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Hanteeru Report | 04/30/2024 8:20 pm

I'd say it's closer to open multiplayer with friends, you can see each other battling wild mons. I played the mode after beating game so I've not seen anyone play against trainers but I'm sure you can watch your friends battle against the trainers and gym leaders, not sure about watching the final area/battle with them given it has a lot of cutscenes. A neat thing is that you can help spawn version exclusive mons for each other to catch. This game has a interesting twist on the "villain" of the game and it's tied to the professor of the game's version (there's not really a difference of the two other than male professor is focus on future theme and female is for the past). The box legendary you befriend throughout the game is in a weakened form until the endgame where it gains it's battle form. Most people compare the box legendaries are a lot like Toothless from How to train your Dragon, given how it acts, lol.

Honestly you can upgrade faster than the korok seeds, they take waaay longer. Farm zonite to exchange and beat bosses underground helps. Technically the big korok seed *is* the trophy for getting all the seeds.

Hanteeru Report | 04/27/2024 8:11 pm

Yeah, legends so far they do some experimenting. We have no idea what this upcoming one is if it takes place in the past again or if it's some weird city builder thing. Hopefully it'll be good. Fans will find a way to keep things running somehow, but it's nice that pokemon bank is still officially supported for the time being. I guess the more focused story in recent games does make that hard to make your own story. I do like this games story(s) over last gen's; branching gym battle story, titan mon & sandwiches story, and "not-villain" group friendship story than bring your new friends to the base game endgame story. Game may be janky but like most pokemon games it has heart in it's story. First part dlc story is a case of making a friend into bitter rival, 2nd is facing that rival and is a bit tougher as the area focuses on double battles with new E4 (base game E4 is ok with champ not all that strong, rivals are tougher lol). Best I did to make a challenge was not swap during opponent change. Heck, you can explore the game and practically catch majority of pokemon before you engage with the stories/gyms, but pokemon over I think lv 20 won't listen without any badges.

I've had plenty of wonky mishaps in my playthrough lol. I was doing a new playthrough after beating the game to see how it felt starting out while knowing what I've learned, feels weird as I can do ok against monsters weakish but building things don't last long enough without upgraded meter. Was also trying to solve some shrines weak and without my glider (one particular one I got far without glider but couldn't reach the end without dying lol). I've mainly tried monster hunter via demos but did have fun playing them. One day I should pick it up.

Hanteeru Report | 04/24/2024 10:49 am

I doubt we'll see any of the paradox mons in the new legends game but who knows.. Although we have no idea what the game is other than being a kind of Z version we never got. If anything most people were surprised as people were expecting gen 5 related games to happen next, especially with SV's 2nd part dlc taking place in a school in Unova. I haven't really battled anyone as I don't know anyone to battle really. I'd say setting up pokemon to be battle ready in this game has been very accessible. Battle items get fully unlocked in the shops to buy towards end game, easy to see how well your ev training goes, purchase mints to change nature, TMs are one use again but you can craft to get more but can find some TM that are on the ground, buy bottle caps to max out IVs. Doing raid battles give decent rewards and level up items that make it easy to get to level 100. But no battle tower in this game however. I'd say if you plan to get the game, maybe buy used game on ebay.

You can build however you want. There's also a feature where you can save preset builds, so if you want to try to remake something handy someone else made you can have it saved to make anytime. That said, you don't have to make anything fancy, some simple thing put together can work fine. Having mishaps where it back fires on you is gonna happen to everyone though lol.

Hanteeru Report | 04/21/2024 5:43 pm

I suppose game balancing might also be part of the reason they don't update bring in all pokemon. Paradox mons are an interesting concept being supposedly ancient pokemon that are related to known pokemon and future robotic recreations. The time/world they are from is never explained upon though. It's uncertain how closely the paradox legendary trios are related unless they're from alternate timelines. In game, there was picture hint on them showing they were single paradox mons that was a combine form. Makes me wonder if pokemon co. changed their mind on it doing full paradox trios instead, somewhat wish they kept it as a fused ones.

Finding the towers to climb and unlock the map in botw was fun, though the towers were changed in totk to kind of unlock as you don't climb them. Now that I think of it, compared to botw, tokt was a bit tougher once you landed onto main hyrule. Mix monsters of strength were around quite early so it was easier to die. Armor upgrading was a bit longer due to quest like unlocking as well instead of botw's pay to awaken fairy. I was armor weaker for a long time than botw. But once you got the hang of the fuse mechanic, you could easily cruise anywhere. Tighter story with open world would be a challenge, but I guess we'll see. I hope switch 2 will be still dual mobile and home console.

Hanteeru Report | 04/19/2024 2:06 pm

Yeah, having the dexit is still lame (there's still a few pokemon that aren't available on any of the current Pokemon switch games, though the new legends game might fix that) I feel that having all pokemon can at least be done by dlc & updates if it's an issue with time restraints. Heck even the movesets got the dexit too as not every attack has returned in this and last gen too. It might feel easier this game with how open and free you are to play the game and may easily over level since it's as linear progressing as past games are.

I think the main burnout for playing right after is that you have to basically do the towers to unlock the map thing again. The sky island and depths are a great addition too, some feel the sky islands could have had more sky areas but otherwise it's fun. But some people still feel there were still full dungeon areas rather than mini puzzle dungeons for Botw & Totk. Though it may be hard to top the series for next game, going back to classic puzzle dungeon exploring would be welcome to many still. Be nice to see if they can do open world with full puzzle dungeons. Guess we'll find out in another 5+ years lol

Hanteeru Report | 04/18/2024 5:39 pm

It's wonky for sure but it's pretty good for what they did. I'd say the story is pretty good too especially towards the base game's final area. Game is rough given they took some of what they learned/worked on with Legends Arceus and just tried full on open world game. Most issues is that it gets slow with how much stuff is loaded in view, though most of the glitchiness often was through early on during co-op. Also I heard that scarlet was the main focused build with violet being the modified version, so violet players had most of the glitches early on.

Totk is a little weird when considered as a sequel. I feel it's best to maybe not go straight into Totk right after fully completing Botw as you'll end up doing the same exploring work again, maybe take a break lol. It was years since I last played botw so going into totk didn't give that kind of gameplay fatigue to those that went straight in after completing botw for a refresher. Otherwise the game is really fun with that new mechanic for merging and building stuff.

Hanteeru Report | 04/18/2024 10:51 am

Still playing games. Newest games I have are from like last year though (Totk and Pokemon Scarlet)

Hanteeru Report | 04/17/2024 10:32 pm

Not really, honestly. I have no idea what I really want.

Hanteeru Report | 04/17/2024 10:00 pm

Sounds like fun o: and yeah, the years just go by. If only time would slow down.

Hanteeru Report | 04/17/2024 6:16 pm

How've ya been?

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