@e_zed_eh_intern It was a beautiful reveal. Brought a tear to my eye.

@hazz3r I admittedly didn't play it for too long, but I thought Arena of Valor (same developer) was alright. The characters were kind of boring, and that's not going to be an issue with Pokemon, so maybe this will be the console MOBA of choice.

I imagine they're not going to have a built-in chat, so barring whatever emergent communication methods the community creates, I don't expect people to have an outlet for their toxicity. No built-in chat also makes it less hyper-competitive, so maybe people won't have super high expectations of their team. Hopefully Exp Share is on, though; I think that was 90% of what kept HotS from reaching LoL levels of toxicity.

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I'm pretty excited to play this! It's funny to watch the Pokemon Company desperately push this bonding/teamwork/unite/good vibes angle because they know how toxic MOBAs are, and I hope they succeed. Not sure if my ego will be able to handle Clefable telling me to uninstall.

Anyone else planning on giving Pokemon Unite a shot? What did you think of the presentation?

Maybe Simon the Sorcerer? It was a '93 PC game that seemed to have less of a sleazy angle than LSL, but you absolutely tried to pick up every woman you saw. 1:17:00 for the interaction with Rapunzel:

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It also had a sequel in '94:

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What about Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender? It came to PC in 92, and can definitely be thought of as Leisure Suit Larry in space, even down to the cutesy subtitle.

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Also worth noting that one of the Leisure Suit Larry games was actually set in space.

My top guess would be Revenant, which appeared on multiple Eidos demo discs, which have a criminally low amount of information about them lying around on the internet.

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Was it Big Thinkers? Specifically, the First Grade one?

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Here's a video of the playthrough. Check out 16:00 for a mad libs section, and 27:42 for a game that could be remembered as a game teaching you about volume.

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I'm not super confident in this find, specifically the lack of water balloons, but I'm still looking!

Edit: I also want to drop in this playthrough of Fisher-Price Great Adventures Castle, since it prominently features a jester that guides you through the game. It doesn't have anything else you mentioned, though.

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Do you think it's a coincidence that this announcement happened shortly after the documentary about the THPS series was released?

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Awesome update!