1:05:15 I'd just like to point out that Xenoblade Chronicles had a day/night cycle and its cutscenes not only took into account the time of day, but also the weather. And it was released back in 2010. For the Wii. GameFreak has no excuses.
My sister played this game with an all fairy team, wearing all pink clothes. You can imagine the disappointment when there was no special line from Opal and she simply "wasn't her type" like girl what do you want.
I literally did the exact same thing. Even gave my Grimmsnarl 'Max Soup'. I was thoroughly disappointed when she said my hot pink outfit wasn't pink enough and gave Bede the position. But it did feel good to crush him in the Pokemon league🥂
@@Kekira it’s not even that. Even Call of Duty includes new gimmicks in their installments, and even manages to keep them in for a few of titles. (Wall running, acrobatics, and exoskeletons existed for a few games at least) Pokémon is throwing away mechanics that most people loved like walking with your team, and introduce things like permanent experience sharing that nobody asked for. It’s an honest shame.
Although you're right, gamefreak themselves are probably seeing only a bit of the money, as most of it is just merchandise, and pokemon games are just advertisement for all the merch so they don't care that much. Does it justify ? ABSOLUTELY NOT ! Does it make sense ? Yes, and it's really sad that it does. Oddly though the fans are to blame too, this game sold faster than mario and Zelda even though it's INFINITELY worse than them. If you like pokemon give Shin Megami Tensei V a chance, it's coming November this year, it's basically pokemon but actually well made.
I just realised something. "with the future proof models" That is why pokemon disappear at a certain distance. It is the models. You see: You normally produce models at differing resolutions. Basically reducing the polygon count by removing details. That way you get a model that can be loaded when you observe something at larger distances. And finally reducing that to basic shapes for extreme distances. Take a dice for example. The three models would be: 1) High poly. Rounded corners, inset dots. Used for closeups. 2) Mid poly. Slightly rounded corners, dots painted on using Normal Maps (illusion of depth comes from the normal map). Used for mid range. 3) Low poly. Basically a straight up cube with the dots painted on. Used for wide range. The models, which caused slowdown for the 3DS are the high poly ones. And back then: This could not be fixed by loading a mid range model because: They do not exist. Why should there? There were no Pokemon in the open world. There are only High Poly models. That is why pokemon can not be loaded from a distance. Because then multiple pokemon could be seen and due to the high poly count: it would cause a slowdown. Meaning these models were unfit for an "open world" style game. And Gamefreak did not give the team enough time to produce low-poly versions of each pokemon. Which is why they had to use this work-around. Gamefreak had their devs skip an important step in optimisation because they wanted to rush the game out.
But the future proof models aren't even high poly models. I haven't downloaded them, but looking at the wire frame, it really doesn't look that bad. My assumption is that they aren't using optimization techniques correctly or at all. I mean, that scene with the group of people that drops frames like they're made of lava is just embarrassing. My assumption is that they weren't using occlusion to de-render all of the objects not in frame. That, and they likely don't scale animation framerate or texture resolution with distance. Meaning if they wanted a field full of Pokémon, they'd all be animated at max framerate with their normal texture resolution. Which would obviously tank performance. I can't say what it is exactly that they're doing wrong, but they're certainly doing something(s) wrong. In my humble opinion, it all boils down to a lack of care. The higher-ups just don't care, and that is reflected in the product they produce. Which I think is evident from the lifeless environment and textures. There's no excuse for the dirt and grass textures to be desaturated and lifeless. That's a simple issue that could be fixed by a teenager with Photoshop, much less a team of professional artists and coders who make their own shaders. It's just a careless and silly issue to have.
@@Edward-Not-Elric "I haven't downloaded them, but looking at the wire frame, it really doesn't look that bad. " You have to consider that the GPU inside of the switch is on paar with a GTX 260 (no: not the 2060. The 260. From 15 years ago) then "high poly" is relative. For the hardware the games were on (the 3DS and Switch) a model with 7000 tris is considered "high poly". (For reference: Tyranitar has 7352 tris)
@@Edward-Not-Elric "In my humble opinion, it all boils down to a lack of care. The higher-ups just don't care, and that is reflected in the product they produce. Which I think is evident from the lifeless environment and textures. " 100% agree. And the sad thing is that it works. The Executives do not get as much flack as the devs, while the game sells reasonably well. Meaning: We will get more 2fps windmills and plain plains in the future ... because it worked out for them.
@Bass-D C I understand that the switch is an underpowered system, but considering the cavalcade of games that are more graphically and technically intense that are already on switch and playing at 30fps kind of disproves that theory, I think. Especially considering a game like Fortnite runs pretty decently at 30fps with a bunch of 7k~ poly characters on screen at once and all of the extra buildings with scripts attached to each destructible square and prop. Not to mention the physics on items that can be knocked around by certain weapons. Things like that, Warframe, Paladins, etc, really make me wonder what they did to have so much trouble running that game on switch. Unfortunately, I have no way of finding out since Gamefreak won't ever make a "What Went Wrong" GDC talk about any of their games, so I'm left to wonder. Though a more experienced coder might tell by ripping the game and pulling it apart.
@Bass-D C It really is an incredibly unfortunate reality for modern gaming. Established companies basically can't fail and so are rewarded for putting the least amount of money and effort into a game that they can get away with. Minimize spending, maximize profits. Creativity and fun be damned lol.
I sure love Piers rythm, the way he stomped while emiting no other sound whatsoever really struck my heart. No electric guitars needed to accompany his show, no drums, nothing. State of the art.
@@maister482 Internet and sarcasm doesn't mix well, especially with hot topics like this that you don't know if statements like these are crazy defenses or sarcasm towards those defenses, hehe.
team skull even had their theme song with the random rap lyrics thrown in ("uh uh, skull!!", "kokoro-ko-kokoro", etc.) to give them some personality. team yell is just... nothing. ugh. (dont kill me sun/moon are two of my favourite entries 😭 not all-time, but i have a soft spot for them)
@@robertlupa8273 Do you know 'Hbomberguy' and his newest video, which is a humorous Essay about Vaccines? Or his other videos about entirely different topics? A bit random? Yeah, sure, but i would want someone to recommend it to Me if i didnt knew it, soooo...
@@thegreatmajora5089 Correct. And they'd rather not put any effort to fix it, and just act as if it is intentional, but there is no sense for it to be so.
I did a nuzlocke at one point before the DLC came out, and a Clefable used Metronome and it got Blue Flare, a move only Reshiram could use. So all the coded Pokemon and moves for the DLC were already in the game, but it was just inaccessible. Wow.
You know what’s hilarious? Eternatus has the same catch rate as a freaking *caterpie.* Both have 255 as catch rate So Leon was right in throwing that Pokeball
From Bulbapedia: "If the player has no Poké Balls when they are prompted to capture Eternatus, one will appear in their bag. It is also the first Legendary Pokémon that can be caught with any Poké Ball without the chance of failing."
I used the Gen 8 Catch Rate Calculator, and it gets even crazier If your Pokemon is the same level as eternatus or higher, you can catch Eternatus with a regular Pokeball, at full health with 44% chance of success. So you didnt even have to battle it
I remember all the memes that were made before this game came out. From the Scottish trainer, to corgis being pokemon, to the final battle being against the Queen and her army of corgis. That game would have been so much better then this.
Having constant clipping between models in this age is like having a movie show the camera man every time a reflection is on screen. We have ways to solve the problem and it should be common knowledge to anyone making the media
Funny thing, around 2:20:00 you start talking about Pokerus. I remember back when X and Y first came out one of my pokemon caught Pokerus on the very first day after the release. My buddy and I hung out that day so we could play together, and I remember he freaked out a little bit when I showed him one of my mons with pokerus. Can't remember what first had it, sadly. Anyway I traded something with it to him so he could get it, and then he posted about it online somewhere and we started giving it out to other people and spreading it further with wondertrade. No idea if it's entirely true but we've always joked that I was patient zero for the 6th generation strain of Pokerus.
@@charliez077 P! O! K! E! M! ON! POKEMON! The best part about that was how the music lost instrumentals and the Male vocals as you defeated the gym trainers.
@@charliez077 I loved that because there are actually multiple versions of her singing. In the Japanese version she sings D! O! G! A! R! S! DOGARS!(Koffing in Japanese, her favourite Pokemon)
Was that intentional? Giving Sonia an actual voice would have cleared that up. Just another reason why there should have been voice acting in this game.
wait, isn't she? people need to try and interpret it like that? well color me impressed i though it was the whole idea of her character, being an annoying chat-box for plot points, jeez.
I always found it hilarious that the player character was the only person in the entire world that took advantage of all 6 pokemon slots, like why does almost every trainer have 1-2 pokemon at most, and why are 90% of them exactly the same 5 pokemon over and over?
If this was really a Pokémon video you would have sold each of the first parts separately with stuff removed and then released this version a year later with all the stuff that should’ve been in the original separate parts as well as minor improvements.
You have to subscribe to his patreon to get the alternate version of the review, where he plays a copy of pokemon sword instead, where he says all of the same exact things but occasionally mentions a Pokémon Sword exclusive thing. 10 minutes of different content.
I will say it did give me a chance to have to replay the region without resetting a game (I try to complete Pokedexes so it's hard to do that) but Pokemon really should have multiple save files now (that's not loopholed with Switch).
I love Pokémon, and it's so hard to read any comment section of any of their ads because the simps for the game will always be far louder than anyone who has valid/constructive criticism.
My favourite part is when people say that the reason long term Pokémon fans don't like these games is nostalgia for the old ones or that they grew up. I never played a single Pokémon game and now I'm playing the DS ones (Black and Platinum) as a 30-year old and I think it would be embarrassing to even try to compare the new ones to them because of how hollow, plastic and rushed they are. It's not nostalgia or age, it's just that the older fans can easily tell that all the passion and dedication that used to be there is completely gone.
Exactly platinum and b2w2 u can tell how much passion they had not just story wose but gameplay wise too usum was the last one after that some were decent scarlet and violet is getting there but the gameplay sucks and buggy
It seems they're struggling trying to innovate in the age of the more advanced 3D. If we look at SSH and then Legends and then SV, it's an improvement. But i think we're also at a point where the Switch itself is too underpowered and their game catridges too small to support more ambitions.
One more thing that may interest you: The Pokémon removed in Sword & Shield apparently still appear in the Sword & Shield anime Why is this relevant? Well, imagine being a kid, seeing a Pokémon you like in the anime, so you pester your parents to get you the game Then, when you get it and play through it, you find out they're not in the bloody thing!
This is a good point, I felt cheated as a kid not being able to get gen 2 pokemon when they appeared in the anime, couldn't imagine watching the anime and still seeing gen 2 pokemon I can't catch in the current version.
People tried defending the national dex cut by saying "there are too many Pokemon, they can't fit all of them" and then the game came out and it used 10 of the 32 gigabytes available on a Switch cartridge. I enjoyed playing Sword and Shield, but these games are flawed beyond belief.
I can accept that the full Dex is getting excessively large. But cutting it in the first home console installation, when there's more room on the cartridge and less room taken up with the world's size and animations, it's fucking stupid.
@@FallingPicturesProductions Technically its the second home console release, the first being Pokemon xd gale of darkness on the Gamecube. Also as a quick aside that name is dripping so much mid 2000s edge that Shadow the Hedgehog and Fallout: Brotherhood of steel are telling it to go get its corners sanded.
Real Talk: Ya know what got me really annoyed by SwSh? The fact that it had a lighthouse that was tiny and not even accessable! Yet Gen 2 on the GBC had a huge one which was a dungeon
I hate how they just placed one of those rope things in front of the door. Or I think route 2 where they show you one of Rose’s factories but you can’t even go in let alone walk to it.
@@elcocho1568 Ah the Route 2 Factory didn't bother me as much. Like Pre Ordering a Bethesda title. I learnt and now I can't be annoyed, just disappointed xD
The UK has a rich story of sailors and sea faring. Better make the water gym leader a pool side model in a city with no pools rather than a lighthouse keeper or something in the town with a lighthouse and a ton of boats and a pier.
hell yeah, lol. Any of the other 3D games are better and the 2D games are pretty different from those. My personal favorite 2D game is Heart Gold so you could maybe check it out if you're interested
Oh yea, all the other games are much better. Though if you want to play some or them without emulation... be prepared to fork out a pretty penny... £75 for Pokemon Black 2 nowadays at the cheapest with most being £100 or more. Gen 5 is definitely when the series peaked so... I actually would buy it for £75 but that’s just me. Edit: for me though, it’s either the older Pokemon games or bust.
I think this is more proof that the dex cut is just something they come up with up to the tail end of development. When the Flechling weathervane asset is made, they made the beginning of development cycle. This is something you can notice... You can see how the paths and town visuals in the beginning are more refined and better looking, and then it just became worse and worse as you proceed.
@@Clear1 Doesn't make sense why it wasn't in the original regional dex if that's the case though, you would think the theming wouldn't have that if it is caught in extra circumstances.
@@Darkgun231 That doesn't prove that at all, all it proves is that fletching was planned to be in the base game. Video games change as they go through production. Unforseen roadblocks emerge that delay the initially intended production schedule and as a result things get pushed back. Then we have publishers like Nintendo and TPC who need their yearly releases to please the investors and don't take these delays into account with their deadlines, thus making it so that content has to be cut from the final product. It's got nothing to do with GF, they don't really get much of a say in it.
I didn’t even know anything about Pokemon besides the basic concept, yet I enjoyed the whole video. As an ex-Bethesda Studios fan, I know how that sheer hatred feels.
@@reap3514 I just got bored of the stories, the writing has never been super amazing, there's always 1 or 2 evil teams, 1 to 2 pokemon champions, a global catastrophe, and a couple of random character tropes tossed in for spice, rinse lather and repeat 🤷♂️
you know what funny, after playing this again I realised that the player charecter barely had any interest in doing the gym challenge considering you dont even know what it is at the begining but the game treats it like its something theyve always wanted and not just a "meh may aswell " kind of thing
It's always been this way. I wish there was a good reason for it like "making our father/mother proud" or some sht like that. Doesn't have to be anything too deep but at least make it more believable than "I just left home a month ago and I already beat the last gym leader because I could". I guess Scarlet/violet made it a little better with the school thing but even then we kinda just do it because we can and that's it.
People always use Gen V's circle map as an example of how "Pokémon has always been linear/linear for a long time" in defense of Sword/Shield's bare-ass routes, but I replayed those games recently and there's so much more to find and explore and battle in those routes that it doesn't really matter if the map is a big circle, there is plenty to explore if you care to. Sword and Shield is like Unova Routes if only they only had the main path (which is usually an actual road or trail, which I always found a nice touch) and nothing else.
Exactly! On route 1 alone there's already a bramhc off into entirely optional routes! There's big dungeons like Pinwheel forest, Twist Mountain, and Chargestone Cave. And within those dungeons there's branching paths for extra trainers and items and legendary dens even. Unova may look linear, but there's 1000x more exploration than Swsh or even SM.
Don't worry, we all get a Slow Start sometimes. I did find it strange the first time but the second one it clicked and was like "Oh, right. Nuzlocke rulez".
It makes the games look even worse when you see just how much personality and love is in the animated sword and shield shorts, especially since all the characters in them also have VOICE ACTING.
Even the anime is super pleasing IMO! It’s super cared for even if it’s a bit weird being a soft reboot. Absolutely love how ash goes back and meets old gym leaders and shows others around where he’s been! It’s super world building and just so pleasing.
The shorts are utterly fantastic, but the problem is that they decided to do them instead of using the money to put the stories, detailed animation, and voice acting in the game they’re based on instead. They’re basically just fancy marketing since they’re on TH-cam so they’ll get recommended to people who may or may not buy the 60$ game. Their strategy is 90% marketing, 9% toys and side products, and 1% for game budget.
In Britain the two most iconic animals on insignia are the lion, commonly seen on government letters and buildings. And the Swan, which is seen as the animal of the British royal family. Neither Swanna or Pyroar are in the game.
Fun fact, with dlc you can catch/evolve over 500 pokemon before the first gym... You can basically complete the pokedex and have a full team of legendaries before murking grass boi
I'm just imagining casually a child throwing a Reshiram at a Gym Trainer and making them question their life decisions. It's honestly funny the more such thoughts enter my head XD
@@exzyyd392 yeah, but you'd think after he turns his attitude around and strives to become a better person, that Chairman Rose, who was basically his foster Dad would acknowledge him and admire how much he's grown. Or maybe Bede would take issue with Chairman Rose, the man who disowned him, trying to bring about the Darkest Day, as that seems pretty hypocritical. But nope. Nothing.
@@AC_Dragneel Chairman Rose clearly shows he barely even remembers him when the two first interact on-screen. Why would you think that interaction would take place? The whole point is that Bede is obsessing over a man who doesn't give a shit about him and working too hard and too carelessly to please him. I'm not calling this grade-A writing or anything, but you can argue he grows up a bit when he finally stops caring about the Chairman's approval.
@@Lucifronz ok, so then why wouldn't he come join us in stopping Chairman Rose bring about the Darkest Day? Typically when you write an arc in a story, you establish it, develop it and conclude it. But Chairman Rose disowning Bede is just one little note in the story that start and ends in that scene and is never brought up again. My point is that it was clearly lazy writing and much like how they forgot to have a villain until the very end of the game, they forgot they even wrote this immediately.
Also with the fossils, they are created by the character “Cara Liss” which is a joke on how “Careless” they were on putting the fossils together. Sensational comedy.
At least with the older games, you could argue it encourages interaction. But these days, we have internet, so it is a thing that definitely needs to go.
I'm pretty sure they give you the option to....I dunno......not buy 2 different versions of the same game. The fact they keep making money off this shows less about how scummy they are and more about how gullible and desperate their consumers are
@@afifmajid8754 Explain the DLC expansions that are exclusive between the versions then. It can be both, it's really not mutually exclusive. It's a completely outdated """feature""" made obsolete due to the accessible nature of the internet. The company can't be unaware of the fact that some of their consumers cannot help themselves when their collection is incomplete or are getting an incomplete experience.
2:08:55 Actually, Morpeko has a very strong and competitively viable signature move with some decent stats. There's no way you'd know this however because MARNIE NEVER USES IT!
@@CesarTorres61296 Yep! 110 base damage, changes type with Morpeko's form change, and grants some Speed when used. I'm also fairly sure it has 100 accuracy, but it might just be 95.
@@t.o.d4868 I mean it's the runner up for the best electric type move according to WolfyVGC who, by the way, got to number one in the world *with* Morpeko.
For almost the entire game I thought Bede was a pissed off old lady who was never allowed to become a trainer because she had to work to support a family, then she's finally retired and is determined to become the champion now and prove everyone wrong who never believed in her, and she becomes your rival because she's just sick of children getting the chances she didn't have. And frankly I think that would have been much more interesting.
You know that picture of the REALLY big book next to the incredibly thin book? The character you've described is the big one, and the Actual Bede is the little book
@@Sugardrop50 aw you flatter me! I'm just sad that it's not even a particularly complex idea but is still better. And it's not like Pokémon characters have ever been super deep on average, but compared to that book meme, it's so disappointing to see that they're becoming a single sheet of paper.
I'm so glad someone else thought Bede was an old lady. When I first saw him I thought "Wow, this is a really unique rival!" I wish no one ever corrected me...
my biggest problem was with the region itself, as a brit I was really excited for galar as they seemed to do a really good job of adapting france and hawaii, so you can imagine my disappointment when the region was essentially a corridor with elements about the good things of england more watered down than squash at a birthday party. there's no life, no little villages with amazing bakeries and cafes, no big seaside towns with telescopes and feebas and chip shops, and the cities that did make it were horrendous, spikemouth is obvious but ballonlea is bad too, and there are only 2 enterable buildings in the entirety of turfield, and the less said about hmmerlocke and wyndon the better
Same. Like they even made Hawaii's artificial island in sun and moon but the uk game only gets england if it was one village? No ireland or wales, and it's a push but I suppose the crown tundra is meant to be scotland. I'd have even settled if each country had one town in game and they were massive stereotypes. Make ireland a village with all green buildings, they all talk really fast and they all love milkshakes or something. Have Scotland filled with people shouting and insulting you but all being really helpful and nice, have all the buildings have completely different architecture (looking at you glasgow) and have them love like a rival drink thing from the Ireland town. And I'm sure Wales has interesting things too. But I'm amazed at how half assed it all is. Like theres only one set of football hooligans, would have been great if each gym leader had their own insane fans
@@robertlupa8273 still more than Nintendo thought to include in the game haha. I'm sure Wales has something going on. Got a few decent comedians but I know nothing of the country
In my opinion, Hop should have decided to become a Pokemon Ranger. Rangers help pokemon and people more than professors do, but knowing Gamefreak, they forgot that Pokemon Rangers even exited.
@@bryana.escaleralopez You're just seemingly copying a certain video's PoV without noticing the fact there are questions that needed to be answered in the side of Game Freak before we have full judgement...the games still earn a lot anyway despite being a relatively small part of the earnings of the franchise.
GameFREAK made 80% of their region grassy and boggy, 10% icy and rainy because that's Britain, and then they realized they wanted more areas and so they stuck 5 different biomes in the last 10%... and then stuck it all next to each other
@@henrycowen8164 Unova was kind of a half-done American Stereotype region. We still had tons of Japanese stuff in the game like the Ice Gym Leader, The Genie Trio, Throh and Sawk, etc.. They could have gone with the Grand Canyon, Hollywood, and the rest of Unova tbh. I don't think we could do a pokemon lore version of Mount Rushmore... unless it literally was a few statues of the Swords of Justice (even though they are technically French Pokemon)
You touched on a point I really appreciated- Mentioning that you criticize this so much not because you hate Pokémon, but because you love it and want the best for it. This was a point I tried so hard to stress to my friends who openly, repeatedly and to this day (Seriously? People still defend all this scummy shit to this day? Surprises me every time) mocked me for hating dexit, and hating how lazy Swoosh looked, felt, and seemed through all that we saw. For the first time in my life, I didn't pre-order a Pokémon game. And I'm someone who liked Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, still kind of do! Granted, I think USUM should have been the only ones we got, as they make SuMo essentially... pointless, even more so than sister third games of the past, but... Swoosh just felt insulting. That's what it is, at the end of the day- a true feeling of being insulted. Masuda's non-statement about the backlash to dexit is now the gold standard of non-committal 'we hear you, we see you' trash replies that I use whenever I need an example of the archetype. And, of course, it still broke records. As far as I know, they are still the two best-selling games on the Switch? (Please tell me I'm wrong.) At this point, Game Freak could take a dump in a box, slap a Pokémon sticker on it, and still shatter records, and that makes me sad, because... that's what they're doing.
Ultra Sun and Moon changed a bunch of shit that was done better in Sun and Moon. So it failed at being the better version, further making it the worst third version in the series. Plus it didn't fixed the handholding, and how even by the last island you still feel like you are in tutorial land. Sword and Shield only sold as well as it did because it was the first actual mainline title on an home console and not some bad remake of generation 1 with pokemon go mechanics.
@@okagronTell that to Scarlet and Violet. Pokemon will always sell, because so much of the audience are either ignorant children or fanboys with no self respect
I will say , i still consider sun and moon and ultra sun and ultra moon to be really good games, they were imperfect , but were an evolution of the pokemon gameplay that i felt was pretty good.
@@okagron I don't consider them the worst third version , for me that would go to either crystal or yellow , cause they change so little it's almost meaningless.
The Sand-Snake is meant to be like this. Lockstin has a video about that, too. Check it out. Its worth it. Weird that he does know the Coral-Pokemon-Video of Lockstin but not the Matter-of-the-Snakes. And: 2:37:30: EXCELLENT POINT!!! I SAY THIS FOR YEARS! DECADES EVEN! Yes, i say this for longer than Pokemon exists now!! ...Wait... what did i just say? Ah, whatever. You get the gist.
Jim Sterling put the current model of Pokemon games quite well- the only reason no one cares that they sell the same game twice is because the notion of trading monsters between friends was new in the 90s, and the different versions were made to capitalise on it. People don't call out Nintendo for still selling the same game twice because its just part of Pokemon, but if EA or Activision or Ubisoft tried it today everyone would be in uproar over it.
Hell, there was an uproar when Fire Emblem released 2 games at the same time with (kinda) different stories. Even Nintendo can't get away with the Pokémon model. Guess we should be thankful they didn't think to make Pokémon go into two different mobile apps
@@recino2 only that fire emblem lets you download the alt path of the other game with a discount while being distinctive enough on its own, it's not just the same game with a different roster of characters. Pokemon doesn't even give you a discount for the few pokemon that do change and expects you to have pokemon home now if you want to fill the national dex (should it ever return)
@@PancakemonsterFO4 And to add to that, Three Houses have 4 distinct paths with major plot and level differences, and an added dlc side story. Even Zelda got to it first with my personal favorites, the Oracle games, being 2 completely seperate games released at the same time.
BEST DAMN JOKE IN THIS WHOLE THING Pokemon Direct: 'You might... ..spy a mysterious shiny tree growing where it doesn't seem to belong' RadicalSoda: 'Man don't know about you guys but I have already seen enough trees that look they don't belong didn't know it was a selling point!'
1:58:06: SERIOUSLY. I mean, dont call me nitpicking, but this alone triggers me, cause this is a Top-Shelf-Franchise, a BIG Seller. So yes, i could actually dare to expect a whole Detective-Conan-Episode here!! But listen. Listen. Listen. AT LEAST make the smallest Plot Twist! I mean, how many billion Yen would it have cost to just make one of the Humans have done it and smeared some berry-juice onto the pokemon to frame it!! That at least, or even more: Let him talk real quick about how he did it cause he's Racist against that one pokemon-species!! He didnt take his medication today, so thats why the 'bad thoughts' about that Squirrel came back today!! Get it?? How many years of planning does this take to tenfold improve this scene?!?! How much did it cost?
I understand Galar is based on the UK... But they really could've done more than soccer... They could have went for Rugby, Golf, or Cricket outfits. Like having all the leaders and champion just wear soccer outfits was kind of unimaginative imo. Also, huge missed opportunity would've been any knight or fairy or more monsterous classical fantasy pokemon.
Watching Pokemon slowly die while Gamefreak and the Pokemon Company pull a hollywood and try to squeeze every last cent out of this franchise is killing me inside.
3:11:56 Just a correction. They are not based on British paleontologists mixing things up, but a pair of American ones called "Cope & Marsh" who basically had a rivalry so intense that they were rushing to discover and name animals faster and kept putting heads on tails and wrong heads on etc etc. There is no records of British paleontologists doing this. I know how overly UK-inspired the game is, but this isn't one of them.
This is right, the only paleontological blunder in the UK was the fake "missing link" fossil that lead to Homo Sapiens. Took decades for people to finally debunk it.
In my opinion I think this generation's starters look way too human in their final evolutions. It creeps me out. In the first game the final evolutions of the starters are so cool! You feel super cool commanding a giant cannon turtle, a big ol dinosaur, or a badass fire breathing dragon. This generation is a soccer player, a drummer, and a secret agent. Those are just jobs. Like if they weren't stuck with you they could have a full on career for themselves.
I really agree in all honesty. I took a moment to question why I didnt like the designs but I noticed that all 3 of them being so humanoid bothered me too much. I actually can make the plant type one slide as he is a gorilla, which is pretty humanoid already even if they could have designed him to be less human-like I believe. The fire type feels honestly both too humanoid in its figure and just over designed. Too many details and abstract shapes clutter his design and dont really make him look like a Pokemon. The water type though doesnt really have proper human anatomy, the hands and just general lanky humanoid features are way too off putting. Its interesting for me to compare them to 6th gen starter evolutions as those even though they are supposed to be fantasy themed after the rogue, mage, and Paladin trio, they never really felt overly humanoid. Greninja is really well designed, he is bipedal like a human but his anatomy is distinct enough where he doesnt look like a man in a suit or stylized human. Same goes for the 2 others in my opinion.
@@badreddinekasmi8919 Gen 7 Pokemon were inspired by different rpg classes too. Chesnaught being a Warrior, Braxien being a Mage, Greninja being a Thief, Decidueye being an Archer, Incineroar being a Monk (Well I can kind of see it), and Primarina being a Bard. Gen 8 decided to break from that pattern, but it clearly didn't seem to work out. Honestly even though it might sound kind of basic, I can't exactly hate on the rpg class idea. While it may seem like they might have limited themselves on what they could do with the designs of starter pokemon I like the designs of most gen 6 and 7 starters. I wasn't the biggest fan of Decidueyes final evolution going from Grass/Flying to Grass/Ghost I wasn't aware it was going to do that so it kind of screwed up my team composition. My favorite starter lineup is Incineroars which seems to be an unpopular choice, especially with some people being salty about him being added to Smash.
A main rule of thumb that I saw someone bring up recently when it comes to starter design is can you imagine all 3 forms of each starter in somewhere in the wild? The anime helps with visualizing this also showing that sometimes fully evolved pokemon take care of the pre evolved forms. The only starter pokemon I just can't picture in the wild are Incineroar (kind of a shame), and Inteleon. Incineroar, unlike its pre-evolutions is kind of difficult imagine being in the wild. Presumably its typical personality would have it take on pokemon like Charizard, Dragonite, and other big powerhouse pokemon. But its connection to modern human wrestling is just a little too on the nose. Inteleon is the same way since it clearly takes inspiration from modern day spys. It's easy to imagine all forms of the other water starters in the ocean, rivers, and lakes. Inteleon is the exception. I don't take mega evolution into account because it's made clear both in the games and the anime that a strong bond with a trainer is required for pokemon to mega evolve making it artificial.
@@taloscal That too like I said love Incineroar to death. It almost took the spot for my favorite pokemon but Lucario just has more sentimental value to me him being added in smash first and making young me cry sacrificing himself in his movie. My third favorite would be Garchomp. A fearsome trio indeed.
Throwing my two cents in, i was insulted when fairy gym leader chose bede for being “pink” I was the literal definition of pink. pink hair, clothes, and pokemon during my gym fight. But sure bede’s purple coat is more pink, grandma lookin ass.
I seriously wonder if anyone actually thinks, "they're just kid's games", is a good argument in defense of these games, when super mario odyssey, and breath of the wild were released on the same console years before
My personal belief is that the argument that "It's just a kids game." To try and wave away criticism is beyond stupid. The fact that it's a kids game should be more of an incitive to make it good. If I had kids I wouldn't let them play this stuff, because it's low quality. Kids deserve better than this. The mark of something thats good and made for kids, is something that they enjoy as kids and will come back to many years later and still find something to enjoy. As a kid I loved Pokemon Red, as an adult I have a lot of nostalgia for it and can see, despite being very primitive compared to later games it had a lot of good design choices and interesting broken mechanics that makes it fun to play.
@@MrSupersonic2012 exactly, there are so many games for kids, that I played in my childhood to the present day, that I could replay and still enjoy them
@@scarletnight4554 Exactly. I had a conversation with my stepbrother around Christmas. We were talking about cartoons from our childhood and present day. I told him that I can rewatch a lot of those older shows, because there's things to enjoy as an adult viewer and then I asked him if he could imagine his kids watching the cartoons they have nowadays when they're our age. He said "No, I can't. And I'd be very surprised if they did."
Even if it was "a kids game" it's still poorly done. My 12 year old sister played this and 30 minutes in, she started complaining with how much handholding there was. And she's been playing complex Rom hacks with me like pokemon unbound and volt 2 and what not, and she has well over 300 hours on them. Again, this is a 12 year old girl. Kids are smart, they don't need this amount of retardation in their games.
not just that. like they do yeah but they are have loads of features that were good not in for previous gens and all previous gens have better designs although that started going downhill with unova which made up for it in other ways. Liek simple things as adding back follow pokemon (I guess they did in the DLC...) seasons, day/night cycle etc etc
Ah yes, my most intense rivals in pokémon: They're either a life-long friend who's struggling with self confidence issues or a small child literally dying of asthma. Thanks Game Freak!
@@IGSA101 He did show up a lot more I think in ORAS but unlike Hop he truly struggled in his journey - the other protagonist is argurably the better rival IMO.
@@zjzr08 The other protagonist becomes friendly but starts out really condescending. It makes them feel like an actual rival. I really don't like when people say Blue and Silver are the best rivals because they don't feel like rivals, rivalry is supposed to be mostly friendly competition. Those two aren't that.
Right? Like look at the Sora Smash reveal. Sakurai was smiling, making jokes, getting laughs. Multiple times during that stream, I thought "Sakurai's so adorable!" But it's purely business in the DLC Direct and not even business you get the impression they're happy about
Pokemon legends arceus better be fuckin the best game ever programmed to make up for Dexit, and they even handed off the DP remakes to another studio entirely, so all of their staff should have been focused on PLA.
The tower scene makes no sense. You're straight up just committing a crime by any logical look at the situation and you only know you're "right" because of the way the narrative frames it. And while Rose is acting sinister, he isn't holding Leon hostage. They ARE just in a tense meeting.
It's like they wanted to replicate the Saffron City part in Kanto, where you're going through the building to rescue the CEO from Team Rocket, except they forgot to actually make it a rescue mission because Leon isn't in danger.
Yeah, like you're literally committing multiple crimes just because your buddy's big brother is in a meeting with his boss that is running late and the two of you are too impatient to wait for him, justifying it by claiming that he must be in some sort of danger that two kids, only one of whom is competent, are better equipped to handle than he is, despite his reputation literally being legendary. So you and your buddy and your other buddy team up with your other buddy's rock star brother who is also a gym leader to trespass on public property, assault the employees, and ultimately beat up a secretary. The music has no business being that intense and upbeat.
to add to other glaring omissions from the dex that makes no sense, snubbull and granbull the pokemon based on BRITISH bulldogs are somehow not in sword and shield.
@@HondaBrandy I believe people hated megas because they obliterated the competitive scene for a good while, and there were the usual pokémon getting preferential treatment. Most casual players loved them.
@@HondaBrandy I honestly don't know much about competitive pokémon so I'mma pass on trying to answer you there. xD I'm just parroting an opinion I saw many competitive pokemon content creators have.
@@joshuabennett8256 I think you misunderstand the word "Competitive". You don't have much of a choice. The vast majority could agree not to use them and there'd still be a huge risk that one person ignores the agreement and crushes everyone as a result. Casuals in their own games though? Ignore them all you like.
You didn't rate this fairly, you rated it as a game when it is just supposed to be a cash grab. It deserves a 10/10 cuz it was so successful at scamming Pokemon fans.
@@johnkenneth8746 I realized that when Diamond/Pearl wasn't as interesting as Ruby/Sapphire, and then Black/White was so boring that I didn't bother fighting the Elite Four. As an adult, I revisited the first three generations on emulator, and I had lots of fun with all of them. Anything past that is so boring that it can't keep my attention.
I've probably been more entertained by people shitting on it than I was playing it. Grinding to a full team of level 100 before the first gym because it's just that fucking easy and I'd be irritated by any actual challenge that arose because it could be fixed so easily did NOT help either.
I have seen no Video or even hour-long Documentary yet that MANAGES to list ALL the problems and issues. None. So all the more reason you should watch many videos and documentarys about this, as its overall like a Puzzle. Yeah, like a Puzzle. And HOPEFULLY that makes you all adapt the mindset to not be Gamefreak's B++++ and instead watch Reviews BEFORE BUYING, and dont ever buy if the Reviews all say its Trash. OKKKKK? Yessss? Can we do that?
The worst part, to me, is the DLC. There was a time I would have celebrated it. Almost every game since the first ones have had a version later on that's basically the "complete" one. Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, etc. If they had decided to release DLC to add more stuff instead of trying to force me to buy the game twice, I would be okay with that. But with the base game being so empty, it falls into the category of DLC that feels like a chunk ripped out of the game and sold separately. When they announced the cut-down Pokedex, my first thought was, "If they release the cut Pokemon as DLC, I'm going to scream." And lo, was it so.
Even worse, IIRC right after they announced that the dex was being cut, they were asked multiple times if there were plans to add pokemon back later, whether as an update, expansion, or DLC. They said no. No plans to do that at all. I think they kept saying it up to release. And then a few months later, oops we lied again. tee-fucking-hee.
main thing i hate is there are several pokemon that require a choice of two... but to get the most from the DLC, you still need to trade anyway, its not really a choice, why pretend it is when in order to fill the pokedex for crown tundra we need to pick ONE horse when there are TWO, same for the Regis, which is even worse because you need all five to get Regigigas. its not a choice, but an illusion of choice, just fucking making the two pokemon version exclusives for god sake.
@@TheAuron32 I actually appreciate the choice, because all I have to do to get the other is move my pokemon up to Home, delete my save, start over, and download my team.
@@shadowtheimpure or make a new profile like i did... its still a long slog though, i just feel it was fake choice, you still need to mess around just to get the both of them.
3:24:55 The funny thing is, Sun & Moon, the immediately prior games *fixed this*. If you lost the title in the league's final fight, whoever beat you would be sitting in the champion's seat when you came back. They would be champion, not you. And that's how it should be in Sw/Sh too, but it's just not.
Sword and Shield shills : You can't criticize the game if you haven't played it Also Sword and Shield shills : lol you're saying all that about the game but you still bought it
@@espurrseyes42 Hoops has many Videos on the Name-Origins and/or Design-Origins. Those will fill your logic-gaps and make you understand way more. -Just saying.
@@slevinchannel7589 What does that have to do with the PokeSIMP hypocrisy of devaluing your criticism for not playing the game, but then devaluing your criticisms because you bought the game?
To be fair, the bar is set pretty low for pokemon fans in terms of IQ This is a fandom that finds ice sliding puzzles difficult and freaks out over silhouettes. Christ, even the Super Mario Bros fandom got fed up when Nintendo kept releasing New Super Mario Bros games that were pretty interchangeable. Not the Pokemon fans though. Nope. In fact, they actually get upset when gym battles aren't at the center of everything.
What? Me? Watching just a supercut of his Pokemon S/S review even though I've watched all the individual videos? I mean, it's my favorite youtuber, of effin course I am.
no, the framerate drops are just as that old 4chan leak said, it's a mess at a programming level because apparently, Gamefreak has never been good at it, so many glitches, framerate drops, memory bloat,etc. are there because of how bad GF handles it
Lets just hope that now that gamefreak moved into the nintendo hq they will help them just like satoru iwata did back in the day since they really need people that can code because the game code for sword and shield is a mess
Digimon may not be as successful, but it’s gotten a hell of a lot more mature over the years. Ironic that the “knockoff” is the one that ever attempts to *evolve.*
Not just mature but they at least have different stories with lively characters and technically Digimon and pokemon came out too close together for Digimon to be a knockoff. Not every monster involved show or game is a ripoff of pokemon, the premise is too generic for there not to be other stuff similar to it but that doesn't make it a ripoff
@@SpectreBagels I hear ya. I only said that because I assumed other people still thought that. Us Digimon fans aren’t that underground, but we ain’t exactly mainstream either. Knowhatimean?
3:25:12 I've been saying this for the longest time: this game was obviously made for 3DS and optimized around 3DS limitations but nobody believes it. There's absolutely no way we'd end up with a mess like Sword/Shield if they started its development on the Switch, even Let's Go can boast a few things that 3DS wouldn't handle, S/S has _NOTHING_ .
Given that the Pokemon Direct came out not too long ago and showed Pokemon with TEXTURES to their models (Seviper having scales, Magnemite being metallic), this statement just becomes more true.
Yup! This thing was never supposed to be on a home console, they were already developing L:A and Scarlet / Violet for that. But they realized they could charge more money for a console game so they sloppily ported it. Glad I never spent money on this piece of shit.
How did Pokémon become tolerating the shitty story until you can competitive battle/shiny hunt? The best parts of a game should not be the unscripted parts to can do on your own. A damn shame
Yep. If only, back in Gen 5 they got the hint that YES people DO like a good story and a sequel to a game would be a lot more appreciated than a third game with pretty much the same story. Gen 5 was when the series peaked and it’s all been downhill since, some games at slower or faster rates.
Literally the whole game just feels like it was built solely for competitive gameplay in mind. The world is a glorified corridor, the story is lackluster, and you can beat the game in a day without trying. Going out of your way to competitively play though, that's where the content is, where the fun can be found. The problem with casual Pokemon is that it's a strategy game where, outside of competitive, the best strategy is to spam your strongest move. Which makes sense... because if you let the game itself be practically empty and add DLC that fills the void with more moves and Pokemon clearly made for competitive, and require players to get Pokemon Home and Nintendo Online so they can bring in their older Pokemon for competitive and use them better... **JESUS FUCKING CHRIST GAMEFREAK.**
@@scottishboy112 nah, the story is still very mediocre for an RPG and the game suffers from the focused story by making it too linear otherwise and a very below average RPG.
I know this as old comment, but I checked and he was actually holding a regular pokéball. It's just that his glove has a similar colour scheme to an ultraball so it looks like one at a glance.
The sad thing is that Gamefreak could make games called “Pokemon: Fuck” and “Pokemon: You” that only adds 1 new pokemon with reused animations and cuts the national dex and it would sell 10 million within a week. Edit: Damn on second thought everyone would buy a Pokémon game with “Fuck” in the title so this would sell either way
OMG! Sounds like the most STUPENDOUS idea that I've ever hear in such a long time! Screw Game Freak for saying that they need to cut the National Dex and moves like Bubble and Pursuit for "Better animations."
@@fuzzydude64 I've never had an issue with Red and Blue/Ruby and Sapphire/X and Y/etc. or even Black 2 and White 2. You don't need the second game to have the full game experience. Especially today: just get online and trade. Blue wasn't enhanced by owning Red (White and Black might have been that way with Opelucid City or the other city unique to each version) I don't feel like that's a good argument. I have more of an issue with the Emeralds, Crystal, Ultra Celestial Bodies, etc. being full price. Those are DLC sold for the same price. You paid for two games for one game with good DLC. That technically has been addressed via DLC...unfortunately, SwSh was so incomplete, it didn't feel like an add-on or a proper sequel. It felt like an incomplete game that lacked a satisfying post-game that finally got two good post-game episodes for the still incomplete game for $90.
Also Game Freak really can‘t decide if they want their game easy or hard. The regular game was a cakewalk but the legendary dynamax adventures… Oh boy, little Timmy isn‘t getting his legendaries
Just like the absurd difficulty spike of USUM when you fight Ultra Necrozma. Rest of the game was a hand holdy cake walk, that one ultra beast stood out. Then went back to piss easy.
the issue with Dynamx Adventures is the AI, like in the main games raids, are STUPID, you always get paired with pokemon weak to the thing you are fighting, if you do it with other people who you know, its not too bad BUT, you should not need that in a pokemon game.
There might be a few comments talking about this already, but just in case there isn’t, the reason Gigantamax Kingler has that beard is because it’s actually referencing crabs in real life. When crabs are brought onto land and spend a while out of the water, foam bubbles start to form around their mouths as they breathe out a mixture of air and water, and it sort of looks like a beard.
@@wailmerwithinternetaccess7934 I guess if it’s going to be overanalyzed (definitely not the intention but it’s always fun to do), Kingler’s gigantamax is too large to hold the water it had in its body before and so has the bubble beard.
4:54 It can also be argued that Fire emblem never had voice acting before but yet Fire emblem echos is the first game to implement full on voice acting. This later became the standard and now Fire emblem warriors and Fire emblem three houses also have full on voice acting and fire emblem is a really text heavy game, especially Three houses with it's 4 routes and tons and tons of supports. It's has much more text to voice act than Pokemon. And if you are asking, yes it enhances the experience. You no longer have to read the dialogue during the story. Characters feel alot more expressive and likable, they can express emotions much better than a simple textbox. Lastily the characters' death feel a whole lot more emotional as you hear their last words and screams rather than reading a textbox. That being said, so you're telling me the highest grossing franchise can't get this quality when other lesser nintendo franchises can?
Not only that, but for such a niche franchise, they knocked it out of the park in Echoes and 3H. Meanwhile I can't stomach the English voice acting in BotW for even 5 minutes before switching to Japanese or turning them off, and I don't think Japanese is always perfect, and I'll defend the majority of English dubbed Japanese media in general for the rest of my life.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 yeah Echos really had alot of love put into it. I believe one of the directors or devs are a huge fan of the original game so he felt honored and excited to be able to work on a remake of the game he always loved. Such a shame the game didn't sell as well compared to three houses or the rest of the 3DS games.
@@sonicthehedge Personally I think SoV from a pure gameplay perspective does several things wrong that should've been polished more, like enemies ambushing you on maps, the U.I. being downgraded from Awakening and Fatesl your hit, crit and avo rates no longer being visible and they took out a bunch of settings for how battles play out, maps that have too many avo tiles and the Cantors, THE FUCKING CANTORS. I've personally never liked how you always take 1 damage minimum from attacks, meaning that Armored classes almost always take 2 damage minimum, or how most everyone has an almost non-existent res growth rate. There's a few other things, but you get my points. It's not terrible, but I do hope that if another game gets remade, they'll update the game mechanics, map design, and customization better. 3H definitely has its issues too, but elitists who call any new thing the series has tried ever since Awakening too "casualized" or denounces it as "real" Fire Emblem can get run over by a semi-truck for all I care. Echoes at the very least is a LOT better than, well... Sonic Colors Ultimate.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 well Gaiden has always been the Black Sheep of the franchise due to being very different to the rest of the franchise. I'll say Celica's Route was really flawed and annoying as Alm's Route was always pretty fun imo. But props for the devs for trying to modernize it while still being faithful to the original game. Thats the hard part of remaking of a game, you could change some aspects but then it is different or they just make it worst. Sonic Colors Ultimate for example just lazily adds Ghost Wisp and level design is slightly changed due to it. It's just a Hover Wisp except worst as it can't ring dash and overall breaks the pace of the game. Make it even worse that half of that game promotion was that wisp.
*Me, when my teacher assigns me a 1-hour documentary:* This is outrageous! They're expecting me to sink an hour of time into something I'm not even interested in? *Me, watching a 4-hour RadicalSoda review of a video game:* yems, pokeemonms
gen 8 very, _very_ nearly did me in as a pokemon fan, in general. in theory, it *should* have been my favourite generation of all time. not only is galar based on my home country, but as we went into gen 8, we were due gen 4 remakes. which is the gen that initally got me into pokemon, with my favourite region to date, and dawn, one of my favourite characters of all time. and instead, sword just disappointed me so thoroughly. bdsp, too. to the extent that i didn't buy the remakes, because if i wanted to play a blocky version of sinnoh, i'd just play the originals. i was hoping for a glow-up with sinnoh, as a love letter to it, like hoenn got with oras. and i was so freaking excited for a region based on england. and the return i got for my investment nearly made me drop pokemon as a franchise. the only reason i'm still a fan, is because i have adhd, and my old hyperfixations flared up. i still love dawn and sinnoh. but i am _so_ underwhelmed with the pokemon games. legends arceus was be my last purchase until they give me a reason to come back.
same here man. Luckily my fave game is a remake in HGSS but yeah I never played sinnoh asa kid and instead of buying the remakes i played the originals. I love the 2d anyways. ORAS is the best 3d game we have as well because although i haven't played any switch games i can just tell. Similarly to you tho I'm probably gonna finally buy the switch soon and play the trainwreck.
That's a very interesting story! Gen 8 actually did do it in for me as a fan, I haven't touched a modern Pokemon game since Sword/Shield. I've heard very good things from Arceus, but I can't stand to have my hopes dashed in any way again lol. The only ways I interact with the Pokemon series nowadays is by listening to the soundtrack because both Arceus's and SV's OSTs are fantastic.
as someone who also can't escape my hyperfixation I honestly recommend looking into pokemon-likes if you want a new modern experience that isn't the horrible pokemon games these days that I also refuse to buy. I personally got into Coromon recently and it's so lovingly based on gens 4/5 on pokemon with a gorgeous diverse overworld and these amazing animated sprites for coromon and battle effects, it brings back 2d pokemon in the best way and satisfies my adhd's insistence that I play pokemon games
@@garrettfish8471 I will say, Arceus is actually good , and different. I really recommend it. I liked SV , but it's more a guilty pleasure than anything , so i recommend to never touch it.
As someone whose favorite generation was Ruby/Sapphire, maybe be glad you didn't bother with BDSP. ORAS massacred the story, the Champion, and the legendaries. And worst of all, they just hand you Latios/Latias at level 20. Not kidding- LEVEL 20! Not only is that waaaay too early to give you a Pokemon with such a high stat total, but at that level their movepools SUCK and you can't even keep them on-level with the rest of your team at that point since legendaries grow so slowly! I put one of my favorite Pokemon ever into the fricken BOX because he was so useless and so disappointing. My favorite generation became an embarrassment that I really wish I hadn't bought at release since it just looked good. I really do wish they'd screwed up the graphics for ORAS like they did with BDSP so I wouldn't waste my time and money on it.
honestly the 3ds games looked great for 3ds games. but, they were 3ds games, very limited cartridges for a very limted console. gamefreak's problem is they think they can make the same stuff look good on a switch, which... if a 3ds is a honda civic, the switch is a freight train - sure, several moving boxes would fill up a honda quickly, but the train just absolutely dwarfs them.
@@leeeeeeeeeeeeeviathan I was legit blown away by ultra sun and ultra moon with it's graphics and story (gen 5 story is still better, but it's still an amazing story). plus being able to hold every single thing like the national dex, megas, z moves, and alolan forms, totem forms. They legit pushed the 3ds to it's limits. And I loved the xy map as well. And oras was amazing plus my first ever pokemon games :)
"We wanted to focus on high quality animations and make the game more expressive overall." "I would have liked to make it possible to bring every Pokémon into the game. However, this was a choice we needed to make sooner or later. In the end, we had to choose quality." So that was a freakin' lie
Yes, we need all 898 pokemon with new sprites with all 892 moves with unique animations on each move, but 2D was much better we should have just stuck to the gen 5 sprites forever, I am very intelligent.
@@henrycowen8164 ''Yes, we need all 898 pokemon'' I agree -with new sprites with all 892 moves with unique animations on each move, but 2D was much better we should have just stuck to the gen 5 sprites forever, I am very intelligent.- Man you're stupid Henry
@Hooda the Antagonist That was already the case long before even Ruby/Sapphire on the GBA had come out, so that can't be the reason. Or do you think it took them 20 years to realize how big their brand was?
I've never been able to get over how absolutely vacant and soulless Shigeru Ohmori's face looks in the DLC announcements. He looks as though the Pokémon franchise has completely left him dead inside, as if he couldn't be happier to walk away from the project and never think, see or hear about another Pokémon for the rest of his life. What a wonderful vibe to be giving off as director.
I tried giving myself some rules when I did a second play through. Like I only allowed myself to catch dynamax pokémon, only but ten or so healing items per town, try and avoid as many trainer battles as much as possible. Problem is in a second play through is so much easier
@@riskybus6553 The hardest thing the Pokemon games have had for the last 7 years was Ultra Nekrozma... And even that was just a pokemon that was fast and hit hard so basically artificially difficult battle. Would be great if the games had more than potentially 1 or 2 difficult battles smh. Even a game like Emerald which is very easy has some proper difficulty spikes. These days there's nothing challenging in these games
The energy, the humor and the way that this is both a nuzlocke playthrough and a review, further broken up by individual Pokemon reviews is absolutely perfect. You perfected an algorithm that's only going to work whenever a new Pokemon game comes out. This fills me with remorse and Joy™ *winkwink... 😳
Perfected an algorithm my ass...those videos are an absolute bane on my eyes seeing them as recommendations in Pokémon videos I watch. Pokémon Sword & Shield have prevented me from committing suicide after getting kicked from a Discord server I really enjoyed being a part of and will only be let back in if I don’t act forceful in any stream chats).
I was waiting for you to say the backpacks ruin the character design. There’s no way to make the bag go away or be smaller. You can change it but they’re all HUGE! The entire game you spend looking at the back of a box or a bag
@@slevinchannel7589 Imagine going onto a youtuber's comments and advertising another youtuber so blatantly. Anyway I refuse to watch his content purely to spite you
@@slevinchannel7589 you did it with all of the smoothness of sandpaper, pulling a Rick and Morty with iq references. Recommend him with content, not saying people should watch it because they are smart. I can recommend RLM for people who like movies and want that, I know nothing about hbomberguy from your post. I didn't mean to sound rude but you're not really making people excited to check him out. I don't even know what he reviews from your post
It really made me mad when they just gave us a legendary Pokémon from a random npc in some tower somewhere Imagine if you got mewtwo from a random scientist in "science tower" because mewtwo wouldn't listen to them so they just give it to a random kid because he won a lot of Pokémon battles
@@astolbro7183 oh no, type: null? That Pokémon is great and it’s got a backstory that makes that make absolutely no sense! There’s only supposed to be three. One is your rival Gladion’s in SM, one is for you, and one stays deep in the aether foundation. So yeah having it just be in a random tower is absolutely asinine
@@ochuspin oh im not saying its a bad pokemon it looks cool and has very interesting game mechanics it just feels almost like an insult that its just randomly given to you for no real reason its almost like the devs have to hide anything intresting they make
about the pop in and such The switch can literally run Crysis, Breath of the Wild, 2 Player Borderlands and so on And SwSh are built on the engine of Sun and moon So any issues that WOULD happen in the game are due to the game.
@@loturzelrestaurant 1. What about grammar? 2. What joy do you gain by calling people out on grammar based over a simple statement they made? 3. Not everyone has english as their first language.
The S/M engine is the X/Y engine, so Sw/Sh is running on an engine that was already badly optimized and ran so bad when it launched on the hardware it was made for. lol
God I wish Nintendo wasn't so extremely tight-lipped about their development process. I would love to see a proper postmortem on SwSh. Understand ALL the reasons - not just time and money - that it was so cornercut and sloppy. Because there's always more to it than just money.
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1:05:15 I'd just like to point out that Xenoblade Chronicles had a day/night cycle and its cutscenes not only took into account the time of day, but also the weather.
And it was released back in 2010.
For the Wii.
GameFreak has no excuses.
Also that game is incredibly fucking huge. Although a lot of it's ridiculousness can be attributed to it's long development.
I mean, Xeno2 came out with the switch and its actually bonkers. As an aspiring dev, what they achieved in that game is absolutely madness.
Omfg
So did fucking Silver and Gold
@@silverchord5790 So did b&w actually
My sister played this game with an all fairy team, wearing all pink clothes. You can imagine the disappointment when there was no special line from Opal and she simply "wasn't her type" like girl what do you want.
I literally did the exact same thing. Even gave my Grimmsnarl 'Max Soup'. I was thoroughly disappointed when she said my hot pink outfit wasn't pink enough and gave Bede the position. But it did feel good to crush him in the Pokemon league🥂
She wants Bede
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I hate when people treat the pokemon company/gamefreak like they're an indie dev. People trash cod for milking the franchise but nah, not pokemon.
maybe it’s cause Pokémon adds new things to do and new monsters to catch every entry, that’s just me tho
@@ziragatooepic And then immediately remove it the next game no matter how much people liked it.
@@Kekira it’s not even that. Even Call of Duty includes new gimmicks in their installments, and even manages to keep them in for a few of titles. (Wall running, acrobatics, and exoskeletons existed for a few games at least)
Pokémon is throwing away mechanics that most people loved like walking with your team, and introduce things like permanent experience sharing that nobody asked for. It’s an honest shame.
@@ziragatooepic lol
Although you're right, gamefreak themselves are probably seeing only a bit of the money, as most of it is just merchandise, and pokemon games are just advertisement for all the merch so they don't care that much. Does it justify ? ABSOLUTELY NOT ! Does it make sense ? Yes, and it's really sad that it does. Oddly though the fans are to blame too, this game sold faster than mario and Zelda even though it's INFINITELY worse than them. If you like pokemon give Shin Megami Tensei V a chance, it's coming November this year, it's basically pokemon but actually well made.
I just realised something.
"with the future proof models"
That is why pokemon disappear at a certain distance. It is the models.
You see: You normally produce models at differing resolutions. Basically reducing the polygon count by removing details. That way you get a model that can be loaded when you observe something at larger distances. And finally reducing that to basic shapes for extreme distances.
Take a dice for example. The three models would be:
1) High poly. Rounded corners, inset dots. Used for closeups.
2) Mid poly. Slightly rounded corners, dots painted on using Normal Maps (illusion of depth comes from the normal map). Used for mid range.
3) Low poly. Basically a straight up cube with the dots painted on. Used for wide range.
The models, which caused slowdown for the 3DS are the high poly ones. And back then: This could not be fixed by loading a mid range model because: They do not exist. Why should there? There were no Pokemon in the open world.
There are only High Poly models. That is why pokemon can not be loaded from a distance. Because then multiple pokemon could be seen and due to the high poly count: it would cause a slowdown.
Meaning these models were unfit for an "open world" style game. And Gamefreak did not give the team enough time to produce low-poly versions of each pokemon. Which is why they had to use this work-around. Gamefreak had their devs skip an important step in optimisation because they wanted to rush the game out.
But the future proof models aren't even high poly models. I haven't downloaded them, but looking at the wire frame, it really doesn't look that bad. My assumption is that they aren't using optimization techniques correctly or at all.
I mean, that scene with the group of people that drops frames like they're made of lava is just embarrassing. My assumption is that they weren't using occlusion to de-render all of the objects not in frame. That, and they likely don't scale animation framerate or texture resolution with distance. Meaning if they wanted a field full of Pokémon, they'd all be animated at max framerate with their normal texture resolution. Which would obviously tank performance. I can't say what it is exactly that they're doing wrong, but they're certainly doing something(s) wrong.
In my humble opinion, it all boils down to a lack of care. The higher-ups just don't care, and that is reflected in the product they produce. Which I think is evident from the lifeless environment and textures.
There's no excuse for the dirt and grass textures to be desaturated and lifeless. That's a simple issue that could be fixed by a teenager with Photoshop, much less a team of professional artists and coders who make their own shaders. It's just a careless and silly issue to have.
@@Edward-Not-Elric "I haven't downloaded them, but looking at the wire frame, it really doesn't look that bad. "
You have to consider that the GPU inside of the switch is on paar with a GTX 260 (no: not the 2060. The 260. From 15 years ago) then "high poly" is relative.
For the hardware the games were on (the 3DS and Switch) a model with 7000 tris is considered "high poly". (For reference: Tyranitar has 7352 tris)
@@Edward-Not-Elric "In my humble opinion, it all boils down to a lack of care. The higher-ups just don't care, and that is reflected in the product they produce. Which I think is evident from the lifeless environment and textures. "
100% agree.
And the sad thing is that it works. The Executives do not get as much flack as the devs, while the game sells reasonably well.
Meaning: We will get more 2fps windmills and plain plains in the future ... because it worked out for them.
@Bass-D C I understand that the switch is an underpowered system, but considering the cavalcade of games that are more graphically and technically intense that are already on switch and playing at 30fps kind of disproves that theory, I think.
Especially considering a game like Fortnite runs pretty decently at 30fps with a bunch of 7k~ poly characters on screen at once and all of the extra buildings with scripts attached to each destructible square and prop. Not to mention the physics on items that can be knocked around by certain weapons.
Things like that, Warframe, Paladins, etc, really make me wonder what they did to have so much trouble running that game on switch.
Unfortunately, I have no way of finding out since Gamefreak won't ever make a "What Went Wrong" GDC talk about any of their games, so I'm left to wonder. Though a more experienced coder might tell by ripping the game and pulling it apart.
@Bass-D C It really is an incredibly unfortunate reality for modern gaming. Established companies basically can't fail and so are rewarded for putting the least amount of money and effort into a game that they can get away with.
Minimize spending, maximize profits. Creativity and fun be damned lol.
I sure love Piers rythm, the way he stomped while emiting no other sound whatsoever really struck my heart. No electric guitars needed to accompany his show, no drums, nothing. State of the art.
Plotwist: Piers always wanted to be a tap dancer instead.
Except it wasn't art
He's meant to sing
Its meant to be a concert and we have poor VA in the game
So yeah...it wasn't a statement it was just greed
@@lillith7257 do you... not understand sarcasm?? Dear lord.
@@maister482 Internet and sarcasm doesn't mix well, especially with hot topics like this that you don't know if statements like these are crazy defenses or sarcasm towards those defenses, hehe.
Highest grossing franchise, everyone.
My “favorite” part is that the rival team in the game with no voice acting is called Team Yell
Maybe referring to us yelling at pokemon company for trash ass deal 😂
team skull even had their theme song with the random rap lyrics thrown in ("uh uh, skull!!", "kokoro-ko-kokoro", etc.) to give them some personality. team yell is just... nothing. ugh.
(dont kill me sun/moon are two of my favourite entries 😭 not all-time, but i have a soft spot for them)
They're yelling all right. They're just yelling in their minds about how awful the game is.
@@kaninekodiak Actually, I think it was "do-do-do-do, dokuro" ("dokuro" means "skull" in japanese).
@@robertlupa8273 Do you know 'Hbomberguy' and his newest video,
which is a humorous Essay about Vaccines?
Or his other videos about entirely different topics?
A bit random? Yeah, sure,
but i would want someone to recommend it to Me if i didnt knew it, soooo...
3:47 Fun part about the mouse cursor: the mc's watching this on his phone there shouldn't even be a mouse cursor to press play with
So you're telling me this wasn't intentional
@@thegreatmajora5089 Correct. And they'd rather not put any effort to fix it, and just act as if it is intentional, but there is no sense for it to be so.
Due to the stray mouse in the credits cutscene, it is absolutely a GF screw up
@@robotom6595. Almost certainly. Everyone and their mother knows that most phones work by tapping and swiping, not a cursor!
There are some phones with an weird ass cursor mode, but yeah that one was 100% GF's oopsie
I did a nuzlocke at one point before the DLC came out, and a Clefable used Metronome and it got Blue Flare, a move only Reshiram could use. So all the coded Pokemon and moves for the DLC were already in the game, but it was just inaccessible. Wow.
(Black) Kyurem was "allowed in immigration" before the DLC so Blue Flare was already coded in the 1st version.
That doesn't really matter Legendaries are really common from trade
I’m surprise you use metronome in a nuzlocke since it could’ve use the move self destruction, explosion, retaliation and mods.
@@positivea9111 Oh no it was the opponent
@@crossagento3961 That’s make sense
You know what’s hilarious?
Eternatus has the same catch rate as a freaking *caterpie.*
Both have 255 as catch rate
So Leon was right in throwing that Pokeball
Leon is Really Unlucky man
And we were making fun of him
@Pyzon when ash starts his adventure knowing even less than he did
From Bulbapedia:
"If the player has no Poké Balls when they are prompted to capture Eternatus, one will appear in their bag.
It is also the first Legendary Pokémon that can be caught with any Poké Ball without the chance of failing."
I used the Gen 8 Catch Rate Calculator, and it gets even crazier
If your Pokemon is the same level as eternatus or higher, you can catch Eternatus with a regular Pokeball, at full health with 44% chance of success. So you didnt even have to battle it
I remember all the memes that were made before this game came out. From the Scottish trainer, to corgis being pokemon, to the final battle being against the Queen and her army of corgis. That game would have been so much better then this.
Now I'm even more disappointed than I was before...
Having constant clipping between models in this age is like having a movie show the camera man every time a reflection is on screen. We have ways to solve the problem and it should be common knowledge to anyone making the media
Funny thing, around 2:20:00 you start talking about Pokerus. I remember back when X and Y first came out one of my pokemon caught Pokerus on the very first day after the release. My buddy and I hung out that day so we could play together, and I remember he freaked out a little bit when I showed him one of my mons with pokerus. Can't remember what first had it, sadly. Anyway I traded something with it to him so he could get it, and then he posted about it online somewhere and we started giving it out to other people and spreading it further with wondertrade. No idea if it's entirely true but we've always joked that I was patient zero for the 6th generation strain of Pokerus.
Cool!
The curry art is more detailed than the box art
It’s more detailed than the entire damn game let’s be honest here
I know and It looks f*cking delitious
@@santiagobarreraruiz7280 Agreed! I'd eat those.
Pokémon sweet and sour
Maybe they shield just stop with this sword of thing.
I can't get over how there's a gym leader who's entire gimmick is that he's a singer and they don't have him singing
yeah and Roxie's band actually kinda did sound like singing and playing even on DS in BW2!
THAT was a great gym
@@charliez077 P! O! K! E! M! ON! POKEMON!
The best part about that was how the music lost instrumentals and the Male vocals as you defeated the gym trainers.
That wad hilarious
@@charliez077 I loved that because there are actually multiple versions of her singing. In the Japanese version she sings D! O! G! A! R! S! DOGARS!(Koffing in Japanese, her favourite Pokemon)
the virgin Piers vs the chad Roxie
This video is longer than Sonic Forces
Haaaaa! Gottem.
It's longer than Sword and Shield counting only the main story.
The fact that's acctually true scares me
Longer than Doki Doki Literature Club
*It’s literally four times longer*
Fun fact, most of Sonia’s dialogue works really well if you interpret it as toxically passive-aggressive.
Was that intentional? Giving Sonia an actual voice would have cleared that up. Just another reason why there should have been voice acting in this game.
I can't help but wonder if you've seen BDG's nuzlocke, where he does this exactly thing xD
@@arleebean yep, that's exactly where i got it from :D
wait, isn't she? people need to try and interpret it like that? well color me impressed i though it was the whole idea of her character, being an annoying chat-box for plot points, jeez.
If the devs considered people that would Nuzlocke the game then I agree with you
I always found it hilarious that the player character was the only person in the entire world that took advantage of all 6 pokemon slots, like why does almost every trainer have 1-2 pokemon at most, and why are 90% of them exactly the same 5 pokemon over and over?
well, to be fair, taking care of 6 completely different animals is extremely hard
But yeah, is horrible from the gameplay perspective
@@sasir2013 Bold of you to assume literally anyone in this world actually takes care of their Pokemon
@@sasir2013 Lots of people have 10+ different pets at home hehe.
@@sasir2013 not really the same since pokemon gain shared XP and can take care of themselves.
@@TheReZisTLust I specifically said that I wasn't talking from the gameplay perspective XD
If this was really a Pokémon video you would have sold each of the first parts separately with stuff removed and then released this version a year later with all the stuff that should’ve been in the original separate parts as well as minor improvements.
Underrated comment.
You have to subscribe to his patreon to get the alternate version of the review, where he plays a copy of pokemon sword instead, where he says all of the same exact things but occasionally mentions a Pokémon Sword exclusive thing. 10 minutes of different content.
Needs more likes.
And, all of them are at full retail price
So this the Emerald version
I got flamed in the comment section of an ad for the games when I said, "they don't need to keep making two versions" thank you for saying it here
I will say it did give me a chance to have to replay the region without resetting a game (I try to complete Pokedexes so it's hard to do that) but Pokemon really should have multiple save files now (that's not loopholed with Switch).
@@zjzr08 MULTIPLE SAVE FILES WOULD BE SO AWESOME
i deleted my X save file so my mom could play it and its so annoying not having multiple
yeah, people don't understand that others can have a difference of opinion. Even when the difference makes sense.
I love Pokémon, and it's so hard to read any comment section of any of their ads because the simps for the game will always be far louder than anyone who has valid/constructive criticism.
My favourite part is when people say that the reason long term Pokémon fans don't like these games is nostalgia for the old ones or that they grew up. I never played a single Pokémon game and now I'm playing the DS ones (Black and Platinum) as a 30-year old and I think it would be embarrassing to even try to compare the new ones to them because of how hollow, plastic and rushed they are. It's not nostalgia or age, it's just that the older fans can easily tell that all the passion and dedication that used to be there is completely gone.
It's not nostalgia, it's having standards.
Hell, I never liked a Pokemon game since B&W, and I liked Scarlet.
No masterpiece and clearly rushed, but really fun and had a pretty good story.
Exactly platinum and b2w2 u can tell how much passion they had not just story wose but gameplay wise too usum was the last one after that some were decent scarlet and violet is getting there but the gameplay sucks and buggy
It seems they're struggling trying to innovate in the age of the more advanced 3D.
If we look at SSH and then Legends and then SV, it's an improvement.
But i think we're also at a point where the Switch itself is too underpowered and their game catridges too small to support more ambitions.
@@BoatLoadsofDope I find that hard to believe when the two Zelda games which look beautiful and have the open world exist on the Switch.
One more thing that may interest you:
The Pokémon removed in Sword & Shield apparently still appear in the Sword & Shield anime
Why is this relevant? Well, imagine being a kid, seeing a Pokémon you like in the anime, so you pester your parents to get you the game
Then, when you get it and play through it, you find out they're not in the bloody thing!
This is a very good point, I remember being confused when the anime looked more full of life than the gameplays lol
And then you beg your parents for Pokémon home or the dlc... And the Pokémon company gets money
@Christian McKee also very true. it definitely has a watered-down feel to it. The game and anime oof
This is a good point, I felt cheated as a kid not being able to get gen 2 pokemon when they appeared in the anime, couldn't imagine watching the anime and still seeing gen 2 pokemon I can't catch in the current version.
I mean Ho-Oh, Donphan, and Togepi weren't in Gen 1 either lol
People tried defending the national dex cut by saying "there are too many Pokemon, they can't fit all of them" and then the game came out and it used 10 of the 32 gigabytes available on a Switch cartridge.
I enjoyed playing Sword and Shield, but these games are flawed beyond belief.
well, and SD cards are dirt cheap.
pretty sure I have a 64g that I picked up for, what, twenty to thirty bucks at walmart?
I can accept that the full Dex is getting excessively large.
But cutting it in the first home console installation, when there's more room on the cartridge and less room taken up with the world's size and animations, it's fucking stupid.
@@FallingPicturesProductions Technically its the second home console release, the first being Pokemon xd gale of darkness on the Gamecube.
Also as a quick aside that name is dripping so much mid 2000s edge that Shadow the Hedgehog and Fallout: Brotherhood of steel are telling it to go get its corners sanded.
@@vaultdweller1386 I watched a playthrough of XD - and I don't think it was THAT edgy?
@@vaultdweller1386 What about Pokemon Stadium 1&2, Pokemon Collosseum and Pokemon Battle Revolution?
Lickitung being cut out is a tragedy because its german name is Schlurp and that's officially the funniest Pokemon name in existence
s c h l u r p
Ay yo hold up
REALLY
Have you considered foodpie for google translating caterpie and then translating it back. Or ejaculation salt ( incenaroar)
comment of the year here boys
Oh fun fact, it was discovered that Breath of the Wild uses a modified version of the Mii creator for its NPCs! Pokemon could LITERALLY just do that!!
Real Talk: Ya know what got me really annoyed by SwSh? The fact that it had a lighthouse that was tiny and not even accessable! Yet Gen 2 on the GBC had a huge one which was a dungeon
I hate how they just placed one of those rope things in front of the door.
Or I think route 2 where they show you one of Rose’s factories but you can’t even go in let alone walk to it.
@@elcocho1568 Ah the Route 2 Factory didn't bother me as much. Like Pre Ordering a Bethesda title. I learnt and now I can't be annoyed, just disappointed xD
The UK has a rich story of sailors and sea faring. Better make the water gym leader a pool side model in a city with no pools rather than a lighthouse keeper or something in the town with a lighthouse and a ton of boats and a pier.
x and y was so large and sw/sh just seems so small and dead
I'm kinda glad this was my first Pokémon game, because everything I've played since has been better, it's like everything is uphill
Your username should appear next to the definition of optimist, Webster, Get on it
hell yeah, lol. Any of the other 3D games are better and the 2D games are pretty different from those. My personal favorite 2D game is Heart Gold so you could maybe check it out if you're interested
Oh yea, all the other games are much better.
Though if you want to play some or them without emulation... be prepared to fork out a pretty penny...
£75 for Pokemon Black 2 nowadays at the cheapest with most being £100 or more.
Gen 5 is definitely when the series peaked so... I actually would buy it for £75 but that’s just me.
Edit: for me though, it’s either the older Pokemon games or bust.
Consider yourself lucky my friend. That right there is truly a privilege that cannot be understated. I hope you keep having fun
*IT'S LIKE A ROLLER COASTER*
*Removes mega cuz it's too strong*
*replaces it with 2 other mechanics that are more broken and way less cool or fun*
"We don't want people to feel like some Pokemon are privileged"
*Gives Charizard and Gengar another fucking form*
@@HondaBrandy right? Weren't we mixing zmoves and megas not too long ago
@@thanatoast gives meowth a regional form two generations in a row getting even uglier than the last somehow
The pokemon dex cut removed fletchling, but the weathervane on your house it zooms in on in the beginning is a fletchling weather vane.
I think this is more proof that the dex cut is just something they come up with up to the tail end of development. When the Flechling weathervane asset is made, they made the beginning of development cycle. This is something you can notice... You can see how the paths and town visuals in the beginning are more refined and better looking, and then it just became worse and worse as you proceed.
@@Clear1 The leaked prototype builds of Sword included quite a few unused Pokemon.
It's just utterly pathetic, and proves how morally and creatively bankrupt GameFreak has become.
@@Clear1 Doesn't make sense why it wasn't in the original regional dex if that's the case though, you would think the theming wouldn't have that if it is caught in extra circumstances.
@@Darkgun231 That doesn't prove that at all, all it proves is that fletching was planned to be in the base game.
Video games change as they go through production. Unforseen roadblocks emerge that delay the initially intended production schedule and as a result things get pushed back.
Then we have publishers like Nintendo and TPC who need their yearly releases to please the investors and don't take these delays into account with their deadlines, thus making it so that content has to be cut from the final product. It's got nothing to do with GF, they don't really get much of a say in it.
“welcome to the ghost type gym”
“now get in the pinball”
Lmaoo 😂😂😂 this comment 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I can't believe I just watched four hours of a guy convincing me to hate a game I already know I hate. Subscribed.
Pokemon is bringing people together...
I didn’t even know anything about Pokemon besides the basic concept, yet I enjoyed the whole video. As an ex-Bethesda Studios fan, I know how that sheer hatred feels.
Ikr, I haven't played a Pokémon game since Sapphire and Ruby, and yet I'll sit here and watch a train wreck in slow motion haha.
I feel like I’m the only person who actually likes the new gen games. The old ones sucks so bad I’m sorry they were so boring I-
@@reap3514 I just got bored of the stories, the writing has never been super amazing, there's always 1 or 2 evil teams, 1 to 2 pokemon champions, a global catastrophe, and a couple of random character tropes tossed in for spice, rinse lather and repeat 🤷♂️
you know what funny, after playing this again I realised that the player charecter barely had any interest in doing the gym challenge considering you dont even know what it is at the begining but the game treats it like its something theyve always wanted and not just a "meh may aswell " kind of thing
All of pokemon is your character just walking tword the next objective and some shit going down then them begrudgingly dealing with it.
@@robertharris6092 LMAO truth
This is a really good idea for a future pokemon game. But gamefreak won't do it because they can't make a current pokemon game properly.
It's always been this way. I wish there was a good reason for it like "making our father/mother proud" or some sht like that. Doesn't have to be anything too deep but at least make it more believable than "I just left home a month ago and I already beat the last gym leader because I could". I guess Scarlet/violet made it a little better with the school thing but even then we kinda just do it because we can and that's it.
People always use Gen V's circle map as an example of how "Pokémon has always been linear/linear for a long time" in defense of Sword/Shield's bare-ass routes, but I replayed those games recently and there's so much more to find and explore and battle in those routes that it doesn't really matter if the map is a big circle, there is plenty to explore if you care to. Sword and Shield is like Unova Routes if only they only had the main path (which is usually an actual road or trail, which I always found a nice touch) and nothing else.
well said my dude
Exactly! On route 1 alone there's already a bramhc off into entirely optional routes! There's big dungeons like Pinwheel forest, Twist Mountain, and Chargestone Cave. And within those dungeons there's branching paths for extra trainers and items and legendary dens even. Unova may look linear, but there's 1000x more exploration than Swsh or even SM.
@@mysticdigital5936 This channel is nice but not very smart,
so i go around and randomly recommend
'Genetically Modified Sceptic'.
What I liked about Gen 5's exploration is that the dungeons were massive. To this day I'm not sure if I've explored the entirety of Chargestone Cave.
@@TheAntlionGuard "Dungeons"?
?
It took me 2 hours and 42 minutes to realize why he was upset every time Sonia gave him revives.. God im slower than Regigigas
Wait I don’t get it-
_oh_
She’s giving him _revives,_ on a _nuzlocke_
@@-AirKat- hey, more money
I mean you probably forgot it was a nuzlock most of the time
Don't worry, we all get a Slow Start sometimes. I did find it strange the first time but the second one it clicked and was like "Oh, right. Nuzlocke rulez".
I am kinda doing a sun/moon nuzzlocke and I get revives all the time as well and it's just so funny xD
It makes the games look even worse when you see just how much personality and love is in the animated sword and shield shorts, especially since all the characters in them also have VOICE ACTING.
Even the anime is super pleasing IMO! It’s super cared for even if it’s a bit weird being a soft reboot. Absolutely love how ash goes back and meets old gym leaders and shows others around where he’s been! It’s super world building and just so pleasing.
Wait, shorts? Where?
The shorts are utterly fantastic, but the problem is that they decided to do them instead of using the money to put the stories, detailed animation, and voice acting in the game they’re based on instead. They’re basically just fancy marketing since they’re on TH-cam so they’ll get recommended to people who may or may not buy the 60$ game. Their strategy is 90% marketing, 9% toys and side products, and 1% for game budget.
Well I went and watched them because of this comment, had more enjoyment from 8 shorts than I did in the entirety of Sword.
Even if it did have better graphic, voice acting,and had all the Pokemon I think it would still suck cause the game is just boring.
In Britain the two most iconic animals on insignia are the lion, commonly seen on government letters and buildings. And the Swan, which is seen as the animal of the British royal family.
Neither Swanna or Pyroar are in the game.
I previously would've guessed that pyroar would have been added trough some dlc because, money. But no, ig not.
But a monkey and elephant are in the game - you know, animals native to the British Isles...
But nah, let's give charizard more forms cuz kanto pandering. 🤦🏽♂️
@@veggsbacon1891 Charizard isn't even the coolest Kanto pokemon lmao
You say that like Gamefreak gave a shit
Fun fact, with dlc you can catch/evolve over 500 pokemon before the first gym... You can basically complete the pokedex and have a full team of legendaries before murking grass boi
Trainer: *sends out Necrozma*
Milo: Hahah! I'm in danger
@@giroandkarin2822 "Go FireChicken!"
"Did he say firech- OH MY GOD RUUUUN!"
@@gogetenks001 *with speed boost*
I'm just imagining casually a child throwing a Reshiram at a Gym Trainer and making them question their life decisions.
It's honestly funny the more such thoughts enter my head XD
Just wanna point out that Chairman Rose disowns Bede and then they never interact with each other ever again.
Almost like he disowned him
@@exzyyd392 yeah, but you'd think after he turns his attitude around and strives to become a better person, that Chairman Rose, who was basically his foster Dad would acknowledge him and admire how much he's grown. Or maybe Bede would take issue with Chairman Rose, the man who disowned him, trying to bring about the Darkest Day, as that seems pretty hypocritical. But nope. Nothing.
@@AC_Dragneel Chairman Rose clearly shows he barely even remembers him when the two first interact on-screen.
Why would you think that interaction would take place? The whole point is that Bede is obsessing over a man who doesn't give a shit about him and working too hard and too carelessly to please him.
I'm not calling this grade-A writing or anything, but you can argue he grows up a bit when he finally stops caring about the Chairman's approval.
@@Lucifronz ok, so then why wouldn't he come join us in stopping Chairman Rose bring about the Darkest Day? Typically when you write an arc in a story, you establish it, develop it and conclude it. But Chairman Rose disowning Bede is just one little note in the story that start and ends in that scene and is never brought up again. My point is that it was clearly lazy writing and much like how they forgot to have a villain until the very end of the game, they forgot they even wrote this immediately.
I dont unserstand why people are defending gamfreak in this commonent section
Also with the fossils, they are created by the character “Cara Liss” which is a joke on how “Careless” they were on putting the fossils together. Sensational comedy.
I wonder if she was behind the development of the game too?
@@cshjp boom roasted! 😂
@@10tailedbijuu yea I know that’s the joke
What?
"hilarious".
14:59
*THANK YOU*
"They have always done this since the beginning" does not make it any less scummy and they have no excuse for it now.
At least with the older games, you could argue it encourages interaction. But these days, we have internet, so it is a thing that definitely needs to go.
I'm pretty sure they give you the option to....I dunno......not buy 2 different versions of the same game. The fact they keep making money off this shows less about how scummy they are and more about how gullible and desperate their consumers are
@@afifmajid8754 Explain the DLC expansions that are exclusive between the versions then.
It can be both, it's really not mutually exclusive. It's a completely outdated """feature""" made obsolete due to the accessible nature of the internet.
The company can't be unaware of the fact that some of their consumers cannot help themselves when their collection is incomplete or are getting an incomplete experience.
Maybe they bought both us because of trade evolution (I hate trade evolution)
@@1dayago843 you just proved yourself wrong
did ... a budew just use fusion flare?
Yup. Make me remember when I used to hack Pokémon in BW
@@RaspyCh would be funny if it was a event budew. aborted so much sun energy , starting channeling the power of TRUTH
@@SuperUnknownPerson that would definitely make up for the lack of hidden power in gen8, with regards to roserade.
Budew with Fusion Flare?
I call....
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKS!
@@douglasthequilava be a really funny event pokémon tho
2:08:55 Actually, Morpeko has a very strong and competitively viable signature move with some decent stats. There's no way you'd know this however because MARNIE NEVER USES IT!
that's because it would add some form of difficulty if she did
and gamefreak can't handle difficulty
Aura Wheel?
@@CesarTorres61296 Yep! 110 base damage, changes type with Morpeko's form change, and grants some Speed when used. I'm also fairly sure it has 100 accuracy, but it might just be 95.
@@Deadflower019 yup, 100 accuracy
@@t.o.d4868 I mean it's the runner up for the best electric type move according to WolfyVGC who, by the way, got to number one in the world *with* Morpeko.
"Pokemon Gun" is still my favorite joke about this generation.
No Pokemon Spear :(
@@athanasshia Pokemon Trebuchet will never exist >:'(
Pokemon Bow
no wait, that was one of Su/Mo starters (Decidueye)
Eternatus is a giant living canon.
@@Nosretep Tru dat, but imagining a wolf with a giant gun on it's back is also pretty funny.
For almost the entire game I thought Bede was a pissed off old lady who was never allowed to become a trainer because she had to work to support a family, then she's finally retired and is determined to become the champion now and prove everyone wrong who never believed in her, and she becomes your rival because she's just sick of children getting the chances she didn't have.
And frankly I think that would have been much more interesting.
God damn that is so much cooler than just a weird looking little shit
@@Droid_2332 thank you!
You know that picture of the REALLY big book next to the incredibly thin book? The character you've described is the big one, and the Actual Bede is the little book
@@Sugardrop50 aw you flatter me! I'm just sad that it's not even a particularly complex idea but is still better. And it's not like Pokémon characters have ever been super deep on average, but compared to that book meme, it's so disappointing to see that they're becoming a single sheet of paper.
I'm so glad someone else thought Bede was an old lady. When I first saw him I thought "Wow, this is a really unique rival!" I wish no one ever corrected me...
my biggest problem was with the region itself, as a brit I was really excited for galar as they seemed to do a really good job of adapting france and hawaii, so you can imagine my disappointment when the region was essentially a corridor with elements about the good things of england more watered down than squash at a birthday party. there's no life, no little villages with amazing bakeries and cafes, no big seaside towns with telescopes and feebas and chip shops, and the cities that did make it were horrendous, spikemouth is obvious but ballonlea is bad too, and there are only 2 enterable buildings in the entirety of turfield, and the less said about hmmerlocke and wyndon the better
Y u p
Same. Like they even made Hawaii's artificial island in sun and moon but the uk game only gets england if it was one village? No ireland or wales, and it's a push but I suppose the crown tundra is meant to be scotland. I'd have even settled if each country had one town in game and they were massive stereotypes. Make ireland a village with all green buildings, they all talk really fast and they all love milkshakes or something. Have Scotland filled with people shouting and insulting you but all being really helpful and nice, have all the buildings have completely different architecture (looking at you glasgow) and have them love like a rival drink thing from the Ireland town. And I'm sure Wales has interesting things too. But I'm amazed at how half assed it all is. Like theres only one set of football hooligans, would have been great if each gym leader had their own insane fans
@@craigbolton2231 tfw you can't think of anything interesting fir wales.
@@robertlupa8273 still more than Nintendo thought to include in the game haha. I'm sure Wales has something going on. Got a few decent comedians but I know nothing of the country
We brits got dragged through the mud in representation
In my opinion, Hop should have decided to become a Pokemon Ranger. Rangers help pokemon and people more than professors do, but knowing Gamefreak, they forgot that Pokemon Rangers even exited.
Considering there hasn't been a Ranger game in years, I doubt they remember at all.
Pokemon has become a logicstic nightmare bro😂 Cut Gamefreak a break
ooooh I have a dsi, I know what I'm replaying.
@@bryana.escaleralopez nah fam, you're part of the highest grossing ip of all time you don't get a break lol
@@bryana.escaleralopez You're just seemingly copying a certain video's PoV without noticing the fact there are questions that needed to be answered in the side of Game Freak before we have full judgement...the games still earn a lot anyway despite being a relatively small part of the earnings of the franchise.
GameFREAK made 80% of their region grassy and boggy, 10% icy and rainy because that's Britain, and then they realized they wanted more areas and so they stuck 5 different biomes in the last 10%... and then stuck it all next to each other
funny how a moslty grassy region and 1 snow place is the basic formular since gen1.
You can't make this shit up lmao
Just like the famous desert temples in new york being represented in Unova.
@@henrycowen8164 Unova was kind of a half-done American Stereotype region. We still had tons of Japanese stuff in the game like the Ice Gym Leader, The Genie Trio, Throh and Sawk, etc..
They could have gone with the Grand Canyon, Hollywood, and the rest of Unova tbh. I don't think we could do a pokemon lore version of Mount Rushmore... unless it literally was a few statues of the Swords of Justice (even though they are technically French Pokemon)
@@henrycowen8164
Yeah! Hey, remember how New York has a marshland that constantly freezes over into a pristine winter wonderland?
You touched on a point I really appreciated- Mentioning that you criticize this so much not because you hate Pokémon, but because you love it and want the best for it. This was a point I tried so hard to stress to my friends who openly, repeatedly and to this day (Seriously? People still defend all this scummy shit to this day? Surprises me every time) mocked me for hating dexit, and hating how lazy Swoosh looked, felt, and seemed through all that we saw. For the first time in my life, I didn't pre-order a Pokémon game. And I'm someone who liked Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, still kind of do! Granted, I think USUM should have been the only ones we got, as they make SuMo essentially... pointless, even more so than sister third games of the past, but...
Swoosh just felt insulting. That's what it is, at the end of the day- a true feeling of being insulted. Masuda's non-statement about the backlash to dexit is now the gold standard of non-committal 'we hear you, we see you' trash replies that I use whenever I need an example of the archetype.
And, of course, it still broke records. As far as I know, they are still the two best-selling games on the Switch? (Please tell me I'm wrong.) At this point, Game Freak could take a dump in a box, slap a Pokémon sticker on it, and still shatter records, and that makes me sad, because... that's what they're doing.
Ultra Sun and Moon changed a bunch of shit that was done better in Sun and Moon. So it failed at being the better version, further making it the worst third version in the series. Plus it didn't fixed the handholding, and how even by the last island you still feel like you are in tutorial land.
Sword and Shield only sold as well as it did because it was the first actual mainline title on an home console and not some bad remake of generation 1 with pokemon go mechanics.
@@okagronTell that to Scarlet and Violet. Pokemon will always sell, because so much of the audience are either ignorant children or fanboys with no self respect
I will say , i still consider sun and moon and ultra sun and ultra moon to be really good games, they were imperfect , but were an evolution of the pokemon gameplay that i felt was pretty good.
@@okagron I don't consider them the worst third version , for me that would go to either crystal or yellow , cause they change so little it's almost meaningless.
'This is not an XY review... unless you want it to be...'
I for one would love me a 4 hr XY review
The review would be longer than the game's story
@@majidsoprano93 More engaging too
@@AdumskaH lol right
The Sand-Snake is meant to be like this.
Lockstin has a video about that, too.
Check it out.
Its worth it.
Weird that he does know the Coral-Pokemon-Video
of Lockstin but not the Matter-of-the-Snakes.
And:
2:37:30: EXCELLENT POINT!!! I SAY THIS FOR YEARS! DECADES EVEN! Yes, i say this for longer than Pokemon exists now!! ...Wait... what did i just say? Ah, whatever. You get the gist.
Yessss
Jim Sterling put the current model of Pokemon games quite well- the only reason no one cares that they sell the same game twice is because the notion of trading monsters between friends was new in the 90s, and the different versions were made to capitalise on it. People don't call out Nintendo for still selling the same game twice because its just part of Pokemon, but if EA or Activision or Ubisoft tried it today everyone would be in uproar over it.
Haha "uproar"
You really dont need to buy both copies. Either get it from your friends or go onto reddit or discord and find people willing to trade.
Hell, there was an uproar when Fire Emblem released 2 games at the same time with (kinda) different stories. Even Nintendo can't get away with the Pokémon model. Guess we should be thankful they didn't think to make Pokémon go into two different mobile apps
@@recino2 only that fire emblem lets you download the alt path of the other game with a discount while being distinctive enough on its own, it's not just the same game with a different roster of characters. Pokemon doesn't even give you a discount for the few pokemon that do change and expects you to have pokemon home now if you want to fill the national dex (should it ever return)
@@PancakemonsterFO4 And to add to that, Three Houses have 4 distinct paths with major plot and level differences, and an added dlc side story. Even Zelda got to it first with my personal favorites, the Oracle games, being 2 completely seperate games released at the same time.
BEST DAMN JOKE IN THIS WHOLE THING
Pokemon Direct:
'You might... ..spy a mysterious shiny tree growing where it doesn't seem to belong'
RadicalSoda:
'Man don't know about you guys but I have already seen enough trees that look they don't belong didn't know it was a selling point!'
1:58:06: SERIOUSLY.
I mean, dont call me nitpicking, but this alone
triggers me, cause this is a Top-Shelf-Franchise,
a BIG Seller. So yes, i could actually
dare to expect a whole Detective-Conan-Episode here!!
But listen. Listen. Listen. AT LEAST make the smallest Plot Twist!
I mean, how many billion Yen would it have cost to just make one
of the Humans have done it and smeared some berry-juice onto the
pokemon to frame it!! That at least, or even more: Let him talk
real quick about how he did it cause he's Racist against that one pokemon-species!!
He didnt take his medication today, so thats why the 'bad thoughts' about
that Squirrel came back today!! Get it??
How many years of planning does this take to tenfold improve this scene?!?!
How much did it cost?
I’ve seen this review so many times now. Great replay value, something that can’t be said about Sw/Sh.
I'm looking forward to his one on S/V
@@mrfhd6227 think he's done with pokemon
I hate that the games sold well and all people say is "oh now you have standards" like... do you not?
It just encourages the higher ups to continue this cutting corners technique and hurts both the fans and employees.
listen man i just wanna play some pokemon and if it keeps me busy for like 2 hours its worth it to me
wish their games werent overpriced as shit tho
Nintendo fans are Brainwashed it's bad
@@aqua.dot908 prime example
@@muby102 listen man, i still think the newer ones are pretty shit when compared to the older ones but a game is a game to me :/
I understand Galar is based on the UK... But they really could've done more than soccer... They could have went for Rugby, Golf, or Cricket outfits. Like having all the leaders and champion just wear soccer outfits was kind of unimaginative imo.
Also, huge missed opportunity would've been any knight or fairy or more monsterous classical fantasy pokemon.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of the devs didn't knew that Cricket is a thing.
@@budakbaongsiah Probably not. I only know about Cricket from Elementary school. From what I understand Cricket is only big in the UK and India. Which
@@sketchstevens5859
Yeah, Cricket is only big on Commonwealth countries.
Soccer ain't British
@@cursedbulb Pretty much them Spain and South America are the most intense about it.
Watching Pokemon slowly die while Gamefreak and the Pokemon Company pull a hollywood and try to squeeze every last cent out of this franchise is killing me inside.
Welcome to ShowBiz Baby~
3:11:56 Just a correction. They are not based on British paleontologists mixing things up, but a pair of American ones called "Cope & Marsh" who basically had a rivalry so intense that they were rushing to discover and name animals faster and kept putting heads on tails and wrong heads on etc etc. There is no records of British paleontologists doing this. I know how overly UK-inspired the game is, but this isn't one of them.
Oh thank you for this. I actually thought it was British ones..but no that sounds like us Americans lmao
This is right, the only paleontological blunder in the UK was the fake "missing link" fossil that lead to Homo Sapiens. Took decades for people to finally debunk it.
Dudes name is Cope lmao
In my opinion I think this generation's starters look way too human in their final evolutions. It creeps me out. In the first game the final evolutions of the starters are so cool! You feel super cool commanding a giant cannon turtle, a big ol dinosaur, or a badass fire breathing dragon.
This generation is a soccer player, a drummer, and a secret agent. Those are just jobs. Like if they weren't stuck with you they could have a full on career for themselves.
I really agree in all honesty. I took a moment to question why I didnt like the designs but I noticed that all 3 of them being so humanoid bothered me too much. I actually can make the plant type one slide as he is a gorilla, which is pretty humanoid already even if they could have designed him to be less human-like I believe.
The fire type feels honestly both too humanoid in its figure and just over designed. Too many details and abstract shapes clutter his design and dont really make him look like a Pokemon.
The water type though doesnt really have proper human anatomy, the hands and just general lanky humanoid features are way too off putting.
Its interesting for me to compare them to 6th gen starter evolutions as those even though they are supposed to be fantasy themed after the rogue, mage, and Paladin trio, they never really felt overly humanoid. Greninja is really well designed, he is bipedal like a human but his anatomy is distinct enough where he doesnt look like a man in a suit or stylized human. Same goes for the 2 others in my opinion.
@@badreddinekasmi8919 Gen 7 Pokemon were inspired by different rpg classes too. Chesnaught being a Warrior, Braxien being a Mage, Greninja being a Thief, Decidueye being an Archer, Incineroar being a Monk (Well I can kind of see it), and Primarina being a Bard. Gen 8 decided to break from that pattern, but it clearly didn't seem to work out.
Honestly even though it might sound kind of basic, I can't exactly hate on the rpg class idea. While it may seem like they might have limited themselves on what they could do with the designs of starter pokemon I like the designs of most gen 6 and 7 starters. I wasn't the biggest fan of Decidueyes final evolution going from Grass/Flying to Grass/Ghost I wasn't aware it was going to do that so it kind of screwed up my team composition. My favorite starter lineup is Incineroars which seems to be an unpopular choice, especially with some people being salty about him being added to Smash.
A main rule of thumb that I saw someone bring up recently when it comes to starter design is can you imagine all 3 forms of each starter in somewhere in the wild? The anime helps with visualizing this also showing that sometimes fully evolved pokemon take care of the pre evolved forms. The only starter pokemon I just can't picture in the wild are Incineroar (kind of a shame), and Inteleon. Incineroar, unlike its pre-evolutions is kind of difficult imagine being in the wild. Presumably its typical personality would have it take on pokemon like Charizard, Dragonite, and other big powerhouse pokemon. But its connection to modern human wrestling is just a little too on the nose. Inteleon is the same way since it clearly takes inspiration from modern day spys. It's easy to imagine all forms of the other water starters in the ocean, rivers, and lakes. Inteleon is the exception. I don't take mega evolution into account because it's made clear both in the games and the anime that a strong bond with a trainer is required for pokemon to mega evolve making it artificial.
@@joelss22 I see Incineroar more like a berserker/barbarian to be honest.
@@taloscal That too like I said love Incineroar to death. It almost took the spot for my favorite pokemon but Lucario just has more sentimental value to me him being added in smash first and making young me cry sacrificing himself in his movie. My third favorite would be Garchomp. A fearsome trio indeed.
Throwing my two cents in, i was insulted when fairy gym leader chose bede for being “pink”
I was the literal definition of pink. pink hair, clothes, and pokemon during my gym fight. But sure bede’s purple coat is more pink, grandma lookin ass.
Lol
i think she said in the dialogue about it involving a sort of pink personality as well
I had the same scenario. I was using ALL FAIRY TYPES (dual types) and WEARING ALL PINK and yet i didnt qualify lol
I like the idea of becoming a gym leader in the games
@@grey8478 I'd like to know what a pink personality is supposed to look like...
I seriously wonder if anyone actually thinks, "they're just kid's games", is a good argument in defense of these games, when super mario odyssey, and breath of the wild were released on the same console years before
My personal belief is that the argument that "It's just a kids game." To try and wave away criticism is beyond stupid. The fact that it's a kids game should be more of an incitive to make it good. If I had kids I wouldn't let them play this stuff, because it's low quality. Kids deserve better than this.
The mark of something thats good and made for kids, is something that they enjoy as kids and will come back to many years later and still find something to enjoy. As a kid I loved Pokemon Red, as an adult I have a lot of nostalgia for it and can see, despite being very primitive compared to later games it had a lot of good design choices and interesting broken mechanics that makes it fun to play.
@@MrSupersonic2012 exactly, there are so many games for kids, that I played in my childhood to the present day, that I could replay and still enjoy them
@@scarletnight4554 Exactly. I had a conversation with my stepbrother around Christmas. We were talking about cartoons from our childhood and present day. I told him that I can rewatch a lot of those older shows, because there's things to enjoy as an adult viewer and then I asked him if he could imagine his kids watching the cartoons they have nowadays when they're our age. He said "No, I can't. And I'd be very surprised if they did."
They do, and they're idiots.
Even if it was "a kids game" it's still poorly done. My 12 year old sister played this and 30 minutes in, she started complaining with how much handholding there was. And she's been playing complex Rom hacks with me like pokemon unbound and volt 2 and what not, and she has well over 300 hours on them. Again, this is a 12 year old girl. Kids are smart, they don't need this amount of retardation in their games.
Pokemon really REALLY needs to innovate and expand.. they have coasted for far too long.. they make so much money.. this is just insane..
not just that. like they do yeah but they are have loads of features that were good not in for previous gens and all previous gens have better designs although that started going downhill with unova which made up for it in other ways. Liek simple things as adding back follow pokemon (I guess they did in the DLC...) seasons, day/night cycle etc etc
@@kamikoto1558 You can thank the fans. :l
Unfortunately they are still coasting and if anything have only gotten worse
Ah yes, my most intense rivals in pokémon: They're either a life-long friend who's struggling with self confidence issues or a small child literally dying of asthma. Thanks Game Freak!
Wally was great, even though he only shows up twice in the game.
Would be great if two of them weren't struggling the exact same
Back to back even
But ya know
Lazy :v
@@IGSA101 He did show up a lot more I think in ORAS but unlike Hop he truly struggled in his journey - the other protagonist is argurably the better rival IMO.
@@zjzr08 The other protagonist becomes friendly but starts out really condescending. It makes them feel like an actual rival. I really don't like when people say Blue and Silver are the best rivals because they don't feel like rivals, rivalry is supposed to be mostly friendly competition. Those two aren't that.
@@IGSA101 I dunno, rivalry as a term is simply dedicated competitor to me, that's why the term friendly rival is there to differentiate.
I think it says a lot that during the dlc direct NO ONE IS SMILING, not even trying. They're not proud of what they're pushing out AT ALL.
They look dead inside.
Right? Like look at the Sora Smash reveal. Sakurai was smiling, making jokes, getting laughs. Multiple times during that stream, I thought "Sakurai's so adorable!"
But it's purely business in the DLC Direct and not even business you get the impression they're happy about
They look terrified.
Pokemon legends arceus better be fuckin the best game ever programmed to make up for Dexit, and they even handed off the DP remakes to another studio entirely, so all of their staff should have been focused on PLA.
the videogame industry is dead
This, is my type of video. It's long, it never feels boring or drawn out, and it is absolutely brimming with passion.
Sort of reminds me of the countless fights I had against you on Wii Sports
And Elgato.
i don't know why this was recommended to me but i am infatuated with how in distress and deranged this game has made you. subscribed.
The tower scene makes no sense. You're straight up just committing a crime by any logical look at the situation and you only know you're "right" because of the way the narrative frames it. And while Rose is acting sinister, he isn't holding Leon hostage. They ARE just in a tense meeting.
i thought the same like wtf?
Gotta do what you gotta do when Leon’s paying for the meal I guess :/
It's like they wanted to replicate the Saffron City part in Kanto, where you're going through the building to rescue the CEO from Team Rocket, except they forgot to actually make it a rescue mission because Leon isn't in danger.
Yeah, like you're literally committing multiple crimes just because your buddy's big brother is in a meeting with his boss that is running late and the two of you are too impatient to wait for him, justifying it by claiming that he must be in some sort of danger that two kids, only one of whom is competent, are better equipped to handle than he is, despite his reputation literally being legendary.
So you and your buddy and your other buddy team up with your other buddy's rock star brother who is also a gym leader to trespass on public property, assault the employees, and ultimately beat up a secretary.
The music has no business being that intense and upbeat.
And is not even the most fucked up thing of this game, at least storywise.
to add to other glaring omissions from the dex that makes no sense, snubbull and granbull the pokemon based on BRITISH bulldogs are somehow not in sword and shield.
Swanna too for the royal swans lol urrgghhh
This annoys the shit out of me
Yeah... but that was also mentioned in the video. Somewhere. Fuck me, I think I would have better chances of finding a needle than those 5 seconds.
Solrock and Lunatone weren't in (Ultra) Sun & Moon: why break tradition?
Who cares about them, when we have got YAMPER.
Making a pokemon big is the most primitive and cave man way of making it stronger, mega evolution was so much cooler
@@HondaBrandy I believe people hated megas because they obliterated the competitive scene for a good while, and there were the usual pokémon getting preferential treatment. Most casual players loved them.
@@HondaBrandy I honestly don't know much about competitive pokémon so I'mma pass on trying to answer you there. xD
I'm just parroting an opinion I saw many competitive pokemon content creators have.
@@HondaBrandy It's about balancing and adding those who can add another angles to battle strategy but won't centralize it.
@@veradrost9654 They could've just NOT put a mega on their team.
@@joshuabennett8256 I think you misunderstand the word "Competitive". You don't have much of a choice. The vast majority could agree not to use them and there'd still be a huge risk that one person ignores the agreement and crushes everyone as a result.
Casuals in their own games though? Ignore them all you like.
You didn't rate this fairly, you rated it as a game when it is just supposed to be a cash grab. It deserves a 10/10 cuz it was so successful at scamming Pokemon fans.
I'm an idiot for falling for the pokemon switch hype. Waste of money
@redloiyu654jay scavio is more worth it imo
@@beepobeepo it's not stfu
I don't understand how people don't realize that they are totally being fed dogs**t by gamefreak
@@johnkenneth8746 I realized that when Diamond/Pearl wasn't as interesting as Ruby/Sapphire, and then Black/White was so boring that I didn't bother fighting the Elite Four. As an adult, I revisited the first three generations on emulator, and I had lots of fun with all of them. Anything past that is so boring that it can't keep my attention.
This game is so bad that I’ve watched like 15 hours of videos shitting on it and haven’t gotten bored once.
I've probably been more entertained by people shitting on it than I was playing it.
Grinding to a full team of level 100 before the first gym because it's just that fucking easy and I'd be irritated by any actual challenge that arose because it could be fixed so easily did NOT help either.
@@Deadflower019 That’s depressing
@@parkingmeters2646 If you are Big Brain High IQ enough to watch Radical Soda,
you are also qualified to now watch HBomberguy... MAYBE!
I didn't even buy Sword and Shield and I feel ripped off.
I have seen no Video or even hour-long Documentary yet that
MANAGES to list ALL the problems and issues.
None.
So all the more reason you should watch many videos
and documentarys about this, as its overall like a Puzzle.
Yeah, like a Puzzle.
And HOPEFULLY that makes you all adapt the mindset to
not be Gamefreak's B++++ and instead watch Reviews BEFORE BUYING,
and dont ever buy if the Reviews all say its Trash. OKKKKK? Yessss?
Can we do that?
@@slevinchannel7589 what
@@slevinchannel7589 What??
It's because now you have to wait even longer just so you can get at least decent content. So yes, you were ripped off
As a lifelong Pokémon fan who didn't buy this game, I feel ripped off because this crushed my dreams of what a core Pokémon on console could be.
The worst part, to me, is the DLC. There was a time I would have celebrated it. Almost every game since the first ones have had a version later on that's basically the "complete" one. Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, etc.
If they had decided to release DLC to add more stuff instead of trying to force me to buy the game twice, I would be okay with that.
But with the base game being so empty, it falls into the category of DLC that feels like a chunk ripped out of the game and sold separately.
When they announced the cut-down Pokedex, my first thought was, "If they release the cut Pokemon as DLC, I'm going to scream." And lo, was it so.
Except they didn't even do THAT right since there are still a LOT of Pokemon that aren't in it.
Even worse, IIRC right after they announced that the dex was being cut, they were asked multiple times if there were plans to add pokemon back later, whether as an update, expansion, or DLC. They said no. No plans to do that at all. I think they kept saying it up to release. And then a few months later, oops we lied again. tee-fucking-hee.
main thing i hate is there are several pokemon that require a choice of two... but to get the most from the DLC, you still need to trade anyway, its not really a choice, why pretend it is when in order to fill the pokedex for crown tundra we need to pick ONE horse when there are TWO, same for the Regis, which is even worse because you need all five to get Regigigas.
its not a choice, but an illusion of choice, just fucking making the two pokemon version exclusives for god sake.
@@TheAuron32 I actually appreciate the choice, because all I have to do to get the other is move my pokemon up to Home, delete my save, start over, and download my team.
@@shadowtheimpure or make a new profile like i did...
its still a long slog though, i just feel it was fake choice, you still need to mess around just to get the both of them.
3:24:55 The funny thing is, Sun & Moon, the immediately prior games *fixed this*. If you lost the title in the league's final fight, whoever beat you would be sitting in the champion's seat when you came back. They would be champion, not you. And that's how it should be in Sw/Sh too, but it's just not.
Sword and Shield shills : You can't criticize the game if you haven't played it
Also Sword and Shield shills : lol you're saying all that about the game but you still bought it
Exactly
@@espurrseyes42 Hoops has many Videos on the
Name-Origins and/or Design-Origins.
Those will fill your logic-gaps and
make you understand way more.
-Just saying.
@@slevinchannel7589
What does that have to do with the PokeSIMP hypocrisy of devaluing your criticism for not playing the game, but then devaluing your criticisms because you bought the game?
@@RyanKirkland05
True.
To be fair, the bar is set pretty low for pokemon fans in terms of IQ This is a fandom that finds ice sliding puzzles difficult and freaks out over silhouettes. Christ, even the Super Mario Bros fandom got fed up when Nintendo kept releasing New Super Mario Bros games that were pretty interchangeable. Not the Pokemon fans though. Nope. In fact, they actually get upset when gym battles aren't at the center of everything.
This video is literally longer than the fucking Pokemon game. Damn.
It's the Sonic Forces of Pokemon Games
@@dotproduct335 AUTOMATION. HOW FAAAAAAAAAAAANTASTIC
This is a first for Pokémon fans but as a sonic fan I'm used to this happening
I hate being _that_ guy but...*than
@@VanillaVillain8 Thanks for the call out. It's been corrected.
What? Me? Watching just a supercut of his Pokemon S/S review even though I've watched all the individual videos? I mean, it's my favorite youtuber, of effin course I am.
Same here, bro
Lmao same
Just finished watching them through again the other night. Oh well, fuck it.
ohhh it's a supercut. that explains things
Same
It's astounding how well this video aged considering what we've gotten since this game came out.
no, the framerate drops are just as that old 4chan leak said, it's a mess at a programming level because apparently, Gamefreak has never been good at it, so many glitches, framerate drops, memory bloat,etc. are there because of how bad GF handles it
That is probably why they chose a setting that has a lot of fog.
Which i honestly couldnt care less about if they had all the pokemon.
Anyone else afraid of what the Sinnoh remakes could be after sword and shield being released? That is if they even bother making it.
At this point, I just hope they don't, or get a completely different director.
yes, thats all i have to say is just yes.
Lets just hope that now that gamefreak moved into the nintendo hq they will help them just like satoru iwata did back in the day since they really need people that can code because the game code for sword and shield is a mess
Better question, would they take out the fact Pokémon and humans used to marry (and thus fuck) in game??
@@zerotodona1495 waitwhat?
Digimon may not be as successful, but it’s gotten a hell of a lot more mature over the years.
Ironic that the “knockoff” is the one that ever attempts to *evolve.*
Pokemon itself is just a shallow knockoff of Dragon Quest 5 anyway. Only westerners seem to falsely think Pokemon is original.
@@DrCoeloCephalo wrong. Pokemon is a knockoff of Shin Megami Tensei
Not just mature but they at least have different stories with lively characters and technically Digimon and pokemon came out too close together for Digimon to be a knockoff. Not every monster involved show or game is a ripoff of pokemon, the premise is too generic for there not to be other stuff similar to it but that doesn't make it a ripoff
@@SpectreBagels
I hear ya.
I only said that because I assumed other people still thought that.
Us Digimon fans aren’t that underground, but we ain’t exactly mainstream either.
Knowhatimean?
@@SpectreBagels digimon is criminaly unrated for a franchise with much higher quality than pokemon currently is
1:41:56 Rillaboom is a combination of ''Rilly scary man who looks like he wants to hurt me'' and the word ''Boom'' LOL🤣
3:25:12 I've been saying this for the longest time: this game was obviously made for 3DS and optimized around 3DS limitations but nobody believes it. There's absolutely no way we'd end up with a mess like Sword/Shield if they started its development on the Switch, even Let's Go can boast a few things that 3DS wouldn't handle, S/S has _NOTHING_ .
Given that the Pokemon Direct came out not too long ago and showed Pokemon with TEXTURES to their models (Seviper having scales, Magnemite being metallic), this statement just becomes more true.
Yup! This thing was never supposed to be on a home console, they were already developing L:A and Scarlet / Violet for that. But they realized they could charge more money for a console game so they sloppily ported it. Glad I never spent money on this piece of shit.
Somehow, Arceus looks worse.
@@spookzie4208 For real, though. Arceus took Breath of the Wild, which had gorgeous environments, and just threw it together haphazardly.
Makes a ton of sense. It hardly looks much better than the 3DS titles. Just a few more polygons and a higher resolution.
How did Pokémon become tolerating the shitty story until you can competitive battle/shiny hunt? The best parts of a game should not be the unscripted parts to can do on your own. A damn shame
Yep. If only, back in Gen 5 they got the hint that YES people DO like a good story and a sequel to a game would be a lot more appreciated than a third game with pretty much the same story.
Gen 5 was when the series peaked and it’s all been downhill since, some games at slower or faster rates.
Its endgame syndrome where the game only starts after you beat it.
Ignoring the entire game for the endgame is a bad game.
@@BlueBD So Sonic Unleashed?
Literally the whole game just feels like it was built solely for competitive gameplay in mind. The world is a glorified corridor, the story is lackluster, and you can beat the game in a day without trying. Going out of your way to competitively play though, that's where the content is, where the fun can be found. The problem with casual Pokemon is that it's a strategy game where, outside of competitive, the best strategy is to spam your strongest move.
Which makes sense... because if you let the game itself be practically empty and add DLC that fills the void with more moves and Pokemon clearly made for competitive, and require players to get Pokemon Home and Nintendo Online so they can bring in their older Pokemon for competitive and use them better...
**JESUS FUCKING CHRIST GAMEFREAK.**
@@scottishboy112 nah, the story is still very mediocre for an RPG and the game suffers from the focused story by making it too linear otherwise and a very below average RPG.
“Olianna didn’t sit on our face, but we’ll still be smelling fish.”
God that had me fucking rolling.
You can actully see Leon holding an ultra ball, but in the next scene, a broken pokeball rolls forward, good job game freak
High quality animations.
I know this as old comment, but I checked and he was actually holding a regular pokéball. It's just that his glove has a similar colour scheme to an ultraball so it looks like one at a glance.
@@dootdoot3065 ohhhh, +1 for gamefreak I guess
Where does he hold the ultra ball? I got to this point in the video, watched through, and I only saw a pokeball
The sad thing is that Gamefreak could make games called “Pokemon: Fuck” and “Pokemon: You” that only adds 1 new pokemon with reused animations and cuts the national dex and it would sell 10 million within a week.
Edit: Damn on second thought everyone would buy a Pokémon game with “Fuck” in the title so this would sell either way
OMG! Sounds like the most STUPENDOUS idea that I've ever hear in such a long time! Screw Game Freak for saying that they need to cut the National Dex and moves like Bubble and Pursuit for "Better animations."
*wheeeeeze*
I mean, continuing to sell a "double pack" of both games that isn't even cheaper basically IS the "fuck you".
@@fuzzydude64 I've never had an issue with Red and Blue/Ruby and Sapphire/X and Y/etc. or even Black 2 and White 2. You don't need the second game to have the full game experience. Especially today: just get online and trade. Blue wasn't enhanced by owning Red (White and Black might have been that way with Opelucid City or the other city unique to each version) I don't feel like that's a good argument.
I have more of an issue with the Emeralds, Crystal, Ultra Celestial Bodies, etc. being full price. Those are DLC sold for the same price. You paid for two games for one game with good DLC.
That technically has been addressed via DLC...unfortunately, SwSh was so incomplete, it didn't feel like an add-on or a proper sequel.
It felt like an incomplete game that lacked a satisfying post-game that finally got two good post-game episodes for the still incomplete game for $90.
Well, I’m not gonna sit here and pretend I wouldn’t buy them both
Also Game Freak really can‘t decide if they want their game easy or hard. The regular game was a cakewalk but the legendary dynamax adventures… Oh boy, little Timmy isn‘t getting his legendaries
I swear, Zygardy was cheating at the end of it, took me 5 hours to catch that prick
Just like the absurd difficulty spike of USUM when you fight Ultra Necrozma. Rest of the game was a hand holdy cake walk, that one ultra beast stood out. Then went back to piss easy.
the issue with Dynamx Adventures is the AI, like in the main games raids, are STUPID, you always get paired with pokemon weak to the thing you are fighting, if you do it with other people who you know, its not too bad BUT, you should not need that in a pokemon game.
@@hannahshark8080 what's your opinion on the USUM post game with team rainbow rocket
@@hannahshark8080 i decided to nuzlocke US blind and i though to myself "i have a darktype and 2 walls, i should be fine." I was not.
There might be a few comments talking about this already, but just in case there isn’t, the reason Gigantamax Kingler has that beard is because it’s actually referencing crabs in real life. When crabs are brought onto land and spend a while out of the water, foam bubbles start to form around their mouths as they breathe out a mixture of air and water, and it sort of looks like a beard.
so basically Kingler is having hard time breathing in its Gigantamax form?
@@wailmerwithinternetaccess7934 I guess if it’s going to be overanalyzed (definitely not the intention but it’s always fun to do), Kingler’s gigantamax is too large to hold the water it had in its body before and so has the bubble beard.
How does that make this dumpster fire any better?
@@Big_Dai No
@@Big_Dai I never said it did, Sword and Shield are still the worst excuses for games I've ever seen, it's just some fun trivia
4:54
It can also be argued that Fire emblem never had voice acting before but yet Fire emblem echos is the first game to implement full on voice acting. This later became the standard and now Fire emblem warriors and Fire emblem three houses also have full on voice acting and fire emblem is a really text heavy game, especially Three houses with it's 4 routes and tons and tons of supports. It's has much more text to voice act than Pokemon.
And if you are asking, yes it enhances the experience. You no longer have to read the dialogue during the story. Characters feel alot more expressive and likable, they can express emotions much better than a simple textbox. Lastily the characters' death feel a whole lot more emotional as you hear their last words and screams rather than reading a textbox.
That being said, so you're telling me the highest grossing franchise can't get this quality when other lesser nintendo franchises can?
Not only that, but for such a niche franchise, they knocked it out of the park in Echoes and 3H.
Meanwhile I can't stomach the English voice acting in BotW for even 5 minutes before switching to Japanese or turning them off, and I don't think Japanese is always perfect, and I'll defend the majority of English dubbed Japanese media in general for the rest of my life.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 yeah Echos really had alot of love put into it. I believe one of the directors or devs are a huge fan of the original game so he felt honored and excited to be able to work on a remake of the game he always loved.
Such a shame the game didn't sell as well compared to three houses or the rest of the 3DS games.
@@sonicthehedge Personally I think SoV from a pure gameplay perspective does several things wrong that should've been polished more, like enemies ambushing you on maps, the U.I. being downgraded from Awakening and Fatesl your hit, crit and avo rates no longer being visible and they took out a bunch of settings for how battles play out, maps that have too many avo tiles and the Cantors, THE FUCKING CANTORS.
I've personally never liked how you always take 1 damage minimum from attacks, meaning that Armored classes almost always take 2 damage minimum, or how most everyone has an almost non-existent res growth rate. There's a few other things, but you get my points.
It's not terrible, but I do hope that if another game gets remade, they'll update the game mechanics, map design, and customization better. 3H definitely has its issues too, but elitists who call any new thing the series has tried ever since Awakening too "casualized" or denounces it as "real" Fire Emblem can get run over by a semi-truck for all I care.
Echoes at the very least is a LOT better than, well...
Sonic Colors Ultimate.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 well Gaiden has always been the Black Sheep of the franchise due to being very different to the rest of the franchise. I'll say Celica's Route was really flawed and annoying as Alm's Route was always pretty fun imo. But props for the devs for trying to modernize it while still being faithful to the original game. Thats the hard part of remaking of a game, you could change some aspects but then it is different or they just make it worst. Sonic Colors Ultimate for example just lazily adds Ghost Wisp and level design is slightly changed due to it. It's just a Hover Wisp except worst as it can't ring dash and overall breaks the pace of the game. Make it even worse that half of that game promotion was that wisp.
The highest grossing franchise can put VOICE ACTING in their damn mobile game (Pokemon Masters), but not their mainline games. Just....pathetic.
"I wish they'd add a Virtual Console"
And the finger on the Monkey's Paw curled
This is the best comment I've read so far lmao
oh hey i think i get this reference, thanks ab class!
Referance
isaac?
@@commie_dog_boy no, common mythology
*Me, when my teacher assigns me a 1-hour documentary:* This is outrageous! They're expecting me to sink an hour of time into something I'm not even interested in?
*Me, watching a 4-hour RadicalSoda review of a video game:* yems, pokeemonms
Four Moves, available to GF:
-Rush
-Cry
-Bad Decision
-BRUSH YOUR TEETH, KIDDO!!
*A two year old video game that we’ve all ready bought
This is longer than Endgame, like, holy shit.
Arlo did for botw, and somecallmejohnny did it for sonic 06. I've got experience
and also Titanic
This thing is longer than 10 minutes
Endgame put me to sleep.
And unlike endgame, it's worth watching in one sitting
gen 8 very, _very_ nearly did me in as a pokemon fan, in general. in theory, it *should* have been my favourite generation of all time. not only is galar based on my home country, but as we went into gen 8, we were due gen 4 remakes. which is the gen that initally got me into pokemon, with my favourite region to date, and dawn, one of my favourite characters of all time.
and instead, sword just disappointed me so thoroughly. bdsp, too. to the extent that i didn't buy the remakes, because if i wanted to play a blocky version of sinnoh, i'd just play the originals. i was hoping for a glow-up with sinnoh, as a love letter to it, like hoenn got with oras. and i was so freaking excited for a region based on england. and the return i got for my investment nearly made me drop pokemon as a franchise.
the only reason i'm still a fan, is because i have adhd, and my old hyperfixations flared up.
i still love dawn and sinnoh. but i am _so_ underwhelmed with the pokemon games. legends arceus was be my last purchase until they give me a reason to come back.
same here man. Luckily my fave game is a remake in HGSS but yeah I never played sinnoh asa kid and instead of buying the remakes i played the originals. I love the 2d anyways. ORAS is the best 3d game we have as well because although i haven't played any switch games i can just tell. Similarly to you tho I'm probably gonna finally buy the switch soon and play the trainwreck.
That's a very interesting story! Gen 8 actually did do it in for me as a fan, I haven't touched a modern Pokemon game since Sword/Shield. I've heard very good things from Arceus, but I can't stand to have my hopes dashed in any way again lol. The only ways I interact with the Pokemon series nowadays is by listening to the soundtrack because both Arceus's and SV's OSTs are fantastic.
as someone who also can't escape my hyperfixation I honestly recommend looking into pokemon-likes if you want a new modern experience that isn't the horrible pokemon games these days that I also refuse to buy. I personally got into Coromon recently and it's so lovingly based on gens 4/5 on pokemon with a gorgeous diverse overworld and these amazing animated sprites for coromon and battle effects, it brings back 2d pokemon in the best way and satisfies my adhd's insistence that I play pokemon games
@@garrettfish8471 I will say, Arceus is actually good , and different. I really recommend it. I liked SV , but it's more a guilty pleasure than anything , so i recommend to never touch it.
As someone whose favorite generation was Ruby/Sapphire, maybe be glad you didn't bother with BDSP. ORAS massacred the story, the Champion, and the legendaries. And worst of all, they just hand you Latios/Latias at level 20. Not kidding- LEVEL 20! Not only is that waaaay too early to give you a Pokemon with such a high stat total, but at that level their movepools SUCK and you can't even keep them on-level with the rest of your team at that point since legendaries grow so slowly! I put one of my favorite Pokemon ever into the fricken BOX because he was so useless and so disappointing. My favorite generation became an embarrassment that I really wish I hadn't bought at release since it just looked good. I really do wish they'd screwed up the graphics for ORAS like they did with BDSP so I wouldn't waste my time and money on it.
My favorite to this day is that ORAS had better facial expressions and character movement that SS
ORAS was beautiful, despite being on a very limited hardware.
honestly the 3ds games looked great for 3ds games. but, they were 3ds games, very limited cartridges for a very limted console. gamefreak's problem is they think they can make the same stuff look good on a switch, which... if a 3ds is a honda civic, the switch is a freight train - sure, several moving boxes would fill up a honda quickly, but the train just absolutely dwarfs them.
@@leeeeeeeeeeeeeviathan I was legit blown away by ultra sun and ultra moon with it's graphics and story (gen 5 story is still better, but it's still an amazing story). plus being able to hold every single thing like the national dex, megas, z moves, and alolan forms, totem forms. They legit pushed the 3ds to it's limits. And I loved the xy map as well. And oras was amazing plus my first ever pokemon games :)
I just watched almost four hours worth of a dude ranting about a game I already know is trash. Absolutely fantastic, subbed
"We wanted to focus on high quality animations and make the game more expressive overall."
"I would have liked to make it possible to bring every Pokémon into the game. However, this was a choice we needed to make sooner or later. In the end, we had to choose quality."
So that was a freakin' lie
It would make sense if there were at least 10000 pokemon
Yes, we need all 898 pokemon with new sprites with all 892 moves with unique animations on each move, but 2D was much better we should have just stuck to the gen 5 sprites forever, I am very intelligent.
@@henrycowen8164 ''Yes, we need all 898 pokemon'' I agree
-with new sprites with all 892 moves with unique animations on each move, but 2D was much better we should have just stuck to the gen 5 sprites forever, I am very intelligent.-
Man you're stupid Henry
@Hooda the Antagonist That was already the case long before even Ruby/Sapphire on the GBA had come out, so that can't be the reason. Or do you think it took them 20 years to realize how big their brand was?
@@henrycowen8164
No not that much but some of these animations are just the Pokémon going up and down with a jumping sound effect
I've never been able to get over how absolutely vacant and soulless Shigeru Ohmori's face looks in the DLC announcements. He looks as though the Pokémon franchise has completely left him dead inside, as if he couldn't be happier to walk away from the project and never think, see or hear about another Pokémon for the rest of his life. What a wonderful vibe to be giving off as director.
Ohmori IMO should step down as the main director and have another direct a generation-starting mainline game.
The fact that this game is easy even while doing a nuzlocke is pretty sad
I forgot he was DOING a Nuzlock untill the end of the video
I tried giving myself some rules when I did a second play through. Like I only allowed myself to catch dynamax pokémon, only but ten or so healing items per town, try and avoid as many trainer battles as much as possible. Problem is in a second play through is so much easier
*cough* all Pokemon games since 6th gen *cough*
@@yiangaruga4928 ikr pokémon X especially when i got that torchic I used to one shot most of the gym leaders nearly all of them are weak to it
@@riskybus6553 The hardest thing the Pokemon games have had for the last 7 years was Ultra Nekrozma... And even that was just a pokemon that was fast and hit hard so basically artificially difficult battle.
Would be great if the games had more than potentially 1 or 2 difficult battles smh. Even a game like Emerald which is very easy has some proper difficulty spikes. These days there's nothing challenging in these games
The energy, the humor and the way that this is both a nuzlocke playthrough and a review, further broken up by individual Pokemon reviews is absolutely perfect. You perfected an algorithm that's only going to work whenever a new Pokemon game comes out. This fills me with remorse and Joy™ *winkwink... 😳
Perfected an algorithm my ass...those videos are an absolute bane on my eyes seeing them as recommendations in Pokémon videos I watch. Pokémon Sword & Shield have prevented me from committing suicide after getting kicked from a Discord server I really enjoyed being a part of and will only be let back in if I don’t act forceful in any stream chats).
@@RemLasher77 Cool story mate.
@@RemLasher77 Basically, you're defending Sw/Sh. We get it.
@@RemLasher77 ... good for you I guess..??
@@RemLasher77Hate to say it but, no one fucking asked
I was waiting for you to say the backpacks ruin the character design. There’s no way to make the bag go away or be smaller. You can change it but they’re all HUGE! The entire game you spend looking at the back of a box or a bag
@@slevinchannel7589 what?
@@slevinchannel7589 Imagine going onto a youtuber's comments and advertising another youtuber so blatantly. Anyway I refuse to watch his content purely to spite you
@@omorfia1358 Ok?
Thats a really cringeworthy reaction and doesnt spites me at all, it just makes me cringe, cause of course it does.
@@PointsofData I just like recommending people. Its a hobby of mine.
@@slevinchannel7589 you did it with all of the smoothness of sandpaper, pulling a Rick and Morty with iq references. Recommend him with content, not saying people should watch it because they are smart. I can recommend RLM for people who like movies and want that, I know nothing about hbomberguy from your post. I didn't mean to sound rude but you're not really making people excited to check him out. I don't even know what he reviews from your post
It really made me mad when they just gave us a legendary Pokémon from a random npc in some tower somewhere
Imagine if you got mewtwo from a random scientist in "science tower" because mewtwo wouldn't listen to them so they just give it to a random kid because he won a lot of Pokémon battles
Which legendary? Also this is reminding me of the floaroma town mew in BDSP
@@ochuspin the weird glitch one that the scientists give you its got inventory items that effect its stats i dont remember what its called
@@astolbro7183 oh no, type: null? That Pokémon is great and it’s got a backstory that makes that make absolutely no sense!
There’s only supposed to be three. One is your rival Gladion’s in SM, one is for you, and one stays deep in the aether foundation. So yeah having it just be in a random tower is absolutely asinine
@@ochuspin oh im not saying its a bad pokemon it looks cool and has very interesting game mechanics it just feels almost like an insult that its just randomly given to you for no real reason its almost like the devs have to hide anything intresting they make
@@astolbro7183 i didn't think you were insulting it, i agree that it's really dumb to give it out like a party favor considering its whole story
about the pop in and such
The switch can literally run Crysis, Breath of the Wild, 2 Player Borderlands and so on
And SwSh are built on the engine of Sun and moon
So any issues that WOULD happen in the game are due to the game.
Yes.
But grammar?
@@loturzelrestaurant 1. What about grammar?
2. What joy do you gain by calling people out on grammar based over a simple statement they made?
3. Not everyone has english as their first language.
The S/M engine is the X/Y engine, so Sw/Sh is running on an engine that was already badly optimized and ran so bad when it launched on the hardware it was made for. lol
Add Doom Eternal to that list.
God I wish Nintendo wasn't so extremely tight-lipped about their development process. I would love to see a proper postmortem on SwSh. Understand ALL the reasons - not just time and money - that it was so cornercut and sloppy. Because there's always more to it than just money.