Recent content by Venia Silente

Remember that extending the HP bar necessitates recalculating or rebuilding the mechanics of 1.- fixed damage moves and 2.- status ailments. Since stuff like Toxic or Confusion could dominate a system where resiliency is multiplied but status still deals damage on a percent of *total* HP. If it...

Most of what I know about the mechanics of FF XIII battle system is what got translated into Dissidia, and also the fact that at its foundation the Paradigm system is a steplock ATB + real-time where different options target different "phase gauges". In the case of FF we have the HP bar and the...

Hats to you for a pretty good article!

Considering this is GF and Nintendon't who do this, I'll pass. Even with the best case scenario, because Pokémon is not really a game that does plot and because VA is expensive to get right, it'd end up like this: (Which, frankly, has its own charm. I'm not complaining about that style being...

Make it $500M, exempt from conversion to other currencies, and I might start considering it.

What if I told you we have an update? Yes, there's more content coming up, as befitting for a Valentine's. Technically this should have been posted last year, what with being an odd number. So after this is done, I might post another update around April after this one to compensate. Besides...

I mean, when you get down to it, the premise of the setting is quite something that can flare up discussions from adults. This is a franchise where people literally live in a world that appears to be a communist or socialist utopia. At age 10, children are sent out to a semi-controlled...

If there's any issue really it's with the modders, and even then I feel it's not really a thing. "Wanting to play Pokémon in other games because TPCI doesn't deliver" has been around forever, reminder that before Pokken was a thing there was a lot of want for a Pokémon fighting game, and in the...

Good artists copy, great artists steal. I find it quite unlikely that Palworld can be C&D on the grounds of "ripping Pokémon", considering Pokémon kinda sorta started a genre in that sense and there's been a lot of adaptation and remixing ever since. Some Pokémon designs are so generic that...

*inhales* Robotic Pokémon are one kind of issue, and the worldbuilding trend Pokémon has taken with the Future Paradoxes is both a dfferent kind of issue and a problem. We've had artificial (in-universe) Pokémon for a good while, and even in the first generation we see an important duality...

I guess it's only / mostly Gamefreak (or Nintendon't)'s fault when they say Pokémon is for kids, because unfortunately they insist on both marketing and showcasing the franchise as "limited to children", *and* designing the games to promote merchandising stuff. When, like, there's not really...

I've gone on thoughts about AI before but tl;dr: it's a solution looking for a problem profits, the impending loss of human civilization and a full return to the feudal system where we'll have to scrape for inhuman wages. Under our current system, nothing good can come from AI and be maintained...

Does PokéCommunity count? o3o Anyway, I'd say by far my two most active ones are Mastodon and Lemmy (in particular the discussion fields related to technology and digital sovereignty). Stuff like Tumblr, Kbin and Reddit are at the second place... That said, Tumblr is mostly / only for boosting...

The middle of a story design is always the most annoying work to do. Don't worry that's just part of the craft. I feel like Pokémon and Kirby in general can vibe together on a lot of things to construct a good crossover. PMD and Kirby general tend to share some themes such as having...

Up until PLA arrived, Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin was the best Pokémon game on the Switch and that says a lot. Even with S/V around, PLA shows how a lot of things in Pokémon should be done. I found it a pretty entertaining game in general for just goofing around spending time...