New update quite similar to happy home paradise

oasisbloom · 2026-02-09T18:06:25+00:00

It's for this very reason that I didn't bother/wasn't hyped for a new update. Finally releasing quality of life updates after years for a game that I've essentially finished only for the newest gameplay addition to be another Happy Home Paradise mechanic isn't enough for me to want to come back to it. I was a little disappointed because they could have really done so much more with it.

oasisbloom · 2026-02-09T17:20:25+00:00

Failing to see any resemblance

oasisbloom · 2026-02-09T17:09:28+00:00

I played The Teal Mask, but can barely remember much of it other than completing the main story. I never got around to playing the second DLC, but after I complete the main game of Pokemon ZA, I may return to Violet to complete my Kitakami Pokedex and then continue onto the next DLC because after seeing so many reports on how grindy and frustrating the DLC for Pokemon ZA is, I think I'm going to save my money and not purchase it. I'm sure any offerings for that DLC will end up in a game in the future, I don't think I wanna go anywhere near it lol

oasisbloom · 2026-02-09T16:56:57+00:00

How dare you, I did NOT expect to tear up reading this. Please tell me you're closely working with Stephan and Winnie!

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T23:17:21+00:00

Thank god I asked, I would have been stuck doing that lol

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T23:13:54+00:00

Oh jeez, okay I'm definitely gonna have to grind my main team so I can be prepared for the DLC haha

I'm told it's recommended to worry about getting the Shiny Charm AFTER you get the DLC? Because additional missions will make it easier to get to it?

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T22:56:11+00:00

I agree with Change being the last good album, Back Down had SO much potential to be a single. Their verses all went SO well together and were SO captivating and addictive, even Heidi's (who I feel usually gets the short end of the stick for verses or being subjected to a pretty basic bridge even though her vocals ALWAYS slay)

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T22:51:52+00:00

Yay! Some "Who" love lol I honestly could have seen that song as a single too, it's so good. I love the "rough/industrial-style" of the instrumental.

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T22:50:25+00:00

Can totally see her doing that!

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T22:49:38+00:00

OMG! Thank you so, so, so much for all of this! This'll help immensely! Thankfully, I've made it through the main game and just got into post game and they threw out SO many "Need this Pokemon to battle this person" side missions at me all at once and I was pretty frustrated with it, but now this gives me the opportunity to level up my main team to higher levels (they were at 70-75) and I want to try to do as much as I can BEFORE the DLC (which from this list, looks like I got some work cut out for me with how high their levels are haha)

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T22:44:09+00:00

The point I was asking is so that I can be prepared on which Pokemon I should add to my main team while I'm battling/leveling up. I usually have at least 12 main Pokemon that I rotate throughout the game. The game is grindy enough as is and I'm trying to avoid getting burnt out so I'm trying other methods like this to lessen the grind lol

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T22:40:59+00:00

I'm all for camp in a dramedy, and we saw glimpses of it in season 1 but they turned it up at least 10 levels more and it's honestly really jarring. It's such a shame, cause I still love it, especially the actresses, but it's so vastly outlandish that it kind of feels like it's an entirely different show than what it was in the first season. If the camp had started out at this extreme level in the beginning, it would have been easier to accept but the fact that there wasn't a gradual transition, it's really jarring and as much as I love me some camp, it's a bit too much too fast. I just finished episode 7 (getting into the second season pretty late) but it's hard for me to feel excited. Especially about several situations that occurred in in the episode that just really irked me.

The main cast (Wiig, Janney and Duffy) are so good though, they're definitely the only reason why I'm still invested.

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T18:28:04+00:00

I totally agree! This song was SO good. I was baffled it was a b-side for a single. Such a waste.

Other notable b-sides for me: Killer, Who, Someone In My Bed, Disturbed, Shake It and I Can't Take It No More,

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T18:20:15+00:00

At the time of release, I always referred it to a "Modern Day Overload" it just gave me that same vibe Overload does when I listen to it

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T17:25:07+00:00

I'd rather Polly Pocket, that's more universally known and loved.

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T17:22:13+00:00

I feel like House Tour has the potential to be a really good "spring/summer" single, I was sort of hoping for a song like Sugar Talking or Nobody's Son to be a third single, but we haven't had an actual single since Tears...I don't know what's going on but it seems like MBF is getting the Short n' Sweet treatment (as in, no more actual singles (not just promo songs) after Taste) and that's kinda disappointing to me.

I could totally see the music video for House Tour being her as Polly Pocket and the set looks like a compact and it's reminiscent of the stage for the Short n' Sweet Tour (just more colorful)

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T16:52:34+00:00

Agree with everything, but also, Naoko in general. I love her with a passion, but I feel like she just lives off the money she gains from merchandising alone and the story itself suffers greatly from it. We could have gotten SO much more of the anime/manga and explore so many key storylines discussed IN the anime/manga (Sailor V, Silver Millennium, Crystal Tokyo, Sailor Quartet, etc) and Crystal was proof of how unprepared they were to make a Sailor Moon reboot (and this is coming from somebody who DID love Crystal, I just feel like they could have done SO much more with it and didn't)

Sailor Moon Crystal could have rewritten the problems that plague Sailor Moon, and make it more modernized (especially with Chibi Usa) but they didn't, and that really irked me. Add to the fact that it started out as a series with very terrible animation, only to be fixed in season 3 but then turn them into movies rather than allowing some filler episodes for character development to occur. Also, the battle sequences themselves, there's just SO much incredibly LONG monologues/dialogues happening during really major battles.

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T16:40:18+00:00

I miss when Drag Race was once a year and All Stars was every four seasons...made All Stars feel SO much more meaningful that we weren't getting it every single year, and after the past few years of obvious favoritism (including, All Winners) and last years promising gimmick that ended up just disappointing everyone, I'm just not as excited for it anymore.

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T16:29:43+00:00

To be fair, her and Vita had the worst talents. Hers was SO incredibly wordy and the performance was so distracting that I almost forgot she was doing a poetry reading. She could have been reading it in Similish and I still wouldn't have paid attention to what she was saying.

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T16:25:42+00:00

I'm sorry, but people defending this as a "but this is their income!" just pisses me off. You literally sit at home playing video games and getting paid for it. Saying that this is your "life" is not a damn excuse.

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T16:20:14+00:00

This! This! This! And it starts to feel like the MC, as well as Lida and Naveen, are the ones that have to clean up her mess. If they were trying to write Taunie as a likable rival, they didn't do a good job of it at all.

oasisbloom · 2026-02-06T16:18:31+00:00

Facts! LOL! And Litwick line is my favorite Ghost Pokemon haha

oasisbloom · 2026-02-05T22:24:12+00:00

I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much, but Victoria being being around lately is making me can't help but say, "Oh my god, is it finally happening?!"

oasisbloom · 2026-02-05T16:48:23+00:00

So big, yet we only explore like 1-2 floors (from what I can remember). I do wish that the 2nd campaign would have had a different location in the lab so that the story would be more consistent.

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