Moonstone Island: ALL Spirits Explained! 🦝🐠👁️ a Pokemon X Stardew Valley game!

Moonstone Island mixes Pokemon with Stardew Valley and a card battler, and now it's on Nintendo Switch! I've been playing it on Steam for a while and can recommend it fully! With it in the news again, I got to wondering: What are each of the Moonstone Island Spirits based on? Why are they named what they are? And why are Bonefire, Fishbo, and Burgloon the best?

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Chapters:
00:00 What is Moonstone Island?
00:35 Earth Type Spirits
03:17 Water Type Spirits
05:43 Poison Type Spirits
08:10 Electric Type Spirits
10:19 Fire Type Spirits
12:30 Ice Type Spirits
14:14 Psychic Type Spirits
15:52 Dark Type Spirits
19:30 ANY Type Spirits
20:39 GG! Conclusion!

Gnoggin, hosted by its creator Lockstin, is a show delving into the mysteries of Pokemon! (and other games sometimes too). Explaining everything there is to explain! Why is each Pokemon given the type it has? What are their origins? What is the lore of the Pokemon world and the design inspirations? And what does it all have to do with alchemy? Let's Go find out!

[kadendang_]

A couple things worth mentioning:

Firstly, similar to Coolslime and Radlad, Spyreling is also from another game! It's from Slay the Spire, specifically the Fat Gremlin enemy.

Secondly, Pombomb from Cassette Beasts was recently added to the game as a Fire Spirit.

[DementedDuskull]

18:34 That's actually awesome, because this was something I was actually pondering recently - that "Missingno." is a name arisen from a glitch, not an intentional feature, and thus is not an official character the same way Pikachu is. This means that the name likely isn't _trademarked, _ so a game could totally use the name and get away with it! Hence, Missingno is here!

[toumabyakuya]

About both Missingno and Overseer:

- Missingno being a hand is funny given the heavy hints towards Gen 1 Pokemon it has, after all, Missingno was usually accompanied by a "Pokemon" called Deadhand.

- Overseer having the ability to change types makes sense seeing how it is heavily inspired on Zero Two's first form from Kirby 64, a Boss that also could change its "type" at will.

[RedBoi]

19:42 A d-20 with a bunch of eyes that changes elemental types? That's just Miracle Matter from Kirby 64

[adriel.]

Wooow such a honor to see the game I worked on be featured in this channel!! Never thought something like this would happen haha I loved it!! The editing is amazing! 🥰🥰
I designed some Spirits for the game, so let me get you a few info:

3:36 The first idea I had for his name was "Timbus" which would be "Tio + Nimbus", I'm from Brazil and here "Tio" is like "Uncle" an older male person (the moustache haha), but the other option that the director liked more was "Claudio" because is a really common name here in Brazil for an older person too.. We thought it would be funny to have a Spirit with such a mundane name haha also the "Claud" is from "Cloud"

11:45 Sheemp is just the word "Sheep and Imp" combined haha it was supposed to be a Demon Sheep that evolves into a Demon Goat, also his fur is black because "black sheep" is a phrase we use for bad people

14:54 You got me...

That's it!! The team keep adding Spirits all the time, so for the people who liked them just keep an eye on future updates 😁

[virgilepiaux]

1:08 YO-KAI WATCH SPOTTED! SUMMONING TOUGH!

[Tactical_Turtwig]

"Archaea" are also a group of microorganisms similar to but distinct from bacteria. The main feature about them is that they live in extreme environments. Maybe implying that it could survive death itself? 😊 wouldn't that be a neat touch?

[Ryu_D]

"Get me out of here, I'm proving a point!" ROFL XD

[Grand_Pangeo]

Thinking of doing Yokai Watch in the near future? Anything from 1-4 and nothing else. Idk if it takes a while and appears as a two-parter or so, I bet you can’t speed run an explained video about their name etymology and design origin beforehand.

[JINDIG]

12:19 Spyreling is also based on the Fat Gremlin from Slay the Spire, hence its name and its ability, Slay the Fire

[johanadormeo]

19:42 Overseer reminds of a Kirby 64 boss: Miracle Matter. Both are blood red eyes on a 20 sided die shape with the only difference being that Miracle Matter is white, not purple

[Pyrozilla]

8:19 Barkbyte reminds me of Wappy Dog for the Nintendo DS as that game came with a little robotic dog that interacted with the game. I actually had that game as a kid and it was pretty fun

[Zlixlriffs]

To note about Arkeya is that like Karyote it’s named after archea another branch of the evolutionary tree and Karyote is made of multiple eyes as opposed to Arkeya’s one eye because eularyotes are the basis of multicellular organisms

[metaltornado]

5:45 Birdbrain's royal garb could also be a reference to Skeksis from the Dark Crystal.

[nonexistendworm]

Owls seem to be linked to clocks/clockworks in general: Okami, Sly Cooper, Culdcept revolt.

[derg]

2:03 Longlogs face looks Like a whispy Woods reference aswell:D

[aidenwallin]

4:14 A fishbowl on *Spongebob's* legs, if his shoes were blue.

[Spyko-]

notably about starsee, is that IRL sea stars have eyes at the end of their arm too

[Chokun-Gaming]

A couple of these spirits look remarkably similar to bosses from Kirby 64, Tidan looks like Magman but made of water instead of magma, and Overseer is literally just purple Miracle Matter

[Luigicat]

Overseer also resembles the base form of Miracle Matter, the (semi)final boss from Kirby 64 which can change forms to use the same elements Kirby used throughout the game against him.