Credit where credit is due, you've got to have some serious balls to make one of the characters say "Look at this view, isn't it beautiful?" while panning the camera in 20ish FPS around the early PS2 environments and N64 quality textures, and not in a charming way.
@@Tortilla_Pizzeria_Pixels I honestly wouldn’t give two spits if it looked like dog ass. I wish they would make a difficulty slider instead of it just pushing you through the game.
Because out of all the improvements they could do, that one would be the least beneficial. They can't optimize the game as is, so why double the number of attack animations?
I am missing those animations, too. :s makes me wonder, if developers and others there ever look at what people wish, from big stuff to small cute details.... Plus some other stuff is missing, which at least partially existed before: Pokémon having closed eyes and slower motion when they were put to sleep and it really bothers me when you lose a battle there is no 'losing' dialogue or anything... You'll wordlessly get teleported to the last poke center you were and everyone has amnesia so there is so different dialogue when you arrive to battle npc XY. I don't want to spoiler so I wrote no personal example but yeah, it often felt like they are missing those smaller details that would make the game whole. It is missing some soul one might say. I wish we could fusion all well made parts of different Pokémon games together so that we get the experience we desperately want (at least me xD)
@Lion Slicer sv feels like an improvement over ss at least. I really like that it scales pokemon sizes properly. No more human-sized wailords or whatnot. This is the most I've enjoyed 3d pokemon visually since Pokemon Colosseum (not referring to open world humans at 3fps and such)
i mean mega evolutions were cool looking, but mechanically they just weren't that game changing. tera types (like dynamax) works for all pokemon, not just the favorites. i really don't understand why everyone wants megas back when it just means we get less lol. i guess if megas were added in with the new gimmick sure, but they just aren't as great as everyone seems to remember them being.
@@skrublordaugust We get "less", so then add more variety to the megas, even z moves and dynamax's were cooler, I don't understand how anyone can think going from a mega to a pokemon with a water fountain on its head is an improvement. I usually like the new gimmicks but this terastallize stuff sucks.
@@frzxt2157 visually, sure, terastallization isn’t impressive. but the impact that is has on the actual important aspect of the game, battling, is so much bigger than any of those ever were. the amount of variety that tera types add to the game is so much larger than megas, z moves or dynamax could ever hope to achieve. unless they have every existing pokemon a mega, tera’s are just better.
@@ilyashussein5972 But what percentage of the playerbase actually cares for comp? Less then 2%. Megas looked cool and were powerful. Dont overthink everything
All I want is for your rival to start the game by running up to you, knocking you out, mugging you and spitting on your unconscious body to make sure you know who they are.
Tbh the friendly competitive rival isn’t bad, but the evil teams need to be, like actually evil. The past two gens the evil teams have been just street punks, and now the evil team is literally just a bunch of delinquent youths. An actual organized crime syndicate that poses an actual threat to the region or world makes for a better plot, at least i think it does.
I won't get over the bit where Nemona's like "look at this beautiful landscape !" and it shows you these gorgeous N64 mountains with the Banjo Kazooie trees.
Every time you go up a light house. one npc said some shit like "is this one of the great sights of paldea" and its literally cheese land from Mario kart
How could you look at fuecoco and not fall in love? He canonically has a dent in his head and looks like he eats glue. He needs the best trainer possible to help him 😂
@@TheNadroj10 I’m a casual player so idk what “Pokémon defenders” is. Last game I played was Pokémon diamond but I decided to give this one a whirl again because of that stupid look on Fuecoco’s face. 🤷♀️
Most of your rivals didn't hate you. Silver from gen2 ABSOLUTELY Hated you. You were the one constant in his life that proved his worldview wrong at every turn. Silver couldn't stand that he couldn't beat you.
@@Rathian03 True, and that's part of why he's so fondly remembered as far as rivals go. His last fight with you pre game was him understanding and confirming for himself that he needed to grow as a person, and he showcases that in the post game.
The only rivals I think that hated you were Blue and Silver, unless I'm mistaken. The closest I think we've gotten to jerk rivals since Gen 2 are Hugh and Gladion, but both of them are explained to have trauma instead of being awful people. Gladion had an abusive mom and ran away to join a gang making him edgy with bad social skills, while Hugh and his sister were attacked by Neo Team Plasma, making him paranoid and extremely mad at everyone. EDIT: Forgot about Klara and Avery who fall under "Is a jerk towards you because they're a jerk" and N who falls under "Is a jerk towards you because he's traumatized"
@@calebporter3735 Blue never hated you. The English translation made him pretty rough around the edges, but mostly he just acts like an excited 10 year old competing with his best friend and acting like a 10 year old. The whole "Smell ya later!" thing was a really bad translation. In the Japanese dialogue, he just says "Well, be seeing ya!". For some reason - possibly because it was 1998- the translators decided to use a Simpsons quote instead.
I miss Gary as a rival. It felt amazing to have professor oak be like 'so what's my grandsons name?' You just named him like dipshit and it was the best source of comedy.
The even sadder part about them not doing voice acting is that they'd only have to hire a few people. They have like 15 different models in the whole game.
honestly the only voice acting they need is main story shit too. Like random npcs I can excuse no voice acting as most of the time you don't even care what they say anyways lol But main story has SO MUCH WRITING and the whole idea of "the games for kids" makes me always me wonder why voice acting isn't in, this would help kids actually understand stuff no?
Or they could do what Undertale and other RPGs did and just have a tone playing that matches the character’s voice pitch. You don’t even need voice actors for that one, it’s just a synth. Would be so much better than the silence there is currently lmao
they could've done random sounds like TLOZ series does, it's very simple but effective in getting across a character's personality and just gives more life to the game in general
Guys come on, the 2 superfans that made this worked really hard for like 6 months. There’s an impressive amount of content and polish for a fan project and I think they did a great job. ….What’s that? ….it was made by Game Freak? ….over three years in development? ……….oh.
To be honest there are lot of reason on why modern Pokemon games are lacking each generation. Not only does game freak have a small team of 169, while most other studios have a have at the very least in the 1000's. Not to mention they had to work on several big projects at the same time. Pokemon games also take a lot of time and work to make, seeing how you how to change and update models to work with a new style or just the device it's on, make completely new models, make the map which in this game is very big, and a whole heap of other things. Since Pokemon are triple A games and are partly owned by Nintendo it's harder to extend the time till realize, seeing Nintendo and Game Freak guaranteed don't care if it looks good or works period. And all the other problems game designing and development can have. So, if anything don't be mad or disappointed with the people who worked on it, and more angry with the people who call the shots.
@@Tupac6780 whoever is in charge of saying when they make they make a game. Whoever is in charge of that just doesn't let their devs work on one game at a time.
@@HellecticMojo Silver was a kid with a father that ignored him. He forced his way to get pokemon and start his own journey to get attention. To gain that attention he only saw value in strength. Abusive maybe, but he was an actual character and actually had an arc throughout your journey.
@@HellecticMojo Edgy isn't really a bad thing though, sometimes it's a pretty fun character archetype. People just like to hate on edge because they think it's lame I'd argue that silver was probably a better projection on kids than the overly happy rivals because silver lost and learned that what he was doing was wrong, and you the main character showed him why. It probably prevented more kids from being Edgy than made them. Something like shadow the hedgehog that glorified edginess did the opposite
Eh, Gen 1 was the mod Gen 2 was the mob but worse Gen 3 and 4 had major world ending stakes with Natural disasters and World distortion Gen 5 was Pokémon peta which is objectively the most powerful Gen 6 was either world ending or city ending I honestly couldn’t tell seeing as the laser did fire but didn’t do much damage Gen 7 was the wormholes… not sure how that was inherently bad Never played 8 Gen 9: skipping class. All things considered the evil teams have been varying degrees of dangerous but I can agree that this team isn’t a threat in the slightest. Mild inconvenience at worse. At least they are wel devolved
@@XgoDuo 8 was a gym leader made people raging fans of his sister just to cheer her on. And this gen technically isn’t really skipping school it’s bullied kids that become the bullies. That disappear.
I swear all their efforts towards performance went into the ending, it was literally the only scenes that didn't look like they were jumping between 15 and 30 fps, and there was a LOT going on that would make you think it should have been looking like it does when trying to speed run blight town in ds1.
It's like how in Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts when the movie cutscenes were a thing of beauty for their time, but the actual gameplay cutscenes were just from the actual game graphics, except it's 20 years later and nothing has changed.
It was rushed g. There are multiple really well animated cutscenes throughout the game that run smoothly. The issue is that they couldn’t keep that quality for the whole game. So they picked and chose key moments. Now this is still inexcusable don’t get me wrong but it shows they really could have made something consistently fire if they just had more time. Fuck the Pokémon company for their deadlines.
@@EmmyEntropy2000 Male Gardevoir's are still available. They can evolve to Gradevoir through level up while to get a Gallade they need the use of a stone.
Cheren felt like a rival at times for me, I remember going back to his cave everyday just to beat him to a pulp, dude ruined my deathless run many times
I liked how nemonia is like "see, terastalising gives your attacks a real boost" after she dealt like 3 damage to my weed cat with that electric type move.
you can definitely tell they were crunched to hell and back to get this game out for the holidays and it makes me sad to see ANY game get crunched like this
It's so obvious this game got crunched and to think, Legends Arceus came out earlier this year, 2 games that are unlike anything GameFreak has ever done before came out in the exact same year
yeah sucks because it really seems like the team was actually ambitious with this project, but had no time to implement it properly. Cuz honestly this sort of open world pokemon formula absolutely needs more time to be fleshed out
@@admiralmage1544 what? Do you think 10 months on a four day work week is enough to finish a video game like this? No wonder it's so sloppy, it's a miracle they even managed to get it to work at all tbh
I think the frustrating part is this could have been so much better. An open world pokemon game Is a fantastic idea. Being able to do any gym in any order is great. But it's executed so badly.
I have been a diehard pokemon fan for my entire life. watched the anime, collected the cards, played all main series games and side games like Mystery Dungeon and Snap, my entire room was filled to the brim with plushies and bedsheets and action figures. If it was pokemon, I had it. I grew up going through all the controversial topics like Jynx having its color changed from black to purple because of it being depicted of black face, or like when Pikachu used thundershock against Porygon and caused the Guiness Book World Record for most kids having an epileptic episode while watching a cartoon. I got to see the transition from 2D pixel art sprites to the fully fledged 3D animations and diagonal walking, sitting on chairs, all that good stuff. I am extremely disappointed in this company for basically slapping us in the face with this shitshow of a game. I am truly saddened by the lack of time, passion, and dedication to these games that I thought GameFreak shared with all of us. Honestly would've loved if they could've just done another Legends: Arceus type game to give them some more time to really fine tune S/V before launch. But oh well, I guess this company doesn't care about Pokemon the same way I do.
Tf you on about. Obviously it's state is inexcusable, but there is probably the best pokemon game to exist past that. Stop trying to find stuff to shit on without objectively looking at it first
To be fair, they were trying, but people were rioting because of how long it was taking, even though this is one of nintendo's common Ls, it isn't really their fault
I love pokemon so much too. It’s sad see my favorite series go through all of this just because corps want more money. The games look extremely fun, but they already fail because the experience is extremely half baked. That is definitely not worth $60 (or around $100 for dlc and everything).
temtem did that, pc version of pokemon, and it drove me absolutely insane after 5minutes that i turned off dialogue sound. So I'd have to HEAVILY disagree with you here
loved pokemon as a kid, the games for its time were ground breaking. the amount of effort they put in for the past 10-15 years is laughable. but the fandom will always buy every. single. game.
Yeah. We have people defending the shitty release in the comments already. I get that the game is fun. But that does not excuse the sorry state it was released in.
Gen 5 had immense effort and care. As much as I love Gen 6, that is where they started dropping the ball on the game itself, the lore, designs, etc were still nice and remain nice(despite recent shortcomings in storytelling) but the actual games have been getting worse and worse since then. Less content, perpetual babymode, pathetic battle animation, and in the last few entries awful technical performance.
I would gladly wait until 2030 for the gen 10 games if it means it will give the devs enough time to make a definitive Pokémon experience. I know for a fact it’s the time constraints that have been holding these games back since gen 6. Alola was kickass in its story, Paldea seems good, and Kalos and Galar were pretty fun. But there’s always glaring issues that keep them from feeling like fully made games definitive Pokémon games.
This game was pretty damn close to a definitive Pokemon experience. If they had more biome interactions and interactions between Pokemon, I would have said it was the definitive Pokemon experience. I'm someone who stopped after gen 6 and waited for a definitive Pokemon experience too btw
According to an article I read on someone said the reason Pokémon doesn't and probably will never have voice acting is as follows:" Pokemon games are not voiced and probably never will be. According to the developers, adding voice would take out the players from the experience of a Pokemon game." Which is honestly a piss poor excuse what they probably meant to say is we don't have enough time to add voice acting to these games because of the unreasonable deadlines the higher ups force upon us.
Does it really matter though? By the time you battle them again you'd have a type they're weak against anyways specifically for it. Same with when they'd choose the one that's better against the one you pick. You'd have a typing specifically for one that is strong against the one you have. It makes no difference
Final forms of Paldea Starters: Fire-Ghost. Grass-Dark. Water-Fighting. The balance has been maintained. Also in Sun, Moon, Sword, Shield it was justified by the fact that the third starter was used by the final boss + Hau had an Eeveelution which was superior in type to your starter.
At least they knew to make the rival a woman this time to spur the R34 art. That last kid Hop or whatever, I remember just hating him because he would never get mad or resent me for usurping his brother as Pokémon champion and repeatedly beating his tiny ass in battle all the time like “oh my god, don’t you care that I whup your asses 7 days to Sunday each time we meet?!”
I remember in black and white when you’d pick the fire type. 1 friend we choose the baby grass type and your rival would pick the fuckin chad water type that towards the end of the game would basically just 1-shot your starter Pokémon
Yeah, the rivals are kinda empty husks now. They do not need to be aggressive, they just need more emotions. Like they are more tutorial guides than rivals. They are on your side too much. they feel like a npc you pass by than an important character in your story.
Typical Nintendo they rush games that arnt even good in the first place apart from super mario odyssey, smash ultimate and breath of the wild, the rest are crap
@@Dea2766 The thing is, I'm pretty sure nintendo isn't even a part of this. Maybe they published it, but game freak can do better. They make billions a year...
Such a shame to see the franchise that I used to sink hundreds of hours into as a kid completing pokedexes and grinding my team to level 100 become so grossly uninspired over the last 5-7 years or so
I like how they STILL do the "stretch out empty hand towards player's empty hand" to give an item animation Edit: I did not intend to start a debate on whether or not it's lazy to not use an item during the animation lol.
@@chillsynth0 I get the sentiment, but it's not lazy thousands of games do it. it's just smart since it's a basic action you'll see over and over that's quick and effective. it'd be like saying "tf, they have the same mouth flaps when in non important conversations". Like no, it's just non-important NPC interaction no one will care about.
I love how everyone seems to agree that voice acting would increase the quality of the games by a significant amount. If they're going to constantly drag us through a lot of dialogue, at least give us something so it's not just a bunch of reading and silence.
What do you mean you don’t love it when Japanese games use walls upon walls of text to run through every anime cliche in the book because Japanese people are too scared to change up their formula.
Freaking pokemon masters ex has voice acting. If a MOBILE GAME can have it, then what's their cheap excuse to not utilize it on their MAINLINE games? Hypocrisy
Also if it had any content beyond the main quests, such as fun sidequests, memorable npc dialogue, or a fucking post-game. It doesn’t even have a post-game!
If Charlie plays more, then I highly recommend he try out picnics and make one of the more ingredient dense sandwiches. The ingredients almost always clip through each other or the bread. The animation that plays when you eat is also pretty goofy. Interested to see his reaction.
It doesn’t help when you press A in the eating cutscene your character model stops moving. Like completely. Facial expressions and body parts stop moving. You can just be stuck with one eye open
First time I watched my player eat a sandwich, I thought he was throwing up. Actually, I'm still not sure if that's what he's doing each time. It's not very encouraging.
@@EpicTacoSenpaihappened after I evo’ed my charcadet & I almost had a stroke cus i forgot to save. It auto saved beforehand thankfully so I just had to evolve it again but now I save constantly out of fear it’ll crash again :( edit: it’s now crashed twice :|
I'm finding the game hilarious in it's half baked state but it's very concerning that the two trailers for Iono had probably 10x the budget the actual game had because holy HELL
Same, I’m sad to see that it clearly appears as if it was released a few months earlier than it really should have been, but some of the bugs and goofy stuff makes it pretty entertaining to me.
Its because they DONT HAVE TO make a good game. Y'all will buy it anyways. Yall keep forgetting your not the audience, the audience is like ten year olds. Of COURSE your not gonna like it. Go play Nexomon if you want something for an adult.
@Cojo Mojo legally, yes, but consider that the entirety of Valve consists of only 400 people. That includes all the people who run steam, develop hardware, software, and games, and even their regular staff.
@@travisdickens4304 wow I never new valve had that many people on staff, especially since they have their own console out. Thought they had thousands of members.
I feel like the graphics would’ve worked better with a different art style but the way most things look now is just not what I would imagine 3D Pokémon to look like
here's the thing with that you probably don't realize this when you pick your starters, but eventually the water will become a water-fighting which counters your grass-dark however, the new tera gimmick completely ruins that small bit of interesting gameplay b/c you can just choose to remove your dark typing and then obliterate them with your effective moves it's really sad that they got close to making the rival's choice actually smart, but threw it away
Just like Hop in Gen VIII, and Hau before him, picking the starter that’s weak to yours. Making these games easier and easier is Game Freak’s whole MO.
She's already beaten the E4 + Champion as your senior at the school, her whole purpose throughout the game is to train you up while going easy on you as you're trying to catch up to her and become a Champion as well. It's an interesting rival dynamic they haven't used in Pokémon before. She's also hilariously clingy to the point of being stalkerish haha.
@@JustAnArrogantAlien Otherwise, the kiddies (their main target market) would cry and they can't have that, can they? Soon we'll have a Pokemon game that's all auto-battles!!
At the very start of the video, when the three starters are looking up at Charlie in the cutscene, their models are tilted upwards instead of them looking upwards.
on the rival note at 0:45, know the perfect way to change up the pokémon story formula? have your rival become the bad guy that you save at the end. a real naruto/sasuke approach. that would be infinitely more interesting than goober rival and another “Team” bad guy. could make it more grown up too, more intricate of a relationship. it’ll never happen, but still.
@@nathanpapp432 it's normal human nature unfortunately. drama and negativity spread faster and are more noticeable because being nice to people is, genetically, normal between humans.
Funny thing about voice acting in Pokemon is that they did that for Pokemon Masters EX, a mobile game. From my knowledge it's the only official Pokemon game to have it (If you count spin-offs as official). Crazy to think how they can get VAs for characters even from Sword and Shield, but lock them exclusively in a mobile app
I think Pokémon Puzzle League for the N64 had voice acting. Not sure if it was unique clips for the game or just stuff taken directly from the anime though.
10:45 the 20 second pause when you win the raid is very funny, i've never seen that happen and I've done a lot of raids. maybe this got fixed in the day one patch?
I adore that this game gives these big grand camera angles of the world during cutscenes, when it literally looks as good as the 3D pokemon gamecube games lol
@@midnari colosseum was made in 2003, it’s inexcusable that a 2022 Pokémon game even be compared to that. It’s sad to see how greedy this franchise is and how little care they put into the games.
@@TheProfessor66 it absolutely doesnt look good games on the ps2 looked better than this, gamefreak needs to get their shit together and actually try for once
This game to me feels like every department did their job really well, each offering the part of the whole which now only needed assembling, and then the programming department came along with glue sticks in their hands and drool running from their mouths.
Rule of thumb is that its never the programmers at fault. Development is rushed, and they do what they can. It's executives rushing out a game that hurts
The worst part by far isn’t even the graphics: it’s the lack of level scaling. They literally expect you to find the exact random linear order of challenges and you’re bound to be absurdly under or over levelled for different areas if you don’t look up a guide online…
Yeah, it's been pretty messy when you clear the top gyms early thinking you found the game, but realized you took out already all the challenge (minus the Pokémon league)
Every gym I stepped in so far just keep sending out baby Pokémon to get one shot by my 40’s and honestly I didn’t do craps to reach these level specifically to begin with. (Some areas can outlevel you but most Pokémon would just keep failing the same move and when you catch them you get massive xp) It is also weird that it’s obvious our rival this time is basically a champion rank and she’s only handicapping her levels. Then why the hell they wouldn’t put an extra step in so she can actually send out Pokémon that really match our levels? And the “you are so incredible” kind of praising just feels off and unearned. They even marked places you’ve visited in number orders, guess they really don’t have the time to scale out the levels
I was battling higher level mons by 9-10 levels, thinking I was severely under leveled day 2. And then I went to another location and found that I was super overlevelled at 33+ vs level 17 trainers and such.
@@LhLeo i actually had the opposite experience being pretty underleveled and fighting for my life with mons that r like 5-10 levels below the gyms I went to. The titans were a nightmare because you dont even know what level any of them r
Honestly I was really happy with the fact that they finally changed up the pokemon formula a bit and added some really cool new aspects. But yeah, its a bit embarrassing that there isnt more polish. I mean, its one of the biggest and most profitable franchises in the world. It does seem like they have just gotten use to relying on the fact that their core audience will buy the games no matter what, but maybe the bad reception of sword/shield was a slight wake up call for them.
The sad part is, the gameplay is fun, and the story is a lot better than I expected. The graphical glitches, however, are fucking atrocious. The environments are trash, even if the Pokemon models are better than they were.
True, I had a jolly good time when I bought my copy of No More Heroes 3, and that wasn’t one of the brightest games of 2021, but it still had the Suda51 feel to it, I wanted more of that, so I got what I paid for. Now, I don’t know if there’s anyone that would buy mainline Pokémon games for the charm, but I can see both casual fans of the franchise and people that don’t play games very often, finding some of the aspects fun.
At least Nemona here seems to be the sort of person to give herself a challenge by choosing the disadvantaged starter. But as it is the fourth time this had happened there are no excuses even if her behavior justifies her picking the disadvantaged starter.
Nemona actually is already Champion Rank and beaten E4+Champion as your senior, her whole goal in the game is to train you up so you can become a Champion as well- it makes sense for this battle at least why she's battling poorly since it's your first time. Whether or not you like Nemona though is whether you like a hilariously clingy/stalkerish battle maniac character or not.
@@iantaakalla8180 could be justified in universe by her knowing it’s literally your first battle and going extremely easy on you especially after it’s pointed out by the headmaster
Man, a guy made Rollercoaster Tycoon in Assembly and the game rendered many dozen NPC’s and rollercoasters simultaneously. That game could run on a shit Windows 95 pc. Then we have Gamefreak in 2022. Game drops frames like crazy when rendering 18 NPCs. It’s insane to me that this shit is acceptable. Can’t even use Switch hardware as an excuse when PS3 games had better graphics and ran much smoother
I love the game once the tutorial is over. Early on it's kinda boring, and I wouldn't be mad if we had to wait another year just for them to polish up bugs and framerate on release. I noticed it as soon as I started the game. When I had to walk with the starters, everything except the character models and pokemon went black, even during the cutscene with Nemona.
I didn't even know they still made entirely new Pokemon games for the GameCube. And honestly, for running on a console that is over two decades old, this game doesn't look too bad.
Crazy to see how well the graphics have held up after over a decade, just imagining how well the game would run and look if it was on a modern console like a PS3.
@Formarotica As soon as a company realises they don't have to try anymore to make money, they just pump out rushed games and slap a popular franchise name on it.
The fact that this is one of the most profitable franchises in gaming, and yet they couldn't put in more time and money to fix the frame rate and bugs is baffling and humiliating.
Tell that to Nintendo. Stop basing your assumptions on the knowledge that you don't have. Game Freak CAN'T put more time and money in the game that they don't have. They don't control whether or not it gets delayed, how much budget they have, its all Nintendo and Creatures, inc. If you think the actual developers have really any say outside of certain cases like Sony Santa Monica Studio, Square Enix (especially with things like FFVII as an IP) then I don't know what to tell you. Its just that simple.
@@ollytropics1735 exactly lmao and don't forget Dudunsparce which is one of the worst evolutions i have ever seen. Also, Finizen evolving into the same pokemon just with a heart on it's chest... only good thing bout that "evolution" is the hero form - they could have done it differently. We get such bland pokemon that don't look cool or even evolve. It's so incredibly bad
@@teewhyeee really though like I've found as of late there's pokemon who don't feel like pokemon but this is just insane man like tasutagiri looks like a child drew it
I really miss when rivals hate you, Hop was okay, I liked him but he didn’t seem like a rival at all, which is why I loved Bede so much more. I don’t see Nemona as a rival either, she’s just way too nice and I don’t feel any sort of pride after defeating her
Cheren and Bianca in BW1 is friendly rival too but Cheren have that edgy, nerd, personality and Bianca have a cocky careless personality so its pretty satisfying defeating them
I think I may be in the minority for really enjoying Nemona so much. It seems super wholesome to have someone who really believes in you and is excited for your growth. I always saw the trend towards friendlier rivals as a way of showing kids that you can have competition without cruelty because, at the end of the day, these games are still marketed towards kids. But that's just me!
Honestly, I'm not that "sensitive" when it comes to things like fps or textures. Probably because I don't usually play much of the fancy-looking games that have those smooth movements and stunning graphics. Or probably because I'm rather stubborn, like forcing to play something that the PC can't handle, so I end up getting used to play down to 12fps and have everything set to low. So to me, the whole footage in this video looked relatively fine to me, though that Arrokuda battle did got me confused for a bit. I haven't bought the game, and was thinking of just sit back and wait because I wanted to discover things on my own, but now that there's so many people saying that it's being bad, I need some cases to consider whether I should buy it soon or wait until it's patched several times. I did saw a lot of glitches as well as game crashes, which was concerning enough to me, but I haven't heard of anything else so I wonder if there's anything worse beyond the graphics or fps that made people so disappointed with the game.
Honestly in today’s gaming industry, many game series (such as Pokémon) can get away with doing a poor job simply because it’s title is so large. Most people would still buy games like this just because it’s apart of a brand of games that they like, instead of buying a game if it is good.
@@scuffed2reckless740 yet I have seen many times that people that like Gen 2-5 more than the newer Gens are called Genwunner by some people. I know that it doesn't make sense exspecially since Genwunner are meant to be people that only like Gen 1, and Gen 1 only.
This is very true. The game was actually reasonably close to being good imo, and I think it could’ve been if there was more time put into the quality (framerate, bugs, pixelated grass and shadows). That still isn’t an excuse to release a game with noticeably lower quality in these areas than the franchise’s past entries, and if they have any respect for their fans, GameFreak will release patches to improve on the issues the game has in the future. I don’t think they will, sadly, but I’d like to be proven wrong in that regard
It looks like a hobby-project started by one person and maybe a couple friends, not the company responsible for creating a game for the highest-grossing media franchise of all time.
@@ZurilasZone The problem is Game Freak are crap at the technical aspect, no matter how long they would've had they would've made a crappy game performance wise. Someone hit the jackpot with the OG pokemon formula and the money started rolling in so all they do now is just rush out games to keep milking it. It's unfortunate because the game would be decent without the performance issues, once you explore around and start catching pokemon it's definitely more engaging than other pokemon games.
@@unixtreme that's a poor excuse but it does make sense. they just seem too complacent to care, or maybe think games like this are actually good. Or maybe "good enough" to release. they have the money to fund a proper production, but they release shit like this year after year. pokemon sorely needs some big changes.
They rushed it out for the Christmas sales. It's a shame because Arceus was clearly a great step but Game Freak never do the same thing twice, it's so frustrating!
I thought saying no to nemona would add a rivalry pathway between the two trainers. She just shrugs it off and puts on her helmet and I hold her hand to the yellow bus to school like nothing happened
It’s just type matchup, it doesnt take into account pokemon stats or move power, so depending on circumstance wondering if a move will actually do damage makes sense
This generation leaked about two weeks early. The entire game was leaked, and you could play it prior to its official release. However, it's essentially impossible to emulate properly. Lots of graphical issues, frame-rate drops, missing models, random crashes. Looking at the game on release... Maybe the game was always being emulated properly...
Hasn’t that (the leaks) been true for all Pokemon generations since the 3DS? IIRC SuMo got leaked 6 months before the release date and every game since then has had a Day -7 leak cause employees at retailers get early copies and dump them online
My main issue is most NPC's have no dialogue. Instead of looking for trades or extras, I've gotten to where I ignore them. The copy/pasted vendors in town led to the same treatment. Also coming from Arceus, I really miss being able to chuck a pokeball at anything for a quick catch.
The whole copy-paste shops is super egregious too. In the FIRST city they take you to with the school, the one that should WOW the player as the first sight they see and set up the rest of the game... one corner has two of the same exact shop pasted next to eachother and another wall has something like Cafe-grill-cafe. I understand they only had so many stores to work with, but they could have just made those buildings not interactable and not just Ctrl+v Ctrl+c. It's frustrating because as many have been saying, this pokemon generation actually has a lot of good going for it... it's just horribly executed.
@@attaug I was mad because all I wanted was a different shirt and it was like no you must go to each shop for each different article of clothing, and none of those shops have shirts or pants.
@@lonelystar2629 you cant switch out of the 4 uniforms you get at the start, kinda frustrating that they didn't make that clear to the player. There is a green book in the library that says students cant switch out of their uniforms but it's kind of hidden away.
Yep exactly... In previous games I used to talk to every npc, enter every shop/house. But here it's mostly copy paste everywhere so I don't bother. Also most shops are food shops which I'm not much interested in atleast atm
Actually it wasnt, i saw that this game was being work around the same time arceus was being finished by a second team, so they did have time, but you wanna know the fun part? The director of this game wasnt the one from arceus, it was the one from SwSh...
@@Semnome-gv5yg they didn’t have time lol. This game has been conceptualised for a while but development was at the same time as Arceus. The difference between this game and Arceus is that Arceus would effectively “reset” every time you entered the village. Same thing happens in this game but far less often due to not being forced to enter the city frequently causing a memory leak. There are plenty of issues with controls etc but the memory leak is the main one that will almost certainly get fixed
@@SkrubJG yea? It was the exactly what i said, the game was being worked on at the same time arceus was, it had more time than it and came out worse. And no memory leak isnt the only problem the game is having and by far isnt the worse, from model bugs, camera getting stuck in buildings when you enter or leave it, camera showing under the map, models missing, character clipping through the ground, npc wandering lost, models breakings, even some soft locks to even raids breaking and locking or the boss just getting defeat while having more than half his hp. The problem wasnt time, and not really wanting to point fingers but already doing it, its kinda funny it was the same guy that directed Swsh that directed this game and not Arceus
Not really, the entire design looks like dogsht, I love the entire open world idea but riding around on a mechanical bike that jumps and glides looks weird. Make rideable pokemon, you can even add an extra layer with "rideable mounts" and have it so that a select few are rideable and even have legendary pokemon showcased for this as an option, it's like nintendo said "This has to be ready before December" and they just took a steaming hot turd on the franchise dropping this hot garbage of a 1 month developed game.
Tbh my biggest problem with the game is that all I can find is food and food accessories stores but when it comes to clothing.. I'm still searching aside from the one on campus with that one random ass glasses shop
You probably have already realized this but in case you're still looking: you only get the four school uniforms for outfit choices. It's annoying as hell =[
imagine going into a pokemon battle and instead of throwing your pokeball out you just chunk a huge rock at the opposing pokemon and make them faint that way
I remember on Instagram they had a video of the electric type influencer woman (can’t remember the name off the top of my head) and all of her dialogue was voice acted. It tricked me into thinking this game would have voice acting but then I looked into the comments and realized that she just had voice acting for this one little video but in game it would be silent. That woman having a voice added so much energy and worked really well. It’s embarrassing that the actual game doesn’t have have voice acting.
@@morganvanlenthe5425 Blame the pokémon company. Gamefreak does all it can with the shit funding, poor hardware, and insane deadlines they have to deal with.
The hate for gamefreak is a very recent thing. When pokemon made the jump to 3D, they weren’t able to develop games on the schedule they were used to and had to cut corners to make impossible deadlines
Merch, TCG, etc make way more money than games. This is just a vehicle for delivering ~100 new designs to make plushies from. Same reason the designs have degenerated - simple shapes are easier to make into merchandise.
The main problem with die-hard fans is that an alarming number of them don't want better Pokémon games, just *more* Pokémon games. This game could literally delete random data off your Switch and they would still love it and ask when the next is coming out.
... Co-OP Auto-Battle Free Roam Pokemon Riding Pokemon following PC Box in menu Relearn Moves on the fly Swimming, gliding, probably more (haven't gotten that far) Multiple stories and missions. "The Problem with Internet bandwagons is that, no matter what the game is like, they'll repeat the same lines because they don't have a clue what they're talking about." Clearly you're one of the sheep.
