es fakemon tyme

Cavitooth or Malenamel
Maw Pkm
Poison/Rock
Stench/Sturdy HA: Strong Jaw
This grotesque pokemon consists of a black/purple stony material in the shape of a large ugly face, it lacks any other limbs or appendages, it has a massive mouth filled with diseased teeth filled with holes and green fumes. it has a slit nostrils and agitated pink eyes.
“Cavitooth grind down anything that wanders too close to it, since it lacks a stomach it uses the large collection of bacteria to break down its prey for nutrients”
“Bacteria and other filthy things inhabit Cavitooth’s mouths, just one whiff of its hazy fumes will leave you very very sick”

Since I am that aforementioned “Earthen” I will join with gusto!

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I’d join

But how many would be interested?

On that note, the movie felt very short. It’s by no means the shortest Pixar movie, but I think the movie could have benefited from more scenes. Barley in particular I think needed more content. His whole thing is that he’s a big dopey “screwup,” but I don’t think they portrayed that well. They spend a lot of time on his physicality, he’s constantly knocking things over and roughing people up, but what about how the other characters feel about him? There’s zero sense that his mother wants him to move out and do more with his life. Ian never wants him to grow up, all he wants is for Ian to not pick him up from school because his personality is over the top and embarrassing. The movie tries its best to portray this by showing us a scene of him defending a landmark, but is that really indicative of being a screwup? His mother/brother never wanted anything else from him and at most he seems like a nuisance to law enforcement and maybe big corporations. I don’t recall them ever mentioning his unemployment, but at the end of the movie he has a throw away line that he has a job now.

I must talk about the character and overall design/worldbuilding. This is pretty…mediocre. A Pixar take on DnD is super fun in concept and a lot of it IS in execution, especially coming from someone who plays it, but the actual designs for the races and the landscapes are uninspired. I’d say the Manticore is the only character that has a somewhat interesting take. Like the designs kind of seem like they spent very little time actually deciding how they would appear. Don’t get me wrong, Ian is ADORABLE, but the elves just kind of feel like a take that they saw on tumblr or deviantart. A good portion of the movie is also spent in the countryside, but I must say that while the animation was stunning, the design was boring. I remember a big, sweeping shot of them walking through like a riverbed with a cliff in the background and thinking, “that looks really nice, but how does this really push the idea of a fantasy-scape?” This could just be a shot from a regular adventure movie with no magical elements.

Ultimately I think both the character and world designs are what have made this movie so lukewarm with audiences. People who see it seem to like it quite a bit (me,) but from the outside it doesn’t seem like much of an interesting take on a fantasy world at all. There’s even a point where the Centaur officer just gets out of his police truck and he literally is just…driving in a regular car. There are no special modifications to account for his huge horse body, he just struggles for a split second in getting out. That’s a really boring take on integrating fantasy and modern worlds and is probably the best example of how much of the world building in this movie needed more time and editing.

Overall probably 7 or 8/10. Great, mainly for the story, but it’s not Toy Story or Incredibles. If this was/somehow is a huge success at the box office I think there could have been potential for a sequel.

The Maractus episode. This episode stands out to me because it is just awful.

-Tries to show triple battles and fails cause it’s only to make the three Maractus in sync and last two turns
-The Maractus are straight up annoying
-Stupid plot cause it’s just them trying to be in a talent show and winning
-They used the elongated BW opening in the middle of the episode (The og is fine but the extended version is possibly the worst opening of them all)

I mean outside Ash’s team the BW stuff is pretty bad, but this episode always stood out to me

Oh dear god I’ve played for 18+ hrs

And one thing I’ve noticed is that even though I’m a wild and charismatic defender of good I kinda put off from helping people in dire need

Diglett: left at the top of the mountain for almost a few days
Metapod: Would evolved by the time I got to him…which was like maybe six days
And the Mankey group starved to death because I’ve spent a fortnight attending the jobs of my clients