ahhhhhh your mom is called Mum that's so good

ah yes, the game set in the uk is the first one that makes it clear that you have umbrellas and rain jackets hanging by the front door. checks out.

"It's a simple desk that you can keep using even when you become an adult!"

deepest fucking lore, right off the bat

• as hinted at in b2w2, pokemon trainers do indeed age
• sunglasses
• adults are BANNED from using children's desks

cannot wait to crush leon into the dirt

i hope hop is watching

it's genuinely really cool to me that top pokemon trainers are like, celebrities

either it gets worse as the game goes on or the people trashing this game for having "worse graphics than the 3ds games" were full of shit, it's gorgeous

it seems like since gen vi they're trying to strike a balance between the early rivals like blue who are dicks to you and the ones that came after that who are just friends who happen to battle you sometimes

but it's heartbreaking because when the likes of hop say "i hope you're ready, [starter], because i'm training to become champion!" i think "oh, no, hop. i'm so sorry. you are dust. you are less than nothing. the smallest speed bump on my journey"

forgive me, we're in galar. the smallest sleeping policeman

"Monorail's made fast friends with her Scorbunny, too" ah so we're just ignoring capitalization on player names now? fuck you

oh shit, i thought leon was going to tell hop not to use wooloo

this might be a tight first battle

lmao never mind, i wasn't paying attention, i thought hop took sobble

he takes the pokemon weak to yours LMAO

a baby game, for babies,

i saw people complaining about it but i like the trainers talking to you mid-battle

i hope that other trainers continue to have dialogue for things like critical hits or status effects that you won't necessarily see

hopeless boss fight in pokemon is neat

has there been one of those before?

oh, the game only forces a capital first letter when your name is at the beginning of the sentence

wow, what a bad place for a bookshelf

balancing on the railing to grab a book

first town looks

not all, but a lot of the tutorials can be skipped

you can skip the catching tutorial just by catching a pokemon before that, but the game doesn't actually tell you that your mom gave you pokeballs

uhhhh exsqueeze me?

nickit has beat up? early game pokemon with beat up? hell yeah hell yeah

oh shit! old, old professor!

like "oak looks like a spry young lad" old!

beat up takes about a calendar year to use so i guess i'm turning off battle effects

i have a fucking CHOICE screenshot to post but it's so good i want to do it more justice than a phone picture, so it'll have to wait until i'm home

THERE'S NO FATE
TAKE CONTROL
STEAM POWER

this raises so many more questions than it answers, ball guy!!

in case you're wondering, there's no further explanation, basically just "I'll see you around!"

i'm not sure i want that, ball guy!!!!

finally home so i can post my league card

dynamaxed trainer

had a bad feeling about the league chairman and about the person in purple, then realized that the chairman was the one who endorsed them, so... hm...

holy shit does this team yell person have a vuvuzela

hop stop healing my pokemon every thirty seconds challenge, i promise i'm okay

all my pokemon were at full health this most recent time

holy shit hop is still practicing how to throw his pokeball

oh you know it is

i found a vulpix that wanted to play with a bouncy ball and that's my whole life now, playing with this vulpix