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Actually, pokemon can't have voice acting because the switch wouldn't be able to handle it. It already has a hard enough time running the game, adding those extra files would just make it way to big of a game for the switch to handle.

have you??? ever played another game???

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The thing I've always loved most about aa4 is how much darker the tone is than the rest of the series in a way that isn't just edgy for the sake of it, but subverts your expectations from the original 3 games in a really interesting way. The trilogy was built upon the trust Phoenix had in others, and it was something we as players could almost always feel certain in. AA4 flips this on its head and makes it so Apollo effectively can't trust anyone but himself.

Your mentor, who the in the trilogy was a paragon of wisdom you could always turn to no matter what, gets revealed to be the culprit and sent to jail in the first trial and by the end of the game his list of crimes has stacked high but you still have so few answers on why he did any of it.

Your boss, the goofy protagonist of the trilogy, is now inexplicably a washed-up, disgraced, cheating poker player with an implied drinking problem who seemingly found a new hobby in evidence forgery and jury rigging.

He has a codependent relationship with his daughter, your assistant, who usually is a completely innocent and hapless victim of circumstance. She sees herself as the provider for the house and will help her father cheat at poker, or forge evidence, or guilt trip the poor attorney they knowingly screwed of out of a job into working for them for dirt cheap.

The detective, the only other returning main character, a previous assistant, is completely changed since we last saw her. In the trilogy she was chipper and bright despite the hardships she faced, and now she's unfriendly and burned out, turned bitter by the world. The scene we're first properly introduced to her in Apollo genuinely spends several minutes thinking his boss is making him bribe her with cocaine.

Every single defendant is a criminal guilty of something other than what they're charged for. Each case centers around an underground black-market poker ring, a mafia family and medical malpractice, a smuggling ring, and a family of forgers and an incredibly shady troupe of magicians. The one thing all of these people have in common is that none of them will tell you literally anything about what's happening, half of them clearly reveling in being as big of cryptic assholes as possible.

The only person who doesn't fit this description is, for once, the prosecutor. Usually your biggest obstacle and the most morally corrupt of the main cast, he's the only person who's both 100% on the side of truth and on the same page as you for the entire game. He's just as clueless as you, being used nothing more than a chess piece just like you are.

But the truly masterful thing about AA4 is how morally grey it is. These characters aren't just one note villains. They're not even villains at all. Most of them aren't even malicious.

Your boss, for all the low levels he stoops to, is underneath it all the same guy he's always been, doing everything he can to bring a criminal to justice and protect his family. Your assistant is a sweet girl who truly cares about you, she's just prioritizing herself and her fathers safety before anything else. The detective is the same passionate and kind woman under everything else. The rest of the defendants are genuinely well-meaning young people who got involved in shady stuff they didn't fully understand.

The game is filled with good people trying to make the best of bad circumstances. The game has just as many fun moments as the original trilogy. For all it's rough appearance, the game has a similar heart. For every unanswered question or unrighted wrong, there's a smile or a hope for a better future. For every bad action, there's usually someone trying their best behind it. The game is melancholic and dark, but isn't afraid to let good shine through. It knows there's no shadows without the light.

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Hungry....

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Sommie from Fire Emblem Engage?

oh my god.... weird ouppy...

OH THIS CREATURE IS PERFECT. ITS SMALL . ITS TINY . ITS SO LIGHT. ITS ROUND. yes.... YES............. 10/10.... i love it....

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In light of recent events, let’s not forget that H. Bomberguy is responsible for driving a formerly-beloved transphobic TV writer into a downward spiral that cost him his career and his family… all by playing Donkey Kong.

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A commemorative illustration for Pandreo and FEH Ferdinand's VA, Ricco Fajardo, in memory of the incredible Billy Kametz. Super honoured to be entrusted with this piece 🥹

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Reminder that if you shit on spirit tracks because "haha train" you're a fucking bozo because it has bar none the best incarnation of zelda and the best version of her and link's relationship

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"what will i do if no new shows or movies come out"

have you considered playing the numbered xenoblade chronicles trilogy, all of which is playable on the widely owned nintendo switch system

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i cant believe i have to smoke this blunt with no pepsi 

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I'll never understand why people think Hector/Lyn wouldn't work because Lyn "wouldn't be happy away from Sacae" like literally her entire story mode is her up and leaving Sacae to find her grandfather in Caelin because she's sick of being alone in the plains, she would take a life with the people she loves in Lycia over a life alone in Sacae

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Reminder that dunsparce has always been a joke pokemon so dudunsparce being it's evolution after 7 generations of people begging for it to get one is incredibly funny and fitting and the people who are upset that it's not like some fucking godly dragon literally tricked themselves into thinking the pokemon based on a tsuchinoko had potential to be cool despite that being directly antithetical to its design premise

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Sena………………

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Lanz: I sparking hate agnians, and I'll never work with them.

Lanz with Sena literally 5 minutes later:

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People will think about shit like the Mario rpgs being good or the fact that games like star fox and f-zero weren't dead in the water and say "modern Nintendo sucks I miss the good old days" but they're wrong modern Nintendo is actually better because they're making way more xenoblade than they were in the 90s

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I hope in like 5-10 years the Fire Emblem fandom is able to look back and acknowledge how fucking unhinged it's been toward edelgard

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You can truly make any stock standard guy and people will eat it right up if he goes crazy for a lil bit