[Meta thread] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure : Celadon City Vandels

[Dragonstrike]

*Blink blink* ....Well, don't that beat all. While I know Nintendo hasn't been reading my camapaign (As I know they'd probably CDC my and this entire site's arse), its seems like they've been cribbing some of my ideas in a different way. I wonder if the Pokemon you put in the PC in LGPE heals up like they do in every other mainline game, though. If that is the case, then Pokemon Centers have been unceremoniously rendered mostly obsolete , besides doubling as Pokemarts or access to Trading/Online features, and Healing Items become even less of a necessity than ever regardless a person keeps entire boxes of battle ready Pokemon to swap on the fly.

They do not for balance purposes (which ironically makes it even more similar to the Rockets' devices )  I'm sure this is all just a coincidence, though.

Pokemarts are also separate from the Centers again since LGPE is a revisit of Kanto's original story.

Online features can also be accessed from anywhere in the world via the menus, rather than having to go to a set location.  Kinda like Festival Plaza/PSS.  I've not tried them out yet to see how they compare, though.  It seems the anywhere in the world access for the online is a feature that's going to be staying, thankfully.  I think it's the first feature in a mainline series game that might actually survive more than 2 generations max (LGPE are still technically gen 7 despite having access to the Meltan line.  Thank goodness if the accessibility stays, though)  Well, that, and the vague chart that shows how many EVs your pokemon has accumulated in which stats.

Grinding levels in LGPE is actually reeaaaalllly time consuming, so having a lot of battle ready pokemon boxed without being underleveled for the boss fights is actually quite hard/time consuming.  The fastest way to grind is to catch pokemon (and do it really well if possible).  Wild pokemon can actually give as much as a single trainer owned pokemon if you're okay at catching, and waaaayyy more if you're amazing at it (getting amazing catches is really hard, though, since you have to not only nail the throw on the first attempt, you have to catch the pokemon on the first attempt, too).  The game heavily emphasizes catching pokemon en masse for a variety of reasons.