Your attacks are tied to a stamina bar instead of Pokémon’s PP system. It’s a minor inclusion but, for those who enjoy digging into the deeper aspects of the turn-based meta, it affords a greater level of personalisation over your team.
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As you level-up monsters through experience points, a separate potential meter fills to upgrade individual stats like attack, defence, or HP. There are also some subtle differences in the mechanics. The 2D monster sprites are much better animated, with more variation in battle backdrops to match the area you’re exploring – from woodlands and electric laboratories to swamps. The first you’ll notice is the art style, which feels closer to the vibrant warmth of Stardew Valley than the top-down Pokémon titles. You might be wondering why no one’s contacted the lawyers already, but Coromon scatters just enough unique touches of its own to side-step Pokémon’s shadow. There are elemental weaknesses, monsters to evolve, and one-liner spouting trainers to battle, and it all starts on the same note of leaving your mother’s house for the grand adventure before you. Coromon is upfront about its Pokémon inspirations and knowingly emulates the battle mechanics, structure, and whimsy of Nintendo’s juggernaut. But while many scream for innovation and growth, from a franchise that’s clung to its core formula for decades, there’s just as many who mourn the move away from the accessible simplicity of the traditional mechanics.Ĭoromon is aimed squarely at the more conservative Pokémon fan, with a game that looks and plays like a late era Game Boy Advance title.
Now that Pokémon Legends: Arceus has taken some reserved leaps towards rewriting the formula, the next mainline Pokémon outings – the recently announced Scarlet and Violet – feel destined to be divisive. But he says the company never maximized its production potential and money problems only grew when a major client pulled back on orders.Coromon – old school and unofficial (pic: Freedom Games)Ĭatch and battle monsters in this comforting throwback to Game Boy Advance era Pokémon role-playing games. McCulloch says NovaScotian Crystal fell into financial trouble in recent years after using a $300,000 guaranteed loan from the provincial government to open a second furnace. When the company announced it would sell its inventory and close in a few weeks, loyal customers lined up outside the shop before it opened. “The specialness is a little bit of soul that every craftsman pours into each piece,” he says. In the adjoining showroom, light dances off finished wine glasses, vases, bowls, decanters and votive holders.Ībout 10 craftsmen will have worked on a typical wine glass by the time it goes from the furnace to the showroom, where it retails for $89.Ĭompany president Rod McCulloch says NovaScotian Crystal’s customers pay for the story behind each piece and the tiny imperfections that are the hallmark of handcrafted work. Grids are drawn on wine glasses that have yet to be carved with intricate patterns. They watch as one of a dozen craftsmen, guided by intuition, dip a blowing iron into the molten crystal and use carefully measured breaths to grow the malleable blob. In the summer, a garage door is raised, allowing wide-eyed passersby to catch the crystal makers in action. NovaScotian Crystal’s production facility, known as Glassworks, is a mainstay on Halifax’s boardwalk. “I don’t want to admit it to myself, that it might come to an end.” “When you have a piece of crystal in your hand you know it’s something special,” says Brian Tebay, 43, sitting in an upstairs office at NovaScotian Crystal’s production facility and showroom on the Halifax waterfront. The two men are among the founding fathers of Canada’s only mouth-blown, hand-cut crystal maker, but now financial pressures threaten to shatter the future of their ancient craft. It’s a beautiful and delicate dance that Brian Tebay has been performing with his father and mentor, Jack Tebay, for nearly two decades at NovaScotian Crystal. HALIFAX – A red-hot glob of molten crystal is dropped onto the unfinished stem of a wine glass before it’s carefully massaged into a flat surface amid the whir of a furnace heated to 1,400 Celsius. Send this page to someone via email email.
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