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Too bad they didn't put more budget into making the city feel alive, vibrant and varied. It's bland and boring and yet....this game is extremely good once you get past the intro and the initial set of wild zones. I love it and this is coming from a guy who skipped S&V, so I'm not a hardcore Pokemans. I love the new battle system and got addicted to the gameplay loop.

@Jedrus_Lilac yep. There's a login/sign up screen you cannot skip. It says you need a Ubisoft account to play. Just insane.

This series has been a success DESPITE Tanabe, sucks it's him providing insight and some ghost writer.

ZA is like 100x better than those other crappy Switch Pokemon games. Yeah being stuck in a bland city is a bummer but the gameplay and gameplay loop is actually really good and the character models look way better than Scarlett

Why in the world would I have to create a Ubisoft account to try out a game I might be interested in buying? What's wrong with them? Also why is this not mentioned in the article?

I think this is the first Switch 2 game I've been impressed by the visuals in it. Looks like more than just a "Switch Pro" type game

All the rewards and gameplay options and systems and customizable stuff just make Mario Kart World look like old and ancient in comparison. This feels like a modern game. However the fact there is only one city trial map and only 18 regular racing tracks makes me worried this will get pretty repetitious. But think this Direct might have sold me.

That looks like the least fun way to use mouse mode, hunched over reaching out to your coffee table.

Wonder if this will have a resolution bump like Galaxy 1+2, they didn't really advertise that game having that. Probably not tho

Need a substantial story mode and a LOT of regular racing tracks outside of City Trial for me to be interested. The regular racing looks really fun if there's a lot of it. City Trial just looks boring to me me especially if the mini game you get at the end is hitting targets.

@Suketoudara it's still a full priced, 30fps and soft looking 1080 (1080 can look crisper than that) for not that demanding graphically of a game. And I'll believe the fps patch when I see it, this was a response in an interview not like a press statement/promise. I have no clue why they'd put up a demo so close to release with bad performance if they were fixing it so soon. My point was of course porting is smooth sailing when their target is so low

Easy to port when you keep your standard for porting low. An uneven 30 fps, with a rather soft looking 1080 image fidelity. Hard pass. Try harder next time, this isnt 2014.

@SpaceboyScreams rework the manga continuation that Toriyama oversaw, tweak things so it takes place after Super Hero, rework the bad storytelling tropes of Toyataro (spelling) and end it with a fight with Black Frieza. Give it good animation and there ya go

@PinballBuzzbro FighterZ is legit good. But I agree with you on every else just being mid or a rehash.

Why would anyone in this day and age be impressed by a video of cutscene comparisons? Show me real gameplay.

@the_beaver nothing is even close. This is like a top ten game of the 2020s so far for me. Cannot wait for Second Chapter.

Sucks. I just finished it this Sunday. I waited two weeks for a patch then couldn't stand it anymore and forced my eyeballs thru that awful camera hitching.

@JJtheTexan I made the mistake of recently buying Nier. Game runs fine for me until I get to that early desert area then it constantly crashes.

@Jarodlaraus the other consoles are not GKC. Yes there are some games that are like that but most aren't. Some article online calculated this numbers for ps4/5 and it was like 80 percent of retail releases were full on disc. And if you're confusing having to load your disc on the hard drive versus what a GKC you're just a silly person

@BrewsterTea Game freak would never cut in their revenue by hiring Monolift to help out. Keep the budget and effort low and gain max revenue.

Starting to think I should cancel my preorder, NL tends to review games a point or two higher, so them giving this a 7 is worrying to me

@ShieldHero I'm about 55 hours in and just started chapter 4 of the game and can say there isn't a lot of opportunities in this game to want to utilize 1st person mode compared to the other Trails games, in manner to which you speak lol. Would have loved that performance mode tho. The camera stuttering gives me a headache.

Not sure why you'd want first person on the Switch 2 version, characters look nice but the environments ain't so hot. Why would you want to zoom in on them more?

@topsekret wow. You really had a lot to say there.

@ThisGuy215 true - I agree with that.

@topsekret you're overreacting. While I bet if this was only a 60 gb game, they still would have used a keycard, this is a big game and I'm glad they didn't crunch it down. The loss of 40ish gb probably would have had a huge negative consequence. Just so you know I have not yet supported any keycards and have only bought what was available physically. If a game is a key card in the future I'll wait for a sale and get it digitally. I'm just saying that this one specific case should have been there reason keycards for invented, meaning only for games that couldn't fit on the 64 gb ones.

@topsekret this is one of the rare instances where a keycard is ok. It's almost 100 gb, meaning there is literally no option for them to put this on a card. And it's only 40 bucks.

30 fps? Pass!!! Have higher standards than this.

@SBandy1 to clarify I don't think this is AI based at all. Was just referencing that generic "Pixar but not Pixar-lookong style." That aesthetic has been completely dominated by AI slop so when I see this knockoff art direction my brain just associates it with it now. Companies gotta come up with a new spin. When that gets scrapped all to hell, do something new again.

I think this is them just showing off that new animation studio they bought. That said companies like this gotta realize that doing Pixar like animation styles just feel like AI slop at this point.

This game just screams boring. Maybe I'd be hyped for this if they patched the previous Warriors game. I played about 30 minutes of it before the visuals and performance made me turn it off.

Does this have gyro?

Lackluster repackaging of these games but whatever, what really kills me is how bad the the gyro is. The loss of a Wii remote style point just makes they games not feel great.

Man I wish they'd fix Nier.

30 fps on the card with a performance mode patch to come later (meaning no 60 fps on the card) means this is a hard pass for me.

Ok. This is a fight from Nintendo I could actually get behind.

@JGC1200 definetly would have been an even bigger downgrade in asset quality at the very least. I see this in Switch 2 editions of Azuma and Fantasy Life and Trails in the Sky, where it's just a pretty basic upgrade from an already compromised version.

@Nintendo4Sonic @Divide_and_Wander also DO NOT buy Lexar cards!!!! Stick with SanDisk, and Samsung secondly. SANDISK performs the best, and Samsung is close. Look it up.

@Divide_and_Wander Get Fantasy Life, Azuma is surprisingly underwhelming visually compared to even the Steam Deck. Found the gameplay nothing special either. Only get Cyberpunk if you mostly play handheld, the Rez looks great there and the VRR smooths out the frames greatly, especially if in the city or in the desert or any big open area. The docked performance is not good unless you're in a linear story section, no matter how much ppl glow up this port online. Fantasy Life is a little rough on Switch 2 also compared to the Steam Deck, but it's pretty and super addictive.

Definitely the best visual showing for this game, minus some bad textures in spots the fidelity looks great...but from a pure art direction standpoint it still looks so bland. Also I can't help but feel like being stuck in a city the whole time will get boring. But I'm willing to give this a shot. The mechanics look fun. Skipped Scarlett and Violet so hopefully this pulls me back into the series.

@Truegamer79 you're wrong actually. These games were 50 US dollars when released. So 100 bucks for both. They were also released as Nintendo Selects on the same console.

So I find the docked experience pretty nauseating on the Switch 2 edition. Extremely awful camera hitching or stuttering when moving the camera around and the more open areas don't seem to run above 35-40 fps. Extremely unstable. I noticed this much less in handheld but some of it is still there. I've seen others echo this online so I'm not insane.the game also seems to missing the performance and quality modes described in the eshop. I wonder, because I have the physical card that upgraded to the Switch 2 edition, is this causing some performance issues ppl like the reviewer are not experiencing? Are they 100 percent running it off of internal storage or the SD card? I'm so confused lol

Played it on Series X when it came out and it was definetly not the best looking or animated game even there. But the tone of it was such a fresh of air in the face of the Nu Trek slop. Here's hoping that new Voyager game is good too.

@Kamen-S 30 fps is literally half the time for inputs to register. Also for most ppl, as the human eyes sees at 60 Hz, a 60 fps refresh is much more smooth to look at. For me with 30 I feel like I just hyper notice what is missing. That said I can deal with it in some RPGs and stuff. But it feels gross in anything platform based. Even if you don't notice it with your eyes your hands can tell the difference. I've been playing Fortnite for years in 120 fps. One day it defaulted to 60, didn't realize it (because visually it'll look mostly the same as 60, just smoother), and thought something was wrong the servers because the game felt slippery.

Cool. I'm cancelling my physical preorder now lol. 30 fps?! I thought this console was supposed to be strong! What an absolute bummer.

Glad to see it taking the top spot if you add the Sales together...but not they really need to give us a patch for the Switch 2 edition. It was supposed to have a quality and performance mode...but as the game runs now (just Switch 2 edition) there is completely unacceptable camera hitching in addition to it running like 40 fps in the opening section when you leave the house. I put the game down until they patch it.

@cedarhyped I'm not saying it's a bad port at all. But ppl always reference it as this gold standard of what the switch 2 can do when comparing it to other. And I'm just saying that in the city, the desert open area it runs extremely poorly docked. I think it was designed for VRR docked which obviously isn't a thing

Respect for them getting all on a true physical card. It's the reason I bought it at launch...but man I think it's been greatly exaggerated how "well" this runs on Switch 2. In handheld, with the smaller screen and VRR it looks great. But on a big TV, docked it runs and looks really poor in the city and open areas. Unstable frame rate, and the resolution does not scale. Then you an indoors story mission and the games looks and runs well again. But for big chunks of the game docked, it's really really unpleasant to play

At this point that game isn't decisive.

I thought this system was supposed to be powerful? How is this not 2k 60?