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Masq is missed potential indeed (though no typing could get me close to not voting Ribombee here)

So it begins

Ribombee by far

6

I enjoyed it a good bit more than that number indicates though.

Vikavolt is very cool, but it's just so annoyingly slow. It's Scolipede today.

I can highly recommend it if you like puzzle games!

Downloaded it last year when it was free on Playstation. Finally played it now.

It was a really enjoyable and relaxing game. I played it with my girlfriend, and it was nice not getting stuck alone. Our playtime says 19 hours, though a fine amount of that was enjoying the art and just checking things out without actively trying to progress.

We solved all puzzles I came across, though we might be missing some that were not needed to progress. Also don't have all the environmental one's at all and I don't think we'll bother getting that because while they're fun if you stumble upon them, it sounds like a drag looking for them all actively.

I enjoyed the puzzles that doesn't require you to look away from the actual board the most. Tetris, elimination and symmetry were my favorites. The ones with the triangles about how many sides you may touch were also very good, they just weren't necessary to complete anything but the final challenge. She definitely enjoyed the tetris one's the most. The two different kinds that were just about standing at the correct distance to the puzzle were my least favorite.

(Platinum # is 28 btw, but topic was more about talking about the game and not a "brag" about having like a tenth of the other people making such topics here.)

Eelektross is no weaknesses due to levitate so could never forget that one.

I'm a huge nerd in this area and can't think of anything I actually forget, the closest is probably things that make no sense compared to design. Some of the Galarian regional forms are mono-not-what-you'd-think.

Swadloon is really cool. Metapod has the harden battle going for if, but I absolutely love Dottler.

7.5

Title is great.

_stingers_ posted...

Kids will eat it up

And so will adults

I went back and forward a bit. Caterpie is really cute in that one episode in the anime, Venipede is badass, Grubbin is really cool too. Decided to settle with Venipede.

Staraptor takes this imo. A few other great ones, most of them are fine but nothing spectacular.

Toucannon is vastly overrated imo.

9

Bowser is perfect.

No, I think heavily implied by Eli's DNA tests not matching those of Snake, but it's basically confirmed to be Liquid at that point.

Deciding to play using a lot of herbs also meant I couldn't brainless spend money which is otherwise never a problem in Pokmon at all. Interesting change.

Lightning Strikes posted...

The twist was also effective despite the fact that there is no lead up to it at all and it is just given to you.

Well it does actually but mostly through tapes.

Always loved that hair of Pidgeotto's. It gets my vote today.

Leonhart4 posted...

Nah, the cut final mission was supposed to be the ending.

Well yeah, at some point for sure, but for whatever reason those plans were changed and something was made to be the ending.

Though I fully accept that it would not be the ending that everyone would have liked.

I literally finally just finished this last night almost at the same time as you posting this what timing. I was gonna make a topic about it once I had listened to the final cassette tapes you receive. Probably still will.

Most of what feels unfinished in the game is in the gameplay department, such as repeated missions. I think it's incorrect saying that the game doesn't have an ending, though I can accept it not being the kind of ending you would want from a game like this. The reveal was definitely intended to be the ending.

I thought it was very good and did basically everything it was supposed to do. People wanted a fifth game mainline game but I don't view it as such. It does however have an overuse of cassette tapes, I don't mind them for many of the smaller things, but a lot of big things are only spoken through those and that's a shame. Ground Zeroes is an offender here too, you have to complete the side-ops to fully learn everything from the tapes there. Otherwise, it's a perfectly executed set-up.

Ground Zeroes - 9
Phantom Pain - 9

I think I've only seen the first two movies, at least those are the ones I can remember. 1 is good and IIRC follows the series very closely. 2 is really great.

Robert basically wins by default there but he wasn't good at all, although it's hard to hold anything against Tommen given that it's not actually him doing anything as he's too young.

Brayze_II posted...

I was reading about Game of Thrones and from what I can tell, the plot is fine so long as it's about palace intrigues, but the moment the guy starts pulling god powers and ice people it goes completely stupid
For those of you familiar with the series, how accurate is this assessment?

Pretty inaccurate description of what goes wrong in the show.

Red XIII is refered to as a feline on multiple occasions, he is definitely a cat and not a dog of the two.

Cait Sith works too.

Cat Mario probably stomps everything and Cat Luigi is probably second.

Rookidee for sure.

Surprised Furret is going so well, I would think it was mostly a design thing, which I agree it does well in.

Diggersby is by far the most useful of them all.

This made me think about why that insist on always including one of these, when there's no need. The birds have had variations in amount of evolutions, but same goes for them too.

I find it to be the most ridiculous thing they have ever implemented. It gets worse than just crits, which aren't even too good because of catching things. They'll begin often surviving with 1 hp from things that should have KO'd them, even if they have 1 hp already. They've cure status effects themselves, which can actually also be an issue in some late game teams.

Also, for what's less of a gameplay issue, most things that come up are flot out annoying to hear. They also say that the Pokmon did it for my sake so I wouldn't feel sad or something when I absolutely would not sad, on the contrary this is sad. Or that my Pokmon are worried about doing well being sent out against something it can easily OHKO and outspeed. Or that it's about to cry because it took damage from something it'll then deal way more damage to afterward, makes them feel pathetic. Something is way off.

With that rant over, I found it totally worth it just having my Pokmon not like me.

Lillipup is close to this and has pickup. That's the other one I can remember.

Vivi was the heavy board favorite in that match!

Probably had more to do with Leon falling big time too as he didn't even reach that match.

Oh somehow this turned around and my favorite four are left. Did the stuffer quit this time?

Very good movie!

None of them, and I'm honestly pretty surpriaed because while I've been careful to some extent, I've also dodged a lot of close calls.

Denmark spends a lot on testing, so there's basically no way I've had it unless it was right in the beginning and I was completely asymptomatic.

I only nickname them for nuzlockes. Not because I'm bad at it, I simple prefer to never nickname anything or anyone in games if they have a default name.

My answer is yes.

LeonhartFour posted...

LOL no

It definitely happened to some extend.

I've only played God of War, but I'm not sure anything here could overtake it.

squexa posted...

Assuming ME2 didn't randomly boost in strength

Not a lot probably, but I could see ME2 boosting a little through the contest title of the precious contest.

Wouldn't be that confident in a lot of things there. Witcher keeping second for one thing, Galaxy being a bit too high, TP and WW being a bit too low. I also think FFVIIR is a good deal better than that. People vote a bit differently in things that are called GotY and GotD that seemed apparent though. Like, how Smash looked weak every round, but it still got its job done. I'd think something similar applies to a remake of FFVII, especially because FFVII makes most things look good against it.

I wouldn't mind my opinion being in a minority at all, that's just clearly not the case here, they get stuffed each day.

So somebody decided it would be fun to stuff 8-10 and so I lose interest.

I'd think Ghost of Tushima was stronger a year ago than now, not to mention anything's ability to look good against FF.

HaRRicH posted...

Since we're counting GotY-victories and talked about Mario VS Samus earlier, this is the moment where Metroid (again) surpasses Super Mario for GotY-victories.

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To be fair, Metroid games have releases in somewhat weak years while Odyssey came out when BotW did.

I'll admit to have forgotten the second chance brackets, but the other point still stands.

Dread is a big deal, but... squexa basically explained the argument as well as it could be, do no need for me to try.

People being excited about the character is a good point, but I don't think it'll really matter that much unless the contest is shorty afterwards.

Leonhart4 posted...

I'd argue Mario won the first time because he was the bracket favorite and Samus should have won the rematch when brackets weren't a consideration anymore if it weren't for the Mario "clutch"

I think brackets were dead at that point already. Samus was definitely running some sort of hype train the second time from people that wanted to see the result flipped.

She could win a rematch for sure, but I honestly doubt that there's room for Dread to boost her very much.

plasmabeam posted...

then Samus won a nailbiter

Nah she lost that one too.

Leonhart4 posted...

I guess Prime 2 or 3?

I'd say 3 and feel good about it.

Pokemon games can be a disappointment and a step back from where they were, but the core formula is strong enough that I'd never consider them here and I'm sure a bunch of the mentions would not be there if said entry was the only one.

LeonhartFour posted...

10/10

Emotion: The Game, especially After Story.

This.

Either God of War or BotW2.

Kirby is a solid third because it looks really good, but no Kirby game comes that close to the first two games of the other two for me.

Jet Set Radio most of all I think.

Paper Mario actual RPG I would but day 1 too.

2021 in general is probably one of the weakest years in gaming all around, understandably, so I'm not sure what deserves the vote here.

I think the most ridiculous thing in GotD2 if you believe everything is just nominations was that only a single Pokmon game made the bracket but then made it as a 3 seed. There is no way that split fanbase decided so heavily on the games that are easy to miss was actually from the right decade as they are 2009 in Japan. Most Pokmon fans likely nominated more than one entry too. Allen probably just thought Pokmon only needed one representation while the other seemingly capped franchises have more diverse games releases and/or had more A++ releases.