Almost every time I'm scrolling through YouTube or when I open up the app, I get a thumbnail ad thingy from the Official Pokémon Company promoting the Indigo Disk DLC part 2, and what do they keep shoving into my face? Starters, starters and more starters. Yes I get it Nintendo I can pay you $30 to buy all the starters that should have just been available from the start had it not been for Dexit.
I watched someone play through the DLC (both Teal and Indigo) and after hearing the BW Trainer battle theme play during that one fight with Lacey, and the Route 2/3 theme during that other encounter with her, and seeing all the returning Gen 5 mons, I'm convinced that ScarVio was just a testing ground of sorts for possible Gen 5 remakes (which I really want to be excited for but really don't want them to happen, because I'm afraid GF is going to royally **** them up. I want to be hopeful, but Pokémon has been in a bad place as of late).
GF has been slowly taking our freedom of choice away from their mostly adult fanbase, and I hate it lol
- Can't turn off EXP. Share
- Can't play in "Battle Set" Mode
- Can't turn off battle animations
- Making more and more fundamental moves/mechanics/features unavailable
- Making us use cherry-picked Pokémon they deem worthy to exist within the code.
- Taking away the starters and feeding them back to us as paid content.
- And a bunch of other things I can't think of atm but trust me, it's no bueno lol
The Blueberry Elite Four teams had actual held items, a full party of 6 Pokémon, and good double battle synergy, unlike the vanilla Paldea E4 which had no held items. I was pleasantly surprised to see that. Yet the A.I. still doesn't heal their party or strategically switch out.
Hydrapple should have been a final evolution from the start of part one Teal Mask, no need for the middle stage unless you like to run Dipplin with Eviolite or just prefer Dipplin for its fantastic shiny. You could choose to evolve Applin into one of the three: Flapple, Appletun or Hydrapple. I also think that all of Hydrapple's heads should have just been sticking out (no pun intended lol) and have them all be chaotic and maybe have different expressions, like Exeggutor and Dodrio. But it's overall still a nice design, just could have been more appealing (appleling lol okay definitely pun intended) with more heads.
Those have been some of my thoughts (gripes lol) about the DLC and all things Pokémon related. Can anyone say "TMs are single use in Black/White" because we're remembering it all wrong. They were always breakable xD