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This villain is crossing over into the comical territory in how much disbelief I need to suspend to make what he's able to get away with seem remotely plausible even in a setting like this.Azza Bamboo posted:This would be good if there were an optional side quest to convince a construction worker to just drive their digger to the railroad and shift the boulder that way. Or if we could get back in touch with Julia and ask her to get rid of the rock her way. Actually wanting to interact with Julia? Have you gone mad? I mean sure, it'd in-theory save a lot of time and therefore subject us to less overall atrocity. But with this game's design philosophy, it'd probably actually end up taking just as much time anyway. Just with Julia involved.
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Super Jay Mann posted:Oh god this parade of pointless chores is giving me flashbacks to Gold/Silver's impossible Sisyphean task of moving a Snorlax three feet to the left. I never knew why you couldn't just chuck a ball at it and run by before it broke out.
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Did these guys forget the definition of the word 'gym'? Because out of the... 5? we've seen so far, two were abandoned, hazardous industrial sites occupied only by a single homicidal poke-hobo in hiding. Who gave these guys badges to hand out? Did every trainer with dudes above level 45 have to go through Mr. Skeltal's Funhouse of Horrors?
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MarquiseMindfang posted:The better way to do that would be to have all the dude's Pokemon have nicknames of people from that one graveyard and then have Coreygar be the last out every time so that would be the moment it "clicks" if you've been paying attention. And cut literally everything else. This is my take on it. It's flawed in that it's way too explicit (replace the videos with abstract scenes of the deaths and make them have relevance to what you've seen so far, IE the train bombing etc.) but it's way more interesting than every other gym so far.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:
Okay, so it even has stupid edgelord rhymes that are probably taken from a lovely death metal song, this really is the Pokemon fangame equivalent of FATAL.
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"...Let not them suffer to the poison in vain."
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I was mentally adding "...so says Mr. Stewart." onto all of his lines 
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Eh, I can't help but like Shade. He's over the top, he seems to know what's going on and apparently wants it to be as complete and satisfying as possible (well, good luck there with this crew on the case), and (I know you appreciate this) doesn't go on long monologues. I'm betting he was a ghost long before they built a pokemon league in Reborn.
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GeneX posted:I was mentally adding "...so says Mr. Stewart." onto all of his lines Deadly Premonition was a good game. This...isn't.
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Super Jay Mann posted:Oh god this parade of pointless chores is giving me flashbacks to Gold/Silver's impossible Sisyphean task of moving a Snorlax three feet to the left. Even when Reborn starts to resemble the actual games it's always the worst, most un-fun parts of those games.
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Come to think of it the official franchise itself already kinda had a horror-themed creepypasta-esque gym encounter when Ash fought Sabrina back in the anime. I remember that being pretty okay! So it's not like it's a bad idea, but much like the rest of Reborn the execution just botches everything.
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SirSystemError posted:This villain is crossing over into the comical territory in how much disbelief I need to suspend to make what he's able to get away with seem remotely plausible even in a setting like this. But she's a critical part of my Reborn ship 
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Okay I take it back, the Doctor isn't the self-aware one loving with these teen scene kid RPers, it's Shade. Yes, a dumb creepypasta style 4spoopy6me ghost Gym Leader who takes the souls of the dead to turn into pokemon seems like something edgy teenagers would do, but it's also put together in such a way that seems like lazy parody with the madlibs creepypasta story forming before my eyes while you tripped around the gym, with the phrase "and then the Garchomp slashed the boy and hyper realistic blood sprayed on the screen" coming to mind. It really does seem like something someone came up with for the RP and Amethyst just jammed it in the game word for word if you will. The lack of development of Shade as anything besides just a side quest or set dressing with no real explanation also makes me consider this. Alternatively maybe I'm wrong and just have too much faith in humans and there's not anyone that's a reflection of a self-aware troll in this entire game that just slipped through the cracks, but I'm just really doubtful there's not a single person that was like "I know I'll go even further beyond on the edge for shits and giggles". Also the update just had me thinking about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq6Jj9s2bqM
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EDIT: Video showing just how edgy Shade is removed due to worry about spoilers in comments. The important part, pulled from the video, is that loving with the sprite's contrast settings gets you this: EDIT 2: i'm dumb and didn't realize there was problems with hotlinking Discord attachments  Here's an Imgur version.
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KataraniSword posted:EDIT: Video showing just how edgy Shade is removed due to worry about spoilers in comments. Way to hotlink discord attachments. Luckily I gathered what you meant and used, uh... the bucket in mspaint. 
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What's so spooky about  ? Clearly the spooky ghost is an avid D&D player and just tattooed his favorite part of playing it onto his chest.
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Yeah a random-rear end Sword Dance Mimikyu, thats fair. Also I hate whoever congratulated him/herself on thinking 'Garchomps are cool, but what if they could kill people? Thats what they'd do do in a SERIOUS game'
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DeafNote posted:Yeah a random-rear end Sword Dance Mimikyu, thats fair. You hate a lot of people then considering in the special update for the game with the mugshots of real people in it they talk about it too. Shark Dragon with scythe arms get all the fun edgy poo poo, why can't people just use Scyther? Geez.
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rannum posted:Of the things I thought might be in the game, I can't say I ever expected an official gym showing murders/suicides lead by a creepypasta .... 
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Azza Bamboo posted:But she's a critical part of my Reborn ship KataraniSword posted:The important part, pulled from the video, is that loving with the sprite's contrast settings gets you this:
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Sorites posted:Trilby? Pokemon Reborn: it hurts
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F14m3rz posted:The weirdest thing I've found in one of the sprites is that one Pokemon's shiny back sprite had a white background instead of a transparent one Which one? I can probably jam one in-game.
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EponymousMrYar posted:This is my take on it. It's flawed in that it's way too explicit (replace the videos with abstract scenes of the deaths and make them have relevance to what you've seen so far, IE the train bombing etc.) but it's way more interesting than every other gym so far. Oh I never even thought of that. We've seen enough to pad out the team already haven't we? The name of someone on the train, the dead cop, one of the gravestones, Corey, and then just give the Mimikyu a random name that never comes up again to annoy people trying to find out who it is.
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EclecticTastes posted:Pokemon Reborn: it hurts
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Azza Bamboo posted:But she's a critical part of my Reborn ship That is certainly an image, though I'd like to think a Julia wedding would have a lot of explosions...
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Which one? I can probably jam one in-game.
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F14m3rz posted:I’m not sure if I should say; it would be a spoiler, I think. I addressed it on the site, so it should be solved by the time E18 rolls around, but it should still be around in E17. Look just name a fuckin pokemon and I'll check it out.
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God all the death sequences were funny in how hard they were trying but the one that got me the most is the decapitation one, the sprites REALLY aren't meant for death and it shows. The head tumbles off in the most comical manner and I had to take a deep breath because i was laughing too much. Everything else about shade is icing on the cake. Fuckin lol at hiding a giant DIE in mr creepy ghostman.
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SirSystemError posted:That is certainly an image, though I'd like to think a Julia wedding would have a lot of explosions... Just don't be the one to catch the bouquet.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Look just name a fuckin pokemon and I'll check it out.
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God, I think that might unironically have been the best gym so far; you could actually turn the bullshit terrain effect back on the gym leader to make it significantly easier, the gym leader didn't spend 50 million years talking about themselves and why they're hosed up as a person, and his gym has something *actually good* as a wild random encounter within it that you can catch and use with no sidequests or stupid errands in your way Pokemon Reborn: where the literal creepypasta gym with a slenderman ripoff ghost for the gym leader is an unironic high point
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EclecticTastes posted:Pokemon Reborn: it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts
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EclecticTastes posted:Pokemon Reborn: it hurts SO BAD
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EclecticTastes posted:Pokemon Reborn: it hurts Nice.
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Still makes me laugh that Yahtzee made 1213 and Trilby in a point and click adventure engine because it was easier than learning a new one.
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