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Having 100%'ed this on PS5, I'm surprised that trailer downplays the animal body-hopping. It's honestly the best part of the game. You can jump in and out of animals so fast and so often that it's an absolute blast to play

It's more a tool than a game, and a decent one. So the people who complain about the slow gameplay make me scratch my head. It contributes to my concern about privacy buuuuut... Meh.

What's funny is that I started using Pokemon Go much more prior to this and have really been feeling the positive effects of getting out and walking more, and the week I've spent using this has helped put me back on a consistent sleep schedule. I don't need help with brushing my teeth but man with Pokemon Smile, I'm digging how the Pokemon company's been encouraging healthy habits.

Not really my thing but man, the Switch really has become THE console for definitive entries for long-running franchises.

@Expa0 Not sure if you've seen The Boys, but Homelander is more like a horror villain. He's like what would happen if you gave Superman's powers to a slasher villain and then plopped him in an R-rated superhero show. He's honestly a perfect fit for Mortal Kombat

It's Mario, story's never mattered; beat the dragon, save the princess (or in this case, the brother). I'm here for a bunch of scenes like that Fire Donkey Kong sequence in the trailer.

Aww but the blend of action and social sim is what I love about these games. Loved the DS version where your children would go to war with you and was a bit disappointed that it was walked back a bit in the switch. Now it seems like it's just getting phased out

@Astral-Grain You've gotta actually play the game. Arceus had ugly scenery and, I'll be honest, I never noticed the performance issues. SV is much much worse. So much worse that people who dont even notice these kinds of things are noticing these issues because the game just has straight-up bugs on top of terrible performance.

For example, I was playing past midnight, and at midnight, the mass outbreaks reset. So I got the notification that there was a new mass outbreak and it was for Magikarp and before I got a chance to see the Magikarp outbreak, I knew what pokemon it was because there was an upside-down Magikarp sprite on the corner of my screen and it stayed there. And depending on where I turned my camera, the Magikarp would end up anywhere between the corner and the middle of my screen until I reset the game.

I'll be honest, I gave it an 8 to counteract the rabid fans/anti-fans. It's both an honest and dishonest score: 8 in terms of how fun it is for me, but yeeeeeeah, because of the performance it's at about a 4. Somewhere between SwSh, Legends Arceus, and SV is a PHENOMENAL pokemon game. But it gets lost under all the crunch and performance issues. It's so sad that I need to apply it to these standards, but Pokemon is about two mainline games away from being unquestionably great by modern video game standards. It's been coasting just purely by the fun gameplay loop

SV's performance sucks but sitting under Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl is a crime. With that being said, the people excusing the technical issues are wrong too. SV's riddled with problems and they shouldn't have released it the way they did.

If there's a silver lining, at the very least most normal people will be able to see the issue with their three-year simultaneous development cycle. Arceus was a game that most people agreed was heading in the right direction (gameplay-wise). And with SV being developed at the same time, most people are of the belief they just ignored the feedback or are walking things back when the reality is, we're probably not going to see how feedback of Arceus affects the game until 2025. All the criticism Pokemon's been getting is starting to come to a head and something's gotta give soon.

Getting the feeling people didn't actually read the review. Because it sounded like a positive experience overall. Seeing the bulletpoints and score afterwards can make it seem like it was pretty criticized but it sounds like a good time
... With that being said, having played Monster Hunter Stories 2 and Shin Megami on the switch, Pokemon has absolutely NO excuse for the performance issues they have.

Well who would've smurfed?

One thing that may help sales with games like these is if Nintendo didnt apply the Nintendo Tax to every one of their licensed games and made games like these $40. With so much filling this year up, I'm interested in this game but not enough to pay $60.

@hypercoyote If they have an indicator over their head then that's a horse of a different color. But I guess that goes to show how little faith I have in GF not to remove something without adding something to help Pokemon meet modern gaming standards.

I'll be honest, I'm not sure I buy removing the line-of-sight trainer battles as a QoL. Maybe initially, but I always found it useful when returning to old areas as a way of knowing which trainers I've already battled.

Unironically one of my favorite games. I've replayed it a dozen times on PS4. The only thing for me is that there's no dash button so traversal can be a slog.

@Eagly I get criticizing it, but excluding Bellibolt there's 4 frog pokemon. Why does it matter if there's multiple pokemon inspired by an animal species?

Even when being told its eyes arent the big lumps on the side of its head, they're so big and cartoony it's hard to see its actual face. But it basically has an 🙂 emoji expression 😂

Love how newer Pokemon generations are taking more inspiration from nature! First with regional forms being inspired from real life evolution and examples like the Galapagos finches, and now seems like they're taking a shot at mimicry. Kind of like how some animals with no defenses will evolve to look like other more dangerous creatures to keep predators away or to fool their prey. Hope we see some interesting variations of this.

@Screen Problem is, it only makes it hard at the beginning. So if you decide to go for the hardest gym in the beginning and have the mindset of, "Ha! I can challenge the hardest gym first? I love it!" And you decide to grind and grind and grind, do other side quests, catch stronger mon, etc just to beat the hardest gym first, then that retroactively makes all gyms/the rest of the game prior to that one really easy. That's the problem with not level scaling

@Fizza Yeeeeah, the leaker named the region Paldea weeks ago. Sad but true, no level scaling.

An amazing Digimon story. I honestly enjoy it in a lot of ways more than Cyber Sleuth. People complain about Survive being a VN but at the very least, if you know that going in, then it's fine and one of the strongest digimon-related stories I've ever enjoyed.

Cyber Sleuth is supposed to be a turn-based RPG but has hours of and hours of unskippable, unspeedable text. There's even side quests where it's just running back-and-forth with no battles and just talking to NPCs about, "What's the sound of this thing in that wall?!" Because of that, I love the battles and collecting in Cyber Sleuth, but I could never play it again. I can at least see myself replaying Survive for different evolutions and story routes.

Having played this game all weekend, Digimon Survive is a great game and it's a shame people are using its genre to whine about it. It's telling a story that couldn't be told any other way. While I was playing it, I thought to myself, "Man, I'd love to see an anime made after Survive's story!" Only upon thinking that I realized that this medium is the only way Digimon Survive could have done what it's done. They can make a story that goes down one of the paths, but the branching choice-based paths could only be achieved this way.

The SRPG aspects of the game bolsters the action so it's not all just done through smack sound-effects during the narrative portions. And because of that, it doesn't overstay its welcome. I honestly hope they make another one of these someday but really go all-out with the horror aspects. There's one part near the middle (where they told people not to spoil it) where they do it for one scene and my jaw literally dropped. Now I'm hungry for more.

Quaxly's evolution looks like he'll dance the Aipom with me

I hope Pawmi evolves. It looks destined to be a red panda.

I like the idea, but if they ever wanted to go all the way with it (and actually justify selling two versions nowadays) they'd pull a Dragon Quest XI and have one version be in 3D and one version be sprite-based. Or even just one game where the mechanic is switching between the two. That would be the first time in years where I'd scoop up both games.

Kraid wins for the basket of puppies 🤣

@HenHiro They already have an open world digimon game that's criminally underrated on the PS4: Digimon World Next Order. But that game being forgotten is exactly what you're saying. What Bandai does with Digimon is criminal. They never market it. Digimon could be an absolute juggernaut in the right hands.

@Lizuka Why did that theory make you so angry? 😂 And at this point, it's not a theory. 8 straight pokemon gens followed it. And it's still possible the derpy fire boy evolves into some sort of snake 🤣🤣🤣

I didn't know there was a hidden stamina mechanic! I just thought my joycon drift was making the sprint sporadic

@Astral-Grain You're right, arguing with a rando on the internet doesn't really matter. But for your personal life, your friends and family and etc, I hope you know speaking politely doesn't mean you don't come off as extremely condescending. Have a nice day as well.

@Troll_Decimator "Complaints" absolutely can change that fact. I said it in a previous comment: Products thrive off of praise and criticism. If something isn't perfect, you should speak up on it. If there's only praise, then they'll assume everything is just fine as is and keep things exactly the same, the same they have been doing for the past decade. We don't owe corporations, they live and die by our dollar. Having conversations like this leads news/review sites like Kotaku and NintendoLife to create articles about the controversy which is something corporations do pay attention to. They want our money so it is in their best interest to be aware of what detractors say so they can get more money. Remember when there were the news that Gamefreak devs were upset about the Sword and Shield criticism? And then the very next game was Arceus.

@Astral-Grain Literally the only thing I edited about that comment was the word "illusion" to "immersion" =/ It's not on me that you only honed in on that part. I'll give you this, my comment would be humorously dramatic to me as well if I just ended my comment with the lone sentence, "The illusion is shattered". But nah fam, "The illusion is shattered" was the second part of a sentence. And I don't think negatively of the game. Read my original comment again, it's the most I've enjoyed a Pokemon game in a decade but I do think negatively of the graphics and performance. People can criticize a game AND enjoy it at the same time.

@Troll_Decimator Your take on @Yorumi's comments are so weird to me. Nothing about what they're saying comes across as "whining" or "crying" or anything that makes them seem remotely upset about PLA. They seem pretty measured in their responses. Is this how criticism looks to you? Like we're all babies pounding our chubby fists on the floor because we didn't get our way?

In my second comment, I addressed it was at night in the snowy area, I had over 100 wisps so I was well aware of how wisp hunting worked. Check out BLD's comment, they experienced the same thing. Not to mention, I said it was low quality water texture AND my previous experience with the wisps that led to "shattering the immersion". You're being terribly dismissive just because you like a game.

EDIT: And after re-reading it, I said "when it actively gets in your way, the immersion is shattered". So I wasn't even referring to the water when I said that quote that tickled you so much.

@Astral-Grain I appreciate the clarification that you weren't being malicious. But note that in my first comment, it wasn't just about graphics not being pretty. It actually directly interfered with my gameplay. That's a problem. And after you notice a flaw, you start noticing others. That's all I meant

@Astral-Grain Yep, sick burn. I will say, I meant to say *immersion, so it's now corrected.

The cycle continues. It's so bizarre to me that the people who want to heap praise on games constantly demand that the people who criticize them should shut up. I ask those people to consider what they aim to achieve when they do this; it's absolutely the definition of toxic positivity. Products thrive off of praise and criticism. If everything isn't perfect, it needs to be addressed so the devs can recognize it and improve the quality next time. I just don't get it, are you all afraid if there's too much criticism, the Pokemon Company will just shut down production because people are too mean?

@BLD Totally agree, I've said in another comment that Braviary is what makes you realize just how bad the graphics and performance really are and your comment perfectly conceptualizes why, and I guess with Wyrdeer as well. Prior to the wisp incident and flying with Braviary in the Snowfall area (where the water and ice look like literal tiles), I didn't mind the graphics or performance at all; not even the mud in the Mirelands like I've heard from most people. But when it actively gets in your way, the immersion is shattered.

@Dilly-Mick I'm aware, I made sure it was at night whenever I searched for the wisps and this happened in the snowy area so I had over 100 wisps at this point.

I love this game, it's the funnest Pokemon game I've played in a decade, but it's annoying to see that the uptick in quality is going to increase the number of hardcore defenders. The graphics and performance absolutely can and should be better considering it comes from the highest-grossing media franchise. I personally compare it to Monster Hunters Stories 2 which has very similar biomes, a more animated artstyle with multiple monsters and still looks great. Not to mention, the graphics of PLA, at times, hinders the gameplay.

I was hunting for the 107 wisps and in one area, I had to check all 20 of the wisp spots three times only to find I passed it the first go around... BUT the pop-in was SO bad, that even when I was standing next to it, it didn't appear because I took off the second it didn't appear, thinking that it was a wisp I already had. To find the missing wisp, I had to sit there for a second surveying my surroundings for it to pop-in.

The graphics don't really look abhorrent until you get Braviary. Then... Oof, it looks so so so so so so SO so bad from the air.

@fafonio Do you actually read the reviews though or just look at the scores? Cause I had to go back and check the Sw/Sh reviews after reading your comment and despite the high number, the review was filled with caveats. They absolutely continually harped on the fact that the game design was extremely dated.

Im hyped and optimistic that the positive reinforcement will show Gamefreak and TPCI the value of being more detail-oriented with their games.

I mean, I get what they're trying to do here, I really do. Even if the primary goal is making money, if there was ANY type of video games that warranted an eshop, it's trading card games. All they're doing is digitizing what we do in real life with purchasing, trading, etc...

With that being said, with Legacy of the Duelist being a thing, and Rush Duel (Idk, haven't played it), hard pass.

@SuperCharr Duelist of the roses was SO GOOD! I wish they could do another one but given how many cards there are now it would be impossible 😩

PSA: Another Yugioh Game, Rush Duel, released in early December if you want something to tide you over.

@Tao I totally agree, I like the World series much better. Only reason I didn't mention it was because I havent heard anything about another World being currently developed but they said a Story was being done a while back. But Digimon World Next Order is one of my all-time favorite games so I'm ready for a next entry.

They've also been working on a new Digimon Story game for years! (AKA another Digimon Cyber Sleuth for those who jumped in on that game). So fingers crossed, could be Survive and Story info. I'm psyched!

I feel called out 🤣
My most played game was Monster Hunter Stories at 127 hours (Followed by Shin Megami and New Pokemon Snap).
That's fine, but then they included my most active day!?
Which incidentally it was with Monster Hunters for 15 hours. Which means I literally only stopped to sleep that day...
You know, Capcom should pay me to use that as an advert. That speaks of how high quality that game was.

Wait wait wait, forget Hisuian Voltorb... Did that trainer just let out their pokemon to interact with the tree? And when they were hanging out with their pokemon, some were different sizes?!? What!?