I did like a lot of parts of Legends Arceus. But I’m really hoping (like you) that Z-A will be more character and story focused with more trainer battles. Since the game is as far as we know entirely based inside the city I imagine that has to be the case!!

As someone who lives in Paris and Has been to the catacombs many times i wish to see them in the game as if it’s old lumiose it would make a lot of sense to have underground tunnels and exploration And not just the catacombs there’s a buttloads of historical places like castle surrounding paris like ~1h train rides that i think are magical tho the places im talking about are off limits so i don’t see it happening …😅

A well made video although it's probably the video I disagree with the most, I liked the catching mechanics in Legends Arceus and I especially liked the world building present in the side quests of that game. Like actual side quests chains? Side quests which lead you towards discovering hidden stuff in the map? Of course there were busywork very routine quests too, and the main story was terribly paced and mostly not written. We've left with thousands of unanswered questions and way too little time with some characters that clearly had potential. But I still think it's above average as far as pokemon plots go. The free camera on Arceus actually did have a reason to exist, it existed because you had the option of running away during combat attacks so that you didn't have to wait while your pokemon got massacred by 3 attacks from different pokemon when you got into multiple battles, Arceus was actually full of quality of life little stuffs like this, although it had some clear annoyances introduced by it which were left unsolved. As for the open world stuff, I'm tired of people mistaking the problem, the issues in Scarlet and Violet are not because of the open world itself, check all the games we've had since the 3rd era and you will note a pattern that any game which drastically changes an engine gets less content or is more buggy, X and Y, Sword and Shield entering the switch and Scarlet and Violet because they decided to transition to an open world. This does not mean it will be the same for future open world pokemon games. Also consider that the lack of things to find is also present in these games I mentioned besides SV and to be fair SV still had some things going on with it's exploration. SV was also released buggy because it should've been delayed due to Covid and wasn't, to be fair with some of the little story involved updates It wouldn't have surprised me if Arceus also had a little more plot that simply got cut off. And then they added just a little of that back in as updates. The open world is not really the determining fact there, personally however I would love for them to focus in big closed areas like the Xenoblade games do instead of taking inspiration with Breath of the Wild however since these Zelda games are ridiculously popular I doubt that will change soon. The good news is that right now they've caught up with gaming modern paradigms (Except for voice acting) they should have less situation where they are forced to expend great amounts of time by evolving the basics, we have an open world engine, we have decent 3rd animation with problems of course, but that can iteratively be improved, it's a completely situation of jumping from 2d rpg to 3ds kinda 3rd graphics and on and on. Of course new paradigms might appear but it has been a while since that happened and we've just been improving the graphical quality since the Playstation 3 era.

Honestly I don't think itle be fair if they give char a 3rd mega he already has 2. Why not give it to a different pokemon

4:28 heavenly flight. What a beautifull ost

Hey Karim, just wanna say ive been loving your videos bro! Keep up the great work and i like your ideas

I agree with the regional forms, megas, and catching mechanic concern. I love the regional forms and evolutions while megas are nice they basically eliminate said pokemon that get them so mons like normal Mawhile can’t evolve because the megas their and when it’s gone then what plus they mostly give them to already powerful Pokémon so a few fell unnecessary. Also yes I got bored of the catching in arceus I feel it’s should’ve stayed a end game/side quest for arceus not mandatory to advance the plot.

I agree with the "catching" think.. I have never complete pokedex because i hate the concept to catch everythink.. I play pokemon for story and battle alongside my trust partners..

I respect your opinion. But the gameplay, slower pace and story was much better than any other Pokémon games. It was super fun and you will be sent to the council of exploding eyes.

I just wanna see 2 sides to Lumiose City - in the past where people lived above ground and kept Pokémon in the catacombs beneath Lumiose as guard dogs. In the future I would live to see people co-existing with Pokémon trying to retake peace from Team Flare.

The subtitles are distracting.