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Pretty Princess Pinkie – The Phantom of the Face Off Superhero Movie- Darkman

Hear ye Hear ye!  Princess Pinkie is here with a new movie post!


Greetings my loyal guests and subjects! If you are a bit like me you will have watched Taken and thought “That is a pretty good action movie with Liam Neeson….. but that whole daughter being captured is kinda cliché.. it would be so much better if he threw a temper tantrum over a pink plushie!” If you are not like me, there is a chance this movie might have flown under your radar! So no matter if we are different OR alike, today we will take a look at Darkman!

Behind the mask

Darkman is a superhero movie that was released on the silver screen in august of 1990, it starred Liam Neeson as Dr Peyton Westlake, who would later take up the moniker of Darkman. The movie is directed by Sam Rami, and is co-starred by Frances McDormand, a name people might recognise despite her kind of lacking any iconic roles. A quick IMDB search gave me no real “iconic roles” but she has played in Fargo, Burn After Reading and did a lot of voice works such as the Mamma Dinosaur in The good Dinosaur. The Antagonist of the movie, and it’s sequel is played by Larry Drake… who is best known for Darkman and Darkman II, but also was the voice of Pops in Johnny Bravo! See there you go!

The movie scores a respectable 6,4 on IMDB, which I think is a really good score for a 1990’s Sam Raimi directed superhero movie (and yes it has a Bruce Campbell cameo). While Liam Neeson played the role of the titular character in the first movie, the character was played by Arnold Vosloo in the sequel, which  would not be a big objection this time around since the movie is about switching faces… but for some weird reason in the sequel they replace Liam Neeson as if he was Vosloo all along. If nothing else this movie ins an interesting peek into Neesons earlier days of acting, which was .. a bit different, and with the early 90’s direction AND Raimi at the helm.. we see Neeson’s version of “Bully Maguire” or Symbiote Suit Spiderman from the Raimi trilogy… just done a lot earlier… and this time involving a pink elephant and let me tell you it is great.

Flim

Julie Hasting (played by McDormand) is ..I think… in real estate, or a real estate lawyer  When she discovers a big player on the real estate market is doing some illegal things trough a document, a crimelord by the name of Robert G Durant begins looking for these papers, for he is in the real estate market as well and with this document he can put pressure on his competitors and own the city! By mistake or plot convenience this document ends up in the possesion of Dr Peyton Westlake, boyfriend of Hastings and the man who one day wishes to be her husband.  He is researching a synthetic skin solution that can be printed into any face based on a few photos.  However the chemical compound of his masks degrades by exposure to light!  The masks are fine…in the dark but can survive about 100 minutes when exposed to light.  Durant finds Peyton and kills his lab assistant, electrocutes Peyton so hard his hands char up completely then traps him in an explosion ruining his face.. in a very similar style as to how Harvey Dent lost half of his face in The Dark Knight.

With many burns over his body Westlake can no longer face the woman he has proposed to.. he lost his scientific work  and his assistant, he lost his hands.. he lost everything, so now he swears revenge…which is amplified because the hospital severed all his nerves. Peyton no longer has any input of pain in his senses.. which causes everything else, including his emotions to overload! Drapped in bandages , a raincoat and a wide rimmed had.. he plans revenge.. rebuilding this face printing lab in an abandoned factory.. and using  these masks to take revenge on those who wronged him… unknowing it will cause his old love Julie to become tied up in this once again.

Face *Flourish* …..Off!

So in this movie we get Liam Neeson with enhanced emotions, and all sorts of B-Grade actors having to play Liam Neeson playing them, but Liam Neeson with Soap Opera emotions! This concept is amazing… When you watch Face-Off it’s great to see two of the most over acting Hollywood stars, playing the other playing them..in all their overacting glory. This movie.. let’s a handful of Hollywood Redshirts, play Liam Neeson.. who is forced to over act. Which is great because we know him as someone who is very stoic and composed.  This is mixed with a very strong Phantom of the Opera Influence throughout and supplemented by the camp that is 90’s superhero movies!…And it’s directed by Sam Raimi! How can this NOT be good! This concept is just so amazing!  What makes it even better is that a lot of the technology that is used in this movie, kind of, is relevant in this day and age. Sure we don’t have skin that dissolves in the light.. but the whole 3d printing and phone apps that can extrapolate a lot of data on your face make this movie all the more delightful to watch.

In this movie Liam Neeson infiltrates the Crime Network of Durant by making himself look like the henchman and of course like the head honcho himself. Now this already is a very fun criminal organisation, with your classical bald bruiser type guy, the sunglasses wearing cool dude with long hair,  and the scruffy looking guy with an artificial leg that can be detached and used as a weapon!  We have seen machine gun legs in a few movies.. but the way how this movie handles it is the GREATEST weaponised limb I have seen in movies. What’s different?! Well normally we see the owner of the weaponised limp use it… but not this time the cool guy just yanks the limp from the other guy and uses it.. or the scruffy guy hands it over to him.. but than just stands there.. hopping on one leg… that’s ALL he does!  He takes of his leg and gives it to someone else to shoot it .. while hopping! Hilarious.. but it also makes a lot of sense.. cause you can’t aim when hopping! It’s things like this that really show me the movie isn’t afraid to have fun with itself. 

Have you ever wondered how the phantom of the Opera just happened to find  one of those half masks .. and also the right half for his face?!   Well in this movie Neeson tries to print his own face.. but because his lab exploded the one photo he had of himself is damaged in the exact same spot as his real face! He tries to make his mask.. but he can’t he has to extrapolate.. and because he only has an old junky computer which was old in the 90’s.. turning that into a 3d model takes hundreds of days. Which sounds legit but nowadays it sounds hilarious! However it also shows us a bit in what timeframe this movie takes place it helps us feel the alienation, Peyton Westlake must go trough and it offers interesting challenges.

 Every mission he does..which later in the movie includes dating his former girlfriend again.. has to be done in 100 minutes or his new face will melt! So when a Carny refuses him a price he won..with only a few minutes left on the clock… with his enhanced emotion Peyton just loses it, with over the top rage eye effects added in and mind snapping animations to boot.. it’s just the flavour of bonkers I am looking for!  Honestly this movie makes Face/Off seem like a nuanced movie. Take the damned Elephant.. is something I never expected Liam Neeson to say in such a threatening voice, and it gets even better when we get into the classic, Shoot Him.. No Shoot him I am your real boss moments when a character is forced to shoot at one of the two similar looking characters.  I normally find that something for a Cartoon but there are little moments and motions that really sell this for me.  For example Peyton is super afraid the masks comes off so he is constantly tucking in his neck, it’s so weird to see a real actor.. straighten their own face.. but it really helps sell the illusion, it makes everything silly at the same time but I really love it.

Not so Dark….Man

This movie feels quite different from other Superhero movies as well, as Peyton does not really have much super powers, other than not being able to feel pain. He has to outsmart the villains, has to stake them out and thus he doesn’t patrol the streets at night, no he constantly stakes things out and goes for the slow burn. He learns routines, practices their voices, their quirks, and since Raimi wants to make the timer element much more of a thing, almost the entire movie , except for the grande finale, takes place during daytime. It’s the light that adds the suspense rather than the dark, and while I would not call the movie suspenseful, it really does add something that all fights take place during the day and we can see the doppelgangers in full colour rather than in a dim lit room to polish out some bad effects.  While some effects clearly do not hold up.. the movie really commits to it’s style!

You can see the movie was released at the back-end of the 80’s as a lot of the criminal stuff kind of reminded me of miami vice, the bright coloured suits the gangsters wear, the over the top.. cutting your finger off with a cigar cutter thing, the fact the movie has to have a helicopter chase. It feels really dated….but in a good way. Sure lady in this movie is a pretty helpless damsel in distress, their is not as much representation in this movie and the technology this movie was based on now almost is a joke, but that’s also what’s so likable about this.  It is not something that could exist in this form in this day and age, in almost any perspective. There is no real development for Peyton, the name Darkman is way to on the nose, the damsel is way too helpless  and durants gang ALMOST look like Jojo’s characters, fashion wise. Even the way chinese restaurants look feel dated..  which made me feel like I was watching something that has gone extinct.. like the Buddy Cop genre. .. It had a lot with that genre in common in the cinematographic style as well.

There is something about the way this movie is shot, not a lot of fancy tricks, not a lot of dark broody hero poses making the hero look cool, no! He gets the job done and is nervous, keeping checking on his watch,  At the ending we are shown there is another guy besides Durant who is all part of this whole construction situation scheme and he jumps around those metal girders of a construction site with ease, he has been on so many he developed a feeling for it, while Neeson’s character wrapped in a heavy coat and bandages has trouble. Never does he feel cool, or all that hero like..the camera really shows this as well.  Feeling very VERY basic for a Superhero movie, the action doesn’t feel “cool” or stylised. We really get the sensation that this is just a guy out for revenge..with a lot of enhanced emotions. 
Only those emotions are stylised which is neat because that fits the silly tone of this movie so well but also never makes the hero seem immortal. He does not feel physical pain..but he can be ashamed..he can be so nervous he is forced to run away and that’s just such a neat take on the genre.

Pink Elephant

I LOVED this movie! I still love it, even though I know the IMDB score of 6.4 is probably fair, to me it is so much more than that.  Yes the acting is hokey at times and McDormand really isn’t good in this movie but for some reason it blends so well. Because the movie wants Liam Neeson and the “duplicates” to lean so much into soap opera acting, the hammy acting of the rest of the cast really works as well, they fit in the same universe. Darkman somehow is extremely cliché YET  has this “pragmatic”  style of film making to it that really sells it for me. The big bad doesn’t get taken down  in a big epic satisfying way, it’s more like as if an opportunity arises and our hero takes it. That goes for all the takedowns. It goes for the movie making as well. It doesn’t come on screen as spectacular as you might want, sometimes even a bit clunky..but it feels very much intentional.

In the end I’d have to compare the movie with the a pink elephant plushie. Sure it’s not a giant bear , it also is made with some cheap looking plastic eyes and some overly bright fur and it’s not an iconic toy such as Pikachu plushie or whatever is on your Dakimakura and in many way it’s just a generic plushie.. but once you hold it and hug it, you can really appreciate how soft it is, how good it is to hug!  It might not be something you display with pride.. but whenever you are feeling blue you can pull it out of wherever you hide it and have a great time and let it and all of it’s flaws and camp cheer you up!  Great entertainment even if it’s nothing else.

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Have you seen this movie?! Did you like it?! What is your favourite cheesy Superhero movie?! Let me know in the comments! The Princess would like to know the thought of her subjects! If you liked this post please consider supporting me on Kofi! I am currently working on tiny projects to bring more content to the blog!

Yay! I am a Pokémon Princess: Pokémon Royal

Hear Ye Hear Ye, Princess Pinkie is here with a new Pokémon Post

My loyal guests and subjects, it is with the utmost delight that I am here to tell you about a Pokémon Fan Game that has eluded me for a while! I did not know of it’s existence until some sentai looking guy on YouTube told me this was among the best Pokémon fan games out there… he was not wrong!  Today I shall share my experience of the Pokémon Royal version with you!

Princess Pinkie in the Aristo Region

When I write this , I have only recently taken up the mantle of princess of Paradise Island , so I googled games in which you can be a princess. Not a lot came up, except for this super difficult Steam game with lots of stats and menus. I got bored and went looking for new Pokémon games to play!  Trough a YouTube Video I heard about Pokémon Royal! A game in which you play a princess.. or prince. As the youngest child of King Arthur and Queen Guinivere you are to embark on your very first pokémon journey… however this time.. if you win you do not just become the champion.. you the future king or queen! However for some strange reason, while you travel across the lands searching far and wide, something strange is happening, alternative forms of Pokémon show up.. not regional forms..but Pokémon from different times. It all seems to connect to a mysterious organisation named Team Knight! 

The Aristo Region features a classical Pokémon adventure, where you have to earn 8 gym badges, fight an evil team, can capture some legendaries here or there, and can capture pokémon from all 8 generations, as well as some counterparts for them of forgotten times. What’s more is the game isn’t as insanely hard as Pokémon Reborn, Insurgence or the likes, but instead ditches the “useless” stuff like worthless moves or “dead” abilities. It results in a fast paced Pokémon game that teaches you how to play at a semi-competitive level and think like a real trainer. The second gym already gives you Scald as a TM  which  is one of the best water type moves in the game and it really teaches you to keep a healthy balance between physical and special attackers, without feeling overly difficult.. it offers you plenty of variety but also shows you how a pokémon is properly kitted out.

The journey you take feels very much like Sword and Shield.. but from beginning to end basically let’s your monsters level from level 5 to right up to around 100 for the post game. When you get there though you are already around level 90.  The game throws you an exp share right away that works like the one in Pokémon Sword and Shield .. thus you can very easily get the team you want trough fairly minimum grinding Though keeping the challenge level of the orginal games with just a bit more oomph. The game features an original story that only uses Arthurian legend for namesake. Yes you will encounter Merlin, Morganna , Percival , Gallahad and Lancelot, but there is no magical sword there is no relation to the mythos .. it really is it’s own tale, that feels very Pokémon, not overly dark.. it completely feels like a legit pokémon game!  Which is nice for a change!  Fan games are either a lot darker or a lot sillier but this one gets the balance right.  Plus it does make me feel like a princess.

Pretty Princess, Silly Subjects

The game has been made by a fairly large group of people under the group of Norfolk Gaming.  They manage to create one of the best Pokémon regions I had the joy of playing trough. You bounce all across the map, unlock items to replace HM’s that willl grand you access to some part of the world but that path isn’t always in front of you. It really has puzzle elements and travel elements that remind me of Johto  and Hoenn and I mean that in the best way possible. We aren’t just walking circles, we trigger events that allow us to traverse a dynamic map! The battles are great , with trainers being much less bound to typings , unless it makes no sense otherwise (Swimmers due stick to water pokémon). The world feels alive, even bug catchers know to carry a pokémon that covers their weakness or so. 

As a result the game forces you to keep switching around in battles, healing items are a lot more sparce at least early in the game and revives aren’t available until after the fourth gym, which already is around the late level 30’s or early 40’s. This means the challenge isn’t so much in incredibly hard battles that constantly forces you to carry teams that are super effective against a specific type of trainer or gym leader, but rather invites you to build ONE team that covers everything and has some synergy amongst each other.. this is how I think Pokémon should be. I don’t enjoy those Kaizo roms. This makes you think.. yet still allows you to have fun and choose your own team…as long as it is at least semi functional. There aren’t much non functional Pokémon available anyway. No one would use shuckle for a game playthrough so why put it in the game… that’s this games motto and it makes  things great. The Temporal Pokémon, the special variants have super fun mechanics and puzzles are never a hassle so when it comes to your journey it’s such a delight.

For all the gameplay talent these developers had in their stable, they sincerely lacked pixel artists, their custom sprite work is  not good. When you see King Arthur for the first time you think… Oh boy.. this is gonna be a rough one… but no the game is great.. just the sprite work….and the name creativity I guess.   The third gym leader is a pirate, which for example uses Drake’s sprite.. but with a pirate head added to it.. but it doesn’t bland because colours aren’t adjusted. It just shows the creators aren’t sprite artists at all and at times it can really show compared to how polished the game is otherwise.  Most Temporal Pokémon are just recolours and they don’t always work.. with some great exceptions like my Hakomo’o!  Pink armored dragon yay!  But yes.. sprites can look a bit wonky and on area’s with special tiles the game can drop frames quite a bit. Which will be a constant reminder that this is a fan game, which is not a bad thing.. but some of these sprites would litterally take a minute or two to fix.. like Pirate Drake, or even King Arthur, he looks nothing like his back sprite or overworld variant.

Fit for a Queen

Like the models, the writing can be a bit hokey at times as well, plot twists are REALLY obvious and names of things are a bit to on the nose, no Morgana is not the leader of the evil team .. it’s still just names but seemingly innocent lines characters spout clearly show a hidden intention that is not revealed until much later.  There is a time travel element to this story that really reminded me of a movie about a time travelling prince, in fact the plot of this game is eerily similar to that movie.. but pokémonified.  It is not bad by any means but it is very by the numbers. It makes sense as a plot..but maybe it makes too much sense?! Every character has a counterpart it seems in the regular Pokémon world with your dad being a bit like the way Oak was originally intended and your brother being a Gary, even though his sprite is Hau… given how his mother and father look.. Hau did that happen *badum tsss quack*  While I point it out as a negative, this is really in line with how normal pokémon stories unfold though… and besides the lack of creativity here and there.. I really have no gripes with this game.

So much suddenly makes sense in this game, people actively mention that they would not like strangers in their house, but they welcome the Princess.. who may very well be their new queen, people are very friendly and helpful to you in this world as you are a somebody in this world.  So it’s not just.. “hey look a random 10 year old.. let’s give him a bike” .. no it’s OMA (Oh my Arceus)  the princess just walked into my bike store.. here have one of my bikes!  The whole Pokémon League and elite four thing is also much more a test to see if the Royal family is ready to defend the region! An elite four makes a lot more sense in a scenario like that.. as it is the gateway to a final tournament. People acknowledge that some parts of the world are more dangerous and have more dangerous pokémon so these areas are shielded from people who do not have enough badges, rather than them being locked because there is a sleeping pokemon in the way.

Areas and routes have much more a type bias with route 1 having bug and normal types, while route 2 may have some water pokémon and maybe some flying types.. The game starts you out with picking from a Dark, Fighting, Psychic core, with Zorua , Riolu and Espurr rather than the standard Grass Water Fire Core, which allows the routes to be more dynamic. Rather than hunting for random Pokémon you can hunt route 3 for a grass addition to your team, route 12 for a good ground type etc. This means you can build your party much , much more intentional with less clutter Pokémon. The Temporal Pokémon can diverge from these  biases though as do other event pokémon, which usually are good against upcoming gym leaders which makes exploring often worth your while as well, while the more generic pokémon you encounter often struggle against the gym leader.  For example when you cross the haunted forest, you’ll face the dark type gym leader next, when you travel through a rock Pokémon filled cave, you’ll fight the ground leader next.  However in case of the latter, you can find some event based water type pokémon by going off the beaten path!  I love this format! 

At the end of each track to a new town you encounter a repeatable trainer that can be challenged over and over again… so say you are stuck on the dark type leader you can go back to the route where you can find a lot of bugs or fighting pokémon, add it to your party then head back to the trainer right before the gym and repeat to make use of your exp share and level up your counter against said leader. Grinding can be knocked out within an hour that way meaning that even if you swap out your party a lot, you won’t end up putting THAT much time into grinding.. the game features a nifty speed up button that makes most grinding a matter of .. 30 minutes (provided you grind with at least some semblance of a plan).  I managed to beat the game in 5 evenings of playing with  the final stretch being a nice weekend day with a game I loved. This game has so many great ideas that it is worth picking up, and even if it doesn’t always stick to the landing of things it tries to achieve.. this game is a really great fit for any pokémon gamer who just wants another pokémon game! It might not be a Royal Flush.. but it is certainly a full house Queens over Kings!

What if my Blog was a Pokémon Game? The Paradise Region is Born

Hear Ye Hear Ye, Princess Pinkie has Returned with a new Pokémon Post


My sweet loyal subjects, as you may know I love theorycrafting and coming up with my own concepts for movies and games! I already designed concepts for about two Pokémon games..but non of them were about me! Now that I am a princess , I think we should change that. Sure we have Alola as a tropical region! Yet there were no gyms! You were the first Pokémon Champion ever.. it did not feel like the big leagues! It felt.. like a vacation! Yet what if I were to make my blog and it’s backstory into a whole new Pokémon Region and Pokémon Game! What would we get?! Today I will answer that question for you!

The Map

First of all we will need a general design for our region .. and that can be tricky! Hoenn has too much water for many while yet other people do not really like the whole circle motion you follow in Unova and Kalos. However Game freak really does seem to love this type of movement as you do it in Galar and Alola as well.. although a bit more disguised and tiered.  Luckily Paradise has gotten a map recently that we can use to give both the game designers as well as the pokémon fans what they like. You see Paradise is a heart shaped island, with the resort entrance lying in the tip of the heart and other things being located on the beaches around it.   The heart of the island is set for the pool area, everything seems to flock a bit around that so for our journey we will make the pool area our Pokémon League.  Since we already had a Hawaiian theme.. let’s make this one Mediterranean mixed with cuban elements. Latin..tropical! So let’s call the final city we visit Piscina City.. It’s pools after all.

The official Paradise Map!

By taking elements from our island we can easily make elemental towns! The starting town would be called Registrase which is a rough translation of check in! All around the heart we have some elements that can be adapted. My castle can be translated into a fairytale town, along with a fairy type gym!  Kaiju lake could be a lake filled with mysteries.. which in Pokémon games.. means ghost types.  The Bar or the restaurant could be converted into a fire town, while the docks obviously are the place to go for water types!  While we would be following the shape of the heart  we sometimes can move land inward for some new adventures.. or even go out to see for some water based minigames, or to investigate some strange events with gym leaders or other characters. The gardens could be thick jungle.. boucy ball beach could feature a roadblock pokémon that you can avoid by navigating trough half submerged caves. Plenty is possible, but as an idea we will scale our island up 100 times or so and turn all of our existing elements into towns.

A rough draft of how my Region would look in Pokémon Map style

Legendaries

Patchwork concept version of Patadeseo

Any good generation game has two box art legendaries and in this case it will be a Unicorn and a Duck legendary. A Fairy Fire type for the Unicorn, and a Water Dark Type for the duck! The Unicorn stands for Passion and the Duck will stand for Desire. We all know one can have a burning passion.. or a burning desire.. but in this case, that desire.. is when one pushes too deep. Let them be swallowed/consumed by desire.. let it be all around them with nothing else around.  Like a dark ocean.  The Unicorn we shall call Passiocornio and the duck will be called Patadeseo!  Both spanish portmanteaus of Passion Unicorn and Desire Duck respectively. Of course the duck would look really cool.  Plus words like Passion and Desire would fit really well in a tropical theme.  Of course to sell the games we need to avoid the word Desire so the games would be called Pokémon Passion and Pokemon Conviction.

Passiocornio recolour concept based on art by XiaoDarkCloud

Unlike other Pokémon legendaries who have been attributed to Pokémon life, we find out that Passiocornio and Patadeseo guide humanity, they have the ability to “speak”  through humans through a sort of voice in their head. It keeps the world of humanity going forward. It keeps humanity progressive, without these Pokémon humanity surely would lose the will to go on and become great pokémon masters!  So  you as the trainer will have to find a way to protect both these Pokémon from the evil team. Compared to other pokémon journeys that would have come before.. This journey would focus much more on what it means to be a trainer and dive into the human aspects of this world. Why do pokémon follow humans that closely, why do pokémon grow stronger when working with humans?!  Questions like these will be answered through the story with the legendaries as we really take a look at our part in this symbiosis. 

The Evil Team

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Team Mahan Grunt

Since I brought up the evil team just now I think that is a good next step to take in creating this world. This time the evil team would take the form of the FBI like people. “Agents” who feel the world is better off with them in control. With them policing over the world.  Events with them would be them selling Pokéballs with tracking chips to people, breaking into a tower to turn around the signal so they can use the radio to eavesdrop on people and potentially them wanting to shut down Pokémon Laboratories because they do not feel 10 year olds are ready to have Pokémon yet.  Yet outside these evil deeds, we also see them volunteer to find every missing kid or help out with other problems in the Pokémon world.. as long as they receive praise and status. I will call them team Mahan. Which basically is a reference to the “The Man”  which is often used for government instances. I feel like having a red white and blue colour scheme would get me in trouble.. so let’s say they wear all black and look a bit like the agents in the Matrix.

Mahan Boss Orwell

The Leader of the evil team is called Orwell and while having a legit reason to be the way he is he will be among the more evil villains in the series. Orwell’s son.. George once took of on his trainer journey much like the player before him. Orwell did not want him to go.. but there was this passion in the boys out and Orwell knew he could not stop him.  Yet on his journey George met an untimely end.. Orwell tried to warn humanity to abolish kid trainers or even children having Pokémon.. but no one would listen and that’s when he realised humanity was stupid! It could not take care of itself… he would have to protect them against themselves.  By Capturing both legendaries he can link everyone’s Passion and Conviction and complete .. the Hive Mind.. a machine he can use to pierce the subconscious of all humans, this way he can protect them from themselves and enslave mankind .. free from it’s whims. Such a theme will be chosen because it meshes well with what Paradise and me are about.. but it also ties in nicely in the exploration of humanity story that is this game.

The Starter and the Rivals

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Sobble Cries because all the starter Elitism and hate

That is right I wrote rivals as a Plural, so this means we are going to have multiple rivals in my game! Symbolising the variety of content you can get on Paradise. However this game will not feature all rivals such as Sword and Shield or  Kalos or any other multiple rival game.. no this game will only have one of them, you will have two.. but who they are all depends on your starting choice.. where in lies the biggest difference from all Pokémon games. You see I do not think we need more pokémon persé. With a Biodiversity of over 920 species we don’t need THAT much more. I’d rather see some extra regional variants to make old pokémon more relevant again maybe with an evolution here or there but I do not think each generation needs 100 extra pokémon. In my opinion one of the most toxic things about new games coming out .. is the starters.  People are SOOOO ungrateful when it comes to new starters.. and we have taken that whole grass water fire thing far enough! People are never really happy anymore.. which is why I propose a radical change in how starters work.. I will make a more in depth post about that some other day…maybe!

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Pick what type of trainer you want to be!

My idea is that instead of just being asked what your preferred gender is, we also get a question about what your favourite typing is. From that question you will be assigned a pokémon of that type as a starter.. as long as it follows a few parameters, such as knowing an offensive move at level 5 and learning an additional one that gives a Same  Type Attack Bonus by level 15. You can get ANY Pokémon from that type in the game.  Which makes it a much bigger surprise and will make replaying your game feel more fresh. Your rivals would also change at least in my game.. they are bloggers based on your strength and weakness.  I’d pick fairy for example so my biggest Rival would be A guy everybody loves that uses steel type Pokémon and who is very friendly and loves doglike pokémon. 

Variable Rivals, this one might be the fire user

My weakness Rival would be this busy bee girl who specialises in fighting types but also carries a gardevoir as her magical girl. She lloves to lift weight and talk in length about her Pokémon on Radio Shows. Two very nice behavioured rivals, but say had you picked the Psychic type, one of your rivals would be the mysterious man with a one letter name  who would use dark types and act all mean.. even though it is just an act. He wears a tophat and talks with movie quotes a lot.  This would also impact the story at least in an illusion of choice kind of way. Where my steel rival with golden eyebrows  happily tags along you to defeat Team Mahan, a certain anime blogger for example has much less time..and is probably drunk.. so instead she rushes ahead.. only defeating half of the trainers.. leaving you with equally plenty experience to gather from these trainers…but the with your battles unfolding somewhat differently.

The League

The Fairy Type Gym Leader

The Paradise League would feature 8 gym leaders like normal, and they would be based on characters I have on my blog albeit less stolen. Instead of Nakiri Alice as my chef, we’d get a cook, that is also a chemist that loves cooking with his fire pokémon. His gym puzzle would involve gathering ingredients and applying some science to it to produce the correct dish. If you fail.. a clean up crew comes along.. they are annoyed that they have to work now and will attack and battle you. The fairy castle town will feature Chibi Pinkie as a Gymleader dressed like a jester! She wants you to give gifts to the Princess subjects.. they give you a small description of their desired gift..and if you give them the right one.. they WILL honor you with a battle. If you give them the wrong gift they get sad and Jester Pinkie will be angry and become more difficult in battle.  Other gyms would work in similar ways with gym puzzles involving a chore or event that is tied with Paradise actual location.

The Elite four is very simple!  It’s my writing Staff. Indigo would be a steel type user with Bisharp as his ace, Kuro would be a ghost type user with a Regional and better Dusknoir as their ace. Sunny would be a water type user and his ace would be a shiny Milotic that you see raise him from a Feebas earlier. The most ugly fish now turned beautiful is a great metaphor for Sunny.  Periwinkle would be a Dragon Type user.  Dragon’s symbolises his need to put obstacles in his own way by playing super shitty games! His team has a lot of Outrage users and he is an elite 4 leader with a twist. His Pokémon are of a higher level.. but they function like they don’t always obey him.. much like traded Pokémon of to high level.  Periwinkle’s Pokemon are so powerful he soldiered through.. but you need to take advantage of this by using paralysis and confusion tactics to fight him.. it’s not just sheer offence!   His signature Pokémon would be a Druddigon to symbolise this character best.

The Paradise Elite Four
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Lovable Socially Awkward Professor Palm

The Professor of the Region is a part of this gym journey as well, she is a female professor called Professor Palm. She looks a bit like Palm from Hunter x Hunter as well and her gimmick is that she is massively socially awkward. She represents the geek in all of us, and while she can passionately talk about pokémon… each time she becomes aware she is doing it she freezes up!  She is the polar opposite of professor Sycamore and talks in a very stuttery wayl She is actually a woman of science and has that scientist nervousness! She isn’t a people person and is a bit awkward around children. She will be a fun addition to the Pokémon professor family! She truly is a scientist who dedicated her life to Pokémon. She will utterly be able to talk to the main character and then introduces us to the follower Pokémon mechanic after which she speaks to you trough your Pokémon. “Bulbasaur Tell Pinkie that this Pokédex can register all types of Pokémon” Kawaii!

The Champion

Can you beat the Paradise Champion?

At the end of your journey you would face the champion of Paradise and that would of course be yours truely! Throughout the journey you encounter me a few times. I’d  follow a princess theme!  So I’d be dressed regally like Iris and have mannerisms that hold in between Cynthia and Diantha.  An Amalgamation of the best elements of every female champion. I’d be the ruler of the island as well but this time we will show a person in power is actually not evil! I am sweet!  During the game I will use several teams but always carry my Sylveon with me.  I will  mention that I use several pokémon so all my friends can go out to play. When I support the main character I will carry a team of five pink pokémon, mentioning I have a sixth but people would go crazy if they knew I had it! Early in the game you can find me adopting a lost stuful! 

My champion team would fit a princess theme as well. I would have a Kantonian Rapidash to symbolise my unicorn. A Sirfetch’d would be my knight  and Bewear would be my teddy for tea parties.. speaking of tea parties , I’d have an Appletun and Polteageist to be the sweets and tea of a princess party. My final Pokémon would be my Ace Sylveon! I carry that everywhere I go. I know I said Rapidash isn’t in the Pokédex.. and it is not!  It is mine and mine alone! It will help simulate the bratty part of the princess. In My rematch team I use a hybrid of my pink team and princess team. Chansey with Toxic as a lead, Sylveon as an Ace, Bisharp instead of Sirfetch’d for coverage.the teapot would probably still make the team as well an Ariados would make the team for more toxic stalling options and finally I would have a Mew.. which we would give a new form, cause we gotta make some sales! And that  is how Paradise became a game!

The Champion and her first Pokémon League Team

And that is how I’d imagine Paradise as a Pokémon Region/Game. How would your blog look as a Pokémon Region?! What would your champion team be? Do you think my team fits me?! Let’s talk geeky, though I might be napping! Because remember! Friendship is Magic, but dreams are even more wonderful. Oyasumi!

If you want to help me fund this game.. ..but realise I am joking here and you just want to support me.. consider helping me out by buying me a cofee.. or as I like to call it .. A Royalty.. once again Oyasumi!

The Great Change: A Paradise Restyle

Hear Ye Hear Ye! Princess Pinkie is here with a new post! Her first post in the capacity of supreme regent of the Paradise. Salutations loyal guests and subjects! The time has come! Paradise has evolved from a corporation to a nation! A nation under no god (You can pick one if you so choose, but not a single one is right)  and one princess! Located between imagination and reality! Welcome to the new Paradise. So if you are reading this in WordPress Reader, do take a look at our website over on https://pinkiesparadise.com/

Pinkie restyled

As you may know Pinkie is a name for not one, but two entities. The Homo-romantic-demi sexual woman of 34.. I mean 21 years old living in the Netherlands who types and styles this blog, as well as Pinkie the name for the virtual entity and avatar. The one who manages the tropical island of Paradise as it’s manager. The author Pinkie sends the character Pinkie on a quest to find an item that would allow her to reach her Mega-Evolution. You see the virtual Pinkie discovered she was a virtual life form that evolved multiple times and as such she discovered she had.. at the very least… one transformation left. Hopefully being rid of the moth toxins would help her feel better and healthier.. which in turn may help the real Pinkie feel better and healthier… but for that whole story click the link here!

Rubber Duck Pink Unicorn Duck buy at Hollandwinkel.NL

If people here really read my blog, or those who chat with me in real life people would answer one of three animals for my spirit animal. A panda, a unicorn or a duck. I figured that the panda elements are always intrinsically tied to me due to my lack of libido or grasp innuendo. Since a duck model might be too hard to make I chose to go with the only feasible possibility that will probably mean I am one of the very few people who uses a totem animal like this! I chose for the totem .. that is the majestic unicorn duck! Yet something else needed to change. Over the past year or so I have always portrayed Pinkie as the manager that blogs daily and works hard. I had very much trouble letting that image, I needed something a little bit extra. Someone who is not afraid to coast from blogging every now and again… a flavour excuse ..against my morality saying skipping a day is wrong as it were.. it turns that flavour was changing her from a manager into a Princess.

Which brings us to the new model of Pinkie which is displayed here!

Yay at least virtual me could get a haircut!
My Bag of Holding

Look at that, aren’t I adorable?  As you may see there are several elements to convey all the elements. Let’s first discuss my lovely new dress!  It has a cute frock with hearts, and looks quite a bit more regal! I have a gold crown.. but also a silver crown If I want to look a bit more subtle.. you know.. for when I attend a funeral or something. If you hear some cute little pit pats behind you! There is a chance that it is me on my adorable duck feet! Yes I know that will be hard to model in VRoid ..but you’ll never see that part  in videos so it doesn’t really matter.  There is also duck feathers growing out of me on random places.. but we have found a way to make them all pop out at my diaphragm so it works like kind of a belt.. just below where my corset goes…. the trick is tying the corset so tight I can barely breathe! Another duck element is the cute little duck purse! It is actually a bag of holding so good for all sorts of stuff I need to take out..including power morphers, my magical girl transformation item etc.

Unicorn Mane Twintails

The unicorn-horn holds most of my magical powers..but the duck feather pops out there because I am not an equastian unicorn! I am a duck-unicorn. I can fire lasers from it.. like my Mothra power.. but this time rather than use it for sheer destruction I can also turn everything I hit into marshmallows. I have most of my mothra powers. I can fly, am immortal and can create gust of wind.. this time by plucking a feather and tossing it.. it will create a kawaii tornado. The toxic scales are gone though! Instead I can use the magical heart gems on my outfit to heal others.. or make them play nice with me!  This is also why violence on Paradise island is not possible at all!  Love and peace!  I can switch between my forms.. but I really like this one!

This amazing new avatar was made by the great artist Jezzychii!  For just about €30,- let’s say $35 dollars I had this full body commision within two weeks after ordering! She is very versatile as well and very soon I will commision another piece with her to get acces to some emotions! If you want to check her out please do at:
https://www.fiverr.com/jezzychii

Redesigning the blog

Periwinkle
2.0

A new era comes with a new banner. Yet both Sunny and Periwinkle had a bit troublesome designs to use in a banner. Sunny’s design was made in a variant of the software I used to make the first Pinkie.  It looked close enough to Kuro and Indigo though to use as their actual avatar. However it gave me a lot of trouble composition, as it was only a face I would always be locked into a banner where everyone was in that pose.  Which will become an issue with STAFF if we ever grow. Periwinkle made his character in the days that Chibimaker was no longer playable and found a similar piece of software but it was too simplistic. Which resulted mostly in linework issues.  So I downloaded the program called Flashpoint which allows me to play Flashgames still! It indeed had Chibimaker and thus I created Chibmaker counter parts for them. I had one for Sunny already but now I could unify the style of my staff. This is what I came up with in the end.

A new banner with all my Nakama
New Favicon

I wished to incorporate magical girl and tropical elements in the banner. So I chose a backdrop that feels like a tropical sunset.. but added some sparkles and hearts to also make it feel like a magical girl transformation background. I used a new more princessy font for the title and implemented my brand shade of pink #ff89cd Which is also used for the palm trees.I added the staff and myself to the picture as well as the coconuts.. which also represent the reader and I had a banner I could feel happy with! It feels busy… but very on brand. The border around it is a princessy photo frame that will now be used in several other assets to feel as if separate elements in the blog are all part of the same image, yet also separate.

Jester Pinkie

You may also have seen the chibi version of me hiding behind .. me!  I decided to bring her back as a character on the blog. Mostly she will feature in Paradise stories but she also will double as a Mascotte that  may appear in pictures I make or in general tomfoolery. Maybe she can be featured in some posts from the past! Or overly jokey posts! Oh the possibilities! She does to bonk people on the head with her jester-wand-scepter thing a lot though so she is oftenly in bonk jail! She keeps escaping though and thinking up pranks! I dread the day that she runs of to K and cooks up something really devious!

The frame used in the banner as said will be a recurring element in most assets. Such as the new cocktails/featured images.  Cutting out a round shape for cocktails can be a bit of a hassle and these pictures really did not perform well in my new theme. Instead I opted to go for a more stretched variant, with a cocktail in pink as well as the frame. With an icon depicting what kind of content it is like before. This looks a bit more clean and can be saved as JPEGs rather than PNG’s which also saves me on tons of storage space. I am considering making uniquely coloured variants for the staff, with a cocktail of their own.. but I decided to make these achievements.  With a custom coloured frame unlocking after say 50 posts, your custom cocktail at 100 posts! It gives the staff something to strive for! I think that should be fun!  The icons will be:  A SNES controller for gaming content, a movie reel, for movies and series, a smiley geek for geek content, the crunchyroll logo for anime (open for suggestions for another option for that)  a pokeball for pokemon and a typewriter for fan fiction.  Not much changes in that aspect. The cocktails that will be posted into every category rather than having a rainbow will have no logo and are deemed universal.

Sweet Sweet, ability to edit in featured thing more easily! Also yay Pink!

Finally I changed the blog theme to Chronicle, I needed a change up and really liked some features this theme had to offer. Such as highlighted content per category.  The ability to use banners of any size and just feeling right for the princessy theme I am now going for. It’s a bit busier than my old theme but it has that “sparkly” feeling for me. Just something new to wear for the next year or so. It still lets me use featured images in the way I want it too but now with stuff zooming and stuff happening. It all feels just a bit more… Pinkie! It doesn’t hurt that this theme can utilize my signature shade of pink either!

Redesigning Paradise

Like I said in my 500th post, content from my end my shift a bit to more lighthearted whimsey. Cartoony.. which applies to my “reviews” as well. I will react to them like a spoiled little princess.. or the sweetest magical girl and look at it from a more raw emotional angle. So think at a sarcastic princess talking about burning down a Uwe Boll movie… or a sweet little girl protecting the childhood memories of a movie that is deemed pretty bad by the internet.. but that she kinda secretly loves. Also a lot more weird “my brain” things where I wonder how pokémon taste and such!  For now I have dropped stories like “What Bad Luck, I got reincarnated and now I am a Side Character”. I have Elle’s journey mapped out and one day I might return to it, but it really lacked an audience. Instead I will be doing more stories set in Paradise.. much like how Sunny does, written as stand alone stories..almost comic like. For this very reason I have designed a map of Paradise, which will show you the general layout of Paradise! Which will also be featured in our new About Page. (Pending at the moment of writing)

The Map of Paradise is handed to you upon checking in..and shows up on that weird tv channel hotels have!

What doesn’t change though is that we are still welcoming to Staff Members. I post every other day, with Periwinkle having one or two posts every week and the other staff posting incidentally. I will keep looking for STAFF until we basically can consistently put out a post every day of the week again. So mostly in the anime department I am looking for someone who’d like to join the STAFF still, so if you are interested in joining a lovable band of goofs!  Feel free to give us a shout!  YouTube will be less of a focus for now as my health is recovering, but in time will be implemented more in Paradise. Existing as two sides of the same coin rather than being something separate. Of course Staff members can integrate their other content as well if they wish. I have this dream of people creating content together, all getting a penny of Kofi money or likes in their own way.  Everyone is doing their own thing yet doing it together as well. That to me is Paradise.

I am trying to become more active on other peoples blogs again as well and come back to OWLS as soon as the relentless migraine attacks let up. I am pretty active during my daytime but in the evening I get downed pretty hard. So right now I only have half days!  My blog comes before OWLS right now.. because to be part of OWLS I need to be able to blog to begin with. So there is that. By all means I should get over this soon though, normally this is a seasonal health thing..but with how weird things have been it all has gone on for much longer.  But yes I do plan to be more active in both gamer and anime blogger environments!

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Energy is returning to Paradise and I hope to let it show.. both on blogosphere and on the fictional island itself!
I thank you for your hard work reading this posts loyal subjects! I would really appreciate interactions, likes, and of course comments. What do you think of the new theme and look? Do you think Unicorn Duck Princess Pinkie is a better fit for me?! Now I worked hard enough for a princess.. so I shall retire to the royal chambers. Shine on my subjects.. Tata for now. Oyasumi! Oh and did you know I have a new Kofi Banner as well?!

Top 5: Favorite Pink Shiny Pokémon

Little subjects, last week we talked about my top five favorite Pink Pokémon. The post did quite well remarkably. Because I do care about all of your feelings, just not that much,  I have decided to entertain you with another list of pinkness. This week we will discuss the pokémon that have a 1 in 4096 chance to be pink! The top 5 pink shinies. In order to qualify the pokémon’s main colour has to be significantly different from its original form.  Each entry shall feature an image of the original pokemon as well as it’s shiny variation. The shiny one will always be the pinkest one!

Number 5: Shiny Buneary 

Buneary and Lopunny are cute bunny pokémon introduced in the fourth generation, the first for buneary has to be leveled up through the power of friendship to reach its full potential. I already really love the concept of friendship evolutions in the pokémon games but they can get tedious when it’s needed on frail pokémon like Buneary. To make sure you max friendship you have to make sure they don’t go down in battle, but use them in battle which means you automatically start caring for these pokémon and a bond is sure to happen. Especially in the generations where you don’t have tamato berries (which raise friendship) to shove down their throats Buneary to me was such a pokémon and to find out it’s shiny was very pink made that bond even stronger.

It’s available enough to actually shiny hunt (which makes goes for all the shinies on this list)  so you don’t have to reset the game over and over and over. It lives in a beautiful habitat to search for it and unlike my number 1 pick, you can evolve it and still have a pink shiny. Decent in battle and with the right set up even unstoppable. This little bunny can kick your ass and look like it’s covered in cotton candy while doing it. That makes it a pretty perfect shiny for me, being normal type it’s of my best liked typing on this entire list. Cute in its basic state, Waifu Material to some (I don’t kinkshame.. but I am not into her) in its stage 1 form and usable in battle as a Mega Evolution. This Pink shiny caters to a lot of different people.

Number 4: Shiny Hypno

A pink shiny that has a creepy quality to it is always fun. Hypno in its regular yellow form is already known for taking little children by hypnotising them and vanishing with them. The pink version looks even creepier, like a weird naked guy that shows up to the park and then hypnotises your child to take it away. In a way he reminds me of Adrian Toomes the Vulture from the spider-man comics and mostly the way Vulture was depicted in 1994’s Spider-Man cartoon series. In this show Toomes was a bald old man, whose costume had a fur collar much like Hypnos. He would attack victims with a special made flight suit to siphon their youth for a while. I could see shiny hypno taking a child than eating it’s dreams to make itself younger and the kid would age or grow up without dreams or something. Maybe I can use it if I ever do a spider-mon story.

While I never really used a Hypno on my teams it is a somewhat solid party member that can function as something that can take special attacks very well. Its attacking stats aren’t more than average, but with moves like Future Sight, Hypnosis and Nightmare you can at least turn it into something your opponent has to struggle to deal with.

It was one of the first pokémon I intensely tried to shiny hunt in Pokémon Go… and failed, which led to one of my weirdest Zoo outings ever, where I ignored the watch where you go warning and ended up in an interesting situation. Unlike all the other shinies on this list he’s not cute or cuddly and that’s what I really like about this design, maybe it is only because my imagination is  this vivid but I just found this hypnotic pokémon a real creeper in it’s shiny form! Which is great for a pokémon that lorewise is kind of a creeper anyway. If you are under the age of 12 and see someone like this standing in a dark alley run! 

Number 3: Shiny Ampharos

The final evolution of the Mareep line.. as well as the entire line for that matter, have always been my favorite electric type pokémon. It is one of the types i care very little for being weak to the very common ground moves and being strong to flying and water whom I usually have better answers for (grass and rock) when I use electric moves they are usually on other types to exploit better STAB. Yet Mareep, Flaaffy and Ampharos were my most beloved pokémon during my first time playing trough Gold and Silver.  I didn’t nickname them back than yet so I could remember the species name but when I obtained Soulsilver I caught another one I named Curly Bob. Curly Bob must have had a much better nature then my old Ampharos because he was the most badass pokémon on my team. He put my typhlosion to shame, which may have had something to do that back then I did not understand all the nuances of the game and I slapped some random moves on him.

Since I am a person who hates grinding or repetitive tasks , I wasn’t the biggest shiny hunter in the world so until a while ago I never knew what shiny ampharos looked like. I love a pokémon whether they are shiny or not Curly Bob would get as much love as BeepBeep got (my shiny Ampharos in Pokémon Go).  While it doesn’t really read as a sheep anymore and the mega form isn’t pretty Ampharos is just a treat to have in your party. Having access to a nice moveset , including fighting type moves and normal type moves alongside recently some dragon type moves it’s really a pokémon that can help you deal with a lot of obstacles thrown at you at pokémon gold and silver. I always remembered how good that sheep was too me. With a shiny as pink as the one it got, the fond memories of this particular pokemon only grew stronger.

Number 2: Shiny Furret

Another gen II , Johto pokémon that got a great shiny (I would have put Crobat instead of Buneary but like the last list I do wanted some generation variation)  and a adorable pink one as well. I love Furret. Sentret was the first pokémon I caught in Pokémon Gold to go alongside my Chikorita and I always caught a sentret in my subsequent runs. Though I never found a shiny of course this pokémon just had ‘something’  because of how cute it’s evolution was. It’s by far the most adorable “first route’ critter you can find. While Zigzagoon and Linoone are better Furret is just absolutely amazing on it’s own.

This was the first pokémon I actively wished for as an actual pet. I mean who wants a fire breathing dragon when you can have a ringed speedy ferret. I wanted a ferret as a pet because of this pokémon but I never get one. Well I got one of those balls with a fake ferret attached to it for the fest of “Sinterklaas’ but it wasn’t really the same. It’s hard to explain why I liked a basic pokémon THAT much. I did not in generation one, and I haven’t cared as much since. Even now I think… maybe I should get a ferret,  but let’s not, it would not get along with the tame duck I have to get myself one day.

Shiny furret kind of looks like a raspberry candy cane.. a fluffy one which makes it all the more innocent and cute looking. A set I like to run is the one where I poison my beloved pink ferret with a Toxic Orb, than give it the move Facade for some high power damage. It also can learn trick to poison other people, Sucker Punch to always strike first and Brick Break to deal with pesky barriers and deal damage to the types that resist it. like rock and steel types. It only survives for a few turns with a toxic orb but by that time if can have wreaked some havoc. It isn’t a warmachine..but each time a shiny furret pops on my screen I am just smiling  contently and that is enough. 

Number 1: Shiny Ducklett

I love ducks, not in the amorous way  but still I love them a lot. Possibly my favorite animal  ever, they are just something amazing to me. They make the cutest sound, have the cutest walk and have the best size for an animal, they have the best kind of poop, their food is relatively cheap. They can fly but if they are loyal to you they do come back or they can just waddle around. They can even be somewhat affectionate.. of course not on the levels of a dog or a cat but more than a goldfish or hamster. So like a bunny they do fall in the perfect category. The bunnies have better poop but can ruin your furniture. So great pets! Like a ferret as well. I would not mind a sheep as a pet either… only the old man that preys on childs is not really a great pet. The poop of that one is also the worst to clean up. 

Back to our topic. Ducklett is a water flying type introduced to us in generation V, Unova. In its regular form it’s a cyan duck with some blue belly feathers. Shiny those belly feathers become purple and it’s main body the cutest pink. Since its evolution is non pink you’ll have to give it an Everstone item that blocks evolution though, which kinda makes it fairly worthless to battle. Not a single tat is even average it’s all below. However you can let use Rain Dance on a rain team or Tail Wind to buff up your team’s speed. Their even is the Endavour + Focus Sash + Quick attack tech to ensure the little pink duck still gets a kill. Trading a Ducklett for a Mewtwo still is a good thing.

Ducklett is just such a cute pokémon, I loved the thug ducks  in the black and white anime, I love how it has an abilty called Big Pecks and the Ducklett gives are amazing. I hope that my pet duck , as soon as I start making money again , will be half as adorable as these. I might even name it Big Pecks. You can never go wrong with a duck let alone a pink duck! And while we will talk about another Pink Duck at one point in this blog’s future this one is the most adorable one and the cutest pink shiny there is! In Black and White 2 it spawns in an area where it’s just Ducklett as well so shiny hunting is relatively easily!.. Except for the shiny odds in that game still being 8120 or so.. Big Pecks! Tiny odds!

Question to my Readers:

What is your favorite Pink Shiny?

Now that you know what my favorite pink shiny is (and spoiler its my favorite shiny as well) t is time to make room for some of the other Pinkies.  I’ll doubt any of them however will be as shiny as me! And remember .. if you like another pink shiny best.. you are wrong!
*Princess Bow*

The Pinkest Poké Blogger is blasting off again!
XO
Pinkie

Top 5: Pokémon Fan Games

As a princess I deserve some quality entertainment and though my court jester Aipom occasionally provides some good antics for me to laugh at as well as your silly mistakes in Pokémon games this princess is not that easily satisfied. Pokémon is our passion and even though the official Pokémon games are quite entertaining.. I deserve to be rich and have as much games as I want. Luckily we have some slav…. uhm ‘fellow fans’ who develop  their own take on games for us and their results can be quite amazing. Oftenly giving us more of a challenge, something a bit different. Today I will show you such content as I show you five gems of my treasury.
My top 5 favorite fangames. 

Fangame Number 5: Pokémon Clover

Pokémon Clover is also known as Pokemon V.. or Pokémon 4chan. Now to answer your first question… yes that is exactly as stupid as it sounds. Instead of pokémon based on dogs snakes or plants, we get pokémon based on cum, dicks and poo. We get a pink horse named Geigh it’s pokédex says it pushes the gay agenda. Instead of diglett tunnel we have a cave leading across the border where a bunch of lazy sombrero working people are trying to cross the border if you help them, they offer you the poo flute.  Which can wake up the Cacademon pokemon. This game feels like 4chan in every single way. Not spending a lot of time myself on such things to me it kinda felt like Seth McFarlane’s version of pokémon… or Family guy pokémon if you managed to miss Seth created it. I started this game as a female.. but I quickly restarted into being a male.. because the female rival is amazing. While you are playing a female.. you get a very dopey but fun looking avatar and a fairly normal rival who is somewhat douchey.. but also bland and generic. Similar to how Brandon was a rival in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.. you barely remember him. If you start as a male.. your rival is KEKsandra, a girl who speaks in memes and L33T.. a whirlwind of jokes and fun.

The game is set in the Fochun region (clever right?) and you get invited by professor Stump to take one of the three following pokémon. Grasshole the butt pokémon. Arabomb.. who is a bomb wearing a turban and Ejacasmn one of the many sperm pokémon in the game.
Grasshole evolves into Analgae and Rectreem respectively, the last one being a big ass with an entire tree growing out of it. Arabomb evolves into IguAllah and Lizackbar respectively.. the last one being a lizard wearing an explosive belt and arabian headwear. Ejacasm evolves into Hosajack and Condoom with the final evolution representing a filled blue condom.. being a water and poison type. It barely gets any better from there.

(Leader Kanye)

Gym Leaders battles have a mysterious musical theme and if it plays seven times the final gym leader will appear. Gym leaders you will face are people like Brock, Tumblrita , the hologram of Freddie Mercury, a random neonazi  and of course Kanye West who is suffering from Ebola. Trainer classes you can encounter are Neckbeards, Weebs, Feminists, Trannies, Immigrants Meth cookers (Walt and Jess) Memers and Midgets. The game is unfair and seeks to offend you or anyone else all the time.

At the end of the final dungeon.. victory road (which takes about 15 minutes just to navigate through) you encounter Fuckin L Jackson who has a team of 6 extremely overleveled Pokémon called Motherfuck. They only know one move.. explosion with the ability shadow tag.

If you dont have a ghost pokémon or revive on hand (which is likely cause your at dungeons end and ghost types are rare and not that good..by design) you will lose and be send back at least 15 minutes.  There is a plot about team Karma and their leader Kymmi (KnowYourMeme) who is trying to find the legendary pokémon but yeah, this isn’t a game you are playing for the amazing story. This game is nothing but silliness. Eventually somewhere the game will make the ultimate your mom joke.. after which you battle her. Her ace pokémon is a box of dragondildos. For how silly the game is, it’s set up pretty well.. besides the screw the player moments the game is easy enough to breeze through coming closest to the actual pokémon experience of all the games on this list. With plenty of support and A LOT of custom pokemon to catch this game is as fun to play as it can be offensive. You better learn the konami code to beat Anonymous though. There are references here for everyone to enjoy.

if you know nothing about pokémon you can still play this game. For example what dual typing would  Gym Leader Snoop prefer? That’s right Grass and Fire! If you want to have a silly fun time with pokémon and dont take their insulting your beliefs to serious this can game can be your lucky charm. P.S. Don’t use cheat engine in this game.. you will get the bad ending.

Fangame Number 4: Pokémon Uranium

A fakemon game like clover but less silly. I personally enjoyed playing through clover more but Uranium is more inviting for a replay edging it out in the number 4 position. In Pokémon Uranium you travel across the Tandor Region. You have lost your mother in a nuclear incident and now throughout the region these problems seem to play out once again with your custom made starter you once more travel to gather all 8 gym badges so you can travel across the world and prevent disasters from happening. Would I judge a game soley it’s qualities Pokémon Mega Adventure would have taken this spot, but the latter is a bit to much of a classical adventure making it harder to reckoment. It does everything Uranium does somewhat better… but arguably so do the original games and Mega Adventures is like a bigger version of those.  Uranium gives you something unique. Their Fakemon are the best I have ever seen.

Not only their completely own mons they also gave a few classic ones a brand new evolution including Dunsparce and primeape, which I am really happy about. In fact some of their designs are so good that I actually confuse them for the real ones. My Baashaaf for example was beloved and I quite oftenly namedrop it when naming sheep pokemon. Not every mon is that well designed and unfortunately I am not a big fan of the starters. Those have that bootleg feel to me, being somewhat over designed in their first form and underdesigned in their second form. They seem like something from a freemium imitation. I do respect them for making your starter only evolve once and adding a mega evolution to that as an alternative though. That is something new.

Tandor is a fun region to explore with pretty beaches, deep jungles and creepy crawly caves,  each location feels unique yet everything feels like it’s own region as well. It’s quite impressive what they managed to squeeze out the generation 4 tilesets. Their biggest gimmick is the new typing. Radiation Pokémon. This typing does not work like any other typing and doesn’t rebalance the type system… which is a good call. Radiation pokémon work more like Shadow Pokémon , from the gamecube games. They are effective against all non Radiation types.. but everything non radiation is also super effective against them. More powerful than the regular versions they take some damage every turn and can on occasion not listen to you. They are basicly just alternate versions of regular pokemon but all n jet black and green giving them a very sleek look.. that is kind of too edgy for me.

I ended up not using them at all due to it all yet they had an impact on the story and I was happy they were there.. it could be quite a challenge to fight some of them. Like raising radiation pokemon the game can be a bit tedious though. There are so many secrets and reasons to revisit a location you never really get the feeling you can really explore it.  Each cave has several layers which you can backtrack to crack after you received more hm’s and stuff alike. Yet this was done so often that I never felt really in control. Tracking back is also nearly always optional.. so it’s not like a metroidvania..it’s just you spending an hour more to get a lackluster move or item. The most inventive game on this list by a mile, but one you have to put a lot of work and effort into.

Fangame Number 3: Pokémon Insurgence

This game begins with you about to be sacrificed in the name of Darkrai. A evil cult is planning to make you a blood offer to make the legendary appear. You are saved by Mew and begin a truly epic journey across a huge map and deep and complex story filled with renewed pokémon and extra mechanics. After escaping you use mew for a very short while.. before reaching the starter town.Professor Sylvan has a problem with Bulbasaur Squirtle and Charmander and asks you to take one of them off their hands. Now Bulbasaur is  the best starter ever.. but these are not regular Bulbasaur Squirtle and Charmander.. these are so called Delta species.. in the land of Tellor these are strange mutations that have been showing up more and more. Charmander is now dead.. and is a dry bones like ghost dragon type. Our former water type is now a Teenage Mutant Ninja Squirtle.. literally. being a dark and fighting type. So these look insanely cool! Bulbasaur is a pink fairy with a magic flower on it’s back. I am so happy I could vomit rainbows. Not only is Bulbasaur PINK , my favorite typing and kawaii as fizzlesticks it’s also strong against both others.. though charmander can still hit it like a truck.

Pokémon Insurgence had such a cool idea with the Delta Species and the amount of time I’ve spent on getting myself a Delta Ralts was ridiculous.. it kept dying on me. In the end.. an electric Ice type wasn’t even THAT good. Now I do need to replay this game sometime because on my initial playthrough I wasn’t able to finish it.. this game is HARD.  Not in the way the next entry will be .. but as in… you better grind girl.. kinda heart. I even cheated in a bunch of rare candies to skip one particular part of grinding yet a few minutes later my team was underleveled again. Maybe I used to much pokémon? I will find out next time I play through it. This game shines in it’s story though.. with complex character political betrayal and a story of children chosen by destiny.. and legendaries this game feels special throughout. So do you.. for the first time in a Pokémon game you matter you aren’t just a nobody. There is not just one evil team.. there’s several cults and even some other bad guys beside that giving off the feeling that it’s you against the world. This raises the stakes and the tension for this higher difficulty.

With a lot of custom features like armoured evolutions, brand new skills you are granted from other trainers legendaries and a truly beautiful journey to partake on its such a shame that this game is bogged down by the grind. A few puzzles are also necessary to further the plot, I think a few of those slider puzzles as well taking the wind a bit from under this games wing but with a darker and complex story, cute and cool new pokémon forms and a whole lot extras like trainer customization it’s no surprise that this game has gathered a cult following. 

Fangame Number 2: Pokémon Reborn

You start this game on a train on your way to reborn city when terrorists attack the train causing it to explode just as it drives into the station. As your trainer walks outside they can see the devastated station. A cheery girl comes excited about the explosion saying cute stuff.Everything seems kind of like pokémon so far.. but with a stronger start. Than you see the standard “technology is great guy’ .. (a npc which brags about what new features there are in games found in every game)  you talk to him. He doesn’t brag about technology.. he looks at you and asks.’You were on that train’ . a white text box reveals an awkward silence before the third one says.. so was my wife. Then you realise this is not going to be your regular kind of pokémon game. As you exit the screen, we cut away to the police having arrested a terrorist. He is strapped to a metal chair as the policeman summons a torkoal to heat up the chair. We cut to the reborn logo. Pokémon Reborn does not play around, you know this from the get go!

  After you have chosen from all 21 current starters you are off on your journey throughout this new region. There is no route 1. You start out in the slums of Reborn city. On the first bridge you see , you encounter some vagrants beating one of the typical route 1 rodents to shit.. they want to toss it over the bridge inside the canals of reborn city which have turned acidous by years of pollution.These trainers challenge you to a battle.. my piplup was underleveled and lost, there was no rematch when I restarted at the pokemon center and went back to them they had murdered Bidoof.  I restarted the game and choose Charmander as a more potent starter.. was I gonna need it. I trained Coal the fire lizard and Rusty the Bidoof up in the slums. Instead of young kids I fought doxies , punkers and other trash. Doxies is a nice word for… certain types of women who make money buy doing certain things which usually involve movement while sparingly dressed. They use pokémon that spam moves to make you fall in love. Implying they use it to find John’s.

No matter how many doxies and hobo’s I beat though.. I am not making money.. these people don’t have anything. Terrorists attack the power plant and I stop them before advancing to the gym.. Rusty and Coal are ready.. and wait .. why does the first leader have six pokémon?! We wipe… every gym leader in reborn  uses six pokémon because of course they would .. they are gym leaders they have to properly test you. Pokémon in the wild usually have weakness recovery.. because it makes sense that an animal in a hostile environment learns to defend itself against its greater foes. Reborns theme is survival, survival of the fittest and survival against the odds. Reborn is different.. from the get go you can choose any sprite for your character.. you can use the “token female” who identifies as a male. There are even non binary sprites and it’s selectable as a gender as well.
Our journey is not one to be the very best it’s one not to die or see the world end. After defeating the first gym we can access the second ward of reborn city.. the evil team has build a machine to mutate a tangrowth into a monster .it’s roots have caused use cracks and is splitting the city apart. A few npc’s talk about how they can see their dead friends down in the pit or how their child got consumed by the rifts. On the journey that follows we amongst other things see, children unrightfully prisoned into an asylum getting electroshock therapy from electric pokémon. We see a gym leader commiting suicide and dropping inside a 12 year old gym leaders room where he splatters in front of her eyes.. causing her to land in said asylum where you have to rescue her.

We have gym leaders being bisected and their pokémon being tossed and melted to death by a volcano. Reality shattering, brainwashing lies deceit and a whole lot of murder.  Pokémon manages to create a pokémon world that for the first time feels .. close to our world.. close to modern.. the other worlds are all very utopian and this is the other side of the spectrum. With custom shinies and them appearing more frequently the game makes collecting pokémon fun and tactics come into play like nothing before.

Each gym and some dungeons have special fields.. which react under circumstances. For example there is a lights on/lights off type field. Electrical attacks can switch on and off the lights while Dark attacks get stronger or weaker depending on the current state. There is a field made of mirrors, where missing a physical attack causes the mirrors to cause some shattering bleed damage.. and missing a special attack allows it to be reflected back towards your target once more.. if they dodge once more however the attack is coming towards you. The field also enhances the power of beams. I played the game while it was not fully finished but while I played there were about 10 gyms to conquer.. with 4 more i’d say  to come? Yet in truth is there are more. You find out that once a gym leader dies.. their badge is invalidated. Gym Leader death does happen several times during your story. Grinding in this game is easy enough.. which is good because you need to do it a lot. You do not run a team if 6 pokémon.. because of how gym leaders work your team will be closer to 12 or even more pokémon. Unlike other pokémon games EVERY pokémon who is overleveled starts to disobey.. that means you can not use one single team against all the gym leaders. You have to have teams for each and every one of them.. not only paying attention to their types but also to their fields. The team I build against the first poison gym leader could not work in the field against the second so I had to switch them up.

Even more difficult than Insurgence.. this feels right.. this is a challenge I like to face.  The level cap is a lot harsher and I hit it quite oftenly… it’s even so common they introduced items for it.. called common candy, unlike a rare candy that levels you up.. this one levels you down.  I ended up using them a lot and I love that I had too. This game pushes you to build teams.. to switch movesets and to think about your items and supplies. Money is limited but quest lines are plenty.  Right in the beginning you can buy a magikarp..it looks like the classic magikarp scam from pokemon Red, I did cause I wanted gyarados..leveling is easy… but no this is reborn city.. the magikarp scam .. is a scam.. not only overpriced.. this time you flat out get robbed.  As you progress you can keep pursuing this quest for revenge like a 16bit Liam Neeson. You can play a bit of Westwide story with remnants of team aqua and magma, you can take a plotline to rescue the real daycare center people. Reborn is brimming with content. Every evolution is fixed for offline play, shinies have been made much more awesome .. and they created a few custom evolutions. Whether you are saving a popplio from death by poison or trying to find the abundance pokémon of that gym leader who commited suicide everything has a purpose in Reborn. It just takes a lot of wiping and a lot of work. This definitely isn’t a game to play for a week this one will take you hundreds of hours. On a game like this I do not mind wasting that many hours because each time I play it I feel reborn.
Unlike that one gymleader that jumped of a bridge.

Fangame Number 1 : Pokémon Infinite Fusion

This one will be short … well not really I am just referring you to my review of this game for all the details. This game takes the number 1 spot because it’s just a lot more completable than the other 2.. unless you count the 90.000 + pokédex of this one. Easier so more accessible, while still keeping that uniqueness towards it. It’s side quest system being quite rewarding. It simply does not require the grind and the motions needed to play Reborn and Insurgence. With as story that complex you can not just drop Reborn or Insurgence either, this one you can leave alone to a while and come back to without any trouble. Especially when you use the subreddit for custom sprites like me … this one really feels like a build your own pokémon game. You can go broken as fizzlesticks in creating combinations.
Like I once more will tell you in my review this game is infinitely fun!

Now my loyal subjects I do realise these game sound way to fun for your price range, but I can assure you all six games mentioned are completely free to play. Perhaps not quite legal to make, you are well within your rights to play and procure them. Because I do wish to keep this post relevant I shall not place direct links to the games as these sites might change or become unsafe , they are easy to find with our friend google. Among the six of them (Mega Adventure being mentioned in number 4 being the sixth one)  I am sure there is one to your liking. I will most likely revisit insurgence or reborn soon though there is a particular rom hack I might get to first… but more on that next week. Until then let me know what game you think you’d like in the comments and remember

I am not weird.. I am a princess!
Until we read again

Your Highness
Princess Pinkie