Okay, what you just said is a longer version of that screenshot I posted. That's all I was referring to - that the people who put the game together had an idea of how the plot to B/W went.

I bet someone on their staff actually enjoys the games.

Well, to be fair, they are trying to do propaganda, and showing Ash's actual relationship with Pikachu wouldn't help their case much. This, of course, doesn't excuse what they're doing, but I'm not surprised they changed that.

This made me legitimately laugh. They did their research, at least.

I never found canyon when we had a computer old enough to have it. So I was confused when I played it from this article and recognized it. Then I realized: http://savestates.bandcamp.com/track/the-chip-dump-scrapped-ideas Enjoy, Kotaku!

Well done.

The Wallace and Gromit one is the one with the Meatabix box - this one:

Awesome! I've never placed in one of these before. :D Thanks!

Somehow this downloaded itself straight into my wallpaper folder.

Only one of them? I downloaded about 15 of them straight into my wallpaper folder.

This bastard right here. You fight him right after a disc change with barely any warning, so you're screwed if you're underleveled. God damn.

...Now I'm sad. :\

I love Evil Police Guy's animations already.

The article seems to imply we're getting an English release.

I'm pretty sure that's the Tapper.

This is my jam right here.

Trigonometry has been folded into pre-calc and calculus as of recent years.

I'm 23, almost 24, and I have pretty much the exact same feelings. I have my own place, but other than that my situation mirrors yours almost exactly. I have the same worries as you, too. XD

But if JRPGs didn't have voice acting, we wouldn't have gotten the awesome Baten Kaitos dub!

Oh my god, yes. The Zubat noises killed me.