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By Yurtlicious Go To PostPokemon is somehow uglier than I expected

there's no way the graphics weren't downgraded during development because this looks weird. Shades of DS2's downgrade

It looks better than the reveal trailer so the downgrade had to have occurred before that.

By domino Go To PostIt looks better than the reveal trailer so the downgrade had to have occurred before that.

I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt by saying it was downgraded because this looks incredibly low effort lol

By Yurtlicious Go To PostI'm giving them the benefit of the doubt by saying it was downgraded because this looks incredibly low effort lol

alright i wanted to wait until I played it to come back to this. got ~15 hrs in Friday and Saturday on it. it's high effort in a lot of ways but some really basic low effort, "why???" type of things.

+ catching the pokes is an absolute blast. it is a great thrill to stalk tf out of a juiced up Alpha Pokemon (basically just bigger/stronger versions of the Pokemon), avoid the other Pokemon in the area, avoid having to engage the Alpha Pokemon, and finally catch it
+ art style/direction
+ speed of battles and that they are seamless transitions in/out of them.
+ the fact you can swap out moves at will. i always thought it was stupid that you could only have 4 moves and if you replaced it, it was gone aside from the Move Tutor.

- graphics of course. it looks good in handheld mode but a 65" TV got this game naked in the town square for everyone to see.
- not enough trainer battles and trainers dont have enough Pokemon
- they screwed up the battle system for no reason other than to just be different. that's the one part they didnt need to fix. it's like the FFX ATB. they even copy the order display...except it lies to you all the time. this Strong/Speed attack option and the customizable stat boost replacing EVs/IVs are just not necessary. I still find it to be about as easy as ever but I see a lot of folks complaining that it's hard and I'm pretty sure they're just idiots because Pokemon isnt difficult.
- the damn satchel. you can only carry like 15 unique item slots in the beginning (unlimited quantities in each slot though lol) and there's like 18 million items in this game. to get more slots it starts out at like 1000 P-bucks or whatever they call it in the world. add another 1000 for each additional slot so you spend most of your money on buying more bag room

+/- you kind of have to make your own fun w/ this. I saw a lot of complaints that there isn't much to do and I don't think that's really fair. There isnt much that the game forces you do to. If you just run the main campaign, I can see how you'd think there isnt much to do. I don't expect most folks to be fine w/ sinking an hour just to get a specific Pokemon like Ursaluna like I did. Or just making a bunch of Feather Balls to see how far away you can catch something while its flying

i have some other things i'd give a (-) to but those are more nitpicks than actual game problems.

it's probably a 5/10 objectively, but the good stuff is so good I have to bump it up to 8/10. for Game Freak this has to be the way forward for mainline games. just delete Sword/Shield off the master computer and pretend like it never happened. take this, add 8 Gyms/E4, and go back to how the old battle system worked.