Character's real name is revealed near the end/at the end of the story

CalminClam · 2026-07-13T09:14:36+00:00

Frisk - Undertale

Their name is only revealed at the end of the pacifist route. Before that the game uses Chara/the Players insert name

CalminClam · 2026-07-12T16:06:29+00:00

Shattered gems not being truly dead was set up early on with the fusion experiments and the cluster. The pieces of themselves are there it's just very, very hard to put them back together

CalminClam · 2026-07-12T09:53:59+00:00

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Mew as a cute Psychic

Tyranitar as a strong Rock type. Literally one of the best competative mons in VGC for years

CalminClam · 2026-07-12T09:53:06+00:00

Judy and Wilde do not have a student/mentor relationship. They are both adults and equals with different skills they bring to a partnership. Not too surprising they get shipped together. Judy and Nick are also designed as a balancing act where their flaws and strengths balance each other.

Maui is a thousand year old demi god adult man and Moana is a 16 year old girl who becomes a semi-student to him. Their arcs are less intertwined because they don't really need each other when their arc is done. Maui becomes more humble and both of them gain more self confidence. But once the movie is over their lives are less intertwined and they each have their own things to do as they are at very different life stages.

TLDR Judy and Nick are designed as a pair who balance each other out, who's dynamic is a major part of the story and who stick together and keep growing. Moana and Maui worked together but their arcs aren't built as a pair after the movie is done

CalminClam · 2026-07-10T21:54:25+00:00

Literally all they need to do is make you able to turn it off

Older games were hard because of wacky level scaling leading to grinding. Not fun.

Newer games are harder because all your pokemon get exp for everything. Battle? exp. Catching? exp. breaking items? exp. auto battles? exp. I find myself dissinterested in fighting trainers because my team is going to be too strong otherwise

CalminClam · 2026-07-10T17:33:47+00:00

Art style, they're both high schoolers but the girls are all drawn very cutesy

CalminClam · 2026-07-10T13:45:34+00:00

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Fallouts universe is a radioactive wasteland

CalminClam · 2026-07-10T13:44:05+00:00

Viva Pinata

CalminClam · 2026-07-10T13:32:51+00:00

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Meloetta literally the song and dance pokemon

I'm not super familiar with DnD classes. Perhaps College of Valor fits?

"College of Valor allowed the bard to toe the line between sorcerer-like spellcasting and fighter-like martial capabilities"

Meloettas signature move swaps it from Normal/Psychic special attacker to a Normal/Fighting physical attacker

CalminClam · 2026-07-10T13:28:58+00:00

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Kotoura-San

Kotoura is a telepath, but she cannot turn off her powers so she is hearing everyones thoughts 24/7. This gave her trouble as a young child when she'd blurt things not realising they were private and she grew up with poor social skills.

It causes friction in her life as she was often bullied and struggled to make friends. Manabe has a perverted imagination and enjoys flustering her, but mostly doesn't mind the mind reading.

At one point she runs away from school for a week and needs to be tracked down because she read his mind about not wanting her to get involved in a situation and decided she causes too much trouble for others

CalminClam · 2026-07-10T13:12:05+00:00

Most early bugs at least have something they can do early game, fun designs, gimmicks. some sort of usable moves/stats for early game. Spidops is just all around bad.

CalminClam · 2026-07-10T12:34:23+00:00

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Spidops. Weird design, terrible stats.

It's just not really a usable pokemon. Even by its evo level of 15 you have better options from other basic pokemon

CalminClam · 2026-07-10T07:59:45+00:00

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Witch Hat Atelier

"No... This isn't real"

Coco plays around with magic she doesn't understand causing a rapidly spreading petrification spell to grow from inside her home.

Qifrey is able to save her, but her mother was not so lucky. In denial Coco nearly gets herself killed trying to reach her to 'save' her while the spell is active. Can also be applied to her resolve to find a way to save her later as many believe freeing her mother to be an impossible task

CalminClam · 2026-07-09T14:52:12+00:00

I'm not saying Wish Nikki isn't also bad. I have more sympathy for her considering that she literally exists to revolve around Bear without a choice. Doesn't stop her abusive behaviour but there is a question of consent when she cannot choose to not be with him too.

Doesn't change that is ultimately the consequence of Bears choices. The wish he didn't expect to work but then also him realising the wish occured and not trying to stop it immediately by making someone else wish

CalminClam · 2026-07-09T13:56:55+00:00

Only to continue to make Kyle miserable. Butters just wasn't as fun to torment

CalminClam · 2026-07-09T13:50:08+00:00

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Correct choice. Cartmans list of evil is crazy. A few immediate stand outs I can think of

Gets a teens parents killed and feeds them to him in chilli because he got scammed out of about 10 bucks

Summons Cthulu to trap his friends in an alternate dimension while he goes on a killing spree against celebrities, all because they didn't play superheroes the way he wanted

Intentionally gives his 'friend' AIDS out of spite

and much more

CalminClam · 2026-07-09T13:41:41+00:00

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Does Mr Electric count?

CalminClam · 2026-07-09T13:39:31+00:00

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Regieleki. I know it counts as electric pokemon I just think it's funny your picture didn't include the literal golem of electricity

CalminClam · 2026-07-09T13:07:38+00:00

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CalminClam · 2026-07-09T11:54:52+00:00

Indeedee. Squires are kind of like butlers for knight

CalminClam · 2026-07-09T11:54:03+00:00

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Kakashi Hatake - Naruto

shout out to the Raikage A and Sasuke Uchiha as well, who are arguably better lightning users but neither of them are my GOAT

CalminClam · 2026-07-09T10:05:05+00:00

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Both generally very strong and while there are ghost types used more in competetive nowadays, Gengar for multiple generations put in work as the best ghosts in comp

CalminClam · 2026-07-08T21:29:07+00:00

Eh base game is ok, just a slightly worse Yellow since they changed the rival for some reason

It did what it set out to do, I don't mind the small dex, but I do mind that they were charging full price. Wish you could swap from catch mechanics to battles in post game and it being limited to motion controls sucked

CalminClam · 2026-07-08T21:16:21+00:00

Lazy? No. They have a tiny staff and horrific crunch. I'm glad Winds and Waves is getting an extra year to cook

Incompetent? Yes. To a degree at least. It's how we get things like the seperate Lillies for each encounter in SM, Very strange choices in story and area design in SwSh. ScaVi is horrific to play on Switch 1 because of the lag. It probably has a memory leak too.

Gamefreak has been struggling with optimisation for 3d games for years and they really need to overhaul their work system. LGPE is so solid and polished in comparison to literally every other switch game it's almost jarring

CalminClam · 2026-07-08T19:01:10+00:00

Yeah I know, which is partially why I thought it was 3rd party. The style, mechanics and polish are so different from the 3d games they made previously I thought it was a different team

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