Slowly? Or they just dont care since people will buy their pokemon shiet anyways.

@@emdo2395 Shut the heck up with that crap. If they didnt care, why did they completely change so many mechanics and improved things overtime? Especially considering the state of AAA games

Indie company guy please understand :(

Which is aggravating considering they refuse to properly invest in one of the biggest franchises in gaming

@@AwesomeNick94 its not "one of" the biggest, it's THE biggest media franchise in history.

Yea if that wasn't obvious already though. Passing on this

You could have sensed that from a mile away though

density and history wise.

this is their first try, maybe the sequel will perfect it

Its a barren bland world and a huge joke for 60 dollars and lmfao a 60 dollar "first try" hahahaha

Hahahahahahaha

Really dude? That’s sad.

Wtf do you mean...

@Merciless Freak Lmao you're a failed existence. Your mom should be ashamed

@@theminecommanders8013 relax, he's just stating his opinion

Every pokémon game for years has been the same ‘low budget’. Don’t expect it to change.

@@nowlibongo6123 and people always hope gamefreak “learns” and make better looking games, just to end up disappointed again lmaoo

More polished content? Haha, dream on it. Pokemon games are far away to be polished. Remember Pokemon Colosseum for gamecube? That game looks better than this. No,, man, this game is disappointing.

How can a game with Pokémon in the name flop. Every single Pokémon game has sold extremely well despite being well under the quality standards for the respective genre each game is in. Even then the Pokemon brand has enough money behind it to “take risks”. There is zero excuses for anything Pokemon related to not be top cut in design. They have the money, the brand, the recognition, the influence.

@@Swillo true. Game Freak is full of lazy developers, the don't care about polishing. They sell a brand not a decent game.

You sound like a dude will never be satisfied so what's the point

@@GotDamnJones he does doesn’t he

lol, the replies sound like butthurt hardcore pokemon fans

@@GotDamnJones tell me you’re a Pokémon fanboy without telling me you’re a Pokémon fanboy

the game looks average at best if we are being real.. slap a Pokemon skin on it, and people love it. Hopefully this is a step in the right direction

^^ what this guy said

They should release a dlc!

@@russellbrown8534 they should release a NEW GAME!

@@russellbrown8534 They should release a better and whole new game where they actually put a lot of effort into the game for once and aren`t like "Its Pokemon, people will buy it anyway"

@@InnerRise Is it worth getting? Just got switch and I'm looking for a Pokemon game. Which is the best for switch?

A swing and a miss :/

@@jayh9806 Summarised your life in 5 words

@@jayh9806 yeah not really

It's going to go either two ways, the board will see the success of this gamble and use the data to make the sequels higher quality, or the board will see the success as only a one-time gamble and only maintain this quality of pokemon games from now on to play it safe.

Pokémon Colosseum ?

Game freak is super lazy, its taken them this long to change things, they would never do that

It’s because their fan base are some of the dumbest around. They purchase the unfinished, sub-par mainline Pokémon titles every single year at full price. They’re over saturated and uninspired games.

Looks similar, this reviewer is too harsh, its a 8.0 for younger audiences...she is just thinking as an adult not the target audience IGN

Breath of the wild is a game of a whole other caliber

palworld

Or maybe they can because they don't have to agree with you

Different reviewers different opinions.

Sword and Shield are better games than this. This game is the Wild Area minus all the other stuff in Pokémon games. Atleast Sword and Shield had a mainline game PLUS a Wild Area lol.

@@undisclosedsteve6361 A mainline game that was the equivalent of a final fantasy 13 dungeon.

IGN did give anyone anything. The person who reviewed S&S gave it a 9. The person who reviewed Legends Arceus gave it a 7.

Knowing gf they'll do that in the next game or not at all

GF will not update the game that vastly knowing their stubborn and tone deaf attitude lol. They’ll give you a better game with the next installment, maybe.

I'll be waiting on modders to fix everything. Once they crack it, they will probably be able to update the textures, fill up the empty areas with content, and fix the technical issues. If the gameplay is as fun as the reviewers say, then those simple mods should make the game great.

@@iRsemple "empty areas" There are a lot of pokémon on the game and this takes place on the ancient Sinnoh when humans recently entered the Sinnoh region. Real world gameplay from other reviewers and youtubers (even outside pokémon fans) show that the bad draw rendering distance hides that.

@@saricubra2867 The render distance isnt bad, does no one play attention to the trailers dangit 🤦

We can only imagine unfortunately, it's really frustrating knowing how big Pokemon is worldwide, yet they don't put the time or attention in their games to reflect that. It's like Madden games coming out every year, slightly different but mostly the same thing.

Yeah, if this was the largest media franchise of all time instead of a small indie studio we’d probably cut them less slack! 🤣

The environment art would look better if it was Unity.

@@user-fb8yb8so8n you get the joke. 😅

Gamefreak only has 160 some odd employees. And that counts for their whole staff… so you’re probably not far off. There’s probably like 20 software engineers that made this.

I’d love something that’s a hybrid between the freedom and openness of Legends while also maintaining the traditional story and gym format of the main series

@@thedeepfriar745 I'd love to be able to have access to all 8 gyms as soon as you start up, and the difficulty/pokemon set of each gym scales to the badges you have so you can visit them in any order. Or strategically pick which gyms to do first etc.

Fingers crossed for Pokémon violet and scarlet

Haha they fumbled the bag again

After 150 hours of investing in Scarlet and Violet, gotta say they are fun, but the art style is not as immaculate and smooth as PLA.

The formula can’t get anymore basic than this at least. All it can be is refined.

Explain me what excited you while watching this, the 240p textures or the most empty open world we will see this year? It wouldve been exciting 12 years ago.

@@De4daim exactly bro these Nintendo fans will defend anything

@@De4daim exactly keep the core of this game while upgrading graphics and “filling” the world because it is indeed empty! Everyone is arguing but everyone is saying the same thing? The game is on the bad side visually and gameplay wise everyone can agree just like we can also agree that this games catching mechanics and third person playthrough is way better than just seeing pokemon in an overworld and walking up to them to catch them.

@@De4daim Have u seen Cyberpunk? Has ps1 models and ppl t-posing 24/7, npcs are pathetic, cops are a stinkin joke, etc. Yet that was promised to be the most impressive game ever for 10years

the game is indeed really enjoyable. but for such price, customers deserve better.

I've been playing it and it actually looks much better in person than it does in video. Game actually looks pretty nice.

@@Thefabregas22 get your eyes checked bigman

@@Thefabregas22 lol no it looks awful even when playing

@@ImmortalXGaming How about u get help cuz ur mad someone likes the look of the game, did u parents abuse u if u didnt care about the graphics of a game?

AKA another cashgrab

And they are still going to make a billion dollars because of the Pokemon fans who are in total denial about all the criticism...

lol this is no baby open world game the bosses are awesome.... better than any Pokemon game...

@@jamihcustodio6808 low bar but congrats man.

"lack of voice acting" excuse me, please do tell what pokemon game has voice acting?

It's palworld fans saying "it's better than everything pokemon has made recently"

@@mr_flawlesstaco which is true

@@mr_flawlesstaco Look at that mess of a game lol, Gamefreak really need to step up

@@TylerScow And SwSh got about 30% worse. This game has less Pokemon than gen 2.

Okay and?.. people said the same thing about sword and shield..how many concepts or foundations does Gamefreak needs to make a better game,....they hype up the games so that they sell well with things that are never seen again like mega evolutions,z bands,dynamax....it's embarrassing how many free passes these games get just because it's pokemon ( been a fan of the first five pokemon games after that it was just a trainwreck

@@TheMysticalFox and the worlds are just so barren, everything in this game is budget or plain lazy in design.

@@TylerScow Come on man, you can't deny this is the biggest leap of Pokemon games yet...every game has been somewhat similar in nature, up until ARCEUS... Open World, 3rd person, Pokemon with a.i's, actually CATCHING them, combat with your trainer, better storytelling.... it's obvious this is the new format for what's to come... If you think about the next game, it could be INCREDIBLE.. if the graphics are better, if the world is richer, with landmarks, dungeons, etc... The next pokemon game will be amazing... or a few more sequels.. but it's clear we're on the way to something really special that fans have been waiting for their whole lives.

Game has an 86 on metacritic. Thats not the score of a proof of concept. Funny how suddlenly IGN is reliable.

It’s Nintendo they won’t change drastically

@@Skeletoncross its gamefreak/Pokemon company. Not Nintendo Dumb*ss.. 🙄

@@coreymckee4844 it’s Nintendo. It’s their sluggish hardware that’s 9 years old at this point. The Tegra x1 came out in 2013

Guess I'll wait for future games then, pass

@@Skeletoncross literally most of their switch games have been nothing but new

This. And shield and sword felt like an alpha for this 🤣🤣.

@@mr.makeitdowhatitdo7779 sword and shield was miles better than this game though… you obviously haven’t played it yet.

@@iTrustInTheMusic lol no

They churn out games too quickly. They should take more time to perfect games.

@@christopher399 nintendo behaves like they need money every quarter. They chArge full price for ports and remakes from 20 years ago. Well really ports cuz it be the same exact game. But this is annoying cuz we asked for pokemon mixed with breadth of the wild. They couldve easily made the world feel natural and lively and even added voice overs. This is just a lazy execution.

Well said!! I'm hopeful they'll be able to draw a line between the two and knock it out of the park with the next one, or if this gets an update

Wii wouldn't be able to run it

@@angelvillegas9604 it was able to run Xenoblade Chronicles. It can surely run this game

@@infernoROBO But barely, do u guys know whats hardware limitations?

Lmao this games dope

@@skullerclawerbandicoot7966 just poorly optimised bud. fr just look at breath of the wild.

FR

Im flabbergasted u guys only agreed cuz its crapping on the game cuz of stinkin graphics, seriously, GRAPHICS DONT DETERMINE A GAMES QUALITY

Everything is an honest review as long as you agree with them.

@@skullerclawerbandicoot7966 it’s not just because the graphics are terribly dated by industry standards, it’s that coupled with an empty world with little to do outside the main gameplay loop. Why are you bootlicking for such a low effort game?

@@skullerclawerbandicoot7966 ur right, lets forget about the graphics and focus on the 75 other lazy decisions gamefreak made

I’d say lower. Popular franchises (especially Nintendo) usually get an automatic 7-10 just because anything lower and all the fans would lose their mind

def like 5

I'm glad! I've been surprised to see so many people defending the terrible graphics in this game.

still rated it high. not honest enough

@@hoodsom3 as a general rule with ign, ignore the rating at the end. They rate everything high

@@hoodsom3 True. I'd have given it a 5 going off everything she said.

The fact ign gave sword and shield 9.3 and this 7 score mde ign UNCREDIBLE and UNREALIBLE

*have

@Boogerbong Bootycplap *have

No this game has almost 300 types of Pokemon roaming the open world living in colonies

@@wellhello7711 so? Sword and shield had more pokemon roaming around in wild area. That's not what he meant by empty. The world itself has to be interactive and varied. There are currently some behavior variation among pokemon even if it's just 3-4 kind of variation. But that doesn't change that the world is empty with repetitive trees and stuff like IGN said

@@wildbeerus818 exactly

@@wellhello7711 no, theres only 242 kind Pokemon in total

Sounds like Horizon Zero Dawn, except the gamplay is far more dull

Same 😭

It's got Pokemom everywhere, resources to collect like tumblestones and trees, plus secret areas like caves or valleys hidden all over. How is that empty

''The world still the same it just less in it'' - Jack Sparrow

Just like botw…

@@firenze6478 CAP ! lol it feels that way until you explore and realize how filled it is

Hopefully to BOTW graphics. Won’t happen cause Nintendo lazy

@@Who-Uhm-Cares Nintendo isn't developing Pokémon and the issue isn't laziness but rather the strict timeline enforced by TPC on Gamefreak, they get like 2 or 3 years which just doesn't cut it for big budget games anymore

@@gatst7680 I hate how greedy the Pokémon company is, yearly releases are so unnecessary

@@lillrice27 a private organisation cares about money wow what a surprise

@@Who-Uhm-Cares BOTW is Nintendo 🥴

Rofl

That review sounded like a 5 or 6 at the highest, 5 pretty much would mean there was just as much she liked as she disliked, which is about how the review sounded. How is a 7 justified here?

@@laynewarner937 cause it's a 7

@@laynewarner937 Nintendo bonus

@@joo4816 Nothing to do with Nintendo, they do this with all AAA titles.

Also the Tales of series, FF7 remake like combat. Game as a whole is refreshing nonetheles. Also plenty of HMs they didnt use

Drama-Queen talking about Drama.

Youll be waiting years. Old Switch games are still almost always 60$

@@k-mart7475 Mario Kart😂

@@TheAufziehvogel Facts over feelings!! Just another cash grab from GF. Indie devs create better quality

Time to sail the high seas matey

😆

Bland is the best way to describe the entire game.

@@antemedon just like your personality

@@DaFootyChannel Pokémon fanboy?

@@DaFootyChannel atleast he has one, you are just a sheep

Did you even watch this video? She explicitly said this is the HARDEST pokemon game to date.

and better graphics

Hopefully? You can wait for ages.

Idk man so far it’s my favourite Pokemon game and I’ve been playing for the last 17/18 years

How many steps is it going to take to actually get where we want to go in this franchise?

Yeah man

Yup..

Like Breath of the Wild? Well at least this was what everyone said about Zelda before it get the worldwide acclaims! People loves to hate Nintendo things.

@@pedromonteiro2248 breath of the wild was not empty

@@pedromonteiro2248 BoTW gives incentive to explore and there's always plenty of combat engagement and interaction with the world. Pokemon however has a lot wider empty areas, repetitively without any interaction, BEFORE u get to combat engagement or interaction with said environment.

Why are people so obsessed with shiny pokemons?

@@hilvystewy7298 the same reason people collect trading cards or anything like it They're fun to collect

Game only benefits shiny hunters and that’s it

Nice. Hope that fulfils you and brings you happiness.

@@hilvystewy7298 bc they are very rare, encounter rate is 1 in 5000 (varied).

7.5 out of 10 - too many Pokémon

Okay..but they have done it and it is a Segway to better ideas and concepts in later iterations..so your complaints just seems bitchy right now.

@@isimioyekunlemarktaiwo3643 most likely 😂

Right?? She states repetitive game play, no gyms, and bland empty environments. It sounded like a 5 or 6/10 just from her tone.

@@robertofigueroa9378 Nice fan fiction.

well, like it or not its the best pokemon game since 2016 sun and moon

@@richard35791 Which is actually sad tbh

@@richard35791 nah. Sword and shield was still better than this. At least the word felt lived in and had a decent online component. I’m having 0 fun with this game.

That will stay in your imagination only. For at least 2 decades.

@@JavierSegura 😭

Finally someone's asking real questions

It's called running it on Citra on your phone 🤷🏻‍♂️🎮

@@blaster915 Whoa

@@blaster915 *Nobody cares*

It's not an open world.

@@zipzzo yeah you right. Based upon first impressions though, it's easy to see that it seems like an open world akin to botw but ig not. Still seems pretty empty for how vast the areas are

Ikr

it already is tremendous fun. But I'm excited to see more of this on the next gen switch!

@Merciless Freak u seem to be a hater

@@serendipity_05 idk bout that one. They might not like just catching Pokémon

@Merciless Freak Maybe you're not a fan...period?

Sad but true, makes me very proud of genshin

it’s unfair to compare a game that prioritize fun with a game that was solely made to be pretty. while Genshin has stunning visual, the game wasnt as fun as Pokemon in my opinion

Even a chinese game looks and plays better than pokemon

Because those smartphones are way more powerful than switch

@@CC0Z no

Its IGN

Kingdom hearts in a nutshell

@@wolflink9000 KH has been great all throughout tbh

Yes but gamefreak has done lots of "first tries" over the last years

Then there's Horizon: Zero Dawn

Doesn't look like its a fair review if you compare to others. Metacritic doesn't lie

If only they would bring the per-release improvements to the new iterations...

They knew they were making crap..

It's pretty amazing if you're playing it on an emulator and not the switch. With 4k resolution and 60 fps plus, the game looks and plays incredibly well.

@@rooslanmizan5564 I'm on ryujinx with 4k res on and not rly, game looks drab with lots of pop ins etc. Other switch games look miles better

LMFAO True! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Facts💀

They’re gonna spend more time defending the game than Game Freak did making it 😭😭😭😭

@@justin.7849 😂😭😭

@@justin.7849 FOUL!!!

And Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee was a test for Sword and Shield, which was a test for this, it's almost like they know what we want, but will sell us 4, 5, 6 games before we get that game.

It's a pre alpha

well yes, but actually Pokemon fan boys will say no

@@undisclosedsteve6361 don’t worry, in 10 years we’ll finally get the perfect pokémon game 😔

@@kingkai18 Exactly lolol and by that time gaming will be evolved a decade and what they give us will feel antiquated just like this😂 It'll feel 10 years old and look 15 years old

Same. I'd be more impressed if they accomplished this 10yrs ago, now it's not that impressive.

They did

They could have made the polygon graphics and it wouldn’t have made a difference. Just give me something to do in a big open world instead of “find and catch this Pokémon for me”. “Now find a bigger one” give me a break.

Watch out for the butthurt consoomers

No is not better, it's a huge downgrade for sure :(

It’s a million times better.. I’ve been playing Pokémon since 98.

Much better than Sword and Shield, Let’s Go, and the DP remakes imo.

A lot of people are saying it’s better.

The liveness could have depended on your rank and people fearing pokemon less and less

Or much of anything

Pokemon hasn't really ever had dungeons. The closest things were caves and buildings...but those were just areas you had to go through to progress the linear plot.

@@ZeroShaneBob Silph Co., Lavender Tower, Mt. Moon, Powerplant, Bell Tower, Goldenrod Tunnel, Victory Road(s). Just some off the top of my head.

Have you ever played a f*cking Pokémon game? Because by your question it seems you don’t know what you are talking about...

@@human-animalchimeraprohibi2143 sooo caves and buildings?

I've been saying this forever. You'd think they would put in something as basic as that but no .

@Merciless Freak you'd rather the rinse and repeat formula they've been using for over a decade? Lol come on dude this is the step in the right direction rather you wanna acknowledge it or not

@Merciless Freak No. Sword and shield is bad. This is better.

You said that for every generation lol

@Alex Cheng Just shut up, go back to playing buggy unfinished content lacking movie games

@Merciless Freak Not you again

It’s Pokémon

Botw doesn’t have heart

Nah, it’s got more heart than your family. It’s just severely undercooked with some very VERY subjectively fun stuff in between.

Imagine if Nintendo put as much work into pokemon as they do zelda.

@@unioneye1087 wut

This is IGN, its either 7 or 10 no inbetween

@@TheKZfaqTick Pretty much. That's why I'm taking the review with a grain of salt.

@@TheKZfaqTick Their last three reviews were all 8's.

The lowest review so far came from IGN Italia which gave the game a 5 and the reviewer stated in the comments that she was generous with the score. Since this here is a different reviewer compared to the one who gave Sword/Shield a ridiculous 9 where other reviewers where much more ciritical, giving Arceus a 7 seems more like a traditional score for a japanese game when it comes to IGN. A 7 isn't a bad score by the way, but the hater here a celebrating the 7 like a 3. Now they have a barren open world next to fugly graphics to complain about a game they wouldn't play anyway.

@@TheKZfaqTick they always give 9 to almost every game

Naa its gamefreak. The sequel on the next console will use the exact same assets and models. People will still buy it because its pokemon. Put the least amount of money into a product and get the most investment back. Gamefreak are business geniuses.

Nintendo only owns a 1/3 of Pokémon they don’t control the series the Pokémon company do

Ya that's true if people are willing to spend money on pokemon toilet paper. Pokemon basically has their fans on the plam of they hands.

@@jackstclair6832 yeah, you can see the difference in quality between games Nintendo fully owns and Pokémon

Thats every Nintendo game at this point. The last Smash game added less than 10 new characters, and less than 5 new stages at launch.

@@jayray1714 U do realize that game already have aton of content right? That was just bonus fighters and stages, u dont need them to fully enjoy the game

You need credits called “merits” to purchase the link cable item

@@djackson161 not true. They are found in the distortion storms too. Merits also don’t need to be earned online.

@@djackson161 merits are extremely easy to earn in game

Pokemon fans gonna hate this comment 😭

Oh no! Whatever will they do to get your attention? Oh no the sales will drop because you are not interested.

@@isimioyekunlemarktaiwo3643 There is no need to rustle your jimmies my man.

@@fireflamegamer8321 im a pokemon fan and I'm not even mad. This game does have it problem. Like the lack of pokemon. 242 pokemon is too small of a roster.

@@DaiMie might be dlc disappointed there’s no charizard 😢 gotta remember there may be a johto legends remake coming on the next console

It’s a 5.