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[anistarrose]

ORAS haters are weak and will not survive the winter. How many other video game remakes have had the confidence, the guts, to ask challenging, pertinent philosophical questions like "if a giant doomsday asteroid is hurtling towards our planet in the remake-verse, then is it ethical to send it to a parallel dimension where it will destroy the world of those original games from 2002 instead," and even "hey what if actually ☝️ we just blow it up with a dragon 🐉"

[orasnegativity]

im considering changing my ways.....and becoming RSEPOSITIVITY instead

[orasnegativity]

ummmhhh pokemon website????? thank u for accurate descriptions about the boys’ character and for the tiny RSE screenshots i love this

[orasnegativity]

listen i can’t help it. i had a freakin meltdown when i saw what oras did to the first pokemon game i ever played and to the characters i love i’m still not gonna get usum because it looks like wwwAAy too much is happening and i dont like games like that, but seeing people get mad??? it’s funny after what i dealt with and the three years of having every single oras character blacklisted, it’s time ya’ll deal with the fact that the originals??? are better sorry and goodnight

[35apollo]

Someone had to say it

[orasnegativity]

do you guys know how much i’m enjoying everybody’s pain rn

[orasnegativity]

ummmhhhhh hi so what are everybody’s thoughts on the blessed return to the original designs for maxie and archie because thank god for that

[just-a-trans-nerd]

im pretty sure literally no one else agrees with you

[christianxcv]

The redesign of ORAS are so much better, the original designs are just bland and ugly.

[regicidehotline]

they’re bland, but that’s not really an issue. nobody expects a team of criminals to be flamboyant dressed. it’s easier to take them seriously when they’re not wearing anchors around their necks.

[orasnegativity]

ummmhhhhh hi so what are everybody’s thoughts on the blessed return to the original designs for maxie and archie because thank god for that

[big-bad-shuck-deactivated201905]

HI BUT WHAT THE FUCK

[orasnegativity]

oras teams are fuckign dead WE DID IT BOYS

[orasnegativity]

(1)i dont know if this blog is still active but I'd like to give my thoughts if thats okay! i put off buying oras for two years because i hated maxies redesign, and alotta the others. i was scared they were going to have butchered rse so i avoided

getting it. I'll admit, there were a lot of things i disliked, mostly little things like the lack off soot disappearing, and brendans hair going from black to brown, and i dont like whats happened to mauville or how much simpler the games been(2)

(3) made, and, i know the battle Frontier was only in emerald but i whole heartedly hate the battle Maison. the resort is ok. but ill say that they didn't butcher rse as much as i though they had, and while rse are still better imo, it was -

(4 sorry) still a reasonably enjoyable game. it coddled you, they pandered too much on the gimmicks of x/y, but it wasnt an awful game imo, it just wasnt as great as it couldve been and it removed the feelings of triumph that rse had, esp w/music

____i’m still on tumblr so im always here to post any asks i getim glad you found the game somewhat enjoyable!!! 

[orasnegativity]

is it just me or did oras completely fuck up the music ?

after years of silence, an anon reaches out to me once again

but yeah, i do agree with you. i am not exactly....fond of the arrangements that were done to most of the music in the reboots...I say “most” but i actually mean “each and every piece of the soundtrack, with the exception of the meteor falls theme”

[astrorabby]

Man I’m afraid I’ll sound like, real elitist or something but

I like Sapphire more than Alpha Sapphire.

AS just holds your hand too much.

Like, take secret bases for instance. In RSE, the kid gives you the TM and just explains how to make secret bases. Other than that, you’re on you’re own. I mean, naturally you’ll be curious enough about the laptop in the base to check it out and find out how to place furniture yourself. And you’re not even required to talk to the guy, you can just waltz past him if you’d like.

in ORAS, you’re required to sit through this painfully long cutscene with that guy going on an essay long rant about how to make bases and how great they are and stuff. And he explains in SO MUCH DETAIL how to place furniture and stuff, and it’s awful.

And don’t even get me started on the amount of teleports: Beat the team admin in Meteor falls? Teleported back to Fallarbor.

May offers to instantly bring you some places, thankfully you can say no to her. But I got REAL angry at Wally just dragging you to Mauville after beating Norman. Hell out of spite I travelled ALL THE WAY back to Petalburg just for the sake of travelling back to Mauville myself. 

The original designers of Hoenn didn’t make convenient routes back to that area [The river near Odale and the Rusturf Tunnel] just for a cutscene to drag you back! 

And for some reason poison doesn’t damage on the field anymore. Takes a lot of emphasis off of being prepared.

And don’t bring up the “But children need to be able to play it too!” I played and beat Sapphire when I was 9.

[orasnegativity]

The fact that ORAS seems to be 'a cluster of elements that don't fit well' actually makes a lot of sense. XY did something very similar, with trying to cram a lot of new features along with a grand story arc and a few side plots. But where XY just felt rushed and unfinished, ORAS seemed to be taking the Pokemon out of Pokemon, since it was a reboot with a canon base. The Delta Episode especially, since it brings so much to the Pokemon universe so suddenly. The spirit of the old games is gone.

[orasnegativity]

I don't mind the main plot but the Delta Episode seems like Masuda is trying to make an entirely different game but cramming it into Pokemon instead.

That's exactly my opinion too! It didn't feel as if it were part of the story, tbhI'm pretty sure that, the same way they incorporated Crystal elements in HGSS, they could've thought up something better around Rayquaza... but they didn't.

Unfortunately, ORAS is a cluster of elements that don't necessarily fit together all that well

[orasnegativity]

there seems to have been a little ruckus last night over here on tumblr-- or at least, enough for an anon to send me a message on my personal telling me to put someone in line. Now, I know I might not have followed this rule of mine during bad nights, but when you complain, build an argument. Build it, and see if the other people can take it down.

People say ORAS is better than RSE? I certainly don't agree, and we have to remember that one of these games came out 12 years ago. Twelve, not 2. That needs to be taken into account, but people forget about it. So when you compare graphics, music, it's not a fair fight. It isn't fair, because ORAS gave us is so much less that what we could've had TODAY. 

ORAS is a wasted opportunity, not an amazing game.

[blackjackgabbiani]

So you’re saying your member should have come in Rustboro?

[orasnegativity]

Wouldn't it have been better to use a 3rd conditional here tho