A Decent Pokemon Adventure | A Review of Pokemon Legends: Arceus
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Fun but flawed.
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00:00 Intro
00:48 Catching
04:39 Gameplay Loop
10:30 Battles
13:33 Difficulty
15:27 Story
18:59 Nobles
20:20 Story pt2
23:56 Post Game
25:51 Graphics
27:22 Pokemon Scale
28:03 Jubilife
29:58 Player Character
31:15 Music
31:55 Exploration
32:16 Subsequent Playthroughs
32:45 Outro
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You forgot to mention that the Pokémon look at you during battles, awaiting for you to give them orders. That was a really nice touch
This also applies to enemy pokemon too. If your favorite pokemon gets KO'd by a surprise crit or super effective attack, they all look at you like *"YOU ARE NEXT"*
Pokemon also taunt when they evade an attack or when the other pokemon attacks with a move to which they are immune to
I love how cries were actually something put to use in this game. When you walk out in about in the wild, you could hear all the different pokemon cries and it sounded like being outside in nature. If you recognized a certain cry, you might get excited as you ran around looking for that pokemon. It was cool to see my Infernapes wild spirit for battle as he sat there roaring in his enemies face waiting for me to tell him to attack. Then you have my casual Espeon who was like sitting there meowing haha
To my knowledge the wurmple does evolve, you just gotta talk to its trainer
true, it does evolve the point is that the guy expects a beautifly but gets a dustox instead
Also other side quest like che Bidoof and Chimeco become permanente members of the village
@@Polmo1997 and the pokémon you leave at the farms!
The main thing I see in this game is potential. Everybody is talking about wanting a Legends Celebi/Unova-Dragon but I hope this series will not restrict itself to medieval stuff. Imagine a gritty 1960s style Kanto where you infiltrate Team Rocket lead by Madame Boss searching for Mew or a future Hoenn where space travel is an integral part of the gameplay and you uncover the secrets of Deoxys.
that would be awesome ngl 🤩
Personally I’m tired of kanto and charizard. We get kanto more than any other region. We do not need yet another Gen 1 game
I've actually thought space travel would work really well for a legends version of the alola games, ultra wormholes give lots of room for creativity, and new ultra beasts could be a cool new group of pokemon for the game to introduce like Legends Arceus' hisuian forms.
@@stonalisa3729 too bad they are gonna do it anyway whether you or me like it or not sadly and I say this as someone who's childhood poke region is kanto 😭
@@niteriemcfarlane5285 of course they will because Charizard.
21:16 I hope Gamefreak does capitalize on the environmental changes that a pokemon might make. Especially because of some of the new pokemon introduced. Grafaiai is essentially a graffiti artist so it would be cool if it'd only show up near graffiti marks letting you know they're around.
It's sad that even GBA games can do something like that with legendary static encounters well
Grafaiai sucks, so no.
@@ramonandrajo6348 No, it doesn't.
@@Dizaxly-69 Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure. ;)
@@ramonandrajo6348 He’s a little lemur with a sickly long finger whose fur pattern looks like a hoodie with golden hair poking out the top. A little breathing mask, goggle eyes, and goofy shoe feet make him look like a hoodlum while being subtle, still making it clear he’s some kinda primate creature. Also he’s based on what is agreed to be a fairly ugly animal so props to them on making it likeable and not an outright objective abomination.
I like how the pokemon and villagers eventually start coexisting with each other. It's a beautiful touch that gives the village a sense of growth since everyone in the village started off being afraid of them.
Legends Arceus was the first game in the main series I enjoyed recently. It was worth the purchase.
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@@mihaimercenarul7467 ?
@@mihaimercenarul7467 ew
@@keefy3482 good parrot
Nope.
3:30 you're supposed to click + to see all pastures at once after you search for the pokemon
I was about to say this. The search in box works perfectly fine
The graphics were flawed and no online battling was honestly a HUGE missed opportunity but otherwise this was a very fun and addicting gameplay loop. Plenty of quality of life like the movepool replacing TMs and tutors and renaming in the menu are also welcome additions.
I agree only with the first.
This is the game we needed like 5 years ago.
The wurmple guy does do the evolution to show the passage of time thing, the only problem is that his Pokemon will only evolve if you talk to him in certain points He even gives you a sidequest in the game for you to show him a silcoon, since he can't tell the difference between his cascoon and a silcoon, that sidequest is quite funny actually
It's always good when Distant Kingdom uploads something.
The music in Legends Arceus is awesome. I love that they remixed some of the old Gen 4 music.
I've never run into your money issue and I didn't need to grind materials. I just kept an eye out for ones used to craft balls and made sure to grab everything around, while looking for Pokemon. Whenever supply ran dry, I used cash I had lying around to patch up the hole in Pokeball supplies until I had the materials in good numbers again. Also, there were material types I never used so I was selling those wholesale for extra funds.
huh. yea in both my runs i never had cash. it was even worse on the second run when i was just trying to get through the game
@@DistantKingdom I think it may come down to the playstyle. Judging by what you said, compared to my playtime you blitzed through the game both times. I don't remember how many hours I clocked by the time I beat Volo but it was significantly more than 20. I explored all areas really extensively on first visit with high dex completion, so by the time I hit Icelands, I was rank seven, I think. It just felt natural to do it that way. And because I was spending so much time at once in one part of the map, I didn't run into issues with Distortions, either. I've run into a lot of them. Plus, I was being pretty conservative with balls, I suppose? Idk. The side effect of this playstyle though was that I only found out that Outbreaks are a thing that exists from online coverage. Because I often would be mostly done with an area on the first visit, I've never encountered one until I started specifically looking for them. That was first playthrough. On the second playthrough, I wanted to just run through it as fast as possible which made grinding for ranks an annoying requirement. Still no cash issues though. Perhaps because I kept catching to minimum? I dunno. I mostly just wanted to face Volo with a single Scizor.
Yeah, same, I never had a problem with money or balls, and I think I progressed quite fast through the game so I was surprised when he brought that up
@@DistantKingdom I guess you just were very inefficient at using money, probably because you have to actually admin your money unlike other pokemon titles.
Well, let's see if they learnt something from PLA and hopefully Scarlet and Violet will bring what was missing in previous games.
I'll say Nope.exe
Scarlet and Violet were developed mostly at the same time as Legends , they might've even started at the same time, there's almost no way they would be able to implement something just because people liked it in Arceus, fully including what worked might not be until gen 10
Haha... Hahaha... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Nope.
@@mithy7525 I agree.
Imagine trying to catch a shiny Alpha Garchomp while trying to not get exploded by the other Alpha Garchomps... XD It's incredibly painful. :p
You brought up some points I never thought about, so that's cool Btw, Beaugene's Wurmple does evolve as you progress through the game, though I don't remember what the condition for each evolution is.
a few ppl keep saying it evolves but no one can say how lol. if true then thats pretty sweet
@@DistantKingdom You need to have caught 35 different kinds of pokemon then after that another 10 for it to evolve again. Although the fact you have to go out of your way to talk to him for it is kinda lame instead of it just happening naturally
@@zephyrorsomethinh1528 yea that's unfortunate. Super cool it actually does evolve tho
There's a nice touch for that Wurmple. If you give the guy a shiny or alpha Wurmple, it will preserve its state.
I think the money and resource management is a nice new challenge and added layer to the gameplay loop. I liked figuring out how to optimize doing multiple objectives at once, and getting by on what I had. Things are expensive on purpose - you can stop and grind for stuff if you want, but if you're trying to be fast and tactical, like your gameplay style seems to be, it's gonna be harder, like using under-leveled pokemon.
Mmm it was more tedious than challenging. Sure you can grind, nothing challenging about that..but even the grind itself has additional layers of tedium
@@DistantKingdom Maybe, and I know some aspects like not being able to throw things while riding pokemon are dumb, but I'd gotten used to it. I think the tedium would be more apparent and annoying on a second playthrough though, which you've done and I haven't.
Nice try, Nintendrone. XD
@@leinad3955 I’m so
@@ramonandrajo6348 jfc you're a sad clown
3:28 You can hit the + button to view all your boxes and the game will color in the ones that have the Pokemon you're looking for
I can’t believe you didn’t talk about the lack of a mini map! It was very frustrating to have to open the full map every time I needed to know where I was. And it didn’t help that the button you use to open the map cannot be used to close the map. You have to press a different button to close it. Another thing that was really frustrating is when you die in a Noble battle, it asks you if you’d like to continue, and “no” is where the cursor starts at, causing you to have to move the cursor to select Yes. Then, it asks if you’d like to continue from where you were in the battle, or start all the way over with the boss at full HP, and the full HP option is where the cursor starts at!!! So you then have to move the cursor to indicate that you’d like to start from where you left off. Absolutely frustrating game design when you’re already losing at a boss battle and are angry.
mmm i never found myself really using the map. the world is kinda empty in terms of interacting with stuff so you don't rly need it if you aren't looking for something specific
@@DistantKingdom I second this. Sure it wouldn't have hurt to have the option to have a mini map, but I never missed it. (To be fair, I disable the mini map in Xenoblade games so I might not be the most reliable source)
@@CritsVG finally a xenoblade fan who shows what he would want Pokémon to improve at instead of being like the terrible jerk shills 😭❤
Oooof!
11:25 Doing an Agile style move sometimes prevent the opponent to do an Agile style .
It's weird. There's so much more that can be done, but as an immersive sim that makes you follow consistent rules, it was exactly what I needed. The Noble Pokemon were intimidating, the Growlithe's story was touching, and there's these little touches that do make wild Pokemon unique to encounter and interact with. Hell, Arceus's speech to you at the end was inspiring and heartwarming. It feels like a lot of the things you considered "not the game" was the intended game Game Freak was selling. Obviously the story loop wouldn't appeal to everyone, but seeing all these characters and speculating on what modern characters came from their bloodline...it was great for me, and I'm a lore junkie. I dunno, maybe I'm that wackadoo that thinks needing to punch the jukebox to make it play gives it more character instead of a normal person reaching in and fixing the faulty gears.
W and very interesting take btw
Shut up, Nintendrone. XD
The thing with space time distortions is that they form every 10 minutes of active playtime, they stop forming properly if you teleport or sleep longer than 'just a little while'
25:51 I also found the graphics disappointing and almost made me leave the game because I felt ripped off by the company. The hexagonal trees, the shadows, the grass... rowlets eyes (in the close up when you get you starter you can see how polygonal they are). But the cherry on top was when I made the Chimeco side quest. When you find him and the old lady asks him to be her Pokémon you can see how it has a mirror texture, reflecting the landscape. It's a great detail, and it's so sad to know we could have had a beautiful game, but they just don't care.
I always love seeing your videos bro. This one was fantastic.
thank you : )
Definitely the best pokemon games I've played in a decade. Hopefully they continue the legends series
imagine kalos, unova, hoenn, johto, aloha, and kanto getting the legends treatment 😭❤
It was Ok.
A refreshing change and a joyful adventure. Obviously that's just my opinion on it.
its trash, just like the last game and the one after it
@@Tw0tson cringe
@@keefy3482 seething poketard 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Tw0tson Sad lonely manchild whose sole existence is to hate on everything new related to pokemon. Touch grass dweeb.
@@keefy3482 “manchild” says the 30 yr old poketard fan 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great in depth video as always .. love this channel
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Mostly agree with this video and I'm glad you also enjoy the game more than any other Switch Pokémon games Just want to clarify: the Wurmple outside the HQ does evolve, you just have to chat to the NPC to do so
I found myself getting addicted to the gameplay loop, it's that back strike sound holy hell.
DistantKingdom is back baby!!!! you're finally i hope everything is well with you, but it's always good to see you upload new videos
God, the pokemon storage system drove me nuts in this game, too! I would have really loved the ability to sort by name or dex number or something. Trying to manually organize my pokemon was so frustrating! It would have been nice to be able to sort by a certain criteria, but also maybe be able to mark a pasture to exclude it from the sorting if you wanted to have certain pastures for certain things, IE shinies or legendaries.
If you click + you can see all pastures
Great video DK, I'll be looking forward to seeing your coverage of ScarVi when you get around to it!
"long throw balls don't work well in close range" Loading screen advice, 2022
They do work tho, aside from the aforementioned glitch
@@DistantKingdom they never did for me and from what I noticed they also had a different start place for the throwing (not the player's hand) and I think this is why it's easy to miss with them up close.
@@dany_fg it only glitched out and failed to work after stunning some pokemon. this never happened otherwise and was perfectly fine
The Wurmple you leave in the village actually _does_ evolve as time goes on, but I don't know what the trigger is. It might be sidequest completion?
I double-checked, it evolves when you complete Cascoon's Pokedex entry up to level 10 and have captured a Silcoon. Some people are also saying you need to evolve two wurmples before it happens.
@@LordEpos interesting. well that's super cool it evolves! wish it was tied to progression instead of whatever the actual trigger is so it could trigger every time
Despite all the flaws with Legends Arceus, I feel like it got the ball rolling for more action oriented titles in the future like Scarlet and Violet.
Awesome review man, this game was such a breath of fresh air, it’s not perfect and still has odd decisions, the risk was absolutely worth it to break the mold after 8 generations. Scarlet and Violet seem to be doing their own thing because they were developed at the same time as PLA, we won’t know the true effect of PLA’s reception until afterwards. Also on a personal note, I am so happy that such a cool game as PLA took place in Gen 4, my favorite generation. Here’s to the future
The only few things that I were miffed about in this game was that fact that Vaporeon doesn't swim you when you throw it out in the water or as you said earlier that you can only interact with the world on basculegion and not on the other nobles
That unsettling. I took great joy tossing out different pokemon to see how they interacted with water. Ghosts would float, fish would swim, birds would fly, and my fat ass Snorlax got a raft xD. I thought it was very cool that even though Decidueye was a grass/fighting, it was still able to fly because at the end of the day it was an owl. Vaporean not swimming is odd.
Took nearly a year, but I'm so glad you finally uploaded it.
Finally! Hope the next review you make it's for Temtem.
Pretty much agree with everything you said. One thing I want to add is that I personally found it annoying when the continuously flying Pokémon never landed to eat berries/cakes or sleep. Also Burmy and Wormadam models suggest they're dangling from trees, but in practice they're just dangling from thin air. Let them dangle from trees when you smack them out of one and let Pokémon go on the ground. Apart from that, I really enjoyed Arceus and I'm tempted to do a second play through which is something I'll never say about Sword and Shield.
12:20 Final Fantasy X has a really good way of showing speed that I think could work for Legends. On the top right there's pictures of the characters and the enemy which indicates who will move each turn. If let's say Tidus uses haste then it'll show how many additional turns Tidus will have. Sorry if I'm explaining it poorly in FFX its illustrated quite clearly who moves on what turn and the affects of slow and haste.
Dude always worries me when he dissappears for a while, love your vids dude, cant wait to hear your opinions on ScVi!
I feel most of these issues could have been fixed if the game had more time in development but overall it’s a very fun Pokémon game and your review is fair and honest about it
facts and agreed I wish Pokémon games would get delayed we don't need Pokémon mainline games every year much rather they take their time developing them 😭
@@niteriemcfarlane5285 it’s crazy to think we got 3 games in a single year!! Like they could have done dlc for BDSP and release that in the summer and then release legends Arcues this November and then SV in the next year but nope they want all the money
I have been waiting for this!!!!! It's been 80 years. haha love your reviews.
29:50 it actually does evolve if you talk to it after a certain amount of time passes however there is no indication that it is reedy to evolve.
Funny how a majority of the complaints are features related to resource-management... It's a new flavor added to the franchise, and I for one like it. It forces you to prioritze on collecting specific items rather than hoarding everything inside a portable black hole. People criticize the Resident Evil games for the same thing, and they are all missing the point. It's resource-management. Also, I never had a problem with money in all of my three playthroughs so far. The prize you get from cathcing mons and actually doing the research tasks outpaces the costs of buying items, and you should never be buying balls or potions in the first place. If you prioritize which items you collect in your catching outings, you will always be in a surplus. This is the first game which completely abandons hand-holding and forces you to consider the opportunity cost of what you do with your resources.
3:36 if you select the "minus" button it will show all the box at once and the ones that have the desired pkmn will be highlighted
Let’s go!! Been waiting for this!!
The Wrumple in front of Galaxy HQ does, in fact, evolve; iirc you just need to do a side quest to trigger rhe progression. That aside, it's good to see a video from you! For all its little faults, PLA was the most entertaining pkmn game I've played since... gen 6, I'd say, so I'm happy with how it turned out and I'm looking forward to more, especially since I had very little hope for SV and the leaks seem to be proving me right.
31:35 Silence is a powerful moment in games too, Im not even kidding, it worked wonders for Zelda.
i was waiting for you to cover this game so im kinda surprised it took you a while to do it. i was waiting for your review for a while before i would buy it. but then i played my friend's copy and saw it was fun so i decided to buy it, and i'm glad i did. i liked it a lot
cuz he was balls deep in drama
Damn you’re really a good reviewer man you really know all the things that should be talk about.
I did think the character interactions and implications with the respective clans were pretty interesting even if they don't amount to much. I think back to that minor love story on the Cobalt Coastlands since I just thought it was nice. As much as I do love playing Arceus, it was something I experienced after Xenoblade 2, so it felt like a step back in many ways.
I have been waiting for your Review.
Absolutely loved the review! Yes while the game has a lot of positives I feel as if there are a lot of things that could have been implemented better in order to have a better experience playing
Now that I played scarlet and Violet I must say. I really like how PLA felt. I had genuinely fun to catch all the pokemon and walk though the semi open world. Scarlet and Violet feel a bit dull without the funny catching mechanism, also the beginning is very tedious and hand holding. Graphicswise I would say PLA is my personal favorite. Love the cell shading. Hopefully we will get another legends series. Maybe in Johto?
Honestly? I would love to see you making this a bigger series by analyzing older games as well!
The narrative was legit way more mature . The two moments that will always stick with me are 1: When you are ousted from the town and Benji's true xenophobia shows it's face. He's a massive bigot. 2: When Volo reveals he's been grooming you. Just wow man, wow.
I love when you post distant kingdom we might always not share the same opinion but enjoy your content
I don’t remember money really being an issue until I was several 10’s into trying to expand my bag, but I suppose the fact that there isn’t some easier way to get money is a problem. The thing that bothered me was simply the lack of trainer fights. The few you get aren’t enough to allow for some real challenges in the game. I really enjoyed the clans’ way of battling, feeling like horde battles with actual decision making. I see no reason why there couldn’t have been other Corps members out on patrol who would’ve offered to have a friendly match. Sure, they imply that you’re the reason people come to stop fearing Pokemon, but it’s also clear that members of the corp are already attempting to befriend and train Pokemon before you get isekai’d into hisui.
29:45 But the Wurmple does evolve if you talk to the man later
Really : o
@@DistantKingdom Yeah it first evolves to a Cascoon which he mistakes for a Silcoon. He then later realizes his mistake, when it evolves further to Dustox
Yeah, dude even gets the evolution wrong at first and apologizes to the Pokémon when you show him his mistake. I thought that was kind of cute, it sells the point that Pokémon aren’t well understood, but the people are starting to accept them for what they are even if they don’t always turn out the way they expected.
huh. mine never evolved ;-;. how do you trigger it
@@DistantKingdom After some searching on Google, this is what I could find: - Add both Cascoon and Silcoon's entries in the Pokedex by evolving both from Wurmples. - Receive an explanation from the Professor about Research Tasks during the main story. - Complete Request 1: Wurmple Can Evolve. - Capture at least 35 species of Pokemon in your Pokedex. - Talk to Beauregard after fulfilling the above requirements.
This is going to be interesting to see this review.
I still hope in the future that all Pokémon can be transferable in the next mainline games, I still see no excuses along with exp share being optional and not forced.
Um… Actually, the sorting feature does work better than you thought. After you’ve sorted for the pokemon you want, hit the plus button. This button will show all of the boxes, and the boxes with red pokeballs, not greyed out ones, have that pokemon in it. Sure, you still need to search the box itself, but that is muuuuuch easier.
I really love Legends: Arceus...an absolute GAMECHANGER
it's a mediocre game. Sure the catching is good for the most part, but the bullethell mechanic and fights are atrocious
@@mihaimercenarul7467 I agree somewhat personally I loved the battles you do In game tbh
Nope.
@@mihaimercenarul7467 I agree.
I absolutely loved this game. And while you raise some points that are honestly really great and I'd love to see them (like the skill trees for example) I feel some are definitely there, you just need to play the game slower. To me, this game rewards exploration, curiosity, and wanting to inmerse yourself in the game. Its true, when the dialogs are unskippable and there is no voiceover, it's sometimes tedious, but honestly, I enjoyed it. A lot of times when you spoke to a random villager, it ended up giving you a "hidden quest", a quest that was not previously marked on the map, and you could even evolve the wurmple from the guy if you spoke to him even once more at a later stage of the game. A grandma ends up adopting a chimecho as a wind chime, and the constructor's bidoofs keep moving around while the village develops. I'd have loved for these things to be expanded, but oh well. If you play the game slowly, and try to catch pokemon without going in a frenzy throwing 10 pokeballs at the same time, you'll find that you end up with a substantial amount of money, but once again, you have to sink time into it. Its a bit of a bummer for poeple that want to speedrun the game or advance as fast as possible, since the game is effectively "star-locked" like you said, needing certain stars to progress though. Also, something you didn't mention and I think was a pretty neat thing, was that while in combat, you could either swap pokemon or throw a pokeball with the R2 like in the open area, without navigating the UI, or even run away from the pokemon by moving far from the battle, instead of pressing B. This was amazing to discover, and it tethered the combats with the world even more. So to finalize, yeah, the game could have been SO MUCH MORE, but even only this much is miles better than the last couple generations, and was such a breath of fresh air for the franchise
3:56 I've noticed this is only with the flying balls. Like the Wing/Feather/Jet Balls. It's because of they seem to throw in an erratic and different altitude to the other balls. I guess the reverse of the Heavy/Lead/Gigaton balls where they drop like a clump of... well... lead. For close ups, it was always better to use Ultras or just the Heavy Balls.
You hit basically all the points in this one. Though I will say I only really struggled with money super early on. Once you get your research/star level up you make way more money for catches, and catching alpha pokemon becomes easier the higher star level you are. Alphas always drop valuable exp items or other loot you can sell, and when you release them from the box they give grit items which can also be sold. Basically so long as you don't miss too many pokeballs you will always profit. Backstrikes and other modifiers also increase how much money you get (like catching 10 pokemon before turning in your research).
had no clue releasing mons gave you stuff lol. did it ever tell you that? mustve missed it
@@DistantKingdom I honestly don't think it ever tells you. Well it tells you the pokemon left something behind - but only after you actually release them. It gives the grit items, so grit dust for lower level ones, grit pebbles, gravel, and rocks for higher level ones. And for alphas it is usually the higher grits.
@@TheFriskySquid yea i guess thats the problem. i never release mons ever so i wouldve never known they give you stuff aha. thats unfortunate
Selling grit items from released Pokémon is how I made money too. 💰
@DistantKingdom Yes, selling the grit items especially from mass released Pokémon gives you a lot of money. If you ever try a third run you should try it. The game doesn't tell you. I learned of it maybe midways through my playthrough as my boxes were getting full. It's a nice hidden secret.
I wish you talked about the Pokemon and their personality and their additions to the lore. It's welcome.
Can you do a video talking about a very big detail that was showed in some of the Scarlet Violet trailers Pokemon that got flying idle animations due to X and Y's sky battles have finally gotten fixed In a Japanese trailer it showed a Terastalized scyther and it was NOT flying, it was standing on the ground in Combat, and recently they announced an event to battle a Charizard in a special raid den, *and it wasnt flying for its combat idle animation, it was standing on the ground through and through*
Great video as always! As someone still just planning to play PL:A, are there any mods that you'd recommend?
theres not many unfortunately but the increased spawn mod and the one that overhauls types and attacks is pretty good
I remember someone making a mod where, everytime you catch a Pokemon, it plays a clip of Dave Chapelle saying "gotcha bitch!"
@@dragomight8851 Okay, that is hilarious
Legends I think is the best pokemon switch game so far from Gamefreak, which, I hope it'll become it's own series. I'd love a series of games exploring regions in the past. That's such a cool concept.
It was just Ok.
legends was, fantastic tbh. almost 60 hours in, pokedex finished, i can confidently say its def the first pokemon game in some years i wanted to return to after beating it in some time to shiny hunt and just play because its super fun. its, miles better than sword and shield and honestly i'd rank it as one of the best games. through some minor issues i had with the things like, lack of held items/abilities etc and some things you point out i really agree with. i really like its one of the few pokemon games that are challenging especially the arceus fight. i think this game was a risk worth taking and like games that came before or and after (botw, sonic frontiers etc.) i think it sets a good foundation for the future, hopefully lol. edit; after finishing the video, i pretty much agree with everything you had to say. regardless of flaws, i really hope they can take the potential here and improve what they have because theres something here that i think can make the legends series really good.
I never once bought poke balls...why buy something you can craft? And it never took more than one spin around and area (for about 30 min to an hour) to have hundreds of pokemon & poke balls, while you're searching to complete the dex you can farm ore sites and trees multiple times. That just seems cherry picked honestly, I always had lots of money from the mid game onward and was not low onpokeballs for most of the experience.
Arceus is the most close we had to a pokémon 2 game
I agree with you, this video was very fun but flawed.
A few comments about the battle system. Your action order (who moves next) is determined greatly by the speed of your pokemon and the priority and power of the move. A low power/ high priority move will use less action points, thus potentially giving you more turns, whereas a high powered move will use more action points thus potentially giving you less turns. It also depends on the speed of your opponent and what moves they use as well. Understanding this system was what allowed me to beat Volo without items or legendaries. I would use an agile-style Quick Attack which would deal chip damage and give me more turns. And I would use the last turn on a strong style attack. There was a video by a recent nuzlocker who used a Lopunny (a fast pokemon) and had it use Quick Attack to get himself 5 turns consecutively against Volo. I honestly loved the battle system. I could no longer just have a higher level or use speed boosts to instantly beat multiple pokemon. It made me change my approach to encounters in the game, and I really appreciate that.
I honestly never had trouble acquiring materials for crafting Pokéballs. Quite the opposite actually, as those were some of the most frequent materials I was stowing away. Maybe it's just a matter of playstyle, because I was pretty much always collecting from every single rock and tree I passed
Yea but the tedium to do so cant be avoided
@@DistantKingdom: "Tedium" is subjective. I never found it the least bit tedious, it was just part of my gameplay routine.
@@EmeralBookwise mmm not really. It's a fact you need to press a bunch of extra buttons that makes the process longer, and therefor more tedious by definition
@@DistantKingdom: hardly a bunch of other buttons. It's mostly just the same single button pressed every so often along an encounter route while looking for new mons to catch. It can practically be done on auto pilot. Most of all though, nothing is tedious when it's "fun", which is also subjective.
@@EmeralBookwise its not every so often.. its every single time. this is far more tedious than not having to press the button thousands of times when you dont need to elsewhere in the game if that's """fun""" to you then... cool? but to pretend it's not more tedious than the alternative is just not true
Watching a Togepi KO your Ghiratina was amazing. I actually really love how random pokemon 30 levels below yours can and _will_ fuck. Your. Shit. Up. It manages to make every battle feel tense, especially if you're not currently using your main team for research purposes. I'll also say I'm pretty sure the new forms for Dialga and Palkia are _supposed_ to look hideous and uncanny, because they're bptched attempts to replicate Arceus' appearance. I would have far preferred their own Origin form that is based on whether they hold their respectove items, and that would add some lore. Like we discover the Lusterous and Adamant orbs are now damaged or something I dunno Spiritomb was not nearly as bad for me as it was just the classic collectathon/Skulltella side quest. What still aludes my near 100% finished Dex is that fucking Cherubi.
I loved the amount of interactivity with Pokémon in this game. Weird though, they didn't implement Pokemonamie, camping, and other past friendship boosting activities. They could really make the potential next Legends game have more Pokémon interaction.
I was never able to finish the Pokédex, I filled in all the question marks in the Pokédex but then there’s no way of me knowing what else I was missing.
To “complete” the Pokédex you needed to get the Ball symbol next to the name on the list so that the text description in the entry shows up on every single mon which requires roughly level 10 dex level. In most mon cases it’s normally as simple as using the certain move a couple times and catching/evolving between 5-10 mons each, but for harder to obtain mons like legendaries and certain evolutions, the path of least resistance (and/or only option) would be grinding out the move usage part of the requirement which can take a whole for some mons that only have like 1 of those entries as move tiers only provide 1 point towards the dex level IIRC whereas in most cases with the catch entries you get 2 points.
In the alternate universe whereby The Pokémon Company Int'l would allow game companies other than GameFreak to make mainline Pokémon games & are not forced to rush the deadline, they would make the games more evolved and make the players feel like they're playing better games such as Zelda BOTW, Xenoblade Chronicles & Final Fantasy. Heck, I even dreamed of a Pokémon games of Fox Game Engine from MGS5! Too bad, we are not living in that kind of universe. Heck, the new designs of certain Pokémons (pointing at you, Dudunsparce) in Scarlet & Violet really reflect the current state of mainline Pokémon games.
Trying to finish this up before Gen 9 hits. I find myself trying to complete Dex entries for most of the Pokémon as long as they aren't too obnoxious. I feel like you're supposed to because there's not much else here. If there were an equivalent to BotW's shrines, I think exploration would feel more satisfying and work well in tandem to the capturing mechanics.
So, my friend, this time I'm looking pretty much forward to get to seen your video(s) about Scarlet and Violet. Since Black & White I didn't play the latest generations. Now I pre-ordered Scarlet. Let's see, let's have fun or cry together.
I would get the Spacetime distortions rather regularly in my game, I was surprised to see that some people rarely got them. I recently heard there is a method/mechanic to the chance of them spawning, though I don't know what it is. But given that I caught a lot of Pokemon early in my playthrough, including a lot of alpha mons, perhaps that had something to do with it. I would nearly always try and challenge myself to catch alpha mons when I saw them.
What could've been cool is if when facing Volo once he calls on Giratina to aid him, if the battle took place in the Distortion World until you defeated Giratina in its Origin Form.
What does the draconic spiral move on your Giranina do? I have never heard of it and tried to look it up, but cant find any information online...
Its a modded attack
Yo Distant idk if you remember but I dm'd u on twitter MANY months ago asking for this review and you said that it would come out before gen 9, tbh I didn't believe you lmao. BUT THE DAY HAS COME.
Better late than never 😏
When you talk about showing what Will happen when you attack or attack order. There was a list at the right that shows the attack order. Maybe you missed it but I understundom if you did😁.
yea, but how it changes feels random at times
@@DistantKingdom Alright then I understand. Have a nice day :)
Slightly off-topic question because of the shiny Giratina-O in the beginning of the video: Has the bug that crashes the game when a shiny Giratina-O uses Shadow Force been patched at any point in time? Kinda wanna know before potentially bringing my own shiny into L:A.
3:36 although the lack of proper sorting is frankly horrendous, this point you make here is not correct. You can switch to a "box view" with Plus, if I remember correctly, and then only the "boxes" that contain the Pokémon you're searching for will be highlighted, so you do not need to scroll through every box to find them.
lol edited my comment since it was slightly inaccurate and lost my heart react from DK :'c
The inconsistency of the battle style thing does make it hard to predict the battle but at the same time it was this inconsistency that made it felt , I guess with a lack of better word, real. Yes it’s most likely not the best game design but it was immersive
I found it to be more frustrating than immersive
29:30 The wurmple you mention actually does evolve over time, but for whatever reason you need to talk to the guard in order to trigger it LOL
yea very unintuitive sadly. but cool that it does in fact evolve
@@DistantKingdom Ah yeah I was wondering if you meant to say that it did lol; pretty funny that you brought it up. I suppose it is pretty unintuitive.
Another issue I found was that only pokemon who havent fainted receive EXP at the end of battles, rather than during the battles for every pokemon felled. So you can have a total champ, ace in the hole take down multiple pokemon and then faint before the end and receive no exp... as you mentioned battles are intense and you'll usually have some faint on your side... So it's really counter intuitive to levelling up. The safest way to level them up in battle is NOT using them... So annoying and feels like some tough ass performing members of my party didnt get the exp they deserved.
3:30 The + button would've shown the coloured in box with the Pokémon you were looking for.
3:36 You don't need to scroll just press the + Button and it will show which pasture has the pokemon you want it.
9:50 oh yeah the Wurmple actually evolves, but only after another side-quest
i just finished the game (aka fighting arceus) and MAN. the fight was awesome, i felt so satisfied with completing the pokedex. this game is everything i wanted, despite some issues, and now i'm excitedly attempting to shiny hunt some mons i want. PLA made me happy, and i hope they continue this formula. but also, distant, i had a question about modding. aren't you ever worried mods will get your switch locked? or can they not detect mods?
Not worried no. As long as you don't go online with it you will be fine (and even then going online you will likely be fine as well lol)
@@DistantKingdom thanks for the reply!! im probably still not gonna risk it despite some qol changes some mods have, knowing my luck my shit'll get bricked 😭
Searching is somewhat easier by viewing all boxes. The other boxes are greyed out
The wrumple in front of the galaxy building does evolves, you need to talk to the guy time to time