It maybe arbitray to someone like us. Who has played pokemon like forever but i feel like for a pokemon researcher every move is worth learning about. One of the many questions one can ask is Is is a water tyoe move or normal type move? Is it just a hop or a bounce. Is there a greater impact while in water vs while on land Is there a water like effect after the move is used. Etc etc.
they asked you to do that for a hundredth time because the first 99 times still didn't produce any interesting research the professor decided during the post game to send gamefreak a letter asking why they cut 700 moves but left in a move that does absolutely fucking nothing
Legends Arceus added one item in particular that made me so happy. The Linking Cord. Please, Game Freak, do away with trade evolutions. I am an adult with no friends who play Pokemon, and I'd just like to be able to evolve all my Pokemon by myself. Please make the linking cord a permanent item.
Hard agree. It's so hard to just go "Well, lemme trade with a random person and hope they have a trade evolution to do too!" I don't use trade evo lines for this reason.
"Hmm, i really want to have a Gengar, but i need someone to trade this Haunter" *trade with Stranger* *Stranger doesn't want to trade back, run away with the Gengar*
im pretty sure nobody trade evolve like they intended . they thought people would trade it and it will suddenly evolve then they would like wow. but now a days trade evolution work differently. people know this pokemon will evolve by trade. they trade with frd and then retrade it. which ruins whole point of trading. thats understandable that nobody wanna grind a pokemon and then give to someone else, while knowing it got stronger when u send to them. it was quite fun finding how pokemon evolve , without internet. but now its not worth it.
THIS!!! I'm a shy person and am nervous about talking to people so I've never been able to pull off trade evolutions with anyone other than my little brother or my best friend (and even then, I now live on my own, far away from both of them). So the Linking Cord and the lack of trade evolutions makes me so happy
I love the game but I still have a few issues 1) Inability to travel between areas, Its a bit annoying that I have to return to Jubilife village before setting out to another destination instead of being able to travel between areas directly. 2) Moves cannot hit multiple opponents. When you are being ganged up on by 3-4 Pokémon, moves like Earthquake & Surf that used to hit everyone would of been so useful in this game, but nope, you can only attack one at a time. 3) If the opponent gets to use multiple Pokémon at once why cant I? (Looking at you Ingo with Basculegion /Weirdeer / Kleavor) 4) Catching Pokemon while riding Basculegion feels janky at times
Shiny locking is one of the dumbest things in Pokémon. And they shiny locked EVERY Legendary not to mention the starters. It just sucks especially when the gen 4 remakes had almost no shiny locks.
The starters i can understand since there is breeding in most games although i get that people want to start the game with a shiny starter and not end it.
It makes sense that the legendaries are shiny locked. And for the starters, Why would you even hunt them that way? There are already outbreaks of them in the post game
@@MfwPrivate Shiny hunting Legends is just fun and it sucks when we can’t hunt them. Doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make sense in lore because it’s just a fun extra. And some people just like to shiny hunt the starters at the beginning of the game so they can play through the whole thing with them. or maybe they just don’t enjoy the outbreak hunts or want to do it with the full odds. Shiny locking is dumb and it only gives players less options.
In regards to battling your friends, your character literally falls out of a wormhole. Least they could do is add something similar that takes you to the "Union room" of the Legends era
I really miss the abilities. This is the biggest problem in regards to battling in my opinion. I don't mind the moves cut because this game happens in the far past, so the moves should be either "intrinsic" to the Pokemon or something a society with little experience with Pokemon battles could teach to the Pokemon
For me personally the removal of abilites i see them not being there simply as in the past all pokemon didnt have abilities with the exception technically be Arceus and Regigigas. As time went on the pokemon obtained abilites as the "worlds" of both people and pokemon became more imtertwined. So they devolped them as a defence mechanism. With some abilites not being seen as abilites at first like blaze, chlorophyll, levatate and swift swim.
I love the fact there no abilities as it reminded me of playing gen 1 but with more Pokémon. Like I’m using Pokémon I never used before cuz their abilities sucked. Like hippowdon.
@@sandywolfr26 dude hippowdon has an amazing ability. Sand stream is actually incredibly good and very few Pokémon have it. Sand teams essentially require you to run it or ttar. Even if it didn’t have sand stream, it has sand force which is still great on sand teams
The only major problems I have with PLA are the shortcomings of the Ride Pokémon: Wyrdeer can be hard to control when using the dash, since I also have to keep adjusting the camera frequently. Ursaluna can be annoying to use when searching for treasures, especially with how easy it is to lose a trail, how tedious it can be to find it again, how you can run past the spot, and the dance can be troublesome when in the vicinity of an aggressive Pokémon. It's annoying how the game cycles to Basculegion when going through a literal puddle, and it can be hard to steer as well. Sneasler is a bit too delayed when attaching or detaching from a climbing object but jumping onto a tree or rock instead of picking up the item right next to it is certainly the bigger drawback. But Braviary is the one I have the biggest beef with. Firstly, who was the genius that decided to include a giant bird as a mount, but to then make it never be able to fly up in altitude ever, only down? It's because of this that has resulted in me cussing out the balloon races more times than I'd like to admit. Secondly, why can't we throw pokeballs when on Braviary? We have the means to now get close enough to the flying wild Pokémon to give them a kiss on the cheek, but we're still forced to toss (and miss, thus, waste) Feather, Wing, and Jet balls from random cliffs until we either catch them, run out, or give up.
yeah, basculin is one of the worst pokemon to catch because it is so miserable to get one...especially if its a shiny, i would know cause i had to to reset several times to catch a shiny
@@bulborb8756 I actually caught a shiny Basculin without even realizing it lol. Just throwing balls at everything that moved, only realized it was shiny when I went back to Laventon and saw the symbol on the report. I know a lot of Pokemon have shinies that are extremely similar to the standard colour, but Basculin must be a bitch to shiny hunt. Just a slightly brighter shade of the standard colour, on a pokemon that can be hard to see before it's aggroed, with how finicky aiming at swimming pokemon can be. Perfect storm of inconvenience.
@@zeroattentiongaming820 Did you play with sound off? The only thing saving ppl from not catching bad shinies is the little jingle (although it's still painful to find the source of the sound)
@@mostlywholesome I usually have music or a show on in the background so I didn't notice it in that case. That said however, I also didn't know what it sounded like at that point. Been playing since Gen 1 but before Legends the only shiny I ever encountered was the red Gyarados in Gen 2/4. Iirc that Basculin was the second or third shiny I found in Legends if you count the free Ponyta. Now that I've spent time shiny hunting in post game I know the sound, but back then I didn't even if I had heard it
I'm gonna say this, the game kind of does give you clues to how to evolve Qwilfish and Stantler by looking at the Pokedex objectives, but it isn't clear enough
the ursaring evolution is complete bs, especially beause in many areas you can't even see the moon because of the clouds. Also the brick you need to give it has a description that clearly hints at a fire pokemon, but it's used for an earth bear. Very annoying
@@clemdelaclem It says it is a block of muddy material that is used as fuel for burning when it is dried out. That clearly hints that the thing is made of earth and mud. Even then you should have gotten the Ursaluna ride by the time you can get Teddiursa and Ursaring, and seeing its appearance and ability, you would be able to infer that Ursaring needs that item to evolve. But it takes a bit more inference to know that it needs to be a Full Moon in order to evolve it. It is tricky to figure that one out, but it is possible. Also considering the only renewable way to get a Peat Block is through Ursaluna is another hint. I should say though with the recent Daybreak update and massive mass outbreaks, most of these difficult evolutions become a one-time thing since you can now catch these mons in the wild and usually only need to evolve one for the Pokedex
I think the main issue is how it's a very odd method, even more so that pokemon like Galarian yamask. Sure there are hints about them but it's methods that don't make much sense. It would have been much better to just have them evolve after learning the move, like how Yamega and Tangrowth are acquired.
Game freak understands that we have the internet at our fingertips. I looked up how to evolve qwilfish and you must use strong style barb barrage 20 times. This makes sense because the evolutions name is literally overqwil (overkill). I think it's hilarious and makes sense.
Personally for #7 I disagree, I kind of think its cool that certain pokemon have a mini-quest or some type of goofy and silly way to evolve like Alcremie, and Malamar. It just should give you a hint of how they evolve. I'd personally reduce the amount of times the move is needed to be used for those Hisuian evolutions, but to be fair a lot of evolving a pokemon is just leveling them up, if it would require enough experience to level them up just by using that move X times, then it's actually less of a grind.
reduce the number of times you have to use the move or even just provide better hints at the evolution method. unique and new evolution methods are always welcome, unless there's absolutely no way to figure them out. in example: farfetch'd evolving after landing 3 crits in a battle is super neat method of evolution. one that could absolutely result in a cool moment for the player where their pokemon just suddenly evolves after likely doing well in battle. there just needs to be SOME way to figuring out those kinds of methods. unlocking more information on a pokemon such as how it might evolve by researching them would make a lot of sense
@@noireccentric6453 or if they are gonna have surprise evolutions like farfetched then they should make the original Pokemon not the worst Sorta like a Scyther situation but with a surprise as to what it changes into cause of some random arbitrary thing
You know what I think would've looked AMAZING for the graphics in PLA that would've covered up the incomplete look? The textures/filters in the Valkyria Chronicles games that makes everything in the game look like a painting. It would've made this game that's meant to take hundreds of years in the past look the part even more than it already does. And I'm all for the unique evolution methods, but the amount of times you need to do it is tedious. Like, for Wyrdeer, I would've had it use Stantler's Pyshield Bash once in both agile and Stony style. It would've been unique, but not tedious.
Things you haven't put on your list that I would add: 11. Make night music diffrent for every area, like day music is. It gets tedious. 12. Give each area different wild battle theme to put it apart. Theme is awesome, but unique or remixed version would give each place more personality. 13. Change switching your riding Pokemon in some way so you don't have to take off your finger from stick to dpad to scroll through the list of Pokemon. Wheel opened by clicking right stick would work much better.
14. Have a button map/layout for configuring your buttons. So I'm not stuck with a camera that likes to move on its own when I'm using Wyrdeer 😐 Very good additions by the way, I agree with everything you mentioned.
I think they wanted to repeat the success of magikarp and gyarados where u take a weaker Pokémon and put in actual effort and hard work and make the evolution feel earned
Technically, the in game definition of wing and jet balls are that they are used better for flyers, like those mons that are flying over a particular portion of the map, and ONLY fly. I understand your frustration, but the game doesn’t ever tell you to use them like you’re using. I like to think the reason why there are so many fewer moves is because this game isn’t focused on battles like the other games are. The main quest of this game is not to become champion, it’s to fill the Pokédex. Not only that, but this game is set hundreds of years before the actual Sinnoh games, so of course the battle system is going to be much different than it is today. I don’t really mind looking stuff up to finish the game, so finding out about evolution stuff is not a problem for me. Those are my only disagreements though.
You should be able to figure out how to do basic gameplay mechanics without google. The research did help with the evolutions in question, but a little more clarity wouldn’t have hurt.
I can understand that all the new evolutions needed a unique method to explain why they can't evolve in the present/why we haven't been seen them before. Some of these are still boring and/or weird af.
But, and this is where it gets weird, Eevee can evolve off a Leaf and I've Stone and I can only assume it does so with Sun/ Moon stones too... so how the devil does that now work in the modern day 🤔
I guess the point of the limited Dex was sort of to show that these Pokémon are native to Hisui. Also like you said, it was probably to balance the research tasks. Imagine doing perfect research tasks on 900+ pokemon to get the shiny charm. The 200+ in the Dex currently is a bit much already considering how much you have to do.
yeah having to do all that minus the 22 mythical's would bring that down to 883....yeah no, i think not having the National Dex is just the safest thing by this point as it was going to happen eventually
@@nightshroud9671 This is a main game. And this is why I hate the National Dex - it's a ridiculous amount of work for a single charm that doesn't even outright guarantee a Shiny. Increases it, but not a guarantee. It's not even worth the effort, literally why do you people WANT to suffer?
I will STAND BY the 100 splash dex entry for Magikarp bc its so funny. The optimal strat is just getting a team of magikarps, and then fighting random magikarps. Since both of yous are using Splash, its just an infinite battle with no damage taken. Only have to press splash 50 times bc the opponent magikarp is helping you out
10) I think it's great that GameFreak cut Gen 1 so much for once given the fact that Kanto is overdone and overfeatured in the Pokémon franchise to begin with. It's nice to see other generations get a bit of attention.
I agree. It’s nice not to have Gen.1 and Kanto obnoxiously shoved in our faces. I hope they take the same approach with Scarlet and Violet and keep the Gen.1 pandering to a minimum
@@HighlandOwl005 agreed, i mean we are still bound to see some gen 1 Pokémon in the gen 9 regional dex, but thats to be expected when we see Zubat once again, i mean there hasnt been a single region without Zubat...so expect it to be back
Kanto is the most beloved region of all! And the most important as well! I miss kanto Pokémon a lot in legends arceus. I hope things get better and Kanto Pokémon can get back the spotlight their deserve! And How can you make a game without Charizard? That is stupid
@@pedromonteiro2248 They’ve been getting that spotlight for the past 3 generations with megas, regional variant and Gigantamax forms and LGPE. It’s getting obnoxious and they need to give Kanto break. The nostalgia I had for Kanto is gone because of this
I think the reason the exp has changed to the end of the battle is so that people don't have the option of just throwing yourself at a battle over and over again and you'll eventually win. Unsure how I feel about it, there are so few traditional battles that I don't really mind. And evolution methods, I think they did them in a somewhat clever way. Taking Overqwil for example, Qwilfish's dex entry requires you to use barb barrage 40 times, and strong style moves 40 times. This means the most effective way to get it done, is to use strong style barb barrage. You need to do it 20 times for it to evolve. Clever way to have it where people can figure it out on their own. That being said, I agree. I think it'd be fine if the requirement was needing to use the signature move 20 times, but the fact that it has to be strong or agile style depending on the Pokémon definitely makes it too difficult to figure out, at least without a hint from an NPC along the way.
To address the former, why not come up with a compromise? EXP is still earned at the end of the battle, but either: 1. Fainted Pokémon only recieve the EXP of the opposing Pokémon they knocked out rather than the opponent's whole team, or... 2. Fainted Pokémon recieve half the usual EXP.
I heard an excuse for the lack of moves that it is in the "olden days" so pokemon haven't like learned/mastered everything yet which kinda makes sense but is still annoying
The exp system has me f'd up. The pokemon should earn exp immediately after defeating an enemy. Also like you said, the fact that the other Pokemon can attack you instantly after switching in is bs
I do agree with the perfect dex entries and I do have a suggestion for the 100 splash moves for magikarp. The move has 40pp so I battled another magikarp and used it till I had no moves left and since 2 magikarp wer using splash I got 80 seen in 1 battle. It did take about 10ish minutes but it honestly wasn't to bad. Now the feeding pokemon lol. I don't remember who but 50 or 100 time 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Earthquake removal makes sense because it was invented later by Giovanni, but not giving them a strong physical ground move like High Horsepower or Headlong Rush ? That was a mistake. Especially for Gliscor who has to rely on Aerial Ace as strongest flying stab.
@@reallynotsogoldenisopod EQ was removed because moves that interact with the environment and have AoE like that and Surf weren't convenient for Legends Arceus for both visual and gameplay balance reasons. Also, Ground type moves are OP in this game due to Levitate not existing. The lack of a strong and 100% accurate Ground move (except Headlong Rush which is exclusive of two mons) is likely to balance that.
About speed system. Sometimes when I switched pokemon after fainting, I was already greated by an attack from enemy pokemon, which results in 1 hit k.o. And so I was just wasting my pokemons in battles. Also, a small problem for me is lack of ability to automatically organize pokemon boxes. In comparison to main series games, it is very noticeable, because of the amount of pokemon players catches
In regards to the graphics, I also think it’s good to point out how all of the pokemon have been given better textures, too! Plant pokemon have veins on their leaves, reptilian and fish pokemon have scales, furry pokemon have furrier textures, and metalic pokemon reflect light like polished metal. I think the pokemon all look super good in this game, and the moves look excellent like you said. I think the reason I haven’t seen a single “this move animation is lazy!” Like we saw when swsh were new is because of how dynamic the battles are. You can move around and watch from different angles and your pokemon run up to the enemy to hit them with physical moves. It sucks that the whole game couldn’t be as visually pleasing as the pokemon and the battles are… I agree most of the graphics do look unfinished, and it’s always a worthwhile effort to try and make the game look better if possible, I just personally don’t mind all that much, especially considering that at least some stuff looks very good in my opinion. Good video tho, I think lots of the stuff you mentioned would be good things to fix in the future!
4:18 I actually like that experience is gained at the end of the battle cause it makes the battle feel more fair. Us constantly growing stronger during the battle while the A.I stays stagnant always kinda urked me a bit. Makes it feel a little cheap. I do however think a solution to this would be to possibly allow fainted pokemon to still gain experience at the end of the battle. However I feel they should make it so that fainted pokemon will only gain experience if they fainted during the battle itself(not if they were already fainted before the battle started).
The requests my biggest gripe with the game. They're the epitome of repetitive busy-work as expected of open world-type games. Find the guy's sister who's lost in each region. Get three of a specific material from each area to give to the old man. Don't even get me started on the Chimecho request, where all you do is walk to the quest marker, examine the house you're directed to, walk back to the old lady to get another quest marker, rinse and repeat.
Yeah, I would like some side quests to have more....permanent rewards, I guess. Even if some of them are trivial (if trivial then at least be charming!)
I mean, you dont have to do them. Important Ones like the shop inventory upgrades are usually super easy, and while the chimecho one is tedious its also totally optional and super cute so I dont mind it
My gripe with the moves are the fact you can't increase the amount of times that you can use them. The amount you can use them is all that you get. No PP Ups in the game. I also take issue with the the amount of moves in the game as for instance I used a Tangrowth on my team & the only grass type attacking moves it's able to use are Absorb & Energy Ball. The rest are all status inflicting moves. Like what the hell, you could've at least kept Vine Whip in the game but nope two attacking stab moves, THAT'S ALL IT GETS!
@@mbcmechachu It does seem like there is quite a bit of redundancy with the moves, I swear I have the same 10-15 moves spread across most of my pokemon. You can use those tablet things to expand move pools though right? I haven't tried that yet.
In regards to moves, my issue is that moves that normally hit multiple opponents only hit one in multi battles. Going 1vs3 I'd really like Rock Slide hitting all of them.
For the record only the ones in the beginning of the game are shiny locked you can find rowlet cyndaquil and oshawott in the wild in the post game as shiny so is it really that big of a deal
Number 10 SHOULD HAVE BEEN NO POSTGAME AREAS BECAUSE in PLA THERE ARE NO POSTGAME SETTLEMENTS OR AREAS Like Ruins, Dungeons TO EXPLORE in THE POSTGAME.
#7. Hard disagree on Wyrdeer and Overqwil evolutions not being told to you in-game. The dex gives you a hint in the form of two tasks that can be completed side-by-side.
@@CyberBlastoise it literally isn't because they *all* have stupid requirements for the pokedex. There's no 'hint' that it's required for evolution. Do you need to use Splash 100 times for magicrap to evolve?
Absolutely, Charizard is my favorite mon and I wanted it to be in the best pokemon game ever made (Might I add this is a joke, I understand that charizard has gotten a lot of special treatment and you don't need to tell me that)
Cut it out, Charizard has became lame now... He got all the love from people and devs, he has a G-max, 2 megas and he's in every Pokémon game including the ripoff Pokémon games, so it's a good thing that he is not here... And long story short, Charizard and Charizard simps are CRINGE
@@WHOooo.tao...yea.. this i can relate to, like the overrated orange lizard is my least favorite pokemon of all time, but I am SICK of the special treatment it's gotten and I hope it STAY'S out of gen 9, then again do that with the Kanto starter's too cause they could also use a break
I honestly enjoyed getting all my dex entries to level 10 as a fun challenge after completing the dex. I considered trying to get a “perfect” dex, until I saw what it would entail. That’s just beyond a challenge being fun- it’s making the game into a chore
The shiny locks and the moves issue is definitely something I agree with. Electrode’s movepool sucks already but it was actually somehow made worse in this game.. it still has no coverage, somehow. Normal, electric and grass moves is all it has.
@@43dl3ntil by why use that when electrode's attack stat is horrible at base 50 so it's not doing much, on the special side (cause it's sp.atk is better at 80) its got nothing
@@43dl3ntil yes ik it's the hisuian form, but im not kidding that the stats on the 2 forms are the exact same, so it's atk stat is still bad at 50 and it's sp.atk is below average at 80
I feel the same (also I really dislike the caution themes, only the alpha theme should remain but it happens constantly and it’s annoying hearing it every time you get spotted and replacing the area music)
My headcannon is that Heisuian forms like Ursaluna went extinct because they were so much a pain in the ass to evolve into that wild Pokemon over time just forgot how to evolve into them. Humans felt they were too tedious to get too, and just settled for their pre-evolutions.
I agree with you on the limited movepool. Taking Gliscor for instance, its best stab move is Earth Power which is pretty strong, but its a special move and no physical. Gliscors worst stat is its special attack as its a physical attacker and Gliscors only physical ground move is Bulldoze(which it only learns from tutoring). It doesn't even get Headlong Rush, the ground type equivalent of Close Combat in PLA, which would have been really good for it, but apparently GameFreak didn't give him that move. They give it other strong ground types, like Torterra and Ursaluna, but not Gliscor. Its really stupid.
Gliscor basically gets earthquake with bulldoze though, because even without agile stance moves like bulldoze will still guarantee that you get two attacks half the time
10) Fog off 9) Yeet 8) Van goht 7) Gotta go fast 6) They grow up so fast 5) SHINYYYYYY- 4) It evolves from Galarian Yamask when the player travels under the stone bridge in Dusty Bowl after Yamask takes at least 49 HP in damage (even if healed) without fainting. Taking damage from certain sources, such as self inflicted Curse damage or weather effects, does not contribute to the 49 HP damage requirement. 3) Imma shiny hunt 2) Loneliness 1) Dexit
I don't understand how someone can hold point 6 and 7 as a position at the same time. In 6 you state that the game shouldn't prevent the player from spending 100s-1,000s of hours to hunt for one shiny, but then in 7 you say evolution methods are tedious despite none of them in Legends Arceus taking longer than 30 minutes. The examples on screen that you show also make it rather confusing, as just 1 reset for a shiny starter in Legends Arceus (assuming they were not shiny locked and were shiny checked at the point where the player chooses which starter they get) would take longer to do than the time to evolve qwilfish and stantler combined AND still have time left over to throw in a basculin evolve.
Yea but the difference is that the player is the one choosing to shiny hunt, you dont get a choice in having to grind a specific move style to evolve And I say that as someone who doesnt see shiny locked starters as a problem and also doesnt mind weird evolution methods
@@dubiousdeliquite6641 But you can get every new evolve in the game without ever spamming its move. They just drop in massive mass outbreaks. And even before then, 3 of them you would get in the storyline including the qwilfish evolution without ever needing to evolve it. The game never required you to evolve them for complete dex, only for perfect dex.
@@TacetTheTerror yea but catching their pre-evolutions is still easier, especially if the player is the type to prefer catching something early-game and evolve it rather than just wait till its evolution is in the wild. Like I said I dont think the weird evolution methods are a problem, im just explaining how needing to grind to evolve something and choosing to grind for a special pokemon are different
Usually they shiny lock pokemon so they can do event distributions. What sucks about that is, half the time those events don't always extend beyond Japan. The other part that sucks is that, at least in the US, you have to go to a particular store to get it instead of just using mystery gift via online.
This is kinda nitpicky but it's kinda sad that a lot of my favourite pokemon were given the boot I think the ones that sting the most though are Cloyster and Crustle
4:22 it makes the battles faster and removes the uncomfortable times when a pokemon tries to learn a new move during a climactic battle. Honestly I don't know why this wasn't implemented years earlier.
in this game it doesn't ask you to choose moves to learn. It just says a sinlge sentance ''Your pokemon got a new idea for a move''. And this leveling up after battle needs to be removed in scarlet, violet
@@mystomew1268 honestly pausing after every KO to see how much exp you got plus any level ups with all the stat increases shown just slows battles down. It is much faster paced to just give it all in one go at the end. It is however annoying when you get KO’d and your Pokémon gets none despite doing all the work. I’m pretty sure however that exp is transferred to other party members though.
@@auulauul9328 but you'll get no exp if your pokemon faints mid-battle. Which is a huge disadvantage. If our pokemons gained exp even if it was fainted it would be better
I swear this battle system is horribly bugged as well. Game tells me the opponent will attack once after I use a certain move, but then it does said attack, after which it does another attack in agile style and finally does a third attack. So either the system is bugged or the computer is cheating.
It's very very likely that all things people's do not like on Legend Arceus won't be considered for Scarlet and Violet , because I'm almost sure they were being developed at the same time by different teams.
You know that in newer games you don’t need to breed to get perfect IV, just get a Pokémon lv100 and you can give it perfect IV with bottle caps (also in sword&shield it’s extremely easy to get to lv100) And for EV, use vitamin items.
I don't like the fact that the only city in the game is Jubilife Village, I mean, in the sinnoh games, is mentioned that Celestial Town is the oldest city in the sinnoh region, but it is not present in play, wich is weird, since Jubilife appears in both dppt and pla
aye, and hopefully the Kanto starters stay OUT for gen 9 (especially charizard, just keep that damn orange lizard out, i am so sick of seeing it, same with garbodor)
In regards to the fewer moves thing heracross has 4 stab moves. 4. Pin missile, megahorn, rock smash, and close combat. If you want something with more than 60 base power you either deal with shit accuracy or losing 25% of your defensive stats
Yeah, more middle of the road moves like Brick Break would've been appreciated. I like Rock Smash for the defense drop but damn, I find myself using it way more as a fighting type move than I ever had before.
@@LeoTheYuty You shouldn't expect developers to allow such strange way of playing. They made a game for you to purchase and start you journey. They don't want players to reset the game for two weeks and then start the adventure... You can get your shiny starter later or in a new playthrough, which makes much more sense
@@ELaster1 And you don't need to reset for two weeks if you don't want to. Player option has never been a bad thing in this series. Like with automatic xp share, Gamefreak is simply telling their players that they don't want any options, and that their way is best. Sure, some people may not care about shinies, so they can start as soon as they can. Allowing people to shiny hunt them is NOT the same as forcing them to.
@@LeoTheYuty Never said anything is forced, but it's obviously against their vision, and you can understand why. They made a game, they want you to play it.
@@ELaster1 And you can. But you could also get a shiny if you wanted. That's player choice, and it wasn't against their vision until they began making awful decisions like it in Gen 8.
Also not able to set your shiny photo of the pokemon in the pokedex when you catch it after you already register the pokemon already (SHINY HUNTERS YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN)
I have only 2 issues with this game The graphics could be better Certain Pokémon look so ugly it’s offensive Other than this is the most fun Pokémon game I have ever played
If abilities were in the game, Decidueye's hidden ability should have been Technician. Triple Arrow is good as is, so imagine it with 75 base power instead of 50
Don’t forget the fact that pokemon are EXTREMELY FRAIL. Like my level 40 Samurott was fighting a level 27 Staravia, and my Samurott died because it used an agile style aerial ace twice in a row. Didn’t even give me an opportunity to attack.
Honestly I'd say Trainer mons switching in attacking first feels more balanced since its not just you oneshotting mons after mons like in older gens while the opponent just switches in mons literally to die. But the EXP gain I agree with due to aforementioned reason.
It's bullshit is what it is. You are being punished for playing well. Why even have a speed stat if you can arbitrarily let another pokemon outspeed you on switch
1. The Fog - Agree 2. Pokeballs - Agree (My pokeball target circle is not covering (ex. tree) at all why is it hitting. If i am over the tree then it should hit the tree) 3. Graphics - If it is not affecting functionality of the game, idc They could be better, they could be worse All games have bugs.....deal with it? What more do you want from a story? Like seriously? Never understood and never will understand this gripe Catching Mons in water - It's annoying, ultimately it's hard to tell what actually is happening when the pokeball is thrown towards pokemon in the water but I agree that interaction should be fixed New Pokemon are New Pokemon?????? 4. In most pokemon games you are told what is about to be sent out by your opponent and are able to switch if you want to, in an actually pokemon battle you would not actually know that and based on a pokemon's speed it would probably definitely hit first and maybe multiple times. In game though it could feel unfair and I understand that 5. Agree- In an actual pokemon fight, exp would be gained as the pokemon is fighting 6. Agree - Additionally when they give shiny pokemon through way of gifts or specific events I would rather them put them in the game having to do some special task/tasks in order to encounter them as shiny or to be able to encounter and shiny hunt them 7. Well getting exp is what all pokemon need to evolve (save for items/stones) and that can be grindy if not for exp candies. So to make the certain conditions be a little grindy is not all that big of deal. It also reflects probably the pokemon lore wise or even anatomically actually making it kind of cool to have to evolve that way 8. Think of any of the pokemon professors in the anime and how they end up learning anything, they do it by repeating/grinding the same processes everyday 9. Agree 10. I agree with the moves, why leave them out? The idea though behind the pokemon being left out is that the more pokemon you put into the games, the less reason you actually have to put them in future games, because people already have them.
Nexomon Extinction found a solution to story legendaries is that after you catch them you can talk so someone who would let you release them and they'll act like roaming legendaries that you can use the murder method for and a chance to be shiny, they'll keep appearing until you catch them Pokemon should do the same for them
@@startheangel9760 That is very interesting. It would almost be like the Pal Park from gen 4 where you transfer Pokémon to the DS and then you can re-catch them
I am happy there is no Charizard. Also if you think about the story behind Pokémon Arceus, it is in the past, when people feared Pokémon, Poke balls where just invented. I mean if you look at it the culture of Pokémon battling was just starting out. People where skeptical about the poke balls. So Many moves would have been discovered much later, people would limit how much they used Pokémon's. And rather they didn't use them at all. Thus cutting moves do make sense, I mean when you start playing Pokémon Legends Arceus only team galaxy really has Poke balls so people where severely limited in the amount of Pokémon's they could train thus many moves might not be found out because of this limit. Remember if this was a game that was set in the present then yes it is an issue. and also don't forget the Pokémon professor writes all of the entries in the game. There isn't even talk about Pokémon leagues and an Pokémon association. And being only able to cary 6 Pokémon might be because of the limits of the Poke balls themselves and not rules. because it later became a rule.
The graphics for this game are better than sword and shield so, technically, they are making little improvements with the graphics, also, I don’t really care about the graphics, I overlook it most of the time so I don’t notice, so I am pretty tired of literally everyone complaining about the graphics
Pokemon researcher: I can't wait to see a Magikarp use splash 100 times. It will really help me understand how splash works.
It maybe arbitray to someone like us. Who has played pokemon like forever but i feel like for a pokemon researcher every move is worth learning about.
One of the many questions one can ask is
Is is a water tyoe move or normal type move?
Is it just a hop or a bounce.
Is there a greater impact while in water vs while on land
Is there a water like effect after the move is used.
Etc etc.
It's not even that bad to do. just use your own magikarp, against a wild one and you'll be done in like 5 minutes lol
@@sabercat5490 also "does it have a secret effect or does it truly do nothing?"
@@sabercat5490 clearly a joke made by someone at gamefreak
they asked you to do that for a hundredth time because the first 99 times still didn't produce any interesting research the professor decided during the post game to send gamefreak a letter asking why they cut 700 moves but left in a move that does absolutely fucking nothing
Don't forget Regigigas still has Slow Start, EVEN THOUGH there are no abilities, like come on give the guy a break
They just wanna fuck Up Reggiegigas for some reason
@@ryanred1525 i mean without slow start the Regigigas wouldn't be balanced and would be a beast. We all know this. Also lore wise it makes sense.
Ikr
@@sabercat5490 he move the continent for a damn reason
@@sabercat5490 Legendaries are supposed to be the strongest Pokemon in the game just look at Zacian
Legends Arceus added one item in particular that made me so happy. The Linking Cord. Please, Game Freak, do away with trade evolutions. I am an adult with no friends who play Pokemon, and I'd just like to be able to evolve all my Pokemon by myself. Please make the linking cord a permanent item.
Hard agree. It's so hard to just go "Well, lemme trade with a random person and hope they have a trade evolution to do too!" I don't use trade evo lines for this reason.
"Hmm, i really want to have a Gengar, but i need someone to trade this Haunter"
*trade with Stranger*
*Stranger doesn't want to trade back, run away with the Gengar*
Totally agree with this!
im pretty sure nobody trade evolve like they intended . they thought people would trade it and it will suddenly evolve then they would like wow. but now a days trade evolution work differently. people know this pokemon will evolve by trade. they trade with frd and then retrade it. which ruins whole point of trading.
thats understandable that nobody wanna grind a pokemon and then give to someone else, while knowing it got stronger when u send to them. it was quite fun finding how pokemon evolve , without internet.
but now its not worth it.
THIS!!! I'm a shy person and am nervous about talking to people so I've never been able to pull off trade evolutions with anyone other than my little brother or my best friend (and even then, I now live on my own, far away from both of them). So the Linking Cord and the lack of trade evolutions makes me so happy
I love the game but I still have a few issues
1) Inability to travel between areas, Its a bit annoying that I have to return to Jubilife village before setting out to another destination instead of being able to travel between areas directly.
2) Moves cannot hit multiple opponents. When you are being ganged up on by 3-4 Pokémon, moves like Earthquake & Surf that used to hit everyone would of been so useful in this game, but nope, you can only attack one at a time.
3) If the opponent gets to use multiple Pokémon at once why cant I? (Looking at you Ingo with Basculegion /Weirdeer / Kleavor)
4) Catching Pokemon while riding Basculegion feels janky at times
4 is more of a getting used to thing
Shiny locking is one of the dumbest things in Pokémon. And they shiny locked EVERY Legendary not to mention the starters. It just sucks especially when the gen 4 remakes had almost no shiny locks.
Hard to compare when 90% of bdsp code was just copy paste from dp
@@Loldino897 yeah. Honestly shiny locks are probably one of the few good things about bdsp being identical to dp.
The starters i can understand since there is breeding in most games although i get that people want to start the game with a shiny starter and not end it.
It makes sense that the legendaries are shiny locked.
And for the starters, Why would you even hunt them that way? There are already outbreaks of them in the post game
@@MfwPrivate Shiny hunting Legends is just fun and it sucks when we can’t hunt them. Doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make sense in lore because it’s just a fun extra. And some people just like to shiny hunt the starters at the beginning of the game so they can play through the whole thing with them. or maybe they just don’t enjoy the outbreak hunts or want to do it with the full odds. Shiny locking is dumb and it only gives players less options.
In regards to battling your friends, your character literally falls out of a wormhole. Least they could do is add something similar that takes you to the "Union room" of the Legends era
Best part of Legends Arceus... *NO FUCKING TRADE EVOLUTIONS LETS GOOOOO!*
of course...that is likely to return in Gen 9 cause idk if they plan on giving us the Link Cable to allow us to evolve trade evo's on our own
and being able to complete the pokedex by myself, godlike hahaha
I really miss the abilities. This is the biggest problem in regards to battling in my opinion. I don't mind the moves cut because this game happens in the far past, so the moves should be either "intrinsic" to the Pokemon or something a society with little experience with Pokemon battles could teach to the Pokemon
Abilities are confirmed in Pokemon Scarlett and Violet. Go on the website the Starters have there abilities listed.
For me personally the removal of abilites i see them not being there simply as in the past all pokemon didnt have abilities with the exception technically be Arceus and Regigigas. As time went on the pokemon obtained abilites as the "worlds" of both people and pokemon became more imtertwined. So they devolped them as a defence mechanism. With some abilites not being seen as abilites at first like blaze, chlorophyll, levatate and swift swim.
I personally think the lack of abilities works for this game.
I love the fact there no abilities as it reminded me of playing gen 1 but with more Pokémon. Like I’m using Pokémon I never used before cuz their abilities sucked. Like hippowdon.
@@sandywolfr26 dude hippowdon has an amazing ability. Sand stream is actually incredibly good and very few Pokémon have it. Sand teams essentially require you to run it or ttar. Even if it didn’t have sand stream, it has sand force which is still great on sand teams
The only major problems I have with PLA are the shortcomings of the Ride Pokémon:
Wyrdeer can be hard to control when using the dash, since I also have to keep adjusting the camera frequently.
Ursaluna can be annoying to use when searching for treasures, especially with how easy it is to lose a trail, how tedious it can be to find it again, how you can run past the spot, and the dance can be troublesome when in the vicinity of an aggressive Pokémon.
It's annoying how the game cycles to Basculegion when going through a literal puddle, and it can be hard to steer as well.
Sneasler is a bit too delayed when attaching or detaching from a climbing object but jumping onto a tree or rock instead of picking up the item right next to it is certainly the bigger drawback.
But Braviary is the one I have the biggest beef with. Firstly, who was the genius that decided to include a giant bird as a mount, but to then make it never be able to fly up in altitude ever, only down? It's because of this that has resulted in me cussing out the balloon races more times than I'd like to admit. Secondly, why can't we throw pokeballs when on Braviary? We have the means to now get close enough to the flying wild Pokémon to give them a kiss on the cheek, but we're still forced to toss (and miss, thus, waste) Feather, Wing, and Jet balls from random cliffs until we either catch them, run out, or give up.
My only problem is that Sneasler almost become useless when you get Braviary
I am shocked you didn’t mention catching Pokémon in water. I have wasted so many Poké Balls trying to catch H-Basculin it’s ridiculous.
yeah, basculin is one of the worst pokemon to catch because it is so miserable to get one...especially if its a shiny, i would know cause i had to to reset several times to catch a shiny
@@bulborb8756 I actually caught a shiny Basculin without even realizing it lol. Just throwing balls at everything that moved, only realized it was shiny when I went back to Laventon and saw the symbol on the report.
I know a lot of Pokemon have shinies that are extremely similar to the standard colour, but Basculin must be a bitch to shiny hunt. Just a slightly brighter shade of the standard colour, on a pokemon that can be hard to see before it's aggroed, with how finicky aiming at swimming pokemon can be. Perfect storm of inconvenience.
@@zeroattentiongaming820 Did you play with sound off? The only thing saving ppl from not catching bad shinies is the little jingle (although it's still painful to find the source of the sound)
@@mostlywholesome I usually have music or a show on in the background so I didn't notice it in that case. That said however, I also didn't know what it sounded like at that point.
Been playing since Gen 1 but before Legends the only shiny I ever encountered was the red Gyarados in Gen 2/4. Iirc that Basculin was the second or third shiny I found in Legends if you count the free Ponyta. Now that I've spent time shiny hunting in post game I know the sound, but back then I didn't even if I had heard it
he did
I'm gonna say this, the game kind of does give you clues to how to evolve Qwilfish and Stantler by looking at the Pokedex objectives, but it isn't clear enough
the ursaring evolution is complete bs, especially beause in many areas you can't even see the moon because of the clouds. Also the brick you need to give it has a description that clearly hints at a fire pokemon, but it's used for an earth bear. Very annoying
@@clemdelaclem It says it is a block of muddy material that is used as fuel for burning when it is dried out. That clearly hints that the thing is made of earth and mud. Even then you should have gotten the Ursaluna ride by the time you can get Teddiursa and Ursaring, and seeing its appearance and ability, you would be able to infer that Ursaring needs that item to evolve. But it takes a bit more inference to know that it needs to be a Full Moon in order to evolve it. It is tricky to figure that one out, but it is possible. Also considering the only renewable way to get a Peat Block is through Ursaluna is another hint.
I should say though with the recent Daybreak update and massive mass outbreaks, most of these difficult evolutions become a one-time thing since you can now catch these mons in the wild and usually only need to evolve one for the Pokedex
I think the main issue is how it's a very odd method, even more so that pokemon like Galarian yamask. Sure there are hints about them but it's methods that don't make much sense. It would have been much better to just have them evolve after learning the move, like how Yamega and Tangrowth are acquired.
Game freak understands that we have the internet at our fingertips. I looked up how to evolve qwilfish and you must use strong style barb barrage 20 times. This makes sense because the evolutions name is literally overqwil (overkill). I think it's hilarious and makes sense.
@@dorkenspache8353 boy, I didn't even get one till the post game, what are you talking about?
Personally for #7 I disagree, I kind of think its cool that certain pokemon have a mini-quest or some type of goofy and silly way to evolve like Alcremie, and Malamar. It just should give you a hint of how they evolve. I'd personally reduce the amount of times the move is needed to be used for those Hisuian evolutions, but to be fair a lot of evolving a pokemon is just leveling them up, if it would require enough experience to level them up just by using that move X times, then it's actually less of a grind.
reduce the number of times you have to use the move or even just provide better hints at the evolution method. unique and new evolution methods are always welcome, unless there's absolutely no way to figure them out.
in example: farfetch'd evolving after landing 3 crits in a battle is super neat method of evolution. one that could absolutely result in a cool moment for the player where their pokemon just suddenly evolves after likely doing well in battle. there just needs to be SOME way to figuring out those kinds of methods. unlocking more information on a pokemon such as how it might evolve by researching them would make a lot of sense
one can argue that both Wyrdeer and Overqwil have their evo methods hinted in their dex research missions, but yeah it's still pretty vagie
@@noireccentric6453 or if they are gonna have surprise evolutions like farfetched then they should make the original Pokemon not the worst
Sorta like a Scyther situation but with a surprise as to what it changes into cause of some random arbitrary thing
@@pickedceasar1216 yeah I could see that for sure
You know what I think would've looked AMAZING for the graphics in PLA that would've covered up the incomplete look? The textures/filters in the Valkyria Chronicles games that makes everything in the game look like a painting. It would've made this game that's meant to take hundreds of years in the past look the part even more than it already does. And I'm all for the unique evolution methods, but the amount of times you need to do it is tedious. Like, for Wyrdeer, I would've had it use Stantler's Pyshield Bash once in both agile and Stony style. It would've been unique, but not tedious.
That's clearly the style they were going for, I think they just didn't really know how to do it. Or how to do anti-aliasing.
@@10tailedbijuu I actually realized that, but there are other games that have done that to much greater success, ie okami.
Things you haven't put on your list that I would add:
11. Make night music diffrent for every area, like day music is. It gets tedious.
12. Give each area different wild battle theme to put it apart. Theme is awesome, but unique or remixed version would give each place more personality.
13. Change switching your riding Pokemon in some way so you don't have to take off your finger from stick to dpad to scroll through the list of Pokemon.
Wheel opened by clicking right stick would work much better.
14. Have a button map/layout for configuring your buttons. So I'm not stuck with a camera that likes to move on its own when I'm using Wyrdeer 😐
Very good additions by the way, I agree with everything you mentioned.
15. Limited pastures, WHY?
I think they wanted to repeat the success of magikarp and gyarados where u take a weaker Pokémon and put in actual effort and hard work and make the evolution feel earned
Finally, decent arguments that isnt just saying the game is the worst right as its announced like verlisify
We all know Verlisify is hot pile of "human" garbage.
@@sabercat5490 ?
@@skyesyd221 verlisify is credited as the person who made, quite possibly, the worst review on this game anyone has EVER seen.
@@anhilo9716 ok
Technically, the in game definition of wing and jet balls are that they are used better for flyers, like those mons that are flying over a particular portion of the map, and ONLY fly. I understand your frustration, but the game doesn’t ever tell you to use them like you’re using.
I like to think the reason why there are so many fewer moves is because this game isn’t focused on battles like the other games are. The main quest of this game is not to become champion, it’s to fill the Pokédex. Not only that, but this game is set hundreds of years before the actual Sinnoh games, so of course the battle system is going to be much different than it is today.
I don’t really mind looking stuff up to finish the game, so finding out about evolution stuff is not a problem for me.
Those are my only disagreements though.
You should be able to figure out how to do basic gameplay mechanics without google. The research did help with the evolutions in question, but a little more clarity wouldn’t have hurt.
They cut 700 moves because its 700 seperate animations. Thats alot.
I can understand that all the new evolutions needed a unique method to explain why they can't evolve in the present/why we haven't been seen them before. Some of these are still boring and/or weird af.
But, and this is where it gets weird, Eevee can evolve off a Leaf and I've Stone and I can only assume it does so with Sun/ Moon stones too... so how the devil does that now work in the modern day 🤔
@@jameslambert5198 wut
I guess the point of the limited Dex was sort of to show that these Pokémon are native to Hisui. Also like you said, it was probably to balance the research tasks. Imagine doing perfect research tasks on 900+ pokemon to get the shiny charm. The 200+ in the Dex currently is a bit much already considering how much you have to do.
yeah having to do all that minus the 22 mythical's would bring that down to 883....yeah no, i think not having the National Dex is just the safest thing by this point as it was going to happen eventually
@@bulborb8756 But not in a main game though.
@@nightshroud9671 This is a main game. And this is why I hate the National Dex - it's a ridiculous amount of work for a single charm that doesn't even outright guarantee a Shiny. Increases it, but not a guarantee. It's not even worth the effort, literally why do you people WANT to suffer?
@@vulpineflare8252 likely just to have the best odd's of finding a shiny, which tbh I can understand
@@bulborb8756 But why would you want to go through catching 905 Pokemon for those best odds vs just 242
I will STAND BY the 100 splash dex entry for Magikarp bc its so funny. The optimal strat is just getting a team of magikarps, and then fighting random magikarps. Since both of yous are using Splash, its just an infinite battle with no damage taken. Only have to press splash 50 times bc the opponent magikarp is helping you out
It’s pretty easy to get, just use your own magikarp against a wild magikarp
Thats a good point zoroark Master ill try that way next time :-)
@@noahnorris5830 that’s how I did it
Its still not fun tho
i swear they only did the "100 Splash" thing just as a joke
10) I think it's great that GameFreak cut Gen 1 so much for once given the fact that Kanto is overdone and overfeatured in the Pokémon franchise to begin with. It's nice to see other generations get a bit of attention.
I agree. It’s nice not to have Gen.1 and Kanto obnoxiously shoved in our faces. I hope they take the same approach with Scarlet and Violet and keep the Gen.1 pandering to a minimum
@@HighlandOwl005 agreed, i mean we are still bound to see some gen 1 Pokémon in the gen 9 regional dex, but thats to be expected when we see Zubat once again, i mean there hasnt been a single region without Zubat...so expect it to be back
Kanto is the most beloved region of all! And the most important as well! I miss kanto Pokémon a lot in legends arceus. I hope things get better and Kanto Pokémon can get back the spotlight their deserve!
And How can you make a game without Charizard? That is stupid
@@pedromonteiro2248 They’ve been getting that spotlight for the past 3 generations with megas, regional variant and Gigantamax forms and LGPE. It’s getting obnoxious and they need to give Kanto break. The nostalgia I had for Kanto is gone because of this
I think the reason the exp has changed to the end of the battle is so that people don't have the option of just throwing yourself at a battle over and over again and you'll eventually win. Unsure how I feel about it, there are so few traditional battles that I don't really mind.
And evolution methods, I think they did them in a somewhat clever way. Taking Overqwil for example, Qwilfish's dex entry requires you to use barb barrage 40 times, and strong style moves 40 times. This means the most effective way to get it done, is to use strong style barb barrage. You need to do it 20 times for it to evolve. Clever way to have it where people can figure it out on their own. That being said, I agree. I think it'd be fine if the requirement was needing to use the signature move 20 times, but the fact that it has to be strong or agile style depending on the Pokémon definitely makes it too difficult to figure out, at least without a hint from an NPC along the way.
To address the former, why not come up with a compromise? EXP is still earned at the end of the battle, but either:
1. Fainted Pokémon only recieve the EXP of the opposing Pokémon they knocked out rather than the opponent's whole team, or...
2. Fainted Pokémon recieve half the usual EXP.
I heard an excuse for the lack of moves that it is in the "olden days" so pokemon haven't like learned/mastered everything yet which kinda makes sense but is still annoying
The exp system has me f'd up. The pokemon should earn exp immediately after defeating an enemy. Also like you said, the fact that the other Pokemon can attack you instantly after switching in is bs
I do agree with the perfect dex entries and I do have a suggestion for the 100 splash moves for magikarp. The move has 40pp so I battled another magikarp and used it till I had no moves left and since 2 magikarp wer using splash I got 80 seen in 1 battle. It did take about 10ish minutes but it honestly wasn't to bad. Now the feeding pokemon lol. I don't remember who but 50 or 100 time 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Yeah that's ridiculous not counting that that can be just one Pokemon when many other Pokemon will have an average of being fed by 5-25 times
Snorlax and munchlax
it's lickitung X(
I definitely agree with no. 9. Poor Garchomp and Gliscor got nerfed big time thanks to the lack of Earthquake.
Earthquake removal makes sense because it was invented later by Giovanni, but not giving them a strong physical ground move like High Horsepower or Headlong Rush ? That was a mistake. Especially for Gliscor who has to rely on Aerial Ace as strongest flying stab.
@@reallynotsogoldenisopod EQ was removed because moves that interact with the environment and have AoE like that and Surf weren't convenient for Legends Arceus for both visual and gameplay balance reasons. Also, Ground type moves are OP in this game due to Levitate not existing. The lack of a strong and 100% accurate Ground move (except Headlong Rush which is exclusive of two mons) is likely to balance that.
@@LanzagranadasM79 i mean you say that...and yet we still have bulldoze and blizzard
About speed system. Sometimes when I switched pokemon after fainting, I was already greated by an attack from enemy pokemon, which results in 1 hit k.o. And so I was just wasting my pokemons in battles.
Also, a small problem for me is lack of ability to automatically organize pokemon boxes. In comparison to main series games, it is very noticeable, because of the amount of pokemon players catches
It's been confirmed by the devs the this is a main series game
@@King_EnderBrine they mean the more traditional style of games. hope that helps!
we also just need more box space in general for a game where catching pokemon can happen so quickly
In regards to the graphics, I also think it’s good to point out how all of the pokemon have been given better textures, too! Plant pokemon have veins on their leaves, reptilian and fish pokemon have scales, furry pokemon have furrier textures, and metalic pokemon reflect light like polished metal. I think the pokemon all look super good in this game, and the moves look excellent like you said. I think the reason I haven’t seen a single “this move animation is lazy!” Like we saw when swsh were new is because of how dynamic the battles are. You can move around and watch from different angles and your pokemon run up to the enemy to hit them with physical moves.
It sucks that the whole game couldn’t be as visually pleasing as the pokemon and the battles are… I agree most of the graphics do look unfinished, and it’s always a worthwhile effort to try and make the game look better if possible, I just personally don’t mind all that much, especially considering that at least some stuff looks very good in my opinion. Good video tho, I think lots of the stuff you mentioned would be good things to fix in the future!
4:18 I actually like that experience is gained at the end of the battle cause it makes the battle feel more fair. Us constantly growing stronger during the battle while the A.I stays stagnant always kinda urked me a bit. Makes it feel a little cheap. I do however think a solution to this would be to possibly allow fainted pokemon to still gain experience at the end of the battle. However I feel they should make it so that fainted pokemon will only gain experience if they fainted during the battle itself(not if they were already fainted before the battle started).
The requests my biggest gripe with the game. They're the epitome of repetitive busy-work as expected of open world-type games. Find the guy's sister who's lost in each region. Get three of a specific material from each area to give to the old man. Don't even get me started on the Chimecho request, where all you do is walk to the quest marker, examine the house you're directed to, walk back to the old lady to get another quest marker, rinse and repeat.
Yeah, I would like some side quests to have more....permanent rewards, I guess. Even if some of them are trivial (if trivial then at least be charming!)
@@razzdiamond6447 That’s another thing. The rewards in games like this tend to be stuff you can already find in other places, like materials or money.
@@thelastwindwaker7948 true 🤔
I mean, you dont have to do them. Important Ones like the shop inventory upgrades are usually super easy, and while the chimecho one is tedious its also totally optional and super cute so I dont mind it
My gripe with the moves are the fact you can't increase the amount of times that you can use them. The amount you can use them is all that you get. No PP Ups in the game. I also take issue with the the amount of moves in the game as for instance I used a Tangrowth on my team & the only grass type attacking moves it's able to use are Absorb & Energy Ball. The rest are all status inflicting moves. Like what the hell, you could've at least kept Vine Whip in the game but nope two attacking stab moves, THAT'S ALL IT GETS!
You gotta buy your moves from the red haired women bro!
@@otislloyd-zollinger2579 You think I didn't already do that? That's how I know those are the only moves it has for attack STAB.
@@mbcmechachu It does seem like there is quite a bit of redundancy with the moves, I swear I have the same 10-15 moves spread across most of my pokemon.
You can use those tablet things to expand move pools though right? I haven't tried that yet.
In regards to moves, my issue is that moves that normally hit multiple opponents only hit one in multi battles. Going 1vs3 I'd really like Rock Slide hitting all of them.
For the record only the ones in the beginning of the game are shiny locked you can find rowlet cyndaquil and oshawott in the wild in the post game as shiny so is it really that big of a deal
Some people just want to start their first journey of a new Pokémon game with a shiny.
i dont want a shiny cyndaquil. i want a starter shiny cyndaquil to have for my entire journey. it matters.
@@goofballjim6167 fair enough
@@justcallmedaddy6977 fair enough
@@justcallmedaddy6977 It really doesn't bro it's the same pokemon and the same palette swap
Number 10 SHOULD HAVE BEEN NO POSTGAME AREAS BECAUSE in PLA THERE ARE NO POSTGAME SETTLEMENTS OR AREAS Like Ruins, Dungeons TO EXPLORE in THE POSTGAME.
i wait for the day a pokemon game where the
Main character files every pokemons taxes
Underrated
#7. Hard disagree on Wyrdeer and Overqwil evolutions not being told to you in-game. The dex gives you a hint in the form of two tasks that can be completed side-by-side.
That's not a hint
@@Masckerdoom it literally is but go off.
@@CyberBlastoise it literally isn't because they *all* have stupid requirements for the pokedex. There's no 'hint' that it's required for evolution. Do you need to use Splash 100 times for magicrap to evolve?
@@SharpWits2013 that's definitely an unflawed unidiotic argument.
@@SharpWits2013 at least go with Ursaluna's that has no actual hints or Kleavor's. Then you would have a point.
Absolutely, Charizard is my favorite mon and I wanted it to be in the best pokemon game ever made
(Might I add this is a joke, I understand that charizard has gotten a lot of special treatment and you don't need to tell me that)
Oh no, how dare they not add Charizard. Not like he hasn't gotten 2 megas, 1 Gmax form, a Regi, etc
@@4569packers he doesn't have a regi yet
WE NEED REGIZARD
I mean, charizard has gotten way too much exposure. He needs a break, I don't want him getting more exposure.
Cut it out, Charizard has became lame now...
He got all the love from people and devs, he has a G-max, 2 megas and he's in every Pokémon game including the ripoff Pokémon games, so it's a good thing that he is not here...
And long story short, Charizard and Charizard simps are CRINGE
@@WHOooo.tao...yea.. this i can relate to, like the overrated orange lizard is my least favorite pokemon of all time, but I am SICK of the special treatment it's gotten and I hope it STAY'S out of gen 9, then again do that with the Kanto starter's too cause they could also use a break
I honestly enjoyed getting all my dex entries to level 10 as a fun challenge after completing the dex. I considered trying to get a “perfect” dex, until I saw what it would entail. That’s just beyond a challenge being fun- it’s making the game into a chore
I'm trying for the perfect on first play threw, lol. Half way so far 68 hrs in it.
The shiny locks and the moves issue is definitely something I agree with. Electrode’s movepool sucks already but it was actually somehow made worse in this game.. it still has no coverage, somehow. Normal, electric and grass moves is all it has.
No mine has ice ball
@@43dl3ntil by why use that when electrode's attack stat is horrible at base 50 so it's not doing much, on the special side (cause it's sp.atk is better at 80) its got nothing
@@bulborb8756 Hisuian* electrode
@@43dl3ntil yes ik it's the hisuian form, but im not kidding that the stats on the 2 forms are the exact same, so it's atk stat is still bad at 50 and it's sp.atk is below average at 80
They took out earthquake
Now every physical ground type isn't as good,
I can't shred with garchomp
I feel the same (also I really dislike the caution themes, only the alpha theme should remain but it happens constantly and it’s annoying hearing it every time you get spotted and replacing the area music)
Volo’s fight. Just…Volo’s fight. And the Giritina that follows it.
I know everyone wants all 1000 Pokémon in the next game but honestly I’d take 250-500 at start and then add more with DLC
I really like how easy it is to get money in Legends Arceus because in other games I often go to the store to buy pokeballs, then find out I’m broke.
To go on with weird evolution requirements. That one Manaphy quest where your only hint is... in an entirely different game. Like bruh
Ngl, I just want pokemon following again
Just for evry game moving forward
@@entropy._boy well tbh this is a feature that seems to come and go at random times
My headcannon is that Heisuian forms like Ursaluna went extinct because they were so much a pain in the ass to evolve into that wild Pokemon over time just forgot how to evolve into them. Humans felt they were too tedious to get too, and just settled for their pre-evolutions.
Charizard not being in Legends Arceus is far from a problem, its about time he didn't got any attention.
That’s kinda like pikachu being cut oh wait
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Weeell Pikachu is the Pokemon mascot so he makes more sense to be in every game than Charizard.
@@virtualcolt he wasn’t in gen 5
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You could transfer him in... that counts. Any game where you can transfer a Pokemon in, that means the Pokemon is in the game.
@@virtualcolt that’s more in the technical side
I agree with you on the limited movepool. Taking Gliscor for instance, its best stab move is Earth Power which is pretty strong, but its a special move and no physical. Gliscors worst stat is its special attack as its a physical attacker and Gliscors only physical ground move is Bulldoze(which it only learns from tutoring). It doesn't even get Headlong Rush, the ground type equivalent of Close Combat in PLA, which would have been really good for it, but apparently GameFreak didn't give him that move. They give it other strong ground types, like Torterra and Ursaluna, but not Gliscor. Its really stupid.
Gliscor basically gets earthquake with bulldoze though, because even without agile stance moves like bulldoze will still guarantee that you get two attacks half the time
The fact that u might have to fight 4 wild pokemon in a battle and can not send out another pokemon to support is just bullying
What did he mean when he said: "they made it (100% completion pokedex) even harder with the newest update!"?
the Solo challenge battle thing back in town where you go through a series of fights only using 1 certain Pokémon
There is no Charizard
Did I mention there was no Charizard??
As long as I don’t have to trade a Pokémon with an item, I’m perfectly happy with spamming agile stile moves to be honest.
3:00 Again with the f**king trees!
We'll stop complaining when they learn how to make a good tree, we're in 2022 for Arceus sake
10) Fog off
9) Yeet
8) Van goht
7) Gotta go fast
6) They grow up so fast
5) SHINYYYYYY-
4) It evolves from Galarian Yamask when the player travels under the stone bridge in Dusty Bowl after Yamask takes at least 49 HP in damage (even if healed) without fainting. Taking damage from certain sources, such as self inflicted Curse damage or weather effects, does not contribute to the 49 HP damage requirement.
3) Imma shiny hunt
2) Loneliness
1) Dexit
I don't understand how someone can hold point 6 and 7 as a position at the same time. In 6 you state that the game shouldn't prevent the player from spending 100s-1,000s of hours to hunt for one shiny, but then in 7 you say evolution methods are tedious despite none of them in Legends Arceus taking longer than 30 minutes.
The examples on screen that you show also make it rather confusing, as just 1 reset for a shiny starter in Legends Arceus (assuming they were not shiny locked and were shiny checked at the point where the player chooses which starter they get) would take longer to do than the time to evolve qwilfish and stantler combined AND still have time left over to throw in a basculin evolve.
Yea but the difference is that the player is the one choosing to shiny hunt, you dont get a choice in having to grind a specific move style to evolve
And I say that as someone who doesnt see shiny locked starters as a problem and also doesnt mind weird evolution methods
@@dubiousdeliquite6641 But you can get every new evolve in the game without ever spamming its move. They just drop in massive mass outbreaks. And even before then, 3 of them you would get in the storyline including the qwilfish evolution without ever needing to evolve it. The game never required you to evolve them for complete dex, only for perfect dex.
@@TacetTheTerror yea but catching their pre-evolutions is still easier, especially if the player is the type to prefer catching something early-game and evolve it rather than just wait till its evolution is in the wild. Like I said I dont think the weird evolution methods are a problem, im just explaining how needing to grind to evolve something and choosing to grind for a special pokemon are different
I agree with the 100% accurate moves
Do U agree 100%???🤔
@@DreamDevilsMultiverseOfMadness kindof
I don’t understand why you can’t catch a pokemon from far away, what’s the point of jet balls then?
Fun fact: Drifblim learns no flying type moves at all despite being flying type
Usually they shiny lock pokemon so they can do event distributions. What sucks about that is, half the time those events don't always extend beyond Japan. The other part that sucks is that, at least in the US, you have to go to a particular store to get it instead of just using mystery gift via online.
This is kinda nitpicky but it's kinda sad that a lot of my favourite pokemon were given the boot
I think the ones that sting the most though are Cloyster and Crustle
Crustle is gen5 so it makes sense he’s not in LA.
@@Zoroark_Master 2 pokemon i can think of that are gen 5+ in PLA: zoroark and the bergmite line
@@briftdoard because they got brand new forms
@@briftdoard there where other pokemon from gen 5 and later in the game with lilligant, goodra, samurott, decidueye, braviary and basculin
@@bulborb8756 oh yeah duh forgot lol
If arceus wasn't shiny locked, hunting it would be hell
4:22 it makes the battles faster and removes the uncomfortable times when a pokemon tries to learn a new move during a climactic battle. Honestly I don't know why this wasn't implemented years earlier.
in this game it doesn't ask you to choose moves to learn. It just says a sinlge sentance ''Your pokemon got a new idea for a move''. And this leveling up after battle needs to be removed in scarlet, violet
@@mystomew1268 It's still a little faster, a little closer to competitive, and explains why other trainers don't level up in battle.
@@mystomew1268 honestly pausing after every KO to see how much exp you got plus any level ups with all the stat increases shown just slows battles down. It is much faster paced to just give it all in one go at the end. It is however annoying when you get KO’d and your Pokémon gets none despite doing all the work. I’m pretty sure however that exp is transferred to other party members though.
The problem isn’t simply they don’t get the exp during battle. Pokemon don’t get any if they’re fainted after the battle.
@@auulauul9328 but you'll get no exp if your pokemon faints mid-battle. Which is a huge disadvantage. If our pokemons gained exp even if it was fainted it would be better
I swear this battle system is horribly bugged as well. Game tells me the opponent will attack once after I use a certain move, but then it does said attack, after which it does another attack in agile style and finally does a third attack.
So either the system is bugged or the computer is cheating.
Who the f*ck wants a competitive meta to legends Arceus [like it would be cool i guess] but still why
@ the evolution thing, the game DOES hint at the new PLA evolutions in the pokedex. except maybe the ursaluna lol
“Overworld encounters”
Pokemon sword: excuse me what
You can't kiss Adaman and Arezu
There, that's it
Common make a discord server everyone wants it
Don't forget for the first time since Generation 1 with the 1 in 256 glitch this game you can miss 100% accurate moves
Let’s remember: Just because something has a few issues here and there, doesn’t mean it is bad
We know.
no charizard is great tho
fuck that lizard
The thing about the number 4 with the trainer's being able to attack is that we literally get the same advantage
Best Pokemon game since BW2
I agree
It's very very likely that all things people's do not like on Legend Arceus won't be considered for Scarlet and Violet , because I'm almost sure they were being developed at the same time by different teams.
Maybe gen 10 will fix it
2:06 the wing and feather balls are needed for FLYING pokemons.
You know that in newer games you don’t need to breed to get perfect IV, just get a Pokémon lv100 and you can give it perfect IV with bottle caps (also in sword&shield it’s extremely easy to get to lv100)
And for EV, use vitamin items.
I don't like the fact that the only city in the game is Jubilife Village, I mean, in the sinnoh games, is mentioned that Celestial Town is the oldest city in the sinnoh region, but it is not present in play, wich is weird, since Jubilife appears in both dppt and pla
Nah, Charizard not being it is a highlight. Let other Pokemon shine for once
aye, and hopefully the Kanto starters stay OUT for gen 9 (especially charizard, just keep that damn orange lizard out, i am so sick of seeing it, same with garbodor)
“Don’t shiny lock the starters” Gamefreak: 5 minutes cutscene go brrrrrr
good video :)
In regards to the fewer moves thing heracross has 4 stab moves. 4. Pin missile, megahorn, rock smash, and close combat. If you want something with more than 60 base power you either deal with shit accuracy or losing 25% of your defensive stats
Yeah, more middle of the road moves like Brick Break would've been appreciated. I like Rock Smash for the defense drop but damn, I find myself using it way more as a fighting type move than I ever had before.
@@razzdiamond6447 instead in this game, the "middle ground" fighting move ended up being Drain Punch
This is Amazing!!!!! 👏
I don’t understand why people say Arceus is their favorite Pokémon game, but I’ll still respect their opinion on it.
I just wanna say that shiny locking starters makes SO MUCH sense.
Explain.
@@LeoTheYuty You shouldn't expect developers to allow such strange way of playing. They made a game for you to purchase and start you journey. They don't want players to reset the game for two weeks and then start the adventure... You can get your shiny starter later or in a new playthrough, which makes much more sense
@@ELaster1 And you don't need to reset for two weeks if you don't want to. Player option has never been a bad thing in this series. Like with automatic xp share, Gamefreak is simply telling their players that they don't want any options, and that their way is best. Sure, some people may not care about shinies, so they can start as soon as they can. Allowing people to shiny hunt them is NOT the same as forcing them to.
@@LeoTheYuty Never said anything is forced, but it's obviously against their vision, and you can understand why. They made a game, they want you to play it.
@@ELaster1 And you can. But you could also get a shiny if you wanted. That's player choice, and it wasn't against their vision until they began making awful decisions like it in Gen 8.
Also not able to set your shiny photo of the pokemon in the pokedex when you catch it after you already register the pokemon already (SHINY HUNTERS YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN)
I have only 2 issues with this game
The graphics could be better
Certain Pokémon look so ugly it’s offensive
Other than this is the most fun Pokémon game I have ever played
I actually enjoy that they didn't add the online battling feature to Legends Arceus 😅
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congrats you’re first
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@@cyndaquil0155 so?it's not an achievement
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If abilities were in the game, Decidueye's hidden ability should have been Technician. Triple Arrow is good as is, so imagine it with 75 base power instead of 50
actually I think from miners, it's hidden ability is still Long Reach....meaning it's hidden ability is useless due to how situational it is
Don’t forget the fact that pokemon are EXTREMELY FRAIL. Like my level 40 Samurott was fighting a level 27 Staravia, and my Samurott died because it used an agile style aerial ace twice in a row. Didn’t even give me an opportunity to attack.
Honestly I'd say Trainer mons switching in attacking first feels more balanced since its not just you oneshotting mons after mons like in older gens while the opponent just switches in mons literally to die. But the EXP gain I agree with due to aforementioned reason.
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Hard disagree on this one, hope they dont bring this battle style to scarlet and violet, I really hated it
It's bullshit is what it is. You are being punished for playing well. Why even have a speed stat if you can arbitrarily let another pokemon outspeed you on switch
People worried about the wrong things like who gives a fuck about tree textures while you’re playing Pokémon
1. The Fog - Agree
2. Pokeballs - Agree (My pokeball target circle is not covering (ex. tree) at all why is it hitting. If i am over the tree then it should hit the tree)
3. Graphics - If it is not affecting functionality of the game, idc
They could be better, they could be worse
All games have bugs.....deal with it?
What more do you want from a story? Like seriously? Never understood and never will understand this gripe
Catching Mons in water - It's annoying, ultimately it's hard to tell what actually is happening when the pokeball is thrown towards pokemon in the water but I agree that interaction should be fixed
New Pokemon are New Pokemon??????
4. In most pokemon games you are told what is about to be sent out by your opponent and are able to switch if you want to, in an actually pokemon battle you would not actually know that and based on a pokemon's speed it would probably definitely hit first and maybe multiple times. In game though it could feel unfair and I understand that
5. Agree- In an actual pokemon fight, exp would be gained as the pokemon is fighting
6. Agree - Additionally when they give shiny pokemon through way of gifts or specific events I would rather them put them in the game having to do some special task/tasks in order to encounter them as shiny or to be able to encounter and shiny hunt them
7. Well getting exp is what all pokemon need to evolve (save for items/stones) and that can be grindy if not for exp candies. So to make the certain conditions be a little grindy is not all that big of deal. It also reflects probably the pokemon lore wise or even anatomically actually making it kind of cool to have to evolve that way
8. Think of any of the pokemon professors in the anime and how they end up learning anything, they do it by repeating/grinding the same processes everyday
9. Agree
10. I agree with the moves, why leave them out? The idea though behind the pokemon being left out is that the more pokemon you put into the games, the less reason you actually have to put them in future games, because people already have them.
it’s better than swsh and bdsp easily
If gamefreak wants to continue shiny-locking for story purposes, at least make it so the first encounter ONLY is shiny-locked and not the entire time
Nexomon Extinction found a solution to story legendaries is that after you catch them you can talk so someone who would let you release them and they'll act like roaming legendaries that you can use the murder method for and a chance to be shiny, they'll keep appearing until you catch them Pokemon should do the same for them
@@startheangel9760 That is very interesting. It would almost be like the Pal Park from gen 4 where you transfer Pokémon to the DS and then you can re-catch them
I am happy there is no Charizard. Also if you think about the story behind Pokémon Arceus, it is in the past, when people feared Pokémon, Poke balls where just invented. I mean if you look at it the culture of Pokémon battling was just starting out. People where skeptical about the poke balls. So Many moves would have been discovered much later, people would limit how much they used Pokémon's. And rather they didn't use them at all. Thus cutting moves do make sense, I mean when you start playing Pokémon Legends Arceus only team galaxy really has Poke balls so people where severely limited in the amount of Pokémon's they could train thus many moves might not be found out because of this limit. Remember if this was a game that was set in the present then yes it is an issue. and also don't forget the Pokémon professor writes all of the entries in the game. There isn't even talk about Pokémon leagues and an Pokémon association. And being only able to cary 6 Pokémon might be because of the limits of the Poke balls themselves and not rules. because it later became a rule.
It’s old sinnoh so the cut Pokémon makes sense
As much as I love hunting, shinys are way way too easy
The graphics for this game are better than sword and shield so, technically, they are making little improvements with the graphics, also, I don’t really care about the graphics, I overlook it most of the time so I don’t notice, so I am pretty tired of literally everyone complaining about the graphics