Are you guys gonna play elden ring??

Ekta choudhari is pronounced like Ay-kta, the rest is correct

Please play Outer Worlds. I guarantee you're gonna love it

@@Nemo.404 we all know they will.

I hope you review Sifu as well. "Waifu plays Sifu"

Wym Netflix pokemon series? The only thing Netflix has done with pokemon is the remake of the first movie which used the same voice for ash that they have been using for years. Not only that, it isn't a series. If you are talking about the TV show that happens to be on Netflix. Why bring up Netflix? They have no influence over the decision of who voices ash. Very minor thing but so confusing.

Girlfriend reviews should review the game you always talk about.

@@loganpeterson7098 take it down a notch

You mean the voice actor they've been using for around 10 years??

Well said, king. 👑 Good to see you here.

That’s my argument when my wife asks me why I need to spend 200$ on used Pokémon Heartgold

She not wrong

Ding ding ding

It's true sadly, they know it'll sell now matter how little effort they put in. I just wish they respected themselves a little more so they'd actually want to try a little harder and be able to take some pride in it.

FR I thought I "broke up" with the franchise after seeing the DP remakes. But a whiff of good reviews and I bought this game on launch

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I thought it was just from a commercial or something at first, crazy impression.

I had to like this video 2 seconds into watching it after hearing her voice lmaooo

In all honesty wasn't that unique of comment, but accurate it was a great impression

the moment shelby said to open my eyes, i was honestly mad. it looked like it was just halfway through rendering.

Facts I was flustered when I heard that. There's really no excuse. That being said, I'm about 40 hours into the game lmao

It’s because almost no money comes from the games themselves, all the money comes from collectible sales. Gamefreak isn’t actually the ones making the most money for Pokémon, it’s the Pokémon Company. Money is allocated to merchandise over any actual game development.

@@chananl2000 while its true their merchandise has a much bigger market share, the games are no insignificant part of their revenue like you are putting it. The games have made a total of 11.16 billion dollars without adjusting for inflation since the 90s. Just the games have made more money than any other franchise in the history of games ALONE. No merchandise. I'll concede that its just around 11% if their total revenue as a company. But saying they produce almost no money is a bold face lie.

@@gredystar8333 yeah and just to put that into context, they’re the 4th best selling video game franchise only behind Mario, Tetris and Call of Duty. This is just number of sales, not actual profit

I had several back and forths if they got the legit actor. Shelby really showing that voice talent.

Why does it feel like foreeeever since yalls last upload??

Exxxaaccttllyyy

@@loganbarbe-wilson1870 not sure if you are directing that at us but if so 1) hi! and 2) one of us has been abroad for a while but returns shortly so we’ll have more stuff outside of the KZfaq shorts very soon!

Same. I remember ProZD did and I was like oh shit. But damn Shelby knocked it out of the park.

Game Freak knows if they make Pokemon Poop and Piss they'd make Scrooge McDuck levels of money, so their incentive is to do the bare minimum for franchise engagement.

@@Gzilla313 Honestly I'm amazed they changed things up even this much after releasing more or less the same game reskinned for the last 20 years.

@@Gzilla313 That and like 70% or more of all the revenue generated by the pokemon franchise comes from merchandise. So while it started out as a game series it has become a merchandising brand which means the games, movies, anime, card game etc, all serve to sell more merchandise rather than the other way around. They could spend more money on making a better pokemon game, they could spend more money on hiring more people to help Gamefreak with the nitty gritty details of game development and leave them to their strong suit which is world, character and pokemon design. They could give the games more development time to polish them up both graphically and mechnically. They could do so many things, but they choose not to because it's not where the money is. Non-Merchandise pokemon items or media simply serve to keep the brand alive and fresh in peoples minds and memories as well as push the new pokemon into peoples consciousness so they're that much more likely to be able to sell plushies, bed sheets, posters, mugs, you name it. It's a sad state of affairs if you love pokemon because of the games but it's the reality we live and the sooner people realize this the faster everyone will understand why the games are the way they are rather than just blaming Game Freak for being lazy or incompetent (which they might be and they do deserve some criticism but so does The Pokemon Company and Nintendo for how they're choosing to run the franchise).

And as long as the Pokémon fans admit this and stop pretending like the games are the second coming of Christ because of their pride then I’m cool with it …Otherwise I’m just still gonna make fun of how easy they are

The top grossing media franchise definitely can do better, and that’s from someone who enjoys the game

It's so funny to see Horizon Forbidden West look the way it does and know that that series as a franchise will never even surpass a fraction of Pokemon.

Pretty sure literally every review calls this out, every single time.

This is a pretty common thing that everyone is pointing out. No one is denying that this is well below the standards of the gaming industry in 2022, but despite that, it is well ABOVE the standards of Gamefreak and people are just happy to have a Pokemon game that's actually fun for the first time in like a decade.

What are you talking about LMAO literally everyone points this out stop circlejerking

Pokemon Snap literally has voice acting

@@mersunarytigre i’m assuming they mean mainline games, cause if we’re being pedantic the zelda cdi games had voice acting first

Atleast theres voice acting in the Pokemon Anime

@@finnycopper They didn't specify. Therefore my point still stands.

@@mersunarytigre dont think they really needed to. seemed like a "mainline" game comment to me.

Is she being sarcastic or does she not know the right Pronunciation? Lol I’m confused

@@bigstu4700 Even as an American, I'm pretty sure when Arceus was first introduced I remember everyone pronounced it "Arse-eus" (and I think even in the first movie Arceus was in they pronounced it the same way)

@@nickdawson9176 The ongoing joke is that the Pokémon Company has officially pronounced the name several different ways, so it’s not actually clear which one it is. For example in the movie “Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life” they actually pronounce it like 5 different ways.

@@bigstu4700 It's pronounced like Amadeus.

@@Dunkleosteusenjoyer "Amadoos" if we go by the PLA advertisement :^)

Stop loving it and buying their games then so they could learn and improve

@@leonard9624 Worry about yourself, ace.

@@andrewthielmann5342 united we stand divided we fall ace

@@kingamer1234 Cool comment 9 months later. Dork.

We can only hope that the Shitshow of SWSH and BDSP finally gets Nintendo to put the boot on Greed Freaks neck and force them to make a game that's comparable in quality to stuff they put out almost ten years ago. Or at least put all the pokemon in the damn game again.

@@getthegoons with how scarlet snd violet is, your wish aged like milk

this is a channel that if I see it on my homepage, I'm not even browsing through any other thumbnail, I just click here right away

The Napoleon Dynamite clip killed me. And the editing when the Poke Ball was thrown. Amazing.

How does he do this anyway? It's like his brain is filled with these references

Okay was it always run-by fruiting and not drive-by fruiting?

@@RachelTurtlebaum Just watched it, can confirm it is "run-by fruiting" in the movie.

Shelby is impressive

I was just thinking that!

I think that you arent considering that if this game does bad, it means that GameFreak has an excuse to say "told you so, only classic pokemon games with little change sell well! Of course it's a win-win situation for them, after all it's a business and that's their plan. This time they didn't do the "bare minimum", they just aren't the best at developing games and made a safe bet with it's resources which is definitely a mediocre result in many areas but at least an actual effort of doing something different and a fun product. I can guarantee you that if this would have flopped, you wouldn't have seen them try to do a Pokemon open world/sandbox in a long time, if ever. At least now there's a chance that they polish and improve on this type of game. Yeah, I'm aware that it's GameFreak and that there's a good chance that they make what they always do with sequels. But if there's one time that the fanbase actually has to support a new game it's with this one. If people also pass on the next main entry if they do the bare minimun again (unlikely), then there's even a greater chance of actual change and them considering the feedback of their games improving too little. After all they are a company and their income is the best way to make a point with them. It's whishful thinking, but from my point of view this is the only chance that we have as part of the fanbase that is tired of their products. Of course, people also have to be critical of the product even if they support it to see if they bet on it to improve sales.

Yup Poke fans are just desperate yet addicted, as she said in the vid, no standards for themselves

@@rodrigocaceres2879 There’s no excuse for these textures, the lack of voice acting, the control scheme, and some of these animations. This is the highest grossing franchise OF ALL TIME. Given that context this is absolutely the bare minimum. BotW looks better than this game and it’s been out for 5 years. 😐

@@HaxStudio No, the bare minimum would be without any kind of gameplay changes like they usually do. As I said, I agree that they could have done way more but I also explained why this project needs support. It's definitely a budget project, I'm not defending it's shortcomings, but it's important to understand why as customers interested in the franchise we have to recognize when it's an actual attempt of something different and ignoring this entry would do more wrong.

@@rodrigocaceres2879 It’s still bare minimum. This is the bare minimum they could do when it comes to “open world”, not the bare minimum they could do for a main series title. Even if I did relent and say it’s not quite the bare minimum… It’s still minimal effort. There’s quite literally no excuse for this game to run and play like this.

The Napoleon Dynamite bit was inspired

That one clip alone justified the $60 I spent on the game hahaha

Maybe with a few more years Game Freak might finally be able to catch up to Genius Sonority, the absolutely unknown guys who made those Gamecube spinoffs and then got uncerimoniously kicked out because they upstaged the boss.

@@antonioscendrategattico2302 Fun Fact! They didn't get kicked out, they got relegated to the mobile spin-offs. I'd say that's a fate worse than death.

@@ArgenteonYT even cleaning the toilets of a McDonald's sounds like a better job

Luckily for them you'd buy it anyway even if they don't. 🤷

Yeah, I almost think it's on purpose just so they can make the next one slightly better and have people be happy with it.

Horizon Zero Dawn sold more than 20 million copies, the sequel is going to do similar numbers.

Casual gamers are much more prevalent

​@@esckswiss2713 And Arceus has already sold 6.5 million. Horizon will probably sell half overall. Arceus looks fun, I know multiple people who enjoy it, but it's not hard to see the lack of polish and care put into the presentation. Gamefreak and Nintendo knows they can get away with it, so they do.

Smt5 will sell a fraction of this too despite being the exponentially more innovative and visually appealing monster catching game.

tbf, its a kids game compared to an grownup game. kids games and movies do better commercially than stuff made for adults

and had a central development team of more than about 150 people that were all pulled across 3 different projects at once

it was the same for me, after each region I was looking forward for the next regions to discover new pokemon. But once arrived in Icelands, this region was so empty and bland that every problem i have with the game manifest themselves at the same time. like you, I was actually thinking about completing the dex for the first time but not anymore sadly.

I think I know how to feel about it, but I get what you're going through. It feels to me like what I expected. A half-baked, but entertaining entry in the series that experiments and therefore is much more exciting, but I know that down the line it's going to bore me. Not bore me to the point I won't *ever* play it again, just... I can tell that all the stuff I was able to ignore this time around won't be ignorable next time. And more than that, if they make another Legends game and don't improve upon the previous one enough, it's going to be *painfully* obvious and people will shit on it harder than they've ever shit on a Pokemon game before.

For real

I'll sort your feelings out for you, then. It's a bad franchise and a poorly designed game from the ground up with developers that have refused to meaningfully innovate on their formula in over 30 years because people are too willing to purchase things that they enjoyed when they were children. If you have conflicted feelings and can't muster the motivation to complete even intrinsically set goals within the game it's not some personal failure--it's the game failing to do the literal one thing it should do; Entertain you. Once you're done basking in nostalgia or the novelty of a 'new Pokemon game, you're able to see it as the dull mess of a product that it is. Spend your time (and money) with literally anything else.

Welcome to pokemon

Its the epitome of "we're still going to make millions so we dont care"

did you watch it twice, back to back?

Pokemon zealots need this as a wake up call.

Yep. Pokémon Shield was mine. This is my second