Pokémon Pokémon presents discussion thread

[Firesquids]

I'm very excited for New Pokemon snap, there's nothing they can do to ruin it for me lol

I'm not sold on the style of the Diamond Pearl remakes. I hope they don't cut a bunch of content from the game and that they actually add to it. To be honest it looks like an uglier lets go pikachu eevee kind of reboot. I'll reserve my enthusiasm for now. I'll most likely be getting Diamond.

Pokemon Legends looks like a alot of fun, but the footage they showed looked like a really early tech demo, not at all what the game should look like only 1 year before release. I want to support Gamefreak trying new things though so I'll probably get it. I love the design of the girl player character. Legends sort of reminds me of Pokemon Conquest, setting wise.

 

[Halloqueen]

I'm...sort of indifferent about the whole affair.

I played the original Pokémon Snap when I was younger and it was fine, but it was never really my thing. I know a lot of people are excited about it, including people in my general social circles, and I'm happy that they're getting the new Snap game they've long desired. It's not something I'm interested in purchasing though.

With Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, I really dislike the chibi artstyle and the camera angle for the overworld. I appreciate that they're seemingly being faithful to the originals by referencing how the old games portrayed things, and usually I'm more on board with being faithful with remakes and adaptations, but I really dislike the chibi proportions making the player characters look like they're three years old or something. I think I was expecting more modern proportions like were present in Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon, and Sword & Shield and with a camera angle to match. At least they look like what you'd expect when they zoom in for Pokémon battles, but I just wish that was their default, you know? Regardless, artistic decisions aside, I'm very glad that they are traditional and faithful in the other regards and that they're not Let's Go games. The Sinnoh experience present in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum is among my least favorite (aside from Kanto, which has been beaten into the ground with overexposure throughout the decades) as things currently stand, and I've been open for years to the idea of experiencing it revisited in a remake to see if my opinion might improve with the advancements the series has made since then.

I will say though that I'm pretty unenthusiastic for a few reasons, but one reason stands paramount. The way I've approached Pokémon games for over a decade now is that I decide on a team I want to use for the playthrough of a game, and up until Sword & Shield and its removal of the National Pokédex and culling of a large number of Pokémon, I had the ability to choose any Pokémon from any region up to and including whatever generation game I'd be playing. I think the ability to do that is part of what kept me invested in the series longer than I might otherwise have been, and that freedom of choice to use any Pokémon on any team being absent now kind of sucks a bit of the fun out of the Pokémon world. From things that members of Game Freak have said, I have no expectation of them just bringing everyone back into the fold under one roof due to the design philosophy going into the game making these days. As a result, unless they reverse course, however good these games might end up being, they won't be the games I would've ideally wanted them to be. I'm not writing them off entirely, but yeah, I'm not excited either.


Pokémon Legends Arceus looks...interesting. The premise is neat and I can see some potential there, but as LuchaSloth said:

As for Arceus...it just looks empty. I want to give it a chance, but I don't think they should have shown this one yet. Either it's so early in production that they haven't added final touches...or it's just going to be a very stark game. Very reminiscent of the open world of Sword Shield...but, honestly, somehow emptier. Just a very void and muddy look with very little going on...

It frankly looks sparse. It's still too early for me to say much more than that. I'm open to seeing how it ends up.

For both Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl and Pokémon Legends Arceus, I'm going to refrain from buying them at launch and am going to wait to see what people think of the games and what sort of consensus can be formed. There's not much I like about Sword & Shield and the decision-making at Game Freak and The Pokémon Company International, so I'm wary and want to stake things out.

 

[Matt0106]

I’m pretty excited for Legends honestly, even if it ends up being flawed/disappointing, it’s exciting to see how they develop/change pokemon with it/how they approach world building - a lot of the wild area stuff felt promising but ultimately under developed in sword/shield so I’m kinda hoping this explores those aspects of gameplay? I have no strong feeling about the Diamond and Pearl remakes, they feel purely money-making, even to the extent of offloading it to a third party. Legends definitely feels like where the creative focus is at and I’m v curious to see how it develops, even if it ends up being a mess :’)))

Offloading to a third party developer isn’t always bad thing, as seen with Panic Button and the Doom games! If anything, Game Freak is probably trying to avoid the issue it had with splitting its team for Let’s Go and SwSh, and would probably like to put all its focus into one game this time.

 

[LoyalDragonfly]

I will say though that I'm pretty unenthusiastic for a few reasons, but one reason stands paramount. The way I've approached Pokémon games for over a decade now is that I decide on a team I want to use for the playthrough of a game, and up until Sword & Shield and its removal of the National Pokédex and culling of a large number of Pokémon, I had the ability to choose any Pokémon from any region up to and including whatever generation game I'd be playing. I think the ability to do that is part of what kept me invested in the series longer than I might otherwise have been, and that freedom of choice to use any Pokémon on any team being absent now kind of sucks a bit of the fun out of the Pokémon world. From things that members of Game Freak have said, I have no expectation of them just bringing everyone back into the fold under one roof due to the design philosophy going into the game making these days. As a result, unless they reverse course, however good these games might end up being, they won't be the games I would've ideally wanted them to be. I'm not writing them off entirely, but yeah, I'm not excited either.

It's so rare to find anybody who understands the disappointment I've felt about Pokemon ever since Sword and Shield, and you nailed it. One of my favorite parts of any new Pokemon game for years has consistently been planning out my team and getting excited about the prospect of getting to choose my Pokemon from the entire roster. Wondering what their updated learnset/egg moves/tutor moves might be and thinking of ways to make my old favorites synergize with any new Pokemon. Now we have to make do with what's arbitrarily decided to be available from game to game. It's severely disheartening.