Bulbagarden Forums - Blogs - 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/ Bulbagarden - The original Pokémon Community en Sun, 19 May 2013 21:59:47 GMT vBulletin 60 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/images/styles/Millenium/misc/rss.jpg Bulbagarden Forums - Blogs - 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/ Gates to Infinity, why do you do this to me? http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/gates-infinity-why-do-you-do-me-57361/ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 03:45:52 GMT It took me a while to collect all of my thoughts for this... I finished PMD:GTI and.... Why did they have to make the last part so long? I mean, .in the last two games, you just left as soon as you beat the final boss. But here... it takes a while... It took me a while to collect all of my thoughts for this...

I finished PMD:GTI and....

]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/gates-infinity-why-do-you-do-me-57361/ Staff List for Magnagate http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/staff-list-magnagate-56014/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:50:27 GMT I felt like typing it all down because I was curious. Chunsoft had a merger with Spike and I wondered what impact it had on the development team for this game, if any. Producer: Koichi Nakamura Directors: Seiichiro Nagahata Hironori Ishigami I felt like typing it all down because I was curious. Chunsoft had a merger with Spike and I wondered what impact it had on the development team for this game, if any.

Producer:

Koichi Nakamura

Directors:

Seiichiro Nagahata
Hironori Ishigami

Scenario:

Shin-ichiro Tomie

Event Planning Director:

Emiko Tanaka

Event Planning:

Namiko Fukuda
Susumu Kotegawa

Misaki Okibe

Game Planning:

Kunimi Kawamura

Akihiro Kaneko
Makoto Yamaguchi
Tomohide Okaizumi
Yasuhiro Shinkawa

Main Programming:

Takuya Kanai

Dungeon Programming:

Naomi Kaneda
Masashi Kachi
Toru Sadamasa

Programming:

Yusuke Kojima

Yuki Sakaguchi
Ryota Wanibe
Tatsuya Yamamoto
Akimi Kyogoku

Takahiro Takahashi
Toshiaki Abe

Art Director:

Hisashi Nagai

2D Art:

Hiromi Yoshida
Masaya Kawada
Kaoru Hasegawa
Mao Toriyama
Tomohisa Shibata

Character Modeling:

Ryosuke Nakai

Kazuhisa Watanabe
Akihito Ishihara
Keisuke Sakurai
Tatsuya Yogo
Hiroyuki Aoki
Risa Hashimoto

Character Animation:

Kazuhiko Ogawa
Kunihiro Horio
Kazuhisa Ichimura
Akihiro Tamaki
Takashi Tanaka

Graphic Effects:

Hiroko Takano
Mitsuhiro Kasuya

Background:

Ryuichi Tobe
Eri Kukino
Mei Seto

Shintaro Tajima
Hiroki Nakata
Kunikatsu Tachi
Atsuto Nakao
Tomoyuki Hata
Kazuho Tanaka
Yuji Saito

Sound Director:

Ryoma Nakamura

Music Composition:

Keisuke Ito
Yasuhiro Kawagoe

Sound Effects:

Ichiro Ebisu
Sohh Satou

Development Manager:

Kensuke Oguri

Development Cooperation:

noisycroak Co., Ltd.
KUON Ltd.
karakuri-ism Co., Ltd.
Sound Racer Co., Ltd.

Debug:

Pole To Win Co., Ltd.
Akiyoshi Hisaki
Satoshi Miura
Kouichi Tago
Takahiro Ano
Yoshiya Yamahana
Kiyoshi Yamase
Sayaka Toyoshima
Mario Club Co., Ltd.
Kentaro Nishimura
Manabu Matumoto
Hitoshi Nishizawa
Keisuke Fukushima
Kouji Kobayashi

Yuma Ochi
Jun Ito

Yohei Sato
Tatsuya Sakai

Technical Support:

Shingo Okamoto
Kotaro Hiromatsu

Artwork:

Sachiko Nakamichi
Keiko Inoue

Manual Editing:

Kiyomi Itani

Takashi Iwama
QBIST co., Ltd.

Special Thanks:

Kenjiro Ito
Mikiko Ohashi
Susumu Fukunaga
Toshio Miyahara
Eisuke Kasejima
Taku Kawamoto
Nobuhiro Sawabe
Gakuji Nomoto
Yukari Fukushima
Ryohei Itakura
Yukiko Kanagawa
Rui Kawaguchi
Ryosuke Hanawa
Nobue Kamikawabata
Tatsuya Goto
Arata Sato
Retsuji Nomoto

Hideki Sakamoto
Hiroyoshi Kato
Yoshiaki Ishida
Tomohiro Maruyama

Development Support:

Hideyuki Shibamoto
Motoi Nakamura
Masashi Hirose
Hidefumi Watanabe

Masayuki Miura
Takuya Hashimoto
Osamu Fujita

Product Management:

Takao Nakano
Kaori Ando
Tomoko Nakayama

Very Special Thanks:

GAME FREAK inc.
Creatures inc.

Pokémon Original Director:

Satoshi Tajiri

Producers:

Takato Utsunomiya
Kunimi Kawamura
Hitoshi Yamagami

Executive Producer:

Mitsutoshi Sakurai

Executive Producer:

Satoru Iwata

Executive Producer:

Tsunekazu Ishihara


From end credits in the Japanese version:

ポケダン最新作マグナゲートと∞迷宮を毎日アドベンチャー！30日目ED - YouTube

The other credit lists can be found in

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Staff_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_Mystery_Dungeon

and

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Staff_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_Mystery_Dungeon_2 ]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/staff-list-magnagate-56014/ Spreading the awesome. http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/spreading-awesome-55542/ Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:40:37 GMT I decided that as a closet fan I've had enough of running and hiding in an anti-pokemon neighborhood. I'll change this fact myself.

Before Pokemon Direct was dropped on us all by Iwata, Junichi masuda hyped up the presentation and told us to show it to everyone we know. So I decided to honor his request today.

Today when I was out, I showed some classmates the Nintendo Direct. They were general nintendo fans, but mostly indifferent to Pokemon.

We got all nostalgic as Iwata went through the first history lesson. We get some discussion going around when they start giving their favorites and assessments of which generation it started going "downhill". Pokemon design "weirdness" inevitably pops up, but I laugh it off and gave them the scenario of the new kids growing up with pokemon now saying that the new pokemon were weird and that "it was better when it was at 5th gen". The parts that went on and got more recent, and they got filled in on stuff they didn't know, like the double or tag battles. They talk about how there's too many Pokemon in the game now and I tell them to look at it in the sense that there's more variety and that the games dropped the "catch em all" slogan they were used to so long ago while still retaining their gameplay. Meanwhile we talk about a funny pokememe here or there. I also explained to them the hype that led up to this announcement just as Iwata dropped the bomb.

And then I let the trailer speak for itself.

I get a bunch of "wows" from everyone, and one of them complements the art style. I give them my own opinions on how well they made the battles resemble the concept so well. One of the girls thinks Fennekin is cute too. Also, they thought the music was awesome, and I explained to them the nature of the Pokemon flagship overture. And someone shouted "princess mononoke!" while I sympathized with him on the look.

Overall, they were pretty impressed. I gave them some additional info and speculation on what the legendaries' origins were, as well as talking about the extreme speed of the fanbase and their art explosion. In the end, they generally said something along these lines:

"I haven't really played Pokemon, but I think this would be a good place to start. I just don't know though... there's so many of them now."

It's a start... ]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/spreading-awesome-55542/ Gathering my reactions. http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/gathering-my-reactions-55491/ Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:20:56 GMT Alright, I stayed up all night to catch the Nintendo direct live with everyone else on the Ustream. I have to say, it was worth it, and it knocked me out delerious for the whole day.

After 22 hours of blinding excitement, it's time to collect some comprehensive thoughts of mine for the trailer:



Firstly, the graphical presentation:

I really like how this game looks overall. The overworld design appears to easily rival that of the BW2 gyms, and the trainers still keep their "chibi" charm very well. In battle, however, is the part that really impresses me. Looking closely, one can see the wind blow across the fields, and the grass wave back and forth (like BW2's subtle edits); we've got less abstract backgrounds too (although not Pokestar-Studios-level of detail unfortunately; I hope they eventually get to that point). The best part is that the shader they applied on the Pokemon themselves makes them look almost exactly like the style of their Sugimori art.



That kind of shading is very subtle but extremely signature of the Pokemon style, and I'm thankful at how it was conserved in the model. I have no regrets leaving sprites, although it will always be wonderful to see what the fanbase will cook up in the official devs' stead.

The attack animations are all pretty convincing. There's a real lot of impact going on everywhere from Chespin firing his death ray at defenseless floundering magikarp, to Litwick burning the literal hell out of Psyduck with its Inferno, to Froakie doing whatever that sneaky dash move was on the Patrat. I am really left wondering how many animations these guys have to express. Meinfoo's execution of Aura Sphere and Froakie's sneak attack didn't look like something overly generic that was applicable to any attack; at least not of their category.

I do hope, however, that they properly snap the action points to the proper places on the Pokemon.



You may also note a mismatched shadow in Chespin's arena picture. They're missing the little things that add a little extra consistency to the battle scene. I'm pretty sure this was all covered since Stadium, so I hope they clean this kind of stuff up!

Game Freak have been known to play things pretty safe when it came to design and hardware use, and the graphics aren't necessarily a technical feat. That being said, however, they do seem to know very well where to direct their resources to: the art style. I think that their leap into full 3D finally being this generation may not only be influenced by their conservativeness, but also that 3-D wasn't really ready to be used to properly fulfill the vision they had in mind for it. I am very glad at how it finally turned out, and hope it improves at the end of October.



Secondly, the characters...



The main protagonist is alright for me. More of the same character style, for both genders, it's all good. He does have that french feel to him though... or maybe that's just his expression somehow to me. Character customization would be nice, and those shots that expose the glasses as detachable meshes from the character certainly give it a hint of credibility. I'm not holding my breath, though.

All 3 of the starters get my approval. None of that "time to warm up", or "five stages of pokemon introduction grief" stuff. I thought they were at least B-grade "neat" after seeing each and every one of them for the first time. I'm sure Fennekin will appeal to the widest amount of audience that expect Pokemon to be animals (I'm already seeing more fan art of it than others, especially anthropomorphizations such as gijinka), while Chespin will make those who adore cutesy things squeal with a delight not seen since Pachirisu. Meanwhile, Froakie will capture the hearts of all who enjoy the unusual and quirky. He certainly does have a charm that takes a different approach from direct cuteness, as opposed to the others... That being said, I am going to have a seriously hard time deciding who to pick this gen. Leaning a bit towards Chespin right now ever so slightly.



And then, legendaries. I think they're both alright. Looked a bit strange to me at first, but I was no doubt impressed. And more so after all of the X and Y motifs behind their design (especially the "horizontal and vertical axis" part) were pointed out. The deer gives me Princess Mononoke vibes, although not enough so for me to say it was ripped from it directly. Both legendaries look very original, and it looks like at least one of them won't be Dragon as per (the apparently forming) tradition.


Lastly, the par that did it for me...

This might be a little weird, but the single part I liked most about the trailer was when they revealed the starter names. Not the starters, but the names. And not just the names, but how they revealed them.



"Chespin!"
"Chespin!"
"Marisson!"
"Igamaro!"
"Harimaron!"



"Fennekin!"
"Fennekin!"
"Feunnec!"
"Fynx!"
"Fokko!"



"Froakie!"
"Froakie!"
"Grenousse!"
"Froxy!"
"Keromatsu!"


I don't know about you guys, but something just clicked for me when each Pokemon was revealed with every regional name given all in a row like that. It made me feel all warm inside knowing how the rest of the world was right there with me seeing the same new Pokemon. English? Japanese? Italian? It doesn't matter what region you live in or what language you speak; Chespin, Ferrekin, and Froakie are here to meet all of you today. ]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/gathering-my-reactions-55491/ A weird hallucination about X and Y http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/weird-hallucination-about-x-y-55462/ Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:53:50 GMT Induced by lack of sleep to watch the trailer. No substance abuse here. It goes something like this: -Game Freak chooses against the design decision of not having Pokemon do anything when their moves miss. -Game Freak is too lazy to make dodge animations for all their Pokemon models. -All... Induced by lack of sleep to watch the trailer. No substance abuse here. It goes something like this:

-Game Freak chooses against the design decision of not having Pokemon do anything when their moves miss.
-Game Freak is too lazy to make dodge animations for all their Pokemon models.
-All attacks are made to hit and accuracy is removed from all moves.
-Attacks and abilities messing with hit rate are all made to do something else.
-Smogon melts down from anti-hax megaton metagame shakeup. ]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/weird-hallucination-about-x-y-55462/ I finished all of the movies in Pokestar Studios http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/i-finished-all-movies-pokestar-studios-55299/ Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:12:04 GMT Not all endings, just the good ones with rentals.

Man was that last movie such a special-effects blowout.

You know what I'd like for gen 6? For the rest of the game to be like this. Pretty shifting and dynamic 3-D backgrounds, dialogue choices with consequence, and maybe even the non-pokemon, nonstandard enemy that is gamebreakingly OP enough to warrant assaulting a full party of 6 on one mon. ]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/i-finished-all-movies-pokestar-studios-55299/ I have discovered the power of Chinese. http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/i-have-discovered-power-chinese-54627/ Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:32:18 GMT For a test, I was allowed to take one sheet of paper of my notes in to reference. Trying to cram a bunch of small letters was a pain, and I was always ending bullet points just over the line where I would end up starting a new one. I had then recalled some earlier education with Chinese i had... For a test, I was allowed to take one sheet of paper of my notes in to reference. Trying to cram a bunch of small letters was a pain, and I was always ending bullet points just over the line where I would end up starting a new one. I had then recalled some earlier education with Chinese i had taken long sho. It had faded a lot over time from disuse,but I was still familiar with some characters. I started substituting some common English words in with the blocky symbols and eventually found myself saving a ton of line space.

I ended up putting much more information on the same block of space than i would have with just english. Now I really want to learn the rest of the language. Ideograms rock. XD ]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/i-have-discovered-power-chinese-54627/ A conversation between me and firefox today. http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/conversation-between-me-firefox-today-54592/ Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:57:14 GMT Me: "Let's go to bulbagarden!" *Clicks on blog tab*

Firefox: *closes*

Me: ._.'

Firefox: "Firefox has encountered a problem. Send bug report?"

Me: *Click Yes*

Firefox: "...

...

...

Report could not be sent."

Me: "..."

Firefox: "Please wait while firefox is installing updates"

Me: "Wut."

Firefox: "Updates could not be installed. Please close your programs and make sure no other instances of firefox are running before you try again."

Me: "...

...

..."

*Clicks on firefox again*

Firefox: *opens up*

"Well, this is embarassing..." ]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/conversation-between-me-firefox-today-54592/ Pokemon Remixes http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/pokemon-remixes-54301/ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:49:08 GMT Sometimes the best remixes are the ones that take effort to recognize the original tune from.



Let's see who else recognizes this, and feels the same combination of joy and sadness.... ]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/pokemon-remixes-54301/ Interested enough to ask about it, too hesitant to search it up. http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/interested-enough-ask-about-too-hesitant-search-up-53990/ Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:43:10 GMT I've heard about Sonichu at least ten times now, both in this forum and outside of it. I feel like I'm missing something that I should know about.

I currently know it's some sort of badfic, that it's a Sonic and Pokemon crossover, that there's a character called "Yawning Squirtle", and that there is supposed to be some deeply disturbing things about it.

Other than that, I'm completely clueless. Curious, but clueless.

So here I am, asking for some help on properly describing this particular series to me. Would anyone do me that favor before curiosity overtakes me and I potentially go out to read it myself? ]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/interested-enough-ask-about-too-hesitant-search-up-53990/ <![CDATA[Everything's better with lists]]> http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/everythings-better-lists-46772/ Fri, 04 May 2012 07:16:22 GMT When bored in class, my mind wanders off about the 3-D models that the Pokemon people (Specifically Creatures) has made up to this point. We've got Pokedex 3DS and soon will have it expanded to all Pokemon period. No outdated stadium models, no jaggies; everything will be up to standard.

This leads me to think that since the graphic of games has generally gotten to a point of little further improvement, it's the perfect opportunity for them to take the models they've made up to this point and improve on them in other ways. But how?

Answering a question with a question: what would make these pokemon more lifelike?

My mind wanders into the idea of Creatures or Pokemon Company rigging new animations to existing pokemon. 15+ years and the standard 3D battler has, for every pokemon up to now, made attacking, special-attacking, hit, fainted, punching, running, and some flying animations to their pokemon. Maybe kicking... was there kicking?

But anyways, attacks have a huge amount of variety to them. And I start to think of what kinds of attacks would need a specific type of animation from the pokemon's own model to show a deeper form of personality. Perhaps they could be sorted into groups, albeit many.

I ended up writing down a list, for the sake of just making one:

Hit
Faint
Punching - Fire Punch, ThunderPunch, etc.
Slapping - DoubleSlap, Wake-up Slap, etc.
Kicking - Mega Kick, Blaze Kick, etc.
Running
Flying - Fly
Tackling - Tackle, Take Down, Flame Charge, etc.
Throwing - Vital Throw, Seismic Toss, Rock Throw, etc.
Staring - Leer, Glare, Scary Face, etc.
Squashing - Body Slam, Heavy Slam, etc.
Shooting - IMMA FIRIN MAH HYPER BEAM
Biting - Bite, Crunch, Hyper Fang, Thunder Fang, etc.
Rolling - Rollout, Ice Ball, Flame Wheel, etc.
Kissing - Sweet Kiss, etc.
Jumping - Bounce, etc.
Shooting Up - Eruption, Water Spout, Thunder, etc.
Shouting - Supersonic, Echoed Voice, etc.
Diving - Dive, Dig, etc.
Pecking - Peck, Drill Peck, etc.
Jabbing - Poison Jab, Fury Attack, etc.
Spinning - Rapid Spin, Gyro Ball, etc.
Wrapping - Wrap, Constrict, etc.

Perhaps there were more... but by then, class had let out. :P ]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/everythings-better-lists-46772/ Well, shoot... http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/well-shoot-45970/ Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:24:51 GMT Don't you just hate it when you've typed up a perfectly good blog entry that perfectly conveyed your thoughts, and then accidentally hit some wrong button that took you somewhere else, separating you from your beloved message forever...

I'm typing this from my new iPad, and while the new tech is cool and all, I'm really angry at the lack of a leave page warning right now.

Ugh... ]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/well-shoot-45970/ <![CDATA[Too Late for a New Year's Resolution?]]> http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/too-late-new-years-resolution-41909/ Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:30:24 GMT I guess it never really occurred to me what I'd try to improve in my life when New Year's Eve passed, probably because I was safe within a warm house with friends, family, and food. Now the busier part reality is coming back to me, and I've started to find some things about myself that I could work on. I thought to myself and decided that I would start a blog, in order to open up and talk more often.

I'm glad you're all here. ]]> 33Whimsicott33 http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/blogs/44053/too-late-new-years-resolution-41909/