I wasn't too impressed with Sw/Sh and I'm seeing a lot of the same complaints and more from capital-G Gamers and normal ass people alike.

Terrible performance, shitty animations (if they exist at all), lackluster open world, no more building interiors, missing features.

Is it even worth dropping $60 on this or is it just another shameful cashgrab? Strongly considering just picking up Legends Arceus as people seemed to really like that game and its fresh mechanics.

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    It was just not a fun game at all after the novelty of the open world with pokemon wandering around wore off.

    Maybe it’s just that I like collectathons but I had the opposite experience. I basically 100%ed it, the only thing I’m missing is a couple of the special 1v1 battles in the post-game

    As far as the turn order thing, the system was janky but I wish they had fine tuned it and made it work instead of going back to the way things were. At the very least I sometimes lost battles in Arceus, and when the hell was the last time that’s happened in a standard Pokémon game?

    • Blep [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Cynthia in diamond

      Woman how the fuck do you have level 60+ mons when everyone else in the elite 4 is using like 55ish, and the victory road pokemon are like 45ish.

      • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        Picked up the D/P remake, got all the way to Cynthia, lost to her bullshit fucking piece of shit Garchomp and just never played it again after that

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        You’re right, the last times were Cynthia in D/P/Pl and May on the bridge from Slateport to Mauville when her Grovyle would murder my Marshtomp

        But also that was almost 15 years ago :doomjak:

        Edit: Oh god I underestimated