Everything Wrong with Pokemon's Graphics

The Pokemon franchise and Pokemon games have gone downhill because of Game Freak being lazy. I compare Pokemon's graphics to World of Warcraft, a game from 2004, along with several other games like Genshin Impact. While I'm excited for an open world Pokemon game in Legends: Arceus, I just can't get over the bad graphics and lazy design. Pokémon fans deserve better.

As the maker of "The Perfect Pokemon Game that Will NEVER be Made", I hope the Pokemon franchise gets better starting with improving Legends Arceus.

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[Neeina]

Dude its immersion. The game takes place in the past they didnt invent those graphics yet duh!

[LauritzenLucas]

Literally looks like these fanmade 3D pokemon projects from the early 2010s

[jamaico]

They are on a point where they can say "It's a pokemon game, people will buy anything as long as it's a Pokemon game."

[jackmayor]

Pokemon fans are hilarious. Actually trying to convince others that this proof of concept game is GOTY contender.

[toowingless]

Everything you mentioned that isn’t in this game… is in BoTW. I once walked under a tree with a torch out and because there was an apple right above me *the apple began to cook* . The level of detail is astonishing.

[mint]

I remember when the Switch came out and I thought "Wow, I can't wait until they bring pokemon into a full HD open world game"

When I see games like Doom Eternal running on Switch, I just have to wonder wtf is going on at Gamefreak

[Mooshkajoe]

"It's the artsyle" is no longer an excuse for lazy game design.

[justjohn]

Gamefreak, you don't need to match the graphics with the time line

[forgetthisuser]

One of the most profitable games on the planet, given to the most unenthusiastic studio.

[SneakTheOcto]

GameFreak must be owned by Ash, because they refuse to evolve.

[lrc]

1:20 - Heck, even Genshin Impact at it's lowest settings pulls better graphics than Pokemon Legends!

[Nero-]

LegendArceus is still better than the crap of Scarlet/Violet with price tag 60$ plus taxes they have pulled out.

[joltx]

Ive been a pokemon fan for the last 20 years, and I must say - since the switch era, its mainly being dissappointed over and over again. I never was the kind of guy to harshly criticize things, nor the kind of guy who search for specific poor elements within things, but seeing pokemon as it is now... even I have my limits. this looks bad. not just the empty world, low res and overall style - the whole mindset of gamefreak nowadays worried me. people has to understand something - there is hate, and there is fair criticizm. hate is saying "every pokemon game is the same and sucks". but looking at this kind of game, on the impressive switch hardware and saying its not worth my money - is fair criticizm. and this comes from a guy who bought and enjoyed every pokemon game from the gameboy era up to the 3DS, but I just cant allow myself to support things like this. not half baked, gimmicky, easy to death games which cost almost twice as masterpiece like soul silver. I know writing this wont change anything and this will probably outsell every other pokemon game and like half of the main switch titles, but at least I know Im not buying this. like I didnt buy SWSH DLC and will double and triple check every pokemon game from now on. gamefreak may have changed, but so did I - Im still the pokemom fan I was back then, only now I dont allow myself to support low standarts such as this. back then I didnt have to since games were great, but now... yea, things arent looking pretty

[ammashnek]

And worst of all they charge 60$ for their crap. AND PEOPLE STILL BUY IT!!

[Lawrence]

Everyone in the comments of the trailer: HYPE
Me: This looks like crap

People have no standards anymore when it comes to Pokémon. It's technically very badly done.

[mitonamikawa]

that C Major scale at 0:58 not reaching the 7th note is so disturbing..almost as disturbing as this game's graphics..

[thereallarp]

I choked on my own spit laughing at that first bit.

[calsdraws]

Botw worked because the world looked so beautiful. The graphics and the vast environment made it FUN to explore. But if the centre of Legends Arceus is literally just catching Pokémon and exploring the world... Then the environment HAS to look good, or it’s not gonna be fun to explore at all. Especially if the whole game is just gonna be wandering around an empty world with a couple of trees here and there catching Pokémon.

Idk. Legends Arceus has so much potential to be a great game, but if Gamefreak know people will settle for anything as long as it’s Pokemon... I’m afraid future games will never get any better. Because why should they put any real effort in if they know people will buy their games regardless of quality?

[violet-trash]

The fact that an unfinished game with DreamCast graphics is the best thing game since HG/SS says a lot about the recent generation. Hopefully the whole series moves in this direction.

[justjohn]

Even the graphics look Hundreds of years old