Specters

@LikelySatan I would say these games start fairly stiff but when you learn how to cancel arts and get the abilities to cancel from arts to arts it really opens up when getting different abilities and combos to regain arts faster. It can be very active and chaining arts back to back with the correct abilities and gear. I know it is a bit of an ask to say you'll have to get 4-8 hours into the game before it starts feeling much better, but that's how it is.

Also it is worth taking the time finding the style you like (offensive, support or defensive). You can choose between the characters and classes to find one you like most and let the cpu play the other roles.

I'm about 5 hours in and loving it. Lots to connect if you've played 1 & 2. Interested to see where the story of it goes.

And there goes my excitement for it. I'll have to wait and see how the reviews turn out.

@WillQuan No I'm not but I have been harass by people such as yourself that fanboy out too hard about games. Also I'm not going through and reading all your comments sorry not that into you.

But let's end it here, if you can't notice a difference from launch to how it preforms now then that's your own feeling on it not how it actually is. I really hope you haven't played most modern console games especially open world games since most don't hit their target frame rates of 30 or 60 and have many of the same type of bugs and glitches (some even worse and game breaking). I would just say that, unlike other major releases, it was known and documented in reviews that it ran poorly so you should have saved yourself the anguish you clearly feel and steered clear of it.

@WillQuan I gain nothing by telling you my experience and only get harassment from people like you for saying that it runs better than it did at launch. Which is an absolute fact. They did have a performance patch and maybe you didn't catch that.
I'm not even saying it is at a stable 100% of the time 30 fps but it is fairly decent now and I doubt most people would care about how it runs now if it was the original release.
Regardless it certainly isn't something to continually whine about on the internet months after the fact. Unlike other major titles, pretty much every review mentioned the poor performance so anyone with 1 minute of googling could have known pre release how it was.
I knew getting the game it was going to preform badly but I also read that it was one of the best Pokemon games in years.

Don't know what all these people are complaining about on here since it has been running at a mostly 30 fps since the first major patch except for the last area was still bad last I played. But compared to launch where it was nearer to 20 fps or less seems like it's been a fixed issue.
Did these people miss that update or just never have played it and are jumping on the internet hate memes?

I was on team Bigfoot and knew instantly we were going to lose once I started playing some matches. Either people were trying out new weapons the whole time or just had a bunch of low skill players in turf war.
Where much better in Tricolor battles.

He would be better off if he just didn't say anything at all.

He should have just let his normal mediocre voice acting performance be what it is and move on.

Wish Chris Pratt could have been more like this then teasing for almost a year about how amazing the Mario voice was going to be.

The Fuse is a game changer. This has really upped my excitement.

Love the art style and the vibes of the short demo in Bayo 3. If there was a longer demo or it was a bit cheaper I might be day one on this but right now just going to hold off.

Loved the first one and had fun with the demo but I know Square and I'll wait a couple weeks for a sale and get this 30-50% off.

Did Throné and Agnea in the demo. Throné's intro was way more compelling than Agnea's.

Only shocker is Marvel 3, but also not that shocking choice. More excited for Street Fighter 6 but with the recent Capcom Cup (mainly the prize pool) EVO and Sony have to up their game a lot.

Two of my favorites style of sim combine with the SteamWorld polish I'm totally down.

@Abes3 must have missed the patches.

@Joeynator3000 Atlus is far more restrictive than Nintendo. This is them being chill. Should see what they've done with each release and rerelease of Persona 5.

@Tourtus Has a battle pass that only include cosmetics and you can buy individual cosmetics. As for playing the game it is free.

Been playing it on PC and it's actually pretty fun. It has a much higher skill floor and ceiling than your average BR. Would recommend it.

I am actually looking forward to it. Loved the art style.

I'll just wait for more info to make a final decision on if to purchase it.

They could host it on their own website. No reason it has to be on Youtube.

I loaded it up today and definitely runs a bit better. Still has hitches every now and then in the area I was in but the low 15-20s FPS were nowhere to be found in the short time I had today with it. Also might be connect to the now smoother frame rate but the battles and animations seem to actually be playing slightly faster.

@Gwynbleidd Hey I'm sorry you are upset I asked you a very simple question about the statement you voluntarily made. And that was only one question I have many more that I can ask about your statement. I'm just asking you what you mean by what you said otherwise why did you say it? Also I'm actually trying to ask you to give me 'what is happens in the real world' but you just keep saying how you feel about it.

So half was actually meant to mean a lot not actually half. What is a lot? 100 people? 2,000,000 people? 100,000,000 people?

What are the sales numbers of emulators compared to original hardware? Of the 114+ million Switches sold and 917+ million software sold on Switch (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/) how does that compared to known Switch emulators sales/downloads? How are you differentiating between people that are legally emulating and piracy? How are you determining 'interest' in Nintendo products attributed to emulators that result in actual sales?

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was so much better than Arceus. But like all these awards they really boil down to what the most amount of judges have actually played. Just look at best Multiplayer game...Elden Ring...the actual multiplayer on any From Souls games has never been good and has always been a laggy buggy mess built on ancient net code.

@Gwynbleidd You said emulation "kept interest" in their games and "they'd probably have half of their customers" if not for emulation...sorry but you did say that. There is absolutely zero evidence of that and you just admitted you made it up.

@Gwynbleidd definitely the biggest exaggeration I've ever read on this site. Half their customers are customers because of emulation???? Come on. I doubt if it is even 1%.
Where you getting these numbers?

Enjoying it despite the performance issues. Maybe they need lower the amount of pokemon on screen and optimize the open world a bit more. Honestly I would have more preferred open zones like Arceus that ran better than this.

But sales looks to be justifying the open world label they were going for even with the performance problems.

A lot of salty people in these comments.

Was interested till the first trailers and had the tiniest hope they would turn it around, but from reading a couple reviews seems just pretty meh in the end.

A lot of half baked feature creep, major pop in issues (especially at the speed they want you to go) and a fairly basic combat system. Nothing really new.

@theGamerPad Maybe you didn't understand how you were coming off but it was defending her by saying that's not what she said by valuing it at nearly half a billion dollar franchise (aka Mario Kart style seller). And then saying Bayo 3 might sale 2.5 million units (only 0.5 million more than I said it would). Again wouldn't come near what she estimated it at.
And if you weren't defending her then you're splitting hairs which wasn't needed at all.

@RobynAlecksys actually about Ubisoft's business practices, abuse of employees, and horribly anti consumer monetization.

Rabbids are just part of the game I hated in the first one and now there are even more and less Nintendo characters.

If only there was no Ubisoft and no Rabbids.

@theGamerPad I don't know why you're still defending her when she's even confirmed she lied to weaponize the fanbase.

But here let's do the math. 5 million in game sales for the series, even including an imaginary 2.5 million of your estimate for Bayo 3. We'll even assume all were sold at completely full retail.
5 million x $60 is 300 million. She estimated the Bayo series at $450 million. Still doesn't add up.

But that $300 million isn't actually even the worth since you have to take out production costs, shipping, marketing, retailer fees, multiple publishers (Nintendo and Sega) etc. If we're even being generous with those figures what actually got back to Platinum might be $30 million. But that's a far cry from $450 million and I doubt Platinum even got that.

Also what we know is Platinum were about to go under till Nintendo stepped in for Bayo 2 + W101 and those sold so badly they were about to go under again until Microsoft got them for Souldbound but that cancellation almost sank the company again till their work with Square on Neir which gave them an actual mainstream hit that they've said in multiple interviews that saved the company and gave them enough money to start self publishing.

@frabbit they gave it a 9

Been looking forward to this for years. Glad it was worth the wait.

@theGamerPad it's not going to be a Mario Kart style seller. Maybe a couple million. Still wouldn't be worth what she estimated it at.

And this sounds 1,000,000 times more realistic. Her estimate of what the Beyo franchise was worth was so far off from reality she probably thought she was being screwed and got really unreasonable with her demands.

If she really wanted to she should post the contract and correspondence since she has burned the bridge already. But I feel that might actually go against her case and why she didn't do that instead putting out the video.

Either way time to have done this was years back. The game is done and she didn't get herself a better deal. Gamers aren't really going to boycott a game 98% of them weren't even going to buy if the series sales trend keeps up.

Pratt is just doing Pratt. He shouldn't have promised any type of voice work other than bog standard Pratt.

Think the general feeling would have been much less negative if not just apathetic to his performance.

Other than that it all looks and sounds really good. Loved the penguins. And Jack Black really works as Bowser. Can't wait to see more of Luigi.

So the initial reaction the majority of people had was he was just going to play himself because he can't act any other way. Then for months he said 'actually no it's amazing, we're doing a lot of work'. Turns out it is just himself.

He set himself up to fail.

Now on to people saying 'we need to hear more'. Well I think we can safely assume his voice isn't going to change throughout the movie so it is going to be this. Also we only got a couple lines with Jack Black as Bowser and we all understand what he's doing why not apply that same logic to Chris Pratt?

Everything looks good except Mario is slightly off.

Also Chris Pratt's "voice" is just Chris Pratt. What a joke.

I'm shocked Xbox is getting a fairly decent foothold in Japan (well by Xbox standards).

The game was decent, definitely outstays its welcome and for me didn't live up to the horror + deck builder game that it promised in the original trailer.

Does the PS4 & PS5 versions include the official mod?

No thanks to all these unreal engine nonsense. This joke died like 10 years ago and putting Chris Pratt in it didn't make it any better.

Team Gear because it is the most sensible but probably most people are going to choose that so we'll lose in the end.

This seems more like a miscommunication on what they were proposing when they pitched it to the Pokémon Company. And clearly they didn't get fired and worked for several more years at NOA after that.

What I really don't like about Kit and Krysta is that they could clear it all up if they wanted to but they aren't. They were intentionally vague. Gave a very controversial statement that even goes against the Pokémon Company's public statements before and after. Goes against that, as far as I know, the Pokémon Company haven't tried to stop others from doing it.

Still the controversy got them a ton of clicks and eyes on their podcast so I doubt they will give a more nuanced recollection of how it actually went down. Doubt we'll ever hear that 'yeah maybe they actually gave a ***** pitch' or whatever that is a more believable scenario. But I bet we can see more and more of this from Kit and Krysta.

@Pandy-the-Panda Okay so it is a progression blocker to force exploration. Very revolutionary idea.

From the trailer looks like the emeralds are just on the boss itself. A stand-in for weak points you have to platform to. Or are they suggesting that the emeralds are scattered across the zone and you'll be forced to explore before fighting the boss. Progression blockers aren't anything new to video games.

Either way seems like pretty bog standard gameplay that they're trying to hype up.

Damn thought it was just Nagoshi but now that he is gone thought there would be some changes. Oh well.

Like A Dragon was excellent and there is no reason they couldn't get it working on Switch with a lower resolution.

Just money on the table that they could burn on more bad Sonic games.

This is great timing. I just finished everything but the secret bosses so I'll wait bit for this to come out and 100% the game.

@Rika_Yoshitake "eco-friendly" in any crypto is not actually friendly to the environment. It all uses energy and the more blocks/computations it has to do to verify transactions the more intensive that energy usage is going to be.

The other issue with crypto is that it can go completely bankrupt and then anything and everything you had on it is gone at a whim (take Luna as an example)

How poorly Square has been lately with their studios, selling assets, and poor quality products I wouldn't be trusting them with something extremely speculative like crypto.

I must be so incredibly lucky because I'm at like 150 matches between the regular lobby matches and salmon run and I've only had 3 disconnects so far. One of them I think was actually a team rage quitting because two of them disconnected at the same time.
Well I hope I keep this lucky streak going if it is as severe as the internet makes me believe.

Wow what odd hour or region was this in? The most I've ever waited for a match was about 30 seconds most being within 15-20.