>>58411680
10/10 the best Pokemon game I've played by far. The narrative leading up to the conclusion of the main story was peak.

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>>58411680
>Gameplay
10/10 even down to the way pokemon interact with the environment fuck that Alpha Houndoor
>Map design
6/10 it's a bit repetitive and lackluster in that aspect
>Graphics
7/10 Game looks good, shame about the flat textures
>Characters
6/10 the main crew is a bit flat and the newly introduced characters are not that interesting past their introductions
>Story
7/10 it gets ruined by the tower, they should have made it so the tower was a Xurkitree that was dead/dormant at least then making use of the energy from Floette would have made a lot more sense
>Pokemon designs
8/10 I like the new megas

>>58411702
fpbp

>>58411680
>Gameplay?
slop/10
>Map design?
slop/10
>Graphics?
slop/10
>Characters?
slop/10
>Story?
slop/10
>Pokémon designs?
slop/10

>>58411680
Objectively like a 6/10 but because it has Charizard in it it's actually a 10/10 and I will be buying 30 copies to ensure that gamefreak can continue feeding my charizard addiction

>>58411680
Gameplay 9/10. It's really responsive, and I just love the feeling or mass ambushing and one shotting mons during the royale. The Rogue megas were kind of challenging, if you didn't farm for 3 different mega stones.
Map design is a 3/10, only redeemable part is that the rooftops are a pretty comfy aesthetic and I like some of the parkour/gliding "puzzles". It's very samey otherwise, and the textures are visibly low quality in some places.
Characters, design-wise, are pretty good. characterization-wise, better than SV, slightly worse than sun and moon (mainly because the game is shorter, I feel and it's more padded with gameplay).
Story is short, didn't need to be much, has a couple minor plot-twists but very pokemon-esque, as in the stakes get introduced very late and can feel sudden (introducing "new team flare" for example).
Pokemon megas are pretty bad, only like 1-2 resonated with me (chandelure and hawlucha, granted they didn't improve much on the design).
I had fun, but mainly the gameplay.

Its fun but low quality. The second best switch pokemom game after arceus legends.

>>58411820
I agree on the story. It feels like pokemon plots are very dumbed down, or have went through multiple committees to sanitize it. Especially after reading the leaks, it seems like it always starts with a grandiose idea of a narrative, then gets cut down into a mild version of it

Pokemon game name here
Cultist/replies
-IGN

So, are AZ and the Team Flare crew the only returning characters?

Are you guys larping as shills?

>>58413572
Detective girl too and uhh... mentions of characters in posters, pictures, and conversations.

I'm still on the fence because I don't have an S2. How does it run on the S1?

I still think that wild areas within the city are stupid, dangerous and, in the end, there was no explanation. I also found the rest of the story mediocre

>>58411680
4 or 5/10. It's pretty low quality, but it's fun enough you can still play it. wouldnt buy it.

>>58411680
Palworld humiliates it in every kind of way. This is a ripoff scam by gf.

>>58413721
Very smoothly.

>>58413585
The game is fun bro

>>58411680
I hate to be a leech, but where do i get it?

>>58413585
/vp/ has always been filled with pathetic fanboys that will talk shit about Gamefreak until a new game comes out to stroke themselves off over. It happened with SS, it happened with SV, it's going to happen with whatever bullshit GF comes up with next.

>>58411680
Hesitant to buy this because pokemon legends arceus was fun for the first couple hours but it got repetitive real quick. How does it compare to arceus?

>>58411738
>>58413585

Goes to show everyone likes something different

>>58411680
Maybe its a stupid question, but does it run well on Switch 1?

>>58414222
Yeah, apparently it actually runs pretty smoothly.

MID

>>58413935
Swish was almost entire negative. I admit I wasn't here for SV, I bailed on that shit during the pre-release season, but Sword and Shield were torn to shreds by the majority of this board. There were a very small amount of shills left by the time the game released. The doggy turning around webm was posted in just about every thread.

>>58413721
>How does it run on the S1?
significantly better than SV.

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>>58411680
0/10 in all categories.

>>58413935
The amount of people that shill SV is scary lol, those games are complete dog shit

>>58411680
I don't like it as much as Arceus so it's snugly the 2nd best pokemon game in existence

The gameplay loop and music are the highlights for me. It's fun. Everything else is subpar.

People who are rating the gameplay a 10, are we playing the same game? I do not dislike action combat, but holy crap is the combat in this game really, really janky as a result of the focus targeting being extremely finicky.

If you could just hold down the button between pokemon during trainer fights it would be a solved problem, but the fact that you need to press it manually each time means you are never, ever getting the first hit in.

Nevermind the times the focus randomly targets this random mega-cluster instead of the pokemon I want to ambush, and the times I go to ambush, my move ghosts and my opponent actually ambushes me instead.

Very unrefined system that needed a lot more refinement.

I haven't played Pokémon since sun/moon. I liked gen 6 and I like the classic Pokémon style game. To me, constant battle royale is dogshit gameplay (i.e. just team up on 1 mon and its ded). Is that what this game is? Does it have anything resembling gen6 and before? I'm out of games on my switch, and would play this but not if it's just battle royale pokemon version

>>58414410
No it's real time 1 on 1 pokemon fights, no accuracy no PP and speed serves to reduce cooldowns. There are times where you have to fight multiple pokemons at once though. And there are "raids" but it's just you doing damage, dodging and switching mons, your teammate is purposefully useless.

>>58414410
You would probably enjoy Legend Arceus more. The game is closer to the original battle system, while still being unique (The battle system is closer to classic FF and you have to dodge attacks as a trainer). This one is a bit more trainer-battle focused with a new real time battle system. Legend Arceus is more focused on finishing the Pokedex and collecting Pokemon.

>Gameplay 6/10
I'm 14 hours in and I still don't understand why the game has these fake action mechanics. Because you can't control your pokemon directly, dodging and moving around feels empty and luck-based, like trying to get a cat to go somewhere. It's also very unclear the "category" of move each attack is. Shadow-ball is a straight line that can be dodged. Some moves like Icy-Wind and Earth-Power look like they can be dodged but they cannot as they instantly spawn under-neath you. Melee attack ranges never match up with their particle effects so whether they land or not is unclear. If you try dodging a melee attack and it clips you as you're running back, you wasted time you could have spent casting attacks and getting your cooldown rotation off. 99% of the time it feels the best strategy is to just play it like a regular pokemon game.

>Map Design 5/10
I was hoping they'd get creative with the biomes, like have an ice-rink and recreational snow-mountain with fake snow for ice-types. Nope. One day there is a grassy park, and after the 1st wave of Rogue Megas, that park is now snowed with no discernable reason. A lot of rare pokemon don't spawn in wild zones but in random pockets in the city. With no discernable geography, looking for rare Pokemon is all about finding random secret pockets, and hoping the prize the developers put there is something you want. Ralts is in a random park. Riolu is in a random roof-top. Etc.

>Graphics 2/10
All buildings have no depth and are just flat textures, like this is an N64 game.

>Characters 6/10
GF trying to make waifus to sell $600 trainer cards.

>Story 7/10
Actually kinda cool for a Pokemon game. Just got to the part where you're in a debt trap with Team Rust.

>Pokemon Designs 6/10
None of the new megas do it for me idk.

>Music 10/10
Insaneintherain being on the OST was the best surprise and the best part of this game.

>>58413721
I have an S2, should I buy the $10 upgrade or nay?

>you are a tourist who gets roped in to help clean some cunt's mess unwillingly
>she rarely appears in the story while you have to work on shit
>"I'm too busy finding someone"
>forces you to fight to the death against megas
>you're a tourist
>you are forced into dealing with some prophecy about a tower exploding and killing everyone in the city you're visiting... as you know... a tourist
>you're a tourist
>the asshole who roped you in her drama has now roped you in with the yakuza because she couldn't pay off a million dollar debt she took without a second thought so she could "protect the hotel and help the man who helped her"
>you get forced into being an errand boy for the yakuza with the possibility of never being let go to help this shit stain you barely met be debt free
>she doesn't do a single thing about it and just laughs as you clean up her mess
>you're a tourist
>the girl never appears to help and then suddenly decides that she should be the one to save the city you're visiting even though you've been the one doing the heavy lifting and she keeps sayinf "nah he's good" when even her friends feel bad seeing you be forced by her obnoxious, egomaniacal behavior
>says she'll let you wield the mega to beat the tower
>beat her
>goes back on her word because she can't stand the thought of you being the hero
>the prophecy is fulfilled because of her arrogance
>get called thinking she's gonna say her last words
>"HAHA ANON THIS IS SO MUCH FUN IM HIGH UP"
>ask where the mega of the man she wanrs to help is
>"OH FLOETTE IS FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE TO PROTECT ME BUT LOOK IM HAVING FUN"
>ultimately save the day
>the man she swore to pay back dies
>instantly forgets about him after his passing
>is rewarded CEO for being the biggest piece of shit and causing problems in the city you're visiting
>you're a tourist
>you are the only person who genuinely paid respects to the man who took you in vs the girl who went up and down to cause problems for same guy
Hate this shithead

It has all of the worst nupokemon tropes

>>58416740
Forgot to mention
>get a wish for reaching Rank A
>her friends recommend using the wish to keep AZ's hotel in tip top shape
>she fucking rejects the damn idea of keeping the hotel she was hoping to look after for AZ as essentially a "waste of a wish"

Yeah, into the pits of hell for you. This game is okay, but it has hype moments to carry it and that's it.

4/10 I only liked the music

im 12 hours in and I just dont get the point of the combat. Some moves that stay on the ground are cool but direct attacks are just a lame spamfest. Also controlling the whole fight feels janky, surely they couldve made a better system. Maybe make every move a charging move that you can cancel out of to do deal less damage but so you can avoid incoming damage etc. it just feels like shit, the animations can be cool i guess. Also I dont feel the adventure at all, its like my character has already explored the whole continent and suddenly I got locked inside the main city and my old pokemon were taken away. Everything looks the same around me at all times, doing the same red zones for coupons to check another box. I liked PLA way more and I didnt even care about the catch focus, and even that game felt really unfinished

>>58413721
You can buy the switch 2 cartridge and play it on the switch 1 and then transfer the data when you get a switch 2.

>>58414385
This is 100% how the combat system is. Anyone who says otherwise is a shill. And this is coming from someone who’s steamrolling through the game with gyarados.

>its "fun"
not an argument

>>58411702
fippybippy

>>58411680
Why is it that in all the gameplay footage the players just wildly throw poke balls at every random mon they run past?
Is it using pokemon go mechanics where you just gotta catch a fuckton of the same mons to get bonuses or something?

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I see a lot of hate towards the map/city but everything I saw looks damn amazing. I don't care if the balcony is extruded or just a plane image as long as the vibe is there. And it gives me that feel of Pokemon anime cities that I always enjoy in any games just that this time it's much bigger.

>>58411680
>Gameplay
6/10
Started really strong, but not a fan of the forced "Rogue Mega" battles, they were never challenging, just kinda dull.
Focus shifts suddenly away from the Z-A tournament.
>Map Design
7/10
Not terrible, does give the "feel" of exploring a city. But if anything it's on the small side. I am not expecting a full Kalos remake, but it's a shame we couldn't leave the borders of the city, even if it's not that far out of it.
>Graphics
(Switch 1) 9/10 Considering that system's limitations, it genuinely surprised me how good it looks. Textures are a bit flat, but again, weak hardware.
>Characters
10/10 for Ivor.
He can wrestle me to the ground any day of the week.
3/10 for the rest.
>Story
6/10
Good initial premise, kinda loses it at the end
>Pokémon Designs
0/10 for Skibidigatr

>>58417099
You level up in your research tasks, which give you TMs, ending with the Master Ball and Shiny Charm.

how do i get a galarica wreath to evolve galarian slowbro

>>58417282
I really dislike that, when they force you to catch a bunch of shitmon you'd just have rot in the PC