One thing I hate is how quickly they just kinda... sweep away concepts I'd love to see more of. Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon alone opened up both entire civilisations of alternate universal beings, as well as alternate timeline merge shenanigans with Team Rainbow Rocket. But then there's just... no mention of them again like??? I wanna know MORE!

I need a coordinator path like yesterday. It’s wild to me that they even stopped having contests when so many pokemon aren’t really fit for serious battle

I agree with the 'opening up the world to more than just battling' point. In SV, they had these really fun new storylines aside from the typical gym badges and elite four, but Arven and Penny's stories still ended with a regular boss battle, like they always have done before. Why could we not have had a huge Team Star base as a final area, or some kind of other test or dungeon to complete the Titans' story? They pushed so hard in pre-release to showcase the different types of exploration we could do, only for it all to end up being just ordinary Pokémon battles like always

Actual open world. In Gen 9 you can fight any gym in any order, but it’s really just the wrong order. You’ll be overpowered if you come to fight the grass gym 6th so it’s just a chore at that point. Each gym leader should be programmed with the same team at various levels and stages based off the number of badges the player has.

To be fair, you COULD get some solid Ice-types like Swinub in Sword and Shield as soon as you enter the Wild Area for the first time, but that's only if the weather is right.

I like that the exp share allows me to train more than one team of pokemon. Unfortunately the enemy teams are always small, and rarely have any challenge to them, so there just isn't much point in having a B team, or C team.

Gym level scaling would be the best! Let me start with the gym I want and not be punished with a super easy playthrough afterwards!

My thought is that they got rid of challenge mode & made the forced exp share because black & white were not liked compared to other games.

Team skull and team star were great imo. It was really just team yell that sucked and made the "evil team that's not really evil" thing feel tired after only a couple times.

With breeding, I would have liked a nursery pc box. Just like picnic breeding, it would be portable, but unlike picnic breeding, you wouldn't need to stop exploring. You wouldn't need to be on flat ground. You wouldn't need to empty your party. It could have multiple slots with rotom phone alerting you when it's full and multiple boxes, allowing you to breed more than one pokemon.

I really want an ice flying regional bird, or at least one that gains the ice type upon evolving. after having talonflame and kilowatrell with their fire and electric typings, an ice one could complete this elemental triangle and will be cool to have. also, it will mean we will have three regional birds that are like more common versions of moltres, zapdos and articuno

I literally had to rotate through over 20 Pokémon in Shield to try and not be super over leveled. On the one hand it was kinda fun doing that, but on the other it really didn’t feel like a had a “main” team. More like a main battalion😅

I'd argue that SwSh and Sarlet and Violet fixed the ice type problem you can catch ice types early in Sword and Sheild and you can catch any pokemon in Scarlet and Violet and breed them due to the fact that you can go anywhere with Miradon and Kiradon

For me it’s the lack of voice acting, and the story. The story has improved dramatically in Scarlet/Violet though!

Yeah the new breeding is annoying and I hate it... Same with reducing clothing options, especially after how open and cool the options had become in some earlier games.

0:49 #6: Evil Teams 2:46 #5: Breeding 4:29 #4: Other Careers than Battling 6:13 #3: Experience 7:42 #2: Character Customization 9:17 #1: Early Ice Types

Adding Meltan and Melmetal to the main series games and changing its evolution method so Meltan can be evolved in the main series games. I will say I do like the new breeding method, it combines the curry mechanic and day care so you can breed multiple Pokémon at the same time whilst giving them food.

The transition from the core games to VGC. Haven’t been able to get bridge the gap for common players

As an Ice type Pokémon fan, I wholeheartedly agree with your final point! The Ice type is completely ignored or nerfed constantly, I really wish they would make it more viable. And early Ice type Pokémon would be greatly appreciated!

Are the newer evil teams presented as equal threats to past ones though? I think the games do a pretty good job establishing when the stakes are a lot lower (heck, in Sun and Moon a Skull grunt lampshades that they aren't out to conquer the world or anything like that), and it arguably makes more sense for our character to be involved in these lower-stakes conflicts as a new trainer. I also have the impression the Team Star storyline was pretty well received.

The fangame Pokémon Sage has early Ice types, early snowy routes and even the first Gym is Ice type, basically the opposite of what official games have been doing

I actually kinda like the EXP share. Mostly because it made grinding a lot easier. THough I do think it should be a setting that is on by default and a player can turn it off and on again if they want it.

I will ALWAYS dislike the fact that they _nailed_ it with the PSS (Player Search System) in XY... _and never again_ (I don't know WHY they refuse to look at that and be like "Ya know. People REALLY loved that. Maybe we should take note)

Yeah it was weird that they removed the on/off switch for the experience share. They made more work for themselves just to upset people

Seriously, they figured out how to add an option to skip cutscenes, so adding an option to toggle EXP share should be simple. It's not like they overly care about game balance even with it forced, so not really an issue of 'but what about game balance'. Then again, the 'skip cutscenes' button cost several other small options so maybe they really don't know how to just add a toggleable button.

Character customization is a must and I want to extend to the outfit. Like I might be known as Lillie but if you know me I am a bit of an Elesa. I love changed my character to make it look like Lillie, other characters, or do make something brand new. Early ice is a bummer, I hate and don’t like to ask my friends to give me an ice type or Snowy so late in the game. The daycare needs to comeback because I don’t really like nothing as I run around…

I HATE that you can't toggle experience share on/off It just makes it too easy to just plow through with your lead pokemon and never change.

#1: I am glad I am not the only one who gets very tired of this. Even in "cold" Sinnoh, they did this.

You can get ice type Pokémon in the early game of Sword & Shield. If you have the snow or snowstorm weather conditions present throughout the early locations of the Wild Area, you can get Pokémon such as Snorunt, Snover, Swinub and Vanillite before the first gym. Alternatively, you change the date of your Switch's internal time/date to the 25th of December where snow is the only available weather condition in the Wild Area etc. This also doesn't factor in raid dens which can house early game ice types.

I believe that gamefreak should make an evil team and keep bringing them back in the future generations, and maybe give us some character development between the games on the occuring characters.

I actually prefer the Scarlet and Violet method of breeding. I can take care of some drawing while my Pokemon breed, and when I come back some time later, THERE’S OVER 30 EGGS IN MY BASKET

I agree with making ice types early because a lot of people's favorite pokemon are ice types but they can't use them until the late and by the time you get there what's the point

100% agree on the ice types in the early game, I was forced to hack ice types in the begining of the games just to make a ice type mono run in *insert game here* But I wouldn't say Team Star is evil, if anything Sara/Turo's willingness to destroy Paldea so the paradox pokémon can leave Area Zero was much worse them a bunch of bullied kids who that got uno reversed.

7:42 And what of the argument that Scarlet and Violet made it easy to not be over-leveled thanks to most trainer battles being optional? I certainly found it easy enough to match my level to a given gym leader.

An NPC that helps a player in trade evolutions. You could add a side quest to or as a reward to do it.

Literally haven’t done any breeding in Violet because I don’t want to stand around waiting. I don’t know what they were thinking with this as it’s the least engaging thing they could have done. Why not just make it a phone app/PC box so it can still be done everywhere and not getting in the way!

I like that the EXP Share is permanent and shares it between all of the Pokémon in the party. I hated the old lead and switch method from earlier games, and this way I'm incentivized to try out more than just 6 Pokémon (which is what I do to counter being too overleveled). I do wish that NPC teams were stronger and had more Pokémon, because I've been noticing that a lot of recent games the NPCs always have just 1 or 2 Pokémon. Barely any have 3 and scarcely do they have 4 or more. One thing is heavily dislike is the switch back to breakable TMs. I never used TMs before Gen 5 because I was always worried that I used this one-in-game item (at least the non-purchasable ones) on a Pokémon that didn't really took advantage of it. Making them infinite use was great so that multiple Pokémon in my party could have it, and then for Post-Game use such as for VGC matches. The TR system them made in Gen 8 where some were breakable was a feature I liked because a lot of the moves were very powerful ones, but farming them again wasn't a hassle. I also dislike how Gen 9 made them worst by having to farm several different Pokémon parts as materials to construct the TMs again. Feels like such a hassle

I think a simple on off switch is the best of both worlds in regards to the exp all issue. I find myself needing to rotate my team constantly with only 2 pokemon out at a time so I dont immedialtely over level and sweep the game. I dont know of another game where I have to micromanage my gameplay so much and add handicaps in order to make the game a challenge.

I really want an Australia-inspired region, but that makes me question how that would affect ice-types if they go full-on faithful with how things are in Australia since it never snows there.

GF could include an early ice type in-game trade. A new ice mon w/ low speed and high Sp. Atk. With a move pool limited to low power ice attacks, the Pokémon’s overall power level would be kept in check. After evolving its moveset could expand, but its evolution could be delayed until a certain item or evo stone becomes available.

I actually love Team Star. Sure, they aren't truly evil, but there's some really strong storytelling with real emotions, which is something S&V excelled at.

I agree with the ice types, it's my favorite type an I hate how shafted it gets

Ah yes, Pokemon. Pretty much the epitome of "One step forward, two steps back."

Something i feel you left out is how long it takes to get home connectivity. I wouldn't mind if it was a month or 2, but 5 is taking the biscuit.

I think the character customization is acceptable in Paldea. Sure, the clothing is very limited, but your actual character is almost like a Mii.

You can find early ice type in sword and shield if it's snowing in the wild area then you can get a ice type like snowrunt and vanillite

Team Star was a nice take and a good attempt at incorporating very simple and relatable story beats. We couldn't relate because we're grown. That doesn't make it bad, that makes it not for you, and that's okay.

People who complain about all pokemon getting experience seem to lack the mental capacity for any thought. All it does is remove grinding from the game. If you want your Pokémon to stay weak, stuff it in a box.

the breeding change feels like they're trying to force competitive players into the casual play mechanics

"Ice as an early gym would be a bad idea because 2 of the starters would resist it and the other would be super effective against it" .......................rock has been the first gym in 3 different generations

7:15 they immediately went the other way right after introducing the hard mode because overall gen 5 was borderline a financial failure and gen 6 gave Pokémon a new life Overall again and again in the history of the franchise the economical success always points to easy game friendly to new players and gen 1 pandering are keys to make money Every time they had success or failure it's often almost perfectly correlated with these factors

Yes! I agree with the gen 9 breeding issues you have. I commented something similar on another video and got chewed out 😅 I have limited time to play video games, and the last thing I want is to set my controller down and wait for eggs to appear 🤦

If need be I'll make changes to my team when I can't turn off exp. Share...

I actually like the breeding system we got in Scarlet and Violet. It's way way faster in producing eggs we want and need, especially with food and sandwiches that we can buy and make. We can also breed a ton right out the bat with strawberry ice cream in Los Platos. Idk, if we're talking about the freedom to explore and time: I'd argue that taking a minute or two of a picnic anywhere (that's flat outdoor land, of course) is much better than travelling all the way to a daycare center, go on an adventure, then go all the way back to a day care center that's out of the way is just more time consuming. I do agree about the pokejobs though. That would be an excellent way of giving more fun for less.

You nailed it with this video Emperor I’ll add retconning trade evolutions and getting rid of the items that are used to evolve only 1 Pokémon

The exp share is insane to me. In Shield I kept trying to use my weaker Pokemon to level them up, so I rarely used my starter, but kept it in the back of my party. So any time I did use it, it one shot everything and was boring.

I like exp share as is, but the option to toggle on/off being removed was bad. What was worse for me was the removal of the option to toggle set/switch battle style. I look at switch as cheating and too easy. Now I have to click past this instruction pop-up EVERY TIME.

For me, I think level scaling in, Pokémon scarlet. I lost to grusha because I didn’t know it was so high-level if they really wanted us to make our own adventure why didn’t they introduced level scaling so it would be easier for us to beat the gyms in any order that we want

I don't get no early ice types, either. I kinda see them wanting to make them seem special, rare, and powerful to the other late game type, dragon? But if so, they could just make an early cave with a few rare ice spawns or something.

It would be cool if the player can be offered the chance to become a gym leader after proving themselves by winning the league. Imagine being able to build your own custom gym, recruit other NPCs to work for you in your gym as obstacles to would be challengers, make your own puzzles to fit the theme of your gym, design your badge, take on challengers, etc.

A million times yes regarding ice types. Starting on a remote snowy mountain Village and finding plenty of ice types would be great. They're similar to bug types in general strength so wouldn't really be that big of an issue. Perhaps in the next gen...

They should bring the EXP ALL back as the toggle key item that EXP Share became, and return the EXP Share to it's status as a hold item.

6. I kinda agree with the evil team getting more focus. 5. Most breed for a long time, so this new version is just better. 4. Interesting idea but it'd take too much effort. 3. I agree that it should be a toggle. 2. The character customization didn't exist because the players are on a school, so in a new gen, it'd be better. 1. Ice types should be found earlier and it kinda is nowadays with the open world we've now.

To be fair on the last point, you COULD get an ice type early in Sword/Shield, you just have to be really lucky. On my first playthrough of Shield, it was snowing when I reached the Wild Area, and I found a Swinub and a Vanillite in the Rolling Fields. Granted, this is very situational, since the weather is completely random, but it was nice to have some options for the first gym.

Unpopular opinion probably but...: The Picnic-Way to get egg IS superior for so many reasons. Sure the only thing is that you need to stop with exploring but then again you can be in any location where you can set up a Picnic to make eggs. You also still have access to your box so it is easy enough to get in and out Pokémon for breeding and you can choose to make a sandwich with Egg-Power to make it even easier to get and hatch egg. So no I hope they let this be a thing so I do not need to travel to collect a Pokémon from a nursary...I can just have my specific Pokémon ready to make some egg and when I am done I just stop and get back my team again.

Let me choose my starter after I beat the story-mode once. Let me start with ANY non-legendary (or otherwise special) pokemon right from the getgo without turning to cheat-codes and stuff! Also: the original Red had no Meowth, so there was a real chance running out of money. I mean, what?! Also also: in gen 1, not sure about the later games, if you want to overlevel lategame, because you find yourself in a corner for the wrong picks or something - what are your chances? Running in circles, fighting lvl 25 pokemons? That's stoopid.

In the topic of early ice types, it was a huge missed opportunity for that in Platinum. The region was colder, there’s even some snow in the starting town and first route! Yet the encounters are all the same as DP

The character customization in Paldea is pitiful. None of the accessories match the outfit, so I just don’t wear any. Also the hair options are extremely limited. I have long hair and the only long hairstyle they have is as ugly as they could possibly make it. At least the face customization is fine. They actually give you quite a bit of options.

The ice type problem is downstream of the fundamnetal problem that the type matchups don’t make sense and are terribly unbalanced.

I think Team Stars rationale was good for a non villain group.

I want the contest to be like in the video games like you can do combos to make something flashy or pretty.

6.-) I actually like that the new "Evil Teams" aren't actually evil, makes things less predictable, instead of the old way were they were evil for no good reason. 5.-) I like the Picnic method because it means that I can breed whenever I want, instead of having to wait till I find the Daycare (usually at the mid-point of the game).

Temtem tried to bring these back but failed miserably

I think cubchoo and vanillite are the most early you could catch ice types in Pokemon, cuz in BW, you could catch both before skyla's gym and The ground type gym respectively, and they are pretty strong for that matter, I guess BW fixed it better than SV without overcomplicating it

Earliest available ice type I can think of is Vanillite in bw, catchable around the 5th gym, which isn't quite the late game imo but is definitely solidly in the mid game by which point I've usually already solidified a team.

In X&Y you could argue that you have a second job as a farmer. I spent a LOT of time on the farm in that game.

1:55 Because evil teams don't have to always be "evil" or intimidating. The "evil teams", however you wanted to dub these, in recent gens were supposed to be relatable characters. I find Teams Skull and Star did the best job in representing certain situations from being outclassed, bullied, and abandoned by someone because in the end, they learned their lessons to become better characters. If you actually paid attention, you'd see said teams/characters actually grew and developed by the end of the story. Penny was right there and clearly showed how much she changed and... (spoilers ahead) Penny was the was that started the whole Team Star fiasco only to turn around to stop it after realizing the damages it was causing. She remained anonymous because she didn't want the captains to worry or get everyone expelled. Guzma's backstory was depressing for desperately wanting to be the best trainer and be a trail captain without showing his weaknesses. He thought no one understood him and it made Kukui and even Hala feel bad for him.

disagree with egg point first time I tried to get eggs with egg boost and got like 10 eggs at once that's way faster

Gen 5 you could find ice types more often in the middle of the game if it was winter. They should really bring back seasons.

You know the weirdest effect of shared EXP? Starters have a way faster levelling curve than most Pokemon, so while I'm training the slower Pokemon for the next gym, the starter levels up before I even touch it. As a result, I never get particularly attached as I never see it in battle.

Ngl, I prefer the Egg Basket mechanic over the old system. Get some Egg Powers via a sandwich, sit down for a couple minutes, and get more eggs than you ever could before! It's great!

The things that Pokémon can’t get right in my eyes are Pokémon animations Pokémon like Salamence Skarmory and etc. putting them floating in sky I thought they fix the animations in SV

You can catch many Ice types in the Wild Area right from the start in Sword and Shield: Vanillite, Swinub, Delibird, Snorunt, Snover, and can even evolve Snorunt into Froslass before reaching Motostoke.

For me one of the biggest issues with SV is the removal of set mode in battles. In the recent games that was the closest feature to a somewhat hard difficulty. Forcing me to play on switch mode just makes no sense.

Breeding also just lost a lot of reasons to it. It used to be that basically any competitive Pokémon had to be painstakingly bred to be good. But now if you don’t like a nature, you can change it. Messed up your EVs? You can change them. Bad IVs? You can raise them. I don’t even think that these changes are bad, but it does take away a lot from breeding. Even shining hunting. Masuda may still be some of the best odds, but it just isn’t as interesting as running around checking out mass outbreaks.

I think they should bring back the HMs and the grinding. Why wouldn't I use my pokemon to traverse the overworld? Make them deletable and have the unlimited TM/HMs, and you're golden. And the whole purpose of the game is to be a Pokémon trainer, not a Pokémon coach. If that means I have to train up my team on level 18 pokemon when the next gym is in the 40s, so be it.

I'm not sure gamefreak even wants there to be replay value in pokemon. If they did they'd let you have multiple save slots. I know on the switch you can have multiple profiles but before that you'd either have to own multiple copies of the game or multiple systems if you wanted multiple saves.

On the ice type conundrum, in Pokémon Black and White 1 you can find Vanillite at cold storage before you battle Clay. It may not be early game, but it’s certainly early enough so that you may not have a full team set up yet. And there is Amaura in X and Y. That can be obtained before or after the second gym, I can’t remember.

Exp for me. I know that a lot of other RPGs with group dynamics have shared experience as the default, but the fact that gens 1 through 7 either had Exp share off or gave you a toggle, literally should be the simplest feature to keep in the games. One of the worst parts of Sword/Shield is breeding for shinys, forgetting that my eggs hatched, and randomly battling/catching a Pokémon using my "Flame Body" lead, only to then slog through 5 leveling ups, where I need to choose yes or no to like the 6 new moves each one is trying to learn.

I was expecting the breeding entry to be about how egg groups should be retconned.

On the subject of the first one. I've felt for a while that if they really want to keep things fresh (which they do), they should take a break from trying to do the whole evil team thing. Alola got rid of the traditional gym challenge, so why not skip the evil team for a game or two so they can actually maybe make a decent one while giving us a break? But it's so much the tradition, when I pitched an idea for a Pokemon game to one of my friends and said I figured maybe we just don't do an evil team for it he said "You gotta have an evil team"

If you want something with jobs, we needed Pokemon: Larry Version yesterday

They made an open world and forgot about building interiors.

For me, anything that gets rid of grinding is a plus. Despite my age and time spent in the games, at the end of the day, I wanna just use my strongest supereffective move and win. And yes to character customization coming back! I get that Scarlet/Violet had a unifrom, and in theory that's cool, but somehow I wish they had come up with a way to make them more unique. At least let me take the tie off and look a little rebelious.

you probably were the only person who left the eggs on the nurseries and left the area, most people just ride by the area until the egg was laid. just as now with the picnic like... the change is non existent, they just made it passive so you can leave to do something else in real life and let them breed

Honestly there’s so many things under this umbrella. To give a few examples: -follow Pokémon -regional gimmicks -gts/wonder trade -affection bonuses -exp share -general technical performance -evil teams -victory roads -many, many more

I love the universal EXP Share

If I'm honest, I don't think that an "evil team" is always needed. IMO, Team Skull was one of the best of them, simply because it was a bunch of unruly teens who wanted to mess up others' island challenges. You know, something that teens tend to do. I think keeping it more on the lowkey side with Team *insert name* is probably healthier for the game overall on the condition that the rest of the story feels involving enough. But maybe that's still Team Flare's plans of basically creating some sort of global annihilation of anyone outside of their group still leaving a sour aftertaste in my mouth ever since.

I will praise the Wild Area in Shield when it comes to early ice type access. At the first wild area, it was snowing for me there within the first three gyms and I managed to catch a Snorunt, and as soon as I could access the next segment of the Wild Area to pick up a Dawn Stone, I had myself a Froslass - a sure help against Allister and vital team member. Essentially, if there’s a weather/season system, snow or hail should bring out a few ice types for us to catch.

The way to offset the EXP share is not to train only one Pokémon at a time, it's to train more than just a single team of six. I mean, seriously, there are over 1000 Pokémon now, sticking to the same team of only six for an entire playthrough makes less sense than ever. With EXP share a player can easily train a dozen or more Pokémon, rotating the active members of their team as they go along.