The days have their ups and their downs xD, it's great that I can work from home and only step out when I really need to but on the other hand some days just spill into one another and can feel like time lost. You turn on the TV and it's the same news across the channels day in and day out - Covid, American political drama, climate change, Covid, Olympics, Covid and so on. No change, nothing positive. There is an Indian news channel, NDTV, is that the main news channel over there or just like in the UK there's BBC and Sky News, NDTV is a 2nd major channel? I tune into it every now and again while surfing but I haven't seen any programmes yet that draw my focus. It's usually a panel of people discussing vaccination.
And how are things at your office lately? I ran out of data, just got some today hence the delay. The Unbound walkthrough is finally done and now available :) took a few months but with everything that the game has to offer, players might find themselves spending extra time with it:
https://archive.org/details/pokemon-rom-hack-walkthroughs
How has your Unbound adventure been going so far?
As long as those fine folks in govt don't lose their heads making rash decisions like what they've been doing so far, then I think Zim could make it through. I'll need to check the numbers to see if we are anywhere near herd immunity levels now. The vaccination roll out has been going on without people being forced into it, one can hope that continues because after that speech by uncle Joe Biden this week we might have to brace ourselves for the ripple effects. The signs of desperation are high :/
I'm neutral when it comes to Arceus, because for years I had no idea it even existed xD. It's only in the Rom hack universe of games where I first encountered it some years ago, so not enough time to invest in it. But I'll admit that it's a bit strange that the creator of all Pokemon would be a Normal-type, same thing with Regigigas - I thought it would be a Ground-type or part Ground-type at least. Xerneas is the main reason why I chose to play X instead of Y, because it just looked like a big deal. Cool name too. Someday I will replay Gen 5 and spend some time with Reshiram, Zekrom and Kyurem. Didn't do that in my initial playthrough, even though I enjoyed Gen 5.
You have a point there haha, by the time the legendary and mythical Pokemon can be searched for we're done with most of the important aspects of the game. Also places like the Battle facilities don't allow for those Pokemon to be used by players (although the facility Trainers might have them in their teams! I experienced that while I was testing out Unbound's Battle Frontier). I guess they are just there for those players who simply want to complete their collections or show off that they captured those Pokemon in a particular game. The last time I was invested in chasing after legendary and mythical Pokemon might have been during my Gen 3 days. Searching for Latios, trying to reach Rayquaza at the top of the Sky Pillar, meeting the Regi trio and encountering Groudon/Kyogre. Good times. I'm thinking maybe the ones which are currently missing from Unbound will have major roles in the next update, I hope so, otherwise it'll be just more Pokemon for people to add to their collections with no story.
If it isn't a logistical nightmare for Rom hackers or fan-game makers at this point in time, I would be surprised because having all those Pokemon in the game could be one of the first ways to get people to be interested in your game before they look at the other features. I'm not picky when it comes to numbers, but I would have trouble when it comes to evolutions because I don't know the newer Pokemon well enough and also creators might change evolution methods for many Pokemon in their games. 20 to 30 sounds fair, you'll have your key team and maybe a B team as well by the time that Storage Box is full haha.