#when I got to Barlow’s Target Clear during the final dungeon

[houseaegir]

oh my god i absolutely love shadows of almia!!! it was my first pokemon game and i hold it so dear to my heart. what are your favorite things about it?? i'd love to hear someone else's perspective bc i've never met someone else who's played it

!!!!!! :D

It wasn’t my very first but it was among the first few pokemon games I played and the first spin off I played. I just absolutely love the story, especially compared to mainline pokemon games (and even compared to most video games, period). Like, the fact that the player character isn’t just some random kid caught up in someone else’s mess, because saving the world is literally their job. They signed up for it! They went to school for it! They are actually qualified for this!

It’s also my favorite looking pokemon game, because it’s all pixel art so it all looks cohesive, yknow? Diamond was my very first pkmn game and while I do love it oh god the 3D rendering capabilities of the original DS were not quite up to the task. And I never liked how black&white looked tbh. Gen 3 is close with it’s all pixel art, but I much prefer the more realistically proportioned and more detailed overworld sprites in the ranger games. Plus! The pokemon have attack animations! Real ones! The detail put in the pokemon themselves really makes the whole game come alive in a way the mainline games have never recreated.

Almia specifically is my favorite of the ranger series, because of the QoL improvements in the capture mechanics from the original rangers game, and because Guardian Signs‘s world textures are weirdly over-detailed and not the same art style as the characters which I hate. And GS’s story (which I still haven’t finished) was not impressing me.

I also just? Genuinely like all of the characters in Almia? Usually in pokemon games there’s at least one major character that annoys me (side eyes Hop and fucking Ben from GS and his useless exposition. Actually I kinda hated all the characters in GS rip) but! All the characters in Almia are great. Even Wheeler and his bidoof 😂

I always pick Pachirisu as my partner and almost never switch her out, both bc Pachirisu is adorable and also bc her capture assist is super useful and very intuitive

#Cockatoo.asks #aaahhhhh I could talk about Almia All Day #it’s so good #no pokemon game before or since can compare #Ngl I actually teared up a bit the first time I played #when I got to Barlow’s Target Clear during the final dungeon #Also the fucking drapion on the cargo ship is my nemesis #Tbh I’ve been planning a semi novelization of it on and off for Years #maybe I’ll actually get around to it one of these days #Not FE3H