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Still waiting patiently but not hopefully for that Switch port.

This is happening with pretty much most big mobile games with in-app purchases. At least on Apple for the time being due to the currencies fluctuating.

Did the comments above forget that Nier;Automata had multiple routes/endings or have they not actually played the game?

Think of the anime as just another route.

This is the type of article I’d expect from Kotaku, not NintendoLife….

@PikaPhantom
Content that was planned for previous updates being pushed forward into newer updates is nothing new in Minecraft’s development schedule. It happens all the time.

They already admitted that more and more ideas kept popping up that they wanted to implement and that’s why the Caves & Cliffs update was split in the first place.

Even now features that were planned for updates from half a decade ago or more are still waiting to be implemented after being left in limbo.

The point is, plans change. Things take a different turn when you least expect it and game development is no exception.

I’m thankful for all his work on the series and I’m wishing him all the best in his new position.

That said, I can’t even begin to describe how happy I am he’ll no longer be directing the games. Half the problem is gone, now for the rest of it.

@Dragwhite
Journey’s is NOT a soft-reboot or reboot at all, far from it. It has so much continuity connecting it to all the past seasons I really don’t know how anyone can make that claim

@Krull
“Also, Arceus doesn’t introduce a new generation”

Arceus literally introduced 10 new Pokemon to Generation 8. No spin-off game would ever do this. If GameFreak themselves say it’s mainline then that’s your answer.

@Specter_of-the_OLED
You been living under a rock or something? The game has been out for months lmao

Edit: seems like you don’t have any idea how DLC works either.

Gotta say this looks way more aesthetically pleasing than Nexomon that’s for sure.

Will probably pick this up if it’s a decent price.

Consider me 1st in line for a purchase!

LOOP8 better come to the West because that looks so good!

@HamatoYoshi
A direct with BotW 2’s release date confirmed will have everyone talking 😀

Hopefully it’s not censored like the PS4 release was.

@kurtasbestos
Looks to me like you hate things that become too successful.

I really wish updates to past articles were published as completely separate ones.

It’s an absolute slog going through the comments again each time..

@Jeronan
Legends Arceus is not a spin-off.

I don’t know how many more times this needs to be stated honestly…

@VoidofLight
The entirety of Sword & Shield leaked and was datamined extensively, on top of all the controversy from the Treehouse interview gameplay and it still sold 22+ million copies.

It is 100% a mainline series game.

If the very developers who made it state as such, then that’s final.

@NinjaGuy69
Your opinion on the game was “bland and soulless.”

Which is exactly what you said was the same for every other Pokemon game..

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

@BloodNinja
I don’t ever expect Pokemon to adopt the use of a full party battles unless GameFreak truly wanted to shake things up. The most we got was triple battles where it was 3v3. They were pretty fun in Gen 5.

@The-Chosen-one Online trading exists but that is the extent of online multiplayer.

There’s also a feature similar to the Mystery Dungeon games where if you black out, people online can find your satchel where it was dropped in return for some points to spend at a shop in Jubilife Village.

@Screen
Knocking down the score to a 7/10 purely because the game lacks online multiplayer when it was always marketed as a single-player experience seems kinda silly to me.

Is the game good? To me, yes.

Is the game fun? Looks fun to me.

Is that all that matters? Yep.

Does the ratings and reviews really matter? Not really.

Will the haters and diehard fans ever be pleased by a Pokemon game? Doubtful.

And thus the world goes on..

@Preposterous
In spin-off Pokemon games sure, strategy and difficulty is present. Especially in the Mystery Dungeon games.

But Arceus Legends is a mainline game, not a spin-off. And difficulty in the main series has been lacking in a lot of places. So I’m glad Arceus Legends has actually provided some sense of challenge.

@BloodNinja
Horde Battles in XY had you fight 5 Pokemon at once and you were only allowed to use One Pokemon against them all. That was 10 years ago of course.

The battles in Arceus Legends play out differently and the varying situations you find yourself in require you to actually strategise and plan out what you’ll do. There are some seriously difficult battles if you’re not careful. Simply mashing the A button to get through some battle will cost you.

@Preposterous
I wouldn’t say cumbersome, just that battles require an extra layer of strategy than before.

As for the battle styles, Gen 5 introduced Triple and Rotational Battle styles but they were removed later. GameFreak loves introducing cool features and then removing them for worser versions or just not at all.

@BloodNinja
A valid complaint? Is this a joke..?

The reviewer PURPOSEFULLY attracted the attention or aggravated a number of Pokemon and they turned the situation around on her by making the battle a 1v4. That outcome happened purely based on the decisions she made.

People complain all the time that Pokemon is a kids game and that it’s so easy. Now reviewers are complaining a Pokemon game is too difficult and you label it as a “valid complaint”.

Really?

@Screen
This article sadly doesn’t even touch upon the sheer number of QoL features present in Legends Arceus in regards to the UI and interface as well as many of the established mechanics we know about Pokemon.

The seamlessness between traversing the field and catching Pokemon is supported by streamlined menus that pop-up and don’t feel clunky and in your face at all.

Pokemon no longer automatically evolve and instead you now have the option to manually choose when you want to evolve them (A but like in the Mystery Dungeon games). Once you hit the level requirement or evolution method you can select to evolve them from the Party screen.

EV’s and IV’s have been replaced with a simpler mechanic which will appeal to more casual players.

And that’s just two of the few impressive QoL features that impresses me in this game.

@Saf01
It amazes me too. So many people got filtered by Ultra Necrozma in USUM and it was a legitimate challenge (Especially if you were doing a Nuzlocke)

Arceus Legends has numerous difficult fights just by dangerously exploring places. And there’s even one fight which I won’t spoil, but it’s probably on par with Ultra Necrozma, if not harder.

@NinjaGuy69
It’s all well and good you writing a wall of text talking about justifying your thought process, but you stated Legends Arceus was “bland and soulless” just like all the other Pokemon games.

If you’ve overseen and played through that many games and still came out not liking them for whatever reason, then maybe that says something about this series not being for you.

The reviewer for IGN Italy got so angry that they gave the game 5/10 because she said it was too difficult LOL

Here’s a translated portion of that review;

“First of all, in the game world it is possible to be attacked by several Pokémon together up to a maximum of four: no problem, it comes to mind, at least two I can use them in turn, right? But no, regardless of the amount of Pokémon in our possession, even if there were six, we will be able to field only one . Imagine a system like that of the CTB, "corrupted" by the two techniques mentioned above, in a 4vs1 fight; of course, nothing prevents us from escaping when it comes to wild encounters, and escape has always been possible for me. However, it is not an ideal or acceptable solution to apply every time.”

They literally angered four Pokemon in the field and then complained when the battle became stacked..

@NinjaGuy69
Ah…there’s that word again that people like to pass around so much in the Pokemon fandom. “Apologists”.

You come across like a typical 4chan poster on the Pokemon board who has nothing better to do but whine and complain.

If, in your own words you thought it was “bland and soulless” then it means the game wasn’t for you and wasn’t what you set your expectations up to be. Which is what I said.

@JordanMiddler
Just wanted to talk about this;

“Technically a spin-off from the mainline games”

Arceus Legends is a mainline game confirmed by GameFreak themselves.

@NinjaGuy69
Sounds like the game wasn’t what you expected it to be. But wait….you pirated it so you can’t complain about wasting money. Shame…

The pixel style gives me heavy Sparklite vibes. Will definitely be keeping a eye on this.

@Screen
“Correct they only used pictures to tell us, and not words.”

We literally got an in-game screenshot of the Pokedex posted to the official Legends Arceus website showing that the game was separated in to multiple wild-area like zones.

Absolutely no false advertisement was done at all.

This comment section is hilarious.

ILikeUrAttitude acting like they’re Dragon’s power of attorney 🤣

PJ O’Reilly sounding somewhat positive about an anime style game?

Is the world ending…?

@DomGC
“The gameplay is incredibly bland and repetitive as can get“

It’s literally no different to most Pokemon games, except the focus is on triple battles from Gen 5 with a few mechanics throw in here and there.

Gacha elements aside, the battles genuinely have you work up a strategy for the harder content that has been steadily releasing over the past year or two.

Competitive Pokemon has less worth than shiny Pokemon these days and that’s saying something.

As soon as a meta is found the top ranked players all fall in line and copy and paste the strategy with minimal tweaks. So boring to watch.

As for smogon/showdown, don’t even get me started lmao.

“so this isn't just a straight reboot”

It’s not a reboot full-stop. Journey’s has the most continuity and callbacks out of any series of the anime period.

The only series that attempted to be a reboot in the beginning was the BW series due to directorial changes and they ended up abandoning that later into the series. (Still the worst one by far though.)

“These Bot-Generated Pokémon Might Be Better Than The Real Thing”

Why lie..?

Ever since Sony started censoring the Senran Kagura games on Playstation, they really should come to the Switch.

All of them 😎

Looks like a turn-based version of Code Vein ngl

I’m in 🙌🏻

@darkswabber
Not sure what you mean by new soundtrack when it’s exactly the same as before. Perhaps you meant the new music discs that were added?

Black 2/White 2 not even being in the Top 5, 4 or 3 is an absolute disgrace.

@johnvboy
Almost everything got leaked the moment the games were dumped. Text files hinted and gave it away.

Just sounds like poor quality control if you ask me.

@johnvboy

The day one-patch is literally a good chunk of the game (3GB) that for some reason they couldn’t put on the base cartridge. It’s not a lack of space, because the full game (Patch included) would fit on an 8GB cartridge.

Either they were pushed for time (No idea how) are they are poorly optimised when it comes to developing games.

@arenred
I wouldn’t say she was disappointed that the update was split, but more-so that things just became bigger than they expected. Ideas just grew and they wanted to add more things.

-Black 2/White 2
-Heart Gold/Soul Silver
-Platinum
-Emerald

The absolute gold standard of mainline Pokemon games.

Took the original instalments and refined them, polished them further and provided players new and old with content truly befitting of the title I gave above.

All instant 10’s without question.

@KateGray
I think it may be that they were initially part of Part II because of the Warden and the Deep Dark. But between the update being split into two parts and the aforementioned features being postponed to the Wild Update, then Candles were likely brought forward earlier.

“ But there's good news too: We will be getting candles!”

Candles were already added in Caves & Cliffs Part 1.