@@HadirUntukAnda That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it, and I'm glad you can have an opinion. However most people would disagree with you on that.
Some Dude not sub and moon, that was very innovative factually speaking. The only negative being the constant cutscenes, but it’s consider to be the second best story next to gen 5 so who cares. But year USUM, let’s go, and these new ones are MASSIVLELY disappointing
Honestly I agree we thought we would get brand new graphics but we just got disappointed. It feels half baked but I’m still buying it because it will be my first real Pokemon game🙂
But that's the thing isn't it? Corners DIDN'T need to cut It is baffling how this is a 60 dollar game and they are treating this with the same production value as a 3DS game Its obvious corners should have never been cut in the first place, so PokeCompany and Nintendo was way too greedy to shove out a half baked disappointment not worth that 60 dollar price tag.
Ben Link Idk about you but i’m finding it fun, definitely worth my money, and isn’t that what matters in the end? Whether the game is fun or not? And this game is very enjoyable, sure there are drawbacks and a few issues with online to begin with, but overall this isn’t a bad game, it’s well crafted, stop being so negative. It ain’t half baked.
@@teamkillerjoker1565 it is most definitely half baked. They ripped the models and animations right from sun and moon as well as some animations for NPCs. Even though they said the reason we're not getting all the pokemon is that they were spending time on the animations. It's basically still 3DS quality especially next to other Nintendo franchises on the Switch. So yeah if you enjoy it then that's great dude, but it's the definition of half baked imo Note: there's a difference between unfinished and half baked
This was in Pokemon SuMo and USUM too. In DS the NPCs were always there and never ghost you, then reappear when you come to them. I used WALK THROUGH WALLS cheat and noticed how firm the game in Pokemon Black& White is and better than now.
@@Mister_Soyuz_on_YT Yeah, but as a Switch game, this is supposed to be a step up from SuMo and USUM. I certainly don't remember anything like that in any other Switch game I've watched footage of.
Can you imagine being immersed in a world like breath of the wild and encountering pokemon? That should would end careers and relationships, people would sell their children to play it.
Only been waiting for a complete open world Pokémon game with great graphics for the last 20years.... lol Ever since the shows and early games, I always wanted full freedom to dictate how I wanted my Pokémon journey to go. Add in online “tournaments” (based on level/rank) and it be amazing. I’d buy any new system for that
Confused how people think BoTW is some mind blowing experience and a breathtaking world. Compared to other AAA open-world sandbox games, it's emptier than The Glowing Sea on Fallout 4. I enjoyed the game, but I do not understand how it is some new standard when it literally does nothing to push the genre and literally soars below games in that same genre. It's a fun game, but really, with such an empty world, how is it some new standard?
This is probably why I returned the game after I finished it. BOTW was my first game on the Switch....but since the reason I have the console is Pokémon, man was I letdown.
Ryan W pokemmo on the pc is your answer lmao. anyone besides game freak who has tried to make a fan made game has done way better. 4 regions, 5 gens if pokémon
@@ZentaBon why wouldn’t you? Why does every game have to be a child moving to a new town? Why not pick your age and the location you want to start from?
Jorge Rivas some have compared the graphical quality of the trees in this game to those of ocarina of time. It’s harsh, and a big exaggeration, but there’s some truth in it. The textures on the bark and the polygons of the roots are embarrassing
i never knew trees was the main attraction in this game. wow it looks so bad! what a shocker! you could choose to be mad about the limited map design, the animations, everything else, but trees?
Yeah, fire emblem is not "fully" voice but almost everything is and at least everything from the main story, i would have liked it if they would at least voice the story dialogue and the in battle trash talk, it would have added a new layer that we have never experienced in pokemon
@@Gumbrases Pokemon is literally the biggest media franchise of all time. Bigger than Mickey Mouse, bigger than Star Wars, look it up. There is no fucking way anything is "too expensive" for them. I don't believe that there is any other reason besides laziness, incompetence or pressure from Nintendo and a rushed product as consequence.
I feel like a guy like me, who's played pokemon casually here and there throughout the years, can appreciate this game and not be too bothered. By the sounds of it, I think big pokemon fans who've played every game ever since are ending up disappointed by the expectations they set up for it.
It (was) 2019, we should have higher expectations for what games provide. They should always be pushing boundaries from what they were to what they *could* be. That's how things improve. People rip on CoD being "the same thing" repeatedly, while Pokemon isn't even as good as the previous product since gen 5
Same Ive only played the first 3 religiously then just very casual after. I never heard any hype for this game and honestly didn't really pay attention to it. To me it's just a solid pokemon game nothing more or less some cool mechanics. I wish there was more pokemon and maybe a little cheaper 90$ is very steep to me, I think 59.99 would be fair. Not 79.99.
If they couldn't be bothered to transfer the rest of the Gen 1 models from Let's Go, they sure as hell aren't going to bother with _voice-acting_ of any kind
@@UncoloredPageGaming that doesnt matter, gamefreal can just pay people to do the voice acting but they dont want to spend the extra money so that statement makes no sense
TheFancyUmbreon This is clearly aimed at old fans, from things that everyone wanted like skippable tutorials cutscenes ext. The whole game is much more traditional with every aspect, as an old fan i am very impressed
Mehmet Sarikaya Maybe they thought that old time fans would find new favourites and understand that it’s kinda boring to run the same mons every new game, plus they gotta think about more than just one area of play, the competitive scene would be boring and the same mega team over and over again, just like last gen. They did this for balance as well
K P That was clearly just a few examples, you really wanna find every reason to shit on this good game because it doesn’t include your favourite pokemon? Stop acting so entitled
K P Lol it isn’t dirty, it’s common sense, they have been on the issue much longer than you and came to this conclusion, what makes you think you know game design more than them, plus if you did know anything about this game, you would know that gigantamax pokemon are no stronger than dynamax pokemon and you would he able to dynamax megas, i honestly didn’t like megas because it made the main game so easy, with little intelligence you could wipe the whole game with a simple mega and some coverage moves, plus you could do it every single fight, making the normal pokemon irrelevant and the mega the new final evolution. So no adding megas wouldn’t have saved anything, just make the game boring again. They haven’t done it to piss about with you or in spite, they did it for balance.
Mehmet Sarikaya Why would they go back to and old gimmick again? it will still end up with exactly the same just with different mons in the same role, this new feature is much more refreshing and gives way to teams which couldn’t really make an impact in mega evo comps, like rain. You haven’t even played the game, so you can’t really comment on whether it is good or not.
I have to agree. The hype ruined it, like it ruined everything else. I have it and to be honest I'm having the time of my life playing this, even taking things slowly to enjoy it more, and honestly it isn't a bad game. Sure, it definitely didn't meet expectations. It's a GREAT pokemon game, but it's not on switch era level. People were expecting Pokemon: breath of the wild and that's what ruined it. I will keep loving this game like I am rn, but hopefully one day there will be a better switch pokemon game, just like black and white came after diamond and pearl, and those were GREAT improvements in the graphics department. Well I'm just waiting for diamond and pearl remakes anyways haha
Yeah, last year they and Nintendo were saying this was the game that the hardcore fans have been waiting for but it’s clearly a 3DS Pokémon ported to switch with a slightly larger scale
You're also forgetting that they made promises they couldn't keep and look what happened as a result. People are starting to lose their respect for GameFreak as a result. Granted The Pokemon Company is playing a huge role here too, but even so this is not good for the first Gen 8 and console game going forward. Now you got people worrying about the Diamond and Pearl remakes.
@@rand0mtv660 no switch isn't a powerhouse by any means but i mean come on it can handle a watered down version of the witcher 3 I'm sure it can handle 3ds graphics slightly upscaled....
"It's too much work to make new models for all returning pokemon" *reuses old models anyway and keeps same engine as sun and moon to be able to do so damaging graphics and stability* Edit. not the same engine, is stable but still could have brought all of them in
Yes, I have heard it is very similar of not the same with a few minor upgrades such as free camera control. It just seems different because of new hardware. It just looks so similar.
Bacon Management lmao no, the engine, if the same would have to be heavily altered to work with the new system, it would be much easier to make a new engine for it. I highly doubt gamefreak would go and use that much effort, also after playing on the game, i have seen no performance issues whatsoever, the only problems with the game that i have are the online can be pretty buggy sometimes.
Yea I really wish that there was even a little bit of voice acting included, like from the professor or gym leaders... Sigh... it would have made the battles a lot more interesting
Nice 3DS game. I wish you would've mentioned that for 90% of the game you will only be using the left thumbstick because there is only 1 area in the game where you can actually move your camera around 360.
I just booted up sun on the 3DS to compare and really there is very little tangible difference. How can this be charging £50 when the switch baseline was breath of the wild and looked spectacular, this just falls short.
Oof that's very true, the problem is I have so many problems with this game. But my poor ass wants it just to see the new gym leaders and catch new pokemon. It's like who have I become
@@johnathanera5863 Maybe its a big deal to some people. They cut a bunch of my favorite pokemon, and I have always been a completionist. Plus that isn't the only reason why people are deciding not to buy the game.
@@johnathanera5863 The game looks like it should be on the 3DS, not the same console that can run BotW and Skyrim. It looks lazy and pathetic by comparison.
"Corners needed to be cut somewhere" No they didnt, pokemon is like the largest multimedia franchise ever. Theres no excuse. I'm not trying to unreasonably hate on the game. There are some aspects that I think are really cool, and stuff I'm glad to see. But the negatives outweigh the positives, and honestly I cant view gamefreak the same after this...
@@WhiteInk47 that's such a childish response. You do realise that 99% of all people complaining love the franchise, right? People are complaining because the pokemon game series could be SO much better. Saying 'just don't buy it' to people critical of the franchise is stopping the franchise from evolving.
@@kint87 Do you see the pokemon? I'm not seeing about 500 of them... I'm also noticing over 100 moves missing... I don't see a Battle Frontier, or Megas, Z-Moves, Type Crystals, Battle Frontier, or a Battle Subway... I see they copied Raids straight from POGO... I see they water down the Battle Tower... That's about it...
@@Blackpapalink mate, i get yours points. And i understand you feel those stuff are missing, and feel bad for that. But i think its a pokemon hardcore fan point of view. I also grew up with pokemon but stop playing on silver. Wich mean than i found mega silly, all the other stuff you named i dont know what this is about, 400 pokemons is far enough and 900 would had prevent me to buy the game, the game is the hell of a beauty, and so are moves. I get your points, but i think for the first pokemon on switch they try to brong back old fan as me, or new ones, and they somehow need to putt a lot of stuff away. And it works. I hope you got all those things you love in a few time
It would be great if a company other than GameFreak made the games indeed.. I feel like the only reason the games aren't good is cause GF refuses to put much effort into them.
Remember that online services for this game didn't go live until the games were released and a lot of reviews were produced before the game launched. I know this review was released after the launch but that doesn't mean it wasn't produced before that time.
i just did everything to the game, and have spent hours in the wild (with internet on) and have never seen an fps drop (which actually surprised me since its an Nintendo online experience)
"I know you challenged the player to battle in galar mine no 2 and lost to them there" Hop wtf, who told you that!? At least tell us you're there when you're watching us battle. tf
"Corners had to be cut somewhere." Yeah, that's an understatement. To the point that scientists are now trying to name a new shape that is rounder than a circle.
Yeah trying to justify it with "corners needed to be cut somewhere" and it's about REMOVING POKEMON is excusing a bit too much ... catching them all is meant to be what the whole series is about ...
My biggest issue is not dexit. Nor the new pokemon. Nor the graphics. Nor the animation. It's the difficulty. I'm so sick of how easy these games are getting.
Go back and play red and blue. I'm sure that you'll find them just as easy. The only reason these games seem easier is because you're more experienced than you were before.
@@epicgamerman2510 it's not that at all. These games legit give you the type advantages. They have an xp share that allows you to never have to train (that can't turn off.) The Rival picks the pokemon you are strong against, and you can one shot pokemon that are in dynamax. It is way too easy to catch pokemon. I just want an incentive to train my pokemon and actually plan before battles.
@@mrsolodolovi1386 Dude, there are PLENTY of ROM hacks with more love and care put into them than Sw/Sh. People are upset mainly because GF lied to our faces about the dex cut reasoning. "High quality animations" my ass lol.
I agree with most people it just feels watered down. Seeing how its the first pokemon game in a while for console they shouldve gone all out. They just did the basic not even the basic.
I know there are a ton of people upset, and mostly rightfully so, but I'm having a ton of fun playing this. Definitely could've been better, but I'm enjoying myself so far.
Cody that’s awesome that you and other people are enjoying it but honestly I refuse to support this series anymore. We are just paying for the same game over and over again with very minor changes
It's a pokemon game, of course you are, there's no way to make a bad pokemon game because they're literally so basic you're gonna enjoy them normally as you would eating the same type of food all the time. It's just sad there's nothing basically new or interesting or improved.
I'm playing through the game with my daughter. I'd loved for it to be voiced as I'm currently having to do all the dialogue myself. Different voices and all.
Daniel Lied idk about x and y being fun seeing how I beat the game with both eyes clothes while not even trying it was annoyingly too easy. Alpha and omega are almost just as easy. I agree with the pearl part though as that was pretty much the last game you actually had to try in which made it more fun
Yeah. I won't buy it. I didn't finish Let's Go, not even halfway before I sold it. I absolutely love pokemon, but they are holding back so much from this game for future proofing.
@@SaikoSoda I figure the only way for them to leap forward is to accept the feedback players have given them. It they keep rehashing the same generic Pokémon experience, people will just feel let down from this. Sure the kids and casuals won't care, but the long term players that spend hours of their time on it will.
@@magnus5747 no, I am sure the community has voiced their discontent loudly enough, but at the end of the day it is a company and unless there is a huge drop in profit they will do as they please. I just find it odd that they did do a survey on everyone's favorite pokemon from the series and of the top 100 only 26 made the cut
They didnt do it because pokemon has been translated to multiple languages. Im not sure how many exactly pokemon is translated to but i can see why they didnt do that. Getting every voice actor for from every language its translated to seems like alot of work. I doubt Fire Emblem Three Houses translated all the voice acting into alot of languages
@@klotekat They didint but hearing the voices while reading subs was great. Its like saying watching anime subs is no different than watching muted anime.
@@hollowersatz8762 lol y'all think it's easy like it's just picking a couple random people from each country to voice act money cant do everything you act like throwing money at something will make the problem go away
I barely barely started today and I can’t understand why your rival Hop is given whatever pokemon is weakest against whichever one you pick. Wth is the point of that. I heard that they started doing this a few games ago but WHY WHAT WAS THE REASON
plasticity if you want a challenge definitely go back to soul silver/heart gold. Id take fire and my rival would get the water type. Not this stupid bs
Completely agree, i've just started and haven't even encountered my first trainer battle after the initial one and I already have 31,600 money... And xp share always being on...
Eh I don’t know how I feel about this one. Just doesn’t feel like a console Pokémon entry. It just looks like a better 3ds Pokémon game. I couldn’t even get myself to finish sun and moon because I just got bored. I enjoyed Pokémon from red all the way to omega ruby and alpha sapphire.
Kerwell sun and moon is boring until the end, the end is fun and good but they focused too much on the end which made the game bad in general plus no gyms made it worse
I really would like to see them bring in voice actor for the larger cutscenes , they can keep the text scroll in regular conversation, but cutscenes should be voice acted by now. Also if they can start to bring in better animations for every Pokémon, and slightly improved the character customization, I will be more than happy with the sequel!
Great job on this review casing both the good and the bad of this game it feels that many youtubers are completely avoiding the negative in they're reviews
I've just purchased a Switch and this is my first Pokemon since Gold and Silver and while I'm enjoying it, personally I'm surprised by how similar the gameplay loop is to those incarnations and I'm finding the game extremely easy. Just beat the full sixth gym with only my starter Pokemon which was maybe five or six levels above the gym leaders Pokemon.
@@guilhermefloresfeitosaguer4543 youre right but with lamest evolution you could ever imagine.Did you just saw what they did with gengar.I really hate gigantimax gengar but i really love mega gengar.Others gigantimax are also meh
@@Nakai865 and with a black cloud and gigantimax is nothing but weird and bad evolution.I mean who does even wants pee pee rat,snorlax with ecosystem,tower,Eiffel tower cake
@@istiaquemahmudsiam3719 tho why can’t they just shrink the gigantimax down and call it a mega evolution? Like the dynamax is just lazy as hell but the gigantimax seems like they just put extra work for nothing cause some of the gigantimax looks pretty good. Idk I felt like this new power system somehow put more work on them and put less work for them.
Nicholas McMahon not trying to defend the games as I am not buying it either, but the main difference this causes is not being able to bring in old Pokémon after beating the game. In older games that was the primary difference. Definitely still not okay though
I wouldn't have minded if they just exclude the dumbest of Pokemon. As a mid 20 year old guy, I don't want to be battling an ice cream cone with that stupid smirk on its face.
@@The_WIll_OF_D99 I dont think you understand that many fans favorite pokemon wont be in the game. Not EVERYONE is going to catch them all but fans wanted was to have multiple options (pokemon) on their team.
@@Aether_Star yeah like 1 or 2 should it really matter we are all most at 1 thousand Pokemon 🙄 Plus it's not really a make or break deal if some are gone one of my favorites is gone...not gonna bother me at all tbh. If half of the characters are gone and that really breaks a series for you then... Damn that's sad tbh
I got Pokemon Sword, and I’m really, really enjoying it. It may not look the greatest, or have all the Pokemon, but I’m having fun. Now, that’s not at all an excuse for GameFreak lying about reasons for cutting stuff, or making those excuses. I am simply saying that I am enjoying the game. And GameFreak needs to acknowledge that they need to do better. And they need to improve soon.
“The corners needed to be cut somewhere” But *why*? This has less Pokémon in it then the 3DS games did, and you said yourself the game looks last gen in parts. Where did they put the effort in to make up for the roster cut?
Less pokemon was *bound* to happen, with about 800 different pokemon, that's strictly *data.* Other game devs agree that this Dex cut needed to happen. This game, by itself takes up about 10 gigabytes(I believe) of data, that's with every move, npc, model, and pokemon within that. People asking for BOTW tier exploration are setting the bar *way* too high And I'm not just blindingly loving the game. I have *GENUINE* complaints about the game itself. The graphics by all means aren't terrible, but they aren't great (at times) either. I feel the bar of BREATH OF THE MOTHER-FUCKING WILD, *AND* all 800+ pokemon, is, frankly unreasonable
capt. sans I’ve not played a mainline Pokemon game since Ruby on the Gameboy I think, I just wanna catch Pokemon and battle with them. Do you think this game is worth it at €60?
I'd say, yeah. It's got its issues, and considering you haven't played since Ruby, some major differences took place, but I'd say you should buy it, it eases into the mechanics well, and has an open world, so try it out.
@@pwrovr9k731 I don't know about that. There are a lot of games that release in multiple voiced languages on the same day. And regardless, I was just saying it would be cool, not talking about logistics.
@@pwrovr9k731 They wouldn't have to do voices for every possible language 🙂. Probably just a few of the most common with subtitles available for a wide range of languages.
Arcus Diabolus That's the whole problem, isn't it? Pokémon isn't a handheld series being sold for $40 anymore. This is a full-fledged console game that was promised to be and fans expected to be a great leap forward. GameFreak tried to justify Dexit by promising new models and 'high quality animations', but what we got instead was a ton of recycled content from the 3DS.
I don’t think we can expect that much more from Game Freak. I mean, it’s their first real console game. Give them a break, they’re not experienced in this field...
@@mr.universesings5539 they clearly can if they tried. Sadly they are lazy and tight schedule demands too. I just wish they delay this game maybe another 2 year so it looks polished
ex DOGE Yes. I believe that, if they gave it more time, it could have been way better. Unfortunately, I believe that would’ve upset the fans. It seems as if the fans may have never been satisfied with the game...
@@mr.universesings5539 I don't think it would upset fans that much. Sure, they would feel disappointed, but most people would understand and be okay with it as long as they make it clear its to make the game better.
@@mr.universesings5539 botw was nintendo's real first "modern" open world game. Whether you like it or not is a different question, but you can't deny that it's polished af. Also, I have a hard time believing that gamefreak couldn't have just reached out for help just like the botw devs did with monolithsoft.
That's like the animations. There's actually some good animations that make the pokemon look more lively on the field. And then you have shit like double kick and tail whip
@@olivermilne9130 criticism pal. Stop being such a fanboy and think for a sec,if they can't even make passable ground textures then wtf? Ground textures don't need to be great looking,but if you have people complaining about how bad it looks,thts actually kinda sad. Cuz tht means it's so bad tht people are willing to pay attention to something tht usually goes unnoticed...
Totally agree with this review. There is alot of the game that I really enjoy, but if only it was technically more up to snuff. It could have been so much more, but it's still really fun non the less imo.
Ive got 40 hrs into the game already! Easily the best pokemon game! Easily the best game this year! Easily better than any switch game thus far and sales are already starting to prove that! Review videos are just opinions, any long time pokemon fan will definitely love post game better than any previous gens! Any video game out there ever made always could of been better, for what it is its pokemon!
The game is really fun overall and the graphics are good just wish they worked on them a bit better but overall a really good game 4/5 my review of the game
I miss mega evolutions im sad they threw something that felt immersive and personal and special to pokemon away and said f it everything gets big with a few giant forms. To me mega lucario and absol was amazing
We are in a day and age post botw, where games got reivented in the switch, and regarding pokemon, we get pokemon sun and moon 3.0 with half the pokedex...disappointing
@@ragethelog190 yes, is yet again the same. Like i said, its not the botw of pokemon, by far. Its basically that one run game that then you stop playing
@@ragethelog190 not the gamecube games. They had soul for a 3D game. Heck even let you catch some other trainers Pokemon... almost like a fresh of breath air....
@@juniornunez7126 I got Pikachu with surf(lol), Gyrados, Corviknight, Ninetales, Eevee and my Cinderace. Still on the fence about evolving pikachu. I got my let's go eevee so I can't evolve him haha
Definitely would be a nice feature, they would probably need to change the intro from saying goodbye to your mom to saying goodbye to gold digger wife. I hope you see this you crazy witch..
if your kid has a DS and has never played pokemon before I recommend getting them, Heart Gold/Soul Silver or Black and White HG/SS has 2 whole regions and allows pokemon to follow behind you (personally my favorite in the series
As much as I can see where you're coming from, I have to say that you shouldn't deny your kids a game they want just because you don't want to support it.
Miquiztli111 Jeez that’s kinda horrible to your kid, imagine if your dad came over and said you can’t get that toy that you want because i don’t want to support the maker, your pride and arrogance are really worth more than your child? that’s cold man
Do we really want a Gen 4 remake now that we've seen how Gamefreak has treated the Pokemon Yellow remake or how they treated this game? I'd rather have the Gen 4 games as they are rather than have Gamefreak remake them in the most mediocre way possible and tarnish the Gen 4 legacy.
@@FirstNameLastName-oz5ij exactly Gen 4 itself was the high point of pokemon Afterwards it's a lot of 3D and handholding BS... a remake wouldn't improve the game
@@jasondp3546 It IS a good game. A lot of these things they're mentioning are SUPER nit picky and for fans that can't live without seeing a certain pokemon in the game. If you like the game, and don't go in with god tier expectations, you will be impressed by the graphics and animations and style of the game. Its really cool.
I feel the same way about the VA, ever since FE: Three Houses (and the previous title: Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) introduced more full VA instead of in just cutscenes and voice clips, it just makes the game so much more immersive, in my opinion of course. Hell, I’m playing DQ XI, my first Dragon Quest game, and I love the parts that are voice acted, it’s great.
FE: Three Houses is a fantastic example anyways of how a series can improve so much on a home console, even if the graphics are not of any relevance in FE, it’s the love to develop that was put into that game! And hell, Gamefreak has a much greater budget than IS
Silver & Gold gameplay before graphics and I can say that this game is really really fun the story is good the multiplayer in the Wild area is great its probably my 3rd fav Pokémon game after diamond and soul silver
Neevkl _7 I’m glad you’re enjoying it but the gameplay is the most watered down and hand-holdey it’s ever been and the story is bare bones, the Gen 1 games had a more complete, fleshed out story.
Kidnoff bruh there’s so much other reasons to get a switch. The games that are already out aren’t enough to make you get a switch but ur waiting on Pokemon??
@@aarongutierrez7705 , I don't really like the other games. On the switch I just want the new Fire Emblem and Pokémon (and maybe Zelda Breath of the Wild, but only free lol, I don't want to pay for it). I bought the DS/3DS only for Pokémon too (and Monster Hunter, but it was a shame on that portative console).
