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[corsolanite]

Game informer’s Pokémon Sword and Shield coverage!

Game Informer’s next issue is focused on Sword & Shield and to celebrate, they've been allowed to release various bits of information about the upcoming games, Pokémon Sword & Shield! ⚔️ 🛡

Pokémon that were cut from Sword and Shield will return in the future.

Pokémon Sword And Shield will introduce an Auto-save feature to the series but it can be turned off if you do so wish.

They also confirmed that HMs do not return in these games.

Pokemon Sword and Shield is giving players a new way to interact with massive versions of the Pokemon they’re already familiar with through a feature called “Max Raid Battles.” Multiple players can take part in these colossal fights against Pokemon who make use of the game’s similarly new Dynamax and Gigantamax mechanics, and even those who are new to the whole concept of a “raid” in games should be able to find them accessible. This feature was in the works prior to the release of raids in Pokemon Go, but the Max Raid Battles still took a bit of inspiration from the mobile game after seeing how popular the feature was.

They revealed that EXP Share is automatic, without use of an item in Pokémon Sword & Shield. It's currently unclear if it will be able to be turned off.

The interview implies more aspects of a Pokémon, previously left to breeding (hinted as "a personality parameter") will be changeable in Pokémon Sword & Shield. they will have mechanics to let you use you favorite Pokémon competitively!

There are to be 18 gyms in the game with different gyms being in the Major League and different in the Minor League between game version, for example Bea's Fighting-type Gym is in the Major League in Sword while Allister's Ghost-type Gym is in the Major League in Shield. The idea is that the gyms can be in different leagues each year in the Galar Region!

Source(s): Serebii.net | Game Informer

[corsolanite]

Pikachu inspired by a squirrel, creators reveal

The design for Pikachu, one of the main characters in the popular game franchise Pocket Monsters, better known as Pokémon, was based on a squirrel — not a mouse — developers of the game at the time of its 1996 debut have told The Yomiuri Shimbun.

This is the first time the designers have revealed the story behind Pikachu’s origin. The Pokemon Co., the Tokyo-based brand management company for the Pokemon franchise, will add this information to its website as early as late May.

Pikachu has been a fixture of the franchise since the first Pokemon game debuted in February 1996 for Nintendo Co.’s Game Boy handheld game console.

According to the developers, including Ken Sugimori, 52, an executive at game developer Game Freak Inc., and illustrator Atsuko Nishida, who was working at the company when Pokemon was released, Nishida was tasked with designing a “cute monster” character that met two specific conditions: It must be an “electric type” that used electric attacks and must have two stages of evolution.

Nishida said she initially created a character that resembled a “vertically long daifuku rice confection with ears.”

After being told it needed to be cuter, she created a new design based on a squirrel, an animal she wanted to own as a pet at the time.

Nishida eventually created the prototype design for what would become Pikachu using large pixels on a computer screen, while Sugimori drew the illustrated version. The initial daifuku-like character, which Nishida also drew using large pixels, was erased and no longer exists.

The name combines the words “pika,” an onomatopoeic term for flashing light, and “chu,” which has a cute sound. Although the character was not modeled after a mouse, Game Freak President Satoshi Tajiri called it a mouse character.

Among the more than 800 “pocket monsters” available today, Pikachu is classified as a mouse character.

“I hope people will feel closer to Pikachu by understanding the story behind its creation,” Nishida said.

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[brickingmymind]

Here are some comics I found and are really cool

http://rgb.thecomicseries.com/comics/first/

http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=1

http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2000/01/01/welcome-to-sandra-and-woo/

http://www.sdamned.com/2004/03/03132004/

http://www.jspowerhour.com/

http://www.last-halloween.com/posts/1

http://www.cheerupemokid.com/comic/sportscar

Check em out, all of them are pretty neat and have amazing artwork, or are just very funny

except Sdamned, Sdamned went quiet for quite some time then finally started updating again, so just be careful

also, some I started from the beginning when they first started, so if the artwork seems crappy just go to the most recent

[ladytoddington]

I dissected a lamb heart in biology and my hands reeked for like a day of gone off meat

Ew