Games that involve monsters fitting in pockets.

So I should read staff posts more often because they actually recently acknowledged the "frequently being logged out" thing and were fixing it. I'm just kind of used to sites or apps just having that by design for whatever reason. But cool. I just don't like saving passwords in browsers because it's pretty insecure from what I've heard.

So if you know things about me, you might know that I'm one of the millions if not billions who has at least some interest in Pokémon. Yes, with the fancy e with acute that you can type by pressing Alt+130 on the numpad on Windows and I think on Mac you just hold down the E button for a bit. I've got my favorite monsters and all that, such as Dunsparce usually. I'm also very aware new games came out, and they're notably buggy and low-res in several places and poorly optimized. I also know that the "core" gameplay is turn-based battles. But I've gone back to playing the other big Pokémon game that came out this year, as in the one I actually bought instead of borrowing from the library (like I did with Sword) because it was that interesting, the one about Arceus and going back to the past to play a fairly experimental game in terms of series normality.

Arceus being the game it is seems more like a love letter to long-time fans who wanted something different but still in the vein of monster-catching with all the new things it does, plus it's more "hardcore" as in having to sneak around and avoid getting murdered because these are wild animals with crazy elemental powers or just being able to body check without warning. And there's a number of quality-of-life things like catching without battles and mass releasing and so on. The new games seem to use very few of those ideas, certain quality-of-life stuff in particular. Also it's two versions again. Another thing the Arceus game did for long-time players, being able to catch all of the included monsters without needing to trade as far as I can tell. I understand them not wanting to have a "modern-times" game involve children being attacked by wild animals given their society probably frowns upon that, and somehow a ghost phone can act like a parachute to avoid fall damage. I was really hoping they'd soon take the "Rotom possessing nearly all essential electronics" to its logical next step involving a ghost robot uprising for a plotline but I guess not yet.

With that, though, eventually I do plan to borrow one of the new games from the library to play for myself instead of just always being an outside observer criticizing things I don't play, probably Violet because the robot dragon synth bike thing is neat, even though Scarlet seems to have more interesting version exclusive monsters from what I've seen. And yes, I have looked up the new mons overall, and I've come up with an idea for a team that to my knowledge doesn't include version exclusives.