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Come here for talk about all things Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.
Previous thread: https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/58848749/ >>58848749
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Questions:
>If you became a Pokemon, would you do poses and call out your attack names like an anime hero?
>How would you feel if your destined partner was your least favorite Pokemon species?
>Are legendaries worshiped like gods?
>Do you savescum when playing PMD?
Recap of the previous thread:
>No new fanfiction, but there was discussion about many topics, including drinks, overused and unusual starters, differences between the 3 Explorers games, and criticism of various romhacks and fics
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>>58897231
>If you became a Pokemon, would you do poses and call out your attack names like an anime hero?
Absolutely wouldn't. It'd give away the move I'm about to use, and would probably feel really stupid to experience on the flesh.
>How would you feel if your destined partner was your least favorite Pokemon species?
>X Menu
>Team
>"Partner"
>Tactics
>You go the other way
>Back
>IQ skills
>Item-Master off
>Are legendaries worshiped like gods?
Maybe from small comunities near where a legendarie pokemon rests, but by now means is it wide spread. Legendary/Mythical pokemon more integrated into society (Like Virizion or Meloetta) wouldn't get this treatment.
>Do you savescum when playing PMD?
Savescumming feels, well, scummy. I preffer to take the loss. While I dislike the scenario of diying with something rare in my bag, that scenario isn't really likely, since by that point of the game, you'd provably have ten or so reviver seeds up your ass at any given point + an escape orb.
>>58897390
Use a USB Killer lol.
>>58896487
Why does that need to be fixed? The important part of the story is not the showdown with god persee, but how such a task affects the events before (PSMD partner needing to keep strong at the sight of no one being arround in Serene Vilage after returning from the voidlands) or after (Rescue Team hero needing to leave that world after the job's done). It's why mainline pokemon falls flat. Yes, you fight Giratina in Paltinum, but all that happens before it is that Team Galaxy is up to no good and you have to stop them, and that they oppen a portal to the navigational puzzle dimension, then literaly nothing aboutyour battle chaanges the remaining part of the story.
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>>58897390
Don't know what your characters are, but I'd suggest sheer willpower and refusal to stop fighting even when there's no reasonable way for them to survive an attack from it, that also creates an opening for them to counterattack. It's a very shonen but very kino when done right
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>>58897540
an idea i had was the positive partner just believing through sheer delusional hopium that they'll win because there's no future if they don't and the pessmistic protagonist just goes "oh, i can get behind that"
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>>58897231
>>If you became a Pokemon, would you do poses and call out your attack names like an anime hero?
Maybe the former but not the latter
>>How would you feel if your destined partner was your least favorite Pokemon species?
i'll try to make do, maybe they're a nice individual
>>Are legendaries worshiped like gods?
no
>>Do you savescum when playing PMD?
also no
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>>58897231
>poses and calling attacks
>picrel
>Binacle partner
I could deal with it
>Legendaries as gods
I like fantasy religion so I write some of them like that. Not, like, Mewtwo or Zarude or whatever, but the top tier ones? Totally.
>Save scumming
Sometimes I’ll reset after I lose a dungeon if I lost a bunch of items but not usually
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>>58897231
>>If you became a Pokemon, would you do poses and call out your attack names like an anime hero?
Maybe once or twice, if you actually had the power to shoot a beam you try and tell me you wouldn't give it a try
>>How would you feel if your destined partner was your least favorite Pokemon species?
I'm not going anywhere with that retard.
>>Are legendaries worshiped like gods?
Legendaries are always up their own ass.
>>Do you savescum when playing PMD?
Only if I die to supreme bullshit, like an escort beelining onto a Pitfall Trap that I just stepped on that didn't activate for me.
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>>58897390
I feel like the gap between Pokemon is just much lower than people think. Some Pokemon are useless, but even a baby pokemon can get max stats in PMD. Though all you really have to do to make it more "realistic" is introduce the use of items. Use a few paralysing wands, use a few oran berries and reviver seeds.
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>>58899089
They probably just manifest from whatever from of waste the PMD societies generate. (Hopefully they generate waste other than feces, if Hissuian Voltorb and Electrode can take look like the ancient pokeball before the invention of modern ones, Turdish and Garbodung could very well be a thing)
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>>58899089
Because no matter how much PMD later decided against it, PMD is a post apocalyptic world where most humans died off. Maybe they had to retreat into space for the most part or something. Trubbish and Garbodor were already created before the event that led to humans going into hiding.
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>>58899188
Best case scenario, the events of Gates and Super (as well as the previous games) carry on the same perfectly fine without humans ever existing in the pokemon world.
Worst case scenario half the franchise isn't fucking canon to make room for your post-apocaliptic doomsday headcannon.
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>>58899298
If Gates and Super are canon, then Rescue Team and Explorers aren't canon and they just had the characters in Super for fun.
Post apocalypse is the only thing that makes sense in Rescue Team and Explorers' stories. Explorers' protagonist is even from the PMD World. There's no way around humans existing in the PMD World. Even Rescue Team has it that Gengar as a human trainer with Gardevoir as his Pokemon invoked Ninetales' curse before eventually reincarnating.
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>>58899458
If you try and insist that humans never existed in PMD's world you're an illogical Gatesfag who isn't a real fan of Mystery Dungeon.
If you recognise that Rescue Team and Explorers make it clear that humans really do exist in the PMD world then you're a logical, good person that's a fan of the series.
It's that simple. I know if I had to pick one, I'd be the person who actually played Rescue Team and Explorers.
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>>58899322
Idk which one sounds more logical to you:
>Gates and Super:
No, there are no humans in the pokemon world. If a human were to be sent to the pokemon world, they must manifest as a pokemon.
>Rescue Team and Explorers:
Humans do exists, but you never find any (as a human) in these games about exploration. There are human structures, but no human is ever seen near them. Do the humans isolate themselves from the pokemon? Why so? The two humans we know of were able to develop bonds with pokemon. How come the humans sent to the world of pokemon need to be turned into one, if humans already exist?
>>58900360
Honestly i'd take someone who played Gates and/or Super over someone who played Explorers. The latter strike me as people who haven't played the entire series lol.
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>>58900398
I'll always take the original intention which is Rescue Team and Explorers. It also explains how the manmade Pokemon even exist as they were human creations before whatever caused the human world to become the Pokemon world. If it was a Pokemon only world then many Pokemon just shouldn't exist, as they only existed through humanity's actions.
As for why we never see other humans, I think it's safe to say that humans are near extinction. They're a true rarity that keep to themselves, the reason for that potentially being to do with how the balance in the world shifted. Keep in mind that humans became a myth so the events leading to it would have happened long ago and are forgotten. Perhaps humans like Gengar are what led to Pokemon revolting.
>How come the humans sent to the world of pokemon need to be turned into one, if humans already exist?
Because the protagonist can only save the day through being a Pokemon, though in Explorer's case the protag being a Pokemon when he travelled back in time was a complete accident and never a part of the plan. If you keep the MC human in any of the PMD games aside from Explorers there's no apparent win condition for them.
>Honestly i'd take someone who played Gates and/or Super over someone who played Explorers.
I'd always take someone who played Rescue Tteam and Explorers over someone who played Gates and Super as they're the core that the franchise was built on. Gates was shit and Super can't truly stand on it's own as it has so many memberberries and relies on you knowing the PMD story formula for twists like the ending.
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>>58899411
Is there a reason to think there is a single 'PMD world' outside of the cameos in Super? The other games are pretty self-contained. Trying to force them all to share a canon creates an inconsistent setting and adds nothing to the stories of the games.
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>>58900433
Humans became a myth around the time of Gates, so if we're gonna discount that game (like we should) then we shouldn't worry about them being a myth or being near extinction. I'd say the PMD games likely take place in an area that is just isolated from the regions inhabited by humans. The lab and power plant from Rescue Team imply that there may have been a research organization that traveled there at some point. Treasure Sea is filled with sunken pirate ships, but they're only pirate ships according to rumors. "It is said that on its floor lie the treasures of pirate ships sunken long ago." Maybe in reality they're just the boats researchers used to travel here, and not all of them survived the journey.
The regions of the PMD games would be of unique interest to pokemon professors and researchers, as the pokemon there seem to be more sentient. That and the existence of mystery dungeons. Whatever research projects were going on in the PMD regions have either ended, or the professors and scientists have just gotten better at hiding and are quietly observing their behavior.
I know this shatters people's isekai fantasies so it'll probably be discounted, but it more closely fits the older games using existing canon and minimal speculation. I think it's the most likely explanation if you discount Gates and Super.
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>>58900508
No, there isn’t, cameobait in Super doesn’t count for much when it can be largely ignored throughout the entire game.
Explorers built off of Rescue Team, Super built off of Gates, and Squad is its own thing. There’s at minimum 3 different PMD worlds with 3 different histories.
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All remaining humans have gone extinct on their own with absolutely no intervention from Pokémon, that's what they taught me at Pokéschool.
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>>58901155
>and are effectively mole-mon
holy shit the human to diglett pipeline is real??
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>>58901146
If that were true, I doubt the magical creatures would be fine with having a human living in their town as a rescue/exploration team leader.
>Muh fugitive arc
The second they find out you're not the literal antichrist, they're best friends with you again. Native pokemon do not have the slightest distaste for humans
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>>58901731
Just do both
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whats the best mon for Purity Forest?
I tried mewtu and he was pretty good, but doesnt learn new damage attacks until lvl 33 and I cant find enough Elixirs to keep going until that.
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>>58901812
>picrel
The art does a good job at showing this actually
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Congrats to Heidi Houndour for winning Goodest Girl in town.I am depressed and trying to get back into writing/drawing, but I watched the Westminster dog show today and the Doberman took Best in Show 2026, which is also the 150th anniversary crowning. It feels like some sort of sign.
>>58897231
>If you became a Pokemon, would you do poses and call out your attack names like an anime hero?
No because that would be gay and cringe.
>How would you feel if your destined partner was your least favorite Pokemon species?
Find a new partner. I could not work with a Blipbug.
>Are legendaries worshiped like gods?
Depends on regional and cultural factors.
>Do you savescum when playing PMD?
Never ever, but I did once generate a code to rescue myself after too many failed runs at Purity Forest.
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Why'd the protag do it?
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>>58905882
Yeah the partner still wanting "confirmation" after the kidnapping and pillar thing was so dumb.
No wonder he is so dependent on the protag. Without him he would have been scammed to death.
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>>58905807
Only women like the Explorers partner because they’re exactly like them: gullible, easy to manipulate, pushy and demanding, and head over heels for strong burly psychopaths to the point of making every justification in the book for their misdeeds.
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>>58906648
YepIt's not good
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>playing EoD
>die
>accidentally hit the "wait to be rescued" option
>obviously no one is playing EoD in the vicinity
>just turn off my DS and go do something else
>a few days later
>launch EoD again
>got rescued
Which one of you did this?
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I’ll use Focus Enrgy and increase my chances for a critical hit by 33% percent… I can’t lower his HP to 0 any other way. If he get off another Energy Ball off a base 115 Sp.Atk… against my 75 / 90 Defenses that’s a 85% chance to KO at 85 HP…
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>>58907601
What I’m saying is that if there’s just one stupid thing in it then it’s not a big deal.
If they’re doing that all the time then it’s another story, but that’s the only screenshot I’ve ever seen from it like that.
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Have you ever drawn your PMD team?
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>>58908232
I need to draw again.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F8UQ0dmm30
What's your opinions on the EoS Wonder Mail exploits? (The ones that let you make any floor have any fixed room through generated Treasure Memos, or unlock any dungeon trough generated Jirachi Challenge requests).
I find them really boring personality. Like no shit if you input a Wonder Mail that points to the wrong fixed room ID or Dungeon ID, something that can't generate normally, you're going to get funky results.
I much prefer the exploits that work withing the bounds of the game, like forcing the Jirachi wish to give you a Chansey of Blissey by making those two the only pokemon you don't have a copy of when wishing for "Something good".
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>>58909176
The bigest changes from the originals to DX have to do with updating the gameplay to the standard of the prior entry (wands, on the fly leader swaping, pushing, megas...), plus some new aditions (having up to 8 pokemon in the team trough dungeons recruits, rare qualities, mystery houses, strong foes...). Besides overall quality of live and some gen 4+ mons here and there, and putting the graphichs and sound desing to the side, DX offers similar content to the originals.
If you don't care about the gameplay, then I suggest you replay BRT. But if you DO care about it, you should aim to play both at some point in time
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>>58908232
Yes.I thought the playthrough would be hard because "lol birds" but turns out that Cubone is a great partner in DX.
>>58909176
>new content in DX
DX has a lot of Quality of Life additions along with some questionable gameplay changes, but if by "new content" you mean stuff like new dungeons or story content then DX has none. Seriously, I think the amount of new/changed story dialogue can be counted on a single hand and that is the most disappointing part of the remake.
Personally I would just play both but since you have already experienced the original then might as well give DX a try.
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Do you ever look at something you made half a year ago and feel an urge to completely redo it? For a while now it was growing in me when I was looking at some of my old reviews, ones I made before I read more comics. Well, I decided to act on it and did a small rewrite of the reviews I made.
Around half of my reviews have been updated, mostly the earlier ones, and they are now clearer and more consistent. If you're interested in reading some PMD comics but don't know where to start, I am now up to 38 reviews, which can all be read in a nice rentry:
https://rentry.org/PMDComicReviews
I will continue to post the new reviews in the thread (which is actually becoming a bit of a pain in the ass because rentry does spoilers differently, to be honest, and also they get longer and don't always fit in one post). I'm not going to repost all the old ones, of course, so you might want to take a look at the rentry even if you've already seen it.
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PKMN: Project Amulet (Blazermaze00)
https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=projectamulet
120 pages, ongoing (Jan 2026).
Zangoose and Ledian, no humans. No references to games.
This will likely be an emotional character-driven journey adventure with great stakes and saving the world. The story isn't far enough to make definitive statements.
I don't really like the setup of the main character being a Very Special Boy that holds the titular Very Special McGuffin, but the comic isn't far enough to say definitely if that's going to be good or bad. It hasn't gotten around to explaining what's the deal with the main character and with the amulet and where exactly the comic is going yet. For now I'm leaning towards it being a reasonable implementation. The characters shown so far are believable, and they have some decent groundwork laid down for future development. The emotional parts are also written really well. This comic uses specific Pokemon moves, but the Pokemon aren't limited to four slots, which I think is a good call and gives a pretty good variety in the fight scenes. The author also puts the names of the moves being used in the image hover text instead of slapping "X used Y" text over the move, which I think is a nice balance between allowing the reader to know which moves are being used without disturbing the verisimilitude. I also like small details like the main character walking on twos when he needs his hands, but switching to fours when he walks long-distance, orZangoose being immune to Shadow Sneak.My biggest complaint is that the characters and the plot feel pretty generic and archetypical. So far everyone is a one-way street, the plot is literally The Hero's Journey and the blurb opens with "The balance of light and darkness is at stake." Being archetypical is not a killer, per se, it is executed well, and this is something that could change as the story develops.
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Broken Code (lxvepup)
https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdbc / https://comicfury.com/comicprofile. php?url=brokencodearchive old version
~220 pages, ongoing (Jan 2026).
Plusle human, in a team with Espeon, Dragonite, and Darkrai. Throws a vague but pretty big spoiler for Explorers in your face for no reason. Aside from that, no connections to games.
Grand-scale "save the world" character-driven drama/adventure. The blurb calls it a coming-of-age story, which hasn't yet been realised, so I can neither confirm nor deny. Occasional dark themes listed on the first page as content warning.
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The first 20 pages of this comic feature Arceus, Mew, Darkrai, and a shiny Espeon with heterochromia (and the new version's Dragonite was a Yvetal in the old one). I think that's a good way to start a review of a comic that starts by showing you Arceus. First, I'll get pre-reboot out of the way. It ended at around 80 pages; the rewrite is about 80% shot-for-shot the same. It cleared up some badly written dialogue lines (characters knowing things they shouldn't, logical leaps, sentences that aren't clear) and improved some of the panel and page arrangement. There are few changes aside from that and there's no point reading the original. Overall, the story so far is alright. Some of the characters feel underdeveloped and have unclear motivations. The emotional parts aren't done very well (it feels more like an infodump than processing grief). There's also occasional "characters do unreasonable things for the sake of plot advancement/drama", and minor plot holes.When the Delibird catches up to Rose, she sarcastically thanks her for "leading" her to Team GlowHeart... I'm sorry, you missed a shiny Espeon and a DRAGONITE standing five steps away from you and needed to bump into a random Plusle to notice them? While actively searching for them?For positives, it's pretty cute, the character interactions are mostly pretty good, and the HD remastered edition has pretty clear improvements on some of the weakest parts of the original, which shows promising capability for improvement. A legendary and a shiny on a team is still too much, but you know, it's better than two legendaries. If the author focuses on improvement of the characters, it could turn into a decent story.
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Mountain Luxio (sugarmasonmearii)
https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdaumtlu
~183 pages, indefinite hiatus (Feb 2026)
The author mentioned in a blog post that they wanted to make "a No-Eeveelution-Characters story", which is why the main character is a Luxio, supporting characters are a Murkrow, a Floragato, and a Torracat, and a minor side character is a Sylveon. No humans. Some vague references to games, so vague I wouldn't consider them spoilers. Oh, and major spoilers for Celeste.
Celeste is a 2018 platform video game. The main character is a woman named Madeline on a journey of self-discovery through climbing a really tall mountain where metaphorical becomes literal, and she will have to face her inner insecurities- no, wait, the comic. Mountain Luxio is a 2022 comic. The main character is a Luxio named Louise on a journey of self-discovery through climbing a really tall mountain where metaphorical becomes literal, and she will have to face her inner insecurities.
If you want a short review of this comic, it's a lot of work and effort put into a beautiful but very derivative product. The central plot is simply a retelling of Celeste. While the author said they're planning to deviate from the game's story, with the comic being put on ice (their own words), that hasn't materialised. Now, being fair, the story isn't entirely made from the plot of Celeste. For one, the comic goes into a lot of details about what actual mountain climbing is like, such as acclimation, weather, camping, food, gear, all of which I know absolutely 0 about, so I have to trust that the author is either familiar with mountain climbing or did a lot of research. These parts are pretty interesting.
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The comic tends to flip-flop between realistic mountain climbing parts where you can almost forget the main characters are pokemon, and mystery dungeon-esque parts that operate on fairly literal game logic. It's not complete gameplay elements, but mystery dungeons are an explicit thing, full of wild pokemon, that the MC has to occasionally fight through, there's a reference to monster houses, moves are explicitly called out. Imagine a comic about mountain climbers, except the mountain has angry natives and the climbers have to sometimes box them to get through a cave. It feels like they're just there because it's a PMD comic so it must have mystery dungeons, they don't serve any story purpose, and in my opinion, don't mesh well with mountain climbing. The fights aren't even interesting, you'll usually see the MC use a move or two, then a shot of her dashing through the dungeon.
The characters are nothing exceptional. The main character, for the most part, has one character trait of wanting to climb the mountain. Floragato is also largely lifted from Celeste, with his photography being swapped for setting-appropriate drawing, and for some reason he randomly says Spanish words. Murkrow is also a Celeste character, an old mysterious lady giving out cryptic advice, except she appears a lot more in the comic, which makes her less interesting. Did she really need to show up to give the main character... a bag for berries? It makes her lose her charm. Torracat is the only actual new addition, and the totality of his appearances is to belittle the MC and tell her she's not strong enough to climb the mountain so she can defiantly say "no" to him.
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The comic has really good art, probably the most detailed artstyle I've seen. It's very high-quality, with detailed backgrounds and shading. The pages are quite dense, so it feels longer than you might expect by the page count. I liked the sections where characters discuss or perform mountain climbing. I want to emphasise the art here, the comic is very well-drawn, both in terms of skill and effort. The character designs are striking a good balance between standing out and not being overdesigned, and the backgrounds are incredible. I'd even say it might be worth reading for the art alone. The amount of effort required was, unfortunately, one of the contributing factors to the comic's hiatus. The central story, however, is really boring, because, and I mentioned this before, but *it's literally the plot of Celeste*. The author clearly has a lot of artistic skill and dedication, so it's unfortunate that the writing doesn't match up.
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Endless Blue (PanoramicArts)
https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdendlessblue
~150 pages (Jan 2026).
Scorbunny human, Froakie partner, a few more characters join the main group later.
Classic heroic adventure.
When I say classic heroic adventure, I do mean classic and heroic. Characters will constantly strike a Cool Pose to deliver a Cool Monologue for Maximum Aura Farming before charging into battle. Or before having dinner. What you see in the prologue is the tone for the rest of the comic. It's very shonen. This is the kind of a comic that works best if you don't take it very seriously, because it doesn't take itself very seriously. The artstyle also fits it, with characters tending towards human-like with noodle limbs, which departs from official designs to let them pose like humans. The setting of this comic is that the known world is a group of small islands floating in the air, with sky ships (which look like sailing ships) that travel between them, and, of course, sky pirates. I can't say much about its plot yet, and it doesn't spend too much time on the characters; they're established, but are pretty archetypical and straightforward. Mostly you just get "yep, he has glasses, he's the nerdy one", the two main characters are even colour-coded red and blue, adding to the feel of classic heroic story. Most of the story so far has been establishing the setting and the characters, and it should make for some decent light reading if it maintains the current tone, which I expect - it doesn't look like the type of a comic to suddenly start throwing curveballs.
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Souls (NathGlitchy64)
https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmds
~350 pages (Feb 2026).
Mudkip human, Charmander partner, more characters join later.I guess the banner now spoils it anyway: rest of the team is Rowlet, Haunter, and Mimikyu.
Fight-heavy story-driven adventure.
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The start of this comic is mostly silly and close to what you'd expect to see in a comic adaptation of RT: two-man rescue team, mission from a job board, mystery dungeon. It does not stay that way for long, however. The focus very quickly shifts to a high-stakes large-scale conflict with the antagonist that involves a large number of characters. Main characters move around trying to uncover and stop antagonists' plot, get new team members, meet new people, and have big fights. The writing is decent, if a little too simple and juvenile. Earlier chapters often have very inconsistent speech bubble placement that makes it hard to understand the dialogue order. The artstyle starts out simple but serviceable, and improves over time as it starts using more difficult poses and complex backgrounds, while remaining cute. Chapter 9 even has an animated intro (link in the cover description, don't miss it). The comic manages a large cast pretty well, characters are distinct and have their places in the story, while also balancing giving them fitting accessories without turning into an OC fashion festival, and it also tends to lean towards uncommon Pokemon species. The comic is pretty bloody, characters often get severely beaten and bleeding, but the actual impact never goes beyond being knocked out and needing bandages and rest. If someone is targeted by a very powerful attack or if it looks like someone is about to die, you can almost certainly expect that on the next page someone will leap in to save them just in the nick of time. This jumping in at the last moment happens very, very often. Overall, about half of the comic is made up of long fights, and the rest is given to regrouping, conversations, and planning. We don't really get deep dives into characters. It's a good read if you'd like to see a diverse cast of Pokemon fighting each other with a simple plot to serve as connecting tissue.
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>>58910522
He's Pajama Sam maxxing.
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>>58910522
someone tried to recommend this one in a server of writers and this was before i found out about their poor writing, both their tips and their actual work
it should've been a sign when i couldn't even sit through several pages of it without being deeply disappointed
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I don't think I'd say this comic has bad writing, it's just incredibly corny and likes to ham it up even more. It would be bad if it was unintentional, but like I said, it doesn't take itself seriously. If you don't like corny you won't like this comic, so it helps that it's front-loaded and gets like that right in the prologue.
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I like this comic but it's been taking a hot while to build up.
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>>58910510
>one more PMD comic with ultra-high quality art but ultra-bland story
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>>58910481
Thanks for these reviews. I would never have heard of several of these comics otherwise.
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Does anybody happen to have this image in full? I can't open it on the archive.
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Chatot did nothing wrong. He just enforces the rules for the wagies.
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I didn't forget about the Haunted Guild event, even though my entry is super overdue. My story's draft is basically done, and ideally I can publish it by the guild's anniversary in a few weeks. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait.
For now, have a little doodle I made while working on the story.
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>If you became a Pokemon, would you do poses and call out your attack names like an anime hero?
No, I'm too self-conscious for that
>How would you feel if your destined partner was your least favorite Pokemon species?
I'd just hope they have a good personality
>Are legendaries worshiped like gods?
It probably varies depending on the specific Legendary and culture in question
>Do you savescum when playing PMD?
Sometimes, admittedly
>>58902852
Congrats! I always knew Heidi was destined for greatness.And I always loved your work, so I wish you luck with your writing and art.
>>58908232
Nope, never done that.I've lost track of how many times I drew my team, but I know it's a whole lot.
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Thanks for your service.
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Were you based enough to draw cringe pmd shit when you were underage?
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>>58918968
Not this specific series, I know, but like this?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0HIvd4SoNtw83QZIxbX2V9qsI2icPb g9
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>>58919418
Here you go!
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>>58919560
Here. Used an AI to remove the "No AI" watermark.
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>>58919503
5-6 year long project. 23 and a half hours long. Apparently finished given that there's an epilogue. Eevee, riolu, and pikachu protagonist judging by the thumbnails. It's a slideshow like the ones I used to make, so I can't put it on in the background and I have to read everything. Will probably need to pause several times, so it'll take way longer than the normal runtime. Is any of this worth watching?
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Idea for a boss fight that would never happen cause pokemon doesnt wanna make a good game again.
>Enter boss room
>cutscene starts
>ceruledge on floor, one knee up
>slowly stands
>"So a challenger comes to take the time gear"
>Brandishes blade arms
>"COME AND TRY"
>Battle music plays, cuts back to regular combat
Having some cool pixel art cutscenes before boss fights would add to the ambience, I think it would be cool... I cry at the wasted potential
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>>58921752
I don't know if you are making fun of me or not but that sounds cool as fuck. I seriously can just picture the mc and the partners face all confused right before the fight starts.
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>Shadow Sneaks behind you.
>"Nothing personel, kid."
>Ceruledge used Bitter Blade.
>Player took calamitous damage!
In all seriousnes, what do you mean having cutscenes before bosses would be cool? Pretty much all bosses have some sort of introduction, only exceptions I can think are Gabite in Labrinth Cave and Garchomp in a similary wonder mail only dungeon in PSMD. 3D games have small cinematics showing the boss arriving to the arena for postgame boss battles (even if some look a bit stilted). The only place where I'd say the intros are ass are the Seven Treasure Guardian fights, where they just appear and spit a nearly copy pasted dialogue.
What do you mean pixel art cutscene? Like not using the pokemon sprites, but instead drawn closeups in pixel art stile? It'd be far simple to use the already existing sprites, and custom animations can always be made to bette convey something.
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>>58921871
I mean in the vein of pic related. Just a small cool cutscene. Hell I would even take the regular introductions but with a little more animation in them. Just something to add more wow factor to the bosses, they are great as they are. I just think they could be amazing
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Acceptable species for the Explorers hero:
Riolu (modded to have Aura Sphere in its learnset), Eevee (Umbreon must be modded to learn Dark Void like DARKRAIII)
Acceptable partners:
Shinx (modded to be Dark type)
Pikachu
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>>58922045
Riolu heroes also need dialogue modding to show they are proud of their power.
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For cinematic parallels between the partner and DARKRAII.
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Yes.
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>>58918302
No but I unironically wish I had.
Back then if I weren't so self-conscious about how shitty my drawings would have turned out, both in art quality and content, and shared them on the internet then maybe I could have seriously tried my hand at art way earlier in my life and would be much better at it today. And that could even have led to me taking part of a community of other autists and making friendships that could have lasted until today.To whoever is in the same position I was in: don't let the same regret happen to you.
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>Sifyroinput your bottom text here
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>>58924028
>The PMD community on February 27 2023
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>>58923948
It's not too late, I'd want to see your drawings if you still make them.I took the path you described and it was a fun period of my life, but by now I've ended up alone again. Artistic autists online can be catty, jealous and narcissistic examples of dysgenics, I learned all that the hard way.
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>>58924630
Nah after the second time it was just being dead inside rather than crying.
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>>58921692
no, this is cool. it's almost like a mini writing prompt. anything to inspire sadsack anons on their creative work. however i don't think the partner would react that way as there is an implication that there have been previous time gear guardian fights.
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rad. it's the small details that bring worlds to life.
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Happy Valentine's Day
Remember to show your partner how much you care
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Raw, undistilled, deviantart-tier autistic PMD content is still very much alive.
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>>58925907
you can make it into a .cia file
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>>58926058
Than images shows the injection of a GBA file. Even in New Super Ultimate Injector for 3DS (That's the name of the program) there's no suppot for DS injections. The go to method for playing DS games on 3DS is either nds forwading (creates a NDSi icon that loads the rom you point to when you oprn it) or Twilitght menu. No one makes .cia files of PMD hacks in particular.
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>>58925210
Showing the partner how much you care byleaving him at the base's cuck bench while you go on a mission with someone else!
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>see this discussed
>assume it's talking about a completely separate series of "videos" where it's just low quality screenshots and jpgs takes off google images with paragraphs of text on each frame and in the description
>The one I thought it was had max 1000 views on each video, where this one is in the 10 000 range
what the fuck did I look at, then? I can't remember anything about it other than it was eevee and riolu centric and was written like the ramblings of a mental patient.
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Plot twist: pokemon don't have internal or external sexual organs and don't have sex or reproduce like animals. When two compatible pokemon love each other very much (or think that they do) the eggs magically show up. Like they wake up in the morning and the egg is just there and you are a parent.
If you're not ready for the commitment you can just drop it off at daycare and never come back for it.
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>When two compatible pokemon love each other very much (or think that they do)
>(or think that they do)
>get joy dust'd at the bar
>wake up with a mystery egg
>get temporally mind broken by an unsavory psychic
>wake up with a mystery egg
>get hit with fucking attract
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All measurements would have to be pecker length relative to body size, monlets have enough problems as is.
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Always found that really borring for like comparisons of strenght. "Oh wow, ants are capable of lifting several times their weight, they're so strong!" No shit, bitches hardly weight anything to begin with. Whereass elephants can't even lift one times their weight, must be real weaklings.
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What if the next game hastwo partners
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PMD polyamorous harem real.
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>>58933502
Halloween Havock would be my pick. It's a gameplay centric hack, where you take on three dungeons at any order before getting access to the final one, hard in some places, but not overly so. The hub feels lively and the story is minimalistic, yet cute. You've got a choice of 3 groups of pokemon to play as, and one of them is a family of an umbreon dad, an espeon mom and an eevee baby, any of them can be the leader.
https://hacks.skytemple.org/h/halloween_havoc
There's also Alpha, a gameplay rebalance of Explorers of Sky (honestly, the only EoS rebalance you should bother with), with plenty of difficulty options and modifiers to fine tune your experience.
https://hacks.skytemple.org/h/alpha
I'd say you should play Halloween Havok first, since it can be finished easily in one or two gameplay sessions, and then if you're itching for more, you jump into alpha for something you can sunk your teeth in for longer.
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That's exactly what I'm looking for.
>You can start with Aron
Gigabased
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That's an interesting and cute dynamic for a team
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>>58934453
What do you mean opposite? Like the hero being a father figure instead of a mother? Or the partner being a parental figure for the hero instead of the other way around?
In any case, I haven't seen any fics with those types of relationship on the team, but I'd like to read that kind of thing.
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>>58934735
Latter was what I meant, though really any parent-child relationship with an isekai'd human would interest me.It's messed up that Super But Good is the only thing I've ever wanted and nobody's ever made it.
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Do you mean any of the Teams I've played in the games or what I made for Clover Guild?The answer to both is 'no'
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Can I even call myself an Anon anymore?
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>Quadruplebs have to break a limb to reach the bag
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Hero and partner are already together in dungeons most of the time, with not much reason to split up, so 90% of the time, that does nothing. Untill you step on a warp trap, in which case you're royaly boned.
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Like soap because stinkiness is not allowed on the team
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>me realizing my story's been inprogress for a year
writing is hard.
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Congratulations on completing drawingboard number 60!!!!!
Absolutely wonderful drawings everywhere, very nice board to look at. Good job everyone!
Aaaand unto the next one!! This one if for our clover anniversary and for that special occasion, let's bring back our first background drawingboard ever for nostalgia's sake!
join in!!
https://magma.com/d/deKkksDwx4
https://magma.com/d/deKkksDwx4
https://magma.com/d/deKkksDwx4
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Which ghostmons would be the friendliest?
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Dreepy is a nice choice. A few of the ghost types that can't steel your sould and/or send you to the shadow realm. You could throw them like a dart and would dash back to you, beging you to do it again.
Rotom could be another pic, but I'm sick of that bastard, GF gotta stop shoving it everywhere.
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Dex goes on and on about how Misdreavus loves to scream to scare people. Little bitch.
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The ghost doggies
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>friendly dog approaches you
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>>58945031
Interesting development. I hope she becomes a great explorer someday. She definitely looks like top-tier explorer material.
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she.. is gonna be around :)
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i hope to make it better, and i hope you'll like what i have preparing, see you soon /pmdg/
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Looking forward to what you have in store!
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Rotom. He's just a fun guy that likes mischief.
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Rip Jung. I hope Sara is gonna be okay by herself.
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Can't wait for new PMD to be announced next week!
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Surely they'll have time to anounce it sadwitched in between all the phone game updates, and vgc talk, and FRLG spotlight, the Pokopia spotlight, and Pokepark Kanto spotlight, the Pokemon Champions Spotlight, and gen 10 anouncement.
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How does one become good at sentry duty?
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>>58952347
I wholeheartedly subscribe to the idea that the vast majority of the PMD population actually is just kind of stupid and over dramatic. Very few have true human level intelligence and reasoning, on account of just not needing it as much when you all have super powers. They're like the townspeople in parks and rec
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng_-HgRfGBY
It's why the chosen one hero protagonist always has to be a human they took from somewhere else.
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The image is specificaly about how in red/blue rescue team, the hero and partner's dialogue becomes the generic dialogue of their species once you hit the postgame. In all other games, they still have dungeon lines unique to them.
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Seven Shitphonies
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I finally got past the hardest part of this story.
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I'm sorry, my will is too weak, I cannot stop myself
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Due to the influence of humans, the lace front wig business is booming
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Dunceparce in shambles.
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>>58959283
IT'S NOT FAIR