I’d argue the pacing issues were the fault of the balance/crunch I already mentioned. They dedicated the first 25% of the game to a glorified tutorial, and them not having time to make a postgame means the game abruptly stops post-Ultra Beasts, so you don’t have much game left after it gets good.

I’ve always felt similarly about Sun/Moon, where it’s story and cast was the best since Gen 5 IMO, but because the whole thing got rushed for the 20th anniversary and they balanced it mostly for newcomers, the story was all it had, and then USUM ruined that too.

Always great to see a fellow Xenoblade/Pokémon/Zelda fan, I just got both Echoes of Wisdom and Future Redeemed

What’s your favourite Pokémon? (Both the creature and the game, mine are Magnemite and Black/White)

Pokémon, D&D, Folklore, History, Puzzles, Anime

Are you a DM or a player?

Pokémon, Mario RPGs, Fire Emblem, Zelda, and Xenoblade

What’s your favourite of each?

(Black & White, Dream Team, Echoes, Link Between Worlds, and either 1 or 3 over here)

Would it be more accurate to say the French Republic (what most people call France) had a presence in Lebanon prior to the founding of the State of Israel (what most people call Israel)? You don’t need to harken back millennia. There’s a clear aggressor here, acting like borders are a suggestion.

It’s an equally valid opinion to believe that according to the current scientific consensus, dogs are, in fact, cats. Little known fact.

Your vibes are cool, and you (probably) won’t reply to my reply

“I Died and Got Reincarnated in Another World with Broken Magic Powers, but then Got Revived by the Dragon Balls, so Now I’m Just Yamcha Again”

What about Canadian raising? Mark Hamill and Mar Camel may sound similar in my dialect, but they have different stress patterns, like (secondary education) high school and (elevationally) high school. And the Mike Hunt example (and its counterpart) don’t even have the same vowel sound for the i/y.

Your screenname is Pyra, your PFP is Tifa, your messages are mixed, but your taste is good

Yeah, they’re a combination of sunken into the sea (from magic climate change, caused by three ancient empires channeling the elementals into magic during their endless war for control over the whole world) and destroyed by curse bombs (essentially magic nukes)

It’s a collaborative project among my friend group, where the last survivors of a fantasy world are all on the last continent, in a massive 1920’s era city with kaiju airships and magic trains, where a totalitarian regime employs dungeon delvers to salvage lost tech for a giant evacuation spaceship

What’s your favourite Pokémon game? Personally, it’s Black and White, but I also have a strange love-hate relationship with Sun and Moon (Also, Xenoblade’s vibes are amazing, and I can’t decide whether I like 1 or 3 more)

Xenoblade and Fire Emblem homies represent! I love all the games with anime characters that make smash fans mad