Pokémon Has Evolved! | Pokémon Legends: Arceus REVIEW 

i love how when you feed some pokémon they just follow you around for a bit. it’s like when you feed a stray cat or a duck and now it trusts you and wants more

There are so many little things like this in Arceus that make it one of my favorites, from the dex to how if you actually learn about the pokemon it makes it easier to find them, to how pokemon keep their sizes when caught and can be bigger or heavier, there's just so much that's just SO GOOD. And it blows me away because the Dex itself, the pokemon that made the cut TO THIS GAME, is not really a roster of my favorites. It was one of my big worries coming in, that there wouldn't be a lot of interesting pokemon besides the new ones for me to catch, I was so happy to be wrong.

Yeah that's very cute. I thought that was only Blissey. But Nice to know Chansey does that to. Don't know if Happny does that thought.

I kinda wish I never gave my copy to my neice, lol. The game slowly got tedious because I had to catch all these Pokemon, and starting a battle felt more tedious than actually trying to catch them unnoticed. The battles were stupidly easy, and I had to constantly change my team to stop overlevelling from all the catches. The levels felt meaningless.

@@GamersXnostalgia yeah the idea is you're supposed to constantly swap out team members to help fill out the dex, it's still a lot of EXP getting thrown at you but wow it saves hours of would be grinding

If we get technical, there are places in the world where it's out. But for us, he did it!

I was gonna say the same thing 😂

Arlo's an overachiever

Not for me in Australia. sorry Arlo better luck next time.

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It was at this moment, they knew......they fucked up.

i love arceus

I’m still at the beginning of the game haven’t even crossed the 1st bridge yet and I’m already Star 5 with level 60 Pokémon 😂

Wow, I like that costume! I want to play!

@@oo0024 yup. It's so addictive

xanderbogurtso if you wanted to comment something like this go to a bdsp video

He promised it in his last Pokémon video and I’m so glad he managed to do it.

Miracles do happen!

By about 4 hours!

Not if you’re an Aussie

Maybe we'll get the next review before the next Pokemon game too

Definitely. I had completed the dex of SuMo, but in PL:A it was so much more fun and just catching the Pokémon was fun in of itself

SWSH

I disagree.

I’ve caught them all in every game. I agree that PLA is the first game where it never feels like work 😭😭

@@skelly1555 Id say other pokemon games catching all the pokemon feels like work, but in pla it feels like a chore. At least once you get down to the last few hardest ones.

Yes please ! 🙏

Job to would be so perfect, the lore would fit this art style and style of storytelling so well

damn you and bless you for implanting this idea in my brain!!!

GEN V would be amazing as well

This!!!!! This would be amazing!!!

"Acquiring target."

"Run, i dare you"

I really, really, REALLY hope the next legends game is set in Unova.

@@zzeroara9511 Oh man, getting to play the moment Kyurem arrives, and the legend of the two brothers... and maybe even getting to see Kyurem as the complete dragon???!

@@Draezeth or a Legends: Celebi game where Celebi send you even further back in time to Johto thousands years in the past to see the death and rebirth of the Legendary Dog Trio in the Burnt Tower, to witness the creation of the Sinjoh Ruins and to search the existence of the ancient people that created those ruins yet disappeared without a trace in Legends: Arceus?

Legends Celebi would be sooo dope

Legend kalos is just gonna be a dynasty warriors game, where you kill people and Pokémon. That makes you solely responsible for all the graves that spanned all the way from one city to geosenge town.

I never felt the need to complete the dex in any game, not even the earlier ones... until legends arceus haha. The field research aspect was a huge part of that!

That is awesome! There's nothing wrong with that, and you keep that, if it's fun and you wanna! ^^

It is a great thing to hear and see. I got loosely similar feels to his reaction to Pikmin 4's announcement. "It will?"

It's really a beautiful moment. The joy is contagious!

It's not weird at all. In a world where people seem to complain and be more interested in hearing negativity it's refreshing to hear people have more positive, upbeat attitudes and talk about the things they appreciate sometimes.

Arlo is enjoyable, but theres a lot of moments during the video where im like, "okay, that is a good change, or that is a good feature.... but you totally skip over the issues with it." Like for instance, praising the battle changes, without mentioning that its complete chaos when the turn order is a complete mystery because it only shows the turn order based on your own actions and not that of your opponent, making any kind of strategy/planning a dice roll (probably why they didnt include PVP).

This isn't weird, people say this all the time.

I mean, I think the way they named it kinda implies that "Legends" is gonna be a series

@@andromedasgarden it's so sad they didn't use the same systems In S & V Arceus perfected them.

@@andromedasgarden I really believe that the references to other regions (Like Alola and unova) and the fact that in the trailer it has two more other colored Pokedex like books that we don't get in the game implies that we are going to get sooner or later more legends games!

PLA has been my favorite pokemon game to date, and I’ve played all of them since they’ve came out

They won't add what's better in Legends in the mainline series. Cause now they have another Pokemon game that they can spew out yearly and sell to their loyal fans.

I feel the same. I walked into Arceus thinking I wouldn't like it at all, and it's by far my favorite Pokemon game. On the other hand, I thought I'd love S/V and its just boring me to death so far. I am honestly thinking about just starting a new Arceus save. I played that game for countless hours, and I can't even play Violet for 2 hours without needing a break due to boredom. The story is meh, whereas Arceus had an amazing story for a Pokemon game.

I probably won't even finish Violet. Its boring compared to Arceus. I got extremely spoiled with the storytelling and gameplay from Arceus.

You can still hide in the grass and sneak up to a Pokémon to throw your Pokémon at it and catch it of guard to make the first turn. You also can jump of high places

@@Saroku1000 Technically yes you can still crouch and sneak up behind, yes, but I am more meaning the way it is in Arceus. If the gameplay from Arceus was taken and put inside this game, it would be much better. Being able to throw a ball how/where you want by aiming, catching from the overworld, *Actual* sneaking around like it is in Arceus, etc.

scarlet and violet are a massive step down compared to legends and i got extremely bored and underwhelmed. i'm 4 hours in and i might just stop playing because i'm having no fun

I miss that you can't take damage from the overworls Pokémon. That was so much fun. getting ganged up and attacked and you had to actively dodge, made me really feel excited from playing it. 😔

true, cant play the basic formula after arceus

I'm just hoping it's because they were developed at the same time by different teams. I mean, the pokemon switching in LA would've been PERFECT for auto-battling in SV. Maybe the next game, if not, then gen 10 will build properly off of LA.

Legends Arceus should be the baseline for all pokemon games going forward. All they had to do was take that core and drop the usual pokemon formula into it, but of course, in classic gamefreak fashion, we get a trainwreck of a game.

Perfectly put. Agreed.

Agree. I can never go back to the dull Pokémon formula, if I can't get the rush of wild Pokémon trying to kill me or me bully catch via mud balls.

The combat is good?? You either one shot them or they one shot you.... There's nothing good about the combat at all

@@robjapan For me that is good combat, as it is quick

@@robjapan no, of course you exaggerate, I mean the combat is good by pokemon standards in terms of immersion. Your argument applies to every installment in the series, and here you have: no popups with the obvious every sec, the speed of combat, the fact that the pokemon actually perform their attacks right next to the opponent, new animations (e.g. Luxray got great one), free walking during the fight, you can just leave the fight at any time without having to click any button, confirm, move back to the map. All this greatly affects the flow of the game and the pleasure of playing

@@robjapanwait, isn’t that the same as the main line pokemon game?

@@padmoch2207 The combat speed is the same except for the intro in which in this game you basically create your own.

that's fair, and i agree to an extent, but i really hope the next Legends game has the masuda method because it's one of the easiest shiny methods 😭

@@zzeroara9511 imo it’s not needed, the fact that you can boost your shiny odds much easier through outbreaks and such means your shiny chances are highly elevated. i’ve found so many shinies in PLA, and never massifs no matter how hard i try 💀

​@@abomination6393 outbreaks are random so your point flops.

Breeding actually would have been good for manipulating natures and getting rarer Pokemon more easily. Classic Pokemon is just way better because you could customize your stats however you want and making stats detrimental actually had benefits such as lowered confusion damage, trick room, and guard split, now it's just basic as crap. Even in previous Pokemon games you didn't have to worry about stats casually so I don't see how it's such a good thing for it to change.

I am very happy to see hidden stats gone, but can we please have held items back in Z-A? It's strategic but easily understood and would give the combat the one last layer it needed.

Omg me too! But I do hope that our character is from that time period rather than from the future.

The oneley thing I had getting used too was the boss fighting mechanic. I saw some videos and knew this wasn't just send out pokemon and battle. The actuall physics of dodging and such is quite diferent for pokemon and even when I was exspecting that it's a new feature to learn. I got knocked out by kleavor thre times before I cleared it. It hasn't made me pute the game down but it will take some time to get used too. Even if this game disapoints me in some areas I look foward to when I can transfer arceus mons to scarlet and violet with home.

@@TheOmegazerox I had to get used to that too. I think I died once during my first time against Kleavor, but for most of it I was hiding terrified behind the gigantic tree, wondering wtf was happening and wtf I was supposed to do. I didn’t even really know how dodging worked at that point! Edit: actually, I think I did die multiple times. But I still hid behind the tree like a coward. And it took me like 15 minutes.

S/V was done by the group who developed Sw/Sh, next one is back to the people that did legends arceus. So we can probably expect something decent

But, are you disappointed because of the glitches, or the new entry isn't fun? I am willing to buy Scarlet next year, so the glitches (at least most of them) should be fixed. But if the game is boring, there is no patch that can fix this.

@@Fabio-lq7wb My main gripe is that the game runs terribly. It looks like a gamecube gane but still has horrible performance issues, frame rate drops random momentary freezes, assets popping in and out, npc jittering around, etc. Honestly the animations and art are also incredibly disappointing for a game of this size, there are low res repeating textures just copy pasted and stretched over huge chunks of the terrain. Even if you throw out the performance and art issues, the game itself is underwhelming so far, mainline pokemon badly needs a refresh and a team of people that are actually excited to work on it. This game feels passionless.

@@hoodrat1632 im with you,im gonna buy legends instead and wait to see if scarlet gets patched.i want my 1st open world pokemon game to be good.havwnt played pokemon in years.tried sword but hated it,was just boring.

@@holy9781 i think youll like legends, it was pretty good

Kinda wish they did it right then and there

@@ralfsstuff yeah me to. I really though Cylene would be another twist villain like they did with Sun and Moon and Sword and Shield

@@JGr2000Let's been honest, we always knew Rose was gonna be the villain, and Team Yell wasn't a very convincing ploy to get us to think they were the villains.

Team star and team galactic should be related since there seems to be a theme of time travel happening but will any of this be satisfying or just hinted at since it's a kids game

@Logan McGlynn black and white don't even have a good story for a pokemon game. All pokemon stories are basic and none of them are very good. Sword/shield have the worst one, but the rest of them are all about equally ok. By the point of Diamond and Pearl, the story of gyms and an evil team had become boring.

I know, it's beyond stupid that they got rid of that.

@@Steven-zb4bd well the two games were in development at the same time so it makes sense that they wouldn’t include something in a main series Pokémon game that they were testing in a “spinoff” game

Tbh i get why there isnt the legends catching mechanics. I feel this mechanic will be reserved for the legends games, mainly because the legends games are meant to be different while main line games should roughly have the same format

@@Steven-zb4bd no, not really. they're developed by two separate teams within gamefreak, meaning the next mainline game will most likely be caught up and have a perfect mix of SV+Arceus's mechanics/improvements/additions.

@@pixelturtle5041 You can choose to not catch that way if you want to. It was a very immersive way of interacting with pokemon. Scarlet and violet is a full blown open world game after the first 3 hours. Catching would have been THRILLING for most.

For the first time NPCs have actual names and development.. literally the music evolves along with the town because of the player It had so many mystery dungeon vibes which is something that I adore How everyone turned their backs to the player so quickly apart from Rei/Akari, the professor (he is so amazing) and Cylene The player is left by themselves though along with their own Pokemon And the moment with Shinx just coming to check on the player.. it was so amazing

@@hissirenprincess619 This is the first time I’ve thought about that but I definitely agree mystery dungeon vibes for sure

Yea. There's already a lot of other open world JRPG's that beat them to it. Ni No Kuni, Dragon Quest, Monster Hunter etc. But there's still that Nintendo Pokemon "Charm" thats kinda unique

Pokémon was always meant to be a handheld series.

@@psychokinrazalon nah.

Its sounding like scarlet and violet are a good move but I will be looking forward to what they can do with this new style on better hardware

when pokemon stadium was announced, before we really knew anything about it (& i believe it was just being referred to as pokemon64) i was hopeful it would be an experience like PLA. i was pretty disappointed it was just a game for battling for a little bit. of course, i enjoyed that game when i did get to play it. but yeah, PLA has just been a long time coming

it took me FOREVER to successfully take on that alpha snorlax, it felt so good to finally best it. it never really felt frustrating because it was also fun running around trying to catch it and dodging 😭

@@zahrah2269 same man

I haven't seen them try this hard since pokemon black and white when they almost tried to give the game an actual plot to follow and unova only pokemon to immerse you in the region even more. Legends arceus has been so beautiful that I still play it to this day which can't be said for another pokemon games in my library. Can't wait for Legends ZA to come out.

you mean today, as early releases are a thing

From what I've been seeing a lot of what's in this video is not in the new game

Im going at midnight with a couple friends to get it, im so hype 😭

@@Spectarium most people have to wait until midnight, so I would guess OP meant tomorrow… considering, you know, I think HE would know when HE gets to play.

I’m even more excited! I have not been catching up with Pokémon recently but you know what after Violet or I am getting Arceus!

I hope it gets a sequel, it truly does deserve it.

I hope they just incorporate those mechanics into the next generation instead. GF doesn’t really have the resources to work on multiple games, and generations are locked into a 3 year deadline no matter what. S/V has performance issues and while a delay would’ve helped, it also would’ve helped if they didn’t have what few employees they have working on other projects. Especially for their first actual open-world game. Although I’m not against diving in the history of other legendary/mythical Pokémon, but they didn’t really have much info on the Pokémon themselves. It was more about the people and how they worship them as deities. Interesting, but I was expecting a lot more than what they gave, story-wise. The game is titled after Arceus and he’s mostly a quest-giver with little involvement until the end.

@@kclink1579 and I hope it gets a graphic update and some voice actors and pokemon with more moveent and meaning than just hey catch me

It’s simply not good enough. Very flawed yet enjoyable

@@perdurabo56 so let me ask this genuinely, why do you say it’s not good enough? What other aspects were you hoping for?

@@pichaelthompson gyms, elite 4, new Pokemon(Arceus is just a rehash of Sinnoh mons, we already caught them all) , not dropping evolution items we spent days to find because we got mobbed by overly aggressive Pokemon, not button mashing nonsense(why am I dodging pokemon attacks in a turn based strategy game akin to chess? My main gripe with the game is looking for evolution items is impossible because the pokemon all not let you explore at all. Every single one of them attacks you and you cannot get the item you need. It's fucking annoying because you need to complete the dex to finish the game. And that new genie is bullshit. Way too hard to get. Which is why I hope its released as a gift in Scarlet/Violet. I play these games to catch the Pokemon. That's it. I still dont have Urasluna. Why? Croagunks keep killing me and wont let me find the item. So I stopped playing it. It aint that great.

@@bantuboi3131 hmm I find that fascinating bc I never care to catch all the Pokémon in any of the games. Ursaluna was pretty easy to catch for me, and once I got up to a high enough level, a lot of Pokémon stopped attacking me. I would say anything level 30 and below stopped attacking me. And I just got all my evolution items in those space-time zones (forgot what they were called). For me, I don’t play the games to catch Pokémon, I play to be immersed in the Pokémon world. I wanna be my own version of ash. I do wish there would’ve been an elite 4 or more towns to explore, but it makes sense that there wouldn’t be since this is explaining the genesis of the Pokémon trainer starting in the hisuian region before it was renamed to sinnoh. To me it makes perfect sense why it’s a bunch of sinnoh Pokémon, kind of like dynasty periods in imperial Japan’s history. But what do you mean by “genie”? You mean like landorus and them? I admit they were a challenge to catch, but I enjoyed the challenge. But since it wasn’t common for Pokémon to get along with humans, I think it makes sense why a lot would attack you. Just like how you never try to mess with wild life in their habitat in real life. Idk, I guess we have very different desires when it comes to Pokémon games. And I’m cool with that. From a technical standpoint, I think everyone will agree that LA functions so much better than gen 9 games.

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The best part about giving them a shiny is they show up next to them in shiny form

I gave that one dude in the house an alpha parasect and had a chuckle at it taking up almost the entire back half of the house

As long as they connect to the main series, go nuts.

Interestingly, I'm pretty sure I've heard this is considered a main line game by game freak! I wish they'd done a better job of getting that across if so though

Some people don't like their designs but I personally find them both very charming in their own ways. Either way, its good that people are divided about them as it shows Game Freak is not playing it safe, which is something they're very prone to doing.

@@Whitepawprint just because it plays differently doesn’t mean that it is not part of main line games

For real. If you've seen the leaks of pokemon designs for Scarlet/Violet, you know they put their all into the designs. They are (in my opinion) some of the best Game Freak has ever made

That was the best comment ever 😂💀

Me too! Already got it written down on the calendar!

it has huge gamecube innovation vibes

@@epicgamner1139 THIS

@@epicgamner1139 And huge GameCube graphics vibes.

@@pooppooper9033 youre not wrong

All of these comments are valid

I don't understand why they came up with all these genius, 10/10 changes and then just undid all of them in S&V.

I think it's because S/V and PLA were being made alongside eachother and were released too close to eachother. So it's not that they undid the changes, they just didn't even give themselves enough breathing room to implement the changes that fans liked from PLA into S/V@@ohno5559

​@@ohno5559 Nobody else understands that either

and then S&V fucked it up again lol

@@vanishing_girl Yeah, I saw the news about the performance issues. *Sigh* I honestly feel bad for Pokemon fans at this point.

they didn't follow up sadly. scarlet and violet are terrible

@@Kohryujin they went back to a lot of the old game design decisions too, like slow battles the way you catch pokemon, etc.

Glad this didn't follow up, this game was rather boring compared to classic Pokemon. The lack of turn based complexity didn't bother me though, no, it was actually just how broken catching them was. Still I'm happy we got it just to show up botw on how to make an actual proper and convenient open world game.

Wait why can't you play open world games?

@@darkozosel9114 I get distracted by side stuff constantly, which I understand that some people do like, but I hate not being able to make progress towards the main story.

@@dockingwater1713 i like that aspect but also understand why that would bother some. Because you can lost in the small things here very easily haha

I really hope so, cos I'm getting pretty annoyed with Scarlet. This way of catching, battling, doing the gyms again, it all reminds me why I stopped playing Pokémon in the first place after Gen 3. It's sooooo boring for every game to be the exact same as the previous one!

@@DarkAngelEU Scarlet and Violet also look like crap and run horribly compared to legends of Arceus. I am completely disappointed that Game freak didn’t have the balls to bring over all these amazing features to the main line franchise this is how Pokémon is supposed to feel.

@@Faceplay2 It looks amazing and I'm enjoying the "wild areas" very much. The cities are pretty too and it's cool to see how Pokémon interact differently to our presence. But I do wish some of the PLA features were implemented more accurately and I only wish there wasn't so much lag. It's a great game overall.

@@Faceplay2 BASED. The fact that ppl are saying S/V are better than swsh baffles me like, no.. S/V easily is THE WORST MAINLINE POKEMON ENTRY TO DATE..

Finally someone with the same opinion as me.​@rapidretrovenue563

i really hope that Legends: Unova has a similar situation to Volo, but instead it's N's great, great grandfather who's grooming you into helping him form the original dragon. IMAGINE HOW FUCKING COOL THAT WOULD BE.

@@zzeroara9511 cool? More like Horrifying and Uncomfortable. Sign me up!

@@zzeroara9511 While that sounds great on paper, I think it just wouldn't hit the same way unfortunately. With Volo being obviously Cynthia's ancestor we kinda assumed that he was just a good (although a bit odd) guy, which made the reveal much more shocking. Now that we have this experience, if a character like N's ancestor was to approach us and guide us in a similar way, we would start doubting his intentions immediately... It would still be a twist, but much less powerful.

@@darthdand6513 i think that would be fine because I'd want him to be the main antagonist from the start. the player character and the people around you wouldn't know, but you would, so i think it would be fine imo

Oh my gosh manipulation is so dark in a Pokemon game. I guess we're just going to ignore all of the domestic abuse in gen 7. Either way, these stories don't make the games any better.

That would have been so much better than the special they had earlier.

Yeah, Shopro really screwed over Hisui.

That would've been a cool way to finally evolve those starters of Ash and showcase the cool designs, but I've long since given up on the anime to do anything interesting.

His Rowlet can't evolve, but it would've been really cool to see Oshawott and Quilava back!

@@zeeduardopenedo2547 No it's won't, not can't. He can cough up the Everstone then he can evolve.

I also like it way more than Breath of The Wild and Tears of The Kingdom, just a lot of tedium for both. After experiencing Wydeer movement in Legends Arceus, Basculegion swimming and Sneasler climbing, you don't want to go back to those two very overrated games...

@@saricubra2867legend arceus a full nothing but catching Pokémon that’s it

Mystery Dungeon only superficially, every PMD game has such a good story that comparing Legends to PMD is kinda silly.

Training grounds have strong trainers with very high level pokemon

@@cortster12 The only reason you think pmd has a good story is because it wasn't made by game freak, you're the same clowns who think XD and Colosseum are good in any way.

@@rpgfanatic9719 No, it's because I'm a freak who enjoys PMD player x partner shipping fanfiction.

i wouldnt say the story is mystery dungeon level but this is a definite step up for the franchise

I was utterly disappointed the catching mechanics did not carry over to Scarlet and Violet. I can't imagine playing a mainline pokemon game without them now.

@@yousafkhan6921 That's one big reason I've stayed away from SV, cause I genuinely think that they should have implemented the mechanics from Legends. It's baffling to see them take a huge step forward and then a huge step back. I know I'll probably get flamed for thinking this (as my friends already have lmao) but idk man it's personally really hard for me to play any other Pokémon game after Legends set my standards so high. Hopefully they'll make Legends a series, cause that we have in that game is phenomenal and I would love to see that formula improved even more.

I think the last truly experimental pokemon game was Coloseum and that was mainly because instead of capturing wild pokemon you steal them from other trainers to rescue them, and every battle was a double battle with the bosses using competitive viable strats. (Nothing too broken but facing a rain team even if it didn't spam thunder is still quite the step up from normal pokemon) But PLA is definitely the nost experiment pokemon game yet, and even if im not 100% on everything i love the overall concept and fully support experimentation and hope that we get more legends series. (I also head canon that the player in legends is the player from platinum after they became champion)

Pokemon S/V review to be released a day before Pokemon Legends: Rayquaza, calling it now lmao. Joking aside, I'm genuinely excited he actually made his deadline, no wonder it took so long tho since it's an hour long video.

@@alekspiatek8346 I bet you are right.

Aww, that's super cool! ^^ It kinda is for me, as well, I love it, too, I getcha!

if they made a pokemon game with arceus' mechanics, swsh's camping and scarvi's story and teambuilding, it would be peak