Video: Here's A First-Person Look At Pokémon Legends: Arceus In 'Hisui 360° View'

Man, it would be so cool if the Switch was compatible with the Oculus. I'd love to play games like these in VR, even though I get motion sick really easily lol

This looks awesome! Just imagine the dlc they'll be able to do with a base game this good

Man I'm curious to try it but it really doesn't look good at all. If i saw a 360 video of BOTW I'd be like "oh wow that looks amazing" the whole time. This game on the other hand just looks bland 😕. I hope the gameplay can make up for it. It would be so sad if the game just doesn't turn out to be an actual update/reinvention of sorts to the franchise it had the chance to be.

(Hot take: Sword and Shield looked much better 😅 (although personally i always liked how they looked))

I'm usually not harsh on this topic (gameplay first), but I really do not dig the visuals.... Looks absolutely like an earlier 3D game used to look. For instance: The water and the shoreline are not the quality I'm usually seeing in games in 2022, especially big budget games.... The water looks like pants made of reflecting rubber.... And the grass patches seen while flying are the same as N64 patches....

Ah well, I'm curious about the gameplay most of all..

Not impressed with the visuals, not much variety of trees, most of them look the same.

A first person view option would be a great feature. The visuals look pretty good

Pokémon snap looks so much better than this. Granted it's a on-the-rails style but still. Come on game freak, at least try.

On the other hand, I am a firm believer of gameplay over graphics. Coming from the someone who born in 80's, I'm used to seeing bland textures!

Given the limited capabilities of the switch, I don't think the game looks that bad. If you have ever played around with shaders and textures on minecraft on your phone, you'll appreciate the way the water looks and even has reflection, while still running smoothly. That this means other textures take a hit, like static grass instead of dynamic grass, well I can forgive that if it leads to a fluent game.
I just hope gameplay is any good.

This looks terrible, the world looks completely barren. If they're going to make an open world game then you need to make the world a pleasure to roam around in or it'll fail. It doesn't need high resolution textures or anything, just plenty of variety and an interesting world. This is one thing that MH: Rise did well, it was graphically dreadful but at least the areas had interesting terrain.

Come on team it’s doesn’t look that bad. It might look a bit sparse, lifeless, a tad boring … I’ve changed my mind.

People are so quick to bash it due to poor graphics, stop trying to kill the vibe, this game looks awesome and I for one cannot wait and think the graphics look great

Nice video, it's cool that you can turn around to follow some Pokemon and see them just minding their own business!

I like the video, its a cool effect. but the environment looks completely empty. there is no illusion that this is a living, breathing place, it just looks like a unfinished tech demo of a game from the dreamcast era

@jcvandan MH Rise has dreadful graphics? Sure its not 4k 120FPS but I wouldn't say it's graphically dreadful. I know it's not saying much but it's definitely the best looking game on Switch no question.

Sadly, this looks about as undercooked as sour pasta curry.

Flying in 1st person really doesn't do the graphics any justice and expose just how empty everything feels. When I saw earlier trailers I thought: "Okay, this looks quite better than what we initially saw." Now when I see this video, I'm not sure. I really am hoping this game delivers on the gameplay, because it's quite obvious we won't have to expect much eye candy.

If graphics mean anything to you I have no idea why you even bother with Pokemon games. Complaining about it is even more nonsensical. They are games for kids that some adults still play. Most logical people will either accept that or stop playing. Seriously, who cares if all the trees look the same. It's not why I play the game.

I mean it looks about right for a Pokémon game, but pretty pathetic for a game on a console at least as powerful as a PS3.

@Kiz3000 I thought it was incredibly bland looking, it has that grey texture aesthetic on all the environment that you used to find in 360 games a lot. I agree 4k etc isn't important, I still think BOTW looks brilliant despite it being technically quite poor, I just don't like the stylistic choice of the graphics in MH: Rise.

Still not one SINGLE bush. It's all grass, equally shaped trees and the occasional high grass. With such a nice art style, why so barren in the plants department? Sad noises because it would be so easy to make it look better. Guess they didn't know how to make it look good and not drop frames in the process. I hope Pokemon starts using some of their infinite money to pay programmers who actually know how to optimize things- It can be done, we've seen it in other titles.

This looks... baren. Where is everything? ten or so copy-and-paste poor resolution trees in rows and patches of lifeless grass? Ouch.

The haters are back baby 😒

@B4L0R_CLUB While I agree that gameplay comes first and graphics second it is sad that this game can't have graphics that are on par with BotW, Monster Hunter: Rise or any other game with excellent graphics that really push the hardware. It's not like the Pokémon Company/Game Freak is a small indie studio that doesn't have the budget to make it happen. I think it's a fair point that people are disappointed by the graphics, just like how not everyone digs the chibi style of BD/SP.

I am looking forward to this more than I thought I would be. But its definitely more to do with the refresh of battle system and the games options display etc
Other than the pokemon models, the game still looks rough af.
Im starting to think that, even though the pokemon company is rolling in the yen, the team who work on these are poorly trained and actually dont know how to make a good cell shaded tree.

nobody is expecting Horizon Forbidden West graphics, they just want a world that feels alive, a world that has the power to immerse you. You don't need high end tech to create that - Breath of the wild achieved it.

But the world on show in arceus looks like a hole. no atmosphere. as others have pointed out, there isn't even any diversity in plant life, let alone anything else. its a world devoid of life. it looks cold and empty, and not because of artistic choice.

how can such a world immerse you, or be enjoyable to explore? this is the problem. Xenoblade chronicles had a wondrous environment. that was on wii.

@piecez
And just to rub some salt on the wound, the Wii basically had GameCube hardware, which says even more.

the frame rate is absolutely shocking is this the finished game? LOL