It was White version for me. I quit halfway through because of the story stuff and didn’t touch the series again until Sword was a few years old. The last straw was the 3rd or 4th time I got to a gym and the leader told me to go do plot crap with Team Villain before I could challenge for a badge. I don’t care and it’s not my job, I’m fuckin 10.

With Scarlet you can take hours getting to school while you collect everything in the first couple of areas, then after 20 minutes of plot you’re back in an almost completely open world (barring the post-game area). It’s the best it’s ever been if you’re just into collecting stuff.

If you’re up for emulating anyway I’d recommend Platinum. The Switch remakes were mostly faithful to the original D/P but not the improvements from Platinum. They do not fix many problems, and IMO they feel absolutely horrible to play.

I knew I recognised this guy. Is having tantrums like a fuckin toddler his only strategy?

That’s the only one I don’t recognise. Who’s the artist?

My horn is a “the light is green, get off your phone” button.

It’s only checkmate if he’s currently in check and has no legal moves afaik.

I’ve only played the Switch games in recent memory, and they’re all pretty hard to lose. I did play older games at release, but stopped at White. I guess I could say that was the hardest because I hated it so much that it put me off the series altogether for a decade.

The only battles I lost in Scarlet were the electric gym, which I went to first when I assumed the game would scale based on badge count and I was using an all-bird team, and the first battle in Blueberry which I tried to win with only a Minccino & Hoppip (level 100 and fully EV trained and everything, but still weak as hell).

Sword and Shield were both also dead easy, and apart from the enormous spike at the end of Shining Pearl that was too - that was more tedious than difficult though. Having a 30-level difference between the highest wild encounters and the E4 remakes didn’t make it harder, it just meant I had to waste a month getting ready. The rematches themselves were satisfying enough.

If you’re asking because you want to get one for a child or something, I’d probably go with Sword.

I don’t need an article reporting on something that might happen, I’ll just wait for the one reporting on the thing once it’s happened. That’s where the juicy info will be.

Who cares, fuck Bannon. People worth listening to say it too, let’s talk about them and not give Bannon attention.

“What are these people running from? They’re not! They’re running TO…”

Nah man you can turn it off and at least pretend to be happy while you spend 2 hours with your kids.