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PIKACHU, I CHOOSE YOU!!! Pokémon: Detective Pikachu Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects With Justice Smith in the upcoming Now You See Me, Now You Don't, & Ryan Reynolds still hot off the success of Deadpool & Wolverine, Andrew Gordon & John Humphrey give their Detective Pikachu Reaction, Recap, Breakdown, Commentary, Analysis & Spoiler Review! - Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects John Humphrey & Andrew Gordon dive into the live-action Pokémon mystery! Starring Ryan Reynolds as Pikachu (Deadpool, Free Guy), Justice Smith as Tim Goodman (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, All the Bright Places), Kathryn Newton as Lucy Stevens (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Freaky), Bill Nighy as Howard Clifford (Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean), and Ken Watanabe as Detective Yoshida (Inception, Godzilla). Iconic Pokémon like Charizard, Mewtwo, Psyduck, Bulbasaur, Mr. Mime, Snorlax, Gengar, Jigglypuff, Ditto, and Greninja all make major appearances. Standout scenes featured in high-view clips include: “Mr. Mime Interrogation,” “Pikachu vs Charizard Fight,” “Pikachu Sings the Pokémon Theme,” “Mewtwo Returns,” and the “Big Reveal Ending.” This reaction covers Easter eggs, game references, and cinematic surprises that made the first-ever live-action Pokémon movie such a nostalgic ride for longtime fans and newcomers alike! Pokémon Movie Franchise includes: Detective Pikachu (2019), Pokémon: The First Movie (1998), Pokémon: The Movie 2000 (1999), Pokémon 3: The Movie (2000), & More Follow Andrew Gordon on Socials:  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MovieSource Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/agor711/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Agor711 Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Al and Jonnie talk about Luma Island Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:03:55: What Have We Been Up To 00:13:53: Game News 00:37:20: Luma Island 01:32:07: Outro Links Wholesome Snack Wholesome Snack Humble Bundle Wanderstop Release Date Overthrown Early Access Snacko Roadmap Haunted Chocolatier Development Update Farm Folks Gameplay trailer Contact Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:30) Al: Hello, farmers and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. (0:00:34) Al: My name is Al and we’re here today to talk about cut to story games. (0:00:35) Jonnie: And my name is Jonny. (0:00:40) Al: Ah, welcome Johnny. (0:00:44) Jonnie: I am good for reasons that are entirely my fault. (0:00:48) Jonnie: We were recording at a really convenient time for me today, (0:00:50) Al: “Yes, I’m the one that’s that’s gone up early, so… (0:00:50) Jonnie: so I am way more awake than I usually am. (0:00:53) Jonnie: How are you, Al? (0:00:54) Jonnie: Thank you. (0:00:56) Al: Look, I mean, we used to do this occasionally, record early my time, and it just, it feels (0:01:05) Al: like it’s less, it’s less convenient for me because of your later time zone now, like… (0:01:12) Jonnie: Yeah, the time zone now works really well actually for me to record early because it’s a good time zone for that. (0:01:14) Al: Yeah, because if we want to record at 5pm, you’re in. (0:01:20) Al: time, which on a weekend is fine, probably, but on a weekday is probably the earliest you could do. (0:01:29) Al: That’s 7am my time, so it kind of basically gets rid of that for weekdays, (0:01:34) Al: which we used to do a couple of times is record an evening your weekday and morning my weekday, (0:01:40) Al: because we were exactly 12 hours apart, I think, when you were in New Zealand, (0:01:44) Jonnie: Yep. Hey, Al. (0:01:45) Al: which made it perfect. So it could like, we could start at 5am my time and 5pm your time, (0:01:49) Al: Whereas now it’s like… (0:01:50) Al: I start work at 8am, so it’s like starting recording at 7am. It’s not ideal, but it’s Sunday, so it doesn’t matter. (0:01:57) Jonnie: And we are now just going to rebrand to a logistics podcast. (0:02:01) Jonnie: I’m sure our listeners are very excited to be hearing of that. (0:02:05) Al: I have this great app from my Mac now where I have everybody’s time zones for the podcast typed into it. (0:02:12) Al: And I have a slider where I can just choose my time, and it tells me what everybody else’s time is at that point. (0:02:16) Al: It’s great for organizing stuff. (0:02:18) Jonnie: Okay, one, I’m gonna need you to send that to me (0:02:20) Jonnie: after the show, that sounds very convenient. (0:02:22) Jonnie: I work across like five different time zones, (0:02:24) Jonnie: so that sounds amazing. (0:02:26) Jonnie: And two, I’m curious how many time zones we have as folks, (0:02:29) Jonnie: ‘cause there’s quite a few, I’m guessing. (0:02:30) Al: So if we just talk about the base team, so we’re not talking about the people that are on a couple times a year, that is four time zones. (0:02:42) Al: So I’m in one, you’re in one, Kevin is in one, and then Cody, are we counting Bev still? They’ve not been on in a while, but Cody and Bev are in the same time zone. (0:02:52) Al: So that’s four time zones. (0:02:54) Al: Obviously, other people then have different ones, but I think Kelly is in a different one, and who else? (0:03:00) Al: Is that it? Have we covered all the American time zones now? (0:03:02) Jonnie: What about Micah, where’s Micah? (0:03:04) Al: Oh, Micah Central, is that the same? (0:03:09) Jonnie: I think it’s got to be the same as like one of Kiv and/or Cody. (0:03:12) Al: it’s not the same as Cody. What time is Kevin? Yeah, I think Kevin’s in Central as well. So, (0:03:20) Al: it’s the same as Kevin. Anyway, moving on. This episode, we’re going to talk about Luma Island. (0:03:20) Jonnie: We needed like a west coast American to you know really round it out (0:03:35) Al: Yeah, that was a full stop. We’re going to talk about Luma Island. (0:03:41) Al: Um… (0:03:43) Al: Before that we have some news, surprisingly still busy with news considering the time of year, (0:03:50) Al: and I don’t think it’s about to stop now, and we’ll explain why in our first game news, but (0:03:56) Al: before that, Jonny, what have you been up to? (0:03:58) Jonnie: What have I been up to? (0:04:00) Jonnie: I’ve been up to pocket of all varieties, many varieties, (0:04:05) Jonnie: all the pockets. (0:04:06) Jonnie: Pocket TCG, still plugging along with that. (0:04:06) Al: I haven’t done today’s battles yet. I’ll maybe set them up on auto during this podcast. (0:04:09) Jonnie: But Al, I really want to know, have you got any Venus yet? (0:04:19) Al: And maybe I’ll get the Venusaur today. I don’t know. We’ll see. (0:04:24) Jonnie: I’m not going to lie, I would be very stoked if you got the Venus (0:04:26) Jonnie: or while we were recording. (0:04:28) Al: Live on a podcast. Yeah. Let’s do it. I’m setting up. (0:04:29) Jonnie: Yeah, yeah. (0:04:32) Jonnie: Just for the listeners, how dry are you at this point? (0:04:36) Al: I think I’m at 28 promo packs and no Venusaur. So, interestingly, I only have two of the (0:04:42) Jonnie: Life has not been gone to you at all. (0:04:45) Al: Greninja. I mean, two’s what I want, right? I don’t want any more than two. But it’s not (0:04:50) Al: the Greninja that I’m getting lots of. I’ve got two and then it stopped. It’s the Jigglypuff (0:04:56) Al: and Haunter and Onyx that I’ve got nearly double digits of each of them. (0:05:01) Jonnie: Although, annoyingly, you kind of do want more of the more rare ones, because you get more Shine Dust for the duplicates, and while Shine Dust is not currently useful for anything worthwhile, number big means good. (0:05:06) Al: That’s, yeah, true. (0:05:14) Al: Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, right. I said those, I said those battles off. So we’ll see what happens. (0:05:20) Jonnie: But outside of Pokémon Pocket, I’ve also been playing Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Complete, whatever it’s called, which… (0:05:31) Jonnie: …is now fully come out in its complete edition, and there is a lot in this game now. There is so much. It is very overwhelming. (0:05:39) Al: Well, it is like eight years old at this point, and they’ve just shoved everything into it, so. (0:05:44) Jonnie: Yep. I feel like it will get to a good place, but at the moment it’s very overwhelming, and I’m just trying to work out what is the limited time stuff that I need to get done, particularly being December with all of the various Christmas events. (0:05:57) Jonnie: events. So just trying to work. (0:06:01) Jonnie: That out. But other than both of those Marvel Rivals is this new hero shooter game that came (0:06:09) Jonnie: out and look, I don’t like shooting games. I played a little bit of Overwatch. I’m terrible (0:06:15) Jonnie: at them. But there was something fun about being part of a thing that is having a moment. And I (0:06:20) Jonnie: feel like Marvel Rifles is that. And so while I’m terrible at it, I am having fun playing it in (0:06:26) Jonnie: these first few days. Well, that’s all it seems everyone is talking about. (0:06:29) Al: I have not played it, but I don’t want to say too much about it, but on the on the last (0:06:37) Al: podcast that I recorded, which is coming out in three weeks time, you will hear Kevin convince (0:06:43) Al: me to try it. So we’ll see, I guess, at some point. I wonder if by the time I next record (0:06:53) Al: an episode in a week, whether I will have played it or not, whether we have some. (0:06:59) Al: True out of time podcasting where I talk about the fact that I was convinced to play about (0:07:05) Al: it, and then I talk about the fact that I’ve played about it, and then you actually hear (0:07:09) Al: the being convinced to play it. We’ll see. We’ll see. We’ll see. I was totally not going (0:07:13) Jonnie: I really hope that that is the case and my prediction for your take on the game, Al, (0:07:18) Jonnie: is you will play it and you will be like, “I see why people like it and it is not for me.” (0:07:23) Jonnie: That will be your take. But… (0:07:26) Al: to play it until one thing in the episode, which I’m not going to spoil… (0:07:29) Al: There’s one specific thing that Kevin tells me about that I did not realize was the case (0:07:34) Al: for it, because I hadn’t seen any gameplay. And I had just been assuming based on everything (0:07:39) Al: that people had been saying, because people are like, “Oh, it’s just Overwatch, but Marvel.” (0:07:43) Al: And yeah, you’ll hear about that in three weeks’ time, listeners. (0:07:48) Jonnie: Amazing. (0:07:52) Jonnie: Yeah, but those are the things… (0:07:53) Jonnie: I guess just because I feel like it’s something you have to talk about (0:07:55) Jonnie: if you’re talking about a hero shooter. (0:07:57) Jonnie: So far, the character that I am liking the most is Hela, (0:08:02) Jonnie: which is probably not what I would have predicted (0:08:04) Jonnie: going into playing this game. (0:08:06) Jonnie: But that’s part of the fun of these sorts of games (0:08:08) Jonnie: is you find and connect with characters (0:08:11) Jonnie: that maybe you wouldn’t have otherwise. (0:08:15) Jonnie: Hela’s gimmick is a movement ability. (0:08:19) Jonnie: She’s kind of just a standard damage dealer. (0:08:21) Jonnie: She hits hard and has a relatively slow fire rate. (0:08:26) Jonnie: She has a stun ability and she throws some knives (0:08:30) Jonnie: that deal some delayed damage. (0:08:33) Jonnie: I don’t know how much of it really has anything to do (0:08:35) Jonnie: with her abilities from the comics and/or movies. (0:08:40) Jonnie: I know some feel particularly Hela-ry, (0:08:43) Jonnie: but I’m also not super familiar with her as a character (0:08:46) Jonnie: outside of that one Thor movie. (0:08:49) Jonnie: So yeah, she’s a pretty good stand-in sort of DTS-style character. (0:08:53) Al: I have talked about most of what I’ve been up to in the episode that will be coming in (0:08:54) Jonnie: And that’s what I’ve been up to. What have you been up to, Al? (0:09:02) Al: three weeks, but I specifically saved one thing to talk about in this episode, because (0:09:06) Al: I know that you’re on the same page as me with this game, and that is I have been trying (0:09:11) Al: to finish Legends of Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom, because I started it when it came out, and (0:09:18) Al: I enjoyed it to start with, and it’s not like I’m not enjoying it anymore. (0:09:24) Al: But I just feel like I’m doing the same thing over and over again. (0:09:29) Al: And I know you’re going to say you don’t need to finish it. (0:09:31) Al: I know, I know, but I’m like two dungeons away from finishing. (0:09:35) Al: I feel like I just I want to finish it before I before I stop. (0:09:40) Al: But the I think the thing that I realised last night (0:09:46) Al: specifically was that I do not enjoy the boss fights in this game specifically. (0:09:53) Al: Because they are very passive, right? (0:10:00) Al: So you’ve got two ways of dealing with enemies in this game. (0:10:03) Al: You can either you can either turn into, you know, shadow link and attack them (0:10:11) Al: like you are link, which is kind of, you know, the traditional Zelda way of doing (0:10:15) Al: things, or you can use the echoes of enemies and they will attack instead. (0:10:21) Al: and for most… (0:10:23) Al: For most enemies, I’ve just been using this big floating plant with spikes, which works (0:10:28) Al: really well. It’s such a good… It’s so good that you… And you get it so early that basically (0:10:28) Jonnie: Yep, that’s what I used. (0:10:35) Al: nothing else replaces it. And I’m so close to the end of the game. But the problem is (0:10:43) Al: that I don’t find that fun for the boss battles, right? Because the whole point of boss battles, (0:10:48) Al: especially in like a Zelda game and stuff like that are for you’re figuring out what they (0:10:53) Al: do and you’re trying to figure out their weaknesses and you’re trying to take them (0:10:56) Al: down when they get to their weak point, right? But that is not possible to do with the echoes, (0:11:04) Al: right? Because you’re just throwing echoes up and hoping they don’t die, (0:11:07) Al: right? Because you can’t control them once you set them up. And the problem is you then, (0:11:12) Al: so then you default to going, “Well, maybe I do need to just be the link and attack them.” But (0:11:20) Al: Quite often, you just don’t have enough energy because you use (0:11:23) Al: up the energy while you’re linked. So you can’t be linked all the time, (0:11:28) Al: deliberately so, which is fair, but you just end up in this situation where (0:11:33) Al: you run out very quickly because the energy moves really quickly, and if you’re not immediately (0:11:42) Al: hitting the boss, you’re just dying. Finding it just such a frustrating situation, (0:11:53) Al: I really like the bosses because you’re having to figure out how to defeat this boss. Here, (0:11:59) Al: you’re just essentially throwing echoes at it and hoping they don’t die. (0:12:04) Jonnie: Yeah, I kind of agree and I feel like I feel like it would be better if there was more of a puzzle mechanic to the bosses where you weren’t just using the enemy echoes, but you were using other echoes that you had picked up in the dungeon to, you know, solve a puzzle that would expose a weak plane tour. (0:12:22) Jonnie: Like I feel like there was there was more space and it’s kind of my frustration with the whole game where I feel like there was more space to do more interesting things than ultimately what they ended up doing with them. (0:12:34) Al: Yeah. Yeah. So that’s, that’s about what I am just now with that game. Um, uh, I, as (0:12:41) Al: I say, I have two, I think two left to go. Um, presumably there’s a final boss after (0:12:46) Al: those last two dungeons. Um, but I will, I will see how that goes. I’m determined to (0:12:52) Al: finish it. Um, and I’m, you know, as I say, it’s not that I’m not enjoying it. I just (0:12:57) Al: kind of wish that it could have been more, um, than it is. (0:13:00) Jonnie: Yeah, I mean, it’s, you know, my take on the game was, you know, it was good. (0:13:06) Jonnie: It was really fun at the start and then it fell off. (0:13:08) Jonnie: And I think the fall off rate is probably going to be different for everyone. (0:13:13) Jonnie: And, you know, as close as you are, I think I would probably also finish the game if I was that close. (0:13:18) Al: Yeah. I think the thing is that I did fall off. I was just determined to come back and (0:13:22) Al: finish because of, well, just because that’s who I am. Right. I don’t, I don’t feel the (0:13:29) Al: need to complete every game, including a game we might talk about this episode, but I do (0:13:37) Al: with Zelda ones in particular, except the older 3D ones, I do tend to feel like I want (0:13:43) Al: to complete it just for having completed it, you know? (0:13:46) Jonnie: Absolutely. (0:13:48) Al: Anyway, so yeah, that’s, that’s about it. I’ve not been playing a huge amount else. (0:13:54) Al: Shall we talk about some news? So I think I probably should have talked about this first (0:13:59) Al: piece of news in the last episode, but I forgot. I’ve been really bad at that recently, apparently. (0:14:03) Al: This is the second piece of news in three weeks that I’ve forgotten to talk about in (0:14:07) Al: its, in its first episode. But here we go. Wholesome Games have announced their Wholesome (0:14:13) Al: knock the game of the wards edition the game of the game awards edition (0:14:19) Al: and that is happening on the 10th of December which is in the past if you’re listening to this (0:14:24) Al: episode. So we will cover whatever has happened in that in the next episode, whatever the next (0:14:31) Al: episode is. I’m so confused. For listeners, I’m recording four episodes of this podcast in two (0:14:38) Al: weekends, so I’m really confused about what’s happening, but there is an episode being recorded (0:14:43) Al: next week that will be listened to the week after, and that’s the one that we’ll be talking about (0:14:46) Al: about this in. So I. (0:14:48) Al: What makes sense for you when it happens? Yes, it may not make sense until January, (0:14:50) Jonnie: Let’s just listen to all of the episodes and everything will make sense at some point, except for the stuff that doesn’t. (0:14:59) Al: but yeah, they’ve also launched a wholesome snack bundle. If you are of the bundle persuasion (0:15:10) Al: and you like playing games, it includes Fe Farm, Little Kitty Big City. (0:15:18) Al: The Ranch of Riverside, Minami Lane and Rusty’s Retirement and also Spirit City LoFi Sessions, (0:15:27) Al: which I guess is a game. It’s calling itself a gamified focus tool, so it’s not really (0:15:34) Al: game game. But yeah, that is a pretty good bundle for what it is. I already have multiple (0:15:42) Al: of these games, so I don’t think I’ll be buying the bundle. But if you are interested. (0:15:48) Al: And these is a very good deal. (0:15:50) Jonnie: Yeah, I think this is a really cool bundle if you don’t if you don’t have many of these games (0:15:55) Jonnie: This is a bundle that is definitely worth getting (0:15:58) Al: - Absolutely. (0:15:59) Al: - Is there anything you’re hoping for (0:16:02) Jonnie: I (0:16:04) Jonnie: would like more information on (0:16:07) Jonnie: Tales of the Shire like (0:16:09) Jonnie: Everybody else other than that. I feel like we are in this era of there being so many games (0:16:17) Jonnie: I want announcements of when things are going. (0:16:20) Jonnie: They’re coming out and not as early access, but like, yeah, just give us release dates for stuff. (0:16:24) Al: you want some release dates of 1.0 releases. I know what Kevin’s looking forward to. That (0:16:25) Jonnie: Make hours scheduling life next year really easy. That’s what I want out of this wholesome stack. (0:16:33) Jonnie: Correct. (0:16:36) Al: is whatever the developers of Wildflowers are going to announce, because they have basically (0:16:42) Al: said they’re going to announce their new game in the Wholesome Snack. And what it could (0:16:47) Al: be, we don’t know, but that is happening. (0:16:49) Jonnie: Well, the listeners will have the ability to find out by the time that they are listening to this. (0:16:54) Jonnie: So, go watch the Wholesome Snack and see if you can find out what Kevin is really excited about. (0:17:00) Al: Yes, I won’t tell you the developer of the game. (0:17:03) Al: So you have to guess the other. (0:17:07) Al: I mean, this is part of the game awards. (0:17:11) Al: I don’t understand why it’s part of the game awards because it’s announcing new (0:17:14) Al: stuff and I’m confused about the game awards. (0:17:17) Al: They seem a bit confused themselves. (0:17:19) Al: I also here’s my thing, right? (0:17:22) Al: I don’t particularly care about the I don’t (0:17:25) Al: particularly have an issue with the game awards. (0:17:27) Al: It’s fine. (0:17:27) Al: I think it’s a bit weird that it’s become the one that people like. (0:17:31) Al: You know what people like their like, they like their Oscars. (0:17:35) Al: They like all their award ceremonies. (0:17:37) Al: I don’t particularly feel amazed about one particular awards. (0:17:42) Al: But hey, what he put in the effort into making a big event and people seem to like (0:17:47) Al: it, although I do feel like people just complain about it more than anything else. (0:17:52) Al: But I don’t have an issue with it. (0:17:54) Al: What I do have an issue is why is it in December? (0:17:58) Al: I’ve never understood why people do (0:18:00) Al: their game of the year, so early in December, it’s like the 10th of December, they’re doing (0:18:07) Al: this. And I’m like, that feels like, do it at the end of December, or do it in January, like all the (0:18:14) Al: awards seasons for film and TV, they happen in March and April, and they have like a specific (0:18:19) Jonnie: Yeah but people in games are dumb. So you know we get what we get and I don’t like game awards, (0:18:19) Al: cutoff date. (0:18:27) Jonnie: they suck and don’t pay attention to them. What you should pay attention to is the harvest season (0:18:34) Jonnie: game of the year awards because that is much better and I was gonna say much less controversial (0:18:40) Jonnie: but that’s definitely not true because last year was very controversial. So yes I don’t know don’t (0:18:47) Jonnie: Don’t pay attention to them. (0:18:50) Al: I do aim to be controversial. (0:18:54) Al: Yes, our Game of the Year episode will be coming out on the last Wednesday of the year, (0:18:59) Al: as usual. (0:19:00) Al: This year, the earliest it can possibly happen, because of how the year worked out, the 25th (0:19:05) Al: of December. (0:19:06) Al: It cannot happen any earlier than that, because if it were to try and happen a day earlier, (0:19:11) Al: it would actually happen a week later. (0:19:13) Al: Fun times. (0:19:15) Al: Next, we have a release date for Wonderstop. (0:19:20) Al: It is releasing on the 11th of March 2025 for PS5 and Steam. (0:19:28) Al: And this is the game, the tea-making game by the creator of the Stanley Paradox. (0:19:34) Al: So, I’m very intrigued. (0:19:34) Jonnie: I was I was trying to place why I knew the like why I knew this game and it was the I (0:19:42) Jonnie: had forgotten about the (0:19:45) Jonnie: That connection. Yeah this I (0:19:49) Jonnie: Don’t know. This is gonna be weird, right? Is there any other options? (0:19:53) Al: Yeah, I think it’s going to be something. I don’t know what it is. I’m not expecting it to be (0:19:58) Al: necessarily a meta-commentary on games like the Stanley Parable was. I think that would be boring (0:20:04) Al: if it was just the exact same thing, and I don’t know why they would do a cosy game for that. But (0:20:08) Al: I could see it addressing some sort of tropes on cosy games in some sort of way, because it talks (0:20:16) Al: about it being a narrative-driven game, and I think that that is probably very deliberate. (0:20:23) Al: The way they’re wording that, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they upended some of our expectations. (0:20:32) Jonnie: Yeah, and I think the other thing that’s interesting is like in the about this game (0:20:36) Jonnie: they say it’s about change and tea like and putting a game about change as sort of your a (0:20:43) Jonnie: Number one thing that your game is about like if anything my expectation or not my expectations my hopes for this game (0:20:51) Jonnie: That it’s sort of on a par with (0:20:54) Jonnie: spirit fear (0:20:55) Al: - Mm, so you wanted to make it cry. (0:20:58) Jonnie: Uh, so I thought about a second like spirit fear but like on a par with (0:21:03) Jonnie: it could be a more pleasant version of a heavily narrative given game like spirit fear. Like I want (0:21:09) Al: is that possible? Is it possible to make you feel something without it being crying? (0:21:09) Jonnie: I want this game to make me feel something. Just because it hasn’t happened doesn’t mean it’s not possible. (0:21:18) Al: Fair, fair, fair, fair. They’ve also released a new trailer for the game as well. Overthrown, (0:21:25) Al: I have announced their early access and it’s out now. Yep, so if you’ve been looking forward (0:21:31) Al: to this game, it’s out now. I’m undecided, I think I might wait for 1.0 for this game (0:21:37) Al: because I played the d- (0:21:39) Al: and I enjoyed it, but it definitely felt like I wanted much more than what it was initially (0:21:45) Al: um (0:21:46) Jonnie: Did you watch the video that went with the announcement of Early Access? (0:21:54) Jonnie: The one thing I was curious about was if there was anything in this video that looked like stuff (0:22:00) Jonnie: that wasn’t in the demo that you played. They did focus quite heavily in the video on multiplayer, (0:22:08) Jonnie: which seems very smart for this game, the chaos that I think that could bring sounds. (0:22:15) Al: Yeah, I don’t think the early access starts with multiplayer though, does it? (0:22:16) Jonnie: Pretty amazing. (0:22:20) Jonnie: That would be surprising because that felt very prominent in the… (0:22:22) Al: Well, maybe it does. The demo definitely didn’t have multiplayer, (0:22:27) Al: but that might have been because it was the demo. (0:22:27) Jonnie: Yeah, it felt like that was the whole focus of the trailer. (0:22:32) Al: Yeah, no, you’re right. It does feel like that, and I’m not seeing it in their roadmap anywhere, (0:22:39) Al: so I guess maybe it does have multiplayer already. (0:22:43) Al: Anyway, yeah, I’m obviously going to buy. (0:22:45) Al: this game and play it again at some point. (0:22:47) Al: I’m just undecided as to when that is. (0:22:49) Al: It’s not going to be this year because this year is already spoken for. (0:22:53) Al: I’ve got to finish Zelda and I’ve got to play Sonic. (0:22:56) Al: So we’ll see when that happens. (0:22:59) Al: It’s on Steam in early access. (0:23:01) Al: It’s also on Xbox game preview, apparently they call it, (0:23:05) Al: because it can’t be called the same thing. (0:23:09) Al: Next, we have a roadmap for Snacko has been announced (0:23:15) Al: the remaining updates before 1.0. (0:23:19) Al: They have four updates left to go down in the mines. (0:23:23) Al: Slice of life sprites evolution and dress to impress. (0:23:27) Al: So you can guess on what those might bring to the game. (0:23:30) Jonnie: Now I’m just going to jump on, you know, your little bandwagon, but on this roadmap, (0:23:35) Jonnie: why do they list the version numbers? They don’t need to. They could just have town and guild update (0:23:40) Jonnie: down in the mines, sprites evolution. Putting the numbers next to it doesn’t add anything, (0:23:46) Jonnie: and if they need to do a 0.9, 0.8, point something else because they’ve got some bug, like I just… (0:23:53) Jonnie: Anyway, I understand where you’re coming from, or even fit to my brain. I don’t know which, but (0:24:00) Al: Yeah, Snacko in particular have, um, look, I really like the developers of Snacko, so (0:24:07) Al: this is not personal. They really picked a weird version number thing in general to do (0:24:14) Al: for their early access. I feel like they started at zero point, nine point, zero point something. (0:24:21) Al: I don’t know what the problem is. Like I don’t know why they’ve done that, but it is what (0:24:27) Al: it is. Yeah, I think that I think (0:24:30) Al: the game developers should just not focus on version numbers in front of consumers (0:24:39) Al: at all, right? Consumers don’t care about a version number, they care about are they (0:24:44) Al: on the most recent update or not. That’s it. And Steam tells you that. Steam tells you (0:24:47) Jonnie: Sorry. (0:24:48) Al: if there’s an update. That’s it. Right, like you don’t need more than (0:24:53) Jonnie: I totally agree. (0:24:54) Jonnie: There’s just a silly thing to do. (0:24:56) Jonnie: And you can market your game better if you just say, (0:24:59) Jonnie: hey, look at all this exciting stuff (0:25:01) Jonnie: that we’ve got coming on our roadmap. (0:25:03) Jonnie: And it’s not 0.9.7 followed by 0– (0:25:06) Jonnie: because that 0.9.8, because that doesn’t (0:25:09) Jonnie: make it sound exciting. (0:25:10) Jonnie: It’s a very small number that it is going up by in the way (0:25:13) Jonnie: that humans interpret numbers. (0:25:15) Jonnie: So let’s not be silly. (0:25:17) Jonnie: I guess. (0:25:18) Al: Yes. Anyway, this confirms to me that it’s not releasing this year, so we’re safe. A few. (0:25:29) Al: They can’t get four updates done in December. (0:25:29) Jonnie: Well, particularly given that all four of the updates have names and then a bunch of (0:25:35) Jonnie: question marks underneath them, so there’s literally no detail on, well, there is some (0:25:38) Al: Yeah, I suspect that’s deliberate, that’s not because they don’t know what’s in it, (0:25:39) Jonnie: detail in the post about what’s coming. (0:25:44) Al: I think that’s definitely because they just want to keep the suspense and tell you it (0:25:50) Al: when it comes. (0:25:51) Al: All right, we now have our development update from Concern Date about Haunted Chocolatier. (0:25:59) Al: It’s a lot of words and it’s mostly, sorry I haven’t done much, but here’s some screenshots (0:26:05) Al: to keep you happy. (0:26:06) Al: Is that fair way to describe it? (0:26:08) Jonnie: I think it’s, sorry, I haven’t done much, I’ve been busy doing stuff on Stardew Valley. (0:26:12) Al: Yeah, oh yes, yes, I’m sorry, I thought that bit was obvious. (0:26:14) Jonnie: Also, in brackets, look, sometimes it might not be, also in brackets, I’ll probably keep (0:26:22) Jonnie: doing stuff on Stardew Valley. (0:26:24) Al: Yeah, are we ever getting this game, Johnny? (0:26:29) Jonnie: So I don’t know, like I found the framing around, the consent I put in the blog post (0:26:35) Jonnie: around Stardooth very concerning. (0:26:38) Jonnie: In that they discussed a strong feeling of obligation, I guess towards continuing to add to Stardooth because of, broadly speaking, how successful the game has been. (0:26:52) Jonnie: Which, to me, feels like someone chasing some idealized version of perfection that will never be achievable. (0:27:04) Jonnie: And I think we’ve already talked about this on the show. (0:27:08) Jonnie: But I feel with the most recent update, 1.6, was it good? (0:27:12) Jonnie: Yeah, it was good. But Staju was finished. (0:27:16) Jonnie: It is time to move on. (0:27:20) Jonnie: And I just don’t see what value there is to be achieved by adding more to Staju at this point. (0:27:28) Jonnie: And I would love to see a focus on anything else. (0:27:30) Jonnie: It doesn’t even have to be haunted chocolate here. (0:27:32) Jonnie: that’s not the thing that is, you know, making (0:27:38) Jonnie: bringing joy or whatever it is like find something else but yeah, I don’t know this blog post did not fill in (0:27:46) Al: Yeah, it’s interesting. I’m hoping that he can find it in his brain to focus on Hunter (0:27:55) Al: Jugletier until he’s happy with it. But yeah, I think you’re right. I don’t expect that (0:28:03) Al: most of his expectations on the obligations on him for Stardew are external. I suspect (0:28:11) Al: they’re internal in that he is, as you said in (0:28:16) Al: different words, a perfectionist, right? Like he wants it to be something, but (0:28:21) Al: that, as we all know, is impossible, and therefore he wants to completely keep it (0:28:27) Al: going. And I do worry a little bit that he might end up with like that with (0:28:30) Al: Haunted Chocolate here as well, but before it gets released, and so we may (0:28:34) Al: never get a version of it because he’s never fully happy with it. Well, I guess (0:28:38) Jonnie: - I agree, and I think you’re right, sure. (0:28:42) Al: we’ll see. You know, we could get into a situation where in two (0:28:46) Al: or three years, Hunter Chocolatier is out, and we then just get like one year we get a stardew (0:28:51) Al: update, the next year we get a Hunter Chocolatier update, and he’s infinitely updating both games (0:28:56) Al: until he dies. Who knows? Any comments on the screenshots we got? Because obviously there’s (0:28:58) Jonnie: - Look, it’s certainly possible. (0:29:04) Al: no context behind them, it’s just here are four screenshots. (0:29:10) Jonnie: Yeah, and it’s very hard to take anything significant (0:29:15) Jonnie: from these screenshots because there’s clearly (0:29:17) Jonnie: a heavy reuse of Stagio assets in them, right? (0:29:22) Jonnie: So like, and given where the game is at (0:29:25) Jonnie: and it’s developed in the life cycle, (0:29:27) Jonnie: largely a lot of that work. (0:29:28) Jonnie: It would be placeholder, I assume. (0:29:33) Jonnie: However, there were some things that (0:29:35) Jonnie: seemed obvious from the screenshots (0:29:36) Jonnie: that there was farming in the game. (0:29:40) Jonnie: I guess for me, I didn’t see anything in these screenshots. (0:29:43) Jonnie: I was like, oh, that’s interesting. (0:29:45) Jonnie: I wonder what that is. (0:29:46) Jonnie: It was mostly like, OK, this looks like a game (0:29:51) Jonnie: from the person who made Stardew. (0:29:53) Jonnie: And it kind of just looks, feels, has the vibe of– (0:29:59) Jonnie: Stardew, there is literally a line (0:30:01) Jonnie: of crops growing in some grass. (0:30:06) Al: Yeah, I so I looked at that. That’s obviously not your house. (0:30:11) Al: So I’m wondering if that’s not actually you growing stuff. (0:30:14) Al: And that is just someone else in the village who’s doing that. (0:30:19) Al: Right. Because I I don’t know if we know for certain that it has farming and this (0:30:24) Al: would obviously hint at that, but it wouldn’t be weird if there wasn’t farming. (0:30:29) Al: But a house in the village had crops because, of course, someone’s going to have crops. (0:30:35) Jonnie: interesting. How do you know? Do you know for certain that it’s not to get the players house? (0:30:40) Al: Well, you live in a castle in haunted juggler (0:30:45) Jonnie: I clearly have forgotten way too much about this game that we (0:30:50) Al: So if you go into the screenshots link on the web page, the top one is a picture of (0:30:59) Al: your shop that is attached to the house that you stay in. (0:31:04) Al: Like you live in a big mansion type house, hence haunted. (0:31:08) Al: Like it’s an old haunted house type thing. (0:31:11) Al: So yeah, I’m pretty confident that the picture with those crops is now. (0:31:16) Jonnie: There we go. The other thing that I’ll say about the screenshots is the second one is the player (0:31:22) Jonnie: being attacked by a bunch of slimes, and the thing that I’m like, “Oh, I don’t like Stardew (0:31:27) Jonnie: Combat. It’s very bad.” This looks like more Stardew Valley-style combat, not less, (0:31:33) Jonnie: so that’s definitely heading in the wrong direction. (0:31:34) Al: he has he has commented that he’s done a lot of different things with the combat (0:31:39) Al: whether it addresses your complaints about it I’m not sure but he yeah that (0:31:45) Al: he’s said that in previous blog posts that it’s he’s done a lot of things to (0:31:50) Al: the combat that he didn’t do in Stardew so I guess we’ll see what what that (0:31:54) Jonnie: - Yeah, do you have any takeaways from any of the screenshots? (0:32:02) Al: I don’t think anything that you’ve not brought up, I guess maybe, maybe I think (0:32:08) Al: it’s interesting that he’s posted two portraits of characters and I don’t know (0:32:13) Al: whether this is just a brain pattern match type thing, but my brain looks at (0:32:17) Al: them and goes, they look very similar to existing stardew characters. (0:32:22) Al: Like the guy on the right looks a lot like Sam’s dad. (0:32:27) Al: I can’t remember his name. (0:32:28) Jonnie: - I can’t, you’re the king. (0:32:29) Al: Kent, looks a lot like Kent. (0:32:32) Al: You’re right. (0:32:33) Al: Um, and the one on the left almost looks like a young, long haired Abigail, but (0:32:39) Jonnie: Yes. It is not your brain. The Abigail one in particular is very close, I think. (0:32:39) Al: maybe this is just my brain trying to see things that aren’t there. (0:32:50) Jonnie: I definitely see both of those characters in those portraits. (0:32:55) Al: So yeah, I don’t know. I think the thing about Stardew is one of its best things is its characters, (0:33:00) Al: and that doesn’t mean the characters in this need to look completely different to the characters (0:33:05) Al: in Stardew. Like if they are characterised well, then it will still be good. Yeah, we’ll see, (0:33:12) Al: I guess. We’ve got a long time to wait. Maybe we won’t. The last blog post before (0:33:14) Jonnie: Maybe we won’t see L, maybe we won’t. (0:33:18) Al: this one was posted three years ago. Christmas Day 2021. (0:33:23) Jonnie: That cannot be accurate, but I guess I’ll have to believe you. (0:33:25) Al: I mean, you can check yourself. Go onto the blog link and scroll down. You see this update (0:33:32) Al: December 4th, 2024, and the next one December 25th, 2021. It’s been over three years since (0:33:37) Jonnie: I refuse to believe that. (0:33:41) Al: this game was announced, that’s all. It’s been over three years, and that was over (0:33:44) Jonnie: It cannot be more than two years, that’s all I’m saying. (0:33:55) Al: half into Covid. Time means nothing, Johnny. (0:34:01) Jonnie: I know we’re on a podcast now, but I would really love for you to stop talking. (0:34:07) Al: OK, the last piece of news is that farm folks have released a new trailer. They’re calling (0:34:12) Al: it their Reveal Trailer, which is funny because I’m pretty sure they revealed this game a couple (0:34:17) Al: years ago, so I’m not sure why this is the reveal trailer. But anyway, yeah, here’s a game called (0:34:25) Al: Farm Folks that we definitely haven’t talked about before. Yes, we have. Scrolling back on Steam, (0:34:35) Al: their first announcement of the game was in February 2021. So yes, it is not. I don’t know (0:34:41) Al: why they call it a reveal trailer. This is a thing that lots of people do, is they announce (0:34:45) Al: these things like they’ve never announced them before. We’ve seen so much gameplay of this game. (0:34:48) Jonnie: I think it’s because they’re revealing their gameplay, like actual gameplay footage. (0:34:55) Jonnie: They say they are claiming it is their first gameplay trailer. (0:34:55) Al: Or maybe a professionally produced full trailer, but I’ve seen almost all of this gameplay before, (0:35:06) Al: and they keep posting it on Twitter and TikTok. Oh, so it’s Gameplay Reveal Trailer. Interesting. (0:35:13) Al: Anyway, I’m cautiously optimistic about this. I think what I like about this game is the (0:35:18) Al: very heavy lean into automation. (0:35:21) Jonnie: I don’t have a strong feel for this game, (0:35:24) Jonnie: and that is because it gives me strong Minecraft vibes, (0:35:30) Jonnie: which is not really my thing, (0:35:34) Jonnie: but I am with you on the automation side of things, (0:35:38) Jonnie: seeming like that is, of all of the things in this game, (0:35:42) Jonnie: that is the one thing that stands out. (0:35:44) Jonnie: And if it is good, I feel like this is the sort of game (0:35:47) Jonnie: where I would like to watch YouTube videos (0:35:50) Jonnie: of all of the. (0:35:51) Jonnie: Cool and weird automation things that people do in this game. (0:35:54) Al: Yeah, yeah, I do suspect that that will be a fun way to experience it, but yeah, I get (0:36:04) Al: that. Personally, I loved Minecraft as well, so I can’t really combat your point about (0:36:12) Al: it being Minecraft-y. I do think I felt more Sims-y about it than anything else, especially (0:36:20) Al: with the building, the building of buildings. (0:36:22) Jonnie: Yeah, I guess for me the building looks more like the modern version of what I would expect (0:36:26) Jonnie: Minecraft building to be. You know, where they’ve got the roof parts and wall sections (0:36:31) Jonnie: and things like that. It’s sort of like the level up that has happened in the survival (0:36:36) Jonnie: game genre in the last five years. (0:36:40) Al: Yeah, maybe. (0:36:41) Jonnie: I also really don’t like the word folks. I think it’s such a dumb, lame word. Yeah, (0:36:45) Al: Hey, folks. (0:36:50) Jonnie: Just to say, like, I mean, obviously– (0:36:52) Jonnie: I’d say the name “farm people” would be darn, but if you ever are going to use the word “folks,” just don’t. Just say “people.” (0:36:57) Al: I like it. (0:36:58) Al: I like folks. (0:36:59) Al: It’s generic guys. (0:37:00) Jonnie: No. (0:37:00) Al: It’s gender neutral guys, folks. (0:37:04) Jonnie: Folks is better than guys, but it’s still like a detail way of addressing a group of people. (0:37:08) Al: It’s folksy. (0:37:11) Al: No. (0:37:13) Al: Okay. (0:37:14) Al: Well, good. (0:37:15) Al: Now I know another thing to annoy you with. (0:37:16) Al: Just what I like. (0:37:18) Al: Okay. (0:37:19) Al: That’s all the news. (0:37:21) Al: We are now going to talk about Luma Island. (0:37:24) Al: And I’m going to try and not make Johnny too disappointed with my opinions on this game. (0:37:31) Al: So Luma Island. (0:37:34) Al: Let’s introduce it, I guess. (0:37:37) Al: It is, uh, I think it’s fair. (0:37:40) Al: Fair to say that this is a farming game, but I think it’s, it’s less focused on farming (0:37:45) Al: than most farming games, but I would say it’s, it feels like an evolution of a Stardew-like (0:37:52) Al: in that it’s, it doesn’t feel like Stardew, but it feels like it takes a lot of the ideas (0:37:58) Al: and moves them in a different direction. Would that be fair to say? (0:38:00) Jonnie: Yeah, I can. I completely agree. And like for me, the thing that Luma Island is is it’s kind of like a puzzle exploration game that has strong roots in a Stardew Valley or a core sort of (0:38:16) Al: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there’s, there’s definitely everything that you would expect in, in, in (0:38:21) Al: a stardew, like, except maybe characters that you care about. Um, you know, there’s farming, (0:38:26) Al: there’s mining, there’s fishing, there’s actually, I don’t know. Can you, can you get animals? (0:38:30) Al: I haven’t actually experienced that you can write. Okay. Um, I’m going to lean on you (0:38:31) Jonnie: - Yes, you can, you can get animals, yep. (0:38:35) Al: a lot for this. Cause I think I looked at last episode, I said, I’d played 10 hours (0:38:40) Al: of this game. I, and then I checked after the episode, I had not played 10 hours of (0:38:44) Al: this game. (0:38:46) Al: The big thing about this game that’s different is the job system. (0:38:58) Jonnie: Yeah, so I guess the the job systems are also questlines, (0:39:04) Jonnie: there’s seven job systems, you know, there’s cooking, which (0:39:07) Jonnie: is and brewing, which are very closely tied to farming. There (0:39:11) Jonnie: is fishing, which is what it says. There’s also, I think (0:39:17) Jonnie: they call it crafting. But it’s like, or treasure hunters, I (0:39:21) Jonnie: think it’s treasure hunting, where you’re making pirate (0:39:24) Jonnie: outfits. That’s also sort of loosely tied. (0:39:28) Jonnie: To fishing, there is archaeology, which is tied to sort of exploring and going down into the mines. (0:39:39) Jonnie: There is smithing and jewellery, which are more tied to the sort of mining as gathering mechanics. (0:39:48) Jonnie: So in some way, all of the job systems are tied to one of the core mechanics that you require (0:39:55) Jonnie: to gather resources for the game. (0:39:59) Jonnie: And I think this is probably the thing that most people that are listening to a show like ours (0:40:08) Jonnie: will… it might be the thing that puts them off the most, right? Because the way (0:40:13) Jonnie: the job system works is they will say go and craft, you know, a thing, the first version of the thing, (0:40:20) Jonnie: you make that thing and you sell it for a lot of money. And that is its only purpose. And the job (0:40:25) Jonnie: system really exists as sort of the, the hems to work. (0:40:28) Jonnie: Yeah, I mean, I think it’s really important to keep the wheel, that drives you needing to get to new areas and acquire new stuff, but there isn’t anything that you can actually do with the things that you’re making beyond selling them for more money to kind of keep the wheel turning. (0:40:42) Al: Yeah, yeah, that’s fair. It’s also the the profession as you say, like very much dictates (0:40:48) Al: what you do in this game. And that can both be a good and a bad thing. I think it doesn’t (0:40:55) Al: stop you doing other things, but it very much like takes you on a journey through that profession. (0:41:02) Al: The quest system, I think, has I like a quest system that tells you here are things to do. (0:41:12) Al: Those need to stop at some point. And I don’t know whether it’s just that I didn’t go on (0:41:18) Al: far enough, but I felt like I was always dictated. Everything I do in the game was dictated very (0:41:26) Al: much by a quest that is like a very much immediate quest. It’s not like, oh, now just do more (0:41:34) Al: of that and explore other things. Right. It’s always like, oh, make a horseshoe. And I went (0:41:39) Al: with a blacksmithing profession, right? Because I thought that… (0:41:42) Al: sounded like the most interesting one to me at the start, and you don’t get a huge amount of (0:41:46) Al: information about what they’re going to do before you pick one. So I picked the blacksmithing one (0:41:50) Al: because I was like, I like mining. Mining is generally a fun thing in games. Let’s try this, (0:41:56) Jonnie: Just on your thought about the the direction, I think that continues through the game, but potentially the important thing is you can get multiple professions, so you can purchase additional licenses for additional professions and so I think once I got to the second area, (0:42:16) Jonnie: I purchased three different professions, so I always felt like I was kind of bouncing from thing to thing based on what I had the reason. (0:42:26) Jonnie: So I started with the archaeologist profession, then I added the brewing profession, which is the one that I did in the demo, and then I added the treasure hunter profession to that as well, and I think having three made it slightly more varied. (0:42:46) Jonnie: Equally, there are some quests in the town and I don’t know if you discovered any of those that also had some variety. (0:42:55) Al: I did not. Yeah, I think it’s a good idea. I like the professions in general as an idea. (0:43:07) Al: I just felt very pigeonholed after picking one and considering you don’t know truly what the game (0:43:14) Al: is like when you pick one first, right? Like it’s very early on in the game that you pick a job, (0:43:19) Al: a profession. Like it’s almost like 15 minutes into the game. You’ve done almost (0:43:25) Al: nothing and you’re deciding what your next 10 to 20 hours of your game is going to be based on (0:43:33) Al: not knowing what those are, which I think is part of the problem. I feel like it could have done a (0:43:37) Al: better job of like giving you examples of each of them in the first hour of the game and then you (0:43:42) Al: pick a profession, but that may work better for other people. I don’t know. (0:43:49) Jonnie: Yeah, I don’t necessarily disagree with any of that. And I think the thing that stands out to me (0:43:55) Jonnie: most about this game, and it’s probably the reason that I like the game is I feel I always felt like (0:44:01) Jonnie: there was kind of like something to be doing. You know, so in addition to the job system, (0:44:06) Jonnie: which requires you going around a different area and sort of exploring that area and to get the (0:44:12) Jonnie: resources that you need, there are so many little puzzles in integrated sort of in the world that (0:44:20) Jonnie: doing and I really like those sorts of exploration games. And so I what I enjoyed is the fact that (0:44:26) Jonnie: you’re like, you’re just wandering around, doing lots of little puzzles, you know, getting the (0:44:31) Jonnie: collecting the resources that you need, and sort of finding stuff that way. I really liked that sort (0:44:36) Jonnie: of sense of progression that this game gave that is very distinct from pretty much every other (0:44:43) Jonnie: college core farming. (0:44:44) Al: Yeah, yeah, that’s fair. I did think… I think my profession led to me not (0:44:52) Al: exploring as much because the blacksmithing is very much gather as (0:44:58) Al: much as you can from the mines and craft as much as you can to sell. I didn’t (0:45:05) Al: really explore the area around the island a huge amount. I did a couple of (0:45:11) Al: times, and I saw the sort of puzzles that you’re (0:45:15) Al: talking about, but I didn’t manage to unlock very many of them because of that, if that makes sense. (0:45:26) Jonnie: It does. And did you make it to the forest area? (0:45:30) Al: I don’t… Is there a specific area that’s… Because it all feels very foresty. (0:45:36) Jonnie: Yes, so when you start, you start on the farm and the farm is the first area. (0:45:36) Al: Like, is there a specific area that’s called forest? (0:45:49) Jonnie: There is the town that is the second area, but once you have progressed your progression (0:45:54) Jonnie: far enough in the farm area, you get a short quest to unlock the second area that is the (0:46:02) Jonnie: forest and there are multiple different areas. (0:46:08) Al: No, I didn’t. I felt… I think part of the thing why I thought maybe you were talking about just (0:46:15) Al: an area on the farm is because it feels like a very large area the farm does and I got… (0:46:21) Jonnie: So the farm feels like a large area. It is the smallest of the areas. (0:46:27) Al: This game confuses me. I get lost any time I explore away from just the initial area, (0:46:35) Al: the initial, you know, your, your camper van. (0:46:38) Al: And the mine and the entrance to the town. (0:46:41) Al: Anytime I go much further away from that, I cannot figure out where I am. (0:46:48) Al: I just get completely lost because it’s so massive. (0:46:51) Jonnie: Yeah, it’s a big end. For me, this is one of the things that I loved about because I definitely (0:46:58) Jonnie: had that same experience on the farm where I was getting lost. And over time, I explored so much (0:47:04) Jonnie: off the farm that like now I know my way around that area really well. Then I went onto the forest (0:47:09) Jonnie: area, got exceptionally lost. Part of the archaeologist profession that I had was you have to go (0:47:16) Jonnie: through these dungeons without dying, and I was trying to find… (0:47:21) Jonnie: all of the dungeons because they were sort of spread out, like there was three of them in the (0:47:25) Jonnie: second area, and they were very spread out. And I got lost a lot in the forest, but I enjoyed… (0:47:32) Jonnie: I guess I enjoyed the feeling of being lost because like there were so many little puzzles, (0:47:35) Jonnie: and so I would just stumble across a little puzzle and try and complete it, and then sort of make my (0:47:40) Jonnie: way around. And then eventually I would come out on a space that I knew and sort of find my way (0:47:45) Jonnie: back. And so I really enjoyed that side of things. This is the thing. (0:47:52) Jonnie: That makes me like this game, right? And this is the thing that’s like, would I recommend this game to (0:47:57) Jonnie: everybody listening to the show? The answer to that is probably no, because I think this game (0:48:02) Jonnie: does a lot of things that I specifically really, really enjoy, but are not core to the Cottage (0:48:09) Al: Yeah, I think that’s fair. I think before we get into the specific mechanics, (0:48:18) Al: I want to talk a bit about the controls and stuff like that, which I didn’t write down on the list, (0:48:23) Al: but I’m now remembering. But before we get into that, let’s talk about the character creator, (0:48:28) Al: because I feel like whenever we’re going to talk about it, now that we’ve already started talking (0:48:32) Al: about things, we’re going to end up feeling like it’s a weird jump in time anyway. But we need to (0:48:38) Al: to talk about the character creators. (0:48:39) Al: Let’s do that now. (0:48:41) Al: The character creator, I think, works really well in that it has a lovely (0:48:45) Al: little random button that will randomly generate something. (0:48:48) Al: So if you don’t care about what you (0:48:49) Al: look like, you can just press that a few times and go like, oh, that one looks fine. (0:48:53) Al: And then continue on. (0:48:55) Al: I like when things (0:48:57) Al: customize, things have that it’s like names in Stardew Valley for your animals, (0:49:01) Al: stuff like that, giving you a way to go, I don’t really care what this is. (0:49:04) Al: Just give me something. (0:49:07) Al: But what I really liked is the fact… (0:49:09) Al: that I pressed it three times, and on the third time, it came up with a guy in a (0:49:13) Al: kilt with ginger hair, and I was like, “Oh, it’s me!” (0:49:16) Jonnie: Yeah, it’s it’s a nice little character creator. (0:49:21) Al: So that was a good start. (0:49:24) Al: How much time did you spend creating your character? (0:49:28) Jonnie: Two minutes. (0:49:29) Al: Yeah, fair enough. (0:49:30) Jonnie: Look, I. (0:49:30) Al: I pressed the random man three times and went, “Yeah, that’s me. Let me maybe add a hat.” (0:49:35) Al: And then I found that there was a stereotypical “Hey Jimmy, Scottish hat” as well. (0:49:36) Jonnie: Yeah. (0:49:39) Al: I put that on him and I was done. (0:49:40) Jonnie: - Yeah, yeah. (0:49:43) Al: Okay, cool. Well, if we’re do

On this special ep, Jaren and Matt take a look at the Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Roster and discuss who they think will make it to the next (supposedly smaller) Smash game. 0:00 - RNG Opening 7:28 - Jaren's Kira Kira Sparkling Water: La Croix - Peach Pear 14:18 - Super Smash Bros  18:32 - Mario, DK, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Kirby, Fox, Pikachu 20:14 - Dark Samus + Echos 23:44 - Luigi, Ness, C. Falcon, Jigglypuff 28:35 - Peach, Daisy 30:57 - Bowser 32:09 - Ice Climbers 33:37 - Sheik, Zelda, ZSS 39:05 - Dr. Mario, Pichu, Falco 40:29 - Marth, Lucina, Roy, Chrom 43:03 - Young Link, Ganondorf 44:18 - Mewtwo 45:01 - Mr. Game & Watch 46:37 - Meta Knight 48:44 - Pit, Dark Pit 49:53 - Zero Suit Samus 50:52 - Wario 52:06 - Snake 52:49 - Ike 53:07 - Pokemon Trainer 55:27 - Diddy Kong  56:05 - Lucas 56:26 - Sonic 57:54 - King Dedede 59:12 - Olimar 59:53 - Lucario, Greninja, Incineroar 1:01:50 - Rob, Toon Link, Wolf 1:02:32 - Villager, Isabelle 1:03:18 - Mega Man 1:04:49 - Wii Fit Trainer 1:05:49 - Rosalina & Luma 1:07:35 - Little Mac 1:08:05 - Mii Fighter 1:09:18 - Paultena 1:09:29 - Pac-Man 1:10:04 - Robin 1:10:24 - Shulk 1:11:20 - Bowser Jr. 1:11:53 - Duck Hunt 1:12:17 - Ryu, Ken 1:12:48 - Cloud 1:14:22 - Corrin 1:14:44 - Bayonetta 1:15:28 - Inkling 1:15:53 - Ridley 1:16:42 - Simon, Richter 1:17:21 - King K. Rool 1:17:59 - Piranha Plant 1:18:06 - Joker 1:18:55 - Hero 1:19:23 - Banjo & Kazooie, Steve/Alex 1:20:45 - Terry, Kazuya 1:21:14 - Byleth 1:21:54 - Min Min 1:22:47 - Sephiroth, Sora 1:23:28 - Pyra/Mythra 1:24:15 - Closing Thoughts 1:25:51 - Thoughtful Closing

Jacki, Lynzee, and James share their Pokémon memories for Pokémon Day 2024. What Pokémon gave them nightmares, what was their first starter, and what is their trainer persona? 00:02:30 - Jacki's impressions of the Demon Slayer To Hashira Training 00:09:30 - The Demon Slayer screenings aren't "movies" 00:13:20 - What was your first Pokemon video game? 00:16:30 - Justice for Bulbasaur 00:21:30 - What would your Pokemon job be? 00:27:50 - Do they eat Pokemon? 00:29:22 - Normal type favs: Togepi, Gigamax Meowth, Snorlax 00:32:08 - Fighting type favs: Lucario, Pangoro, Sir Fetch'd 00:35:30 - Bug type favs: Butterfree, Scyther, Snom 00:39:30 - Fairy type favs: Sylveon, Xerneas, Alcremie 00:44:00 - Dark type favs: Zoroark, Umbreon, Alolan Persian 00:48:12 - Flying type favs: Corviknight, Corvisquire, Talonflame 00:52:28 - Poison type favs: Galarian Weezing, Trubbish, Toxtricity 00:55:45 - Ground type favs: Pallosand, Garchomp, Marowak 01:01:42 - Rock type favs: Geodude, Lycanroc, Diancie 01:04:30 - Water type favs: Gyarados, Greninja, Psyduck 01:08:16 - Ghost type favs: Chandelure, Mimikyu x2 01:10:50 - Grass type favs: Chikorita, Smoliv, Applin evolution line, Meowscarada 01:17:10 - Dragon type favs: Altaria, Noivern, Dragonair 01:19:45 - Electric type favs: Pachirisu, Luxray, Fat Pikachu 01:21:30 - Fire type favs: Incineroar, Hisuin Growltihe 01:25:56 - Psychic type favs: Wobbuffet, Gardevoir, Hatenna 01:32:00 - Steel type favs: Honedge, Lucario, Alolan Dugtrio 01:36:00 - Creepiest Pokemon: Luvdisc, Sliggoo, Miltank

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Some reviews are in from our friends in Japan and London for GO Fest! We do a deep dive into IV Floors, talk about Greninja, and some drama surrounding a competitor that got kicked out of Worlds for lying about their age.superfluous: unnecessary, especially through being more than enoughhttps://pvpoke.com/moves/Check out the BTW Web Site for merch, bios, videos and more: BTWPvP.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel!Team BTWLyleJeffs111 on Twitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/lylejeffsiiiInstinctLeaderSpark on Twitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/nstinctldrsparkKyleThrows on Twitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/kylethrowsCnfessionhttps://www.twitch.tv/cnfessionEvan777713https://www.twitch.tv/evan777713KingOwlexanderhttps://www.twitch.tv/kingowlexanderGracieZhttps://www.twitch.tv/vgraciezCheck out and listen to our friends The Round Table ChatotIf you have suggestions, ideas, or inquiries, you can contact:Our Executive Producer: matthewbraeker@btwpvp.comYou can email us at the following:The Show: info@btwpvp.comAstro: astrozombie954@btwpvp.comDinho: dinhoelmagico@btwpvp.comWildcat: wildcatdad17@btwpvp.comGood Luck and Get Good! Become part of Team B.T.W Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Semple Fi Podcast is joined by friends of the podcast David and Taylor (of Bucket Problem/Meet at Midfield notoriety) for a fun off season game! We're each drafting a full football team (11 offense, 11 defense, 2 specialists) with our friends we've made along the way from the world of Pokémon. This was a really fun episode to record, regular Pitt coverage will resume with our next episode.Check out Taylor @seltzermom on Twitter and check out her writing at Meet at Midfield.Shoutout @JaysToucannon for the episode art. 

The Super Flow Bros are back for the third week in a row!

Pokémon moves the needle on Sleep and we get some new information in regards to if it's coming soon or not. Comfy is coming to Pokémon UNITE this week and players are already concerned. We talk about Greninja Raids and compare it to Cinderace and Charizard. We also talk about the tolerance of this difficulty for some. Finally, a fish crashes Pokemon Scarlet and Violet and spends money while owner is away. 00:00:20 - Introduction 00:02:10 - Pokémon Sleep News00:27:00 - Comfy in UNITE00:34:40 - Break 00:38:30 - Greninja Recap01:09:40 - Fish Plays Scarlet and Violet01:16:00 - Post Credits 

Rumors around the Scarlet and Violet DLC points to us heading to Kalos for DLC. We talk about why that isn't probably true and why the XY trademarks renewed last month. We also talk about the Mega Energy economy in Pokémon GO and the next GO event coming this week. Crown Zenith are here and maybe you should pick it up? Finally, Greninja is the next 7-Star Raid Boss and we talk about it! 00:00:20 - Introduction 00:02:30 - Crown Zenith00:10:40 - Pokémon GO News00:26:40 - Break 00:31:40 - Greninja Raids this Week00:48:00 - XY in the DLC Rumors01:02:10 - Pocket Card Jockey01:32:30 - Post Credits 

In Ep. 543, Scott, Sam and I cover DidYouKnowGaming beating Nintendo, Dave Bautista on leaving the MCU, Netflix's most streamed anime, and more! FOLLOW/SUPPORT SCOTT & SAM: @pandanime (Scott's Twitter) @LazyGamingGuys (LGG Twitter) LazyGamingGuys' Channel (YouTube) Ronin Council (SoundCloud) @samuelboylston (Sam's Instagram) As always, we appreciate your constructive Feedback, Suggestions, and Questions. You can also leave us an audio question on SpeakPipe. Thank you for the continued love and support! Enjoy the show. Daniel and Kelli Podcast Awards 2019 || Games & Hobbies (Winner) Podcast Awards 2017 - 2018, 2020 - 2022 || Games & Hobbies (Nominated) Official Site SUBSCRIBE:Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Stitcher / iHeartRadio / TuneIn / Overcast FOLLOW US: - Twitter | @ReasonsImBroke, @PalpaKelli, and @TRIBPod - Instagram- Pinterest- Tumblr - Discord Lounge - YouTube Channel SUPPORT THE POD: Getting $1's worth of entertainment and information each month? Support us on Patreon or visit our TeePublic storefront! SPREAD THE WORD: If you're enjoying the show, please head over to iTunes and leave us a rating and a review! Each one helps new Brokettes discover the podcast. Donate to Hero Initiative to help comic creators in need. CREDITS: Opening/Closing Jingles - Alex Scott Show Logo By - Opanaldiova

ASH DID IT, HE FINALLY DID IT! Homie finally won it all! Today the boys react to not only that, but Pokemon and the Masters 8 tournament in general. In this episode you got Kevin, who is super into Pokemon, versus Sean, who is really looking at things from an outside perspective. We discuss favorite matches, quality of the battles, and then take a step back to pick our favorite Pokemon. Click HERE to follow us on socials and subscribe on podcast players. This Episode Includes: Ash, Pikachu, Charizard, Pokemon Scarlet, Pokemon Violet, Greninja, Dragon Ball, Anime, Shonen

Gotta Watch'em All Podcast 123 Recording Date - 4/12/2022 Publish Date - 4/14/2022   With last episode being filled with action and laughs, we had high hopes for Once In A Blue Moon. Unfortunately, this episode fell a bit short with a less than compelling story and an ending that left both of us confused as to what the point of the show was. While it was great to see Professor Oak and the GS Ball, there was nothing of substance that gave us any additional insight into what the GS Ball even is!   As for other news, we discuss the 25th Anniversary of the Anime and the montage video that Pokémon put together to celebrate. They also tease the return of Greninja in Master Journeys, which is very exciting, especially as we don't know the context about its return.   A new video documentary has been released about the Pokémon Live stage show and how it almost took Broadway by storm. While seeming painfully low budget, the show actually toured the world and was successful. It is very interesting how little was actually known about the show, until now. Support the show by shopping at TCGPlayer.com using this link - https://bit.ly/TCGPlayerAffiliate    Pokémon Professor Network Merch Store - https://bit.ly/PPNMerchStore     info@gottawatchemall.com Voicemail, Text, and Picture Line - 732-835-8639 http://pokemonprofessor.com https://www.gottawatchemall.com  http://bit.ly/PokeProfNetPatreon  http://bit.ly/PokeProfNetFacebook  http://bit.ly/PokeProfNetTwitter  http://bit.ly/PokeProfNetYouTube  http://bit.ly/PokeProfNetInstagram  http://bit.ly/LuredUpTumblr  http://bit.ly/GWeAApplePodcasts  http://bit.ly/GWeASpotify  http://bit.ly/GWeAStitcher  http://bit.ly/GWeAGooglePodcasts  http://bit.ly/GWeAIHeartRadio  https://bit.ly/GWeAPodchaser  Show music provided by GameChops and licensed through Creative Commons   ▾ FOLLOW GAMECHOPS ▾ http://instagram.com/GameChops http://twitter.com/GameChops http://soundcloud.com/GameChops http://facebook.com/GameChops http://youtube.com/GameChops http://www.gamechops.com   Intro Music Malie City Grimecraft and Wishlyst GameChops - Ultraball http://gamechops.com/ultraball/  http://soundcloud.com/Grimecraft http://soundcloud.com/wishlyst Break Music Route 3 Mikel and GameChops GameChops - Poké and Chill http://smarturl.it/pokechill https://twitter.com/mikel_beats   Outro Music Elite Four CG5 Trap Remix ft. The Great Dolvondo GameChops - Alola http://smarturl.it/cg5alola http://soundcloud.com/cg5-beats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClzwNL0eoWrZONZr1W4ozKw   Hosts Ken Pescatore Adam Tuttle   Writer and Producer Ken Pescatore   Executive Producer Paul Thompson   Pokémon And All Respective Names are Trademark and © of Nintendo 1996-2021Pokémon GO is Trademark and © of Niantic, Inc.Gotta Watch'em All and Pokémon Professor are not affiliated with Niantic Inc., The Pokémon Company, Game Freak or Nintendo.   #pokemon #pokemongo #podcast

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This week Astro is back from vacation and the guys are joined by special guest PvPSteve! We discuss Glacial Cup, the news dump about Dragonspiral Descent and new Pokémon  Druddigon (what until you hear Astro f*ck this name up). We go over our week in GBL, a new Dinho's Tip of the Week and as always answer all your questions. Oh, one more thing Dinho is actual on the episode you just can't hear him, some how manages to gain an Australian accent at one point. Side Note: We have a new email below just saying.Team Time Stamps: We forgot to write them down but here is the link to the Greninja team from HomeSliceHenry that Astro was talking about. https://youtu.be/X8F8AaFLlYEIf you don't follow him already follow PvPSteve on his YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/c/PvPSteveSpecial Thanks to Off The Post for our awesome theme music. You can follow them on Instagram @offthepostband you may see a familiar face on there *wink wink*Check out our mate FishOnAHeater and Pallet Town PvPhttps://linktr.ee/pallettownpvpFinally, Our Stuff: BTW Web Site: ***coming soon***BTW Twitter: http://Twitter.com/btwpvppodcastBTW Merch Store: https://btwpvp.creator-spring.com/BTW Email: info@btwpvp.comBTW Twitch: http://twitch.tv/btwpvpBTW Patreon: http://patreon.com/btwpvpGood Luck and Get Good!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/btwpvp) New Episode of BTW is Live!! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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The boys are back and this time they are in for a wild ride. Evolving Skies metagame continues to evolve: there are bears, weird dogs and an artillery dragon. Not to mention we got these new feet cards that are making everyone go crazy! Come check it out! This week's episode of Tag Team is sponsored by Manscaped.

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In this episode, I sit down with Home Slice Henry for some high level Go Battle League Tactics! Home Slice Henry is a pretty new PVPer to the community and he has grown so quick thanks to his Tactics, habits, and mindset in Pokemon GO Battle League! 0:00 Welcome Home Slice Henry 1:30 Season over Season 3:40 XL 5:33 Great League Teams to Run 6:33 Greninja 10:01 Premier - Masters 12:15 Love Cup 14:40 Pokemon Go E-Sports 17:17 Love to Compete 20:55 Love to See this Happen 24:50 Changes to Rewards in GBL 26:45 Elite TM Rewards 29:29 Daily Grind Routine 31:30 Final Words 34:40 How did Home Slice Henry Start? #pokemonGo #GoBattleLeague #PokemonGoPVP

The raters rate Shaymin and Greninja, and special guest Patten gives her two cents about the Puppy Pokemon, Yamper.

Topic: Pokemon Review   Mom returns with tales of her journey in the world of pokemon.  She have thoughts, Ideas, and our discussion was actually very interesting in the respects of Video Game ideas and philosophy of those that make the game, and where they come from.  It's actually pretty interesting, as we've been doing this for over 70 weeks now, mom is getting quite comfortable and skilled at trying to understand the culture of the people who created the game, which is awesome.  Plus our usual divergence in to Animal Crossing as well.     Homework Review   Spinoff Pokemon Games   Pokemon Stadium Series Console: Nintendo 64 Developed by Nintendo as a response to the popularity of the Pokemon Games, these were the only way to see the Pokemon on the Big Screen. The game was bundled with the Nintendo 64 Transfer Pak, an add-on for the N64 so that you could transfer your Pokemon from the gameboy games to the N64 and use them in the game.  The original intent was for tournaments, so that those watching had something to watch and see during the event, instead of the blocky, pixilated version of the game.   Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Series Console: Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch Based on Mystery Dungeon Mechanics (When Dungeons or Zones are randomly Generated), this game found you the player transforming in to a Pokemon, based off a personality test, and visiting various dungeons to complete the game. Along the way, you can collect other pokemon to follow you and assist in the dungeons.  Unlike other Pokemon games, the battles are simple, as you navigate through the dungeon and happen upon other enemy pokemon.  Several games have come out over the years, with more light hearted affair and pokemon talking to each other.  There also tends to be a lack of any humans around, so pokemon appear in a more natural setting, with many civilized trappings.   Pokemon Ranger Series Console: Nintendo DS Attempting to take advantage of the Nintendo DS’s bottom Touch Screen, this version of the game sees you capturing pokemon for a short period of time and using them on missions. The big change is that instead of the RPG mechanics of the main game, you use the stylus to draw circles around pokemon in order to capture it temporarily.  Pokemon captured temporarily can then be used to assist with your mission or help with capturing pokemon.  An example is a water pokemon may slow or immobilize the enemy pokemon you’re trying to capture with the stylus.    Pokemon Rumble Series Console: Nintendo 3DS, Wii U Like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, you travel through various procedurally generated dungeons and fight other pokemon. The main difference being the real-time melee mechanics, which act out in real time, meaning you have to run up to attack them, but also dodge their attacks too.    Pokemon Snap Console: Nintendo 64, Wii / Wii U Virtual Console A less beloved, but still cult popular, game in the Pokemon Series. This one is an on-rail (Meaning you follow a set path as laid out by the game) sees you going through various areas and taking pictures of pokemon.  The goal is to take pictures of Pokemon, with points awarded for the quality of the picture taken; this can be due to multiple pokemon, different pokemon in same picture, rare or evolved pokemon, or the actions the pokemon are doing in the picture. The pokemon are all in their natural environment, but with Pokemon Bait launched in certain parts of the area, you can trigger events to get more pokemon to show up, different pokemon to appear, or trigger a short event that makes for a better picture.   Pokemon Puzzle Games Console: Gameboy Color, Nintendo 64, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch These are various games based off puzzle mechanics. Usually, these are re-skins (Reusing other games mechanics, worlds, models, etc, from games in order make new material) of other existing game series. Puzzle Challenge & Puzzle League – Reskin of Panel de Pon / Puzzle League Pokemon Shuffle – Reskin of Puzzle & Dragon / Bejeweled Mechanics Pokemon Café Mix – Reskin of Disney’s Tsum Tsum Mechanics   Hey You, Pikachu Console: Nintendo 64 A unique game where you follow your Pikachu around and talk to it. Utilizing the N64 Voice Recognition Unit, an add-on included with the game, you can talk to Pikachu and direct it around to do stuff for you.  Talking to Pikachu directly allows you to build trust and score, which can unlock additional skills for Pikachu.  It’s unique in that its Add-on is only used for the one game, and also doesn’t work well with adult and teenager voices.  While the gameplay is simple, it was launched right in the middle of the initial pokemon craze to take advantage of it.     Super Smash Bros Console: Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii / Wii U, Switch While not a Pokemon game in of itself, pokemon have been represented in every Smash Bros game, and often favorite. Initial Super Smash Bros saw series mascot Pikachu to the roster from day one, and is often a favorite amongst other player, along with Jigglypuff as an unlock.  Later series would add additional pokemon, including Pichu, Mewtwo, Charizard, Lucario, Greninja, & Incineroar.  In Super Smash Bros Braw, we saw the introduction of the Pokemon Trainer, which could switch out between Charizard, Ivysaur, and Squirtle to allow varied gameplay in one character.  Outside of the various stages in the game being pokemon themed, there are also Pokeballs, which contain any number of pokemon that can be summoned on to the stage and aid the thrower by causing damage, debuffs, or chaos during the match.         Pokemon Anime Largely credited for opening up the Western Audience to Anime, Pokemon has been a staple of TV for the last 23 years.  Pokemon’s Cartoon/Anime follows the adventures of Ash Ketchum(As in Catch them All, the series’s tag line), also simply known as Satoshi in Japanese, as he ventures around the world to become a Pokemon Master.  The show follows the basic plot of the games, with side stories and adventures to flesh out the world and character, intended to be the common adventure of a Pokemon Trainer and his friends.  The show’s art style has largely unchanged from 1997 till 2016, when the Anime had a change in art style.    There have been a few spin off series that are Pokemon Anime, but don’t follow the events of Ash. Pokemon Chronicles – Following trainers for the Johto League, similar to the Gold and Silver character designs. The game follows their exploits, but takes place in the same world and time around Ash and his journeys. Pokemon Origins – A more faithful retelling of the Pokemon Red and Blue series of games. It was a mini-series released just before X & Y’s release.  While initially limited to Japan, they were eventually released on to the Pokemon Youtube Channel for free. Pokemon Generations – A pokemon series initially released on Pokemon’s Youtube Channel. The series follows the first six generations of pokemon and Largely focus on side stories of various pokemon character that have been seen through the games, including trainers, Gym Leaders, and other random characters.  Pokemon Twilight Wings – A mini-series released on to Youtube, the series follows events of Sword and Shield, and only finished production in August due to Covid-19 delaying the production of the final episode.   Like any long running series, Pokemon has had some episodes removed or heavily edited due to Controversies regarding the material or elements of them. “Cyber Soldier Porygon” – Likely the most famous example came early in Pokemon’s broadcast. The episode featured Ash and Pikachu being digitized and entering a computer to aid Porygon, a digital Pokemon.  During the episode, Pikachu’s Thunderbolt Attack causes a mix of Blue and Red flashing effects in rapid succession, causing a strobe effect for roughly 5-7 seconds.  This resulted in some viewers experiencing Blurred Vision, headaches, dizziness, and nausea, with some viewers experiencing Blindness, Seizures, convulsions, and losing consciousness.  While 685 viewers were reported to have been hospitalized, it’s presumed that over 12000 child may have been affected by the episode.   After the episode, Pokemon took a 4 month Hiatus.  After the Hiatus, other episodes were edited to remove strobe effects, along with the Opening sequence being edited and changed.  The episode has never been seen outside of the original broadcast and was removed by Nintendo.  In the west, the episode was mocked and used as satire for Japanese Anime in other western animation, particular Simpsons and South Park.   Jynx – Jynx is an ice-pokemon, but upon release in America, it was criticized for promotion of Black Face. While the notion of Black Face was Foreign to Japan, who doesn’t have a large foreign population in Japan (only 3-4% of the population in Japan is Non-Japanese), Jynx was later changed to have a Purple colored Face instead.  This was what led to the exclusion of the episode “The Ice Cave!” which heavily included Jynx before the edit.   Several Episodes have been removed due to illusions to Earthquakes or Destruction, namely episodes in Japan, as the episodes original Airing date was halted due to Earthquakes or Tsunami’s in Japan. Similarly in the West, two episodes were pulled temporarily pulled after the 9/11 Attacks during the initial broadcast: one featured the destruction of a city and another due to the title “The Tower of Terror”.  Both episodes were eventually rebroadcast.   Some Episodes were only skipped in America. This included “Beauty and the Beach” where the characters participate in a Swimsuit competition, but features James of team Rocket sporting inflatable breasts.  The Episode was initially skipped due to the previous content and concerns over over-sexualization, but later re-edited and rebroadcast as a ‘Lost Episode’.  Another episode, “The Legend of Dartini” would have seen Ash and company looking for the rare Dartini Pokemon and visiting the Safari Zone, however was skipped due to the frequent use and appearance firearms in the anime.  The episode leads to an error in the show, where Ash had captured 30 Tauros Pokemon, which see use later in the series.      Much like other long running Anime Series, Pokemon has movies, 24 theatrical released movies over the last 23 years.  Pokemon itself in Japan releases a Movie every year, which often tells side stories for Ash and company which don’t get referenced or reflected in the mainline anime.  It’s also amongst the only times in which major Legendary Pokemon get seen, as they are rarely referenced or seen in the main Anime.  A handful of the POkemon Movies saw a release in the West, namely during the first and second generation, with later movies not seeing a Domestic Box Office release, but released to Video Instead.     While Japan has had one new Pokemon movie every year, the west released Detective Pikachu, which is amongst the highest grossing films in 2019 and second highest grossing videogame film of all time.

Today, James talks to his best friend, Sam Greninja. Sam runs a YouTube Channel with over 3000 subscribers and has accompanied James on his YouTube journey for over 4 years. In this podcast, Sam reveals never seen before details about his personal life, motivations for starting his YouTube Channel and his plans for the Future. James Twitter and Instagram: @jmsthethird Sam Twitter: @Sam_Greninja Instagram: @samgreninjayt All Night Podcast @AllNightWithJMS

In this week's episode, we discuss some of the pros and cons of our mains, along with why certain low tiers could be competitively viable in the right hands. If you like Greninja, AirPods' has an unnecessarily long segment analyzing him, and that might be your favorite part. ---Instagram @cafesmashpodcastTwitter @cafesmashYouTube @cafesmash

Andy, Dave, Jerrick and special guest Tom go through 8 generations of Pokemon to determine once and for all who is the best. Is it Bulbasaur? Greninja? Sylvion? Buzzwole? It's Buzzwole isn't it? You'll have to watch to find out! Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bracket_up Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bracketup YouTube: https://bit.ly/30Ln2ju WE'RE ALSO ON INSTAGRAM NOW! Check it out! Listen to us on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/32PaBWI Apple: https://apple.co/3jyvbQY Google: https://bit.ly/3eWpcSH

Taking a bit of a break from the usual retrospectives/editorials to do some speculation on the future impact Pokémon will have in Pokémon Go's raid and PvP scene. For this episode. I look into a Pokémon very beloved in the main series, Greninja. It's amazing in the competitive scene of the main series games. But in a meta with zero abilites and drastically different gameplay from the main series games, can Greninja still strive? Let's speculate and see. Reach out to me on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/jackitstuff Or check out my site to see all the content I create for the Internet... jackitku2b.wixsite.com/jackitk

¡Llegó el Pokémon Day! Seba y Jona se indignan por el resultado de la votación del Pokémon del año y nos cuentan un poco sobre la nueva película de Mewtwo.

Hey guys we're a bit sick today. But the show must go on, so let's talk about Baldur's Gate 3 & Fuser two radical throwbacks to two franchises that we're obsessed with. Baldur's Gate is all about that “what if AI was your DM”, whereas Fuser is literally Dropmix in a new format. Either way we're talking about some rad stuff. Good/Neutral News | Horizon: Zero Dawn is coming to PC | GoG updated their refund policy | RE3 Remake has a demo coming | Greninja and all the trash and not trash Pokemon of the year | Borderlands 3 story content | GDC postponed due to coronavirus | Naughty Corner | EA banned an abusive Youtuber from ALL THEIR GAMES | Why is this a thing? | Just a reminder that the Monster Hunter film exists | Bunnings warehouse hotel | -------------- INCONSOLABLES LINKS | https://discord.gg/Ta4ygAw | https://apple.co/2oXMYJY | www.facebook.com/inconsoleablesau/ | www.twitter.com/inconsolablesAU |   ANDREW'S LINKS | www.twitter.com/Kalgar | https://twitch.tv/kalgar |   MRSLLANTE'S LINKS | www.twitter.com/mrsllante | https://twitch.tv/mrsllante | https://mrsllante.carrd.co/ |   PAUL'S LINKS | www.twitter.com/Thundermaceaus | https://twitch.tv/thundermaceaus |   SAM'S LINKS | www.twitter.com/sammydeedge | https://twitch.tv/sammydeedge | www.twitter.com/pyryte_music |

Coming at you one teraflop at a time, Ally & Brendan are here breaking down the latest news surrounding the #XboxSeriesX. This episode is also filled with coverage and banter on #Infliction, #TheOutsider, #BirbBNB, #PredatorHuntingGrounds, Greninja & #LittleHope. Let us fill your bellies with fresh, hot gaming goodness straight from our brain ovens! --- Find more gaming related goodness via: WEBSITE: http://atebit.net OR https://ATEBITnation.net  STORE: http://shopATEBIT.net 

Ace Styles, Javelin J & yo boy Splyke break down this weeks wrestling, Star Wars, Bob Iger, Gamestop and more on this episode of the Weekly Replay! #WeeklyReplay #Podcast #NerdCulture ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➥ Follow Us: https://linktr.ee/weekly_replay

DJ 9 is an EDM DJ on the come up, We talk DJing, Preforming arts, and the trance of a room. He also is a Greninja main in Smash Ultimate so I hate him as a Little Mac Main XD9's Insta--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hisoapbox/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hisoapbox/support

DJ 9 is an EDM DJ on the come up, We talk DJing, Preforming arts, and the trance of a room. He also is a Greninja main in Smash Ultimate so I hate him as a Little Mac Main XD 9's Insta --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hisoapbox/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hisoapbox/support

Light Travel and Jacob are cancelling the podcast to play Fortnite 2. Find out how we ranked this weeks Pokémon, and tell us how wrong, and stupid we are. Always remember; if you've ever seen a Pokémon, that's enough to judge it. KEEP us EVERGREEN on PATREON for Pokémon choice, bonus episodes, full episode video, 2 day early podcasts and more.

Join the MAGECAST, as we breakdown and discuss the new Pokemon Movie, Detective Pikachu.Intro/Outro Music from ‘No Copyright Music - Free Audio Library’:Chill Motivational Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Instrumental - The Process // No Copyright Music:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daWvummA8ZQ

Live action Pokemon? Yeah, we went there. This week, we bring Gamer Heroes co-host Kam Konek in to discuss Pokemon: Detective Pikachu in all its HD glory. We also talk news including the newly announced Mortal Kombat movie, the Honey I Shrunk the kids sequel, Disney’s Hulu takeover and rumored Wolverine casting. What did you...

On this episode, Creative Director and co host of our Star Wars podcast Agressive Negotiations and our politics in comics podcast Seduction of the Innocent, Kai Kiriyama stops in and hangs with us talking about Detective Pikachu and lots more! Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for the latest news about the Podcast! Twitter & Instagram: @oncomicsground

Smash Bros Cast Ep. 16 Smash News Countdown to Smash: As of 6/22 167 Days Source-Gaming.com’s translation of Sakurai’s Famitsu Column Vol. 557 The game is built off of pre-existing games, otherwise, the character count would have been ⅓ what it is now Game speed is increased “For example, the knockback speed has been increased. Even when launched a short distance, a character will fly off very quickly then suddenly slow down. Reducing the time while incapacitated has helped improve the flow of gameplay. I wanted to include this change in previous entries, but I gave up because it was so easy to lose track of your position, especially on the 3DS. I’ve also increased fighters’ initial jump speed, reduced aerial landing lag, and made a slew of other changes that will accelerate gameplay without making the game itself too “hardcore.”” Damage increased in One on One matches. Starting with the N64 roster forces players to try more characters similar to how Mario Kart does it. Stage selection takes place before character selection so you can choose your fighter accordingly   Harassment of Sakurai on social media Unfortunately, some fans of your favorite Wrecking Crew villain have taken to Sakurai’s social media accounts to personally harass him about Waluigi not being a playable character in Smash. NinjaYoshi13 Hands-on Impressions What characters did you play as? What did you think of the feel of the game? What did you think of the look of the game? What was something that you didn’t like? Smash Character Video: Greninja-Prima Guides Greninja is one of the fastest characters in the game and has good jump height and recovery options. Combine this with its average weight and good range—thanks to Greninja’s water blades—and you can see why Greninja can be quite capable in battle! Use your charged-up Water Shuriken to fight from a distance, and punish from a distance with your ground speed or Shadow Sneak! Don’t get carried away with your speed, though, as your weight is your weakness. Greninja Combos and Tricks Greninja Highlights Unrivaled Tournaments-UGC Smash 4 Singles Pools Smash Resources How to Git Gud from GameSkinny Smash Boards Beginners Guide Eurogamer's Beginners Guide Event Hubs Character Move List Super Smash Academy on Youtube Checkout RichaadEB's Metal Melee  Connect with me Join N64Josh Discord Help Support The Show Check out my Patreon  Check out OPSeat.com the official chair of the Nintendo Power CastUse Code N64JOSH Get your free audio book from Audible and help support this cast. Follow the hosts on Twitter @N64Josh Twitch.tv/n64josh Facebook Page @NightCrawlr724 Podcast Links iTunes Podbean Google Play Stitcher Patreon Supporters Necrophobic Campbell RustBeltKid

Alex's brother returns to pine for Waluigi, defy Kraid, look at Greninja's amiibo, and discuss the Smash Bros. Ultimate reveal.

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Soy Kgprestige y me encargaré del mes de agosto con estos 4 episodios ¿Cuál de ellos resultó ganador en este mes? Vayamos a los nominados: • Para empezar la cosa tenemos al episodio “Fierce fighting at the Kalos League: Gather all my passion y después de eso “Las finales: Ash vs Alan y después de eso Kalos League victory, Ash’s ultimate match y “Team flare attacks, the Zygarde at the prism tower.” • Con eso dicho, el ganador del mes de agosto es, nada más ni nada menos que…No sé porque… ”Kalos league Victory: Ash’s ultimate match” ¿Por dónde empezar? Bueno creo debería comenzar con la parte positiva de las cosas: La animación del episodio, creo que es seguro decir que este episodio es posiblemente uno de los mejores animados de la saga XYZ y de Pokemon en general, creo que la animación estuvo en su punto más alto, especialmente durante la batalla de Mega Charizard X y Ash-Greninja, de verdad que le dieron con todo a esta batalla y lo amo por eso. • Y eso es todo lo positivo que puedo decir de este capítulo, así que vamos directo a lo negativo y para comenzar hablemos de Goodra. Goodra…Goodra…..Goodra…Goodra ¿Qué te hicieron, hombre? Tenías una racha de victorias del 100%, había un empate pero eso no afectaba para nada tu número de victorias o de derrotas, eso es su propia categoría. Así que Goodra antes de esta batalla había ganado todos sus combates, pero ¿Qué hacen? ¡Humillan a los fans de Goodra! Básicamente traen a este Pokemon de regreso y arruinan la racha de victorias perfecta que tenía, enfrentándolo contra un Pokemon que ya había recibido daño antes de la batalla contra Goodra, antes Bisharp se había enfrentado contra Hawlucha y en esa batalla, Bisharp fue herido por el anterior mencionado. Y llega este episodio, Goodra se enfrenta a este Bisharp….El Pokemon dragón de Ash, fue derrotado fácilmente en las finales y me dolió porque soy un fan de Goodra…esperaba que el fuera útil y fiable en estas finales… pero no, trataron a Goodra aquí…no, simplemente duele, realmente duele, realmente me ardí en ese segmento. • Pero no se detuvo ahí, ¡No! Lo que siguió después, fue la batalla de Mega Charizard contra Ash-Greninja, lo que le agrego aún más sal y limón a la herida y alóqueme refiero con eso es por supuesto, el resultado de ese combate, con Ash-Greninja perdiendo. He aquí la cosa, uno de los momentos que más odie en este episodio en particular, fue la parte donde ya puedes ver el humo dispersándose y a ambos Pokemon de pie, por un pequeño instante puedes ver que Charizard está a punto de caerse al suelo, pero nos mintieron y resulta que Greninja es quien cae derrotado y por supuesto después de eso se confirma que Ash pierde la liga y por ende que Alan es el ganador… ¿Por qué tuvieron que animar ese segmento? Lo único que hicieron fue darnos una falsa esperanza, mentirnos en ese instante y lo odie tanto por ello, por eso no sé cómo este capítulo resulto ganador, lo único que puedo decir es que hablar de este episodio realmente duele, realmente duele chicos. • Otra cosa de la que me gustaría hablar, aunque posiblemente no tenga nada que ver con el episodio, es que aún tengo la duda de ese movimiento que usa Greninja, la Shuriken de agua gigante, porque no la veo por ningún lado en los juegos de Pokemon Sun and Moon, habría sido un movimiento Z muy genial pero nunca lo implementaron ¿Cuál fue el punto de ese movimiento entonces? Ya que después de este episodio nunca lo vimos de nuevo, ni en el arco del Team flare, ni en otro lado, sólo fue usado una vez y eso fue todo. ¿Alguien quiere explicarme entonces cual fue el punto? Ya que aun con el poder de esa Shuriken de agua Greninja perdió. Contra el movimiento Blast Burn, gracioso ¿no creen? En el primer combate de Ash y Alan, Ash-Greninja perdió contra Blast Burn aquí en las finales, Ash-Greninja, pierde contra Blast Burn, parece que la historia si se repite. Así que chicos, sólo deseo recordarles a todos que el ganador del mes es “Kalos League Victory, Ash’s ultimate match.”

Jason, Anthony, and John are breaking all the rules by going over the time talking Mafia 3, Pokemon Sun and Moon demo, and finally, the Nintendo Switch reveal. Oh yeah, the ending song is Switch by J-Pop group Every Little Thing. It was the best I could come up with.

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Oh snap! With enough people to field a starting lineup in basketball, the Super Rod-cast gets 2 Top 4 competitors to join us this week! Some of you may remember Eric Gansman from episode 11 where he told the world what he was going to play, and then cucked the field earning a spot in the top cut. New to the cast is Travis Nunlist, piloting a straight gas version of Greninja. We talk AZ tourney reports, Expanded moving forward and what it means for Philly regionals. We also hit on Standard and of course the upcoming Florida regionals. Find us on twitter here: @theSuperRodcast Jeff - @SURRANWRAP Jared - @germansk8er33 Kirk - @doobsnax Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theSuperRodcast/ Outline: Intro - 0:00 News - 2:55 AZ Tourney Reports - 10:25 Expanded Talk/Philly Regionals - 39:13 Standard Talk/Florida Regionals - 58:25 Close - 1:19:30

RIP David Huddleston (1930-2016). In this episode of CSYW, we rundown the possibility of Ash Ketchum FINALLY WINNING A LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP!!! We also cover some of the events that leads up to the Kalos League Finals where he faces Alain, his Goodra's backstory, why the time in Unova should never be brought up when talking about the anime, the connection that Ash has with Greninja and Greninja's rivalry with Sawyer's Sceptile, possible new typings for Alolan Pokemon, and create a team of Pokemon for real life use among other topics. Support the podcast by following us on Podomatic.com, subscribe to our show via iTunes and on Google Play, make a PayPal donation (all funds go into the show), and share the show to other people. Email us at csywpodcast@gmail.com topics you would like to discuss or questions you would like us to answer.

Did you know that the First Lady of the U.S, Michelle Obama, has been trying for years to get people exercising? Over a third of people in the U.S, including children, are obese. This is an epidemic, and a huge national problem which leads to all sorts of medical complications and expense. However, something has taken the nation by storm(1) which is getting people of all shapes and sizes outside walking, running, skateboarding, and biking. It's Pokemon Go. It has become a craze. The most unlikely(2) people, those who would normally be at home sitting in front of a computer, are out walking along the streets, or moving around in parks looking for Pokemon creatures. The game came out in July, and had 80 million downloads in the first week. It is a free game that is location based and uses augmented reality, which means a view of the real world with a touch of fantasy added to it. Players download the game on to their phones, they create an account with a personalized avatar, and then they move around looking for Pokemon. The aim of the game is to find, catch, battle, and train the creatures. So who are the Pokemon? They are cartoon characters that first came out in the late 1990's in a Nintendo game called Game Boy. Films, books, and cards also popularized them. They have names like: Greninja, Arceus, Mew, and Pikachu, and are generally very cute, blending the look of animals and fantastic creatures. Pokemon are trained by their human owners to battle other Pokemon and evolve. Thankfully it isn't a game that is violent or deadly, so it is appropriate for young people, and therefore a wide audience. If you think about it, it is a very involved game, with different levels and many different elements, and now the physical aspect of it makes it even more addicting. Two of my boys have certainly become quite addicted to it. My oldest son even walks around the parks with his group of friends at night, searching for the most valuable Pokemons. I can't see Pokemon Go losing(3) its popularity for a while. If that is the case, people large and small will be dressing up in warm clothes to find their creatures in the snowy parks in the winter. 1. 'To take something by storm' is to make a huge impact on something, a person, or a place. a. The Harry Potter series took the world by storm. b. The Beatles took the U.S by storm in the 1960's. 2. Unlikely means 'doubtful or not very probable'. However, it can also be used as an adjective. a. Their house was in the woods in a very unlikely place for a home. b. Out of the people I knew from school, he was the most unlikely to become a singer. 3. I can/ can't see .......+verb in gerund. a. I can see him slipping and falling (prediction). b. I can't see him calling back today; he never returns my calls. c. I can see them missing the bus my two minutes; they need to hurry up if they want to catch it.

The polls are closed, and you'll never guess who Japan voted into its Top 5 Pokemon! Join Alex and Kellz from The Dex! on YouTube as they discuss this week's news and new releases, and F-F-Fanswers!

Nintendo needs to work on things in order to survive. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo Wii U and 3DS adds Greninja and Charizard to the roster. Pokémon Black and White Super Music Collection is also now available on iTunes.Read more › Related posts: Strongest Mega Evolution: Act I and Blue Samurai Mascots – FSPR78 FSPR 23 HeartGold and SoulSilver FSPR 28 Update, Black & White and 2nd Anniversary

13 definitely isn't unlucky for us, because while Rob's away this week, it perfectly lined up with a fresh wave of Super Smash Bros news! We call in Rory 'Rodders' Sherwood and Don Goss to help fill the void and discuss The Last Of Us on PS4, a new Borderlands and, ofcourse, more Super Smash Bros than you can shake a Star Rod at! Come join us, won't you? (Right-click the file and select "Save as" to download it, or left-click to listen to it in your browser)