be honest /v/, what did you think of the game?
I haven't played ANY pokemon game since GBA gen 3. Just fapping to futa Blaziken.
I forgot it existed until now, and will do so again two minutes from now.
>>724754067beyond based and true
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>>724753931Decently fun but the fucking roster is small, the combat is shit and horribly designed ->Hey stop and do this animation for 3 seconds to make your pokemon do anything.>Will it just autoattack if you don't do anything?>No it'll just stand there and soak shit for no reason.And half the boss fights have area attacks where your pokemon needs to dodge, only the AI is so stupid that it just runs right into the attacks and dies. Even the catching mechanic is retarded, as you can't have a pokeball out AND attack at the same time, or even dodge. So if you want to catch a pokemon in a certain ball, be prepared to eat an attack while you search for it. Plus your pokemon always heads back to you instead of tanking, so if you get too far away, the fucker brings the trouble your way. As jank as it is, Palworld at least had that right. I did like the concept of a battle city but without interiors or even memorable districts everything just sorta blurs together. Some of the characters are charming but your rival is ass too.
>>724753931Decent game, if it was an indie game made by one guy. From the most profitable franchise in the world, it's completely unacceptable.
>>724754713In an alternate timeline, gamefreak disbanded before some members later came back to kickstart a pokemon clone...and the game turns out exactly like our pokemon games.
modern pokemon is soulless garbage it only exist as design catalog for new merch
>>724753931Shit. Only shills say it's good or even decent.
Can make very feminine males.
>>724753931Worse than Legends Arceus in (almost) every way. It's pretty clear they rushed the shit out of this. Whether it's because Palworld made TPC shit themselves or GameFreak being GameFreak isn't clear, but this game clearly needed at least another year in the oven. But they can't even do that because the 30th anniversary is next year so Gen 10 takes priority.
>>724756598It's not much of a hot take but all Palworld did was justify an extra year in the oven if LZA was supposed to be last year's entry, but if you ask me, the switch2 is the biggest source of problems because it's clear they wanted LZA on the switch 1 but then the S2 happens and it's an oh-shit moment and LZA was still rushed so it could be playable in both consoles, and ''playable'' is already stretching it considering the S1 version has chances of you walking into a void.The worst part is that Nintendo themselves were pushing gamefreak if they wanted more help like an additional studio to work with or more budget and GF said [No], so this shit is all on gf
>>724756513I had a really hard time making my dude look like a dude and not a butch lesbian.
>>724753931it'd have been a great $20 game, but they're asking $100+ for the full experience. I legit want this to bomb, the legends series is such a retard dumpster for their worst ideas
If you use Aegislash it has a 5 second animation to attack the first time it's out while it switches from shield form to attack form. This serves no real purpose.
The game is shit, but the length pokefags go through to make excuses for this game's "Setbacks" (to put it lightly) is mind bogglingCall the graphics shit? Pokefags will tell you graphics don't matter, yet these fags were yelling at Palworld for being an unreal asset flip that makes the Pals look out of place, meanwhile LZA has the texture quality of Garry's Mod set to fullbrightTalk shit about the gameplay being monotonous yet pokefags will tell you it's peak how Pokemon is real time now even though the "real time" combat is just buttons on cooldown, somehow managing to make Xenoblade Chronicles' combat be more boring (and there's less depth and variety in LZA on top of that compared to the standard gameplay pokemon has had for decades, gameplay that's still pretty good and the only reason it sucks is because attack animations look like shit compared to the N64-Gamecube games)I look at pokefags telling me the game's exploration is fun yet the game is segmented like crash bandicoot and lacks any cool looking setpieces because the game looks like boring shit, and even if the game looks like boring shit you could justify there's fun ways to explore the world, to draw another parallel with Palworld, this game offers you a lot of ways to ride your Temu-brand pokemon, from gliding to flying to basic running mounts or even mons mounting You like that Uzi-wielding squirrel, meanwhile LZA put rideable mons on the cutting room floor and axed that shit so now shit's just basic walking with Holo ladders that teleport you (or 7 NPC's stacked on top of each other like a gmod skirt from 2008) and you climb an invisible ladder near said NPC'sI'm dead serious that if it wasn't for the constant shilling, i could call LZA just a mediocre 6/10-try again game, but pokefags somehow made this game look worse. And to think i was a pokefag, i'll just stick to jerking off to pokeporn, at least that shit's free.
>>724753931>what did you think of the game?It's mediocre and the battle controls are fucking shit and frustrating.Plus, if you get the battle pass one night and fight the nigga the next night, it will show you haven't collected any coins but it will play the music that plays when counting the coins, and obviously it'll take too much time playing the tunes.
>>724753931Actual shell of a game>90% of the map is identical minecraft buildings... but the roofs are different colors>2 music tracks for exploring the city... day time and night time (I think an instrument changes sometimes?)>very long cutscene for switching time that resets the world and interrupts wild battles>painful story that introduces concepts, then pulls them away from you>"""ranked""" online play is closer to a battle pass>can't personally interact with your Pokemon AT ALL (no, photo modes don't count and even SV had the weird washing thing)I've reached "C" in the game story and I can't bring myself to finish it. I thought SV "ok" and this game has legitimately traumatized me
>>724754439>>No it'll just stand there and soak shit for no reason.>Want to change pokemon mid battle>Now it has to play a several seconds long animation while the enemy attacks without pausing a single second>The enemy trainers basically play an animation that stops the battle when mega evolving and throwing the last pokemon, and instantly start blasting yours>Meanwhile the controls fail constantly to register basically making your mon lose half the health before even landing a single hit or mega evolving.
its a solid 6/10 assuming you didn't pay for itonly the music is good, everything else (gameplay, story, exploration, pacing) is varying levels of badeasily worse than plaanyone who actually paid $70+ for this game and rated it anything above 7/10 (like journos) is a certified slop enjoyer and barely sentient
>>724753931still playing it, it's very fun to fall asleep to. the only game of its type i do all the side quests and play for the fun and mystery of it. I like not knowing every last min/max bullshit and playing with the team I think is cool.
>>724754067Basediken
It was okay. Wasn't groundbreaking, exploration was rather annoying at times, but I had fun with it. Probably a 7.5.
Why gen 2 starters but with cyniquil swapped out? Is it because of the rape?
>>724753931Fuck this gen 5 garbage. Cyndaquill is cooler than that garbage pig from Gen 5
>>724753931>>724760793>>724760872
>>724753931I just want my queen.
>>724753931Much better than arceus in basically every way, though it still certainly has flaws, especially visually (though thats nothing new for 3D pokemon)That, and the city feels kinda small once you've gotten a little ways into the game, there's just not really much variety in the setting, would've been nice if there were more buildings with different styles you could go into. The combat style is fast paced and fun though, it'd be nice if they kept this style in future mainline games.
>>724753931It was pretty fun, definitely the best of the Switch pokemon games though that isn't saying much. I'd give it a 7/10, I think the nighttime battling mechanic was underdeveloped and NPC trainers are REALLY dumb. It's like a pseudo-stealth game but the trainer layouts suck and their AI is on par with Metal Gear 2 on the MSX2. I can see why you skip so many ranks, other than them not wanting to end a game at level 100 and the in-game explanation. The final boss is a neat spectacle but the actual fight sucks, but the two main post-game fights against L and Zygarde are good. Also, I usually don't care about the characters in these games at all, but some of these were interesting. I liked Corbeau a lot, and Naveen was neat when he was super-duper into Canari. Sadly Naveen and the other girl (Lida?) are kind of just there. Taunie and Urbain are alright though they're too goody-two shoes and a lot of the cutscenes with them are weird cause they have a strange face. Also the black fairy woman was neat, she's psychotic.
>>724753931It's fun, yes the buildings look like ass, I really don't give a fuck, the game is not about looking at the buildings.
>>724757047Palworld has been in the oven for half a decade and it's still an unfinished beta just like every other game by the same dev, and half the mechanics in it are lifted directly from Legends Arceus.
>>724757701All animations have delays to account for the fact that the game is not turn based anymore.
>>724760793Typhlosion was in Legends Arceus already
>>724753931Gameplay loop is alright, wish the city was interesting to explore
>>724760993You can get a Fennekin in a very early side quest.
>wild zones suck ass>game wont stop holding your hand through half the fucking game to railroad you through cutscenes and how to use z moves in battle>alpha encounters are fucking bullshit>takes fucking forever for your pokemon to start attacking once its thrown out of its ball>combat doesnt know what the fuck it wants to be with cooldowns and range based attacks that home in on YOU the player that you cant fucking dodge>ai pokemon can throw out protect in 1 second while yours take a full 3-4 seconds>trainer battles are braindead easy until you get to the rank up battle, then its just hoping you picked the type advantage>story is retarded>city is gigantic and empty>piss poor fashion choices for males7/10, if I didnt care so much about getting the dex done I'd have dropped it long ago
>>724753931Cute, but i ultimately liked the first one better. the PvP is awful and while the endgame Shiny Hunting is the easiest it EVER been with the spawn locks AND sound AND basically mass spawns on what feels like a really fast Day/Night cycle that can be forced to change and mass respawns/rerolls of fast travel (good thing BTW, lets kids actually engage with the mechanic and not just no lifeing nerds), schizophrenic writing with several retarded aspects (The whole Wild Area "debate", Lysandre/Team Flare DINDU NUFFIN) but several characters are good and it has some nice moments, in particular in how "No fucks Given" Zygarde is, which is a fucking miracle by Pokémon standards. Incredibly streamlined, absolutely PATHETIC Dex. End game structure of doing night battles to get points for the renmatches gets monotone fast, especially since the night battles are 3 mons per trainer at best and you are likely to oneshot their first mon with an Ambush.Nobles>Rogue Megas.By vibe is that it was made for battlefags rather then collectorfags (who the OG Legends appealed to) but since the battle system is new it doesn't actually appeal to ANYONE other then the fags who just obsessed with making an "Action" Pokémon game.
>>724762446>>wild zones suck assMostly true, should have had more varied biomes or just had them be larger maps outside of the city.>>game wont stop holding your hand through half the fucking game to railroad you through cutscenes and how to use z moves in battleWhat? The game pretty much stops holding your hand after the tutorial, after that you just get icons where you need to go to advance the next part of the storyz you're completely free to ignore them, Z moves are not even in the game and you can do whatever you want in battle, all of this is a retarded lie.>>alpha encounters are fucking bullshitGit gud.>>takes fucking forever for your pokemon to start attacking once its thrown out of its ballYes, all pokemon get an animation after coming out of the pokeball as a delay/punishment for changing pokemon mid-battle, it's on purpose, the only time you get a free switch is when the enemy is choosing their next pokemon.>>combat doesnt know what the fuck it wants to be with cooldowns and range based attacks that home in on YOU the player that you cant fucking dodgeThere literally is a button dedicated to dodging that immediately cancels out damage to the player even if the attack's animation hits, moved htting the player are a thing in Legends, it's just how it is.
>>724762446>>ai pokemon can throw out protect in 1 second while yours take a full 3-4 secondsFalse, protect and detect both have animation delays just like every other move and these are tied to the species if the pokemon who use them, not the player.>>trainer battles are braindead easy until you get to the rank up battle, then its just hoping you picked the type advantagePokemon has always been a game of guessing/getting lucky with type advantages.>>story is retardedToo broad a criticism, retarded in what aspect? The story is a direct sequel to X and Y.>>city is gigantic and emptyWith people would make up their mind, half the time the city is too small, the other half it is too big, also, it is very much not empty, the density of sidequests is actually pretty overwhelming, if you don't do sidequests as they appear then by the end of the game the entire map is covered in markers.>>piss poor fashion choices for malesFemale is not much better, the customization is better than in SV but still very limited compared to SwSH or SM, the one thing male characters often get less of is hairstyles, which yeah, is a problem.
>>724753931pirated all pokemon games, it's the most fun pokemon game, easily the best for methe flat building textures are an eyesore though
>>724753931Just more proof that turn based combat is superior
>>724753931Capturing took a step back, the ball has fuck all range whereas in PLA that thing would attempt capture from halfway across the field if it hit the pokemon. Dex request aren't as fun as you aren't needing to capture so many to learn about them, just for request points and no rewards for releasing all the extras either like PLA did. City is not nearly as much fun to explore, nor are the wild areas nice to hunt things down. Battling is alright, different but sometimes the lock on needed to do anything either goes wonky or just won't fucking work, which means you and your pokemon eat shit. When things aren't fucking up, its neat and pretty fast paced. The alpha fights are more interesting since its not just you throwing bags of coke at the pokemon, and you need to learn when to attack and when to withdraw your pokemon and dodge the desperation moves. It feels like that swapped what they wanted to do with PLA and focus more on battles with this game, which while can be fun, the weaker catching is just weird as PLA was really fun in that regard. Overall its more of a weird sidestep than a step forward to me.
>>724753931Somehow actually worse than ArceusTalk about fucking repetitive with no end game...>Here, here's another Wild Zone and a handful of quests>Don't do all of it in one sitting nowAlso fuck me, I realized how much Alpha farming i did in Arceus since I had a shitton of EXP candy, while I'm bone-dry in ZA just trying to complete the dex.
>>724762446>>piss poor fashion choicesI just want to customize my phone, what the fuck...Everyone has a color phone color, while I'm stuck with retarded-red...
>>724762061Palworld is a new IP and was made by like 10 people who barely know how to make a game.Legends ZA is an entry in a 30 year long franchise, with said franchise being the highest grossing IP on the planet, made by the same company who's been making these games for just as long. They're not comparable.Also Palworld is leaving early access next year.
>>724762061>lifted the gameplay is nowhere identical besides the throwing mechanic which is still contestable since there's an impasse weither palworld preexisted before it released the trailer and game which i have no comment about.but all i have to say about your statemen is, even though palworld is still in the oven and improving their game it kind of makes me glad they kept the beta title and acknowledging their flaws and bug issues (which is more understandable since their devs are pretty new and had to swap unreal engines at the last second) instead of selling the game at full price above 60 in a bad state or completely ditching and pulling the rug once they got their money because most indies games just ditch their game before they can reach 1.0 or even the demo stage which would be frustrating to actually patronage paying for the game
>>724759495>everything about the game sucks>6/10 (above average)
>>724753931I have never played an actual Pokemon game. Except Pixelmon.
>>724765924do you know how to get mega stones in pixel mon i tried to get one but gave up after a month through my playthrough
>>724753931it's like eating vanilla ice cream with taco bell mild sauce squirted all over it
>>724765983Just got to kill a mega evolved Pokemon. Don't ask me how to find them, I never did before I stopped playing due to the game breaking on me.
>>724753931The game is hot garbage
>>724754439>plays palworld>doesn’t realize you can recall your mon to avoid damage during non-trainer battles like rogue megas?
>>724753931Lost all interest when i found that it's just 1 small city.The GMOD level graphics didn't help either. I'll stick to nuzlocking older titles
Palworld won
>>724754439>And half the boss fights have area attacks where your pokemon needs to dodge, only the AI is so stupid that it just runs right into the attacks and dies.i never had a problem with this in the entirety of my time playing, if you're too stupid to figure it out, i suggest you press the d-pad and recall your pokemon before they get hit.
its too expensive, and the emulation i was playing started bugging out to shit no matter what i did. nintendo never does price drops or sales either, so i'll just never play it. but i like that they actually changed the battle system. its about time they made one innovation.
>>724766134>recall your pokemon before they get hit.My pokemans aren't pussies like yours are, chump. Now check this Luxury Ball.
I was interested in getting ZA till I saw that combat goes for a more real-time turn-based thing and it kinda bummed me out. I was debating between ZA and the new DQ 1+2 to play but once I saw the combat it was an easy decisionside note: I mentioned to my friend who loves pokemon that it bummed me out that it wasn't exactly turn-based anymore and he said it was necessary to shift away from it to broaden appeal and I remember telling him that that pokemon is the biggest media franchise on the planet, who tf else is there to appeal to??
>>724766326Something seams off about the canal.
>>724765924Check out Arceus, it's legit a good game despite what these retards say. just make sure you Emulate it
>>724766326Oh no no no no no no no no no no no no no
>>724753931Very mediocre, at this point if you want to play pokemon just play hacks, like clover.
>>724753931Every I’m reminded of this starter lineup I hate the game and think it’s worse and a downgrade from Arceus
>>724766326they really just slapped this shit together and sold it to Pokefags
>>724760793The first game I actually boxed the starters. I'm running with an alpha tyrantrum as my ace.
>>724768190Meganium is way cooler than Tyrantrum
>>724764953>was made by like 10 people who barely know how to make a game.sounds like gamefreak though
>>724768421nuh uh
>>724753931I'm really liking it.
I got to the part where it split up 3 megas to do in whatever order, beat all 3, went back to hotel and just kinda never went back to the game. Lost interest.It was just fucking boring
>>724754713>if it was an indie gameI have news for you, I just need you to please understand
>>724758756>Pokefags will tell you graphics don't matterWorse, they'll say it has to be like that because that's the best the Switch can handle
>>724764953Palworld also had to switch to UE from Unity which undoubtedly took extra time
>>724753931dozen hours in, I like it except for the "jump from V to G rank" cop out.I force myself to not pause during fights though. iIt doesn't feel right.
Looks like shitI didn't boughted it
>>724769515Didn't miss much, the game does exactly that thing about fighting several megas in whichever order like 3 more times.
>>724770881>>724769515when inventing stories at least be sure your ctrl+v doesn't have the automated reddit spacing it really shows.
How the fuck did a literal retarded terrorist end up a professor in this game? Lorefags, explain.
>>724771023She's effectively under house arrest and being put to work managing a mass influx of invasive species while the actual professor went on vacation or something
>>724770995The fuck are you talking about? Didn't you play the game? That is how the game handles the progression, you take down 3 megas, then rank up by fighting weak NPCs and solving some crappy quest involving your next opponent then do it all over again, rinse and repeat until you reach rank A and the game is over.
>>724754067What's the difference between a futa Blaziken and male Blaziken?
Once you get out of the horrific tutorial cutscene bombardment and can actually play the game, it's ok. A bit repetitive but enough to call fun.Battle system is a small but interesting change. Not sure if I would want them to fully commit to it in the main series though.6/10. I wouldn't pay full price unless you've got literally anything else to do.
>>724753931lazy and uninspired, it's on brand.
Opinions seem to be all over the place
>>724766134>>724766061Yes, that is obvious. The point is that you have to do that jank shit Palworld does rather than the AI being any decent.
>>724757047Why are leftards allergic to actual relationships with guy and woman they always make some abomination cringe lesbian ships that are just werid and creepy
>>724766326>"That'll be 95$."
>>724774050They hate anything that is normal/good they are rejects, trash and want to destroy everything and make them in their ugly image so as to not be reminded they are genetic failures that would had died during childhood in any other era
>>724774050lesbian ships are unironically safe horny even if i hate this term.It's basically saying "Look this woman can be sexy and cute and hot because it doesn't serve the male gaze".So then you get guys wanting to be girls to be able to be allowed to like girls so they can be like "uh actually its not male gaze because i am a valid cute le wholesome lesbian yuri enjoyer"
>>724775327It's still the male gaze, real lesbians are ugly and fat.
>>724777235I just woke up and am still in the process of booting the hell up, but do you understand how fucking moronic you sound right now?
>>724763710It’s fucking weird this isn’t in Scarlet/Violet had a LOT of different phone cases it’s such a glaring omission.
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