Tag: future projects

Have you ever did a Nuzlocke challenge? And if you did, what was the result? If you haven’t then you should really consider it. I’m really curious as to what will happen with you behind the controller of a Pokemon Nuzlocke run. :D

I have done these before, and the results were foregone and horrifying.  Probably the high point was when my Illumise blew herself up with Metronome on an Emerald game.

Thinking about doing one on X and blogging about it after I finish playing Alpha Sapphire, since thanks to the miracle of modern technology I can just preserve all the Pokémon from my current game with Pokébank.  We’ll see.

Anonymous asks:

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.

I’m sure you have been asked about it before, but I’d love to see a list similar to “Top Ten Worst Pokemon Ever” in which you give your opinion of the best Pokemon ever, whether it be based upon flavor or actual battle usefulness (or both) is up to you. Presumably it would discount legendaries, because a top 10 best list of all legendaries would just be boring, especially if you’re basing this upon power alone… Anyways, just some food for thought when you’re coming up with future topic ideas.

I think I probably have been asked this before, but I don’t remember exactly.  The main reasons I’ve never tried to do it are because I don’t think I’d be able to narrow it down to ten, and even if I did, I don’t think I’d be able to put them in order.  I mean, really, choose a single “best Pokémon ever”?  Even my “worst Pokémon ever” was kind of a fake-out because I honestly do like a lot of things about the Unown; I just hate the way the games handle them.  The fact is, as much as I bitch about it, Pokémon has a lot more good designs than bad ones, and it helps that I was able to select my top ten worst ones from the relatively small subset of those who are also terrible at everything.  The other thing is that while I’m very sure that the weakest Pokémon contribute little to gameplay, I kind of believe that the very strongest ones are not necessarily a positive influence either – I love Kyogre as a Pokémon, but I would never have let players anywhere near something so powerful.  Even nerfing Drizzle only stops him from totally dominating all the other legendary Pokémon.  I’m not sure where I would draw my line, though – is it my contention that Blaziken is ‘good’?  What about Lucario, or Garchomp?  I’m not sure what the ideal balance point is.

Are you considering doing a review specifically on mega-evolving (digivolving) pokemon? Your opinion on them is something I crave since re-reading your analysis on various starter pokemon.

Thinking about it.  After the Kalos Pokédex.  I suppose I would want to talk about what Mega Evolution does for each Pokémon that receives it (in some cases: not as much as you’d think), as well as what the change in appearance seems to signify about that Pokémon.  What else?  I’m not sure how much I could usefully say about them, but we’ll see.

Reading your reviews of Unova Pokemon, I notice you condemned quite a few of them for tricks they didn’t have when you wrote the article, but obtained later. For example- Braviary was damned for a lack of Roost, which he got through BW2 tutors and XY TMs, and Genesect partially because Techno Blast was an inferior Flamethrower/ Thunderbolt/whatever, while it is now more accurate and more powerful than Thunder, Fire Blast, etc. Would you think about reconsidering these Pokemon?

It sounds like a lot of work.  Someone should totally do that.

So was playing a non-pokemon game just a one time thing, or are you planning to play other games in the future? If so (and if you have a WiiU at the time) may I suggest Earthbound(Mother 2 in Japan) for the SNES virtual console? Its developers, Ape Inc.(who later became Creatures Inc.), worked on it before working on the original Pokemon Red and Green, and it may be interesting to check out just to see how it may have influenced the Pokemon series.

Well, Final Fantasy VII was sort of a special case, partly because I didn’t have any other pressing projects in the lead-up to X and Y, partly because it was a request from Jim the Editor, who has best friend privileges.  I don’t want to say that I definitely won’t do it again, but I don’t plan to; certainly not in the near future.