The game plays itself, journalists are going to love it!

don't forget game freak's motto, one step forward, multiple steps backwards.

I've always felt that including an auto battle in your game is an admission that your battle system is boring or lacks depth. Having a system in your game that does the battles for you because it's not worth your time to engage with arguably the most important part of the game is another one of those decisions that reflects the mindset of this game's lead developer: "people don't have time to play games or wanna engage with them any more, So let's make them as simple as possible the cost of story, depth, and polish".

Auto battles are one of those mechanics that sounds like an unironic parody. "With our new experience share system, you'll never have to worry about training other Pokemon! And with our new affection system, you'll crit and dodge attacks more often, putting the fight in your favor! Also, try out our new Auto-Battle system, you'll never have to bother with those pesky buttons again!" Hard cut to someone in the CEO office like "You know, kids are dumb. Are we sure having the game grind and play itself is enough for them? We should also include a big floaty arrow to tell them where to go. Or, you know what? Why not make an Auto-Movement system so players won't have to deal with all that pesky walking..." At least they made it optional, they just locked other features behind it for some reason to push players into using the mechanic. I'm not even opposed to the idea itself, it worked well in Nino Kuni and I grew up on having no control in Digimon World 1, but at least those games were kind-of challenging, which made the lack of control feel tense. Modern Pokemon just isn't that.

If anything, this just proves they can make the monsters walk up and do the animation during regular battles but just choose not to. I remember some moron claiming Pokemon has more strategy than Yo-Kai Watch because you use commands rather than auto attacks. Also, Dragon Quest Monsters has an auto attack function and that game is FAR from easy on top of the fact the monsters also walk up to each other during battles. Guess Pokemon allows for way less strategy now not that that mattered since Pokemon is so easy that you could always just mash the A button to win. An auto battle function in Pokemon of all things just makes it so you mash A LESS. You can highly bet this feature will be popular with the average game journo, whom is stereotypically bad at video games. Funnily, Pokemon battles in PVP back in RBY were originally going to be auto attacks, so they kinda circled around anyway.

I'd hate to be a pessimist/negative Nancy, but remember - this is from *gamefreak* the company that is known to underperform and under-deliver. No matter what they do, always take it with a cup(a grain isn't enough) of salt.

You didn’t acknowledge that Salamence no longer floats

Always value your constructive criticism and praise for Pokémon games over anybody else. Look forward to future content!

It's shameful that Gamefreak is acting like they can't possibly share assets between games, and get two teams on the same page in the era of mass file sharing via the Cloud and Zoom meetings! We literally did that in College while being at home!

0:42 "How is it that auto battles achieve what regular battles can not." For a moment I though "because auto battles probably only have a single animation, maybe two" but then I remembered that that's also the case for regular battles 😐

I might be in the minority here, but I’m less concerned with this feature and more concerned with them addressing how the gym challenge is going to work in an open world game. Are they going to be challengeable in any order? If so, how do we actually go about doing so? And how will their levels interacts with our game progression? Once I know how one of the core aspects of the main series games is implemented, then I’ll concern myself with other matters. It just feels like they’re trying to throw a bunch of stuff at us as a distraction from something that’s really not going to go over well. I’m just hoping that I’m being overly paranoid/skeptical.

One thing I do like is that it seems follow Pokémon seem to be fixed, an example being the Cycilizar following the player on Koraidon, with the "Lets Go" feature I think this will be even better. (Hopefully better than Sw/Sh's utter disaster) It also appears that some moves like flame wheel will make physical contact. Though unfortunately this looks like it'll only be for some moves rather than the majority like in Legends, which is a genuine disappointment. Other than that, I'm actually really liking how the game looks so far!

My biggest fear with auto battles is turning around do see my little guy knocking out a shiny. Cool feature tho.

I think regardless of the suspicious practices from Gamefreak (which doesn’t surprise me), I do like the feature. It seems like a better way to interact with your Pokémon which I think anyone is fine with.

They don't need to work on making a game decent. Not when consOOOOOmers go out and buy $400 mareep plushies. We won't see any true improvements until Ohmori is also out of the pokemon game scene.

This game needs to be delayed to put in everything. Including the ability to let us transfer in every pokemon so they're not stuck in a subscription service.

Mystic Umbreon is gonna be sooo hurt by this LMAO

I just hope the game itself is enjoyable, the story is good, online battles are worth playing and that there is a difficulty aspect to it too. We shall wait and see what gamefreak deliver..

Well, I'm happy it's looking closer to an actual creature running up and fighting another actual creature, it's still kind of sad that it only happens sometimes. But one thing I'm also upset about is the new "villainous team." Anybody else remember when we had villainous teams who were criminal organizations, crazy people who wanted to destroy the world and remake it the way they think it should be, and people who downright just wanted to conquer the world by making everybody give up their Pokemon so there was no one left to stand against them? Anybody remember those villains? Nowadays we get-what-Hooligans who just cheer very obnoxiously and loudly and for someone else to win, and now "truant School students"..... what's the next villainous team going to be, people who don't want to eat their veggies? People who don't want to clean their room? Give me real villainous teams again.... and don't pull a "surprise twist" out of your ass like the in Sun and Moon and sword and shield....

auto battle might be good if it's like pikmin for like hunting items like barries, or ev training

I think auto battles are a great idea, though I wish we still got that system in PLA. I like running around the matches and being free to flee and seeing the fights in the world.

I'm just waiting till the games come out to hear your opinion on whether or not to them up. I wasn't planning on getting Legends until I saw you call the game great, which surprised me but I ended up really liking it.

I'm not against autobattles conceptually, the are a great qol for grinding in rpgs that has been around for years at this point, but something just tells me gamefricks are going to implement it in the worst possible way because that is their track record at this point

I love the Pokemon Colosseum battle music! XD Gale of Darkness too! So nostalgic

I guess I'm neutral on autobattles because Pokemon is such a "press A to win" game now, anyway. The idea of sending your trained Pokemon out on their own is fun though. Reminds me of the Meowcenaries in Monster Hunter. It'd be even cooler if they let you play AS the Pokemon you sent out, like in Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, but alas. If it's too much to ask for consistent battle animations of all things, it's too much to ask for that.

_pop_ "Hey King Kai what should I do with Cetitan?"

I think GameFreak just has no clue what they’re doing in 3D. They push out such mediocre products that pails in comparison to their 2d styles. I think if Black and White weren’t so poorly received, they may have experimented in that art style further and we’d have much better looking games by now.

That steelix shows what you need to know about modern pokemon

On a less important note I just wanted to mention that this latest trailer confirms that Cyclizars as a species run in the exact same fashion and way that Koraidon does, inflated dewlap, curled tail and all, which only further cements the idea to me that they are the way that they are solely to more closely resemble motorcycles. If Cyclizar has "A Body Optimized for Running" as the official website states and it still runs like this then it must clearly be helping it.

As always. One step forward, two steps back.

Well this is Baffling. It’s Like they’re Intentionally Trying to Cripple the Features the Fans Asked for Out of Spite or Something lol

If you think about it, the auto-battle system really has a good use... the problem is that it makes no sense to include it when there are factors that prevent it from reaching its full potential. On the one hand, it would allow you to train each Pokémon on your team separately instead of sitting on the bench, and at least it would be a step forward to resemble the combat system of other RPG's that have long left the franchise behind. Problem? 1. The Exp. Share, which still cannot be turned off, is still there. Pokemon you take out and fight, it would still give exp to your whole team. 2. Such a system would imply that you can configure automatic attack commands, which we have not seen in the trailer or on the page. 3. And while you may be able to set it up, A) An average free combat system thrives on melee basic attacks and occasional special attack moments, and B) May I remind that in this game, a normal move like moving your ass (Tail Whip) costs you 1 PP? It would directly be spending movs and points foolishly because you can't choose when and what to use by default, it's adding mechanics just for the sake of adding them and not delving into their application, just like in every current generation... But of course, then I remember that currently they give you so many healing items and money that you can still recover PP without worrying about anything. We give you 9999 of Ether and do what you want, in short, why have a minimum of care in your resources or make you think? 😒 1:02 Are there really people who continue with the lie that there are two teams designing different Pokemon games? If for a long time Game Freak had already declared that it was divided into 2 so that one of the teams would be dedicated to games outside of Pokemon (Like Little Town Hero), while the other was in charge of the franchise. For this reason, the work team is reduced and pressured.

The quality of these games will continue dropping until we get the pokemon equivalent of sonic 06 then hopefully they will change.

1 thing I really want in Pokemon is a move list. Instead of forgetting move and replacing it with new move, any new will be added into a move list where you can freely select whatever move that pokemon had learned to put in for battle still with limit to 4 and that pokemon had to learn it before you able to do that. The explanation is that instead of the Pokemon actually forgetting the move you just order them to not use that move in battle and only use the 4 you pick for it.

I do hope they can work Pokémon making physical contact before release, The Torkal’s flame wheel made contact which made me hopeful that they may work on it, although perhaps my hopes are best left outside

"Hey we have this cool mechanic our entire brand is themed around where we have these pocket monsters fight alongside their trainers for glory and friendship! What could we do to innovate in the next game?" "Make a mechanic where the player has zero input, the trainers and monsters are separated, and the entire base mechanic of the series is undermined." "BRILLIANT! Give that man a raise!"

It feels as if Teams [Name] are more and more goofy. No longer will you get to see a criminal organization, or a group aiming to conquer/alter the world. Now you have Genetic Bully, being a troublemaker, because... Troublemaker!

this game is just weird man. for every 1 thing that looks good there's at least 1 or 2 things that are just baffling. at least GF hasn't been lying this go around since that was what really upset me with SW/SH. I'm still prob not picking this game up but hey, bout 2 months of advertising could still sell me on it.

If they only thought about doing it like in Arceus...

It will sell well, no matter the criticism

I just hope the exp gain isnt too significant and doesnt spread to the whole team. I'd like to be able to use the features during gameplay without concerns of over levelling like with raid dens and curry usage in SwSh

Auto battle looks like it’s going to be a great OPTION to have, you know, the OPTION to have these alongside normal battles will give us good variety. Hopefully it stays as an OPTION and not forced to replace actual battles and then people make us the bad guys for wanting the OPTION to turn it off.

I immediately thought of you bro when I saw the auto battle contact in the trailer yesterday. GameFreak just has to be silly.

I want to see how shiny hunting, nuzlock and Speedruns are going to go. I can't wait for this game!

The only lesson Game Freak and the Pokémon Company learned from the Gen VIII debacle is that they can cut any corners they please with these games and the fandom will defend and financially reward them regardless. I have no hope whatsoever for their future games. The Pokémon Company is following in the footsteps of Bethesda and EA. I’d love for the company to prove me wrong. But I know full well they won’t.

a friend I call yosh showed me in the third trailer weed cat starter was literally floating in mid air while fighting TITAN CRAB MON 💀😭

1:45 Wait, is anyone else seeing the same thing with the pop-in that I am? There's a Trainer that appears out of nowhere AND a shadow that disappears. What the actual heck is going on???

If they're gonna give us auto-battles, then they should also give us difficulty settings. Come on, it's been nearly 30 years.

What do you think of SUDOWOODOs texture

I thought the feature would primarily be to speed up encounters later on when you have the classic level 60+ encountering level 10s thing or for the evil ‘team’ blitz. I don’t really mind since I can still battle normally if I want to anyways :P

Auto battles are good addition as long as the game isn't built around them

Auto Battles makes this game sound like a crappy gacha mobile game were after you start the battle you press the fast forward button to just hurry up and get your rewards.

I'm surprised this small indie company can afford to have two development teams.

misc, but finally i find someone who says arceus the same way i do instead of saying it with a "hard c"

My expectations still remain average even after everything shown. After all the hype around SwSh only to completely crash down from Dexit, I can never see past the shortcomings ever again. Genius Sonority handled the franchise better when they made Colosseum, XD, and Battle Revolution, and they had no idea how to make a Pokemon game at first. Game Freak have shown time and time again that they can't make these games anymore without severe compromises. All of the lies and current business practices have still left me clear of Pokemon Home since launch.

I hate to admit it but I'm actually interested for this game. Sword and shield was such a soul crushing disappointment that I feared it would kill my interest in pokemon entirely but this game seems to show game freak actually wanting to put effort into their game. I only hope that this ends well for game freak.

Felt like this could've been the best Pokemon game ever if only it wasn't broken. I havent made it to the post game yet, but boy is it fun to explore, and do the regular things. Heard theres no battle facilities, oh well. Exploration has been great so far, story & char is actually well written this time too.

I remember playing a pokemon fangame on roblox ("pokemon adventures", if i remember correctly). All pokes had a 3d model there. When battling, pokemon were being teleported to some cilcular arena. There, you could either auto Play or control your pokemon during battle. You could RUN AROUND AS YOUR POKEMON AND FIGHT, using the moves it knows or YOU COULD HIT AUTOPLAY, SO THEY FIGHT THEMSELVES. Yes, an actual pokemon game is now on roblox level on some aspects. Yes, the fangame was taken down due to copyright. I loved to actually fight and not just see things happen. That's the main reason i played it, despite many shortcomings of this fangame.

If pokemons new Gameplay "inovations" make you play less of the game i dont think i want anymore new inovations.

Call me nitpicking or whatever. When are we going to have high quality textures/models? They still looked like PLA clay and the model itself still using flat textures for eyes and mouth for the most part 😩

Can't wait to emulate this day one on better hardware with better resolutions and framerate

The visual contact seems to happen sometimes in normal battle, it may be like that visual glitch that happens when you speed through where if you dont wait for your pokemon to move closer first they stay back and the animation happens wonky like tackle doesnt physically hit them

The only reason would be to contemplate the animations to be turned OFF/ON, but even then they could just cut movement animations altogether when turning OFF. In all the only thing that makes sense is actually being Ohmori directing it.

Despite the glaring one step forwards and two steps backs, I LOVE the design of the new Pokemon that were revealed yesterday.

I just love the voice acting in this game 😂 i get sw/sh vibes

In the Previous Trailers Pokemon did not make contact while attacking but now they do like Legends!!! And This is the first time I'm watching your video after you Uploaded Since I subscribed!!!

honestly an auto battle system isn't that, digimon world has a system where you tell your digimon when to attack, dodge, block, do a special attack, etc. it all depends on the excecution

To me, Auto Battles are yet another mean to make competitive and shiny hunting easier for players, which has been the main focus of the mainline series since gen 5-6 ish. And by extension that means taking the grinding away for people that do enjoy it, maybe even creating an overleveling issue like the ones caused in gens 2 and 6 by design, something that I personally see happening in ScVi too.

I hope the story is enjoyable I need motivation in my stories. The lack of a real threat in Swsh truly showed and it made the game boring for me

106 you saw that two

I don't like the idea of Pokemon having auto-battles. Not that I don't think easy fights can be tedious; I just don't have enough faith that the rest of the game will be engaging enough to facilitate gameplay skips.

I'm trying to stay hopeful that maybe the auto battle feature was added afterwards and the battle style is the same in both auto and normal battles now

The thing I can think of with auto battle is that the Legends:Arceus way isn’t gonna work for multiplayer/competitive. Like if the trainer AI is better I don’t mind it being only wild Pokémon. However, can’t excuse the animations. L:A had pretty solid animations and made battling and catching so much fun. I hope they find a way to implement the L:A battling and animations for future competitive battling as I think so far it’s got the best mechanics for fighting. I am pretty optimistic about S&V compared to the trash that was SwSh

I love your content I wish you would upload more

Sooo...even the battles are now no longer under our control? cool, lemme know when we get the option of the game playing itself like Raid.

I think it's stupid when you could have have the battle mechanics from legends arceus. Though for me I want to be able to explore areas like in the older pokemon games. Though using strength was a pain in the butt. I think it wouldn't be as annoying because it wouldn't be random encounters.

1:35 SHOTS FAEEERRREEDDD

Honestly , most new changes i see in the game have the distinct smell of strategic inconpetence , " you want the pokémon legends arceus animations ? Eeehhh sure whatever , here's you'r stupid animations " the game looks promissing but there's some stuff in it that just erases anything promissing on the game

I think I’m going to sit this gen out.

I see DistantKingdom upload, I click

You upload once a month and this is what you give us? I should start calling you gamefreak

as far as i know they haven't been lying about things so far which is.. good. but i guess we don't even really know that yet either.

The auto battles, while they look good, seem to be a dumb decision to me. Isn't one of the main points of Pokemon battle strategy? Gamefreak just took that all away with their auto battles. So far it doesn't look like I'm going to bother with this game either. I do miss playing Pokemon, but I haven't played a main title since Sun and Moon because I'm not terribly impressed with the direction the series is going in. The new Pokemon Snap and Legends were a nice surprise though.

How to make pokemon battles more interesting so you won't need auto battle anymore: 1. Decrease super effective damage from x2 to x1 --or even x0.5-- 2. Remove struggle and give every pokemon a default typeless attack with infinite pp 3. Add a defend/guard option You don't even really need flashy animations (although they're a nice touch, and I wouldn't mind) just please, gamefreak, give us more depth to your battle system Games like digimon cyber sleuth have a system like what I described above and it's fantastic in comparison, you actually have to use your brain

Great I was waiting for this

appart from the world and land looking bland like in legends im really excited for these games, they seem to have a great narrative and the pokemon designs look dope so far. My biggest wish is that shiny hunting has some good methods and that the shiny charm applies to everything, unlike in bdsp. Also sidenote the pokedex looks fucking gorgeus imo

I was complaining that this game wouldn't have the same features as Arceus and that this game would be rushed, and they gave excuses like "actually they've been developing this game for a lot time before Arceus and this will be even better". They were wrong.

This game is ambitious, I just hope it's acceptably polished when it drops. #bringbacknationalpokedex

Some people are saying that we should not expect pokemon to be on the same level as zelda:BOTW since it is a 1st party game while pokemon is 2nd party, what do you think about it.

Auto-battle is like zigzagoon pickup ability but with exp too. Weird tho that does physical interaction but not regular battles yea 🤔

distantkingdom when the pokemon arent making gay love to each other

I'm ok with the auto battle feature solely because of the pokemon following feature is back. Not only do I believe every monster taming game should have that monster following mechanic, but i also believe open world games should have a companion system in it.

I just want to be able to turn off exp share so that I can feel like I’m actually training my pokemon

Pkmn S+V hurts my soul so much because, after all of the improvements legends arceus added, none of them seem to carry over and they add different improvements. Why can't they do both?

It's weird though because in this same trailer, Melas Torkoal uses flame wheel and makes contact with Fuecoco. So some moves make contact and others don't? Or perhaps they added that feature between trailer releases

One reason I might think of is maybe not all possible moves are usable by Pokemon in auto battles. Thus they _only_ made the new animations for the moves that can be used. If this is the case, that would be a reasonable limitation from time budgeting. But then, why not "Let regular battles use the new animations for moves that have them"? And the rest can remain the status quo. Incremental improvement would still be a major step up from _no_ improvement.

I am going to pre-order Pokémon violet so it doesn't matter

The auto-battle is pretty much what Digimon World and Digimon World Next Order has as the method of combat.

A lot of these new Pokémon are a hit or miss for me. The Fire/Psychic and Fire/Ghost duo shown in the trailer yesterday look like they could be regional variants for Bisharp, but they also hardly look like Pokémon to me at all. Still rooting for Fuecoco to have an amazing final evo.

Maybe Gamefreak went about making pokemon run up to opponents in the worst way possible. As in, having to add it individually for each pokemon instead of using an algorith. Doable for PLA's dramatically cut down move pool, less so for the full ocean of Pokemon Moves in gen 9