talk about, since we could all reccomend each other that good stuff. I myself would reccomend you to give Inazuma Eleven a watch, it's not very popular but it's a very enjoyable soccer anime. what about you peeps!?

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    where u @

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I am actually from the Netherlands, I was suprised to see other members from there in the server, because i don't see other dutch people too often online, it's actually a pretty cool country to visit for tourists, most people like to go to Amsterdam but Rotterdam is a good place to go to as well. 

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    Today I Learned

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Grunter The Lucky

    TIL that there is a Dutch man named Abraham Crijnssen in charge of 7 ships. He had managed to take over Suriname, and multiple islands in the Caribbian. Very impressive for someone with a crew of that size. A minesweeper that managed to disguise itself as an island which was able to evade the Japenese Navy and managed to travel all the way to the Australian shores was named after him. The person who told me about all this is Wen Bra so you have him/her/them to thank for this info

    A new fchallenger approaches...

    in Welcome Center

    Posted

    19 hours ago, Shiny_Umbreon Orion said:

    Welcome to the forum and if you think Florinia's gym is hard you haven't seen anything yet.

    i have since beaten that gym and am currently trying to beat Teka & ZEL in the double battle with them in the Beryl Ward, it is a true nightmare, but i'll problably beat them later today

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