Why I HATE Pokémon Legends - Arceus!

Hello, welcome back to a new video game

review. So recently I've been playing the

brand new Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and I

just have to say that as an avid fan of

the Pokémon series and gaming franchise,

I just had to play this game. And I was

looking forward to this game so much, I

was so hyped up. Every single day, all I

could think about was this brand new

Pokémon game. As someone who's played

nearly every single Pokémon game that's

ever been made, I was really looking

forward to something new. Unfortunately,

upon playing Pokémon Legends: Arceus, I

can see that they have tried to make

something new, but unfortunately the

concepts and the ideas of the new things

in this game just kind of fall flat on its

face and flop miserably. So when I first

booted up the game, I was really impressed

with the colorful art style, but

unfortunately the graphics were just not

quite up to my standards. I know that it's

a Switch game and the Switch is quite an

old console by now in today's standards,

and it doesn't really have the most

powerful hardware and graphic

computational systems, but it's 2022 and I

kind of expect a little bit more in

graphical fidelity from my video games.

The textures are so flat. You go up to a

rock or terrain in the grass and it just

looks rubbish, and the pop-in rates are

just absolutely abysmal. I also don't like

the way the Pokémon look in this Pokémon

game. I know Pokémon are fictional,

colorful, cute animals and they don't

actually supposed— they're not really

supposed to look realistic, but my God,

they look like blow-up balloons this game.

They look like toys. They look like

they're gonna pop if you prick it with a

needle. They just don't look believable at

all. When I had my Pokémon summoned out in

front of me, instead of thinking I had

realistic, believable, cute Pokémon in

front of me, I just felt like I had these

weird toys standing there that didn't

really have any weight. They could just

blow off and fly off in the wind, or you

could kick it and they'll just bounce away

like a football. The way they look just

looks kind of weird, and I'm not a big fan

of this new visual style of the Pokémon.

The gameplay in this game is not really up

to my standards either. So the gameplay in

this new Pokémon game is pretty much

stereotypical of any kind of gameplay

you'd find in any other of the Pokémon

games. It's basically the same. You just

summon your Pokémon and then you've got a

list of moves that you can choose from

that take points to perform, and certain

moves are faster. The Pokémon take it in

turns to take whacks at each other. Now

you've got this new combat system which

involves agile moves and strong moves.

Agile moves do less damage, but then you

can attack twice in a row. And strong

moves basically are just stronger— they do

more damage, but then you have to only do

one at a time. If you do agile moves, you

can get in a second move quickly before

your opponent has a chance to take any

action. So maybe if you want to apply some

kind of debuff or stun, the agile moves

will give you a bit of an advantage. But

this is a very basic kind of

implementation in this combat system,

it's not really that fascinating. I mean,

games have always had this kind of— you

can do a move that's faster but does less

damage, or you could do a heavy slow

attack which does more damage but takes

longer. This isn't really anything new in

the video game industry. My main complaint

with the visuals of the game is that the

world looks very bland. Now, I know that

they're not claiming it to be some kind of

MMO or have like a sprawling realistic,

full of life open world. But my god, the

game world in this game looks so bland and

lifeless. You're just like pottering

around this world which is completely

devoid of life apart from the one or two

Pokémon scattered here and there that

don't really do much apart from just stand

around and roam about. But they don't

really have any kind of realistic

simulation of life. They've also removed a

lot of the advanced, more in-depth

features from previous Pokémon games. I

guess they're trying to dumb down the game

a bit for new players and younger players.

They're trying to strip away a lot of the

fluff from the older games, and maybe that

sounds like a good idea, but in reality it

just means what you're left with is a very

bare-to-bones basic Pokémon game where all

you do is go around this very bland

landscape and capture Pokémons and fight

Pokémons, and that's it really. There is a

story, but no one really plays Pokémon

games for their story. The story is very

uninteresting. It's pretty much anything

you would expect Apart from the twist is

it's supposed to be set before all of the

other Pokémon stuff, back in the times

when people didn't really— when people

weren't really friendly with the Pokémon.

They were kind of scared of the Pokémon

because they were like this unknown

mysterious entity. And you're basically

this researcher who has to go out into the

world and research the Pokémon, find out

about them, fill out the Pokédex so people

aren't scared of them anymore. And that's

basically the main concept of the entire

story. It's not exactly thrilling or

groundbreaking storytelling, but I don't

really expect that from Nintendo these

days. I just find it kind of laughable

that this is the game that was supposed to

redefine the Pokémon gaming series, when

in reality it just basically copy and

pastes what all the other previous Pokémon

games did, but then reduced it by a lot by

slimming down and cutting out a lot of the

previous stuff that was in the previous

games. So basically you get a dumbed-down

version of the older Pokémon games in a

new skin that claims to be this innovative

version of Pokémon and it's going to be

like a new generation of Pokémon games

that's going to be built off of and it's

taking Pokémon in this new exciting

direction. I just don't really buy that.

Now for the price of the game compared to

what entertainment value you get out of

it, I just don't really feel like £50 or

your regional equivalent is really worth

the amount of hours of enjoyment you get

out of the game. I think that the price is

a little bit too high. And I can't

recommend this game for this price point.

It's a little bit too expensive for what's

on offer, and unfortunately I'm going to

have to give it a very low score of 2.8

out of 10. I wouldn't recommend buying

this game yet. Maybe when the price comes

down a bit, or maybe when they've added

some extra features, or maybe even just

skip out this version of the game, this

generation, and wait until Pokémon

Legends: Arceus number 2 comes out, where

it should build upon what they've started

to build, and it should be more fleshed

out and filled out and more interesting as

a video game. But as for this version and

iteration of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, I

just cannot give it my stamp of approval.

So if you agree with my points, then let

me know and press the like button. I'm so

excited to hear everyone's comments and

what they think about this new Pokémon

game. It really is a brand new adventure,

I guess, in a way, and it'll be

interesting to see what people think.