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The Switch successor's existence has been confirmed and it will be announced within this fiscal year. It's coming y'all!

As someone who only recently played Gen 1 starting a few years ago and have been playing it a lot to study its game design, Giovanni's choice of team as the final Gym Leader honestly puzzles me beyond "they're strong in a vacuum". I'm not sure what they were thinking from both a gameplay and...

The sheer difference in vibrancy between DP Sinnoh and Platinum Sinnoh is really palpable. Diamond and Pearl's Sinnoh looks pretty dull and bland when you look at everything. But Platinum's Sinnoh just pops a lot more and looks a lot more vibrant and diverse to the point where you really...

I think they wanted a contrast with Armarouge as well. Armarouge has "rouge" in it and when you look at it, admittedly it...doesn't really have that much "rouge" in its design, since rouge is a more pinkish red. Armarouge is more orange and yellow. Violedge would've worked but Armarouge...

It is in fact kept in the dub, Zeno Robinson (Goh's English VA) is voicing the HZ Pokedex as well. Whether intentional or not though, it's funny as hell and is at the very least an amusing coincidence, even moreso that the dub insisted on following through with the gag as well.

On the topic of Poison's weakness to Psychic, I kinda have to wonder if it was a gameplay/counterpart thing more than anything, rather than anything that was designed to make sense flavor-wise. Psychic was intentionally designed from the get-go to be a counterpart type to Fighting, and back in...

You know, this is actually true. The Elite Four levels of both, at least in DP, are also similar and progress in the same way with each Elite Four being two levels higher and then the Champion is three levels higher. The only difference is DP Sinnoh's E4+Cynthia levels of their aces at least...

Kanto was always based on the actual Kanto Plain in Japan, since that's the most extensive lowland in the Japan islands and also where most of contemporary urban Japan is, including its capital city Tokyo. Game Freak deliberately chose their home base as the region to base the original Pokemon...

This shot of the new opening for Horizons gives me life. The sheer girl power radiating from it is beautiful, five of them together making for a fantastic group, all girls. Girl power from Pokemon, and I fucking love it. Screw Ash Ketchum, it's girl power time! The girlboss-to-be Liko and her...

The third OP song for Horizons, for its upcoming third chapter Terastal Debut. This one is such a bop, I love how these OP songs just keep getting better and better.

One thing I've always noticed is Gen 6/Kalos utterly lacking any sub-legendary Pokemon. Most generations always introduce a mostly native minor legendary trio or quartet, such as the birds, the beasts, Regis, the lake guardians, Swords of Justice, Forces of Nature, Tapus, Urshifu, Ogerpon, the...

This sums up my thoughts, and I agree with this. In SwSh and SV especially, I like that they send out their ace that uses Dynamax/Terastal last especially because environmentally, the game has a special final showdown theme for the Gym Leader in both cases with crowds cheering. I like to think...

You "expect"? I'll tell you this much, there's been quite the uproar about Bulbapedia's decision to rename the Starter Pokemon page to "first partner Pokemon" for the past week or so in all sorts of places. And I can totally understand it, as personally speaking, I'd never call them that ever...

Yeah I definitely agree because it gives off the wrong impression about which two of those three are supposed to be counterparts. "Dawn Stone" and "Dusk Stone" sound like counterparts but they're not actually counterparts or parallels to each other. When you look at the way they're implemented...

I really like how the Savanna Biome in the Blueberry Terarium has its own Pride Rock in it, complete with a static male Pyroar standing atop of it watching over the land. If you get it, you get it.