LAST TIME:>The journey continues through Terajuma Island, a place full of trees and water>Some scholarly discussions about the state of rejuv's development are had>Cutscene stupidity happens, in case you forgot what game we're playing>Someone tries to start a mono-electric run and gets trolled by VPN issues>I finally get a decent grass type, and I finally remember that because Jan hates fire types, that there is no Burning Field and that the field underlay mechanic is a thing>Swamp field is annoying and uninteresting but at least the gym that uses it for its field was doubles so I could just terrorize the bug gym with jihad"birds" and an attempted pipebombing>Which then lets me use the rare candies I've spent the game collecting to evolve a Larvesta 2 badges before I'm meant to evolve it, because fuck Unovan Evolution Level Syndrome>I then conclude the search for a good STAB move on my Nidoking after finding the move relearner>Then I go through sidequest/backtracking stuff and get a tyranitar's natural predator and a 'MURICAN sneedslash while other posters progress through the story which I have not been doing>What is this?This is a thread where a bunch of autists come together and play usually shitty fangames and occasionally an actually decent one. Join if you want.>How do I join?Just make a name and/or tripcode and start posting images of whatever fangame/romhack you're playing and try not to be annoying. Or just make peanut gallery comments for shits and giggles.>Archivehttps://rentry.org/vp-plays>Previous>>59467531
>>59470861Me, on the right being petted
>>59470861what's even happening on the right part of the image
>>59470811Jan has a fetish for blonde women, that's why Melia is the main character of the story and she can't die. I'm not going to spoil it, but the ending of Paragon is so fucking retarded.
now that I'm gonna get at least 7 guaranteed reppeys for posting cropped vgc cat petting as the thumbnail time to continue fucking around to try and get more stuff to hopefully not get walled by something retarded>>59470866here's the full version>>59470867i honestly doubt i'm gonna continue this specific playthrough past chapter 15karma files is boring fillerchapter 16.1 drags on for far, far too longchapter 16.2 makes desolation's maps look fun to navigateand chapter 16.3 would first require me to have the motivation to get through chapter 16.2
>>59470875I guess the girl on the left is Erin, but who is this supposed to be on the right ?
>>59470867actually she probably can die but it won't stick due to like anything listed herehttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoPermanenceNoStakesFUCK I ACCIDENTALLY SPOILED CHAPTER 16
>>59470876the interceptorprobably aeroidk i just go with aevis as my go to player character choice because i have brown hair and green eyes irl
>>59470875I finished Paragon a few days ago and I'm playing Renegade right now and I just can't fucking stand Melia anymore. I just want to delete this bitch forever but Jan won't allow me to do so.
>>59470811oooh, rejuvenation is at least as woke as an average AAA game.- the characters that develop romantic feelings for MC ren, crescent and Aelita do so completely regardless or xer gender. So not only is MC possibly gay, so are all of them.- several major characters are nigguhs. never addressed, but they're there.- venam is lesbian, Melia is bi - adam is gay- Ryland is a tranny- V is genderfluid- erin is asexual. idk if thats woke, but it's there- anju's son has a husbandnone of the main cast have an established exclusively hetero orientationit's not AS obnoxious as reborn, but just silently supports the sole acceptable narrative
>>59470875okay ... its still an endearing but ultimately weird scene of two people stroking a third pussy
And Ren (the only white dude in the main cast) is a cuck
>>59470879Spoiler end of ParagonTechnically she died, but the other Melia got some weird superpower out of nowhere from Nim (isn't she supposed to be dead too? I'm so lost) and she kills Kieran 2.0 in one hit. But she will obviously come back in the next version.
>>59470880I thought it was a girl because the shirt makes it looks like he has boobs
>>59470885funnily enough in reborn almost every character that's some kind of gay (and actually shows that ingame instead of it being some out of game SNCA) is either annoying, mentally ill, or some kind of negative stereotypedon't forget the pooner that killed herself over not being given drugs just because she wanted to be in a profession that's mostly done by males>>59470893ren would 100% be a school shooter if there were more than 3 people who ever use guns in the storyi need to focus on actually playing the game instead of yapping
>>59470901>(isn't she supposed to be dead too? I'm so lost)Erin is mortally wounded and Marianette is the only one unharmed out of all the gang (possibly because she posed no threat) and before they get to kill her, she awakens her powers that temporarily revive everyone
yeah i'm sure she'd be surprised after i spent a considerable amount of time fucking around with side content/backtracking>>59470903well it's a loose shirt and Erin is leglocking in that photo so that probably made it look like that
>>59470901Fuck man I liked Kieran. Maybe they can fix him
>>59470910That makes more sense, I thought Nim was still alive and I was confused but it was just in her mind
oh boy i sure do hope this doesn't stall out any character development these two might otherwise have
>>59470901>Technically she died, but the other Melia got some weird superpower out of nowhere from Nim (isn't she supposed to be dead too? I'm so lost) and she kills Kieran 2.0 in one hit.amateur fan fiction tier writing
lol
no one is safe from infodumps>>59470934if only we knew how bad things really would be
did you knowstrawberry leaves are ediblewhich is convenient because eggplant leaves are poisonous
if Jan wasn't a turbofaggot then that honorific would change to mrs. by the postgame
nah sis thinks she's part of the team nahhh bludddd
i can fix her
yeah i'd do the same
>>59470883Tbh, the entire cast is insufferable. Erin and Aelita are the only major characters I appreciate. I want to like Ren too but I wish he wasn't a pathetic cuck.
>>59470904>just because she wanted to be in a profession that's mostly done by malesWhich j*b and where was that stated?
no wonder jan hates Amber
>>59470958Ren does get his shit together in chapter 16 but it's too little too late, just like with how Fern takes until fucking victory road to stop being an asshole to everyone>>59470960The entire postgame shade quest involves her getting upset over being denied heckin wholesome 100 gender affirming care to vaguely resemble a male just because she wanted to be a detective or some shit like that
bruh moment
>>59470970>just because she wanted to be a detective or some shit like thatI don't remember this part. Are you mixing Euphie up with Naota from Persona 4?
pretty sure that's in maythe current ingame month is september somehowidk i need to check the huge wall of me attempting to make sense of the story during my v13.5 playthroughat the very least the story starts in july
>several major characters are nigguhs. never addressed, but they're there.Nim and Alexandra are the only ones I can think of and they don't appear that often. Sure you got also Damien, Neved, Kieran but they're more minor characters.
>>59470981What about Nymiera? She's the arch nemesis of 1 of the 2 major villains (Vitus).
>>59470981Damien and Kieran are both nigger coded anyway
>>59470981Nymiera, damien, alexandra, Celine (the champion), Kieran, neved, random NPCs
aelita is technically a mother considering her previous life>>59470977gotta check the reborn lp archives for that because wikis are never complete where you need them to be>>59470981funnily enough every black character besides alexandria is an asshole or villain
anyways time for an 8v8 multi battle
>>59470996>>59470981Neved isn't arab ?
>>59470997>used goods>AND manly bodyinto the trash it goes
except my team is stacked with grassy terrain abusers
>>59470989Makes sense, Damien loves to resort to violence and Kieran is more combat-oriented while Clear is the smart girl.>>59471006No his name is Deven. And arabs aren't that dark skinned (I live in Western Europe)
>>59470996I almost forgotTHE MC CAN BE A NIGGER TOObut that's obligatory in current year, isnt it
remind me to remove the accuracy drop faggotry from beach field>>59471007>>>/lgbt/ is down the hall and to the left
owned
i guess you can say she's feelingdesolate
bit of triviain v13 (and possibly earlier idc) Venam came to this island under the pretense of helping out with engineering or somethingdespite only knowing how to take pipe instead of laying pipe
>>59471015I'm also from Western Europe, I don't know where are you from, and which arabs are you talking about, but here in France, some moroccans do have black skin
for those who forgotKristiline has been frozen over
also for those who haven't noticedCrawli is Rorim B's sonnot like you'd notice because of one of the few justified cases of a rejuv character having an absent father
bird upwait this one is yellow despite the previous one being orange
remembered i had gigger drain on volcarona award
>>59470956>>59470956>Saki: wordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswords>Amber: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V9O94UTDAJQ>refuses to elaborate >leavesAbsolute gigastacy. Now I know why these threads likes her even if she's brown.
>>59471040She's tan due to sunlight exposure
>95% accuracy>>59471040Her dad's from Kanto (aka PokeJapan) and her mom is whiteand considering where she lives her skin color is definitely the way it is from a tan. Unfortunately you won't get to see tomboy tanlines ingame because that'd require letting straight men have any fanservice whatsoeverAlso never ask a racist the color of his girlfriend
holy shit do you know a lot about side characters from a bakugan fanfiction
guess i gotta go find fire mom before I can get a mudkip
Natural shinies: 9>>59471049>side characters
>>59471049>>59471055Speaking of side characters.I don't know why the Rejuv wiki lists the guy on the raid den route as a major character, same for a bunch of others.
>>59471063Who ?
>check walkthrough>need to wait until night to do the black shard secret sidequest>3:40 PM ESTfug>>59471063erm it's because he appears in the main story (like twice total and only for a cutscene max each appearance)
>>59471066Cairo.
>>59470885Melia and Erin are Jews. There's a moment in the game where Erin says "oy vey"
>>59471085>jewspokemon wack reference???/?/
POV: You're on a date with a loli, unaware how the decision to go on one will ruin your life, but not in the way you expected
>>59471085Lol I definitely see Melia as Jewish, all that promised power to her and her family, and how she tries so badly to be the main character.
>>59471085yeah, they're descendants of god's chosen people problem?
>>59471100The Theolia family are JewishMelia is a JewErin is a JewMadame X is a JewVitus is a JewJan accidently dropped a redpill by making the big villains jewish
>its a /pol/ makes everything about their current psychosis episode
some waiting laterit's time to battle a gay nosepass for a sidequest
one shot an omniboosted probopass using close combat blaziken
>>59471135big black cock killed the jew
time to battle some filler trainers to get a second moth
I wonder what could be insideIt is a mystery
it's purple and fluffyjust like Aelita
>get rock climb>'tism demands I immediately backtrack >get bullied by random regis(?)>turn on some machines that make a copy of madame x(??)>mom out of nowhere(???)>into rift Chandelure I can barely scratchI am deeply confusbut it's cool to find stuff like this out of the way
>>59470353Knew a dude who identified as asexual until he met a girl. Erin just hasn't found the good one yet.
>>59471175I think incels should rebrand themselves as asexuals, its far more glamorous and less embarrassing
>>59471175that could be the player character if jan wanted the player to get bitches in this gameyou can't however because no fun allowed>>59471195"asexual" (when used to refer to someone's sexuality and not life that can naturally reproduce without sexual reproduction) is just a politically correct term for "incel"
>>59470875This image is as needlessly convoluted as Rejuvenations plot
>>59471203?it's just an image of pussy being strokednowhere near as convoluted as rejuv
>>59471205>pussy being strokedTechnically yes, but that's where the needless tangents begin ...
>>59471217are you trying to guess the cat's moveset
hmmmm a fighting type trainer heresurely there won't be some nonsense that'll prevent her from helping out with the ice type using villain
reason #2845380 i need to start over with the ingame timeline
why exactly is the livestream "cutscene" (which is supposed to be from a phone) in a 4:3 ratio landscape format
wow one of the few times melia remembers she had a photography hobby
>>59471260Melia had a PERSONALITY (beyond saving everyone)???woah
this'll be useful on a variety of my pokemon
>>59471195I think we should put them all in a room and see what happens myself.>>59471268It was honestly cute to see and then it went away because Jan decided to bring back the version of Melia everyone complained about
i transheart having to savescum mining rocks to get any useful held items>>59471268>>59471277After chapter 1 basically all of her hobbies and personality traits are put on the backburner at bestGenerally the plan for rewriting melia in reshrewv will benot actually rewriting her, and instead just removing the ch5+ replacement and having the original Melia take her place instead
feels heartwarming to let the sheltered tomboy finally explore the world and enjoy it
>both me and the xen mage are standing on solid ground>water surfaceat least I'm leading with my gastrodon
...and am about to hard switch into smogonbird
Bruh my whiteout counter is already over 100 in the Renegade route.
>check the /vp/ plays thread on the other site to see if there's anything of value going on over there>get too bored to continue after watching orevald have a 10+ post meltdown over deltarune and its 'cuck humiliation ritual'I sure am glad I'm not a filthy s*lf-ins*rter
sometimes I wonder if Saki has ever been lit on fire before
>visorniggers show up earlyplease tell me in chapter 16 they at least get killed off for good
>>59471402Kieran gets killed for good by Marianette at the very end of Chapter 16.
finally home
well if two fire type trainers live here then surely the water isn't that much of a problem
Y'all criticize the game yet play it
>>59471367I am and I regret it after seeing how this game treats the player.>>59471424Yeah? That's how you critique something properly.
Saki is a cuntweather report at 7>>59471424you are not realyou are an agent of the mafia trying to kill /vp/ plays for the sixth timebegone
isn't saki part of one of aevium's richest familiessurely she could justpay
>>59471450If you pay, you have a tab. If you have a tab, you have taxes.Rich people are rich because they evade taxes.
this seems like an incredibly bad idea
Team Magma did nothing wrong
>>59471488nazi GET
the new press S for message log feature is a game changer
i'm gonna assume that you're still not gonna get to fight the elite 8 in v15
you'd think melia would have somewhat better social skills after spending 3 years working as a waitress
the classic trope of nothing ever being where it needs to be
mudkip time!
no idea where i'd get oneanyways it takes 6 fucking badges to get a muscle band/wise glasses (+10% attack/special attack)
Back from my coma (yet another fucking power outage)
venam's an idiotnothing new
naruhodo
i sure hope that venam doesn't FUCK this up hard enough to warrant changing the characters with the MC at chapter 8's climax>>59471579first time on cave field?
>>59471585first Earthquake click of the playthrough
>checks Clawitzer movepool for more Mega Launcher boosted moves>Terrain PulseOh neat, that has to be stron->Move Tutor - Lucky Tent 15 BadgesMaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnn why the fuck is it so late? Guess I'll have to use a contract and fish for it later, that has to bdel really stupid damage on Psychic Terrain
things that won't happen>>59471587can't relate
swampert obtained>>59471592you WILL NOT abuse fields
>>59471602oops wrong image
car
>>59471604Man. I mean, Swampert is my fav, but dear God: what did they do to him?
>>59471613he is red for an amazing reason
>No physical water moves by levelup>No liquidation/waterfall TM yetawesome
Kinda embarassing to say that I dreamt about Rejuvenation today
dogshit game
>>59471703is pokemon rejuvenation the only fangame where people get really attached to the characters ? I have never seen that for reborn or any other pokemon fangame, when I play a game I never think about the characters ever
>>59471703think i've somehow dreamt about this game like twice or soone of the times happened to involve a foxgirl Amberin hindsight maybe a hellhound would be a more appropriate monster girl to base her inevitable reshrewv monstergirl headpatting dlc version onconsidering her hisuian arcanine (a regional variant notable for having horns that the original didn't) and how she's canonically horny enough for even Jan to imply that she wanted to fuck the MC after her gym battle>>59471714a very long campaign entirely held together by the characters + long periods of time between updates tends to do that
>>59471707FUCK YOU
Ebin map tile layering
>>59471746Rejuvenation: "mature" dialogue.
>>59471628Huh, almost the same moveset when I went to the Battle Frontier.The only difference was that Hammer Arm was Focus Punch, Ice Beam for Rock Slide, and Surf for Curse.
finally a physical water tmAlso it has -1 priority and I don't think Swampert's slow and naturally bulky enough to justify this as a primary STAB option
Aevian Kommo-o has been kind of destroying everything, onetapping zards and surviving an ice hammer from Crabominable
>>59471755speaking of bad layeringyou can see animated water tiles in the corners of the rock walls
>>59471781>What are you made of?!Like, 6 or 7 souls, is complicated.
cute
i need to hug some self esteem into her
thanks venam
hmmm maybe this would be easier if the MC was just allowed to talk to her alonewithout that fucking dyke ruining things
>saying this to a /vp/ user
The cast is growing on me. Even Terra 2.0 has been more entertaining than annoying
>>59471807>You are insaneConsidering how patient are we for each update, we may as well as nutty as the Empire MC post-sword.
>>59471810Honestly yeah Saki is 100% more entertaining than Terra but that's not a high bar to surpass
it'd be nice if it was possible to befriend the redhead tsundere and eventually start a family with her but some patreon scammer really doesn't want that to happen>>59471811i only bothered waiting for v14 because part of the plan for reshrewv since back in the v13 days was to wait for the xen base raid cliffhanger to finally happen so I could use the maps to effectively finish the storythen v13.5 dropped and did nothing to advance the story in a meaningful way and only added more baggage that'd need to be cleaned upi can justifiably call reshrewv a total conversion with all the work i'll need to doincluding re-eventing the entire story due to how the game's backend is such a mess that it's caused multiple incidents of me vomiting, to the point where even with stuff that's otherwise fine i'd have to redo it for technical reasonsunless you're willing to provide me with enough baby goats to constantly sacrifice
well yeah I wanna slap Amber's fat yet toned ass at some pointbut before that i'll have to hug the daddy issues out of her
Anyways surprise surprise it was arson from one of the visorniggers because reborn reference
i'm sure there's actually more to Amber's hostile attitude than just a fire happening in her childhood
her toxtricity which I'm pretty sure almost never shows up in cutscenesand she has like maybe a handful of fights she participates in totaldidn't use one in my fire/flying dualtype because that'd first require me to remember where the fuck toxel was
yeah surely that'll do anything in the first place
>>59471810Replace Melia with Amber and this is how the main Rejuvenation cast should have been.
checking in on the other tomboy
imagine if this wasn't screenshot worthy>>59471868forgot my trip
>>59471828>Gets killed by Melia in Paragon>Gets killed by MC in RenegadeFeel bad for her ngl
calling dibs on the bed and sharing it with Aelitathere's 5 couches in here for the others (counting that corner couch to the left as two)>>59471881like I've said basically every thread in this LP (and realistically in every future rejuv LP thread too), she's definitely a strong contender for Jan's least favorite character
>>59471881Why does Melia kill Amber in Paragon ? Is this another new thing from V14 ?
>>59471889she's just letting her inner chuuni outit's all part of the plan you see
Meanwhile a redditor is getting trolled. Wholesome -100, heckin downvoted>>59471889Because of le heckin script. That's the actual fucking reason.Remember the fucking retarded communist computer god of railroading that Francis E. Dec Esq. spoke of? Yeah apparently Amber dying is necessary for some arbitrary scriptAnd no you're not allowed to save her because that'd require the interceptor's ENTIRE FUCKING IN-UNIVERSE PURPOSE OF IGNORING KARMA'S SCRIPT to not be actively defied at every opportunityAmber's death in Renegade did have enough initial shock value to cause IRL vomiting but after a few days it just became a mere annoyance when some annoying boogeyman schizo kept trying to post that scene as a webm to like any thread he vaguely suspected me of being in. As it turns out, the unavoidable problem with relying on shock value is that it doesn't last forever.And really <insert character here> dying in the renegade route is not a question of if but when, because there's really not much of a point to a "destroy the world and kill everyone" route if that doesn't happen But in the paragon route aka the don't destroy the world and kill everyone route, her death just comes completely out of nowhere and there's nothing you can do about itAnd since it was pretty explicitly done by Melia for an asspull reason it's effectively confirmed that it was done out of Jan's spite for Amber and her fans
>referring to mons by their nicknames in cutscenesThis is a rare enough thing for me to screenshot and comment on ityou'd think that named characters in pokemon fangames (especially the ones that care about their mons like all) would nickname their mons>but how would you know their nicknames as the playerMaybe it might have to do with how pokemon are given orders verballyBesides it gives great opportunities for characterization and it's a fun thing to think of when deciding what mons to give characters
>>59471897The last version I truly enjoyed was V13. After that, I felt the game went downhill, and I won't even bother playing V14. The lore became way too complicated and retarded, I just wanted to raid the xen base, beat Madame X and have a happy ending. And now you're telling me that fucking Melia kills my favorite character because muh script ? Fuck Jan and fuck his game.
hmspeaking of thati'm changing geara's telefragging at the end of chapter 8 to be permanentsomething something https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLawOfConservationOfDetail>>59471902I've been wondering if a lot of the bad things in v14 were specifically picked to spite me in particulargiven how much of the update follows gameplay and story tropes that I have been vocally againstIt's not a schizophrenic conspiracy theory if it's plausible
now if there wasn't a lengthy rant about Jan just killing off characters solely because people found them more attracted than the author's mary sue pet on the same screen as this (assuming you're reading this on desktop) this is where I'd make a comment about wanting a massage from Tesla
yeah that tends to happen when a terrorist organization takes over an island
come to think of it i've barely mentioned Valarie like at allwho despite being potentially interesting is relegated to completely disappearing from the plot after chapter 8the most screentime she'll get (outside of being a lesser antagonist in the doomed timeline section) is like maybe a few scenes in GDC where due to unnecessary brainwashing after being captured by the visorniggers offscreen alongside saki/adam she becomes a news reporter with amnesia until getting shoved in some black box mind transfer machine to get her original memories and body back (same with adam and saki) which I think is a retarded and unnecessary plot twist and example of breaking what isn't brokenWith Saki at least her being put on a bus for most of act 2 is a blessing but Valarie and Adam were interesting enough (or at minimum tolerable) to not really warrant being put on a bus for most of act 2Protip: You don't need to introduce new characters if you don't remove existing ones from the story
Tesla's sprite having exposed shoulders and sideboob is quitehotlaugh now
and here's where she starts warming up to the playerturns out that just not having v*nam nearby helps a lot with her attitude
>>59471897>Yeah apparently Amber dying is necessary for some arbitrary scriptAnd no you're not allowed to save her because that'd require the interceptor's ENTIRE FUCKING IN-UNIVERSE PURPOSE OF IGNORING KARMA'S SCRIPT to not be actively defied at every opportunityI genuinely hate the Interceptor bullshit because the game never once commits to it at all. We're a soul from outside the universe, except we're not even in control of anything other than Pokemon Battles and extremely binary dialogue choices. I get that there's limitations but it can be done. Like if he really committed to the old "Join Bladestar" questline people would have loved it. Because it's an active choice made by the player affecting the story. Like maybe Flora doesn't go off her rocker because of the player's support and just puts the bombs under Cassandra's chair instead blowing up the whole damn building? You could even be assigned your own squad of quirky Bladestar grunts to run missions with.And maybe what Jan should have done instead of this multiverse of madness nonsense is shown at least one world without us in it entirely to contrast the one we are in.Just something to clearly show for ONCE that we did make a difference by existing.
>>59471995Doesn't Val run her town with an iron fist too? Feel like she stops half the industry in that place because they upset her water shows. Would have been interesting to delve into that part of her kinda nothing character.
advanced screenshot splicing>>59472026forgot an arrow awardand oh boy do I have a lot to talk about>except we're not even in control of anything other than Pokemon BattlesIf you think about it almost none of the pokemon battles have any impact on the storyYou either win and the story progresses, or you lose and either press F12, go back to a pokemon center or get sent to some dream dimension with exp candies and a teleporter back to before the fight, and nothing happens in the story. While this is justified in scenarios where losing would mean the end of your story, or where the battle doesn't exactly have any stakes and you could just rematch whoever you were fighting in-universe, there are many, many cases where the outcome of the battle could feasibly have an interesting impact on the story. Somehow you're the only one who has to win every fight you get into (barring scripted forced losses), while your rivals are forced to always lose pokemon battles with you every time. Beyond binary win/lose outcomes, Desolation proves that you can in fact have post-battle cutscenes play differently based on how much you won (and also there's some cases in Rejuv where the field you ended the fight on has any story impact like how Amber becomes a bit sad when you end her fight at minimum hype (or in older versions where you changed the field too far) but that's the only example I can think of that isn't a side area map changing if you change the field in battle)But for the most part yeah not even pokemon battles have any impact. Even for the cases where the battle had stakes (but not high enough for there to not logically be any way the story can continue in a possibly interesting way) the only time lost battles have any impact on the story is when you're forced to lose for story reasons. Why even have pokemon battles in a "story focused" game if they do nothing but act as roadblocks the story is locked behind?
>>59472026more yapping>I get that there's limitations but it can be done. Like if he really committed to the old "Join Bladestar" questline people would have loved it. Because it's an active choice made by the player affecting the story. Like maybe Flora doesn't go off her rocker because of the player's support and just puts the bombs under Cassandra's chair instead blowing up the whole damn building? You could even be assigned your own squad of quirky Bladestar grunts to run missions with.Oh no, that'd require making your actions actually matter, The only significant story branch you're getting is the renegade route which by its very nature is a foregone conclusion that spoils its entire plot just by knowing what it is (unless it suddenly has a twist where it stops being the kill everything route but if that happens then what's the point of it?)And also if you know everyone in that route is going to die then characterizing anyone further in that route will be rendered meaningless as you already know what all that will lead to - refer to these pages and enjoy the wiki walkhttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DevelopingDoomedCharactershttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooBleakStoppedCaringYet if Jan can devote tens of thousands of patreon neetbux to a route that spoils itself with its mere existence then surely he could be capable of fleshing out the choices that already fucking existed in the game rather than tunnel visioning in a new route that exists to make everything before the route split meaningless (also I have yet to rant about the paragon/renegade route split recently)>And maybe what Jan should have done instead of this multiverse of madness nonsense is shown at least one world without us in it entirely to contrast the one we are in.>Just something to clearly show for ONCE that we did make a difference by existing.too much effort + would require expanding upon plot points from a previous versionobligatory game screenshot
I am rather stumped on Angie
>>59472026character limit with the previous post wouldn't let me say this in that onebut if Jan really wants players to replay his game like thrice or something then the least he could fucking do would be letting playthroughs be less samey by having more story paths that matterbeyond a halfassed route split that happens in late chapter 15 (after ~90%+ of the game) and is only available if you have sufficient hidden bad ending points, of which you're not going to find out how to get or how much you'll need to get unless you datamine the game in RPG maker or look up a guide of some kindAnd said route split's existence is not communicated ingame (afaik; it might have changed in v14) outside of vague dialog/signs past the point when you've gotten used to your actions and character not impacting how the plot plays outAlso I consider tripping all the flags needed to become eligible for the renegade route to be 1 decision since before the paragon/renegade route split barely any story decisions impact gameplay beyond which trainers you fight, so there's no gameplay motivation to go for half measures on being evil enough to trigger some invisible route split requirementAnd once you're eligible for the renegade route you canopt out of it when given the choice to go down it (rendering the steps to unlock it pointless); and the game tells you that this will be a dead end route; and also the official pre-v13.5 blog post announcing the renegade route outright says that there will be no postgame in that routeso any kind of completionism up to that point would be generally meaningless unless it's to get a tool for an upcoming fightAnd from a story perspective I think for an evil route to be interesting it should be about taking over the world and not destroying it; as the former leaves characters to tell stories with and the possibility to meaningfully continue things after the main campaignenough tripfag yapping for right now time for ingame yapping
i'm pretty sure I chose the other option last time
>>59472106oh uh one more thingThe renegade route, at least while you're checking off the requirements in an otherwise unchanged campaign before you finally get to the route split and get to start the route proper, doesn't make a lot of senseoutside of some characters very occasionally commenting about you being an asshole to them (which you can already do without picking the renegade route)it takes until the route split in the nightmare school for people to start even considering that you might want to destroy the world until they learn the hard way once you get to karma filesDespite you obviously being a dick to everyone throughout the route, raising the question of how they'll even tolerate you enough for you to be able to progresssince a LOT of the story kinda requires other characters to consciously choose to help you progress (fighting other people when there's multiple bad guys, giving you an item you need to proceed, opening a path somewhere, etc)Granted it'd be a bit boring if your run was randomly softlocked because X character chose to not do Y necessary thing for you to progress further but the alternative could behaving the renegade route happen throughout the whole story like Undertale's genocide route that it's obviously ripping offBut you see, Jan values refusing to make sense even more than having a legitimate reason to make updates take longer for patreon bux by making an entire separate parallel campaign. Also the separate evil campaign idea would require exploring the consequences of the player's actions, something Jan clearly isn't willing to do beyond maybe offering them the opportunity to switch onto a different railroad track.
>woah slow down there did you just imply that a pokemon game should have pokemon battles in it
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pre-battle dialog from everyone nearby
spamming hyper potions on Lucario is not very stylish but a win's a win
>only 4 pokemonthis is the region's professor btw
like seriously it only took my greninja and volcarona to beat himnow sure both of those are pretty high tier but his only kinda possibly threatening mons were kommo-o and noivernactually maybe melia was right and that this battle wasn't really necessary from any perspective >>59472142
i haven't played gen 8 or 9 OU outside of showderpare either of these particularly good within a rejuv playthrough
>>59472148Hey! As long as it works!
fuck it i'm just gonna try and find a good spot to call it for the nightapparently galarian slowbro is PU but galarian slowking is OU in gen 9 so i guess I'll pick thatthe problem with mutually exclusive choices is that you have to balance them or it's not much of a decision at all when there's obvious best or worst optionsthis is why balance is important even in singleplayer games; if there's a clear best option why pick/use the other ones
time to check trainertext.rb to see if melia ever uses this noivern>valor mountain>doomed timeline>some v14 fights
we then return to the resort and>torch lighting effect renders over fade to black
hmsure do wonder if this thought and emotion provoking conflict of a father having to choose between his daughter's safety and loyalty to a terrorist organization he was forced to joinwill actually be revisited outside of token mentions after this act is over
in a relatively rare (for this game) case of immersionwhere i need to go to bed to progress the plotand where i should really get some sleep since i'm tiredi think i'm gonna call it a night herewe're nearing image limit but i can just make a new thread in the morning
i havecontrary to what i saidnot been sleepingwhat i have just done is checked that new zygarde merging thing and>its highest possible base stat total is 548 with all 4 obtainable cores>and that requires an ability that either does nothing in battle, or is actively detrimentalaccording to the changelog document i've been relying on to make sense of v14https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QMk1M_4W-CoOn_69vWH5kljjyiX4j6AHauW_UlmS_6o/edit>Damp>Color Change>Illuminate (reported oversight, should be -2)>Run Away>Truant>Stall>Klutz>Slow Start>Honey Gather>Defeatist>Aura Break>Emergency Exit>Wimp Out>Ball Fetch>Curious Medicinegive it anything decent and you'll have something with a lower BST than starter pokemonand this is supposed to be something you get in chapter 16.3, you know after the game's difficulty has already gone off the deep endalso as far as i'm aware the only difference between the phoenix (paragon) and hellhound (renegade) forms seems to be cosmetic as i can't find anything anywhere about if the routes' zygarde forms are anything but reskins
>>59472297And to get 4 cores you need to have at least 140 zygarde cells (the game has around 145 cells), I'm doing a mono dragon run for Renegade but I don't see it replacing any of my pokemon with that BST.
>>59471282>in reshrewvwhat?
>>59472297also i might as well comment about the game suddenly starting to overuse the hell out of this light greyish cream? text on white background style for various graphics\pictures assetstext contrast is for better games i guessspeaking of that folderrejuv's graphics/pictures folder is 128 megabytesreborn's is only 3.37 megabytes because it doesn't rely on a gorillion cutscene graphics for everything>>59472304this tooi'm pretty sure every single type will have something with better stats in every way it needs them towhile still having access to useful abilities...perhaps the merged zygarde is shit on purpose because of what a friend and /vpp/ oldfag calls "loser culture" aka the concept of kaizoslop creators projecting their self loathing onto the playercoined after he had a a particularly fun time with an especially fun and not at all very repetitive kaizo difficulty addon for terraria's calamity mod>>59472312were you expecting me to name a rejuv mod literally anything else?
Vitus in Renegade has to be one of the most bullshit battle ever, literally impossible to win I died over 50 times
>>59472322if it makes you feel any worse, the main developer responsible for battle content had to lower the difficulty
>>59471995the saki/valarie/Adam group is *supposed* to have their own lives and be less involved with your group, the authors said somewhere on twitter
>>59472324It's bullshit, Vitus has 10 pokémon, a Ting-Lu that can't be killed no matter how hard I try, and the worst part is that his pokemon can give you the petrified status, when you're petrified you can't heal, you just die in 2 turns.
Also all his pokemon are faster than you, my pokemon are all dragons and they get boosted by the field, but somehow he manages to outspeed my Dragapult with very slow pokemon.
>>59472325them existing as another separate party could be possibly interesting if they weren't split apart after act 1 ended due to offscreen visornigger fuckery and shoved onto a bus at the end of chapter 15 for what is very likely the rest of the campaignsomething I liked about reborn is that the other characters existed out in the game world even when not actively involved with the main quest; it helped make the region feel more alive and made the characters feel more like actual people with their own livescontrast that with rejuv where characters are pretty much entirely absent outside of whenever they're called to the main questline's events and they usually don't appear in sidequests and if they do it's usually before their main story appearance>>59472326just realized you were doing a monotypeuuuuhyou may be fugged
>>59472332judging by the farigiraf there may be trick room in play>>59472333checking my own trips
>>59472326just turn on story mode for this sole battle, dont torture yourself 12vs12s are highly random and cannot be planned for well
>>59472334Even his fast pokemon outspeed my slow pokemon.>>59472338I feel like I'll make an exception for this fight and use a bunch of legendaries and non-dragons. Just gotta use debug mode for perfect IV/EV
>>59472342>Even his fast pokemon outspeed my slow pokemon.it's definitely PULSE2 then>I feel like I'll make an exception for this fight and use a bunch of legendaries and non-dragons. Just gotta use debug mode for perfect IV/EVyeah that's kinda what i did when i had enough of field hell in my v13.5 playthroughdropping the dualtype restrictions - not like there'd be anyone to really complain at the time for obvious reasonsthen up the escalation ladder for shit that i wouldn't gain anything emotionally from doing legitimately anymore would be bringing in the hackmonsand at the grief gauntlet/space hags gauntlets, debug skippingiirc there was no difficulty changing in the options menu in v13.5anyways might as well play just enough to get this to image limit then i'll make a new bread
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