Topic: Pokemon Legends Arceus

I haven't received my copy yet, but I imagine that the only way they can top this game is if we get a follow-up set in Johto.

And maaaan, do I love Johto.

And if TPCi give us both remakes of G/S/C and Legends: Celebi within months of each other (similar to how they've handled Gen IV), then that'd totally make my decade.

@DomGC I agree with all this!

@Silly_G Eh, if they end up going in order, they'll probably do Unova next, given Unova remakes are up next as well.

@DomGC Honestly, it could be that this game is better, due to it being produced by the newer folks at Gamefreak, and not the legacy team. Wouldn't be surprised if this started around the same time as Sword and Shield entered development.

I've not fully decided yet as I'm waiting for some more trainer battles but I'm not convinced. The movepool is very shallow now so instead of people being able to use a Poke in a number of different ways it seems to be they have one set up that works for them and there is less emphasis on non-damaging moves so a Poke like Klefki (the most absurd uber Pokemon ever!) or Draipon would never be usable in this set up.

I'm just hoping it doesn't turn into how 12 years old play Pokemon by simply powering through or just matching up weaknesses as that would be dull.

@jump Eh, I doubt the combat will fall into "Pick a move and spam it" over and over. From what I've heard, the new system makes you have to think a bit more, due to how turn orders work this game.

@VoidofLight That's not an either or, it's very attack based with the thinking is on how to attack first now.

@jump I mean, from the trailers, they make it to be like "You can either make your attacks stronger, but then give your enemy the advantage, or you can make them weaker, and get an extra turn to do whatever with". I assume later in game, the enemies will be able to use styles as well.

@VoidofLight They do, the only annoyance is it sometimes makes it feel like it's just I hit you with a strong move and kill you, you hit me with a strong move and kill me, rinse and repeat

At least that's what a review I read said lol

@VoidofLight Yes, those are attacks. The emphasis of battles now is to get attacks out as soon as possible so a more indirect approach like a status inflictor isn't much help as they wouldn't survive long enough.

I heard that the combat change makes some moves, that people would never use, actually useful, but thats just something I heard from a Q&A.

@Snatcher they are probably referring to moves like quick attack, aqua jet etc as those moves are super useful now.

@jump Really? So its not just get thunderbolt and your good? if quick attack is good now, what other's could be?

@Snatcher yeah, something like quick attack effectively gives you multiple attacks now. Weaville with Ice Shard could be an uber in the game now.

@jump Does that mean pikachu might be a pokemon worth having for its speed? because pikachu was crapo in the other games.

I find it especially weird that the Porygon line is in this game of all things when the whole idea behind the Pokémon is that it is based on primitive computer-generated imagery.

Either way, I'm not sure who I want in my team. I typically don't train Pokémon that I've trained in previous games, but I'm tempted to have another go-around with Porygon and the Togepi families.

Some of the models that I've seen so far look quite ugly in isolation, but I'll reconsider once I see some of the new Pokémon/forms "in person", so to speak.

@Silly_G there’s an in game reason for that which I laugh at.

Also you may want to consider putting that in a spoiler as some folk are funny.

@Snatcher Maybe but Pikachu is a non fully evolved Poke so it’s never gonna fight in the big leagues and win.

@X-Slayer I feel like it works just like any other game you get off the eshop. Just like the original game itself. Unless, there's some weird differences I didn't know about.

There is something else I need to know for those who have seen the leaks, are the kanto starter's in this game?

@Snatcher From what I've seen, this is the first game without the Kanto starters in a long time. I haven't been following many leaks though, but I saw a twitter post congratulating Gamefreak for it.

@VoidofLight Dang it, I was hoping to see Blastios use there guns