RVM Psychic Spectacular

    I’m on time! So before I address the comic itself, I want to talk about my short hiatus this week. If you don’t care about that, just skip ahead to COMIC ITSELF. So to start with, I’ve been late pretty much every single time this year, so sorry about that. In December, I got very busy around Christmas time. So I would get home and was tired and just wanted to lie down. Well that meant I would not accomplish anything on this stuff and when I got back to it, I’d have to finish a lot more than before. To explain my method, it works as follows:
    I like to do longer comics than most people do. I usually want to get a lot out of action, movement, dialogue, etc. I feel my fight sequences are a lot better when I can have a lot more panels devoted to just things like simple actions. Dialogue sections are much better when they are broken up and we see characters facial expressions change with the dialogue, opposed to having the same face with a wall of dialogue. so it’s very rare any of my comics are shorter than 6 panels, and recently 10 has been the shortest. Well I also like to release stuff very regularly. So I wanted to release stuff as fast as once a week. To do that, I adopted a system. Basically I would start the first one two weeks before it was due to come out. After one week I would start the second one. That made it so I’d be half done with the next one when the first one was released and it just go like that. I’d only be drawing like a panel a day or so a day. That’s pretty manageable. It also allowed for a hick up or lazy day once in a while too without to much ill effect.
    That worked really well but I got out of that reutine in December and found myself trying to complete a comic in like three days, which is why I tended to be late a lot. So I decided to take a week off so I could set this back up the way it’s supposed to work. So now I got it back that way, so hopefully I wont be late or at least not as often.

COMIC ITSELF
    Mewtwo rises! Gyarados has fallen and it’s one on one now. I’d ask you guys to guess who you think Red’s last Pokemon one is… but you already know who it si I’m sure C= I am very happy how this one came together. Mewtwo looks great, the final blow on Gyarados looks exactly the way I wanted it to look. I am very happy here!
    Now for the question at hand, what did Mewtwo exactly do to Gyarados? Well… the combat system I use has been kept secret for a while but time to reveal what it is. It’s the real time combat system used in the fan game Pokemon Chaos Version I was developing and plan to work on again (it’s been frozen due to priorities being in other places but I do plan to return to it). The game is to involve a real time combat system that involves basic brawling, special moves, and these moves right here. These are your “finishers” or “ultimate’s” that you’d see in other fighting games. I called them spectaculars. Basically they are the most powerful attacks executable and they can only be executed once the spectacular bar was filled. It’s filled by one of three methods, When damage is dealt (you gained a lot of it if a KO occurred due to an attack directly, something like burn damage didn‘t count to it at all), when an enemy attack is guarded/blocked successfully, and it also filled slowly over time too. There‘s a mechanic similar to natures in the game called Battle traits that would add a small bonus to one of the three methods and a penalty to one of them, just to add some more variety in fighters. They did not have to be used immediately though, Mewtwo actually could have used his much earlier (he probably could have used it by the time Jolteon T-waved him) if he wanted to but he didn’t think he needed to bother with it till now. Spectaculars were type based but immunities are treated as ½ resistances instead. So Mewtwo could do that to Mega Gyarados as well. Mewtwo is also not limited to only that one, like the normal move pool, players could pick and spectacular they wanted for them, as long as the Pokemon could learn it (they can only run one per battle though). As the story goes along, Mewtwo will show off some more of them, but for now he only has the Psychic one. That one is the Psychic Spectacular, which is a base one all psychic types may use by default.
    I wanted to use this mechanic for two reasons, one I designed it so it makes since I would use it, and two, the Pokemon games are turned based and my stuff is real time combat. So I wanted to use a mechanic that was similar to the turn based mechanic but suited real time combat better. Solarshadow and the Shining Consequence also use this mechanic.  Don’t expect to see Spectaculars to often, I want to keep them a once in a while… well spectacle.

    Anyway, that pretty much sums all that up.

    Red‘s Journal: Psychic Types
    My first taste of the power of a psychic type came from a bug type actually. Butterfree learned Confusion and it was a very powerful attack on it. Every time it used it, it made me more and more curious about the psychic type. I named it that in response to the nature of the move, which basically involved messing with the mind of the opponent to disorient them. I wouldn’t encounter an actual psychic type till  I saw a yellow monkey sort of thing. I battled it… then it teleported away. So I looked for another, and it also teleported away. That thing I got sick of and left, only to find out Blue had some how managed to capture the thing. He wouldn’t let me see it much after our battle, claiming he didn’t have time for that but I don’t think that was true.
    I would eventually catch one of my own and evolve it up to Alakazam by trading it around with Leaf, the girl form Pallet Town that adopted Bulbasaur. I found a few other psychic types too, Slowbro, Hypno, Exeggutor, etc. I also found some more while on my journey in Johto like Espeon and Girafarig. They’re a very neat species. They all have some very impressive powers, usually able to learn lots of different moves and many of them hit hard and did so incredibly fast. Alakazam served me very well against the Elite four, I can assure you of that.
    The one that drew my attention the most though was the one I read about in the Pokemon Mansion. It was described to be so powerful it was uncontrollable. That creature was named Mewtwo. It broke out of the lab it was created in and went on a rampage through Kanto. I wasn’t powerful enough to battle Mewtwo while that was happening and only watched news reports about it. Eventually Mewtwo mysteriously vanished, just like It’s parent Mew did (though Mew was never seen at all from what I could tell, then again, I could find almost nothing about the original Mew). During Mewtwo’s absence, I became champion and went on my expedition in Johto.
    Mewtwo wouldn’t be heard from again till Blue found that it had receded into Cerulean Cave.

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