Fun ★ Friendship Café ★★★★★

[Memento]

Nexomon: Extinction is great! I also got Temtem for Christmas (and haven't played it yet), but I also got Coromon. So many monster-taming games, so little time..!

Nexomon: Extinction is on my list of games to play eventually. I actually got Temtem for Christmas and haven't even broken the cellophane on it yet because I've been too busy having too much brain fog to focus on most things.

Would also highly recommend Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin. Just a fantastic plot, and the monsters (yes, they're called Monsties in game, but that's...well, yeah) are most of the Monster Hunter game monsters that you get to hatch from eggs and have them battle beside you. Just a fantastic game (with actual voice acting, Pokemon, take note.) with well-rounded characters.

Also if y'all have a GBA emulator, I can't recommend Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 highly enough. I say that because they're almost impossible to find the real life games, but they're both awesome games. Why do I say "both"? Because there's two versions: Cobi's Journey and Tara's Adventure. Those games were my childhood along with Pokemon. It's not an especially complicated plot, but it's good enough to be compelling.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot about Fossil Fighters! Champions is my favorite of those, but it's a great game where you can bring back Vivosaurs (revived dinosaurs with powers) to battle for you. Also has a great plot with solid characters (even if Todd is a doofus).

 

[Trollkitten]

Weird worldbuilding thought: what if there were humans in the Pokemon world that were allergic to Pokemon? Would they be allergic to all Pokemon, or just to certain species? How would they function in a world where society centers around human relationships with Pokemon?

 

[Crawdauntless]

I would imagine that significant research into various kinds of helpful medicines would be long underway in many worlds as depicted in the games. Of course, there might be people who are just allergic to Pokemon of specific kinds, like canines, felines, fuzzy ones in general, etc., and those people might just specialize in other types of Pokemon and choose where they live to avoid large populations of the Pokemon they're allergic to.

Come to think of it, some species, like maybe Furfrou and Alcremie, could indicate that hypoallergenic Pokemon might arise or be bred for allergic people!

 

[Trollkitten]

Totally random thought: the logo for Pokemon Flux looks like it reads "Pokemon Flu X" and if we hadn't all just lived through a global pandemic I would probably find that more hilarious than I actually do.

 

[Memento]

Holy fate, why did I read a review about After, of all things? I thought that Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey were bad enough, but After somehow got published (three or four books) and made a movie of?

When do publishers knock on my door? Do I have to intentionally suck at writing things?

 

[Skarmizard]

I realized the other day it's been 10 years since I first joined the forums...makes me feel old 😔
I'm glad that I've stuck around this long though 😊