Anyway, again, it's totally a cute game, but also I'm a little baffled at the consensus that it's objectively the best Pokémon game ever. There's lots to do, lots of polish, lots of charm, but I spend a large chunk of my time with it being frustrated.
Literally all the inventory limits add to my game experience is a lot of mind-numbing tedious running back and forth trying to offload stuff into boxes or retrieve the stuff I need from boxes. I would be having a 2000% better time with unlimited inventory and I can't think of a drawback.
But also, I don't know why they would want limited inventory to be a thing here. Limited inventory can be a valid strategic element in a strategy game where choosing what items to bring is part of the strategy. But this is supposed to be a cozy game, and it doesn't generate strategy, just busywork.
Pokémon literally has precedent in the PC storage system where you can retrieve stuff from any PC, if they really, really wanted limited inventory to be a thing. Pokopia has PCs! But, for some unfathomable reason, you don't store items on the PC here, you need to make physical storage boxes. Why.
And the boxes are small, and *individual*, so that if I put something into a box I need to remember which box I put it in and return to *that particular box*! Terrible, awful. The world's most pointless and frustrating minigame. I cannot imagine why they would do this.
Pokopia is definitely a cute game, but as far as I'm concerned the inventory management aspect is genuinely ruinous to the experience. My bag is always full of the one million types of items. There is constant FOMO about what if I put something in a box and then I need it later (keeps happening).
I think that really is all the super common Favorite Pokémon Picker feature requests?
Two more Favorite Pokémon Picker options have been added: you can now include or exclude e.g. legendaries, and you can have forms count as the base Pokémon's generation. www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-08...
There is now an option to treat shinies as separate Pokémon in the Favorite Pokémon Picker. www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-05...
You can now exclude base Pokémon (non-forms) in the Favorite Pokémon Picker if desired. www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-04...
Since the Pokémon Home artwork is finally out, the new Z-A mega forms have now been added to the Favorite Pokémon Picker. www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-03...
A screenshot of Nose Club's Magikarp Fishing Pond page, with a picture of Magikarp and Slowpoke swimming together. "It's a beautiful day at the Magikarp Fishing Pond. Why not fish up a Magikarp?"
Happy April! To celebrate the new month, my website is making a hard pivot into Magikarp gacha. Let me know what Magikarp you get! noseclub.bluwiikoon.art/karp-pond.sh...
#indieweb #neocities #pokemon
Twenty years ago I posted what's probably my favorite April Fool's Day update ever; a fake Episode Comparison that claimed 4Kids replaced the Jynx in the episode "Mean with Envy" with a Glalie.
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Due to the many changes in my life recently, I have made a pivot towards a new niche going forward - mommy blogging 🥰🙏 www.dragonflycave.com/update/03-31...
Tiles from Pokémon Gold are arranged in a linear manner, revealing blocks of graphics pertaining to the intro, the title screen, the menus, and the overworld.
A little expirement-slash-art-project, this image displays the individual tile graphics used in Pokémon Gold for the Game Boy Color. They are arranged in chronological order as they appear during regular gameplay. You could read it left to right, top to bottom, page by page, like a book.
made the breaking bad house in pokopia
I've updated my affiliation requirements for the first time in a long time. www.dragonflycave.com/update/03-14...
The slow replacement of actual websites with real content written by humans with slop optimized for advertising the skeeviest industries is deeply depressing.
The bug where roaming Pokemon using Roar deactivates them permanently, was patched. (The bug where they have poor IVs remains.)
The official bugfix was implemented differently from the community bugfix, and by comparing them, a new bug was found:
Looks like I’ll be nicknaming in Winds/Waves because I will be legally required to get a Pombon and name him Missile
With the recent FRLG news, I'd like to remind you that the Buried Relic holds some information that may come in handy in your new adventure:
- Utility Pokémon beyond battles.
- Shiny hunting info and tips.
- Unown's wacky shiny odds and other wild facts.
Links below! ⬇️
The Cave of Dragonflies logo, featuring Butterfree Text reads: The Cave of Dragonflies Where the smallest bugs live alongside the strongest dragons
Our second AMA is now live on the Johto Times Community Forum!
This time around, our guest is Dragonfree from The Cave of Dragonflies! We look forward to your questions here:
forum.johtotimes.com/d/180-ama-wi...
🙃 I'm glad I made a website for my Pokemon research, stop putting all glitch/mechanic/speedrun info on Discord!! Take 5 minutes to throw things up on a searchable website so everyone can access and learn, it doesn't even have to be polished! Make your own site if you need to, its easy and free
That comic is what I was referencing, yeah!
I sat there fully thinking, "Yeah, the difficult part of this question is remembering the weight thresholds for +20/+30/+40" and was genuinely baffled none of them knew Heavy Balls don't do a multiplier. This has been engraved into my brain since I first read an explanation of capturing in gen II
Many Pokémon fans have probably only pored over the capture mechanics of one or two generations
Watching Pokémon streamers fail a quiz question about the Heavy Ball modifier by guessing 2x/3x/4x is giving me a real “Average Pokémon streamer probably only knows the catch rate modifiers of the main few balls, and Heavy Balls, of course” moment
this is genuinely incredible