TSA writes: It says a lot about a series like Pokémon when, for so many people, the idea of really getting into competitive Pokémon means not actually playing a commercial release in the long-running Nintendo team battler series. Instead, countless fans will hop onto a freeware alternative like Pokémon Showdown that cuts the hours of catching and grinding and breeding ideal pocket monsters from the original games and simply gives you a free selection of optimized battlers to immediately build teams with. There’s a demand for easy to access but hard to learn team battler action, and Bravery Network Online satisfies that itch perfectly. Even better, though, is that it manages to be stylish as hell while it does it.
