In theory, i love the way pokedex is being made in this game.
In practice, having to use (well, see used, but in practice it is faster for me to use it than hope a wild pokemon will do so for me) the same move 25 times in a row to finish a section is very tiring, and i would love if the pokedex was more research oriented instead of just more combat with extra steps.
You don't need to max out all the research to Perfect, though, unless you plan on shiny hunting that specific pokemon
Just getting to level 10/Complete can often be done in just a few catches
Except if you're going for Ten Stars as a surveyor, then you need a handful of Perfects, but you can skip it for most
Technically speaking, i don't have to play the game at all.
But the tasks are still there, and i want to max out the pokedex, and i wish that the way to do it was more actual research oriented.
I understand why it is not, would mean lot more work for devs, so it's not like i am that upset about it, but it would have been fun.
The UI really needs improvement.
Let me mass release pokemon and store everything not favorited with one push of a button.
And make the rest, pokemon and store selector in the camp separate people instead of one i need to go through the menu to pick what i want to do.
I know it doesn't fix your issue with store and pasture, but I've always just rested at the tent.
I am aware of the tent, that does nothing to the fact that i still have to scroll past the rest option to get to the pokemon.
I've thrown so many pokeballs at that level 45 alpha snorlax to no avail.
Level 60 Alpha Alakazam captured on first try.
I don't even want an Alakazam, i just figured i would throw a ball at one while passing by.
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But to fill out the pokedex I need to do things like evolve magikarp 10 times, which means I need to keep 11 magikarp. And sure, after I evolve them I can get rid of 9 of those gyarados, but I haven't gotten around to evolving them yet so there's a bunch filling up my pastures. And there are a bunch of other pokemon that I'm keeping to evolve, but I'm catching more of them faster than I can evolve them.
@AnteCantelope To complete a pokedex entry you do not need to fill all the dots up. You only need to get 10 points worth. Once you get to 10 it doesn't go any higher and the pokedex entry is complete. The ones with the little red up arrows give 2 points towards that 10 each. And the others give 1. There is no reason to hold onto and evolve 10 magikarp.
But to fill out the pokedex I need to do things like evolve magikarp 10 times, which means I need to keep 11 magikarp. And sure, after I evolve them I can get rid of 9 of those gyarados, but I haven't gotten around to evolving them yet so there's a bunch filling up my pastures. And there are a bunch of other pokemon that I'm keeping to evolve, but I'm catching more of them faster than I can evolve them.
AnteCantelope To complete a pokedex entry you do not need to fill all the dots up. You only need to get 10 points worth. Once you get to 10 it doesn't go any higher and the pokedex entry is complete. The ones with the little red up arrows give 2 points towards that 10 each. And the others give 1. There is no reason to hold onto and evolve 10 magikarp.
Well, if you complete everything in a pokedex entry it makes it "perfect" and increases your chance of seeing a shiny of that pokemon, I believe? So not no reason, but definitely less of one.
I find it hard to care about shiny hunting in a game that won't allow transfers to other versions.
That said, loving this game, really hoping a lot of this becomes the basis for how mainline Pokemon is structured in the future. I'm surprised with how much I actually enjoy filling out the dex, specifically because as long as you're not going for Perfects it's very a la carte.
It is kind of silly how you can just get lucky with an alpha pokemon and use that to dominate the whole game, though. I got a 55 alpha honchkrow pretty early that has been hard-carrying me through the game. The game could probably stand to be less generous with how high of a level it lets you control at various star-levels.
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Finally beat it last night. Man I really love this game. This is one of those super rare games where I actually get super into it and stay up late playing until I realize it's 6am and I should have gone to bed hours ago but there's more pokemon just over there, let me just catch those first!
I keep hearing people shit on the graphics but honestly they seem fine to me? Like, absolutely not the prettiest game ever and there's a few pop-in/flickering/etc issues but it's fine? I guess I overall don't care that much. And honestly I feel like the Pokemon themselves look way better this time - like, Gamefreak actually put in more animations and the pokemon actually look like they're doing the moves and stuff (rather than a sort of squirm and then random effects show up in the air in front of them). Also FPS felt solid throughout (I heard someone say it runs worse than BotW and I'm like, wtf are you talking about? The game runs smooth while BotW had frequent slowdown issues...)
Spoiler stuff
Thank Christ they didn't do the whole "Oh Galaxy Team was EVIL the whole timmmmeeeee!" thing. I was dreading that given their name. They kinda sorta did with Kamado (get rekt Prof. Rowan, your ancestor sucks) but it was mostly just him being dumb rather than evil. The ending went on a lot longer than I thought but it was pretty fun.
I still absolutely do not understand why they forced me to bring Dialga to that final fight literally just for a cutscene to have continuity and then there was no actual pokemon battle... It's like, no game, I have a team I like, why you making me swap one out? And then it's not even used.
Excited to get to the post game stuff. I honestly could have messed around forever and not finished but the sky turning purple kind of pushed me into the ending (plus it felt too weird operating out of that tent). I really want to perfect some more pokedex entries for better shiny chance. I heard someone suggest the shiny chance in those mass pokemon events is like 1/158 or something absurd like that which is just nuts to me. (let's go mass growlithe event... I maxed out your dex entry for a reason!)
Also Braviary feels super OP for shiny hunting. I was just flying over the swamp and suddenly hear a chime and see the shiny stars below me.. caught a shiny Gastly Didn't even see the thing flying over but the game basically screams at you so it's very hard to miss the shinies which is awesome. I do kind of wish he actually flew instead of just gliding but I guess they had to keep Sneaseral or whatever the hell it's called relevant.
Oh, and yes, wish the pasture UI was better. I was sad when I found out there was a max limit. The search function isn't the greatest (when you're searching for a geodude, graying out every other pokemon doesn't exactly help game...). I wish there was a way to say, move all grass types to one box, or whatever. I feel like older games had this. Also searching by shiny/alpha
Eh, there's so few traditional battles to 'dominate' that I don't think it really matters that you can acquire OP Pokémon. Not to mention the battles like that are easily the least interesting part of the game.
I've got a box full of level 55+ alphas and I'm mostly rolling around with a squad of 30-40s to go about my day (I'm at basically the end of the story). Play the game the way its satisfying to you to play it, I say.
This game has a more interesting plot than I think...any Pokemon game has ever? That's not a high bar to clear but it's surprising when Pokemon characters are more than neat designs and actually have some rudimentary personality.
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The issue is actually a bug that the Japanese support page for Arceus acknowledged Wednesday. According to the post, if Cherrim changes form once, it cannot be caught. Cherrim has two forms: one where its petals are closed (“overcast form”) and another where its petals are opened up (“sunshine form”). It changes depending on the weather.
(I did find a Cherrim way later but it must not have changed forms)
I feel that the games attempts to tell me that the pokeballs are no different from the Diamond and Pearl clans having life companion style pokemon is somewhat weakened by me crafting extrra heavy balls so i can bean pokemon in the back of the head extra hard to capture them.
Finally beat it last night. Man I really love this game. This is one of those super rare games where I actually get super into it and stay up late playing until I realize it's 6am and I should have gone to bed hours ago but there's more pokemon just over there, let me just catch those first!
I keep hearing people shit on the graphics but honestly they seem fine to me? Like, absolutely not the prettiest game ever and there's a few pop-in/flickering/etc issues but it's fine? I guess I overall don't care that much. And honestly I feel like the Pokemon themselves look way better this time - like, Gamefreak actually put in more animations and the pokemon actually look like they're doing the moves and stuff (rather than a sort of squirm and then random effects show up in the air in front of them). Also FPS felt solid throughout (I heard someone say it runs worse than BotW and I'm like, wtf are you talking about? The game runs smooth while BotW had frequent slowdown issues...)
Spoiler stuff
Thank Christ they didn't do the whole "Oh Galaxy Team was EVIL the whole timmmmeeeee!" thing. I was dreading that given their name. They kinda sorta did with Kamado (get rekt Prof. Rowan, your ancestor sucks) but it was mostly just him being dumb rather than evil. The ending went on a lot longer than I thought but it was pretty fun.
I still absolutely do not understand why they forced me to bring Dialga to that final fight literally just for a cutscene to have continuity and then there was no actual pokemon battle... It's like, no game, I have a team I like, why you making me swap one out? And then it's not even used.
Excited to get to the post game stuff. I honestly could have messed around forever and not finished but the sky turning purple kind of pushed me into the ending (plus it felt too weird operating out of that tent). I really want to perfect some more pokedex entries for better shiny chance. I heard someone suggest the shiny chance in those mass pokemon events is like 1/158 or something absurd like that which is just nuts to me. (let's go mass growlithe event... I maxed out your dex entry for a reason!)
Also Braviary feels super OP for shiny hunting. I was just flying over the swamp and suddenly hear a chime and see the shiny stars below me.. caught a shiny Gastly Didn't even see the thing flying over but the game basically screams at you so it's very hard to miss the shinies which is awesome. I do kind of wish he actually flew instead of just gliding but I guess they had to keep Sneaseral or whatever the hell it's called relevant.
Oh, and yes, wish the pasture UI was better. I was sad when I found out there was a max limit. The search function isn't the greatest (when you're searching for a geodude, graying out every other pokemon doesn't exactly help game...). I wish there was a way to say, move all grass types to one box, or whatever. I feel like older games had this. Also searching by shiny/alpha
I wouldn't be surprised if the pop-in complaints have something to do with other Pokemon fading out during battles and then reappearing, or the straight day/night spawn transition.
I've noticed some legitimate pop-in, but that's largely with oblique angles in town.
They… they headed really far north with all their exclusive Pokémon and formed the Platinum Clan. They’re ninjas now so you can’t find ‘em.
Honestly as much as it’s a required gameplay element every character in the series that has a Pokémon without cramming them in a ball is much cooler than the protagonist.
But to fill out the pokedex I need to do things like evolve magikarp 10 times, which means I need to keep 11 magikarp. And sure, after I evolve them I can get rid of 9 of those gyarados, but I haven't gotten around to evolving them yet so there's a bunch filling up my pastures. And there are a bunch of other pokemon that I'm keeping to evolve, but I'm catching more of them faster than I can evolve them.
AnteCantelope To complete a pokedex entry you do not need to fill all the dots up. You only need to get 10 points worth. Once you get to 10 it doesn't go any higher and the pokedex entry is complete. The ones with the little red up arrows give 2 points towards that 10 each. And the others give 1. There is no reason to hold onto and evolve 10 magikarp.
Yes, but there are tasks to complete so I want to complete them.
Also attempting to catch every species in your region is in fact an act of holy pilgrimage, which is why these ten year olds have been given a lot of privilege in modern times.
Also attempting to catch every species in your region is in fact an act of holy pilgrimage, which is why these ten year olds have been given a lot of privilege in modern times.
Finally beat it last night. Man I really love this game. This is one of those super rare games where I actually get super into it and stay up late playing until I realize it's 6am and I should have gone to bed hours ago but there's more pokemon just over there, let me just catch those first!
I keep hearing people shit on the graphics but honestly they seem fine to me? Like, absolutely not the prettiest game ever and there's a few pop-in/flickering/etc issues but it's fine? I guess I overall don't care that much. And honestly I feel like the Pokemon themselves look way better this time - like, Gamefreak actually put in more animations and the pokemon actually look like they're doing the moves and stuff (rather than a sort of squirm and then random effects show up in the air in front of them). Also FPS felt solid throughout (I heard someone say it runs worse than BotW and I'm like, wtf are you talking about? The game runs smooth while BotW had frequent slowdown issues...)
Spoiler stuff
Thank Christ they didn't do the whole "Oh Galaxy Team was EVIL the whole timmmmeeeee!" thing. I was dreading that given their name. They kinda sorta did with Kamado (get rekt Prof. Rowan, your ancestor sucks) but it was mostly just him being dumb rather than evil. The ending went on a lot longer than I thought but it was pretty fun.
I still absolutely do not understand why they forced me to bring Dialga to that final fight literally just for a cutscene to have continuity and then there was no actual pokemon battle... It's like, no game, I have a team I like, why you making me swap one out? And then it's not even used.
Excited to get to the post game stuff. I honestly could have messed around forever and not finished but the sky turning purple kind of pushed me into the ending (plus it felt too weird operating out of that tent). I really want to perfect some more pokedex entries for better shiny chance. I heard someone suggest the shiny chance in those mass pokemon events is like 1/158 or something absurd like that which is just nuts to me. (let's go mass growlithe event... I maxed out your dex entry for a reason!)
Also Braviary feels super OP for shiny hunting. I was just flying over the swamp and suddenly hear a chime and see the shiny stars below me.. caught a shiny Gastly Didn't even see the thing flying over but the game basically screams at you so it's very hard to miss the shinies which is awesome. I do kind of wish he actually flew instead of just gliding but I guess they had to keep Sneaseral or whatever the hell it's called relevant.
Oh, and yes, wish the pasture UI was better. I was sad when I found out there was a max limit. The search function isn't the greatest (when you're searching for a geodude, graying out every other pokemon doesn't exactly help game...). I wish there was a way to say, move all grass types to one box, or whatever. I feel like older games had this. Also searching by shiny/alpha
I wouldn't be surprised if the pop-in complaints have something to do with other Pokemon fading out during battles and then reappearing, or the straight day/night spawn transition.
I've noticed some legitimate pop-in, but that's largely with oblique angles in town.
Also noticed the framerate dip on flying Pokemon.
Huh, I've never seen this. I'm pretty sure it's just for NPCs and trees and stuff popping in, which is a thing that happens. The trees also like to freak out and gyrate violently at times :P
I have noticed a few clipping issues that are like serious issues. Lke a few times I threw pokemon to get some item or farm some resource and they got permanently stuck on the geometry and had to reload the area.
Also another issue that I'm sure is rare but did happen to me once was getting stuck climbing up a ledge, having the animation bug out, and then the game acting like I had falled a distance enough to KO me despite only falling like two feet. To be fair I think that will only ever possibly happen from trying to break the geometry with Wydeer and get up cliffs you aren't supposed to with Wydeer. And even then with all I did that it only happened the one time. (I did not count it as failing the nuzlocke.)
I found and caught a shiny driftloon, which is my first like actual in the wild shiny I've ever found in a pokemon game. (I only ever played Gens 1, 2, 3 (Briefly), and 5 before.)
At 59 hours played I've got a living dex, first time I've actually finished doing that, I normally get bored around 80% done.
I found a useful trick for filling dex entries that I think is a glitch: when you evolve a pokemon it counts as evolving both the pokemon that evolves and what it evolves into. If you evolve a Gastly it counts for the evolve Gastly task and the evolve Haunter task. This means you can complete the evolve Haunter task easily, without using a ton of link cords.
Also attempting to catch every species in your region is in fact an act of holy pilgrimage, which is why these ten year olds have been given a lot of privilege in modern times.
Thou gotta catch them all.
I mean honestly
What was Arceus thinking sending me back in time.
I haven't progressed far in the story, so most likely it's better explained later.
But if you want Pokeball culture to take over, and denude the land of its Pokemon, then sure, send me back.
Also attempting to catch every species in your region is in fact an act of holy pilgrimage, which is why these ten year olds have been given a lot of privilege in modern times.
Thou gotta catch them all.
I mean honestly
What was Arceus thinking sending me back in time.
I haven't progressed far in the story, so most likely it's better explained later.
But if you want Pokeball culture to take over, and denude the land of its Pokemon, then sure, send me back.
You dont find out until post game what the deal is but its pretty funny
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Also attempting to catch every species in your region is in fact an act of holy pilgrimage, which is why these ten year olds have been given a lot of privilege in modern times.
Thou gotta catch them all.
I mean honestly
What was Arceus thinking sending me back in time.
I haven't progressed far in the story, so most likely it's better explained later.
But if you want Pokeball culture to take over, and denude the land of its Pokemon, then sure, send me back.
You dont find out until post game what the deal is but its pretty funny
Wait, so if I finish the main campaign and quit after the credits roll, then one of the main plot points will remain unresolved? If so, that's pretty shit.
I found and caught a shiny driftloon, which is my first like actual in the wild shiny I've ever found in a pokemon game. (I only ever played Gens 1, 2, 3 (Briefly), and 5 before.)
I found a shiny driftloom somewhere in first ten hours of playing, just hanging about on the path down from the first camp of first area.
First shiny i have ever seen or caught in a pokemon game.
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Alright, so after beating the main story I have now realized that I am probably NOT going to catch all the pokes. Which makes me sad.
But the space time rifts are... well... bad.
If it weren't for the reward for doing being something so big
I would very much like to see the true ending and the final special fight
then I wouldn't mind as much.
Having the only way to complete it and get that particular reward involving just standing around and hoping is pretty garbo design. Throughout the game I just kinda assumed there would be some way to get those easier later and then last night after finishing went to look it up and... nope. Just random dumb luck and you need to get that random dumb luck in each area and then catch all the required pokes from each rift before it's gone..
I didn't even see rifts pop up in all 5 zones throughout my entire playthrough of the story. Blah.
Otherwise though the rest of the game was quite fun! I will finish up the other post game side quests tonight and I guess just watch the rest on youtube.
Also attempting to catch every species in your region is in fact an act of holy pilgrimage, which is why these ten year olds have been given a lot of privilege in modern times.
Thou gotta catch them all.
I mean honestly
What was Arceus thinking sending me back in time.
I haven't progressed far in the story, so most likely it's better explained later.
But if you want Pokeball culture to take over, and denude the land of its Pokemon, then sure, send me back.
You dont find out until post game what the deal is but its pretty funny
Wait, so if I finish the main campaign and quit after the credits roll, then one of the main plot points will remain unresolved? If so, that's pretty shit.
Well its a pokemon game so yes?
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edited April 15
So, I haven't finished PLA yet
But the wording in the opening makes it seem like you were sent from a world that doesn't even have Pokemon
Also attempting to catch every species in your region is in fact an act of holy pilgrimage, which is why these ten year olds have been given a lot of privilege in modern times.
Thou gotta catch them all.
I mean honestly
What was Arceus thinking sending me back in time.
I haven't progressed far in the story, so most likely it's better explained later.
But if you want Pokeball culture to take over, and denude the land of its Pokemon, then sure, send me back.
You dont find out until post game what the deal is but its pretty funny
Wait, so if I finish the main campaign and quit after the credits roll, then one of the main plot points will remain unresolved? If so, that's pretty shit.
Well its a pokemon game so yes?
Well, this is the first Pokémon game that's held my attention for more than a few hours, so you'll have to forgive me for not knowing that such bullshit is standard practice.
I'll probably just look up the real ending on YouTube after the credits roll. Way to end the game on a sour note.
But the wording in the opening makes it seem like you were sent from a world that doesn't even have Pokemon
If the player character is from a world without Pokémon, it is at least a world with the Pokémon media franchise and they're a fan. They wear a shirt with a Pokéball design and have a Pokéball cover on their phone.
Which almost makes it funny that you can tell the professor that you don't know about Pokémon.
Also attempting to catch every species in your region is in fact an act of holy pilgrimage, which is why these ten year olds have been given a lot of privilege in modern times.
Thou gotta catch them all.
I mean honestly
What was Arceus thinking sending me back in time.
I haven't progressed far in the story, so most likely it's better explained later.
But if you want Pokeball culture to take over, and denude the land of its Pokemon, then sure, send me back.
You dont find out until post game what the deal is but its pretty funny
Wait, so if I finish the main campaign and quit after the credits roll, then one of the main plot points will remain unresolved? If so, that's pretty shit.
Well its a pokemon game so yes?
Well, this is the first Pokémon game that's held my attention for more than a few hours, so you'll have to forgive me for not knowing that such bullshit is standard practice.
I'll probably just look up the real ending on YouTube after the credits roll. Way to end the game on a sour note.
You beat the main game then a bunch of extra content unlocks. It varies from entry to entry. Im not sure what the issue is. A lot of jrpgs do this
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Also attempting to catch every species in your region is in fact an act of holy pilgrimage, which is why these ten year olds have been given a lot of privilege in modern times.
Thou gotta catch them all.
I mean honestly
What was Arceus thinking sending me back in time.
I haven't progressed far in the story, so most likely it's better explained later.
But if you want Pokeball culture to take over, and denude the land of its Pokemon, then sure, send me back.
You dont find out until post game what the deal is but its pretty funny
Wait, so if I finish the main campaign and quit after the credits roll, then one of the main plot points will remain unresolved? If so, that's pretty shit.
Well its a pokemon game so yes?
Well, this is the first Pokémon game that's held my attention for more than a few hours, so you'll have to forgive me for not knowing that such bullshit is standard practice.
I'll probably just look up the real ending on YouTube after the credits roll. Way to end the game on a sour note.
You beat the main game then a bunch of extra content unlocks. It varies from entry to entry. Im not sure what the issue is. A lot of jrpgs do this
Heck I'd argue that this game does it better than most JRPGs that do it in the completely pointless way where it doesn't actually continue the story and makes you go back to an old save and locks things away arbitrarily just to pretend they have some content after the end of the game.
However there is the one issue I noted above that completely killed it for me which is a shame. So many games do "post-game" wrong and pointless. And this one had the right idea! Until the stand around and do nothing mechanic set in.
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But the tasks are still there, and i want to max out the pokedex, and i wish that the way to do it was more actual research oriented.
I understand why it is not, would mean lot more work for devs, so it's not like i am that upset about it, but it would have been fun.
I am aware of the tent, that does nothing to the fact that i still have to scroll past the rest option to get to the pokemon.
Level 60 Alpha Alakazam captured on first try.
I don't even want an Alakazam, i just figured i would throw a ball at one while passing by.
@AnteCantelope To complete a pokedex entry you do not need to fill all the dots up. You only need to get 10 points worth. Once you get to 10 it doesn't go any higher and the pokedex entry is complete. The ones with the little red up arrows give 2 points towards that 10 each. And the others give 1. There is no reason to hold onto and evolve 10 magikarp.
Well, if you complete everything in a pokedex entry it makes it "perfect" and increases your chance of seeing a shiny of that pokemon, I believe? So not no reason, but definitely less of one.
That said, loving this game, really hoping a lot of this becomes the basis for how mainline Pokemon is structured in the future. I'm surprised with how much I actually enjoy filling out the dex, specifically because as long as you're not going for Perfects it's very a la carte.
It is kind of silly how you can just get lucky with an alpha pokemon and use that to dominate the whole game, though. I got a 55 alpha honchkrow pretty early that has been hard-carrying me through the game. The game could probably stand to be less generous with how high of a level it lets you control at various star-levels.
I keep hearing people shit on the graphics but honestly they seem fine to me? Like, absolutely not the prettiest game ever and there's a few pop-in/flickering/etc issues but it's fine? I guess I overall don't care that much. And honestly I feel like the Pokemon themselves look way better this time - like, Gamefreak actually put in more animations and the pokemon actually look like they're doing the moves and stuff (rather than a sort of squirm and then random effects show up in the air in front of them). Also FPS felt solid throughout (I heard someone say it runs worse than BotW and I'm like, wtf are you talking about? The game runs smooth while BotW had frequent slowdown issues...)
Spoiler stuff
I still absolutely do not understand why they forced me to bring Dialga to that final fight literally just for a cutscene to have continuity and then there was no actual pokemon battle... It's like, no game, I have a team I like, why you making me swap one out? And then it's not even used.
Excited to get to the post game stuff. I honestly could have messed around forever and not finished but the sky turning purple kind of pushed me into the ending (plus it felt too weird operating out of that tent). I really want to perfect some more pokedex entries for better shiny chance. I heard someone suggest the shiny chance in those mass pokemon events is like 1/158 or something absurd like that which is just nuts to me. (let's go mass growlithe event... I maxed out your dex entry for a reason!)
Also Braviary feels super OP for shiny hunting. I was just flying over the swamp and suddenly hear a chime and see the shiny stars below me.. caught a shiny Gastly
Oh, and yes, wish the pasture UI was better. I was sad when I found out there was a max limit. The search function isn't the greatest (when you're searching for a geodude, graying out every other pokemon doesn't exactly help game...). I wish there was a way to say, move all grass types to one box, or whatever. I feel like older games had this. Also searching by shiny/alpha
I've got a box full of level 55+ alphas and I'm mostly rolling around with a squad of 30-40s to go about my day (I'm at basically the end of the story). Play the game the way its satisfying to you to play it, I say.
https://www.polygon.com/22916807/pokemon-legends-arceus-cherrim-to-bloom-or-not-to-bloom-quest
(I did find a Cherrim way later but it must not have changed forms)
so many amazing pokemon species just vanished
I wouldn't be surprised if the pop-in complaints have something to do with other Pokemon fading out during battles and then reappearing, or the straight day/night spawn transition.
I've noticed some legitimate pop-in, but that's largely with oblique angles in town.
Also noticed the framerate dip on flying Pokemon.
Honestly as much as it’s a required gameplay element every character in the series that has a Pokémon without cramming them in a ball is much cooler than the protagonist.
Yes, but there are tasks to complete so I want to complete them.
Maybe you might think it's stupid, but also it explains so much. Where they go when they faint, how they can just disappear when they run away.
Why they are called Pocket Monsters!
You know in hindsight defining them in-universe as pocket monsters means there must be monsters.
One day you’ll throw a pokéball at something that just catches it and crushes it.
Thou gotta catch them all.
Thou must needs catcheth them all.
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Huh, I've never seen this. I'm pretty sure it's just for NPCs and trees and stuff popping in, which is a thing that happens. The trees also like to freak out and gyrate violently at times :P
I've been assuming that they're rogue nanotech swarms left over from some ancient civilization.
Also another issue that I'm sure is rare but did happen to me once was getting stuck climbing up a ledge, having the animation bug out, and then the game acting like I had falled a distance enough to KO me despite only falling like two feet. To be fair I think that will only ever possibly happen from trying to break the geometry with Wydeer and get up cliffs you aren't supposed to with Wydeer. And even then with all I did that it only happened the one time. (I did not count it as failing the nuzlocke.)
Your PC caught too many of them trying to fill out their Pokédex.
I found a useful trick for filling dex entries that I think is a glitch: when you evolve a pokemon it counts as evolving both the pokemon that evolves and what it evolves into. If you evolve a Gastly it counts for the evolve Gastly task and the evolve Haunter task. This means you can complete the evolve Haunter task easily, without using a ton of link cords.
I mean honestly
What was Arceus thinking sending me back in time.
I haven't progressed far in the story, so most likely it's better explained later.
But if you want Pokeball culture to take over, and denude the land of its Pokemon, then sure, send me back.
You dont find out until post game what the deal is but its pretty funny
Wait, so if I finish the main campaign and quit after the credits roll, then one of the main plot points will remain unresolved? If so, that's pretty shit.
I found a shiny driftloom somewhere in first ten hours of playing, just hanging about on the path down from the first camp of first area.
First shiny i have ever seen or caught in a pokemon game.
But the space time rifts are... well... bad.
If it weren't for the reward for doing being something so big
Having the only way to complete it and get that particular reward involving just standing around and hoping is pretty garbo design. Throughout the game I just kinda assumed there would be some way to get those easier later and then last night after finishing went to look it up and... nope. Just random dumb luck and you need to get that random dumb luck in each area and then catch all the required pokes from each rift before it's gone..
I didn't even see rifts pop up in all 5 zones throughout my entire playthrough of the story. Blah.
Otherwise though the rest of the game was quite fun! I will finish up the other post game side quests tonight and I guess just watch the rest on youtube.
Well its a pokemon game so yes?
But the wording in the opening makes it seem like you were sent from a world that doesn't even have Pokemon
Well, this is the first Pokémon game that's held my attention for more than a few hours, so you'll have to forgive me for not knowing that such bullshit is standard practice.
I'll probably just look up the real ending on YouTube after the credits roll. Way to end the game on a sour note.
If the player character is from a world without Pokémon, it is at least a world with the Pokémon media franchise and they're a fan. They wear a shirt with a Pokéball design and have a Pokéball cover on their phone.
Which almost makes it funny that you can tell the professor that you don't know about Pokémon.
You beat the main game then a bunch of extra content unlocks. It varies from entry to entry. Im not sure what the issue is. A lot of jrpgs do this
Heck I'd argue that this game does it better than most JRPGs that do it in the completely pointless way where it doesn't actually continue the story and makes you go back to an old save and locks things away arbitrarily just to pretend they have some content after the end of the game.
However there is the one issue I noted above that completely killed it for me which is a shame. So many games do "post-game" wrong and pointless. And this one had the right idea! Until the stand around and do nothing mechanic set in.