Nolan North, as the family jumps in the car at the start: “This is terrifying, as a father.”

Still gets me. That, and the “baby girl” callback later on. Fucking genius. You can shove your franchise/multiplayer bullshit...I want single-player stories that make me feel something.

To anyone who never get the appeal of gaming, I’ll just point them to the first 20 minutes of TLoU.

Not sure i’m prepared for the Last of Us Part II.

That intro... every damn time.

Uncharted on Mondays, Last of Us on Tuesday, Retro Replay on Thursday, we need a Wednesday show too. I demand Troy and Nolan every day of the week.

I’m so glad to see a review focused on this angle! I was embarrassed/impressed to realise how much the crowd chants during Dynamax stadium battles hype me up. They really made the gym battle experience exciting and distinctive for the first time I can remember. And the way you can see fandom around you slowly building…

That was Black/White, not X/Y.

In 2007 I lived in France and the country was hosting the Rugby World Cup and it was WILD how pretty much the whole country switched to “heck yeah rugby time” while the cup was going on. All TVs were tuned to the game, the scores were posted at the train stations, and even my local baker was making rugby-shaped loafs…

I make a point of playing each new Pokemon game in precisely the same manner I played Red twenty years ago: I rarely try to catch more than one of something, my team consists entirely of the Pokemon I think are coolest-looking of the current gen, I couldn’t give less of a shit about EVs or IVs, and if I had my…

Really? No voice acting is a necessarily bad thing now? Do you listen to what people say fully and not skip to the next line of dialogue? Are people so aggrieved by reading these days that they need voice acting to coddle them? Can you not do voices in your head? How do you play games from before 2000? Is choosing not…

“The feeling only deepens once the ceremony ends and you emerge back out onto the road—where crowds of well-wishers have gathered to yell encouragement as you set out on your world tour/religious pilgrimage to each of the region’s gyms. It’s emotionally affecting in a way that Pokémon games typically aren’t; not just…

Probably because those are uniforms not of types, but of the gyms.  They’re the ones worn by the leader and the other trainers of that gym, who’re theoretically also battling it out before the Gym Challenge to assert who’s in the Majors and who’s in the Minors for that season.  You can buy those uniforms like you can…

I understand. I went with Grimmsnarl, so I didn’t really need any bug/fairies. I’m also sticking to a team of Galarian Pokemon, so I’m not really touching some of the older bugs like Galvantula (although, I’ve caught most of them).

Orbeetle might be the first time I’ve stuck with a bug type from the start of a game all the way to the end. It’s such a useful typing mix and it’s so cool design-wise. I love the fact that it looks like a ladybug-themed Gundam... or Gundam-themed lady bug... whatever, you get the idea.

RIP Deadspin.

I’m sad that larvesta/volcarona didn’t make it in. Snom is pretty much the ice version of that Pokemon, so they’d have made a cool looking fire-and-ice pair in doubles

I love snom. I dropped everything to get a well statted snom and evolve it into frosmoth when i discovered it. I also have a weakness for the bug types. I intend to make a full bug team once i beat the game, to live out my bug gym master fantasy for the first time.

Now let’s all agree never to be creative again.

Don’t bug me I’m scared