what if i did a funny bit and had my trainersona be a fucking ice type gym leader. the ol bait and switch. it walks around with a weavile and dresses in black and white and is generally lazy and mischievous so you think its a dark type leader and then its like oh you need the hoarfrost badge? fine. we can fight. yeah im the ice leader. i did dark for a while but i got bored of it so i switched to an arguably worse type because i found the challenge more interesting

it still has the wide variety team i doodled it with that you can roll after you win its badge but i think ill add some mythicals and legendaries to it for this theoretical game. one thing i really love about emerald rogue is that from badge like 5 or 6 and up gym leaders and eventually random trainers can have legendaries on their team, especially if you yourself have one, as part of the balancing thing. its awesome. i need to make my pokemon fangame real so bad

Personally wasn't the most crazy abt the ScVi info released today during the direct

I'm sick of new gimmicks. I love gemstones and crystals and junk but 1) This feels very Diancie but Diancie is gen6 and I highly doubt they're gonna bring her back, 2) Gimmicks just flood the comp scene and make it terrifying for me to even think about stepping foot in again, 3) it's gonna get old fast. It looks way too bright on the screen and flashy in a way that hurts my eyes. I have no faith in Gamefreak to add accessibility settings to make it less eye searingly bright

All of us guessed the Legends would be rideable. I'm glad that guess was correct otherwise their designs would have suddenly become stupid instead of charming. However I'm annoyed that we get them at the start. Why do a bunch of kids just get to have the fucking Legends alongside their first ever Pokémon. You bring Gogoat back and then you slander him immediately. Good job.

The new Pokémon and new form revealed are.... Alright? You'd think I'd be all over a new dog Pokémon but Fidough isn't quite.... Perfect enough for me to latch onto. It's cute. But I'm not obsessed. Cietitan looks really boring, it's an egg with very limited features to make it interesting.

And they did that to Wooper on purpose. Paldean Wooper...???? Pooper????????????? It's brown???????????? I'm offended for Wooper

The gym thing seems neat, but the phrasing on the site implies some are still gonna be stronger than others without detailing what that means bc Gamefreak loves being vague as shit. I wouldn't mind some being more difficult even if they're scaled with your current gym badge count. But open world setting and gyms I don't think are going to ever pair together well.

Mechanically on the game tech side of things I'm like 75% sure a huge chunk of this game is going to suck. There's gonna be lag or things looking like ass or pop in or multi-player not working properly and that's not even talking abt player internet but just the sheer fact that Legends Arceus came out in January. They only outsourced one game before that. Unless they suddenly made Gamefreak's team massive and split into two I have no hope in this game being sound coding wise. Nintendo is notoriously outdated with a lot of online shit, Gamefreak has been struggling to keep up since the jump to 3D.

Pokemon is the most popular franchise in the world and yet the games are allowed to have issues. Even Legends would lag or crash. Not gonna be surprised if there's a day 1/2 patch that's huge to fix a bunch of shit that they coulda fixed if they delayed the fucking game to work on it more.

There's a 10 month window between Legends and ScVi releases. If this doesn't sound like a nightmare for those workers then you are either too deep in the Pokémon sauce to give a shit or you're blind. Don't buy the game at launch or pre-order it. Wait and see if the quality is any good and if it's shit don't even buy it until it gets patched to playability. Pokémon is being milked fucking dry for yearly releases and constant content and this fan base isn't fucking helping.