To my knowledge the wurmple does evolve, you just gotta talk to its trainer

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

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.

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.

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.

3:30 you're supposed to click + to see all pastures at once after you search for the pokemon

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

The music in Legends Arceus is awesome. I love that they remixed some of the old Gen 4 music.

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'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.

Well, let's see if they learnt something from PLA and hopefully Scarlet and Violet will bring what was missing in previous games.

It's always good when Distant Kingdom uploads something.

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.

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.

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.

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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'

"long throw balls don't work well in close range" Loading screen advice, 2022

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.

Definitely the best pokemon games I've played in a decade. Hopefully they continue the legends series

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

11:25 Doing an Agile style move sometimes prevent the opponent to do an Agile style .

A refreshing change and a joyful adventure. Obviously that's just my opinion on it.

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.

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

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.

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

Great in depth video as always .. love this channel

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.

Took nearly a year, but I'm so glad you finally uploaded it.

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?

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.

I found myself getting addicted to the gameplay loop, it's that back strike sound holy hell.

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.

Dude always worries me when he dissappears for a while, love your vids dude, cant wait to hear your opinions on ScVi!

Great video DK, I'll be looking forward to seeing your coverage of ScarVi when you get around to it!

Finally! Hope the next review you make it's for Temtem.

Damn you’re really a good reviewer man you really know all the things that should be talk about.

I really love Legends: Arceus...an absolute GAMECHANGER

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

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.

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.

Let’s go!! Been waiting for this!!

Honestly? I would love to see you making this a bigger series by analyzing older games as well!

I have been waiting for this!!!!! It's been 80 years. haha love your reviews.

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.

I love when you post distant kingdom we might always not share the same opinion but enjoy your content

I have been waiting for your Review.

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.

29:45 But the Wurmple does evolve if you talk to the man later

Arceus is the most close we had to a pokémon 2 game

31:35 Silence is a powerful moment in games too, Im not even kidding, it worked wonders for Zelda.

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

This is going to be interesting to see this review.

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.

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.

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

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.

I wish you talked about the Pokemon and their personality and their additions to the lore. It's welcome.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The wrumple in front of the galaxy building does evolves, you need to talk to the guy time to time

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

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

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.

I agree with you, this video was very fun but flawed.

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).

The wurmple you give the guy in Jubilife DOES evolve, but not for the majority of the game. Was literally waiting the whole game to see that side story play out.

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.

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?

A Review now??!! It has been Three Thousand years!!!

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.

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.

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 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 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

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.

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.

Searching is somewhat easier by viewing all boxes. The other boxes are greyed out

Tbh earning money is so easy lol. Just catch release and sell the grit rocks and you can get like 100k from doing one massive mass outbreak

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

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.

The wurmple will evolve! You just gotta talk to him some more.

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.

This was the first game that I actually had Pokémon and my entire team nearly wiped out. I kid you not the last time I had a team wipe was in Gen 4 > Guess who by out favorite certain someone with that piano music. Gen 5 was fairly challenging but everything after that was a breeze 19:21 I didn’t know you could engage in Pokémon battle against the trial Pokémon. I’m pretty sure one of the NPCs mentioned it but for some reason it never occurred to me and I simply remember throwing the beans was the way to beat them so that’s what I did. But yeah honestly, it was a lot of fun and challenging doing it without Pokémon battles. Made the fight more intimate

Can't wait for this guy's Gen 9 review. We already KNOW that GameFreak is gonna cut corners!

3:30 The + button would've shown the coloured in box with the Pokémon you were looking for.

Wurmple does evolve but you need to talk to the guard. Never managed to see Dustox.

Gods casually chilling in the pastures

There's a mod that plays "Got ya bitch" after you catch a pokemon. Makes it even better.

Personally the money and PokeBalls was never an issue for me and I constantly spent it on the bag which WAS AN ISSUE! I didn't mind going around the world gathering Apricorns and Stones as it extends the gameplay for me. Which is why I never minded back tracking in older games. Also I never got to fight Arceus unfortunately... I never managed to get the last Genie in that damn swamp!!!

legends arceus was one of those games that we didn't expect to be very good