For a short while creepers would explode after falling, which meant players were literally being dive-bombed by unavoidable, completely silent exploding mobs.

Retirement was a mistake.

“Netizens”?

Wait, those were actors?!

That’s true, but it doesn’t mean we should be happy about another nail being banged into the coffin of ETHICS IN VIDEO GAMES JOURNALISMOHNOOOOOOOOOOOO

You can wait a week or two for the “honeymoon” period to be over and let review settle.

Yeah, this smacks of risk reduction from the publisher. With this, they have complete control over the messaging around releases, as opposed to the almost complete control they had up to now. They don’t have to worry about negative or even lukewarm reviews impacting on sales. Now their chosen youtube ‘partners’ will…

Right, but you never actually used for instance Charizard against Gary’s Blastoise at the end of the game, right?

Chikorita?

I hope they put Speed Boost again because that was fun and balanced.

As in “Decidueye for the Coniferous Guy”

I guess someone looked at the first two stages of Rowlet and realized “ewww, grass/flying”.

When have you ever used your starter against the rival’s after the tutorial fight?

Because literally every Fire starter since 3rd gen has ended as Fire/Fighting?

They’re Mediocrrrrrrrrrrrre!

Holy fuck. “Decidueye”, really?

Where the hell is the Crimson Bolt on this list?

So you’re saying he still could have just pretended to be a normal, iPhone-owning person and then claimed it was in the shop when asked?

Meanwhile, at Apple’s marketing department...

I feel like the first one came out, was panned, then the sequels came out and were so bad that they retroactively vindicated the original in a lot of people’s minds.