The Unofficial Pokemon Trainer Club

Also noticing a lot of stuttering in the legends gameplay. Hopefully they can get that sorted out with more optimization

I don't think its awful; the models remind me of the lopsided sprites from that gen lmao

and tbh the bar is so low for pokemon games now. They'll probably just make really bad texture meshes for everything and call that good enough. I won't get it anyways because I won't buy a switch, but hopefully they at least fix a few of the story holes from dp and make the story comparable to old pt

legends looks super neat tho! it feels like pixelmon lmao

I love Conquest so damn much. I don't know how I managed to beat it though. I was a really stupid kid

I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t like the gen 4 remakes’ art style

My expectations for the remakes were abysmally low and somehow they managed to disappoint me

Rip my planned stardust crusaders run of the diamond remake

Art style salt opinion:

Also we get to go to the underground again and that is incredibly sexy of them. I stan a faithful remake because that's all I wanted. I've complained in the past about previous remakes not being like the original or changing story details but I understand people who also want a fresher experience.

I don't see how it doesnt have a fitting art style did you play the originals?

i have a sinking feeling they're gonna go with the bare minimum (regional dex) and that's it

I've watched and rewatched the trailers for everything multiple times as well as a couple reactions so I'm going to try to finally put more words to my thoughts & feelings besides just memeing about it.

To start off with, I'll say that, I think Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are for the grumpy old hags such as myself who don't like too much change in their old games and memories. While Legends Arceus is intended to be the new step & new spin on the old region that other players want. The fact that we're getting seperate of BOTH just blows my mind, and I'm excited for the new just as much as the old.

I totally understand peoples complaints about not wanting to buy a game if it's visually too close to the same. That talking point has been beaten to death quickly. Personally? I like it. I think it's cute and faithful while still bringing new 3d life to the 2d game that was barely on the verge of 3d-esque assets. Even if the overworld doesn't look too crazy, the battles are at least updated to Lets-Go style. The prospect of being able to actually explore the underground with friends, do the old events, and actively trade in the first generation I ever got legal copies of to play on my DSlite just makes me positively giddy and brings me back to Christmas 2009 getting Platinum for the first time. I missed out on all of those things as a kid and I'm too paranoid to try the void glitch and possibly break my game.

On the more speculative end, I wonder how the poketch is going to work without a secondary screen. I wonder if maybe they'd even do something like make a physical poketch to link up with the game itself! Maybe even have a step counter and substitute for the pokewalker. (Yes I know that was HGSS but it was still 4th gen, leave me alone to dream!) I know those are like. Maybe pushing it in terms of accessories to buy alongside a game but for gen 4 I would totally go full pokesimp and throw down an extra $100 for a genuinely real poketch i could wear on my wrist or something. (Enhancing gameplay would... be added benefit. I just want a poketch lmfao.)

The fact that theyre also outsourcing the work to a different game company so they don't leave Gamefreak burnt out and depressed like they did with Sword and Shields production is also a good thing. And Masuda is still on the team and before he threw the rest of the franchise down the toilet he made so many quality improvements and bugfixes that made Diamond and Pearl even possible to begin with that have stuck with the game like Masuda method shinies. I think I said it earlier but this is like, the one game I would absolutely want Masuda working on.

Legends Arceus has pretty much nothing but my full attention. It's just so... Different. Fans have been asking for an open world pokemon game for so long and didn't quite get what they wanted with the limited wild area and it's graphical shortcomings. Fans have been asking for an ancient pokemon game for even longer. And THIS is definitely the kind of region I wanna see that content in because it's pretty much the first gen the lore got SUPER deep and interesting to speculate about. It's also very pretty, and I know others have already pointed out the frame rate and stuttering issue we saw in the trailer but I'm not too worried about it, at least not yet. It's coming out in 2022, probably around April cause I've noticed a trend among other video game companies wanting to release games around Spring and Summer break. We'll definitely get another trailer eventually and if the new trailer still shows stuttering then we may have an issue.

I am also an Angry National Dex Man but it being an ancient game where you're actually the one writing down the very first Sinnoh dex, and assuming you only have access to one region, it may make sense that you don't have all pokemon due to the time period. However if Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl don't have a natdex I'm going to be royally pissed off. However seeing as they had the weird mix and matchup of the Legends starters, I'm giving them a little bit of confidence.

As for another speculation, or maybe just a next desire that's kinda high on the list: If Legends ____ becomes a series of it's own, having an ancient Unova game with the Unova remakes (Cause, we can assume in chronological order that'd be next right? Even if it takes another 5-10 years....) that actually showed us the original dragon before it split apart or even told us the story of how it split apart in the first place would just be. *chefs kiss*