Pokemon Legends: Arceus With A Side Of Salt

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[zenerstorm]

I find the whole "Arceus" part of the game hilarious. He's literally like "YOU. RANDOM CHILD. I AM GOING TO TELEPORT YOU THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO OLD SINNOH SO YOU CAN COMPLETE THE FIRST POKÉDEX. ALSO HERE'S A PHONE. GOOD LUCK."

[jesterofbadpuns]

I actually love how even they casually put that death talk at the start they literally said
"If you dont manage this we will banish you and wouldn't care finding your corpse the next day"
And that was kind of the funniest at the start hearing that in a pokemon game

[the_clawing_chaos]

I have to say, they really took the animations criticisms from sword and shield to heart. The pokemon animations and behaviors were the real stand out to me for this game

[Broomer]

The part of gameplay that got me thinking “This is how it should be” was when your Pokémon learns new moves they don’t forget the previous ones and instead just switch out a set of four of any move your Pokémon currently knows. Not only is it a great quality of life perk but it also just makes sense. Like why would a super powerful being only be able to keep 4 techniques in their head?

[Kaichubites]

I love how the pokedex feels like what a pokedex should actually feel, you are learning about this creature and helping the world become more informed on what it is or does!

[Soandnb]

This game actually has a rather varied overworld soundtrack, though it does get interrupted a lot from Pokemon spotting you and being near Alphas.

[gradeagamer]

You missed the best part about this game. That Arceus literally just gave you an iPhone and is now texting you throughout your adventure

[Jasonwolf]

Honestly the only thoughts I have for Arceus is more. I want more of everything it had. I would take a very linear improvement to this game, as in no need for more mechanics and complicated things like that. Just more of everything they have now and bigger. Dont just have the little caves, have whole underground areas. Don't just have the sparse trees, have a real forest.

[ChromaSoul]

Bottom line: As long as they keep building upon this new semi-open world format, they can potentially make something really good.

[TheCapitalLetterM]

Imagine a nuzlock with this game, a new permadeath rule could be added for the character now.

Edit: I mean that if you passed out that you would have to automatically restart from the very beginning.

[khariskully]

Yellow up to BDSP - Human: "I sure hope there are no Pokémon in the tall grass."
Legends Arceus - Pokémon: "I sure hope there are no humans in the tall grass."

[xMorphasis]

My biggest issues with the graphics were:
-The rendering of trees and mons only went out a short distance
-Flying Pokémon outside the render distance got 3 frames per second and looked so derpy
-They only coded like 3 facial expressions
-The art styles don't match up sometimes. Like the grass will be super detailed and then the ground is almost a solid colour. The water is just a repeating texture but then they bothered to put in waves and splashes

[corbingovers]

My favorite part of this game. Every other pokemon game, you're introduced to the world of pokemon by a friendly professor. This one...literally GOD.

[TheCoolB]

4:52 "The Pokedex is a completionist's wet dream... Or nightmare" Scott, bold of you to assume it can't be both at the same time

[naotohex]

This is by far the most fun I have had with a Pokemon game in years. I actually feel like collecting them all and it seems manageable. Shiny hunting actually seems good now as well. Everything is so much faster its insane. By the time you fill 1 box in the old games you can probably fill 10+ boxes of pokemon in this game.

[thethelog]

The Oshawott still being named "Revolver" over a decade after the rare candy video is a great callback

[spindash]

Voice Grunts are an underrated tool, and I’m sad they’ve seemingly been forgotten

[HellGrimo]

Honestly - Game Freak made the expectations so low that ANY kind of change is welcome. And having quite a few of these was a BREATH of the fresh air.

[Rigamarole]

The piano from Mario 64 would be a good Pokemon now that I think about it

[BugsyFoga]

Not gonna lie, I honestly didn’t expect this game to come out as soon as it did .