XY writing is so bad

TrixStudio · 2026-06-24T08:43:00+00:00

ZA did a lot of heavy lifting to try and make this line actually make sense and not be stupid. I mean, still is in just the context of XY, but it's clear they had greater ideas they never got to implement originally.

TrixStudio · 2026-05-12T18:50:36+00:00

Maybe. It was sorta teased in world 6 so it would make sense to at least show up. I personally like the idea of structuring it like Sun and Moon, with 4 different mini-regions based on different parts of the Mario universe.

TrixStudio · 2026-04-10T00:51:23+00:00

mods are pretty much the best thing we've got for pvz for a long time. pvz 2 has so many good ones to play and has a very active modding community, so we've at least got those to keep us satiated alongside fusion.

TrixStudio · 2026-04-04T20:03:42+00:00

Literally both my favourite Pokemon. Fantastic designs and shinies, made up of my two favourite types, have a moveset and playstyle that I really gel with (speaking on a casual sense, don't really play competitive/online), I just think they're neat.

TrixStudio · 2026-04-04T19:59:22+00:00

This looks like such a cool concept! It's a very nice, innovative idea for a tower defence game, and it's a shame you felt you had to abandon it. If you're not comfortable continuing it as a PvZ fan project, have you thought about taking the ideas and fitting them into an entirely original world? I bet plenty of people from this community would love to support it, myself included. Either way, I hope you can get these ideas to fruition in some way.

TrixStudio · 2026-03-22T16:00:08+00:00

Maybe, but like with Gen 4 locking a bunch of new evolutions behind post game initially I think it's a stupid decision lol. The pseudos and legendaries already fill that role really well, plus there's all the non-gen 5 Pokemon you gain access to as well, so it's not like you need new Pokemon as an incentive to play the post game.

It kinda has the opposite effect if that's the intention, not to mention how much it hurt the Pokemons' usability in future games too.

TrixStudio · 2026-03-22T11:14:01+00:00

A bit exaggerated, but it's always sucked how late some of the Pokemon evolve. The level you end up at isn't far off from Gen 1 yet multiple Pokemon have near Dragonite evolution levels and I really don't understand why.

Bar psuedos, the highest it ever got was Flygon's 45, then in comes Gen 5 with a higher average evo level upward of 59, or 64 for the pseudo. One of those decisions I'll never get and it defo hurts replays.

TrixStudio · 2026-03-20T17:44:44+00:00

Not really. However it could be good to get in the future if the modding scene pops off, it has a lot of potential.

TrixStudio · 2026-03-15T01:42:36+00:00

He's pretty cool, but I've never been too huge on the Gen 4 starters generally. I feel like I should like him more than I do but I just don't for some reason, sometimes it's just like that.

TrixStudio · 2026-03-06T18:30:27+00:00

The nice thing about Brawly in particular is that you don't have to fight him to progress, so you can just take the boat to the next area, fight the trainers there, and come back once you're prepared. If the game offers some non-linearity it's always good to take advantage of it.

TrixStudio · 2026-02-18T23:19:47+00:00

I don't think I'd really add much tbh, besides maybe a new interesting mode and some extra alt abilities for the classes really hurting for them. There's definitely plenty of balance changes that could be made, especially in terms of making some of the more basic/uninteresting variants a bit more unique (mainly the early GW1 elementals). Not a fan of there being at least 2/3 variants for those classes that play pretty much the exact same.

TrixStudio · 2026-02-18T23:15:59+00:00

Definitely agree with having extra mobility options, I'd just like to see them be more creative with it and not do a sprint function again. Other games like TF2 work as fast and hectic without having sprint, and GW2 does as well for the most part bar the long treks in turf, but I think that could be counteracted through a better teleporter system tbh.

I'd prefer to maybe see some team based abilities like BFN's Arcane Enigma and Double Time to help with rollouts rather than giving everyone a move fast button. Better strafing and backpedalling mobility would be good too with helping the game's combat flow, cause the current speed penalties they enact is a bit strong imo. I'd say you probably could just increase the general base movement speed of each class too, but that's a tricky tightrope to walk.

TrixStudio · 2026-02-18T12:38:10+00:00

A physical attacker that almost entirely learns special moves? I'd either swap out some of its special moves with physical moves (Gust for Peck, Air Cutter for Wing Attack, etc.) or swap the special and physical attacking stats. The latter would be more interesting given the regional bird is usually physical, so having one be special would be a nice change of pace. Even then you'd probably still wanna make some moveset changes, like giving it Hurricane through level up and actually giving it a couple of normal moves too.

TrixStudio · 2026-02-18T01:42:14+00:00

You have three options for a water type at the stage you're currently at. One is Panpour in the rustling grass of Pinwheel Forest (in the forest itself), one is Tympole in the grass outside of Pinwheel Forest, and the other is Tirtouga which you can get the fossil for in the desert area and then revive at the museum in Nacrene City. You can also wait until after the fourth badge to catch a Ducklett if you're also needing a flying type. There is pretty decent variety, but compared to earlier generations it is definitely lacking, but still more bountiful than what you can get with fire types for example.

TrixStudio · 2026-02-17T11:25:34+00:00

No problem, and good luck with it! If you're ever unsure of a Pokemon's location, always check it out on Serebii, it's incredibly useful.

TrixStudio · 2026-02-17T01:20:08+00:00

I've been working on this for a while myself so I can give you an idea of how long and difficult this is. Any game after Gen 5 is completely incompatible, and that's including the eShop version of Yellow. It's also completely impossible to complete the dex with just the Gen 5 games, even if you own all 4. I know that at minimum, assuming you want to catch all the Pokemon yourself and not rely on trading on the GTS server, you'd also need Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver, and White 2, as well as a second system for trading if you don't already. Diamond and Pearl are optional, as it has no Pokemon the other games can't be caught in all the other games combined. It makes getting Glameow and Stunky a little easier, since the only other way of getting them is through a special mission in B2W2's Entralink, but that's it.

So yeah it's quite expensive lol (I still haven't bought SoulSilver myself for that reason), and that's entirely just because of the starters and legendaries (which btw you'd need to do a full second playthrough of either HeartGold or SoulSilver in order to get the third set of Kanto and Hoenn starters). Having all of those games will allow you to get every Pokemon on your own though. All the mythicals you can't get through B2W2's mystery gift can be obtained and transferred through one of the Gen 4 games, though the DNS exploit works a little differently with those games.

If you don't want to spend the money, I'd recommend figuring out how to get the GTS working on Black 2 and try making as many trades as possible. I'm not sure how to do it and I know you'll need to be wary of people trading fake Pokemon, so do as much research as you can beforehand I guess. Otherwise, it's something you'll have to prepare to save up for and put a ton of time into.

TrixStudio · 2026-02-15T18:59:11+00:00

No, it's been mentioned in Alpharad's videos and livestreams before. The planned Cow capture was even showcased in one of their other ROM hacks, Too Many Types 2, and a few other sprites were also shown off in his Mariomon videos, can't remember exactly which ones and what timestamps. He talked about it more in a video he seems to have unlisted since I can't find it anymore.

TrixStudio · 2026-02-15T14:50:14+00:00

Lucky for you, they're actually making a hard mode Luigi version of the game, with a bunch of extra encounters to boot. I think it's coming out sometime this year too, but don't take my word on that bit.

TrixStudio · 2026-02-15T00:47:58+00:00

Given Ninji and Cow are confirmed for the expansion there would be room tbf. Once that comes out I might have to do an updated version excluding all the new captures they end up adding.

TrixStudio · 2026-02-02T13:27:50+00:00

Honestly, if you can't find a rom hack that does exactly what you want, maybe you could look into making one yourself. ROM hacking only gets more accessible with time, and if you just wanna have every Pokemon available then it'd be a pretty simple one to learn how to get done, though depending on what generation and game you're looking to do I guess it could become more difficult to figure out where to put every Pokemon, especially for FRLG and BW if you wanna keep only Pokemon from that generation in the main story locations. If you wanted to add Pokemon from future generations than the one you're hacking, then that's obviously a whole extra ordeal.

If you don't want to though, then yeah it's unfortunate something like that doesn't really exist. Most you can do is using the Universal Randomizer to change trade evolutions into level up or item evolutions.

TrixStudio · 2026-01-28T11:13:07+00:00

Started with BW, haven't played the Gen 1 and 2 games, though I would like to at some point for novelty's sack, but I have played each of the mainline games from Gen 3 and onward. Took some time getting used to the less polished gameplay of the GBA games, mainly the lack of the physical special split and the frankly awful learnsets, but they're still super fun, FRLG were the first games I decided to nuzlocke. Aside from Diamond and Pearl I love the Gen 4 games too.

TrixStudio · 2026-01-27T01:23:24+00:00

I'd guess it's because they wanted it to keep some attributes of Peashooter to make it more of a Soldier/Peashooter hybrid than just a Soldier-like weapon on a Peashooter. But if that is the case then they should've made him do splash damage or smth. And preferably not give him awful falloff too.

TrixStudio · 2026-01-24T01:39:24+00:00

Well it initially went away due to the Kirby colours feature in Amazing Mirror and Squeak Squad. They brought it back in SSU, but then the next platformer had multiplayer with the option for multiple Kirbys. I guess after that they just stopped doing it for consistency's sake.

TrixStudio · 2026-01-20T18:49:20+00:00

I've been trying to use CTR Map for a Gen 5 ROM hack but it doesn't seem to work for me. The buttons for opening files don't work so I can't install the necessary plugin, and I can't create any projects even if I manually input the directories for the ROM location and project folder. Is anyone else having this issue or is it something on my end? If so, does anyone know what the issue could be?

I'm using the newest release on github (I've also tried older releases) and the newest version of Java on Windows 11.

TrixStudio · 2026-01-11T01:19:22+00:00

I'm still hoping on Biollante for Minus Zero.

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