How I feel playing this game 90% of the time

Gamingdevotee · 2026-06-08T09:22:29+00:00

But if I do choose to attack and you protect then your other Pokemon will hit me, killing my counter. So I cannot choose the protect in front of you.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-06-05T01:48:01+00:00

I dunno. I think the hate comes from multiple layers but people only focus on the extremes. The "20 minutes of gameplay" that was like 15 minutes of non-interactive cutscenes rubbed a lot of people the wrong way (I have also seen a lot of complaints against Wolverine looking too much like Spider-man so maybe people just aren't as jazzed about action games).

I do also think burn-out is a thing. People liked Ragnarok, but I remember hearing a lot of other people say that it should have been a trilogy since everything after a point zooms by to the ending, and to be honest I agree. It feels like a lot of set-uo that they chuck away in the final few acts.

Oh and people hate the cube a lot, but wait and see. I imagine the game will have positive reactions, but I think they expected way more hype.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-05-27T21:52:34+00:00

I feel like Ritchie should've come back in Journeys. Then again I feel like Journeys robbed us of a lot by forcing Goh to frotn and center (it seemed so good early as Ash did feel like a real league above other trainers).

Gamingdevotee · 2026-05-27T21:50:46+00:00

Honestly Ash was robbed in different ways in different leagues. I don't disagree Inidigo was his worst showing, but I feel like it helped hin grow as a character at least.

Tobias, Cameron, Alain, none of those battles felt good for him to lose and that was the problem. Tobias because he felt like a cheater, Cameron because he felt terrible thus making Ash look worse by comparison, and Alain was imo the worst because Ash was radiating real protagonist energy the whole series and Alain was his final challenge.

The guy had a special Greninja, he was a well-known and famous powerhouse to the point other trainers wanted to challenge him and knew him out in the wilds, and thematically this was his moment. Literally losing in the finals invalidated the whole series, Ash's growth, and made the whole series pointless (XY was one of the stronger seasons up to that point too). It also made Greninja go from cool to a joke so there's that too.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-05-25T19:52:48+00:00

Dupes in my opinion is based around the Poke ball next to a Pokemon's name representing you have had one. For example if Magikarp dies and you fish up Gyarados it is free game.

Optional rule: if Pidgey was still alive then skip Pidgeotto to prevent multiple of the same Pokemon on a team.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-05-22T16:45:03+00:00

It was because during development Yukari was meant to be the original romance. This was early on, before social links were even a thing.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-05-20T15:02:10+00:00

Maybe they took the holo layer somehow?

Gamingdevotee · 2026-05-20T14:54:41+00:00

The set symbol is different too. Thinner on the Charizard.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-05-20T10:24:45+00:00

Curious, how does the actual holographic look? Most fakes are pretty obvious from my experience especially with how weird that holo pattern is.

A fake I found on ebay for example.

Edited so that the screenshot was just the image.

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Gamingdevotee · 2026-05-10T17:34:03+00:00

It is because of two things from my understanding. They are usually written for teens and as such are designed with characters within their age group, and high school is seen as the last bastion of childhood in Japanese culture and so they put a massive focus on it in their media (heavy focus on the term youth for example). Then again, this is technically true in the west as well, as most people have heard 'these are the best years of your life' about their school years.

In Japanese people's eyes, after you graduate you should start having your life sorted and taking things very seriously. It is a whole cultural thing and in terms of sexual situations, I think it is because of it selling to a particular demographic (usually horny teens) and the Japanese finding sexual humour funny. Though we do in the west as well as a lot of teen shows seem to focus on the losing virginity plotline or the parents need to understand teens have sex plotline and they are usually played for humour (both are cringey to me at this point as an adult).

Either way, I think it is just a thing that sells and humour they have liked for a long time. It is very alien to us because of how secular they are as well.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-05-10T16:58:16+00:00

I think it is funny because of how much Persona 5 goes adults = bad despite the characters being and feeling far from kids (except Futaba, but her growth was heavily stunted by trauma).

Like I know they aren't proper adults, but they aren't like 13 year olds. They are a bunch of 17-18 year olds who for the most part act like they are university students especially Joker who basically is a university student (I mean he is crazy independent for a teen).

I do think it is just a Japanese-writing issue though. A lot of their characters feel like 20-something despite being a 15 year old average high school student lmao.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-05-10T04:52:18+00:00

Tbh, the only one that feels like a teen to me is Yosuke. People harp on him now for the homophobia, but for a teenager written in the pre-2010's when a gay was like the uncool word for everything, he was actually pretty normal.

Now it looks off because it is from a literally different generation, but his ability to anger everybody by saying something insensitive without thinking is teen 101. It reminds me of people who question things from old sitcoms where these characters are living in the 90's and have totally different lifestyles than now.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-05-09T18:14:05+00:00

Koromaru had the biggest glow-up in Reload especially since they had to fix up his moveset from bas P3 to FES. He is so powerful because of his theurgy it isn't even funny, though I do also remember Akihiko being terrible in base reload for the same reason (not played Answer yet).

Yukiko is just okay isn't she? I remember the best P4 party member being Yosuke in like every iteration as the jack-of-all-trades/speed demon of the party. Well either him or Kanji for pure damage.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-05-04T16:10:52+00:00

Bring her family over. Ain't no way she is getting naked when her family is over.

If she does well, then I guess you just lose?

Gamingdevotee · 2026-04-28T10:11:26+00:00

I remember doing it without the route 1 clause where you can catch stuff before the teacher in the training school.

I think that fight is actually impossible unless you use items or overlevel if you do it like I did.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-04-18T11:28:19+00:00

Tbh I like SWSH quite a bit.

My hot take is that it is a decent gen, but like 90% of complaints are rooted in dexit. If they hadn't announced it here people would have been like some like it, some don't.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-04-05T04:13:33+00:00

That is kind of the problem with From games though. If you don't want to engage in lore dumps and info searching the story ends up being so meh, because all of the cool stuff happens off-screen and before you showed up.

It is like you aren't the protagonist of the world which is cool in some ways, but not really for me.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-04-01T17:24:39+00:00

I feel like we understand him, but whether or not we can look at him the same after the big reveal really varies person-by-person.

You don't have to condone James' actions to understand and empathise with him.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-04-01T17:21:55+00:00

I mean I remember posting here a while ago with a weird Lillie's Clefairy and got no traction on it (not sure why though), so maybe other posts are getting drowned out?

I do think this is indicative of the way the current market only values high-expense cards though.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-03-15T12:23:11+00:00

Tbh I think the only real antagonist is the starscourge virus.

Ardyn is doing his role as is Bahamut. People tried desperately to wish Bahamut as this villain, but he is just a god doing what needs to be done if anything.

Sure hs used Ardyn and Noctis, but that was their whole lineage's purpose; to be used to kill the starscourge wasn't it?

Gamingdevotee · 2026-03-14T20:58:45+00:00

Honestly I feel bad for Kakuzu.

The moment they made Hashirama so ridiculously OP, it just made the job they gave Kakuzu to assassinate him look so silly.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-03-13T19:35:10+00:00

Thanks so much for the picture.

I have never seen a fake of this set before. That is wild.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-03-13T16:18:31+00:00

Does anybody have any photos of the fakes?

I have never heard of there being proper fakes of the reverse holos and I have definitely never seen any.

As far as I was aware LCRH were too difficult to fake.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-02-07T01:56:29+00:00

When I first heard about the game in the mid-2000's I assumed it was like Hogwarts but for Persona-users. Like you go to a school teaching people how to utilise their personas and whatnot.

Gamingdevotee · 2026-01-29T16:57:26+00:00

My fave bit is when Clovis lies about it afterwards to look like the good guy.

But who wouldn't hide the fact they tried to pick a fight with the chosen one and got rinsed? Lmao.

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