Downloaded the Project Triangle demo today and tried it out. So far so good and exactly the type of turn based strategy RPG game I've been hoping for. 0 out of 10 for the title however.
Played through the Project Triangle demo and will definitely be picking this up. As others have mentioned there is a lot of dialogue in the demo but I'm hoping this is just laying the groundwork for the story rather than how the rest of the game will play. Looks like a lot to learn when it comes to combat and trying to think of appropriate placement.
Mostly unrelated side note: I'd love a new Ogre Battle 64 type of game on the Switch. PT scratches part of this itch but not quite the same.
I just read that MLB The Show is coming to the Switch this year. Fantastic news!
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You've gotta wonder if the pandemic is to blame for so many Pokemon games coming out in such a short span. On the flipside, if Gen 9 ends up being a bit meh then at least there's lots to choose from.
The video didn't really give me a lot of hope that we'll see more fleshed out terrain than Arceus but I'll wait till they release it to judge that. Arceus is a fun game but definitely doesn't look great.
There was also an update to Arceus which now has tons of mass outbreaks all over and it has lots of different types, even types that you wouldn't normally find anywhere. Should help me complete my pokedex faster.
There's also mass outbreaks that have waves.. the 2nd wave can spawn a bunch of alphas. Had that happen to me where the 2nd wave was a bunch of alpha Blissey. That is THE way to level up your team, get a good fighting type and take out 8 Blisseys for tens of thousands of xp.
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Oh that's another thing I hope they carry over from Arceus, so much easier to improve stats.
Apparently it's pretty easy in Sw/Sh as well?
It's not overly difficult in BDSP, apparently, but then you can't use those pokemon for breeding as it works like plastic surgery. They have great IVs but when they breed they pass on their original ones.
I've had a lot of fun with it, but super time consuming. Probably 50+ hours to breed a competitive team from scratch.
In Arceus you basically give a Pokemon a specific grit/pebble/rock and choose the stat to raise by one... grit goes up to 5 or 6, pebble up to 8 or 9, and rock to get to 10. All 10's would be a perfect IV pokemon.
They're random world drops, you get them by releasing pokemon back into the wild, etc. And you can convert rocks and pebbles and grit from an NPC. Wouldn't be too hard to get a full team perfect. A lot less than 50 hours that's for sure.
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In Sword if you just want a Pokemon for competitive reasons, you can always use mints to change nature and then bottle caps to give it perfect IVs at level 100. You can use berries to lower EVs back to 0 if you need to fix a pokemon and use the Protein/Zinc/Iron etc items to boost EVs properly
Once you have a few perfect IV pokemon it gets easier, since there's a lot of held items you can use to make breeding easier. Say you have a perfect male Eevvee, you can always just destiny knot it and use it any female pokemon in the field egg group to pretty quickly work your way to a perfect pokemon with minimal eggs. Once you get a few 4 or 5 EV pokemon it's easy to just grind until you get a perfect one
I used pokemon home wonder trade a lot and put all the breed rejecta people threw in there if they had 5 or 6 perfect IVs and would use them to breed my own. That way the hard parts already done
It also helps to have had a perfect IV Ditto since Heartgold that I've transferred from game to game since 2010
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In Sword if you just want a Pokemon for competitive reasons, you can always use mints to change nature and then bottle caps to give it perfect IVs at level 100. You can use berries to lower EVs back to 0 if you need to fix a pokemon and use the Protein/Zinc/Iron etc items to boost EVs properly
Same as in BDSP. You just can't use pokemon to breed after doing that. I don't find breeding hard, just time consuming since high IV dittos are almost non-existent in BDSP without cheating. So I end up having to go from the ground up for each new egg group.
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It also helps to have had a perfect IV Ditto since Heartgold that I've transferred from game to game since 2010
This might be obvious, but if you buy digital games, is there a way to transfer them after you're done playing? It seems like there isn't much of an advantage if there are physical copies available at the same prices that you can trade or sell when you're done playing them.
Well, I jumped on the Switch train with the 20X the points offer at Shoppers Drug Mart today. We were able to get the Oled in White which gave us back 134700 points, which is $134.70 to redeem in store on games or whatever else. The 20X offer ends tomorrow if anybody else is interested.
