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Golden Goat posted:Hey I guess Uranium ain't so bad after all A little perspective goes a long way. 
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 Tsukinami is big on arbitarily naming things with Japanese words and vaugely defined prophecy and ninjas and using the Tin Tower music because JAPAN. PU-Tsukinami Village.ogg  It means MOON WAVE do you get it?? Yes there's a statue of Daikatuna there.  One of these outdoor stalls sells gimmick Pokeballs. Quick and Dusk are hard to beat so these aren't that useful in most cases. Level Balls for massive massive gaps and Heavy Balls for some of the legendaries are the only useful ones.  OH MY so this place sells every really good hold item at once. Choice items lock the user into the first move they select but boost Attack/Speed/Special Attack by 50%, for Band/Scarf/Specs respectively. Focus Sashes protect the users from one-hit-KOs once and Focus Bands have 12% chance to block any KO. The choice items are the big buys here, especially a scarf for Duke Nukem as he only spams Hyper Voice anyway.  A guy chops down a plant with his bare hand. This would be impressive if Cut were an HM in Uranium.  The old man is some sort of ninja master sensei type, and as is required of them he has psychic powers. Except the game won't call them psychic powers in a setting with psychics.  The six arts are the stats, yes.  And his six students are those EV training ninja. I could do this sidequest now but, you know, Fly.  The scrolls do not say "Enemies on every side" 1/10 leaving awful yelp review  The two clans are TSUKI and NAMI hence TSUKINAMI do you get it yet  Hokage is here and he wants a rematch to reclaim his title. It'll be later.  That's not everything in town but I guess I wanted to get Fly so here we go!  The White Tiles: 13 Black Tiles: 7 Gym is- hold on. That's not right.  These statues are the clearest depiction of Aotius and Mutios we have. They're literally yin and yang, complete with the little dots.  And the ninja clans' rulers are the gym leaders. They aren't king and queen because [muffled excuses].  This is theologically very concerning.  Anyway the tile count is the gimmick of this gym. We have to make the numbers match by stepping on them.  This first one is really easy.  The ninja speak in haiku, but not good ones, and it doesn't work when text boxes only show two lines at a time.  The junior trainers have mono-type teams, to match absolutely nothing the leaders do.  The massive number of events on this map, 224 from this tile puzzle, makes it lag like a motherfucker.  The ninjas in black are the wave ones. Their names are random japanese words I know from anime. Their sprites are awkward edits of Janine's from HG/SS.  Zapmander continues to be better than everyone else, by getting his own mega evolution.  It has Drizzle, which causes rain. It improves water move damage and makes Thunder never miss, and wouldn't you know it, Zapmander has a high special attack with STAB on water moves and Thunder! Mega Electruxo is one overpowered jerk.  The white ninjas are the moon ones. Their names are random japanese words I know from anime. Their sprites are awkward edits of the Shadow Triad from B2/W2.  They're all easily defeated by Zapmander and My Fursona.  I thought you had to have them balanced right when you get to the door, but it turns out if at any point you get them equal it is solved. How dull!   It's like Fire Blast & friends, but I want Surf's perfect accuracy.  Do you need so many loving tiles, jeez.  GET IT, GET THE NAME AND HOW IT WORKS  Anyway we're finally here at the gym leaders. plural.  You see clan moon has this white thing going and clan wave has a black thing and I don't get it at all honestly  Oh they're married, seriously why are they still prince and princess?  Oh boy more story time!  Unlike Rosalind this one is easy to summarize in two text boxes.  So for making out to end a war, the gods bequeathed the two with divine gifts.  Yes, they are over 100 years old and still look like vauge young adult-age. It's very stupid and pointless.  Since there's two, we have to fight one then the other in a marathon of conflict. I have easy plans.  OFSelects: Boris- Feedbacker  Immortal priest-king ninja in yukata or something, what a world.  He leads with an Umbreon. As you expect it's Moonlight/Toxic/Confuse Ray/Dark Pulse with Leftovers, to be as annoying as possible. But I know its weakness.  Substitute, which I got way back when, has been biding its time for this Umbreon. Confuse Ray and Toxic can't hit, and Mega Gyarados's dark type and high special defense means Dark Pulse can't break it.  Eventually Kaito gives up and withdraws Umbreon, but that gives me enough time to Dragon Dance to +3.   Luchabra effortlessly breaks the sub, but Close Combat's defense decrease does not agree with it.  And with her immense power, Nep-Nep can just one-shot Luchabra, Umbreon, and his other thing Vilucard.  And his last Pokemon is an Arbok? Okay I guess it has Intimi-  Wait what  One of Uranium's new megas for existing Pokemon! Arbok gets more medusa-esque, and becomes Dark/Poison.  And its ability becomes Petrify, that -1 speed thing that Chimaconda has.  +2 Aqua Tail.  That's Kaito down, but Hinata's up next!  Do you get it yet, she has a sun-themed team, as expected of the leader of clan moon.  Also that vs. sprite is kinda weird.  Feedbacker's still going, it'll never stop going.  Nep Nep instantly obliterates this Flareon with Aqua Tail, but that's not enough of a story.  This Flareon is a real bastard, and not in the way you're thinking. Flareon cannot learn Solar Beam, yet this one has it. The player cannot obtain a Heat Rock at any point, but since the other rocks are available that's a different kind of mistake. What's not a mistake is that this thing was designed around having the ability Drought, which it actually did in earlier versions! But it has Flareon's actual hiddena bility Guts, so it's very confused and Hinata's entire team falls apart without 8 turns of automatic harsh sunlight.  Gellin fails to KO with a Thunderbolt. You go, Nep-Nep.   Of course both of them have three max potions, because fun.  Rocket Man can plow through things with Flame Impact.  Especially when Coatlith relies on that harsh sunlight to have basic functionality, letting Rocket Man get a free Swords Dance.  Hinata's last 'mon is Whimiscott. You know the drill now.  It has a dumb looking mega evolution.  One of these things is a little off, if you look.  Whimsicott cannot learn Spiky Shield. Nothing in Uranium learns Spiky Shield normally. That it's even in the game is weird, but here's a Whimsicott with it just to gently caress you over.  You know, if it used it.  Get it, yin and yang in balance ARE WE DEEP YET   Hinata gives us a TM that does not work on Flareon. If you use sunlight through Mega Archilles, stop playing already.   Kaito gives a useful niche TM that can help some guys avoid trouble, because losing 60% of your HP isn't as crippling as Will-o-Wisp sometimes, you know?  Upon stepping out, Bamb'o calls because we have all the badges in Tandor! We'd be going to the championship now but...  Suddenly, Uranium remembers it has a story, and it's going to ram into us at rapid speeds!
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May 29, 2017 20:09
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Mega Arbok is an orochi and Mega Whimsicott is a sakura tree HAVE WE MENTIONED THIS IS JAPAN YET.
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May 29, 2017 20:17
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Mega Arbok at least isn't an awful idea, even if it could be presented better.
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May 29, 2017 20:18
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That "sun team" is baffling. Why'd they remove the Flareon's blatant cheat ability but then not actually do anything to make sure the team could still set sun? 
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May 29, 2017 20:26
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>insert ocean's gray waves reference Nice to see Falkner's trainer sprite. I don't recognise Hinata at all.
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May 29, 2017 20:33
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I am so irrationally mad at whimsicott the cotton pokemon turning into a blooming cherry blossom tree Just use Cherrim! god
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May 29, 2017 20:58
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I kinda like that Mega Arbok.
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May 29, 2017 21:04
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What gets me is the black markings on it's head looking like hair and everything about its eyes, it just feels like too much, like a lot of things in uranium. Really I'm starting to feel like most of uranium's problems boils down to either too much, not enough, or somehow, both at the same time. Like how arbok's mega pulls all the stops in looking evil so you know it's now dark type, but goes too far and end up a mess, while at the same time taking every single easy option for looking evil.
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May 29, 2017 21:31
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Ometeotl posted:I kinda like that Mega Arbok. Me too actually. The medusa thing makes sense for it, and the sprite doesn't look half bad, and it's a pokemon that could actually use a mega evolution to make it usable. Mega Whimsicott is dumb though. Cottonball > Cherry blossom tree makes no sense, and why do its legs get shorter and pointier? EDIT: It is a little busy, but not really any more so than, say, Mega Steelix or Mega Sharpedo. Ariong fucked around with this message at 21:37 on May 29, 2017 |
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May 29, 2017 21:34
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Ometeotl posted:I kinda like that Mega Arbok. I like the concept of the Mega Arbok - but then again I've always liked Arbok even though it's not that great, so I'm a little biased in favour of anything that makes it more usable. I think its actual art needs a bit more work, though it's not as bad as some of them. However, typing Mega Arbok makes me think of MegaBloks so that's a point against it.
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May 29, 2017 21:35
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I like the concept of Mega Arbok being literally just Arbok but with half a dozen Ekans' backseat driving it.
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May 29, 2017 21:45
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So what the hell is this region supposed to be based on?
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May 29, 2017 22:15
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XavierGenisi posted:So what the hell is this region supposed to be based on? Brazil, if I remember correctly.
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May 29, 2017 22:19
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am i the only one who thought this was gonna be a double battle?
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May 29, 2017 22:20
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Red Metal posted:am i the only one who thought this was gonna be a double battle? Nope
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May 29, 2017 22:25
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remember how the actor gym had nearly nothing to do with anything else, and was barely hinted at welcome to a town ported from weeabo hell that has no connection to anything in the rest of the game Oh and mega-zapmander looks really, really stupid
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May 29, 2017 22:26
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Ragnar Homsar posted:Brazil, if I remember correctly. ah the snow capped mountains of northern Brazil
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May 29, 2017 22:27
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Ometeotl posted:I kinda like that Mega Arbok. I love its tailhead thing. All the others are looking forward, being all menacing or whatever. And then there's the tailhead, just hanging out in the back, looking kind of surprised.
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May 29, 2017 22:41
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Red Metal posted:am i the only one who thought this was gonna be a double battle? Not at all, though I get why it wasn't.
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May 29, 2017 22:46
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rannum posted:I am so irrationally mad at whimsicott the cotton pokemon turning into a blooming cherry blossom tree  Come on, there's already a perfectly good Pokemon based off of sakura flowers.
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May 29, 2017 23:05
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I like the idea of Mega Arbok being Yamata no Orochi but the execution wasn't there. So it actually is doing better than the average decision in Uranium.
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May 29, 2017 23:08
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rannum posted:I am so irrationally mad at whimsicott the cotton pokemon turning into a blooming cherry blossom tree Ariong posted:Mega Whimsicott is dumb though. Cottonball > Cherry blossom tree makes no sense, and why do its legs get shorter and pointier? hopeandjoy posted:
I feel just the same. It's such a bad design from concept to execution. Cherrim is even already build for a sun team! Also I was totally ready for the guy gym leader to be named Naruto. dungeon cousin fucked around with this message at 23:15 on May 29, 2017 |
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May 29, 2017 23:13
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Brazil has the most amount of people of Japanese descent outside of Japan. Therefore, the spew of weaboo poo poo that we just saw.
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May 29, 2017 23:19
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Funky Valentine posted:Brazil has the most amount of people of Japanese descent outside of Japan. On the other hand, it also gives us "Jetstream" Samuel Rodriguez. Swings and roundabouts.
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May 29, 2017 23:32
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Zen has nothing to do with Taoism.
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May 29, 2017 23:37
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Honestly, the general idea of this gym isn't too bad. It just gets bogged down a lot in silly mistakes that would have been picked up had this gone through quality checking. ...and removed any trace of two-thirds of its story content.
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May 29, 2017 23:45
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:
That's the plot of this game, right? Ratoslov posted:Zen has nothing to do with Taoism.
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May 30, 2017 00:28
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Funky Valentine posted:Brazil has the most amount of people of Japanese descent outside of Japan. But then why is there also Not-Venice that loves acting in this same region?
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May 30, 2017 00:48
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XavierGenisi posted:Yeah, that makes sense... Maybe it uh.... I dunno? Represents Italian war criminals who fled to South America after World War 2?
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May 30, 2017 00:55
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Blackunknown posted:Maybe it uh.... I dunno? Represents Italian war criminals who fled to South America after World War 2? Rosalind defeated not only sexism, but fascism as well? drat!
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May 30, 2017 00:58
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I'm just baffled that you have eight loving gym badges and you still don't have Fly. Just... what kind of hoops does Uranium expect you to jump through for such a basic convenience feature? Wait... maybe I don't want to know the answer to that.
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May 30, 2017 01:36
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I actually really like Mega Arbok but can we talk about that loving gaping mouthface thing on its neck-chest-flares jesus christ.
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May 30, 2017 01:36
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That's the main reason I think ghe medusa theme fits so well. The mega evolution literally takes the face from scary to petrifying.
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May 30, 2017 01:42
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While the whimsicott mega doesnt make sense, it is rather cute 
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May 30, 2017 01:43
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:
No! Whimsicott is cute and perfect just the way it is! Why would you do this
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May 30, 2017 02:04
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That Mega-Whimsicott looks like a Terraria enemy.
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May 30, 2017 02:05
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Silver Falcon posted:I'm just baffled that you have eight loving gym badges and you still don't have Fly. I mean this is the same devs who thought, "Let's lock any berry growing BEHIND THE POST-GAME!  "
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May 30, 2017 02:17
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Blackunknown posted:Is it worrying that I now consider Uranium a good game when compared to Reborn? Because I'm not sure Uranium can reach the horrifying pinical Reborn has found itself in my eyes after one proto-update and a single snippet of information. I hope so at least.
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Haifisch posted:Oh boy, I can't wait for the local power plant to explode again! Oh god, there's going to be a nuclear plant meltdown in the place based off Japan. 
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