Eric-Halliday

Writer/Nintendork for AppTrigger

Hi there! I'm Eric Halliday. Father, husband, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, etc.

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Trying to find a new social home since Elon Musk became Twitter's gross step-dad.

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I write for the website AppTrigger, mostly write about Nintendo based things, but I'm all over the place.

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Switch @ 2206-9342-6234

PSN @ LilBitKhangaskhan

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I'll have more in-depth articles about them as my editors get them live but I just wanted to voice two different frustrations before I drop the more detailed articles.

  1. I'm really disappointed in Sonic Frontier. I know there wasn't really a lot of hope for the game but this is bad. The entire open-world map feels like someone's custom GTA4 map with random ramps and stuff all over the place. It feels broken.

Also Sonic sounds like Nathan Drake and that's really weird to me.

Plus, the story is super barebones. There's even a scene in which Sonic himself complains about their being a total lack of context for any of the story direction.

  1. I just found out Pokemon Home won't be compatible with Pokemon Scarlet and Violet until Spring of 2023.

I'm really annoyed by this because for the last three Pokemon games they haven't let us transfer our Pokemon from previous games until well after we lose interest in them.

I don't really care about the "transferring a high level Pokemon will break that game" crowd. It won't. They literally won't obey you at a higher level until you have enough gym badges. For generations, I've always transferred in shinies from previous games so that I have certain ones to go through the game with. And now they do this so we have to play it exactly how they want us to. I don't care if it's an open world, I'd rather have the freedom to bring over my stuff from Home. Hell, the shinies are level one anyways.

Anywho, sorry for the rant. I'm just frustrated.

What are your thoughts on either? Are you playing Sonic Frontiers? Are you fine with Pokemon Home being locked out? Lets talk.



You'd think after the last few years I would be sick and tired of tiny little white child-shaped things obsessing over coins representing fake currency, but Gimmeghoul gets a pass.

Revealed this morning by Nintendo, Gimmeghoul is a tiny Ghost-type that is hinted to evolve once 999 coins are given to it. Unfortunately, the reveal also confirmed that Pokemon Home integration with Scarlet and Violet won't be until sometime in 2023, but I can't stay mad when I look at this little dork. Look at that face.