#crowntundra

[ariesalpinesavi]

[elitetrainerlin]

Stamps from the crown tundra

[pokeymonhearts]

Posted this on my twitter yesterday, but might as well add it up here too!!

Happy SWSH Expansion day!! Hope you all have fun exploring the Crown Tundra~ Sora isn’t so sure he likes this snowy weather...

[the-potatwa]

This is kinda important

(I know no one is gunna read this, but if you do, I promise it'll be worth it- probably)

Soooooo,

in the expansion pass (dlc) there’s this event where you can double battle against and with characters (the Galarian star tournament). Now, I haven’t paired Bede and Hop together because they’re really hard to get together- for some uncalled for reason- yet I and some others have put them against each other in battle. Though, when you do that, it’s super strange the way they act together. We have reason to believe that Hop and Bede made up inbetween the base game and the post game but everything happened behind the scenes. We don’t know if they did or not. You interact with them together at some points in the post game, and they seem to be getting along well. So we all came to the conclusion, “oh! They made up! Cool!”. It was at this time when some people, me included, started to ship them. At first it was just a non canon ship, you know? But that was until the 2nd dlc came out.

So, I looked into it more but in the double battle thing, when you- as the player- pair up with Bede, he says things like, “didn’t you have someone better to team up with?” Or “just don’t get in my way ok?”. Now this is all perfectly normal, Bede has always been a petty asshole, so he’s like this to everyone (except Opal of corse-). He puts up what I would describe as a shield wall. He doesn’t seem to like anyone... except Hop. When you put them in a battle against each other they start to joke, laugh, even flirt. They call each other nicknames and tease each other in a romantic fashion. All their conversations are directed to the other and they don’t seem to care about the other people there, only about each other. Also when Bede calls Hop: “Mr wannabe professor Hop” -one of my favourite nicknames from Bede, Bede’s eyes have a shimmer to them (this is done on purpose btw). Bede’s eyes only have a shimmer when he’s in his element, when he’s truly being himself. I know this because it happens so many times in the game, you can just tell. Soooo I’m just saying! Bede feels like he can be himself with Hop. Like he doesn’t have to pretend. To me that sounds like way more than friendship.

[monafuwafuwa]

Calyrex to bless bountiful harvests for this New Year 2021

[csolarstorm]

Let’s take a minute to appreciate the benefits of Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra:

Save $10 - $30 by not having to buy a third version.

Arguably more new content than a third version would have anyway, considering it’s all new adventure and no retread.

Data for 200 older Pokemon that is a free download for all players, extending the Galar Dex to 600 by the end of the year. 

More new Pokemon than UltraSun and UltraMoon introduced.

Now consider the downsides.  The Gigantamax Starters weren’t in the original game.  Except, we’ve never had new forms for new gen starters before, at all.  Maybe you could argue that if we had Mega Forms for Kanto and Hoenn starters, we should have gotten these, but honestly, it’s a thin argument.

Then there’s the fact that this content costs money.  Should it cost money?  Well, paid DLC comes with some expectations.  It should be: 

1) New.  These are new areas, there are new Pokemon, characters, and quests. 

2) Distinct from the main game.  The Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra have a stylistic direction that is distinct from mainland Galar.  They’re based on places other than just England. 

3) Separate from the main story of the game.  It doesn’t seem like a piece of Sword and Shield that was gated off and resold as DLC.  Granted, if I had to guess, I’d say this kind of happened with the legendary birds and Regis, which could have originally been planned as filler for the Sword and Shield postgame the same way X/Y had the legendary birds, but I doubt they were going to make Galarian Forms for them until it became DLC.

With all that in mind, and the fact that is a cheaper and more honest alternative to selling third versions, yeah, I definitely think it makes sense to charge money for this DLC.  At the very least, I don’t see cause to complain about this.  And I really hope other Pokemon fans feel the same way.

[qfab-s]

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[mossflavouredbaby]

At first I really disliked this bulb headed lad's weird and unnatural(?) design. But then earlier today, I took the time to fully inspect, and I now realize those little stubby nubbies are his arms!!! Absolutely love the design, truly is king