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Hello!! I have no clue of what I am doing :] no preferred pronouns this blog is Pokemon Only with very few exceptions, for my other stuff you can see my personal blog @ratranine

[orteil42]

how does something like Pokemon evolve over thousands of years? once the construct of capitalism wears off, what's left of an omnipresent world-spanning franchise? personally i think it's gonna get religious. it's gonna get syncretic

[sisterreisaid]

[sharktunarts]

i love making dumb stickers

[molabuddy]

group of little girls who come together for playdates where they enact incredibly disturbing & elaborate narratives with their barbie dolls

[leathered-wayfarer]

the little girl that kept breaking all the barbie dolls so she can’t come over anymore

[slowthypiglordblr]

The goth little girl’s older (and gother) sister and her posse performing satanic rituals in the attic to get revenge on all the popular kids at school.

[molabuddy]

REAL AS HELL ❗❗❗

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[ankle-beez]

[truescrimbie]

last night i got emotional about raichu

[dunsparce]

N-No, I would never wake up the babies…

[abigail-rytel]

This is the first arbitrary barrier in this series I will accept

[kagaintheskywithdiamonds]

Kanto: this path is blocked by a giant sleeping snorlax. you cannot wake up the snorlax except with the use of a very specific tool (which you obtained by fighting your way through a tower full of ghosts). and even after snorlax wakes up you have to either defeat it in battle and/or catch it before you can get through

Galar: could I wake these wooloo? physically, yes, probably wouldn’t be much of a challenge. but emotionally? imagine the toll

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[sylvonyx]

mega stone swaps🧬

idea by @ wasdmon on twt!

[sunnydayaoe]

hatched all alone

[pokemon-personalities]

hey so i literally just realized “Garry Oak” is a type of tree. this guy’s name is a tree pun and i feel like im the last person on earth to discover this

garry oak (left) gary oak (right)

[catmask]

in finnish, the '@' symbol is sometimes referred to as 'kissanhnta' [cat's tail] or 'miau', 'miau merkki' [meow marks]. in the pokemon universe, i thought it might be cute if the '@' symbol were called 'the mew' or 'mew symbol'

considering both bill and professor oak would know about mew, i imagined a conversation in which this term was coined in which professor oak tries (and finally succeeds) at sending his first email.

[catmask]

regional dialects make it difficult to share 'mewsernames'!

in swedish, the @ symbol is called 'trunk a' [elephants trunk]

in polish, it's called 'malpa' [monkey]!

[catmask]

[lyril]

[cornedbeefhashtags]

[battletoads]

[joe1707]

[s-nnoh]

[pokemonheritageposts]

on multiple occasions i have seen people on socials excited for palworld 1.0 and it has taken me a moment to realize they aren't doing a bit and are genuinely excited

[pokemonheritageposts]

[a-mysterious-man]

Do you know nothing about capitalism. This is coming from an avid anti-estabishment. More competition is good for us. This is a marathon, not a fucking sprint. Read a book.

[pokemonheritageposts]

hi! thank you for commenting. i know more than you. the point of this post is that Palworld is not competition.

[pokemonheritageposts]

see, here's the thing: it is absolutely possible to create a monster capturing game that could compete with Pokemon. It wouldn't win, it wouldn't even come close, the sheer market dominance of Nintendo and The Pokemon Company is too overpowering for any competitor to have a reasonable chance of doing that.

The problem is that nobody is going to do that because every attempt to do so is an attempt to compete with the superficial elements of what Pokemon is now, rather than following the how and why that led to Pokemon to become what it is. The objective they are chasing is how to compete with Pokemon, which is no objective at all. The only way to create a true competitor is to build the equivalent to Pokemon again from first principles.

There are plenty of other good monster catching games (as people have mentioned in the notes) and if anything we could do with more of them - it's an underexplored genre IMO. But Palworld isn't that. Palworld is Pokemon as imagined by a modern gamer who believes Pokemon should have completely altered its gameplay style to match modern trends. It's the sandbox gameplay loop soup idea of what Pokemon should be. It's slop. It's the gaming equivalent of a protest vote.

[pokemonheritageposts]

The thing is, I would not have beef with Palworld if it weren't for blatantly ripping off Pokemon for its monster designs. I wouldn't like it, but that's for the same reasons that I don't like most contemporary AAA action RPG games. But incorporating a more modern combat style into a monster collecting game is an idea that genuinely has legs.

The problem is that it's not trying to be a monster collecting game with guns, it's trying to be Pokemon with guns. If it had actually built up a unique set of monsters specifically to fit the tone, setting, and style of the gameplay ideas they were building off of, they could have made something really interesting. What they actually did by stealing Pokemon designs was communicate that the monsters in this game don't actually matter and could have been replaced by anything.

This is the difference between Palworld and previous monster catching games like Youkai Watch and Cassette Beasts. Those games actually care about their designs. The monsters were made as part of the games they were for, whereas in Palworld they're a box to tick.

[animepopheart]

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[webhoards]

[kanto-jhoto]

One aspect of early pokemon in the USA that doesn't get remembered much is that Mew existing at all was debated, even with Mew being mentioned in the cinnabar mansion and Mewtwo existing at all, there were plenty of Mew deniers that claimed there were only 150 pokemon. Yeah Mew kind of appeared in the intro to the anime but it was surrounded in a shimmering light that made it difficult to actually see, some assumed it was just Mewtwo glowing with power or something.

Mew didn't appear in any episodes, and was not included in the pokerap, we didn't see any merchandise of it for a while, even things that included every pokemon excluded Mew, hell, pretty sure the official pokemon guidebook's second edition is only justified because they updated it with Mew and the few Gen 2 pokemon that appeared in the pokemon movie. Literally Mew was basically treated like a pokemon cryptid like Pikablue and Doomsay until promotions for Pokemon the First Movie started appearing.

And that's why Mew is the only pokemon that ever really felt truly mythical to me, it didn't have a cool story event to retrieve it like some of the later pokemon got ( not that it matters since most of those events were never widely available to most players ) but it's mythology is the only one that kind of spilled over into the real world, and you can never really re-capture that in the modern world where internet spoils all the mystery and mythic pokemon are unceremoniously dumped in your lap over wi-fi.