Yoraiko

Thank you. You may also gratulate me for beating the entire game Lucky you, Nguyen! I mainly used my waterchampions as tanks.

How do you do, fellow kids? In the latest part of my walkthrough, I mainly talked about the character Amaria and her arc and role in Pokemon Reborn. Since I have and had a personal connection to the topics covered here, I found her arc to be my favorite one in the game, or rather the most thought-provoking one. There were some thoughts I had to write down regarding the hate(?) for her in the fandom, but since I don't think too many will read them in the context of my walkthrough, I'd like to share them here, even though I'm extremely biased in these kind of topics and opening up a topic for such a sensible matter could easily lead to a fine shitstorm. I'm still eager to try, lets discuss! So here's what I wrote and think about Amaria, Titania and the topics presented in E18: (Spoilers, obviously) Again, I know how subjective my standpoint is, but so is every other who condemns her. I don't know if its approtiate to go into complex topics like depression, suicide and toxic relationships in the forum of a pokemon fangame too deep, but hey, sincere there already have been several discussions regarding her character here and the game inspires it, why not debate about it? I'm interested what you think about my thoughts. Thanks for your time!

Part 9: We All are Broken Here: https://gedankenbloggade-yoraiko.blogspot.com/2020/04/pokemon-fangame-pokemon-reborn_22.html Spoiler Alert: The next report is already done too. But we'll keep that one yet for a bit. I'll also do a separate topic for the Amnaria-thing since its a topic Im interested in discussing. Thanks for everyone who stayd with me to the end, next time will conclude the (regular) walkthrough of this epic adventure!

soooo.... not worth it. So I think my next part will take a bit longer since I didnt know the last thing I wanted to include in it was the actual big story climax. That some stuff to take in. All fun and no work here!

I DID IT After hours of frustrating attempts and one destroyed computer mouse I beat this fucking battle. The rest of the game will be a piece of cotton candy compared to that! Now I can write my next little review. I love my team. Theyre failbobs, and shitheads, and useless freaks, but damn they're bringing me through this miserably balanced game...!! HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT, AMETHYST? HUH?! WHAT DO YOOU SAY NOW, CASS?! NOT SO SASS ANYMORE, AM I RIGHT? THE VERY BEST

uh.... thanks. I wont even start to wonder about the logic behind it. Amethyst will know. I think its safe to say its the hardest by far so far for me, considering the cirstumstances and that all three battles are decently hard, with the first being the hardest one (Luckily, would be even worse losing againd and again at the third one) thanks for your words! Ive read that many times now but I dont really buy it. I dont really trust the value of an item rising ONE value of a pokemon which will die with one or two attacks, I usually prefer attacking to get through with it. see, the main problem all of my mon had with battles in this game, ESPECIALLY the late game, is that theyre all, without exception, fucking slow. Even my Rapidash, which was ALMOST first in the first half of the game is slower than every single enemy mon by now. In consequence, many of my mon get one-hitted or almost by most enemies all the time. Its really kill or be killed. Thank you though for the advice. For reference, recordings of the first two battles: Luna(??) I was so proud on myself because I rreally thought I did not bad with strategizing, using field effects, first trying Luna and stuff, but the not healing and my lack of potions really broke my neck at the third fight. You can see I was depressed before, but maybe I can pull this off eventually.... Nevermind, cant upload a video longer than ten minutes, so I have only the recording of the second battle right now.... ah, whatever.....

Im now at the final of the glass factory and I never felt that destroyed in Reborn before. In 40 minutes i battled through the two boss battles with all I had only to be greeted by a third one without a team healing and no potions left. I fought through half of it but then Ijust got overwhelmed because I had to heal my dead mon. I really dont know how to commend on that. I mean, I could understand it if my team would get curted the third time too. But this is just... I dont know... there really are no words to that anymore. Obviously you all love the balancing of this game so that battle is a piece of art too and its just me being too bad. I dont think I will ever get through that battle actually, but maybe if stack myself with cotton candy x99 and ultra portion x99 and toxic my way through every single battle.... Right now I feel a bit like crying because all of that is so incredible frustrating and the knowledge that nobody thinks anything is wrong with such a Triple-bossbattle without healings in between makes it all the more devastating. I hate this game so much as I love it. Right now much more. Reborn truly has the worst balancinbg I ever perceived in any videogame. Talk about strategizing. Ill see how I strategize my way through these 30 enemy pokemon in a row................

Part 8: A Nation Reborn https://gedankenbloggade-yoraiko.blogspot.com/2020/04/pokemon-fangame-pokemon-reborn_18.html I'm gonna fight 'em all An eighteen nation army couldn't hold me back They're gonna rip me off Taking their time right behind my back And I'm talking to myself at night Because I can't forfeit Back and forth through my team Behind a cheesy strat' And the teardrops coming from my eyes Say dont you fuckin' stop Don't want to hear about it Every single one's got a puzzle to solve Everyone knows about it From the Queen of Reborn to the hounds of Lin And if I catch her coming back my way I'm gonna throw it at you And that ain't what you want to read But that's what I'll do And the feeling coming from my guts Say fucking pull through I'm going to Amaria Far from this fornever aftermore I'm gonna drown the gym Make the blood drip out of every ball And I'm bleeding, and I'm losing, and I'm raging Right before the lords more like ladys All the words are gonna bleed from me And I will lose no more And the voices coming from my head Say freakin' stop to roar

Thanks. Im at climbing the ice mountain qith hardy right now and Im up in the corner with the cave and dont know how to process. I thought about melting the ice with my firestorm or flame charge in battle but it didn't do anything. How di I get into the cave? E: nvm, found the path towards hardy...

Thanks. One more question: I'm at the point where I fight Amaria. But I want to do all the possible optional stuff I can at this point beforehand so Im prepared as possible. I found an E18-sidequest-guide here, but most of them aren't avaiable to me yet and the guide isnt complete either. Does someone know which sidequest-stuff, aside from the founding, is the most imprtant I can do right now, or which helps in preparing for Amaria?

I dont think theres a better place to ask, so: Can anyone tell me what the reward for hatching starters for the grand hall lady is? I dont think I will do that quest but just for interest, what would I get for all the work?

Thank you very much! I really appreciate it and I hope you will stay with me till the end. Something's coming soon.... Now to translate the monster. WHY CANT I WRITE SHORTER TEXTS? (becuz I never want to stop playing, thats why. i really should get into making videos...)

I think Saphira will use dragons.

Hi cass, you free this evening? You know, we could... go hunt some shinies... fuck up a meteor base... lose some double battles together... watch the sunset from beryl bridge.... eat some cotton candy... no shared bill, though, everyone pays his own. Hope you understand. Personally I dont agree to this degree with substance over playability, but thats just me and now I can at least partly understand where this comes from. Still looking forward to E19, though. This dialogue we have right now is just that, a dialogue. It works differently than a walkthrough in which I dont have a conversation partner, especially one who can explain me like you why that is that and this is like that. I know these reports are no coherent reviews standing on their own, theyre not supposed to - I will write a full review when Im done, naturally. They're a walkthrough and mainly a collection of my thoughts, at best rewritten for better readability now and then. There are indeed people who enjoy them, although of course I know articles are never as effective as a Lets Play, so maybe I will try that stuff out someday too. Maybe with Rejuvenation. Not so likely though. Writing is more my part. I'm afraid this is a request I can't fulfill. Mainly because, well, I'm almost fucking done. Can't stop now, can I? No but my actual point here is, I dont really care for Ame or any other developer reading my stuff, as harsh as it sounds, I'm already happy when someone who played and plays the same game reads it and can connect to some thoughts. The criticism is there, just as the good points, if the developers read it or not. More importantly even is that I didn't make myself clear in my last post, so I correct that mistake: I dont write them mainly for you, I write them for me. These thought-sheets are honest and really useful when it will be time to write a complete review, I like that they help me to look back on my reborn-experience and writing is just my form of self-expression, in which form it ever may be. Writing about this games gives me the feeling I dont only waste my time playing a videogame but also producing something out of it. It may be outright shit I produce, but hey, it something, right? Without this Walkthrough I would have definitely stopped playing Reborn with the first Arceus. But it motivated me to keep going and that really is all that matters, right? Its fun to me. Is it worth putting all this work into something twice translation) for a walkthrough barely anyone wants to read? No. Did I still do it? Yes. That's just the kind of person I am. Still free this evening, cass. Just sayin'. Yeah right. Personally stuff like this is something that doesn't bother me because it is clearly not intended. I'm more annoyed by the things I think are intended and which I see as flaws. I got you covered, improvement is all part of the proccess and I'm always trying to live up to that, so of course I will try to keep my remaining parts more in an argumentative style. That's one of the reasons all my parts are cut in two halfs though, the text and the PRO/CONTRA/NEUTRAL lists. The latter are just plain thoughts I write down all the time while playing. Cant really do much about them except take out the swearing. God do I swear much into my word document all the time. Yes, I've got issues. Maybe. BUT Y'ALL DO TOO!!!!

Hey dear friend, thanks for your response! Appreciate it. No sarcasm here. Yeah, thats a blessing. Didnt help with reshiram but hey, appreciate it before Titania. Does it? See, I absolutely agree with you about the official games being a joke since... Y and X in my opinion, BW2 was the last official game I really enjoyed. But there is some gray area which this game ignores at times, and at times doesn't. The problem is, the difficulty of the battles wasn't the problem here at all and wasn't the point of my - slightly irrational angered - post up there. I already beat the reshiram with a bit of playing around, its okay, and in retrospektive most of the battles in reborn never were the actual problem. No, what brought me to the silly ragewall up there is the thing which I think is, besides the horrendous puzzle-design (Devon corp), the actual mainproblem of reborn, namingly the frustrating lack of comfort, either due to Ame wanting this game to be as rough as possible or just her missing it, which can happen. This is something that can be easily fixed, if needed. This critique is a point I can back up with arguments and not with blind rage like I tend to do when I struggle with some of the incredibly-hard-balanced battles(AmariaTitaniaHouse). There is no problem with Reshiram, the problem lays in the fact that you could, unlike me, be unlucky enough to not have a team with you which can beat it. So you let yourself get beaten to get teleported back and walk all the way up there again once, IF the next team is the correct one. If not, you walk up there again and again, and that is not even considering you might not have enough cures with you in which case you would need to get back to heal your team before Reshiram or even buy new potions. It was similar with Luna's gym - there was no PC in front of her so if it weren't for the fact that she was relatively doable and my team was just right, I would have been forced to walk all the way back to a pokecenter everytime I would edit my team. Why? In devon corp, before facing ZEL, there is no PC or more than one healing. I had to walk back through all of Ame's puzzles again and again and again and again in order to find the right team and strategy. If I messed up the eletronic plates and got hit more than one or two times, I was forced to instantly go back because I couldn't afford to waste my few potions left before ZEL. All of that and more situations all over the game could have been prevented by simply not pestering your players with pointless walking and placing a PC in front of tight fights. I really dont understand how this lack of comfort adds to the experience IF it is intended - having to walk long ways multiple times before you can confront an enemy is neither fun nor does it make reborn more difficult, it just makes it more tedious and that is such a shame. Much of my frustration for some of thouse mind-boggling hard battles only came from the circumstances surrounding them, time-consuming walking and puzzling. Saying "Just save in front of those opponents" (Which I do) is not a valid argument - you can't design your game with the expectation of your player breaking the world's laws by using a meta-element(The saving function) and thereby canceling the system you have created. Your design-flaw is still there, even with the option to negate it to some extend. And that doesn't help with different teams of course. Just place a PC in front of those battles and we're all good, Ame. PLEASE. This game doesn't need this kind of playtime-stretching. I actually got good. I came into this game as an official game-plerp, never played online, and was wrecked by every small challenge. And now, 90 hours later, I'm on a whole other level and use the strategic possibilities of the pokemon-system at least to some extend. That's awesome, so I got good. Just not as good as some of you folks, and that's okay, because I'm not capable and not willing to dive into the Reborn-challenge as deep as some of you do. But I STILL want to enjoy the game (And I DO enjoy it most of the time by now) without an easy mode. Just a bit of comfort would help. Oh, and maybe one or two puzzles less, but thats just me. First, to answer your questioon: Obviously, and countless times stated, because I enjoy this game, and it is too good to not share my thoughts about it. While my last few posts were received mainly with "Stop complaining, get better"-responses, there still are and always were great reactions which motivate me to keep going and which surprised me when I started this playthrough. The question 'why are you still here' is of the same kind as the infamous 'If you don't like it, dont watch it!"-phrase, which makes no sense. But I DO want to watch it and I DO like it, just not everything about it and I want it to be better so I can like it even more! I agree that this post up there wasn't criticism - well it was, but it can't be taken serious as a ragepost and that's really all it is. I blame 90 hours of reborn cracking me a bit. My reviews, though? They are criticism. They may be highly subjective, polemic and insolent at times, but I really try to get my points across there and I explain every single thing with examples I talk about. I listen everything I like and LOVE (Which is more and more) just like the things which dribe me crazy. The first list tends to be overseen, or at least few people comment about them. The negative feedback, though, as it is natural, stands out and makes some of you angry with me, which I can understand. That just doesn't negate the fact that probably some of my points aren't wrong and that my problems with Reborn, perhaps, aren't all completely on me. And that is really all I want to be understood. This game is great, but it is far from perfect. Nobody should pretend it is. One last thing: I stated it multiple times, but "making noise", trolling a small pokemonfangame-community, getting a bit of negative attention really isn't worth 100 hours of game time, countless hours of collecting my thoughts on reviews which I hope can be entertaining or even helpful in the best case, and translating them in a few more hours so you guys can even read them as my site is really small and I mainly write them for you. It really isn't worth that. So you can be rest assured that that isn't my goal. When I beat Titania(Arceus bless my ways) I will write my next little sheet and then I think it wont be so far to me finishing Episode 18. I wont give up now, no matter how many downvotes I get over there on reddit, it doesnt matter because I really wanted to beat this game and I enjoy the world and story enough to make up for the things which crush me inside and outside. An easy mode is surely a great idea in any case to extend your reach and get a lot of players in the boat who just want to enjoy the storytelling-aspects of Reborn which Ame really nails. Most of the time. Lets not talk about that fetchquest again. Its okay. MY PTSD is coming back. Have to go. Thanks for reading my waaaay to long post, I hope I could make myself understandable. Nice holidays!