#snorpork

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The second and third rounds let you look at your opponents and their skills.

None of these three look to be any threat, their speed stats are about half of Noodles’ and only Snorpork has the Grass skill that would otherwise put it on Noodles’ level.

Soooo

they’re toast.

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I gotta try out the exotics a couple of times, right?

heehee he run funny

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Discount Vaporeon here is quite a bit slower than Leefee is, but that’s pretty much only because Leefee has terrain advantage in this area. This baby is the perfect second member of my team, at least for the moment.

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Welcome back! I’m testing out my new friend :3

Tonight’s update will have to be a short one, I have to go to bed in about half an hour lmao

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And then the video cuts back in here.

I savestated, then tried to open the Cheats section of the emulator to wave it on front of the recording area to prove that I wasn’t cheating with those two Exotics... but I apparently accidentally paused the recording, missing the actual capture of that exotic Poko. Seriously, there was the exotic Sqwurm, then the Humblebug I caught, then the exotic Poko! It was amazing!

Anyway I sent this fucker off to the Monsterium because fuck that, I’ve got two exotic monsters!

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UM

Easy enough, though. This tutorial race is on a very short track, presumably so that you can reach either finish line theoretically.

There’s only a handful of wild races in the entire playthrough that I crossed the end finish line instead of this moving one.

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Sometimes games have some fantastic quality of life features.

As well as the actual finish line, in wild races there’s this line that stays roughly one screen or so ahead of the wild monster. If you cross that, you win!

It’s so nice not having to run the entire length of the track every time you’re in an easy wild encounter.

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Our first encounter!

On the right is the monster selection screen, with the terrain for the race highlighted. That’s the closest we’ll get to an elemental system in this game. Leefee here won’t necessarily take more damage from Fire than any other monster that isn’t proficient in it, but he’s got a small boost on Grass, which suits me just fine this early in the game.

If I’d picked Phoechik, I’d have an advantage on Fire, and Cuboom would have advantage on Sand. We’re not gonna be seeing either for a while, so Leefee has an immediate benefit. Still, none of those skills are necessarily rare in the game.

Not that that’ll stop me from having trouble later on YAY