According to OpenCritic, the Arceus reviews are expected to start going live around this time tomorrow. Not that you can really judge a Pokemon game - or most games really these days - by the initial reviews, I'll be there regardless. But I am intrigued as to where this will land.
@BrazillianCara I've not seen anything about it needing a patch. Folk are saying it looks nice but like the trailers it does seem too empty and doesn't touch something like BOTW or The Witcher 3 but it never really was going to.
The main complaint I've seen is the game is now too survivor based, like when you have to cook and eat your pokemon to recover health. Apparently there's a bit towards the end that's a rip off from The Empire Strikes Back where you have to cut open a Snorlax to sleep it in when you get to the ice area to stay alive. I might be joking about that though ;p
@jump Yeah I heard about that, I think it's not that valid of a complaint, society should be more accepting of stealing other trainer's Lillipups and cooking them. The most interesting thing to me was how you have to blow up a wailord from the inside to escape after you're swallowed.
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@FroZtedFlakerZz Yeah, I loved that part too. For all of the complaints about the animations/graphics in the game I thought when the Wailord blew up it was something worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster movie let alone a video game and the attention to details when the avatar walks out covered in dripping blood and smooshed up Wailord was great.
@Pizzamorg I have just loved what I'm seeing, I just think I'm going to get it, no matter what the reviewers say, the review for BD&SP sucked, and it told me don't trust a pokemon review.
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@Snatcher DP is sitting on Metacritic in the 70s though which means it got somewhat decent reviews unless it's the odd gamer's thing of thinking anything that is less than a 9/10 is unplayable garbage.
To be honest I'd thought it be lower. I skipped it myself as came it off as a very no frills remake which didn't even include Platinum content as well as baffling things like permanent EXP share.
@Pizzamorg I have just loved what I'm seeing, I just think I'm going to get it, no matter what the reviewers say, the review for BD&SP sucked, and it told me don't trust a pokemon review.
Yeah it's pretty weird. Like even with S/S, that actually reviewed pretty well, but go on the internet and everyone acts like it is the worst game ever made lol. You just can't trust reactions to Pokemon games at all.
@Pizzamorg I always say this, no matter how bad a pokemon game may be, its always an experience,
You will or might name your pokemon, that one pokemon will save you butt one time or another, I just can't forget the pokemon games, and the adventure I had in them, even the one I didn't like to much.
And whats funny, is the people that flame the game half the time, end up coming back saying "This isn't to bad" ya, maybe you shouldn't have jumped on the hate train.
@VoidofLight doesn't matter if you live in USA, at that time websites like serebii and bulbapedia will be allowed to do what I said as well content creators to stream and upload videos...
http://twitch.tv/TheSViper
https://www.change.org/p/anmtvla-pokemonlatam-español-latino-en-los-juegos-de-pokémon - let's help this petition for Latin American Spanish be add to Pokémon games and with that may increase chance that in future Pokémon games adds more languages. :)
Yeah, I don’t really trust pokemon reviews.. especially ones from here. The BDSP one was pretty bad, and I experienced none of those issues in game for myself. I remember IGN legit docked points because “too much water” for ORAS. I’d much rather just hold off on reviews and play games I’m interested in myself. If it’s terrible, then oh well, but there’s only been two times where I got terrible games.
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Yeah, I don’t really trust pokemon reviews.. especially ones from here. The BDSP one was pretty bad, and I experienced none of those issues in game for myself. I remember IGN legit docked points because “too much water” for ORAS. I’d much rather just hold off on reviews and play games I’m interested in myself. If it’s terrible, then oh well, but there’s only been two times where I got terrible games.
Are we talking about Nintendolife's 6/10 review? That doesn't mean it's bad though, just average. I do loath the game community for seeing any game less than 9/10 being unplayable.
I completely agree with "Too much water", they just articulated it poorly which resulted in the meme and the bandwagoning. The game world and the in game Pokes had a lack of variety as they were mostly water based now and the water routes are often the most bland and slowest in Pokemon so giving loads more water routes should be condemned. Plus if you go up against Team Aqua there's even more water Pokes to fight.
@jump I didn't take issue with the score. It's just the review itself didn't really read like it was taking a critical objective look at the game. It was just a singular guy complaining about the fact that the chibi art style was bad in his eyes, and that it ruined the game for him, at least from what I remembered.
Edit: Also, I really like Water Routes, mainly due to how expansive they can be, and the fact that in ORAS, they let you dive underneath them. The only reason I'd say they're not great is because it has the same issue as caves, where random encounters are constant. If they lowered encounter rate, or just replaced it with overworld encounters, water routes would be better.
And whats funny, is the people that flame the game half the time, end up coming back saying "This isn't to bad" ya, maybe you shouldn't have jumped on the hate train.
I know this, because this person was me! For years the internet told me how bad those games were, so when I tried the games out the first time I tried them out with that lens and focused in on all the complaints I heard, coming away agreeing the games were terrible.
Then years later, separated from all the noise of the time, I sat down to play Shield neutrally and while the game certainly has some serious problems - technical performance, pop-in, a real mixed bag of great animations and lousy ones and some questionable difficulty pacing - none of that got in the way for me when it came to just loving this videogame. It is probably the best time I've had on my Switch, regardless of all those flaws, and I'm so mad that I missed out on this great experience for years because I let myself be blinded and bought into a popular narrative.
I want to make a conscious effort to be better at this stuff going forwards, but to be fair, as an adult I think it just gets easier anyway as you get older to see how ridiculous so many of the complaints are and how few and far between is genuine criticism with any real meaning to it. Like I say, I don't care if you want an edgelord, 8K, open world game that takes one hundred hours from one side of the map to the other, where your Pokemon can die and it is as hard as Dark Souls. Like you can wish as much as you like, but that game will never exist, should never exist and you can't cry about a game and call it bad because it isn't the game you dreamed up. S/S has plenty of objective problems, but those weren't the things people really talked about and instead made up a load of hyperbolic, ultra personal to their 45 year old basement dwelling selves who think Pokemon should be marketed for them specifically because they were from Pokemon Blue, nonsense to claim the games are bad and it is just worthless.
My only complaints about Sword and Shield just had to do with the region being nothing but linear halls, and not having anything to do with post-game stuff.
"It is fate. Many have tried, yet none have ever managed to escape it's flow."
Ugh. I was happily watching a video about cut beta Pokémon from Gold and Silver, and then an earlier design for what could be Growlithe’s scrapped baby form came up, so obviously the dude making the video thought it would super useful to show a picture of Hisuian Arcanine as supplementary material.
So that form managed to get spoiled for me. Sigh.
Then you have the guy replying what amounts to “I don’t consider it a spoiler, but I’m sorry you feel that way” to every person that complained about it.
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