Topic: Pokemon Legends Arceus

@VoidofLight I don't care about the nomenclature. If they do another game like this, it better be in a new region with new Pokemon.

@Octane It probably won't, seeing as Legends is mostly about developing a region's lore, and unless we already have been to said region, they wouldn't just make a brand new one that was never seen before for a game about a Pokemon's lore. Plus, there's more untapped potential in actual regions, like Unova or Kalos, which were either Lore rich, or extremely under-developed due to being the first game in 3D.

@Snatcher
I’ve found one single piece of wood. That’s all I found in one large wooded area next to coast. Good grief with as many trees as there are you’d think you’d get it from the trees along with berries or cut them down.

I let my Pokémon out in the hot springs near the Pearl settlement. They all fell asleep (except Luxray who just sat down).

Machamp literally ploped down, the only thing you can see out of the water, is her nose.

Giving credit where it is due, I have really enjoyed the last couple of hours of Arceus. I wish the whole game could have been these couple of hours, but if this is how the game is structured going into post game then I'll be happy with this. Proper story focus, actual utilisation of concepts and characters, legendary Pokemon, tough Pokemon battles rather than gimmicky boss battles that don't have to involve Pokemon at all and no mindless busywork grinding to break up each piece of progression. I was honestly thinking I was going to give the core game a 6, but this is pushing me to a 7, maybe even an 8. It took like 20 hours, but I feel like the game is finally starting to feel realised. Not entirely sure why everything leading up to this feels less finished than this part does, but I am all for ending on a high note. Will check in with full thoughts when it's clear the campaign is over and the post game has started.

I caught a shiny Drifloon

Your English is better mine despite coming from England. I had to look this word up as I've never heard of it before.

I now look forward trying to using the fancy term it in my next articulated argument on here, like "I don't care what the nomenclature your parents used, they should have called you a stupid *** rag for disagreeing with me about Pokemon".

The first day playing, at Friday, I caught random Shiny Ponyta not that one you catch in quest, because at that time I didn't had enough story progress to get that quest, so it's first Pokémon game that I had Shiny luck at very first day. xD

It feels like the more you have completed of a Pokémons pokedex entry, the higher shiny odds are for that Pokémon. I've caught a shiny Luxray and a shiny Drifloon, and both of them have I used for a while on my team.

@TommyTendo https://serebii.net/legendsarceus/shinypokemon.shtml

Took me 25ish hours, I rolled credits on the campaign. The final boss was so anti-climatic, like everything wrong with these Noble's rolled into one. I honestly really didn't like this game overall, I know I've really kinda hammered the same points over and over, so I won't repeat what I've already said. I'll give it a 6/10.

I'm gonna engage with the endgame anyway as I heard there is more story contained within it and there are enough mechanical QOL improvements at the core, that I don't mind playing more. But if there is a massive wall of grind to get to the meat of the endgame I might just cut my losses.

@Pizzamorg
So, you got Arceus at the end of story ?

@Pizzamorg I found the boss after collecting all the plates to be a more exciting fight than the final fight before the credits. You won't need to complete the pokedex to do this fight, so I would recommend getting at least that far.

It came to mind that my Legends Arceus team turned out to be almost identical to my Brilliant Diamond team.

BD
Empoleon
Crobat
Staraptor
Luxray
Rapidash
Haunter

LA
Typhlosion
Crobat
Staraptor
Luxray
Floatzel
Haunter

My Legends Arceus Haunter will evolve into Gengar though given you don't have to trade. I hope Linking Cords become an item in all future mainline Pokemon games, retroactively adding it to the already existing Switch games would also be nice.

@Pizzamorg I'm taking about another boss, after you collect 16 of the plates, which is post-game. Continue with the main story quests and you'll get there

@Pizzamorg Arceus does appear in the game, you just haven't reached that part yet.

I know The Pokemon Company doesn't do a great job of keeping hardcore fans happy but they aren't that silly to put Arceus in the game's name only to not include them in the game.

I made it clear my thoughts are only of the campaign, I have no idea what happens at end game.

Is it? If there were five Legends-like games that specifically did this, I'd maybe agree, but there's only one so far. It's not a rule. This kind of gameplay can be applied to a new region as well.