One lunatic's love-hate relationship with the Pokémon franchise, and his addled musings on its rights, wrongs, ins and outs. Come one, come all, and indulge my delusions of grandeur as I inflict my opinions on anyone within shouting distance.
Remember when you made Squiddy? Maybe you should ask your fans to make a rom hack with an entirely new region and Pokemon the community made! It would be a really great project.
Oh gods no. I mean… not like it wouldn’t be kind of cool but no way do I have the time to coordinate something like that. Besides, it’s not like there aren’t other people doing that. What would me and my readers specifically bring to that kind of project?
This is the intellectual, over-analytical Pokemon blog that I’ve always been searching for but never found. Thank you so much.
What a coincidence. I’ve always hoped to be the intellectual, over-analytical Pokémon blog that people search for but never find. One does one’s best. 🙂
Man, Spruce reminds me so much of one of my own Pidgey characters from a Pokemon RP. Noble and knightly, and referring to his trainer as “my lady” nonironically. He’s probably the one who likes her best, except maybe for her Phanpy who thinks of her as his mom.
I’m glad you like him, although to be honest I don’t think I’d call Spruce “knightly.” He’s… not really a terribly disciplined person.
Is there a particular theme on which you’re basing the names of your Pokémon in your current Nuzlocke, or is it just random, on a whim?
If you can find a theme, let me know. It will probably reveal some disturbing truths about my twisted psyche.
How do you get the inspiration for the Nuzlocke character’s personalities?
I had a procedure, actually. I have ceased to follow it, because it got restrictive and I pulled better ideas out of the aether, but I used to have one. What I used to do was every time I caught a Pokémon I would use a random number generator to roll a D&D-style alignment for them (Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic + Good/Neutral/Evil) and that combined with their nature was their personality. Like, Ruby is Bold and Lawful Evil, which hopefully makes sense, and Spruce is Rash and Chaotic Good. Melissa was Jolly and I had no idea what to do with her until I rolled Lawful Neutral for her and thought “well, okay, obviously she needs to be in fanatical service to a terrifying amoral entity.” It made sense at the time. Luna was Impish and Chaotic Evil and come on that writes itself. Now though I mostly just do whatever works in the context of the story, because there’s enough already there that it’s a better source of inspiration than a random number generator. Usually I pester Jim the Editor about it and we talk about it and eventually I come up with something that’s at right angles to whatever either of us originally had in mind.
Will you write an article on Mega Evolutions someday? I’m sure a lot of people would love to hear what you think about it (I know I would)!
I do mean to stick one in at the end of the X and Y Pokémon reviews. Not entirely sure what I’ll say about it as my thoughts on the matter are fairly straightforward, but we’ll see what I come up with.
Please do a series on the rivals (like you did with the Champions)! Of course, you can skip Blue and just jump straight to Silver!
That’s one of the things that I’ve been meaning to do for literally years, but there’s always been something more immediately important to write about and it keeps getting lost. Still… I don’t think there’s anything else I’d particularly prefer to write about after finishing the X and Y Pokémon reviews… Yeah; let’s go with that.
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