Congrats on the launch, CJ! You continue to be a purveyor of awesome games.

Not worthy of Blight Club.

Thanks for being one of the best follows on this app. I lived in Belo Horizonte as a young teenager in 2002 and so many of my strongest memories of that time are the hours I spent in LAN houses and game rental stores like this. It’s how I stayed connected to my favorite hobby.

space in the mainline games for them to take wilder swings, to try real battle systems or mechanics that are detached from the skeleton laid out by Red, Blue, and Green all those years ago. The old games live on in Champions, the upcoming entries have the runway to get weird and experimental.

insistence that their IV-trained, decades old, Pokemon move forward with each new game. However, if Champions is in fact becoming their new defacto “battling platform” for competitive, you get to have that live on as the home for all this history and those mechanics and you (potentially) free..(3)

needing to be compatible in any game moving forward. Looked at how fans lost their minds when not every single perpetually boxed Pokemon didn’t make the transition over into Sword and Shield at first. There’s almost an inability to experiment with new methods of battle because of everyone’s..(2)