An Extensive Review of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet and The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero DLC
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- Finally, after four months of work, my most extensive review yet is finally complete! Almost everything I think of Scarlet & Violet is in this video, from the smallest annoyances to the scathing take-down.
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Outro: “The Next Chapter”
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Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:12 Performance & glitches
00:03:10 Small annoyances
00:03:51 Big annoyances
00:04:59 Character customization
00:07:42 VGC onboarding
00:10:48 Visual Style
00:16:47 Human character designs
00:17:59 Pokémon designs
00:19:39 Terastallization
00:22:31 Paldean Academy
00:25:45 The open world
00:27:55 Distribution of Pokémon
00:29:11 Distribution of Items
00:30:37 Exploration
00:32:09 Following Pokémon
00:33:25 Distribution of NPCs
00:34:09 Not enough to do
00:37:38 Victory Road
00:41:30 Starfall Street (my favourite story is the worst one)
00:51:15 Path of Legends
00:55:10 The Way Home
01:00:24 The Teal Mask
01:02:35 The Indigo Disk
01:05:04 Mochi Mayhem
01:06:06 DLC Gameplay
01:08:52 Multiplayer
01:11:51 Overarching themes
01:14:27 The central theme
01:18:44 Outro - Ігри
Still drives me bananas that they made it a point that any age can attend Naranja/Uva, AND the story doesn't rely on you being a kid in the way previous stories did, AND they clearly had a pretty robust set of mix-and-match bodies... then nah you're still a kiddo
And the only thing that really effects is the Team Star plotline, both because the dropouts of Team Star are reinstated into Naranja/Uva academy eventually and because Director Clavell tries to be a hip young man for some reason but it works only because there are old people.
The fact that continue to compliment the visuals of Let's Go to this day I feel like shows how popular Megumi Mizutani's (designer of SwSh player characters Victor & Gloria, and several Pokemon like Hisuian Arcanine, Mimikyu, Tinkaton, Maushold) artstyle is to the series for a lot of people. Her art for both and games and TCG is colorful and expressive and I think it kinda sucks that SV does not lend itself to this style.
Like with SwSh, the transition to 3D does show that certain characters were done by different artists.
For several examples, Geeta, Rika, and Poppy was likely designed by Take (designed behind the Galar Gym Leaders, Adaman, and Irida).
Penny was likely designed by Haruko Ichikawa (mangaka of Houseki no Kuni and designer behind Chairman Rose and Oleana for SwSh).
The base player characters, Florian & Julianna as well as the BB League members like Drayton and Lacey was likely designed by Yusuke Ohmura (designer of some of BW's characters, Marnie and several Pokemon like Oshawott, Urshifu, Zacian, and Zamazenta).
For me, I think SV's approach to realism hurts how the characters look. Personally, if they were to continue this pursuit of semi-realism, I would prefer they go along of the lines of artist Kawayoo, at least in terms of backgrounds. (Artist behind the ORAS Hoenn, Alola, and Let's Go Kanto map artwork).
I still remember being SO excited and shouting at my TV "Oh that is SO mean" when Larry came up in the E4, since I also picked him as my hardest. I'm so sad it wasn't actually that, because that rush of emotion was so heccin' cool and would've been something totally new and unique
Seems there’s a quite common trend of Normal type leaders providing quite difficult challenges during the main story playthrough.
Whitney, Norman, Lenora, Illima and Larry are all relatively difficult battles at their respective points in each game.
39:19 they added everybody's favorite thing about life, dealing with administration
" a shiny noise/visual cue would've given me peace of mind that I didn't miss a shiny"
Oh please, we all know that if they added it, it would be implemented so poorly that we would all still miss the shinies that we miss now, and then the difference would be that we would very often spend time looking for a shiny that probably despawned the moment we heard the noise 🤣
But yes, a shiny cue would be great, IF they put enough effort and care into it so that it didn't add other drawbacks and be reasonable (like if it went off only when they're somewhat close rather than spawn distance for example, etc.)
I really wish this game:
1-looked good.
2-ran well.
3-wasn't glitchy.
If it was all three of those things, this would be the best Pokémon game ever. Too bad it isn't and it had to succumb to a crazy deadline.
I take it you enjoyed the gameplay as a whole, then?
@@UmbreonLibris Yeah, but those things really bummed me out. I like what the game is underneath, but there's so many things that annoy me about it. Like, why don't physical moves have the pokemon make contact with the opponent or the thing you mentioned about the catching system, or the clothing options. It's just frustrating.
Really great breakdown. You voiced a bunch of stuff that had been bugging me in the back of my brain but I hadn't fully formed opinions on, specifically the lack of real choice going on.
Brilliant!
Always look forward to your reviews and deep-dive analyis, and this dropped at the perfect time.
The whole section about the visual style is 100% on point, and it's probably the aspect I'm most concerned/sad about for the series going forward...
...the other is the open world.
I think they could've done it BETTER, but I'm pretty sure Penny having nothing to do in Area Zero after Arven hypes up how there's a lot of weird tech to deal with is supposed to be foreshadowing on Sada/Turo being a robot that already dealt with it for you. But yeah again, that DEFINITELY could've been set up more strongly... even just Penny snarking "So uh, why did you drag me here again?" would do the trick and remind the player that something to do with the advanced technology is amiss, but in a way that *benefits* you
I guess that's possible, but that doesn't explain why Penny doesn't handle the one technological issue that the professor specifically needs the player to do.
@@UmbreonLibris Yeah that one is still really silly. They really ought to have had the player prompt Penny to hack in to each terminal when ready to progress the story rather than do it themselves lol.
love this video! genuinely touches on practically everything i have an issue with. i'm honestly so frustrated that i love the characters so, so much-- especially kieran! he's genuinely my new favorite pokemon character (and current favorite character in general, honestly), but that frustration is because the games themselves are so disappointing. at every choice, it's a yes or yes. the worst really was when we had to lie to kieran, it genuinely made me upset because it gave us the illusion of choice during it, but no matter what option, we still break his trust. i loved his story and i love finding out all the little details others notice that i missed during it, but i can't recommend the games to anyone. as a bonus opinion that might not be too popular, i genuinely think the DLC should have been included in the main game. while i loved the DLC, getting to meet kieran and carmine and then playing through blueberry academy and the results of that, i don't think it should have been an extra $30 and it's especially criminal that you have to pay for it twice if you have both games. pokemon being split games in the modern era is already ridiculous and a money grab, but making you buy an actually genuinely good ending to the SV story separately making the total game $90 is insane to me. i liked the characters of the base game, but found the actual game itself lacking painfully and felt the region could have used some edits. then i got the DLC and i loved it even with the grindy parts and the stupid illusions of choice because i loved the story of kieran and carmine and everyone else so dang much. i'm even playing through it again on the opposite version this time so i can play as a character and not myself like i did in my first playthrough and experience it as that character from a new lens (and also to play kieran's arc again... did i mention he's my fave? lmao) even though i *still* find the gameplay in the main story lacking and have issues with a whole host of things.
i know the classic argument i'm giving is contrasted with "well, why buy it and support them if you dislike it so much?" and jokes on YOU, imaginary person i'm making up, i borrowed both games and the DLC for scarlet from my brother. i only paid for the violet DLC because i'm still part of the problem 👍
as for glitches, i think you lucked out. i only have a switch lite which definitely makes the glitches worse, but the amount of them that genuinely break parts of the game has been ridiculous. if i'm in certain areas of the map in paldea, the picnic table never loads in when i start it. can sometimes still make sandwiches, but everything except the toppings are invisible and i obviously can't make the sandwiches correctly in that case. i've had KoMi get stuck "jumping" off ledges so many times just by walking near them, i'll randomly run into pokemon that aren't even loaded in or on screen and it will teleport me yards away to battle. i had a really weird one in the blueberry dome where the entire screen was motion blurred, but basically frozen during a battle? i've had countless others and am experiencing even more on my violet playthrough, specifically tons of graphical glitches where NPCs, even trainers, are stuck underground and it takes upwards of ten seconds for them to load in. the ground disappears for me constantly, both where i can see the skybox and where i can see the blue and black grid map they left in. the absolute worst is the crashes though, it's crashed a handful of times randomly, but *always* crashes for me the first time i beat kofu. on both games. as soon as i finish talking to nemona or whoever it is in the gym building post battle, it crashes immediately and i have to rebattle him. that's a common one from what i've seen, not sure why though. i've had other minor glitches as well, like battling on bridges making the pokemon clip through and the game thinks they're all on water so they're on floats despite being suspended in the air, textures sliding around like crazy (been a problem with mountain spots ever since at least SWSH), my pokemon getting stuck during passive training and me being unable to command or recall them where they either just stand there idly or essentially go on a rampage until i reopen the game. this game really wasn't optimized at all, especially not for the lite.
Damn, that really is a lot of glitches! I'm sorry you've had that experience. I've heard you're more likely to have a bad experience on a Switch Lite or if you're playing a digital copy (and maybe even depending on where the digital copy is saved), none of which are my case. I've got a physical copy and a standard Switch. But even so, maybe I did get lucky!
@@UmbreonLibris shockingly, a lot of my glitches have been with the physical copy of violet instead of the digital copy of scarlet! definitely a switch lite issue with the game i fear. both are saved to my SD card i believe, but my switch also isn't in top condition, i've put it through thousands of hours of ACNH and pokemon combined since i got it in 2021 and the battery is even busted on it so i have to keep it on charge constantly lol still though, SV is the only game i've gotten this many glitches with on it!
Boy this video was worth the wait!! This is one of the best reviews I’ve seen regarding SV really makes me wonder what an extra year of development could have done to the games
With how many tiimes "feature from Legends not in SV" comes up,
I'm starting to think Legends was developed in parallel to Scarlet/Violet 🤔🤔
(a terrible excuse I know lol)
Of course they were developed in parallel, at least in part, but that doesn't preclude them from sharing their good ideas!
"Think of the towns in Kanto" I would really rather not think of Kanto. Thanks! 😛 I had to make the joke, but aside from that, I agree. Wish the towns had more activities... the ones with Gyms do typically let you replay the minigames, but they're almost if not all one-and-done in terms of fun... at best lol. Do like how each town/city had distinct vibes at least?
Coming back here to comment… aside from ESP, do any of the other minigames offer more difficulty when you replay? I'm certain I redid a few of them (not all) and ESP is the only one I noticed being different or offering additional rewards.
On all levels but physical did I hear "you can call me Al" playing during the entire ai professor segment
At least it wasn't Ed Sheeran, right?
@@UmbreonLibris what do you mean "at least", call me al is a certified banger!
18:35 THIS IS PAWMO ERASURE
It's for the best
20:30 you're forgetting Kieran's Hydrapple (Fighting)~
...and also apparently his Dragonite is Tera-Normal in classic VGC fashion, though I'm not sure how it would ever come into play.
Geeta also has a Tera-Flying Kingambit on rematches,
and I think it's worth mentioning Nemona's starters using their secondary types as their Tera types on the final version of her team, because while those are "one of the Pokémon's types", it's still very much a surprise, due to her previously having the expected Tera-type, and those types being gained upon evolution which means that they are still a deliberate change~
There's also "the secret boss of Blueberry Academy", who has a Unovan starter with a VERY unusual Tera type that no one would ever see coming.
Lacey has her Fairy Excadrill too
Ah yes, I did forget Kieran’s Hydrapple! The others are worth noting but they aren't in story fights, which is what I was talking about because those are the ones everyone will necessarily encounter.
Lacey’s Excadrill is different from the other BB Elite Four, but it matches the Paldean Gym Leaders so it's not a novel use of Tera.
@@UmbreonLibris Valid! I bring her up since she's... semi-unique, I suppose? Each BBE4 has one non-matching type that *doesn't* Terastallize, and she does that too... on top of having a Paldea-style ace that is Terastallized into her main type from something that isn't. The other BBE4 Terastallize something that's already their own types.
Area Zero is almost perfect, it’s pretty, large, has unique areas, the music, Kitakami though feels, looks and sounds the best in the entire game, shame you can only go inside the visitor center and not any of the other homes, especially Kieran’s, the terrarium honestly does nothing for me, it’s just a wild area, it would have had some woah to it if they didn’t have a fake sky and just showed the ocean with Pokémon swimming around it
These are my favorite Pokémon games, I wish they were good 😔
That almost sounds like a contradiction, except that's exactly how I feel about the Starfall Street story
Nice comment!
One of the only two SV reviews out there that I agree with. But the other review I agree with is very short and only really talks about few things. I'm glad there is someone out there recognizing how Nemona is the only one who is consistently honest and a nice person (somehow people think she is an asshole but nobody thinks that about Penny?) and that the authorities are clearly the evil people of the storyline and not the kids.
How could anyone think Nemona is an asshole??
@UmbreonLibris I know right? I mean Penny keeps saying stuff like that Nemona couldn't read the room which is what I guess where this comes from but in those situations, Penny was continuously not reading the room and being bratty.
Also, Penny is both the dubiously-ethical hacker and the person who made Team Star who, while they are very literally are just a group of people who protect each other, have become bullies and hooligans. Penny may be more polite, but you always know what Nemona is about and that she wants a friend that can challenge her. Director Clavell, outside of the needed disguise as Clive, is also sincere and responsible. Otherwise the main characters save the player characte are all a bit gray morally.
What made them so frustrating for me was that there was so much potential for an absolute S tier game but they dropped the ball in so many aspects that in the end I was more or less just disappointed.
I regularly get the impression that the designers are totally disconnected from public feedback or wishes (or they are and the higher ups just push them to make certain decisions) + these games lack consistency in terms of QoL changes where they add a feature for one Gen then you never see it again.
Also things like accessibility for in all aspects (UI elements etc.) or even for competitive players. Hell most Rom Hacks have the "Rusted Bottle Cap" already which makes one of your IVs 0 because it nearly impacts every game. Then GF proceeded to ban players that generated their mons (that would take hundreds or thousands of hours to RNG for) instead of just adding the feature - but nope still nothing. I am getting angry again so I'll end the comment now haha
35:25 "Think of the towns in Kanto"
Let's not think of the towns in Kanto.
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is what I would have said, if Libris hadn't spoiled this line predicting my reaction to it on discord!
You weren't supposed to read the spoiler tag until after watching the video!
It's weird that I agree with everything you say, but S/V have been my favourite games in the series in a LONG time. And I've played every mainline game! Maybe I'm a weirdo, hah!
Sometimes the aspects we like are just that much more important than the ones we don't! And there is definitely a lot to like here. Where the balance falls comes down to your priorities, I think.
My biggest turnoff is the lag, and the main character design, it’s disgusting….
"a lot of great hair options"
me: still waiting for a Pokémon game with customization to ever have a single hairstyle that I actually like
Really? None of the long hairstyles worked for you? Maybe what you really need is the beard…
@@UmbreonLibris there's a single hairstyle I'd consider long, and it's awful
that's a you thing then, there are many good hairstyles, both in this and previous games
I still have/had a great time with SV+DLC, like I do with every new release in the series. The story and characters this time around was surprisingly good. Unlike SwSh, SV handled all its plotlines very well.
(I still like SwSh; the end of the main story was the only real issue, since Rose’s plan didn’t really make any sense, and came outta nowhere)
I do agree with a lot of the criticisms of these games, and I believe going forward, longer development cycles would greatly help the quality of future releases. And considering there is no new mainline series release this year, and talk about how the yearly cycle has impacted each new game, hopefully it’s a sign of good things to come.
🤞Legends ZA delivers.
I wouldn't say I had a great time with SV, but I did have a good time overall.
@@UmbreonLibris Despite the poor quality when it came to visuals, I had a lot of fun running around Paldea; sometimes getting lost for hours, as I’d search for more rare items and Pokémon. It’s a similar reason as to why I enjoy playing BOTW or TOTK. I appreciate the amount of free exploration the game grants.
My only major criticisms about SV’s main story is the lack of level scaling at the very least in the Victory Road plot. It’d be great if Starfall and Path of Legends also had scaling, but more so the Gym plot line. Nemona scales roughly to your level, but if I skip Katie or Brassius at the beginning, then they’re complete pushovers when I do finally come back to face them.
The game would’ve had so SO much more replayability if scaling were implemented in more areas.
@@zacharymaher2855 Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are fantastic, some of my favorite games ever. To me there's no comparison to SV. BotW and TotK are real open world games; SV has an open map but that's it.
@@UmbreonLibris I hope that in the near future, we will recieve a truly open world Pokemon game, that allows you to make your own pathway through the world.
Tackle the Gyms in any order, explore the region to your hearts content. I think the big thing holding them back is adherence to major plot and story beats during the main game.
I think it’d be awesome to see a future title hold off the evil team/antagonist and legendary plotline until after you become Champion. Whilst letting you explore the region, tackle the Gyms, meet characters, take on quests, experience the world building before facing the standard JRPG plot with more difficult battles and saving the region/world as this big badass proper.
JelloApocalypse made a great video a few years back, that had some great ideas as to how they’d like to see a future Pokemon release handled. They cover a lot of the same details I tried to explain here previously.
It’s a great watch if you have half an hour to spare, I greatly recommend.
You really should continue your art school series.
The olive field is primed for a small janky competitive experience with friends. But since it is not a concurrent world for all involved, you can't fight over which goal it goes into. The fact that there are two goals serves no purpose other than set dressing, and the fact that it's interactable but not shared, makes it feel hollow to me.
The story was the largest positive for me. Arven's was the one that hit me hardest. I got flashbacks to the Jimmy Neutron movie with the Pecharunt sidestory. It also felt like an episode out of the anime, quite silly and enjoyable.
Open worlds are a nightmare. We need real dungeons with actual stuff in there.
Also, the first part of the DLC is nice, but the second one is terrible. Briar is one of the worst characters in the franchise.
Area zero needing voice acting for the sake good character interaction! This is the main thing I complained the most, because only at the end you get to feel actually having a gang of friends in a game. You nailed perfectitly all the issues with this game too haha but the issue with quick text dialogue / need for voice acting was something I hardly get ppl to talk about.
3:30 I'm surprised this stuck out enough to get a mention,
for me it would be A MASSIVE quality of life improvement if there was any of the basic functionality one would expect to be able to do in regards to sandwich recipes, because making very specific sandwiches is a fundamental part of my hundreds of hours of shiny/jumbo/mark hunting, as I make sandwiches about once every 20 min for hour-long sessions when I don't feel like doing something that requires more of my brainpower.
But I'm pretty sure I'm in a minority of players for who the sandwich feature is actually of any use LOL
3:38, you CAN nickname mons in the Boxes,
but as I went to confirm it before commenting, the option was at a different place than I remember it being (it is in the summary screen now lol), I suspect the box update placed it where it should've been.
It's just bizarre to me that they introduce a new feature with the potential to be super useful, but then don't take the steps to make it actually usable. And of course, that's not to mention that making sandwiches is itself an awful experience
27:17 missed opportunity of using the fun common name from the games (specifically used by the best BB League member, Amarys!)
In case anyone unfamiliar with it, the name I mean is..
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Agias!
Somehow I'm not surprised that the least interesting BB Elite Four is your favorite
@@UmbreonLibris
Steel-type specialist pilot-themed character felt very fresh and could've been a very cool replacement of Skyla as a gym leader in a new Unova adventure.
Then there's all the fun odd-personality interactions in the league club, on top of the above mentioned Agias incident (+ being the person that gives you flight in general).
Her ace is Metagross which is still one of my fave pseudo-legends, while her Pokémon in general are IN HEAVY BALLS.
She's one of 3 out of ~30 people in the league club that trades you a character Mark Pokémon that is NOT in a regular Poké Ball, and the other two that do that have it in like a Great Ball and a Quick Ball.
What really disappoints me about this game is the underutilization of Nemona. If they weren't so concerned with making this game new user and kid friendly they could have made her a reflection of us and a SERIOUS battler. I feel like that one change would have elevated this game even more. Like imagine your first battle with Nemona is just her throwing powerful mons at you and wiping the floor with you before the principal reminds her you're new so she starts her team over to battle with you and that's why she uses new mon all game, maybe even switch her team up for the final battle to her real champion team. Imagine if she was programmed after real world pokemon battlers and used strategies that people used all the timed during tournaments, if we could battle her like once a day and if you wanted you could just keep going after each match lol. There's part of the story where a text bubble comes up saying you and her battled for 2 hours, WHERE WAS I!? I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO PLAY THAT! I'd find it hilarious if she was just ridiculously hard and showed up randomly to best that ass. They could have done so much with her!
I will say it may have proved difficult to implement you being any age. You become good friends with a bunch of teens who invite you to their dorm rooms to hang out and whatnot over the course of the game. Its not that it is a hard barrier for a fictional video game, but it may prove a tad cumbersome to make work with people creating bearded thirty year old characters.
It's a school where students of any age can enroll. Interactions between students of different ages should be expected, even the occasional friendship. I don't see why they couldn't make it work with a few minor. Or they could really commit and have different dialogue depending on the age of the player.
@@UmbreonLibris yeah that’s the the thing, I just don’t expect a ton from them in that regard (actually putting in the time and work to provide optionality)
I adore the story.. I have 2.5 harsh issues. 1: the team star story did not focus on penny enough, like barely any screentime, it felt more like a clavall story even though you could tell it was SUPPOSED to be penny's. 2: despite it being like... the main message of the game, penny, arven, and nemona don't really interact at all until the finale, and even then they f*ck off during a small section before the ai professor fight! (Issue 2.5: the dlc does not fix this even when the 3 of them DO come back)
What's your shirt?
Art from a few years ago of a Glaceon/Spiritomb fusion: www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Nine-Lives-Cat-s-Eyes-by-UmbreonLibris/88572497.WFLAH.XYZ
Hearing you describing the plot makes me think the takeaway of the story is that the adults are mostly just selfish a-holes letting the kids to deal with most of the danger.
Wait, why does that sound like the plot with most Pokemon games?
It gets even better. At least Giovanni is a mafia boss. The leaders of Team Aqua and Team Magma are arguing over bad environmentalist opinions. Cyrus is (in Platinum) possibly just a wounded child. Ghetsis is just a child. Lysander is basically a rich person. Lusamine in Sun and Moon is literally a bad mother. Chairman Rose is very literally too impatient to deal with a problem so far away. Finally, the previous adults of the Naranja/Uva Academy literally botched their jobs so badly a counterbullying group had to form and they were correctly fired for letting a disaster of that caliber happen, and even when DLC is taken into account Carmine, who is an older child but has some caretaker-ish experience, she was rude enough that Kieran really got into a funk requiring two DLC to break and that is only because Terapagos violently rejected Kieran.
i agree with level scaling 🤦♂do like startfall street but do agree rest of oppion
hate how empty and pointless the map and region are
The game was fun for one playthrough, but I keep finding myself putting off my planned second and third runs. I planned out teams for them but haven’t felt driven to go back.
Ngl it annoys me when people call the robotic A.I. professor “Al”. Like, that’s not his/her name.
Don't worry, Alberto Turo is a close personal friend, he's okay with being called Al.
My brain represses new snap lol. I saw some gameplay and got so upset that the pokemon company wouldnt take time to give us an open world closer to THAT world. I know its hard to make a fully explorable world that beautiful, but i and many other pokemon fans are willing to wait for GF to take the time to make it! Its possible, other companies have been making detailed open world games for years that function much better than V/S. Pal world is a good example of how their games could be. Its fun to grow up with a franchise, but its disappointing when youre excited to see how a company will impliment the new advanced tools for making games, but instead of giving us more magic, they rip us off.
The funny thing is that at least in Pokémon designs, their borrowing is so obvious; it’s the fact that the Pokémon spinoffs are within an ARK-like world that makes Palworld creative. That is, even in Palworld it is not the Pokémon part that is creative.
i think gen 8 and gen 9 are opposites for me in a way... i really love the presentation and characters in gen 8 (even the ugly wild area didn't bother me too much except maybe the Awful berry trees. but also i basically only play in handheld mode) but the writing in those games is pretty terrible. i distinctly remember multiple moments in the story where you're told to "let the adults handle things" *directly related to the main story* so you can go off and do the gym challenge thing. whereas with scarlet and violet i loved the story but the visual style was really disappointing and fatiguing at times. it was sort of like the entire game (except for the towns) was a gen 8 wild area visually lol. almost feel like sun and moon would be the best looking games visually if they were in HD and not on a crusty 3ds screen.
also it annoyed me to NO END that you there were so many buildings you couldn't go into!!! going into houses/cafes/hotels/whatever and seeing all the weird and silly npcs that game freak made in previous games was such a highlight for every playthrough for me that interacting with doors in SV and getting Zero feedback was just agonizing! almost makes me wish there weren't any doors in the first place like those doorless buildings that make towns look bigger in previous games
I really don't mind not being able to go into houses and such _in principle_. But it really did mean that there was a lot less to do in the towns.
Sun and Moon upscaled to HD does look pretty great! If it had been made _for_ HD I'm sure it would look even better.
#LetLibrisWearSkirts
It needs to get a little warmer out. And I need to find a skirt with pockets.
@@UmbreonLibris Maya Kern makes funky skirts with pockets big enough to fit a nintendo switch in!
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still hate the fact that this was another game that I could not play.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who dislikes the realism trend in Pokémon. I kinda like to battle the pokémon before catching it though. Not doing it anymore feels like retconning.
The very first catching tutorial in the series has the old man catching a Pokémon without battling it first! It is technically in a battle screen, but no attacks are made from either side. It's been a thing all along!
Didn't really rate the design of Pokemon introduced in the DLC. Hydrapple, Sinistcha, Ogerpon, Terapagos, Archaludon
Everything in the game is worse quality than it should be. One thing that annoyed me was the villains being bullied kids. Whatever kind of anti bully narrative they were going for was lame.