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Dec 2, 2021 6:14 AM
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OOH FINALLY the Sinnoh region, which this is as far as I remember reading the Pokémon Adventures manga of nostalgia.

So nice to see Pearl and Diamond again all grown up (but sadly without Platinum Berlitz herself), but of course, all these battles are just as fun as I remember reading the comic book, even with Team Galactic.

More OGs unite because we're heading more towards nostalgia biweekly!
Dec 2, 2021 8:34 AM
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That was really good, I liked how it was focused on Barry. It's great that they are fleshing out the side characters in this series.
Dec 2, 2021 8:37 AM
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sKyBlazer08 said:
That was really good, I liked how it was focused on Barry. It's great that they are fleshing out the side characters in this series.


yes, I hope the next episode will be focused on Wally

Dec 2, 2021 9:13 AM
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Weird: I never knew Palmer was a pre-existing character, or that he was Barry's father. Guess I never did the Battle Tower stuff back when I first played the games...
Dec 2, 2021 11:28 AM
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I really hate this Mike Wazowski treatment to player character.

And all this special treatment of rivals, the player should make everything to utterly destroy each game rival. Which I did with Barry, because I barely remember him
Dec 2, 2021 11:31 AM
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I loved this one. Best episode so far. Going through some important moments in Barry's journey and showing the fight with his dad. And for the first time they actually finish the fight instead of leaving us hanging. Great stuff.
Dec 3, 2021 2:20 AM
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can't they just animate the whole game? this looked so good
Dec 3, 2021 10:50 AM
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Rhyperior lost to 1 attack
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Dec 3, 2021 2:42 PM
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NeverGoneXD said:
can't they just animate the whole game? this looked so good

I would absolutely be down for them to just make a full series going through the whole stories of the games. This show has been great.
Dec 6, 2021 8:43 AM
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yLewahoy said:
Rhyperior lost to 1 attack

It is a 4x effective attack, it's not that surprising
Dec 7, 2021 7:18 PM
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Hard to take that this was the same Barry as the original game who seemed so annoyingly energetic and gave us that infamous THUD!! and yet here he seems so weak looking and hesitant of his actions from the very start. Nothing really here gives me the rival vibes.
Dec 11, 2021 6:50 AM

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Well, it did flesh out Barry a bit but it wasn't that good of an episode. Also, the fights were pretty straightforward and uneventful.
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Dec 23, 2021 9:56 PM

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Best episode so far for having the tightest focus and actually providing as much of an arc as reasonably possible within the span of 7 minutes.
𝘼 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙡 𝙙𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮
Jan 21, 2022 2:40 AM

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Barry's story this time and this was better than the previous episodes atleast.
Apr 5, 2022 5:52 PM

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Damn, that Rock Wrecker must have hit hard. Decent episode, a character focus episode instead of focusing on the plot. This would have been my favorite episode because it tries to tell a complete story unlike the previous ones but my zero interest in Barry made me give zero fucks.

Lewahoy said:
Rhyperior lost to 1 attack




Rhyperior gets destroyed even with +nature and EVs
Etherius_ZSApr 18, 2022 6:14 AM
Apr 18, 2022 2:33 AM

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An episode focusing on a character instead of an event. I remember choosing Chimchar in Platinum so a W episode for me.

Etherius_ZS said:
Damn, that Rock Wrecker must have hit hard. Decent episode, a character focus episode instead of focusing on the plot. This would be have been my favorite character because it tries to tell a complete story unlike the previous ones but my zero interest in Barry made me give zero fucks.

Lewahoy said:
Rhyperior lost to 1 attack




Rhyperior gets destroyed even with +nature and EVs

Spittin' proven facts bro.




May 1, 2022 6:16 PM

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hawk222 said:
Weird: I never knew Palmer was a pre-existing character, or that he was Barry's father. Guess I never did the Battle Tower stuff back when I first played the games...


I'm in the same boat, and I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I was starting to feel deeply foolish.
Sep 5, 2022 11:53 AM
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Not a big fan of DPP but even for the Fans it wasn't really a interesting plotpoint from this Game
Nov 9, 2:44 PM

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wasn't expecting the sinnoh episode to be barry centered, but I'm not complaining- I loved the narrative alot, non-linear storytelling is super interesting
wish he fought mars instead of jupiter though, would've loved to see her more in the artstyle and hear her voice



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