Hunt11 posted:

You learn something new every day as in my playthrough I never ran across either of them.

Zore posted:

Hey you also had, uh, Abomasnow, Gengar, Aerodactyl and Ampharos

Miss posted:

Scintilla posted:

I notice DoubleNegative isn't posting music links, so here's the gym leader theme. It's on Polsy, so no need to worry about accidental spoilers. I kind of like the theme, it's got a sort of creeping intensity to it that builds the tension nicely.

Cardiovorax posted:

Alright then! First off, I don't know how common this is for fan-games, but the performance is godawful. Luckily, it comes with built-in turbo and automatic run toggle, or it would just be intolerable.

value-brand cereal posted:

It's weird the villains are so nice and giving us goodies. Surely this will not go poorly for us?

KataraniSword posted:

The big difference between Mega Ray in Insurgence and Ultra Necro in USUM is that the latter is basically a plot "finishing" boss. After you beat it, literally all you have left before the credits is the Elite 4, so you have almost* all of Alola to build a team from and even grinding is a potential option. In Insurgence, this is immediately after the third gym, so not only does anything over Lv50 disobey you (an actual real problem in this case, as has been shown), but you have maybe half of the potential you would have otherwise. It's still a million times more generous than Reborn, but your means of overcoming the challenge are significantly stifled.

_{* Minus the Victory Road replacement mountain and the post-game areas}

Geostomp posted:

Of course, this is the same game that establishes that they go to a tropical paradise with playgrounds and spas when not in your party, so it kind of takes the sting out of it.

Cardiovorax posted:

Zorua, Zeraora, Zoroark, what is it with Gamefreak and those names, anyway? Do they just really likes Zs or is this some kind of Japanese pun I'm not getting?

kw0134 posted:

What am I even looking at here? Is this an inkblot test?

Kurieg posted:

I love the "Namehere" Joke, also Mega Typhlosion looks fine enough to me, it's definitely not the dumbest looking Delta or Mega in this game.

The main problem with him is that he's a one trick pony. Typhlosion just does not have Special Coverage moves and Insurgence did not give it to him. You can breed Extrasensory onto him but... yeah.

Geostomp posted:

Kanto is the most easily conquered region on all of Poké-Earth.

Kurieg posted:

To clarify. Mew was called the First pokemon in generation 1, Bulbasaur is the first pokemon in the pokedex. Rhydon was the first pokemon created for the games. And Arceus supposedly created the universe and thus all pokemon.

Miss posted:

there is only one answer

Some Numbers posted:

Goodra didn’t take much damage from Thunderbolt because it’s pure Dragon type, which resists Electric.

Explopyro posted:

There's a really weird mix of design sensibilities here. Which is far from unusual, but still.

I can't remember if it's been mentioned before, but the Shiny Ball is an absolutely brilliant idea (it would be better if they were more readily available, but still). There are few things more frustrating than encountering a shiny and failing to catch it for whatever reason (accidental KO, running away, using Selfdestruct, etc) and this is a very good way to give players a way around that without interfering with game mechanics anywhere else. This is a very good QoL idea and I'm surprised I haven't seen it in more fangames, honestly.

Then we have the game allowing trainers' pokemon to spawn shiny, which is just a slap in the face, and runs exactly contrary to that. I can easily see how this could happen unintentionally, too - it might be as simple as just using common subroutines to spawn pokemon for both wild and trainer encounters. But it's such a feel-bad moment when it happens that developers really should go out of their way to prevent it (and the official pokemon games do; the only times trainers have shiny pokemon in official games is in fixed encounters, and there aren't even many of those).

It just strikes me as a bit odd they'd go out of their way to remove feel-bad moments in one way but not another. Still, to a certain degree I'm picking at nits.

serefin99 posted:

Honestly the thing about Victory Road I most take offense to is the trainers' names. When I saw the second section started with a trainer named 'Jotun' I thought each area would have trainers named after a different mythology, but nope. It's just a random hodge podge of Norse, Greek, Roman, Indian, and Christian mythology (and probably some others I didn't immediately catch).

DoubleNegative posted:

Sorry, what?

megane posted:

I see that the Delta Dratini line still suddenly changes from a cool mystical serpent into a dopey birthday party dragon.

Miss posted:

yeah that's why the would "still" is in there, I guess


greatest evo line ever