the best way to play Pokemon games is like you’re an 8 year old. IV? EV? Shiny chaining? Nah. We catch pokemon because they look cool. if my pokemon is bashful or whatever that means nothing to me.
Spice up your game by introducing mobile game elements. Everytime a player wants to do anything they have to wait anywhere from 1 minute to 10 hours to complete that action, if they want to complete that action instantly, they’re gonna have to pay with in game currency, which is of course paid for by real life money.
Me as a kid: There’s no way Jessie and James are in their twenties! People have their shit together by then.
Me now: Wow okay yeah these broke disasters drowning in debt and picking up part-time gigs to supplement the meager pay from their crap job working for an evil boss are ONE THOUSAND PERCENTin their twenties, huh.
They’re 15 and 16 last time I checked
Jessie and James have been confirmed 25 in the anime since the 2nd movie (and before that if we’re looking at radio dramas)
…how come they aged and ash didn’t?
stress from being poor
he made a wish on the second episode when he saw ho-oh which granted him eternal youth at the cost of never wining a championship