victoria

gamedev wizard and comics witch

primarily a homestuck artist, currently working on @burningdownthehouse and vast error.


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i realized just now that i'm having a lot of fun in pokemon violet just........ going around and collecting pokemon. finding new guys and running around. it's usually one of my least favorite parts of a pokemon game, but it's so much of violet and it's so fun just seeing a tera raid beacon and making my way to that beacon for a short battle with a unique guy. like, the pokemon format and the open world format mesh like........ almost perfectly.

the only real miss thus far is that the gyms are kind of underwhelming. it's weird because the technology for routing through gyms is there - katy is the first gym leader on the west path out of the town, but when i got there after having done two on the east path, i got a cutscene with nemona where she says that it's the third gym i'm doing. so like... the tech exists. chalking it up to weird incompleteness, like the iron treads fight just being a visual nightmare.

but more generally i miss puzzle gyms like winona's. admittedly i've only done 3 of 8 now (katy, iono, brassius) but the minigames just arent as fun or characterful as gyms past tbh

if they keep this format and refine it, scarvio2 could be the best games ever made


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