Nintendo just announced their first fully open world 3d adventure, legends arceus taking place in the sino region.
Just a month after the perfect series game that will never be made. So naturally i take full credit for nintendo's decision here.
If you haven't seen that trailer, i recommend you watch it, as i will reference a lot of the points i made there in this article.
But it's not required, this could be the game we've been waiting for for 15 years. So, i'm pretty freaking pumped. But we don't know if pokemonn legends will be that perfect game.
So i'm not wrong yet although. I hope, i am we're going to break down the announcement footage to try and find out. If it is good and give a hype score at the end. Because when did over speculating about a game not scheduled to be out for a long time ever backfire.
let's get started first off hats off to nintendo. It is so satisfying to watch them take risks and challenge themselves like this. Because right off the bat, we see that the game is set in the past as indicated by the wooden apricorn pokeballs.
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Although if you needed more of a hint of the level of technology present in the game. I'm guessing, they didn't have electricity. Because that desk light is fire type and there are paperback books on the table. Which i'm pretty sure are extinct. I'd guess it's at least 100 years in the past.
I think this is a really clever idea by nintendo for two reasons. One, it'll just be a nice change of pace from the franchise which i know i've been boycotting it for five years. But now i must dutifully try this game. So i'll use the pronoun we here.
We get to learn more about the early history of the pokemonn world, perhaps the origins of certain technologies or even themselves.
Maybe even the lineage of our favorite characters like cynthia or professor oak. The reason i say, that is because the starters are said to have been brought to cino by a certain professor professor oak's granddad.
Perhaps, maybe rowan's that professor encountered them while
traveling through various regions and those starters are rowlet cyndaquil and
oshawa apparently.
You're creating cino's very first pokedex, which means at first glance. We're back to our roots of having the goal of games being to catch pokeemon rather than trod through another story.
I think that's a huge plus. I'm infinitely more intrigued by Arceus story despite knowing hardly anything about it.
Its setting just has so much more to offer although a potential downside of legends existing in the past is that you may not be able to trade with or have certain monster appear from other current timeline games.
Although they might introduce dialga to the game as a plot device to communicate with the future, allowing home integration. If true that's pretty crazy.
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The second reason setting the game in the past is such a good idea, is because of the monumental task that is designing bustling sprawling modern cities while also featuring a big open world that would be very challenging.
Especially for game freak. It's probably good they announced that your home base will be this village which leads us to the graphics now.
The graphics amazing, no game freak could make the taj mahal look bad. At first glance legends does have the best view distance out of any pokemoon game.
But the cost seems to be less color less realistic lighting and lower detailed textures compared to a game like breath of the wild.
But at least there seems to be none of this anymore. Although who knows, because i don't really see any series out there running around. I think that while its world looks slightly better than sword and shield's wild area.
Unfortunately Arceus depiction of the sinnoh region in the
reveal trailer not only visually falls short of hyrule.
But also the graphics shown in the diamond pearl remake announcement trailer, which is troublesome considering they use chibi, art chibi.
I don't know what's worse is. I think that those diamond pearl remix graphics look worse than.
Let's go graphics a game from three years ago. But this is all opinion and before anyone panics here are three reasons why you should be optimistic.
One the game has a year upon this announcement to improve graphics and it probably will 2. Even if the graphics don't improve the pokeemon legends series will over many years, assuming the game does well remember.
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When i said in my perfect pokemmon game video, why grand theft auto is so great? It's because they update their games and release sequels that improve and iterate on them over the years. Think of pokemmon legends arceus as nintendo's.
First grand theft auto it might take some time before they get to gta 5 levels. But just be happy nintendo has made the first step and three in a game like this.
You'd expect there to be much much more to do than most open world games. Because of how hands-on, it'll be to catch tons of different pokemmon scattered across the world.
So in all honesty graphics really aren't the biggest
priority and never were. It's obviously a plus beggars can't be choosers on the
switch what we're looking for more than graphics is attention to detail and
immersion for instance the animations look great.
If you haven't noticed that trailer yet, these moves are taking place out in the world not in an instanced combat screen like traditional pokemoon games and that is very exciting.
However combat still seems to be the traditional turn-based style even. When the combat interface isn't shown on screen and while some of you may be thinking, this is a representation of alternative action combat.
Think again you can see lucario returns to his original set position after attacking. But i'm okay with this the classic pokkemon combat is great when it's challenging plus having it means greater chance for competitive online battling now.
That's a good thing as many of you know, i would like to see some form of action combat come eventually.
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It's a step in the right direction. Unfortunately the wild pokkemon ai still seems just as bad as the wild area arguably worse.
I mean dude your mom is getting kidnapped right behind you and you're staring at that rock. Because you thought it insulted you. Hopefully pokkemon behaviors have more nuance than this shinx.
Because this is the announcement trailer full of clips nintendo hand-picks to show off their game. If that's the best, they've got for now. I'm disappointed the chingling is even worse.
I'm telling you right now if the frame rate does not get fixed. We are looking at another sword and shield double kick meme situation here.
I will say this though. I really like the pookemon catching animation. Which makes me think, there might be more than one way to capture pookemon in this game.
The character movements also seem pretty solid remember. When i said breath of the wild does catching pookemon better than pookemon does in the form of horse taming.
This right here this is exactly what i want to see sneaking up in tall grass using stealth to catch them, brilliant and praise arceus.
There is only one legends game instead of two like every other pokkemon release. So we can hopefully get all of them without needing friends to trade with or buy two games which brings the hype.
But there is a lot we need to learn about the game like how riding your pokem0on will work, will your pokemo0n follow you, will there be gyms, how's the character customization.
Does it only give you these two options? or why did the developers choose oshawott instead of mudkip or squirtle as the starters?
I'll most likely do a follow-up article when there is more information. If you guys like the vid. But what we have seems to be pretty mediocre with some good and some bad.
Before you all go there's something really important. I want to say here, i know i'm new to many of you. But i've been a part of the pokemoon community nearly my entire life.
Even after i quit the game, i'd watch the shows twitch streams and keep up to date with the news and we as a community need to stop tearing down others and be more constructive and open-minded towards things other people want. Because when we do amazing things can happen.
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But you see how pointless that negativity is. Because we both got what we wanted anyway a diamond pearl remake for the people who like current games and a new take on the franchise in this game.
Although ironically, it seems our negativity towards sword
and shield seems to have gotten us. But i digress do i honestly think legends
will be the perfect pokeemon game that i've always wanted.
It's a step in the right direction which is miles ahead of where we were yesterday and again after five years of boycotting nintendo games.
I'll be sure to come back to the pokemon franchise in early 2022 to support them. Even if it still looks kind of bad.
Because legends is the type of game i want that we've been asking for and other than sharing this article idea on what a good monster game can look like the best way.
We can elicit change is with our wallets. So be good to each other stay optimistic. Please follow my blog, we have a lot of good another nintendo switch game article coming in the future along with other games. You're not going to want to miss out thanks for reading.
