Shrekémon | Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Teal Mask DLC REVIEW
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My room is a square space
@@thenintendoistxthe world is just square and space. Spheres are lies from the government.
@@thenintendoistx Mine too.
As long as people keep buying garbage from the pokemon company it will never get any better.
Did you do the Blood-moon Ursaluna quest?
The performance of it is just crazy to me. Like there were areas of the base game that ran better, they just didn’t consider those at all. The entire dlc is based around a huge mountain, which you can see from anywhere, and the game slows to a crawl whenever it’s on screen. Baffling
I have had the game completly stop for a whole second before resuming in slowmotion. Its disguisting that i paid a combined total of 95 euros for this. They didn't even have the decency to fix the performance of the base game (except PC boxes lol). It seems to me that they focused on the dlc just because that makes them money and fixing the base game doesn't. Honestly im kinda done with pokémon games until they actually put in any effort whatsoever lol
@@DefinitelyNotPedro 95 euros spent in total garbage lol
What are you people playing? How much hacking and glitching have you been doing? I’ve got almost 700 plus hours on this game and have none of these experiences and big performance improvements after the DLC. Any issues I had were online related (like azumarril belly drum and crashing after online coop.) but we’re not common.
@@katiek.8808you’re clearly the exception.
@YvaanAvesna probably not. It's more likely just bad optimization on the part of dev crunch and a general lack of proper time, same as the base game.
My favorite part of the DLC is when it asked Kieran, "Kill this person?" and he said "Yes," this game's so dark
please explain
Where was this option
I don't remember that?
I also want an explanation.
What are you guys talking about the part where kieran committed manslaughter was my favorite part
I found it funny that due to some lines of dialogue from Kieran leads you to believe that he was following you as you go from point A to point B which in my cause means 7 laps around the map and gone up and down the central mountain the wrong way like 4 times and I found that very funny
poor kieran had to book so many flights to and from paldea while following me
This might be the first time a pokemon game shows the consequences of a rival being constantly slapped into the dirt by everyone, including the player.
Didn't really like the way we had to treat him. I don't appreciate being made into a liar, that just isn't my style.
@@jessicatouvell6859hard agree. I've said this before, but Carmine basically forced us into being part of Kieran's villain arc, and he was such a sweet kid. I sincerely dislike her.
While it was cool, I wish it didn't force the player to lie to him to do so.
@@jessicatouvell6859 Same problem Hop has, really.
Carmine is arguably one of the most punchable characters in the series.
I was so annoyed when I was forced to lie to Kieran and side with Carmine at every turn. If it were me, I would’ve tried telling Carmine how insensitive she was being and tell Kieran about Ogerpon at the first opportunity. Just in general, Kieran was treated very poorly. And the villagers all just believing Kieran first thing when talking about Ogerpon seems very unrealistic. The writers had a good idea for a plot, but the way it was executed turned me off a lot. At least the new Pokémon and concept of the region are very cool. I love how the Loyal Trio look so ugly and villainous, and Bloodmoon Ursaluna is the best Pokédex reward ever
Kieran was the most annoying brat ever bruh who cares
@@kazenna That’s not the point, though I do agree that when he says stuff like “wowzers” it makes me do a double take. The point is that I have no agency
I agree with lying to Kieran only the first time its done. Dead of night, in the middle of the festival, the one he clearly is an extremely huge fan of running to the most dangerous part of the land, kid would get himself seriously hurt (if not killed) then and lying to him the was the right call for his own safety.
The next time however was not right in any capacity. It was broad daylight, we're clearly doing something to the benefit of his hero Ogerpon, and we found out that he was right about Ogerpon all along. Leaving him out of things then is essentially a betrayal to his friendship.
@@kazennahe's a sheltered and a bullied 10 year old. What do you expect?
@@kazennawhy does a kid being annoying mean he deserves bad things. Even if he was real he’d be a child. People in this comments section are so unhinged
I miss the escape rope in sv. I felt so bad for Kieran, I purposefully lost a battle to him thinking it would trigger some new dialog, maybe him being happy that he won a battle and getting some pokemoney,but nope, it was just the default 'you blacked out' that's what Gen 10 needs, dialog for when you lose a battle, maybe your rival says a snarky ass remark after you lost, therefore making the rematch more intense.
You are allowed to lose the first Carmine battle and the first Kieran battle - after that it is essential that you win for the story to progress. I'm not sure why would you feel bad for the possesive psychopath but hey
That can happen once or twice in SM as well - winning against Hau is not mandatory
My main "problem" with the DLC is, that it feels super small if you enter it with your Ride Pokemons abilities unlocked. The DLC is best explored on foot till you finish it or at least the story. And I only realized this after I did everything.
LOOOLLL
Ah pokemon the only game in which you have to repeatedly limit yourself to enjoy it lmao
@@pascalsimioli6777 not necessarily. In many games, action or turnbased, people limit themselves because they have gotten better at them with experience, not using certain items or limiting healing for themselves as a result.
Forget the ride Pokemon, once you unlock the warp points there is no point in even traveling anymore. Which might be just as well, considering how dead the entire world in the game seems. Honestly the more I play it, the more I hate it.....one of the worst games I have ever paid full price for at launch.
I have only just met Ogerpon, and I will lay my life on the line to protect this jolly green friend-shaped gremlin.
Right!? She's too cute!
I love Ogerpon as well. I know they were trying to make us dislike the trio, but they could have made them at least intimidating and not dopey.
@@JD-fi4nk Would've been cool if they at least had some kind of "Oni Mask" of sorts. But at least the bird one of the trio looks great.
Ngl, Ogerpon is slowly becoming the reason to buy SV for me.
@@TheGravityShifter Ogerpon's base form *is* the Oni Mask, though?
My main take-away from this is it is suffering from Part One syndrome. All set-up for a payoff that may or may not arrive. I don't know if your opinion on this will change much after Part Two, but I'll definitely be interested to see how you feel about Hidden Treasures as a whole.
Thats the main thing right there. They're clearly going for a connected story for the whole DLC. And it does kinda suck that you get so little of an idea what exactly is happening cause now Arlo is just going to sit with this feeling of incompleteness or disappointment for part one and there's no knowing how sitting with that until winter will result in him having changed feelings about it once the second dlc comes around.
Yeah, it's literally stuck in the middle. Between a good base game story and experience and a part 2 that is going to wrap things up and will likely be huge compared to 1.
Yeah part 2 will be like the sequel to both the base game and the dlc, continuing where it left off, I think part 1 is normally supposed to go along with the main story but I can't confirm as idk the Pokemon levels of the dlc before you beat the game
@@KeifersIsAwesome I mean not just Arlo, literally anyone who plays it is going to feel that way to some extent lol
It doesnt help that the story is very very simple and doenst have much going for it besides the core premise, so it feels extra one-note when the game wants you to feel suspense. Like yeah, I sure do feel suspense... for the rest of the experience lol
I played before beating Area Zero, and it started at level 12, and by the last fight with Kieran he has like level 35s. Then Ogrepon you fight at level 20 lol. After that, the legendaries and the Perrin stuff is all level 70+, even still before you beat the main story. It was enjoyable to start a new team at level 12 and play along with it that way!@@mariotheundying
Kieran: "battle me"
Me: "how many times do i have to teach you this lesson old man"
One thing I can appreciate about this DLC is that they’re making an effort to connect both parts with the story as opposed to Isle of Armor/Crown Tundra which were very separate, should help to make the whole package for satisfying and cohesive
@@PuzzlePottage1390damn bro, sucks to be you, I was invested and had an absolute blast
@@Shinntokuwho cares
@@Shinntoku Trust me, it's not worth arguing with him. He can't be reasoned with.
@@PuzzlePottage1390That some people don't let bad framerate ruin the story
@@PuzzlePottage1390bro foreal pokemon fanboys will make the biggest excuses to say the games are good
Better performance should've been priority number 1
I really, really hope that Part 2 of this DLC will include Nemona, Penny and Arven.
They teased that something was going to happen in Area Zero, I bet they'll join the player to finish off the plot.
There are leaks if you’re interested in looking for them that answer your question
Surely Nemona is gonna be in a school focused on battling... right?
Spoilers:
Leak files say yes inlcluding a double battle w them
@@Htiy Woah that's insane considering the base game barely has those.
I thought it was lacking in quests/content. The two other main characters are gonna be continuing in the Indigo Disk when you visit their school. I did find it funny that we mind-break Kieran for no reason and make him go on his villain revenge arc on part 2. lol
I'm surprised we got as many as we did with this expansion. Ogre Oustin, the rich couple, the lovey dovey couple, the thing with the app to change your borders (very small thing but cool for personalizing), new emotes (also small thing), the Ogre Clan stuff, and Perrin's side quest (best thing we got in the DLC aside from the Story). Not to mention the two charms you get from this DLC which is a massive boon.
@@TheGravityShifter And the picnic chair guy with a surprisingly valuable reward.
@@strawdeath263 Yes that's true, forgot to add that. Buuuut if it were me, I'd avoid telling the reward for the element of surprise. But tbf, I mentioned two charms (even though I didn't say what they did).
@@TheGravityShifter Edited out the reward to keep the surprise.
It feels weird that game builds up to catching 4 legendary Pokemon and then there's nothing else to do. They really need to add a Battle Frontier to these DLC's so there's more than a weekend's worth of content.
This Dreamcast game looks like it's really coming together! I can't wait for it to finish alpha development and start beta testing and actual debugging! 👍
💀
Pokemon fanboys with Estocolm Syndrome “THEY DIDN’T HAD TIME TO DEVELOP THIS GAME😭😭😭😭😭”
@@unclephillymyabecause they don’t. Those stuck up executives at Pokémon Company don’t give Gamefreak the time they need or deserve.
Worth billions but makes lazy amateur indie looking/running games smh
@@Karlach_ honestly, the performance is the only major issue I have with SV.
Wow really giving them the bird in that thumbnail huh lmao
Lmao XD I don’t think that was the intention but that does look very similar XD
I loved this DLC but id be lying if the frame rate drops didn’t make me sick
I remember thinking back when the game came out ‘at least the frames will be better by the DLC release’ 😭
Yeah ogre ousting would have been a fun little minigame if the frame rate wasn’t abysmal
@@PuzzlePottage1390as someone who didn’t buy this dlc because of my loss of faith in Pokémon, I still think that people are entitled to purchase this, and the base game has a lot of good going for it, despite the issues. Most people don’t ignore the issues, but the hood stuff is enough for them to take precedence.
I noticed it and wasn't too happy about it
I'm super lenient bc I personally know the time constraints and game development
Main game though I didn't really get any frame drops so that also impacted how i may if perceived things
As long as people keep buying garbage from the pokemon company it will never get any better.😊
the fastest Arlo Pokemon game review in years
the DLC was very short lol
I'm glad we live in a world where cookie monster's brother is a gamer
The framerates are a huge issue, and really effects the enjoyment of this, but beyond that, it's pretty decent. Not great, though. Also, love all the Gen 2 Pokémon on this map.
Agreed
This game NEEDS a free Switch 2 upgrade.
@@T-Dawg75 Nah, this franchise needs better DEVS that are not rushed .
I'm so glad that Game Freak saw S/V's abysmal performance and thought 'DLC is clearly the next logical step here'.
Modern Pokémon fans are drones.
@@PuzzlePottage1390 All that complaining ain't gonna make them stop anytime soon either. Give up on the franchise and move on.
It is really frustrating how Pokémon is the highest grossing company yet can’t even manage a running of game that’s considered “good” AT LEAST. 😅
I thought the Teal Mask was fine. Turns out I had like 75% of the Pokedex for it in Pokemon Home so that was neat.
I carried over quite a few shinies from PLA and SWSH too. That was nice.
I am invested into finding out what happens to Kieran. I feel Carmine will be nicer next time we see her
Really felt like this was the guy's villain origin story.
@@remhauck1577I doubt he will become a full on villain. More likely a tryhard competitive rival.
@@sirninja6027 I agree that Kieran has the potential to become a new rival. Maybe Blueberry Academy Champion? That would be cool. I think Carmine was more villain material, did not like her at all, not even at the end when she started being nicer. She spent to much time being mean to her brother and the player.
By the end I feel Carmine was really good she said goodbye really nice and even tho she went about it the wrong way she was just trying to protect her younger brother from feeling bad. Like she even let him pair up with us because he really wanted to. Plus it turns out she was really looking for a third mask to give to us. She’s kinda the tsundere type actually. When you picture both Carmine and Kieran as actual youths I don’t get annoyed as easily.
@@lucastrier1034 I understand protecting your younger brother. I was an older sister and did what I could to keep both my little brothers safe to the best of my ability, but I never treated them the way she did Kieran. I was younger than her too and my brothers annoyed the heck out of me, so it wasn't like she had to be so mean, even if his behavior did annoy her.
The DLC felt like it wanted to bully Keiran so much. Every time I thought his character arc was over the game decided that the kid needed to suffer more. He forgives you for lying to him, now Ogerpon doesn't like him; he gets Ogerpon to be liked by everyone, now he wants to keep Ogerpon; you beat him in a battle to gain ownership of Ogerpon, now he goes crying to his room and swears vengeance.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the little photography side story with all the Legends Arceus fanservice, it was short and simple but was probably the highlight of the DLC. The new Pokémon at the end of it is one of my favourites introduced in this generation as well.
@@unclephillymyaursaluna is an evolution of a gen 2 pokemon, rather than an alternative form
I found it the most frustrating as you needed to find them and needed the shots to be specific.
This just harkens back to the original discussion of how some people are getting worse performance than others, because I'm watching this footage and the slowdown is super evident, but when I play I don't get anything like this. There was one moment where it got stuck for a half-second while I was falling from a jump up on the mountain but none of this slowdown
Same for me. If there's a ton of pokemon spawned onscreen I may get a slight stutter, but most of the time it's pretty smooth.
Seriously, has nobody figured out what the reason for this discrepancy is? The glitches and bugs I've seen online are insane, whereas I've been playing a ton since release and got almost none of them aside from general framerate stuff and graphical hiccups. The SD card slash internal memory hypothesis wasn't it… then what is it??
The base game ran reasonably well for me and now the dlc feels like it'll never reach 30 fps at any point. It's very bizarre all around
Exactly! I'm on a base model Switch system (Mario Odyssey edition) and I don't see any of the stuff others talk about online besides the base performance issues. It makes me wonder if there's something wrong with the persons Switch itself or not.
I've gotten stuck in the base game, I've had the stuttering problem for both (worse in base game) and even had a game crash once during my first playthrough (luckily I still had autosave on at the time!) My biggest issue is when pokemon get stuck in a cliff wall, it's so hard to shiny hunt pokemon near cliffs or in caves. Don't seem to have that issue in the DLC though (not patched, I still get that a lot in Paldea, just not Kitakami). Does anyone else have that issue? When the game first came out I thought it was funny (first time I encountered this was just before Los Platos before even getting to the school. Saw a Psyduck sleeping with it's head phased into a tree.) Now it's just tedious.
i had literally no expectations going into this dlc. But i will say, that raising a new team and going through the story that way was very interesting and i had a lot of fun doing it
This, I even went in with a hisuian starter. It's definitely a lot more fun If you take your time building a new team and exploring between story bits.
Yeah, that's so clearly what you were supposed to do. I was confused when Arlo said the fights "weren't a thing" because there were some pretty intense fights, especially the Ogre Clan optional fights. But it all made sense when he said he used a team of level 80 Pokemon to do them.
The excuses you people come up with to excuse poor difficulty curve is insane. No you aren’t expected to start a new team. That’s just something you came up with to make it feel better for yourself.
@@GrimmiesN Well outside of Making every trainer have level 100 pokemon there is no way to account for months between release and dlc release where the player could be packing six level 100 Arceus if they wanted.
@@GrimmiesN Look at the levels of the wild Pokemon. It is so obviously expected that you would want to catch the new Kitakami Pokemon, and then obviously you would then use those on your team because they're the right level for that to be an appropriate challenge.
And even if you didn't make a new team, the next obvious assumption would be to use a team from around the level of the endgame, which is not goddamn 80.
I can totally relate with feeling sad and hurt when I watch Carmine bully Kieran. Kieran was the only one who believed the truth from the start and he gets zero credit, and treated like a baby, and like he has to constantly apologize, when Carmine is constantly furious and rude as hell.
Keiran didn't believe the truth from the start. He didn't like *Ogerpon* because he knew *she* was the real hero in the story. He liked *The Ogre* because *it* defeated the Loyal Three by itself and he thought that was cool. It's no different to children saying they like Elsa from Frozen because she has ice powers
@@Robin_Glorb He liked *the ogre* before he ever knew that it defeated the loyal three...
@@erikmclennan3934 here is a quote from Kieran after the player reads a billboard about the story of the ogre and how the loyal three supposedly protected the town at the cost of their lives. As far as I'm aware, this is the first time the story is told to the player and is also before Ogerpon appears on-screen. It's pretty clear that Kieran has heard the full story long before the beginning of the dlc:
"But don't you think the ogre in that folktale sounds kinda...cool? It was up against three whole opponents at once, battling it out all by itself --- wowzers, that's so cool!"
@@Robin_Glorb Okay. Still, Kieran somehow intuited that the Ogre was worth liking, even not knowing the truth - a quality which his grandfather says he has (intuition), and has been passed down his family line, right from the original mask maker who chose to help the ogre and the trainer.
@@erikmclennan3934 that is correct. funny, I was rewatching RT playing the dlc and I got a notification for this comment right as RT was on the scene where Kieran's grandpa says that.
I do not have a counter-argument
I wonder what Arlo thought of the Perrin side quest? I enjoyed her and the Blood Moon Ursaluna is really cool with it’s call backs to Legends Arceus
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Rumor is that she will be the bridge to the next legends game...
I think she's the best thing about the Teal Mask DLC.
I wonder if he even played it. He seems to barely touch on the DLC aside the main story, and even that’s glossed over. No mention of the Ogre Clam or Ogre Oustin either, though with the former he already chose to ruin the difficulty for himself anyway so I wonder if he’d care about battling them considering he’s fine with hurting his own experience intentionally.
@@aedrarising2760 i kinda skimmed the video so I wanted to ask what was arlo intentionally doing?
I feel like I got a dev copy because I'm getting minimal frame drops compared to what everyone else is getting
Yeah same?? I’ve never had any sort of constant frame drops like everyone says. They’re definitely there but I wouldn’t say they’re intrusive in the slightest for me :/
Yeah, these people be playing on the stupid nokia
ok there yeah right
EXACTLY? How that works? I play on cart, maybe that?
I've had big issues with performance in the base game but the DLC has given me no big issues.
I have no idea why, but I've noticed on a different save file I've made, I've had absolutely no performance issues. However, they seemed to come in full force after I beat the game.
The environment looks like an early-access Steam game that will never be finished.
Yeah I felt the same about the characters and legendaries. The sister started out just insufferable and only got better at the very end, the brother I was initially nice to and then he started getting jealous and I bounced off him so hard. The legendaries too just...nah, I'm good. The main one sure I'll maybe use it sometimes. The other three? I'll catch them for the Dex and then they go into box purgatory even if they're good.
Same on the legendaries. Ogerpon is adorable but the other three are so...meh. Not interesting at all. I did the same, caught them for the dex but probably won't ever use them.
I use ogerpon as much as possible, the loyal three are good but they need signature moves. Maybe something to do with the toxic chains. The ideas i came up with for them all start with the same effect: it makes it more likely for toxic chains to go off. If used on foes inflicted with toxic or poison status monkidoris psychic type move would decrease the poisoned targets special attack by one stage and special defense by 2 stages after damage. Okidogis moves second effect after damage would improve his physical attack, physical defense and special defense by one stage when hitting a poisoned target. Fezendipidies depends on if the foe is male or female. Male will make his fairy type move have a 50% chance of an omniboost, female gives a 50% chance of infatuation.
I haven't played it, but just from the footage here it's cool seeing that they're going very much into Momotaro's story. Oni mountain... the legendarys being a dog, monkey and bird... would be interesting if they really explored a lot of the ideas from the original story.
They did. But it is inverted.
Look for the kitakami ogre clan members for some decent battles. They’re around mid to late 70s for levels. They won’t be too hard, but an effort was made for some harder fights ( albeit there are only 8)
Wasn't expecting a decent challenge considering I was OHKO-ing everything else. The orge clan members actually being somewhat strong was surprising to me. Granted my whole team is level 100 so not surprised I'm knocking everything out in a single hit. The only other battles that weren't over instantly were the loyal 3.
Ngl, one of them actually was pretty tough for me. That one guy's Snorlax walled me hard the first and second attempts.
@@TheGravityShifter I haven't been through all of them yet. I've mostly been shiny hunting and trying to farm Herba Mysticas.
Agreed! Is there any kind of reward for beating them all?
@@JD-fi4nk Yes there is a guy near the fly point at Kitakami Hall to talk to about it. You get some items.
As for the story I think all of these characters will be expanded on in part 2 because of the cliffhanger ending
As someone who loves legends arceus im really suprised you didnt bring up the Perrin quest did you not do it?
I LOVE that bear.
Considering you have to catch 150 pokemon at least to start that quest and its not something easy to do unless you've been catching and evolving pokemon beforehand, its not a quest you can quickly start.
I finished the Teal Mask DLC with roughly 50 pokemon on the pokedex caught. So I feel only the more hardcore fans will be able to access that questline quicker. And given Arlo has lvl 100 pokemon, I don't think he was doing much catching.
I love this DLC, but I feel like you miss the point of the characters. Carmine was meant to be unpleasant at first but once she saw she generally hurt her brother by lying about the ogre she slowly became a better person and her monologue at the end proved that. Kieran also doesn't start off as jealous of you but rather admired you, it's when you were forced by the to lie to him that made him more jealous as his dream of meeting and befriending the ogre is given to you rather than him. The point of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet was the treasure hunt and you could say that Kieran's treasure hunt was the ogre, so I felt like it played into the themes of the main story.
Wow! Arlo being an ignorant? Who could’ve foreseen that coming?
@@otakumarcus I think that's pretty mean to say. Sometimes not everyone resonates with a story, and the linear gameplay structure makes it even harder to really "care" or be invested. Also Arlo saying that just in general, they are not happy about the portrayal of that sibling relationship, would totally be justified to not spend more time than necessary with those themes. (English is not my first language, but I hope this was understandable).
@@otakumarcusgotta be a special type of person to have a pokemon plot resonate with you. And by special I mean autistic
@@maggiecelentano9927 chill out with the ableism. No need to bring autism into this.
@@otakumarcus Disliking the dlc doesn't make someone arrogant 😂 wtf
I couldn't even finish the main game because of the performance. And I'm usually someone who doesn't care much about frame rate....but it was so BAAAAAAAD.
There were way too many sparkly spawns in the dlc, like I shouldn’t get 20 rare bones in 10 seconds. Plus I feel like the Pokémon were everywhere(especially the hard to see ones), it felt hard to get some exploring done. Boxes fixed though, so that’s something!
The boxes fix made me actually want to work on my SV living dex lmao, I just couldn't do it without they were before
@@beingmegucaissuffering.5326 it was a slog, but I did it.
I was strapped for cash so I'm totally fine with it since I can get all those Rare Bones. Tera raiding can be a huge money sink so it's welcome. But I don't disagree with it being OP, it wouldn't kill them to reduce the spawns just a little bit.
i mean farming in pokemon games is stupid and tiring, so i like that there's 300000000000 items per second on the floor (and they respawn over time)
This DLC makes you spend a literal 1,000,000 Pokédollars for a special jinbei after finishing the story (talk to the caretaker at Kitakami hall). Sure, you can get most of the money by doing all the Glitterati encounters, but I also need the money for prepping event tera raid counters, like TheGravityShifter said. I have often come close to becoming broke with all the EV and IV training and such, so I'm happy about every single valuable item. And I'm saying this as someone who makes sure to battle every NPC and uses the Amulet Coin in every battle.
I FEEL LIKE I'M NOT GOING CRAZY - Thank you Arlo, for being one of the few people I've seen talking about this DLC who recognise how uncomfortable Carmine's interactions are with Kieran. If Kieran had more attitude and a more agressive personality, perhaps their interactions could follow the "squabbling but love each other" sibling trope, but yeah instead it just comes across as bullying... Enabled by their Grandparents no less.
It really made it hard to like the cast of characters in The Teal Mask, especially with no player agency to side with Carmine or Kieran on "the ogre"
About the level scaling thing, because I always get a new team of Pokémon from the ones available in the dlc, the level scaling never hurts since the wild Pokémon are of similar level to the trainers and it made my experience very fun.
Yep and even if you didn’t want to fill your team full of only “new” dlc pokémon, you can catch some in area zero or get rare candies from raids to level up anything underleveled
Fax. It's no fun running through essentially a new region with a squad of 100s. I had some shinies to use anyways plus I used weaker pokemon like a Mightyena. I almost died to ursaluna and the trio since I didn't have my favorite wall, Corviknight. 😂
@@zayneharring9570 I used some strong pokemon yet Leavanny did the best on my team and that makes me very happy. Love that theyre finally back.
@@zayneharring9570"It's no fun running through essentially a new region with a squad of level 100's"
Me who had fun nuking everyone with my lv 100 team because I like being an unstoppable, supreme overlord amongst the NPCs in my world: 👑 😌
I would too but i have too many master balls unused in my main file to reset.
Made a new team for the DLC based on the *spoiler* you get and the wild mons around the map. Playing it that way I think made the experience much more enjoyable
People be like “This DLC is too easy. My team is overleveled.”
My sibling in Arceus, why do you think they brought back old pokemon?
... To make more money? Oh my god you lack the fundamentals of thinking.
i burned through this DLC looking for friend trio story content that turned out to not actually be happening at all until indigo disc. they never even notice you left since the DLC can be done at any time and not just as postgame, they're still just one-liner statues in their rooms waiting to actually be able to hang out with us again.
you know GF initially planned for it to be them on this trip instead of three nameless kids though, you know they did.
the writing of the teal mask overall was a bit more usual pokemon stuff and a little less whatever gold they struck with base game S/V, which makes the fact that they haven't shown new footage of nemona/arven/penny at all in the trailers for the past half a year, just new characters, really stressful. they do know it was gold, don't they...?
the teal mask really would not be worth it if it could be bought standalone. it's just a teaser with a few days of stuff to do when we needed a few months of stuff to do. no performance improvements either, as you noted. a lot of the story battles were running in slow mo for me because of the dense grass around town.
but i did warm up to carmine despite her pretty obviously causing her brother's problems, probably without realizing, largely because of how funny her mannerisms are. her unpredictably sweet or mean behavior is acknowledged by the story and symbolized by her morpeko, so it's obviously not just bad writing. her saying she doesn't trust tourists and then that not being a plot point at all kinda is, though. a lot of people feel like this storyline forced them to do things they didn't want to do, too. it's weird to try and have a faceless voiceless self insert protagonist but also have them make decisions on their own we have no control over. kinda the worst of both worlds. main story got away with it because the other three made our decisions for us.
The only thing I wish'd that the characters were actually real characters you didn't interact with much.
Like Using Eri and Atticus who could bounce off Carmine and Keiran very well, one very artsy and traditional
Atticus could probably surprise Carmine. And Eri's earnest nature could be great for interaction as well! Wanting to help
deal with the three pokemon troublemakers (I'm kinda trying to walk around full spoilers)
Also in the battle tournament I think S/S did better with the DLC characters appearing in it and double battles too!
I hope they update the tournaments so that the new characters AND the Gym leaders appear in the battle star tournament-
cause otherwise you just don't see the gym leaders *At all!*
This would of been so much more interesting! Crazy how some writing works to make things better.
I think carmine was not meant to be, it was meant to be a "I know him best and do what's best to push him, etc" and it goes predictably poorly. Which is why I wanted l an option to tell him early haha. Get it over with
I haven’t played this DLC yet honestly, I’ve been addicted to Vinemon- probably my favorite Pokémon-like that’s come out this year, even with the already stacked roster of things such as Cassette Beasts and Infinite Fusion. They came out when they were ready.
I am still kind of excited to try this sometime, but man I just want GameFreak to get the time needed to finish their work… and to actually have sleep schedules free of such crunch and stress.
My favorite part of the DLC was when Ogrepon said “It’s all ogre for you!” and then proceeded to beat up the Loyal Three.
I raised a whole new team for the DLC and it was AWESOME, the battles felt challenging, I fell in love with Pokémon I've never used, tried out the new ones, got a shiny Rockruff, got a new angsty rival, it was a ton of fun. To each their own I guess, but I personally cannot wait for part 2 of the DLC and to see Professor Tera-earring's part in the story lol.
And it's great you enjoyed that - but the point is that it is FLAWED game design/difficulty balancing if you HAVE to self-restrict yourself to have any sense of difficulty. (and it's particularly inexcusable since the SV postgame motivates you super hard to train many perfect Lv100 mons for Raids)
@@charliez077 I'm pretty sure this first part of the DLC is supposed to happen alongside the main story, and the second is postgame. I would assume when someone would play through the game and dlc together (like they probably intended), this would be a side area to grind new pokemon. I do think they should have increased the level cap past beating champion level, maybe around 70s - 80s after finishing the base games post-game.
@@notburntfries6566 what they should really do is lower max level until DLC's come out. max level in base game = 70. first DLC = max level 85. second DLC = max level 100.
@@notburntfries6566 bottom line - it's THEIR responsibility to make it work. you cannot let/motivate players to make Lv100 teams and have them fight Lv65 trainers in DLC, it's a complete joke. I don't care how they do it - make it WORK.
@@charliez077 sure! I was just sharing my opinion and experience with the community
I am curious of how will they develop the story of the next DLC since the Blueberry academy doesn’t appear to have much of a story itself
Exactly! It just looks like a huge Saffari. We have these for free back then 😅
Without giving away anything from the data mine, there's actually a boatload of story
Oh boy man, hope you’re ready
don't forget the 2nd DLC also opens a new area in area zero too
As long as people keep buying garbage from the pokemon company it will never get any better.
At last, confirmation that Arlo is in fact a Muppet fan.
In tears of the kingdom you could fall from the heavens to the bowels of hell and it ran buttery smooth and looked amazing. In Pokémon, you just look at a pond and the game drops to 5 frames a minute. And that hurts my feelings considering this is the most fun I’ve had with pokemon since I got the original Pokemon Gold for my gameboy color on launch day.
I enjoyed this DLC enough for what it was (mostly because I adore Ogerpon), the new pokemon are cool, but tbh for what it costs it's awful value. It's 35 US dollars in America but the DLC cost me the equivalent of 55 US dollars because I live in Switzerland and the price here is 50 Swiss francs, which is insane. And tbh no matter how good Part 2 is, there's no way it's gonna be good enough to justify this, especially when Part 1 is like 5 hours of content.
Meanwhile RE4 Remake's expansion costs 9 dollars. A much more polished game with much more content and a much more significant expansion, and it's a tiny fraction of the price. The Pokemon Company is absolutely robbing us blind. I won't be buying any DLC from them in the future if this is how they price things.
They prob arent doing a patch because they are working on gen 10 which is insane to me
Honestly S tier youtuber. Ive been watching you for years, weather its a big fat review of breath of the wild, or small quickie like wario ware. Consistently excellent, thanks Arlo.
I enjoyed the Teal Mask, but yes the beginning is just about as handhold-y as Sun and Moon’s beginning. I really hoped they would have fixed the performance issues. At this point, I won’t be surprised if the Indigo Disk runs just as awfully, which is saddening. I did like the story and Ogerpon is just ADORABLE. Most of the graphic updates seem to apply towards the texturing on the Pokémon themselves, which is fine, but it also seems to have an impact on the framerate, but this is is an issue with the base game mostly. If waiting a few more years for the next generation Pokémon games means better performance and quality, I’m willing to wait. Can’t say the same about the franchise’s investors and merchandise distributors. They’re about as impatient as Vigoroth.
You summarized my feelings about the story/characters perfectly. And I'm glad you addressed the issue with Carmine. Like there's jerk rivals (she's not even really a rival??), and then there's characters who're just... meanspirited. Maybe she'll get some kind of character arc in the second part? I guess? But for right now it just feels gross, especially for how much the game forces you to ALSO be mean to Kieran. It's just "DLC Part 1: Let's Bully Kieran Together", I guess.
It's just a bummer compared to the base game's story, I think. You go from incredibly impactful stories and characters that leave you feeling good about what you've been through, to a story that ends with you feeling kind of gross and like a villain against your will. If Carmine wasn't Like That, and the scenarios that repeatedly make Kieran inferior weren't so ham-fisted, maybe I could be more on board with the idea of unwittingly being the reason for someone's villain arc.
I liked the story and the side quest but yeah it was definitely short. I did everything in about two days playing casually
Good time to be an Arlo fan with all the videos comin out
super happy to learn that Gen II is your favorite, it's mine too !!
great video Arlo :)
I like the bait and switch for both the Legendaries, and Kieran and Carmine. I thought it was a relaxing, if not kinda sad, experience. I really enjoyed Kieran and Carmine, and Ogerpon benefits from the Miraidon/Koraidon way of getting you familiar or forming a bond with a legendary.
Kinda excited to see them return in the Indigo Disc.
btw there is a tad bit of inconsistency. there are pokemon that scale up to 60-86. Ogre clan have around level 70-80 pokemon as well
Still too low considering a great deal of people are in the 90s-100.
To give credit to Kieran, we NEVER get a character who is jealous of you getting a legendary as this is a normal reaction for a kid. He spent almost his entire life just to meet the Legendary and then you meet it, befriend it, and it wants to go with you in under 4 days. Yikes.
Also Carmine is a narcissist I love her
Arlo thank you for wishing me a happy birthday!!
I've been living in the real Kitakami in Iwate for a few years and I got a bit excited when they announced this new area. But it's just kind of...boring? Like, Iwate is VERY rural, but there's still enough here to draw from, other than a mountain and a village. Heck, Momotaro, the story that the legendaries are based on, isn't even from this region, it's from down south. That's like having Paul Bunyan down in Arizona or something. Just a tad disappointing and not doing much to really utilize the area it's based on.
Maybe in a future game they can have a full region based on Tohoku and expand on this region some more
Wait, why is a location in Japan the central focus for a pokemon game based on Spain? I thought the Pokemon equivalent of Japan was Kanto/Johto.
@@Ergeniz Since the dev team is japanese, they just like to do a little showing off. (Kanto/Johto/Hoenn/Sinnoh are indeed poke-japan but not every island)
I suppose it doesn't have to be 1:1 and location liberties can be taken, they could put paul bunyan in north dakota for all I care. But... More broadly speaking, yeah. The place looks like if you stripped the japanese theming, it could still be in paldea - not enough botanical distinguishments imo
I think it is fair to say that Isle of Armor was a better first-parter than Teal Mask has been. Performance and resolution aside (IoA at least looks good), there’s at least a bit more of a climactic finish and wildly different environments. Teal Mask felt like it was demoing the few features it had through the story, followed by the obligatory catching of a legendary.
I wasn’t expecting this DLC (which costs more as a reminder, if only by $5 total) to be less substantial than Isle of Armor but I am entirely wrong in that. Maybe Indigo Disk will be better like Crown Tundra was, or maybe we’ll feel better about Teal Mask in retrospect, who really knows. As things currently stand though it feels like the bare minimum they could have delivered. 100 returning pokemon, a couple new ones, some battles, and a minigame/sidequest or two.
SwSh did two disjointed stories - with IoA - for me at least - being far more fun than CT (although the story of CT was fairly enjoyable, and Dynamax Adventures are cool). S/V instead present one story in two parts. So it shouldn't be possible for a person like me to just get bored of part 2 and go back to part 1 - because they are one whole
Honestly I enjoyed the siblings. They're flawed and growing and have their own dynamic and you know they care about each other but aren't really upfront about it. I feel like we need more characters like them in Pokemon. A lot of Pokemon characters are just kinda "flawless" if that makes sense
Dear god I need some fan art of ogrepon hanging with mudbray RIGHT NOW
One of my biggest issues with SV is how easy the game was. I like the addition of the ogre clan battles and the rewards you get for completing that quest. That final battle was actually very difficult. Unfortunately I think that’s the closest we’ll ever get to another Red battle but I hope I’m wrong. Granted, I did get an entirely new team to go through this instead of using my level 80+ Pokémon
What do you mean close to the red battle?
@@kazenna the battle against Red in Gold Silver and Crystal and HeartGold and SoulSilver. In HG and SS his team ranges from levels 80-88. It’s at the end of the game after getting all 16 badges
love your videos arlo.
Gonna wait until the second and see if that's worth it. If so will do both DLC at the same time.
I understand being grossed out that the older sister is abusive, but I found it good that a Pokémon game went this route
When playing the main game, I had a few moments where I genuinely thought "I am having fun! I am enjoying this!" But with the DLC, the whole time I was just thinking "I just want to be done with this."
Was the base game ever fixed?
No lol
Game Freak fixing a Pokemon game, hahaha heck no.
As long as people keep buying garbage from the pokemon company it will never get any better..
@@mikeuk666 Exactly.
@@mikeuk666 I haven’t played a Pokémon game on switch. Everytime Pokémon puts something out, it looks more and more like sun and moon will be my last Pokémon game. Sucks bc those games sucked too lol
It's genuinely amazing at how Gamefreak can just keep stooping to new lows, even now
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
DLC that costs a quarter of the game itself should offer content equivalent to a quarter of the game itself. This was a $5 dlc
How do you get pikachu on a bus?
*You Don’t*
pickachu
You poke'em on
@@bowen13 😂😂 hilarious! Felt like I was hit by a Bus! (Of comedy)
@@HenrayPatter Oh no, you must be tired
Personally, I liked this dlc waaaaaaay more than I did the sword and shield dlc. I actually connected with the story, and it’s the first time it’s made me care about a legendary Pokémon in quite a while.
Carmine is an interesting take on anti-tourism sentiment from locals and I like that the story actively scolds her for the way she acts.
Kieran is a character I like a lot, it’s not an arc we’ve seen much of in Pokémon of a kind-hearted person having their darker side drawn out from neglect and mistreatment (even if not having a choice at the player on the matter is frustrating)
I agree, the dlc was more interesting than IOA and CT. I see what you're saying about Carmine. I just don't like her attitude towards her brother. It's one thing to be mean to a total stranger, but a whole other story with family. I get siblings annoy each other and fight, but she took it to a whole other level. I also get she was trying to protect him too, but there were other ways to do that.
Can't wait to see what part 2 will be like.
To be fair she realized it wasn't the best thing to hide it and her intentions were good even if it wasn't her best idea
@@blueknight8657 I can give her that one, and she did become nicer in the end. I just didn't like her attitude towards him prior to that.
What? The story doesn't scold her at all. That's like the main issue with it. Every time she acts up, nothing happens, there is only 1 line where someone calls her out, and it's brushed off instantly.
Tbh there were tourist trainers Billy onair that I’m pretty sure gave her that sentiment of her home town becoming a tourist trap and if you talk to the caretaker in the end of the game he pretty supported that claim
Can’t wait for your review of the 2nd part.
You know, I never saw that muppet recommendation comming. Who woulda thought...
I honestly loved the dlc and feel its a step in the right direction as far as the story goes. Also i did make a whole new team so there was an actual challenge.
I also had a team of level 80+ Pokémon going into this. I just ended up getting an entirely new team to go through the story with so it wasn’t a complete cakewalk
Its sad that the player has to actively nerf themselves to enable a semblance of a challenge with this game. I've always said one of the stupidest decisions in pokemon was removing the battle tower.
@@Ergeniz totally. The lack of difficulty is one of my biggest issues with modern Pokémon games. A battle tower would be great, but if GameFreak ever brought back the battle frontier, I would be so happy. Sadly it probably won’t happen, especially considering GF didn’t add the battle frontier in ORAS
@@Ergeniz totally. The lack of difficulty is one of my biggest issues with modern Pokémon games. A battle tower would be great, but if GameFreak ever brought back the battle frontier, I would be so happy. Sadly it probably won’t happen, especially considering GF removed the battle frontier from ORAS
@@Ergeniz chuggaaconroy's "just use worse pokemon" take
@@ErgenizIt's pokemon. The tagline is gotta catch 'em all. Catching and raising a new team for a new region is literally part of the fantasy. If you want to test your ability in battle that's what VGC is for.
Your videos are rolling out like hot cakes and I’m here for it
I enjoyed this DLC. I’m really excited for The Indigo Disk though!
Haven't played SV in a long time. Forgot how absolutely ugly it is lmao
I still can't believe that the performance of a main series game is sooo bad - and they are just going with it, like pretending that nothings wrong / needs to be fixed. I really hope that some Nintendo Chiefs are smacktalking Gamefreak behind locked business doors so that this will never happen again.
They won't, because sales are good.
Does the wheel rotate on the Pokémon’s body? Lol still unsure if I’m ready to jump back into a Pokémon game 😅
7:12 Relating to the limited pool, a notable part of Kitakami's dex is basegame 'mons.
haven't bothered with this dlc. the switch pokemon games just haven't done it for me, and while scarviol was better than swsh it wasn't the difference I needed. So I've gone back to the ds & 3ds games, & been having a lot more fun.
Same, I haven't bothered with the Switch Pokemon games either. I'm just sticking to just playing Pokemon games from Gens 3-5.
There are a few NPC battles that can be tricky that are above level 60 (the kitakami clan)
Not if you've got a team of level 100s.
My favorite part of this dlc is where they fixed the games bugs, updated the graphics and actually made it fun. Oh my bad this isn't cyberpunk 2077.
haven't tried this DLC yet, big pokefan here but good to know i shouldn't rush; might wait for part 2 to release, thanks arlo :)
They can't do a performance patch, but they can do paid DLC. They aren't getting my money
They are releasing another patch soon but it’s not going to address the bad performance very much, if at all.
the idea of wanting your playthrough pokémon to still be at the right level is a little ridiculous… i think a lot of the fun in the dlc comes from catching new mons and using them. i had a good bit of challenge doing this
It really isn't, you DLC should take place post game.
So unless you did some post game grinding they should naturally be at level.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 Weeelll... The base game ends the story lines at level 60 and the DLC starts with level 60 trainers so...
@@RancorSnp The base game opponents end at that level perhaps, but the player doesn't even if they avoid most battles. EXP share is forced on the player. Its one of the main criticisms of Scarlet/Violent to start with.
It really frustrates me how so many people have seemed to fall in love with Carmine as a character. I immediately hated her because of her abusive personality and xenophobic comments. I was hoping that she would turn it around, but she didn't really. Even into the end she was still pushing her brother around and downplaying his own feelings. It made me super uncomfortable as well.
By far the worst part is being railroaded into lying to Kieran, then being called a liar for something we had no control over. It's like a bad Telltale game where you're given several choices and then everyone hates you despite yourself having no control over the situation. If they wanted to do that, have an option where you tell him, and maybe he gets hurt or something happens to the village and Carmine is the one that hates us, but that would require Game Freak to actually put time and effort into the final product. This just feels very lazy.
Blessed be we for all the wonderful Arlo content.
Man, I still just can't believe the biggest, most profitable game franchise ever still makes games that look so lazy and cheap
Man, I still just can't believe millions of people still continue to buy poorly made products that look so lazy and cheap. Oh wait, I can believe it. Depressing.
The DLC battles are actually good/challenging if you use a new team from the DLC mons. The ones you can catch in the DLC are at a good enough level to use in the story battles.
This is stupid. People want to be able to use their teams from the base game. You're basically excusing the dev's laziness by saying, "Well no-one is forcing you to use your high-leveled team. Just nerf yourself".
As someone who actually enjoyed the dlc I can say I really like the story as it was something I could relate to my own life with the theme of being honest usually brings better results than hiding the truth. I found the bond between ogrepon pretty amazing as well as the character development of your rivals in the story. Also as a shiny hunter I found the new variety very nice.
Rumors about the Indigo Disc DLC say there's more story stuff, so I would wager the biggest problem with the Teal Mask is that it's all setup for what happens next.